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I can't remember ever having a movie in mind and then finding it on Netflix. If I have two hours to kill, I don't browse Netflix to choose from their selection

• alwaysdoit 7y ago
  This is like going to Trader Joe's and complaining that you can't get brand name items. There was a time when Netflix had a lot of major films. But the industry has found other ways to capitalize on those since. There's a difference between a deep library and a comprehensive library. Netflix's library is quite extensive, so shallow isn't the right word for it. But it isn't a corpus that includes everything you could possibly want to watch--nowhere really is right now, and historically, corpuses like that have been rare and short-lived.
  • rrrrrrrrrrrryan 7y ago
    If Trader Joe's scattered their jams randomly throughout the store, we'd be upset too. Apricot jam in the "quirky and fun spreads" section along with hummus, grape next to peanut butter in "old time classics," strawberry in a section that isn't shown to you at all - you have to be told by a friend that it exists and ask a worker for it by name. I've overextended the analogy. The content available on Netflix is great, but the discoverability UX is atrocious.
    • dlkf 7y ago
      > The content available on Netflix is great Only if you are in the US
      • thaumasiotes 7y ago
        Not even then. They advertise a lot of stuff, and it's almost all unwatchable.