TV.com vs TVRage.com

Lee85 · Posts: 26

Hi, I was just wondering what other people think about the change to using TVRage.com instead of TV.com?

I personally prefer TV.com but that could be because I've just gotten used to it.

What do other people think?

IceMan · Founder Posts: 611 Location: Denmark

I prefer tvrage.com

There are plenty of reasons, here is just a few:

Data on tv.com is hard to get corrected; sometimes the updates are even ignored.
Dates on tv.com are often garbage, I have seen dates that don't even exist like 31-02-2006.
Everyone can contribute on tvrage.com, some would claim that goes for tv.com too, but I have tried many times that my updates just gets ignored or have to wait 2-3 weeks before they are accepted.
tv.com is bloated with ads and spam.
tv.com tried to work against us.
tvrage.com was/is helpful; they even made a custom feed from my own specification where we currently grab all the data.

I could come up with many more reasons.
I do understand that people have familiarized them with tv.com, but I really think this change is for the better.
I can also understand that tvrage.com doesn�t have stuff like trivia etc. but imho that is not what I am looking for, I just want information on shows and episodes. If you want other stuff then most large shows have their own dedicated websites with lots of candy 

- IceMan

Lee85 · Posts: 26

What about having separate links to both (like having the TV.com link in a bracket after the epsode name) or having it as a user setting?

Not sure if this would be a load more work for u guys tho!

If not I'l just get used to TVRage, thanks for the site its great!

astv · Moderator Posts: 135

This survey is unclear: do you mean which do I perfer for a data provider, or which do I prefer for links?

For a data provider tvrage all the way.

But for the links I like tv.com.

However I'm gussing it won't be so easy to add both - the url for each link is different and to get them myepisodes would have to use tv.com at least partially as a data provider - and they don't want to do that.

Can you maybe just provide a link to the show (and not the individual episodes)? That might be a little easier, maybe not though.

landun · Posts: 23

I agree with astv. Tvrage has more accurate episode numbers and airdates but the sole reason for that is the incredibly slow moderation process that tv.com has. It's a two-part problem. 1) When faced with a problem, the tv.com coders ignore it until it goes away (see Lost season 2 numbering). 2) a lot of editors on tv.com are complete and utter morons. I don't know why, they weren't like that when it was tvtome.

But, tvrage doesn't have a voting system so you have no idea if you liked an episode or not. Had they had that I would've made the switch in a heartbeat. Even though I've contributed A LOT to tv.com (or rather tvtome).

IceMan · Founder Posts: 611 Location: Denmark

I know tvrage.com is recoding their site as we speak.
But I don't know how high the voting system is on the list.

gdi · Posts: 4 Location: Cape Town, South Africa

I didn't even know about TVRage, but I will always like to have more than one place to look for information, 2 or 3 should do it.
If 1 has some information and 2 others have the same, i generally then use the other 2 as source Smile

Teloriun · Posts: 8

Zombill · Posts: 1

I like em both lol

joesparano · Posts: 53

I find the voting system on tv.com very helpful - especially for shows that I'd like to sample. Otherwise, the site is clunky, and I don't mind tvrage as the data provider.

It's really a no-contest. There's no substitue for having accurate, useful data for My Episodes.

On that topic, the detail links within RSS feeds could use a look. The "series" link is still connected to tv.com (and broken), and while the "episode" link is connected to tvrage, it is still indicated as tv.com.

Joe

mlipman · Posts: 2

Has anybody else noticed that TVRage is going downhill? - No descriptions for shows, incorrect air dates, missing episodes.

Maybe myEpisodes should consider going back to TV.com.

the_man_stephen · Moderator Posts: 140 Location: Netherlands

sdss · Posts: 8

tpiom · Posts: 20 Location: Sweden, Europe

I'd say TV.com because it has worked just fine and tvrage seems to have a few problem, slow updates with the next episodes and such.

Ehtram · Posts: 2

I have to admit that i'm tv.com fan Very Happy

ajlaird · Posts: 7

IMDb > TV.com > TVRage.com

starbreaker · Posts: 3

I've used tv.com for a long time now, but I continue to like it less and less.