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2. TMDB sourced posters rarely (never?) work. In the logs, I see many lines like the following:

ERROR: CCurlFile::Stat - Failed: Failure when receiving data from the peer(56) for
http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/weVXM...AkXeEc.jpg

Current issues at TMDB... https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=357709

3. When both IMDb and TMDB posters are enabled, UMS does not "fall back" to the working IMDb poster when the TMDB posters don't load. It gives up and shows me a blank poster instead.
I can open this poster image in a web browser, however, which proves that something's going wrong with the plugin.

Related to previous issue.

Thanks for the information. I don't believe 3 is just the TMDB issue, however. Surely, if a poster fails to load, Kodi should fall back to a working poster rather than showing me nothing at all?

Also, do you have any suggestions for issue 1? I don't seem to be able to get nice short descriptions from any source I've tried. In particular, "IMDb Outline" gives an empty description for every movie I've tried scraping with it. I'd really like to avoid the sort of long descriptions that often contain spoilers.

I'm thinking I may have to write my own script to scrape descriptions from Letterboxd. They seem to usually use TMDb descriptions, but in several cases I've checked, they modified the description to remove spoilers. (Letterboxd doesn't have a public API at present, so unfortunately my work couldn't be released as an add-on). Obviously I'd like to avoid this work if possible.