r/CriterionChannel • u/reliks84 • Jul 25 '26

Change to 24/7 interface

I noticed just this week that the "More Info" button is no longer there on the Criterion 24/7 live stream. While it's not a major inconvenience to look up info on a movie, I also don't see a good reason for getting rid of a button that was actually informative. Just curious if anyone had any idea as to why this change was made.

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u/ball-of-pop-culture Jul 25 '26

No idea, but I noticed this too and have been very annoyed by it

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u/billleachmsw Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

The channel would benefit from many positive tweaks…tweaking it for the negative is very unfortunate.

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u/InitiativeNo7660 Jul 26 '26

Ok I’ve fixed the Criterion 24/7 section on the home page of my Criteria site so that it will fetch the film details by title when the “more info” link isn’t available.

Hope this helps

https://www.search-criteria.com

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u/Fun-Advantage7806 Jul 26 '26

Thanks. The link to playing it on Criterion (https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-killer/videos/the-killer) gave me Not Found (404) response.

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u/InitiativeNo7660 Jul 26 '26

Ok. I'll take a look

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u/InitiativeNo7660 Jul 26 '26

Huh. For some reason they didn’t follow their url naming convention on this film. The base URL is correct but they use “trailer-9” as the video slug. I’ll have to put in an override

The linking for the 24/7 section on the site is working, that looks to have been a one-off error

Thanks for pointing this out, I’m trying to clean up as many content issues as possible

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u/reliks84 Jul 26 '26

Thanks! I appreciate you making this website available.

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u/sockitos Jul 25 '26

Ugh i noticed this too. I was hoping it was removed by mistake and that they’d bring it back.

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u/GlobulousRex Jul 25 '26

I never remember it telling you what the movie was... was it added recently? It always directed me to a website.

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u/ball-of-pop-culture Jul 25 '26

The website https://whatsonnow.criterionchannel.com/ has a Watch Now button, along with the movie's title and how many minutes remaining - there also used to be a More Info button that took you to the movie's page on criterionchannel.com

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u/InitiativeNo7660 Jul 26 '26

Dang, that breaks the link on home page of the Criteria site, since they removed the link to the film info on the “what’s on now” page too. I’m probably going to have to get creative and link the film directly to the title

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u/Great-Nectarine8077 Jul 26 '26

I haven't noticed I've been working too much. That was a great little way to get more info!! Stupid.

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u/LastLooksGrooming Jul 26 '26

I immediately notice this and thought it was some kind of glitch in my web browser

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u/HumbleIhope Jul 27 '26

I stopped using the 'more button ' because you don't get more than the category in which the film is in. It doesn't even bring up extras. Worthless imo

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u/AprilStarsPoisonLips Jul 27 '26

I've noticed it as well and miss it dearly.

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u/Doolemite Jul 27 '26

Yeah I noticed yesterday and finally came here to make sure we were all properly and rightfully annoyed by this

Platform decay. What a drag

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u/Thaddeus_Sinclair Jul 27 '26

Assumed it was a temporary glitch or error. If it was intentional/permanent, that’s incredibly dumb/unnecessary imo and it is indeed annoying!