This happens every time. After a year since the last update, Ken's announces a new feature and everyone starts added things that they would like.
I think Ken should hold off on the new update and take another year or two to maybe add all the other things that people would like in the next update. Scrap what he's already got and start over.

Quoting ateo357:

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This happens every time. After a year since the last update, Ken's announces a new feature and everyone starts added things that they would like.
I think Ken should hold off on the new update and take another year or two to maybe add all the other things that people would like in the next update. Scrap what he's already got and start over.

Are you surprised?

Since there is no structured way how a release is given birth, everyone who thinks, his wishes could have been lost, stands up for them...

We need structure! Creating a feature list and releasing a new version is no exception. - But nobody is willing to move forward to get out of anarchy. 

Quoting ateo357:

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This happens every time. After a year since the last update, Ken's announces a new feature and everyone starts added things that they would like.

These are all very familiar, long-standing requests... Adding to what's been mentioned already: do something that eliminates the disaster regarding initials with or without (half a) space, and Jr./Sr. suffixes with or without the comma. And do something that allows the CLT to count TV discs properly, like moving the season indicator to it's own field.

Aside from a software update, we desperately need a rules update. Address nested casted dividers, address the (ab)use of group dividers for stuff like song titles, original material by credits and personal make-up artists, better address unit/location crew, and so on...

The user-built database is one of DVD Profiler's biggest assets, and therefore contributing should be made as simple as possible - everything should be geared towards that goal. The clouded issues I just raised all severly hamper the contribution process: one user feels a personal make-up artist warrants the use of a divider, the other doesn't. One user feels that a foreign splinter unit crew should all be included, the other doesn't. Trying to understand the CLT numbers when a single appearance in a 'Star Trek' episode results in 75 alledged "titles" doesn't make it easy to propagate the right common name. And so on...

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Aside from a software update, we desperately need a rules update. Address nested casted dividers, address the use of group dividers for stuff like song titles, original material by credits and personal make-up artists, better address unit/location crew, and so on...

... and proposals already handled and voted in the Contribution Rules Forum. I stopped working there, since the proposals are not realized, but delayed for more than a year now...

... and for bug fixing wishlist, since it was not mentioned lately, replace the image library for headshots, to avoid the black borders, the cropping of border pixels, and unnecessary vertical pixel stretching...

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And do something that allows the CLT to count TV discs properly, like moving the season indicator to it's own field.

This is already attainable per the TV series rules. But a few people complained in the forum and Geri made a unwise decision to allow seasons in the original title field that have caused the child profile TV series disc problems. This could be fixed easily with Geri reversing her statements.

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My biggest wish is a restructure of the database to have a single copy of the info for each movie

Yes, please. I do not even care where the data for the reference profile Cast comes from, I'd rather take imdb data than the local rubbish that the nationalist dork Germans add to the Cast section.

My biggest wish is still for customization!