One of the most obvious things about Netflix
is that it presents it's content to users in a very accessible way. I doubt it's possible for you to reorganise that data any better than Netflix already has.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 11:27, Reply)
hmm, not so sure about that
Suspect they've got reasons for wanting you to watch x instead of y and organise it accordingly
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 11:33, Reply)
Does it though?
I mean I've spent hours flicking through the damn thing looking for something - anything - to watch and failed many times.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 29 May 2018, 11:46,
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I didn't say you'd like the content,
just that it's easily accessible.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 15:18, Reply)
It takes far too long to fight through the dross that for some reason it thinks I'd be interested in to find something I'm actually interested in.
That's not down to me not liking the content, that's bad UX hiding the content from me.
As for using the search function with a tv remote? That's time that would be more productively spent gnawing my own foot off.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 29 May 2018, 16:10,
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Yeah, I don't recommend using netflix on a telly.
But that's more the remote's fault than netflix.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 17:12, Reply)
That's totally Netflix's fault
They designed a UI that is a nightmare to use with the control method available. As an example of how it can be done on TV, look at iPlayer. Stuff is in obvious categories and sorted alphabetically. It doesn't pretend to know what you want to watch and therefore you can find things.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 29 May 2018, 19:53,
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TV controls are fucking bollocks.
Almost none of them include a keyboard, so if you're attempting to type something in you'll have to fuck about for ages with a fiddly piece of shit. Netflix is not at fault for that.
TVs and set-top-boxes are also absurdly underpowered and slow as shite, so you often have around a second (or even more) of delay between input and response. Again this is not the fault of Netflix.
Finally, iPlayer, 4oD and all the other things I've used suffer from exactly the same issues.
Certainly they could index stuff alphabetically, but that's an issue of content arrangement, not of the interface itself.
(, Wed 30 May 2018, 11:24, Reply)
Bollocks.
If you want a curated library and are only interested in the most popular stuff, then you’re golden. Good luck finding anything resembling a workable index that allows you to dig out the more interesting films though.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 29 May 2018, 13:07,
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There's a pretty obvious search feature.
Also... did you visit OPs link? He clearly hasn't sorted the data any better than Netflix.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 15:17, Reply)
I don’t want to search
I don’t want filtered recommendations
I want to be able to browse a catalogue.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 29 May 2018, 16:17,
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Fair enough... they could do with some kind of proper list.
I wouldn't object to that.
As for their filtered recommendations, I find they're usually fairly accurate to the sort of stuff that I like; might be nice to have a "never show me this shit ever again" button for stuff that you have no intention of ever watching.
(, Tue 29 May 2018, 17:14, Reply)