Pick your own posters
Set your own artwork on any film, see what the people you follow are watching without leaving the homepage, and cut your notifications down to the ones you want.
Two weeks of work, and most of it comes down to one idea: the site should show you your films, chosen by you, and the people you follow alongside them.
Pick the artwork yourself
Every film now has a poster picker. Open it from a poster's context menu and you can swap in any alternate artwork TMDB holds for that title, or upload your own. Your choice follows the film everywhere it appears: the film page, your profile, lists, search results, share cards.
Everything about this is yours to control. A settings screen lists every film you have re-covered, side by side with the artwork it replaced, so you can find the one you did something odd to and put it back. There is a switch for whether you want to see artwork other members have chosen, and any uploaded poster can be reported.
What the people you follow are watching
New From Friends replaces the old following rail on the homepage. Instead of a row of faces it shows the actual films, with what each person did to them, so the homepage tells you something rather than reminding you who you follow.
There is also a proper Activity page now, reachable from the main navigation. It is the full feed of everything the members you follow have been doing, scrolling as far back as you want, with filters for films, reviews, lists and members. If you are not following anyone yet, it suggests members worth starting with.
On the web, hovering a member's name or avatar anywhere on the site brings up a preview card: their avatar, what they have been watching, and a follow button. It works in comments, reviews, list pages, guides and film pages, so you can size somebody up without leaving what you were reading.
What to watch
The homepage leads with a What To Watch block built from what you have actually rated and watchlisted, and a card that drops you into Discover when you want the site to choose for you. Signed out, it now shows you real recommendations instead of a sign-in wall.
Films you have watchlisted also count towards the rankings behind the now-playing and coming-soon rails, so an unreleased film you are waiting on rises for you rather than sitting wherever the crowd left it.
Notifications you can read
Notifications now have filters, with a count on each: everything, unread, people, films, account. Each one tells you what it is about, so a notification about a review names the film. There is a summary of which emails you have turned on, sitting right there rather than two screens away in settings.
On the phone, similar notifications stack into one row instead of repeating, and the list is grouped into Today, Yesterday, This Week and Earlier.
Lists
The lists page has a browse bar: filter by tag, sort, and a sidebar of the members who actually publish lists, so there is a way in other than scrolling. List pages lead with their artwork now. The homepage shows the lists people are engaging with rather than a hand-picked featured set.
On the phone the lists screen was rebuilt around shelves, with a tag strip across the top and cards that show a list's description rather than just its name.
Your profile
You can add handles for several networks, not just one, each with a switch for whether it shows publicly. YouTube joins the list.
Members can now carry badges, shown under their name with a description when you hover or tap one.
The separate Likes tab is gone. Your watched shelf has a Liked filter instead, which is the same thing with one fewer place to look.
Signing in
Sign in with Google, on the web and in the app. If you already have an account with the same email address, you are told so plainly instead of being handed a failure you cannot act on.
Requests and imports
When a film you requested gets added to the catalogue, you are told. If the request came out of a Letterboxd import, the notice says to re-import your file so your rating and review for that film come with it.
Letterboxd exports can now be up to 25MB and 1,000 lists.
The catalogue now takes miniseries, so the limited series people keep asking for stop bouncing off the import.
On the phone
Search gained sorting and genre filtering, with genre chips on the idle screen so browsing by genre takes one tap. The People screen shows what each person is best known for and when they were born. The Members screen has follow buttons in the list itself and a search field for filtering it. Appearance settings show each theme as a miniature of the app in that palette, and each language in its own name.
Smaller things
Links to films, lists, reviews, members, people and guides now unfurl with proper artwork when you paste them anywhere.
There is an apps page with the iOS and Android links, and it is in the footer.
The review form's stars match the rest of the site, half stars included.
A review shows a heart only when its author actually liked the film.
Hover animations on film cards and in the footer no longer nudge the layout as they run.
If you ask to delete your account, you can skip the waiting period and have it done immediately.
Follow buttons stay in sync with each other across the app, so following someone in one place is not still offering you the button somewhere else.