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Popularity Value - Popularities changing drastically?
posted by benporterfieldSTAFFMOD on March 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It seems like popularities have suddenly changed a lot? For ex, fight club (id=550) currently has a popularity of 5.792, which seems incorrect based on the description of how it is calculated.
I was using /multi search and filtering by movies above a certain popularity. Few days ago that was returning as expected, and now is returning no movies (since almost none are above the popularity threshold I had set).
Does it sometimes fully reset or something?
Reply by benporterfield
on March 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
For reference, here's the popularity value from the daily ID export for fight club (id=550) from 2/13/25:
{"adult":false,"id":550,"original_title":"Fight Club","popularity":111.249,"video":false}
Reply by ticao2 š§š· pt-BR
on March 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I just verified today, 2025-03-16, ID 550, Fight Club (1999).
I found this value of popularity.
"Popularity": 6,557
In 2023-05-15 the value was:
"Popularity": 94,421
Yes, it looks like we have some bug.
Reply by Chad
on March 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
We use popularity to sort our lists and grids and this is impacting things badly. Basically we have a lot of unusual/fringe movies and shows that are listed as most popular. This is a pretty major issue... Do we have any update on what is going on or if it will be fixed soon?
Reply by ticao2 š§š· pt-BR
on March 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Admin Travis Bell is already aware of the issue.
See here:
https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/67d71704d802309703f15d60#67d9dcd517c1af8db32ccac0
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
FYI, I have posted an update about this here.