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Netflix's streaming UI keeps getting (substantially, for me) worse. And a good part of this appears to be in the effort to hide and mask the increasingly crap
by pasbesoin 8y ago
Netflix's streaming UI keeps getting (substantially, for me) worse.
And a good part of this appears to be in the effort to hide and mask the increasingly crap quality of their catalog.
Bye bye, stars. Bye bye, user comments. Hello rotating tile images -- now more rapidly rotating tile images. Guess what? It's the same tired, B or C (or D) list title they've been pushing at you for weeks and months.
Oh yeah, and the fan on my laptop kicking in everytime I pull the site up, because now every tile has to have some irritating animation upon hover. Ooh, shiny! But a lot less useful for finding something I might actually enjoy watching, than stars and user comments.
(Think movie trailers, versus talking to a friend. Yeah, that clip may be "compelling". But your friend will tell you it's the best 5 seconds of the whole waste of time.)
10 bucks or so a month isn't that much. But you know what? I've had enough of the increasingly gamed UI and lamed catalog.
I have Prime, as well, and while it isn't the greatest -- all of streaming is becoming so balkanized -- I'm spending the vast majority of my fixed price streaming time in it, these days.
Recently, they've adopted the "big tiles" like Netflix. But so far, they aren't gaming the UI to nearly the extent that Netflix is.
And, starting a couple of months ago, I've gotten to revisit "Babylon 5".
Meanwhile, on Netflix, "Iron Fist" 'season' 2? Season 1 was bad enough...