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Well, I don't agree on the "outsmarted" part. I have basically seen all there was to see and new material trickless too slow to keep me. My family is still hook

Well, I don't agree on the "outsmarted" part. I have basically seen all there was to see and new material trickless too slow to keep me. My family is still hooked but they aren't too happy either. If they don't find a new way to keep audience they will soon face prospect of people being bored and leaving for somewhere else.

dacox 8y ago
TIL! I am on the Canadian version with even less content, and there's no way I can keep up with the Netflix content, let alone the 3rd party content.
makira 8y ago
All my recents searches for old movies were vain. Last Sunday, I wanted to see 'Little Miss Sunshine (2006)', result: not available (in Canada anyway). Unsubscribing has started to cross my mind. When I subscribed for Netflix, the motivation was a large catalog of old movies, cool stuff from other countries (I remember watching TV series from Iceland that were great), no ads. But the greatest selling point: it was more convenient than pirating. Now, it's all about pushing Netflix produced content down my throat using whatever trick possible, and pirating is again more convenient (large catalog, no ads) even if less user-friendly. So yeah, "outsmarted" is really pushing it. I'm not the only one getting bored by the current Netflix direction.
- plopz 8y ago
  I cancelled my subscription a year and a half ago because of the lack of good content. I've gone back to torrents.
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > I'm not the only one getting bored by the current Netflix direction The current Netflix direction is the only one possible; one big catalog only worked before they had proven the viability of mass streaming—once that happened competitors bidding for exclusives (and content owners reserving material for their own services) was inevitable.
crooked-v 8y ago
I feel like there's more content in Netflix that I would be interested in but have never seen, but they've increasingly made it so Goddamn hard to find anything while endlessly recycling low-quality content I would never watch and a bunch of content I've already watched on the primary section views.
- lmilcin 8y ago
  I agree. It would be so nice to have alphabetical index or something akin to that. Instead it seems they care more about hiding the true size of their library than the discoverability of the content within.
  - crooked-v 8y ago
    I wouldn't even need an index. Just a simple "stop recommending this to me" checkbox would be enough to force the front page to stop cycling through the same 50 items endlessly.
- tokyodude 8y ago
  if their UI would let me browse in peace I'd spent 10-20 minutes looking deep for interesting things to watch. Instead they autoplay everything which I find massively distracting like a used car salesman screaming "Watch This!" so after about 30 seconds I give up and cancel my subscription. Try again in 6 months when there's something I know I want to watch. Always cancel immediately after watching

dacox 8y ago

TIL! I am on the Canadian version with even less content, and there's no way I can keep up with the Netflix content, let alone the 3rd party content.

makira 8y ago

All my recents searches for old movies were vain. Last Sunday, I wanted to see 'Little Miss Sunshine (2006)', result: not available (in Canada anyway). Unsubscribing has started to cross my mind. When I subscribed for Netflix, the motivation was a large catalog of old movies, cool stuff from other countries (I remember watching TV series from Iceland that were great), no ads. But the greatest selling point: it was more convenient than pirating. Now, it's all about pushing Netflix produced content down my throat using whatever trick possible, and pirating is again more convenient (large catalog, no ads) even if less user-friendly. So yeah, "outsmarted" is really pushing it. I'm not the only one getting bored by the current Netflix direction.

plopz 8y ago
I cancelled my subscription a year and a half ago because of the lack of good content. I've gone back to torrents.
dragonwriter 8y ago
> I'm not the only one getting bored by the current Netflix direction The current Netflix direction is the only one possible; one big catalog only worked before they had proven the viability of mass streaming—once that happened competitors bidding for exclusives (and content owners reserving material for their own services) was inevitable.

crooked-v 8y ago

I feel like there's more content in Netflix that I would be interested in but have never seen, but they've increasingly made it so Goddamn hard to find anything while endlessly recycling low-quality content I would never watch and a bunch of content I've already watched on the primary section views.

lmilcin 8y ago
I agree. It would be so nice to have alphabetical index or something akin to that. Instead it seems they care more about hiding the true size of their library than the discoverability of the content within.
- crooked-v 8y ago
  I wouldn't even need an index. Just a simple "stop recommending this to me" checkbox would be enough to force the front page to stop cycling through the same 50 items endlessly.
tokyodude 8y ago
if their UI would let me browse in peace I'd spent 10-20 minutes looking deep for interesting things to watch. Instead they autoplay everything which I find massively distracting like a used car salesman screaming "Watch This!" so after about 30 seconds I give up and cancel my subscription. Try again in 6 months when there's something I know I want to watch. Always cancel immediately after watching