Platforms not allowing for proper exhaustive browsing is really shitty. Sabotage search. Sabotage sorting. Pushing slot machine scrolling.
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I would enjoy a feature akin to old-school “channel surfing.” Let me flip through the entire library, mid-program, so I can see if something new catches my interest. No algorithm, no needing to search for something specific, just a chance to try out a few minutes of a show when it’s in the midst of its progress the way we used to be able to do. Then if we like what we find, we can switch to watching the show/movie from the start.
Yeah, it could expose spoilers, or be confusing with continuity, but any good show is worth watching more than once. Jumping straight into a show/movie in progress also eliminates the “analysis paralysis” I sometimes get when forced to pick a show from a menu. It’s far easier to give a new show a try when I can casually jump in and out of it.
I think Pluto.tv does this
Ooh, yeah you're right! Thank you
Streaming services and their user interfaces are such hot garbage. How were they able to make them so bad? I feel like, a room full of monkeys on typewriters could do a better job.
They remove searches and categories, then charge you an extra $15 for the privilege.
Fucking everything everywhere is hot garbage. Why do foil seals never have little pull tabs anymore? Why do I have to try and grip a half millimeter of material to pull them off every single time no matter how sticky, or dangerous it is? Why can't I ever tear a paper towel off cleanly? Why did I spend 20 minutes trying to add a profile to Apple Plus, and Google have to tell me it requires a second account? Why couldn't that just be written there? Why can no one anywhere just use words anymore? Why did brand new ice trays shatter after one use? Why have I seen frozen meals with plastic film say to put them in the oven? Wouldn't it be smarter to not try killing your customers?
It's like business schools tell you to make your product as terrible as humanly possible these days.
McKinley or Deloitte probably advise Netflix to make search worse so it takes longer to find what you want so you spend more time in their dumb app.
That results in less time in their app, not more.
For people like us, it’s 0 time in their app and an unsubscribe but for a lot of people it doesn’t make a difference. ಠ_ಠ
On the ice tray specifically, I noticed stuff that wasn't ice in my ice, like white stuff that didn't melt with the ice and would float on the top and make a film in drinks. It was particularly bad with these spherical ice molds that surrounded the ice entirely, other than a hole to add the water through. I'd also notice ice would have this flavour that I previously thought was just freezer burn but now suspect it comes from frozen veggies stored in those plastic packages.
I got a metal ice cube tray and my ice is just ice now. Melts clear, tastes like really cold water.
Anyways, at this point I'm trying to minimize the amount of contact between plastic and food I eat but packaging is proving difficult. Not just difficult, but I don't know how to avoid it completely.
They make search horrible so you might stumble onto something you weren’t searching for.
or you can just Pirate whatever you watching and remove all that hassle.
Anything to hide the paucity of their library
and that's why people pirate content.
The dying end of late-stage capitalism has a lot more own-goals than I anticipated.
submit to the algorithm
Enshittification continues.
When we had Netflix I would get extremely frustrated every time I tried to interact with it. Most descriptions are like "Benedict Cumberbatch is a grumpy detective in this British crime drama" - so the only information not contained in the cast list and genre are one character trait and the country where it was made? How the fuck is that supposed to help?
You will suckle at the algorithm's teat or you will have NOTHING! and you will THANK US for the privilege!
Its worse because they don't even try to do trailers anymore either. Its just the most boring 3 minute clip from the movie or show.
Right from the early days, that always made Amazon Prime Video feel so cheap compared to Netflix. I'm so confused on why they bother. You said it perfectly, it's always a boring scene of the movie, with no real context of the story or even mood. It's never appealing.
Now Netflix does it, too. Well, I say now but it's obviously been going on for years at this point, as is the general decline in quality and value of Netflix.
Intentianal video consumption is dead.
They decide what you consume now.
I hatte it.
Built me a Jellyfin server out of my old laptop. 300 movies and counting. Fuck Netflix.
what lmfao i'm so glad i left them and all streaming years ago
cable before that as well
yup. it's fine. tons of us know how to torrent and will continue or return to doing so. we gave streaming a chance and they ruined it. no surprise.
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