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> When you ruin your product in effort to game your users, you've already lost. Yep, they do this in all sorts of ways. It feels exactly like you're getting ga
by nickjj 7y ago
> When you ruin your product in effort to game your users, you've already lost.
Yep, they do this in all sorts of ways. It feels exactly like you're getting gamed.
- Rotated order of shows / movies in all categories
- Rotated images for the same shows and movies
- It doesn't show you that you've previously watched something while browsing
- UI will show "in watch list" label over expiration times so you can't tell when it'll disappear
- DVD listings (and even the details page) stopped showing that you already had this movie shipped to you in the past
They do everything possible to make it as hard as possible to get a scope of their catalog size and to avoid re-watches. If you've been subbed for 10 years it's sometimes hard to remember you watched something 8 years ago.