If MovieNight has a beating heart, it's the Lists page. It's where your Seen history lives, where your Watchlist waits, where collections get built and friends' picks pile up. Over the last two days we gave it the biggest round of upgrades it has ever received — a full overhaul of how lists are organized, ranked, linked, and labeled. Here's everything that changed.

A New Way to Get Around: The Lists Dropdown

The old row of sub-tabs across the top of the page was starting to burst at the seams, especially on phones. It's now a single clean dropdown that switches between all six views: Active, Watchlist, Archived, Friend Picks, Friends Lists, and the brand-new Links section. One tap, full width, no horizontal squinting on mobile. The create buttons stack properly on small screens now too, so building a new list from your phone feels just as natural as from a desktop.

Link Groups: Combine Lists Into One

This is the headline feature. You can now link multiple lists together into a link group, and MovieNight automatically builds a single combined list from all of the members. Add the Fellowship, The Two Towers, and Return of the King collections to one group and you instantly get a complete Lord of the Rings list — every movie, deduplicated, in one place.

The best part: combined lists stay in sync automatically. Add a member list to the group and its movies flow into the combined list. Remove one and its movies flow back out. You never manage the combined list by hand; it's always an up-to-date reflection of its members. Each link group card in the Links view shows its member lists with a tidy expand chevron, and you can add or remove members at any time.

You Decide What's a Franchise

When we first shipped link groups, MovieNight tried to guess whether a group was a franchise based on what kind of lists you combined. Clever in theory — but what if you want to link the Fast & Furious collection with The Matrix? Those are two great franchises, but together they're not one franchise, they're a very ambitious movie marathon.

So today we put that decision where it belongs: with you. Every link group now has a Franchise toggle. Flip it on and the group is treated as a proper franchise — the combined list gets a Franchise badge and every movie in it is tagged accordingly, so franchise entries are easy to spot anywhere they appear. Flip it off and it's simply a linked list, no assumptions made. Existing groups were migrated automatically, so if you'd already built something that looked like a franchise, the toggle is already on.

Every List Gets a Badge

With so many ways to create a list — from a collection, from tags, from a link group, from scratch — it was getting hard to tell at a glance what kind of list you were looking at. Now every single list carries a kind badge, color-coded and consistent everywhere:

Seen (blue) for your master watched history · Shared (green) for lists shared with friends or groups · Watchlist (sky) for the queue · Collection (purple) for lists built from movie collections · Franchise or Linked (amber) for combined lists, depending on your toggle · Tags (orange) for tag-built lists · and Custom for everything you dreamed up yourself. The badges sit flush on the right edge of each row and in the header of whichever list you have open, so orientation is instant.

Rank Any List with Versus

Versus — our head-to-head, this-or-that ranking system — used to live only in the sidebar for your Seen movies. Now any list can be ranked with Versus. Open a list, start a matchup session, and pick winners until a true ranking emerges. The versus panel got a full redesign along the way: it now fits its space without scrolling, and every vote lands with a satisfying animation.

Alongside the rankings, each movie now shows its win/loss record and net score right on the list row and in the matchup candidates. And those stats aren't just decoration — they're clickable. Tap any W/L stat to open a matchup history modal showing every head-to-head that movie has fought, with a flip-result action on each one. Fat-fingered a vote three matchups ago? Flip it. The rankings recalculate on the spot.

Show the Columns You Want

List tables now have a per-column visibility picker, tucked neatly into the table header on the right. Only care about titles and ratings? Hide everything else. Want seen counts, vote stats, and the works? Turn them all on. Your choices persist, so the table looks the way you want it every time you come back. We also fixed a subtle layout bug where the table could overflow and grow a permanent horizontal scrollbar — rows now sit pixel-perfect inside their card.

Smarter Sorting and Seen Counts

Lists can be sorted by most movies, highest rated, most voted, or most popular, and every list now displays a seen count so you know exactly how far through it you are. Forty-one of fifty? Nine movie nights to go. Lists can even contain other lists as items now, which opens up some fun meta-list possibilities we suspect our power users will run with.

Realtime Watchlist

One more quality-of-life fix: toggling a movie's watchlist status anywhere in the app now updates the Watchlist tab in realtime. No refresh, no stale state — mark something from a movie page or the browse grid and it appears in (or vanishes from) your Watchlist instantly.

Why It Matters

Lists are how movie people think. Top fives, marathons, franchises in order, "everything my brother swears by" — the list is the unit of movie love, and it deserves first-class tools. This overhaul is about making MovieNight lists powerful enough for the obsessives and simple enough for everyone else: combine them, rank them, badge them, share them, and always know exactly what you're looking at.

Everything above is live right now on your Lists page. Go link a franchise, flip the toggle, and settle the great "is Tokyo Drift actually the best one" debate with a Versus session. And as always, if something feels off or you have an idea for what lists should do next, tell us — half the features in this post started as user suggestions.