I love jinni.com. Here are some things i would improve though.

I love jinni.com. It’s by far the best movie recommendation engine out there in my opinion. One big thing that plays into their cards is the fact that their competiton isn’t even remotely where jinni.com is in terms of quality of recommendations (apart from maybe tastekid.com) .

That doesn’t mean though that jinni.com cannot be improved. Here is a couple of things that i did not like:

  1. Load times are way too slow.
    There is soo much research on that. Long waiting times makes people leave the site
  2. The recommendation link loads especially slow
    The recommendation engine is the most useful part of jinni.com for me. I took all their profiling questionnaires and now i do get good results with the engine. The only trouble is it loads far too slow.
  3. The user interface of the recommendation engine is not good

    • Get rid of the javascript pop up when mousing over a movie. It loads half a second AFTER the mouse over so that i accidentially clicked on the movie several times loosing all recommendations in the process. Then i have to go back and suffer through the slow loading time.
    • In order to REMOVE a recommendation you have to do 4 clicks. FOUR CLICKS!!! Plus a lot of time it does not work (Firefox 3.5)
    • I want to be able to remove a recommendation, trust that it gets recognized by the magical jinni.com engine so i don’t get recommendations of similar movies anymore and THEN immediately get a NEW movie recommendation instead. See screenshot:
    • recommendation
  4. Give me a separate recommendation engine for tv shows
    or allow me to filter for tv shows.

As i said i love jinni.com I will use the website no matter what. But i wish they could improve that.

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