DanKurts

Hmmmm....... Am I the only one that's noticed this topic gets bumped further back, even with 17+ pages of comments. Thought I would add a knock knock joke for the programmers, maybe bring a smile to their faces, but nobody seems to be at home......

......And we still haven't heard from anybody in the TCM ivory tower, where the programming is done, reply in this thread. As I previously mentioned, in days of yor in this thread, when the change happened, there's no way now to know when the Shorts or Documentaries are coming. The solutions others here have provided for movies are very helpful, Thank You! For the other genres, we're stuck. The local Comcrap doesn't provide the listings for them, either. Sure would be nice to get this fixed, or just put back the old guide until we can get a better improved version that gets beta tested by those of us that use it (and by way of extension, pay the bills for TCM by watching......... nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean, know what I mean?!?!)

So.... Taking the suggestion of bombing social media, and being the type that doesn't use it, thought I would peruse google and see what other stories popped up about this topic. As the late, great Arte Johnson said: Nothing. Tried various search words, phrases and likely tags, nothing. Some links about other changes in the past, nothing current. Of course, the usual links to access the site, but nothing on this topic. I even tried more details, in stages, like this, "turner classic movies website guide update September 29th 2020 is getting bad reviews". Freaky. <cue strange sounds from 1950's alien movie> Glanced around the room to see if everything had suddenly changed to black & white, suspecting to see Rod Serling and hear a narration in Twilight Zone speak. Hope the forum members here, on social media, can help us out and post some links to this thread, please! Thank you!

Would really be nice if somebody from the TCM ivory tower would chime in and at least acknowledge the comments. Doesn't need to be an answer to the problem, or when it will get repaired, just something along the lines of "we hear you". A picture of the empty desk and chair where the app designer sat, maybe with some black smoke residue about, would be comforting... Just sayin.......

Just a thought....... If the programmers still have the old web site on their servers, why not reinstate it for us, and then repair the new one, off line, and when done with their latest version, provide a beta test site or link for opinions? That way we could all be in our happy place, very soon, and the site designers could go wash off all the **** they've been getting and create a better site we ALL like.

I program applications for home theaters, among other fun things, and could go through a list of improvements, but I'm sure they're getting an earful already. Some suggestions: Saw the great post about entering titles in the Search window, tried it, and it has an annoying setting, Auto Search. It needs to be set to respond to the ENTER key or have an ENTER button next the the Search window. Auto Fill is okay, but not Auto Search. It just slows things down for the user by trying to execute an ENTER command each time any letter is input. One my favorite shorts, TravelTalks, does not bring any results, no matter the spelling, capitalization or spacing. Could be for a number of reasons. I'll leave that to the programmer to sort out. In the Schedules, at least have a View Option to turn off the meta data pictures, and the associated frame, for faster loading of pages. Be sure to make that a global preference, too, so switching between Daily and Weekly it would remain that way while logged in. It would be great if there were a preferences page for the user as well, but that might entail too much memory usage for the server. Did try using the Print option to see more Schedule detail, just showed the same data. Weekly Schedule was a nice option, like to see it return. Right now it has a redirect to Daily. As some have noticed, resizing your browser zoom level brings more of the page in to view. This is a simple setting to fix, hopefully that can be implemented soon. Last, a pet peeve on Home page layout. Having dark gray lettering on the second row of links (EMAIL SIGNUP to WINE CLUB) over a black background is not helpful. For us old ****, squinting to see something really gets old, to coin a pun! Just make it the same white color as the row above. Having it change color, to green on mouse over, is a nice touch, however it would be more noticeable if it was a brighter shade like the underline of the SCHEDULE button. I would add the Bold setting to the second row as well. The smaller size is fine as there's a lot to squeeze in. One thing I DO like is using black for the background. Most don't realize it, but mobile devices use less battery power that way, as opposed to an all white or brighter color background. Yeah, rambling on, sorry..... Looking forward to the new and viewer approved redesign of the redesign ! Thanks again for a great site and channel. Dan

TCM , Agree with most of the comments. Hopefully they will help initiate changes, soon! I enjoy watching the Shorts and Documentary sections as well as the great movies. I can't find them anymore. Xfinity stopped showing them in their guide years ago, so the online is something I scan everyday. Really enjoy Travel Talks and some of the odd Shorts that show up. Also, being able to chose a genre from the previous Schedule colored categories was very handy. Look forward to hopefully seeing further improvements, SOON! Thanks for a great channel and all the work done at TCM! Dan