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I really wish Netflix had the YouTube-esque ability for users to make and share playlists. All the Star Trek series and films are on Netflix. Wouldn't it be gr

I really wish Netflix had the YouTube-esque ability for users to make and share playlists. All the Star Trek series and films are on Netflix. Wouldn't it be great to have a playlist of every episode by original air date? (So you don't get confused when Deep Space 9 refers to an event in First Contact?) Wouldn't it be awesome to have a playlist of only the top 20 Voyager episodes, so you don't have to suffer through the awful ones? It surprises me they haven't implemented this. If they did, any user could solve your problem of putting a movie series in order. Of course I also wish they had a "back 30 seconds" button for when you miss a line of dialog, and that's never been done either. Sigh. It seems like all their revenue is going into making Marvel shows and zero into software development.

herge 10y ago
I think their UI is purposefully bad to make it hard to notice titles coming in and out of circulation, as the deals they have with different production companies expire.
- bcrescimanno 10y ago
  Their UI (which I worked on heavily) is actually VERY optimized and an immense amount of testing around success metrics goes into it. It has far less to do with "not noticing" and much more to do with the algorithms knowing what you might want to watch that you didn't already know you wanted to watch.