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Yes! They've optimized for the wrong metric. Users should feel like it's time well spent. After their $1MM prize years ago, they didn't even bother implement
by lallysingh 7y ago
Yes! They've optimized for the wrong metric. Users should feel like it's time well spent.
After their $1MM prize years ago, they didn't even bother implementing the winning algorithm.
Then again, nobody really recommends media well. You can't mine the media directly, and people have very different preferences. It's just too many factors that you can't infer from the usage.
- ryanianian 7y agoI've recently started using ReelGood more often. (Not affiliated just a happy user.) You tell it which streaming services you have, what shows you've liked, etc and it gives you decent-ish recommendations from across all your services. More importantly it also shows the IMDB score, the Rotten Tomatoes score, and usually provides a trailer, and then they deep-link to the actual content so you can avoid all the Netflix dark-patterns.
- mh- 7y agoJust tried this out for the first time. Am I missing something? I linked services, marked some movies as watched, but don't see any way to _rate_ movies I've watched. So it doesn't have any kind of (useful) signal from me for recommendations?
- ryanianian 7y agoYou just mark movies/shows as seen it or want to see it and it gives you recommendations based on that. There's no "I've seen it and I hated it" option...I wish it would take a star-rating into account but it does not. Despite this the recommendations are still pretty good. It's a much better content-discovery experience than any content provider's native experience, especially that of Netflix.