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Netflix programmers can help you find what you want to watch. All the content in the world won't help them if you spend your time staring at the home screen wh

Netflix programmers can help you find what you want to watch. All the content in the world won't help them if you spend your time staring at the home screen while bad algorithms recommend the wrong things.

leptons 6y ago
Not true at all, because in spite of all their content, and being able to find it, they still don't have anything new that I want to watch. I've already seen everything I wanted to watch. Now I debate leaving them because there is no new content. And after all "Content is King". https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveolenski/2017/06/21/why-content-will-always-always-king/#3701635eb370 https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveolenski/2017/06/21/why-con... >All the content in the world won't help them if you spend your time staring at the home screen while bad algorithms recommend the wrong things. Their algorithms only optimize for the least profitable use case. It doesn't matter what the algorithm wants to suggest if they don't have the content I want to watch, or I've already watched anything worth watching. Know what their algorithm suggests to me now? Sci-fi in foreign languages that I'm just not interested in because of its low production value and bad writing. But it's all they have left to suggest to me. That and everything I've already watched. "Content is King".
lotsofpulp 6y ago
> All the content in the world won't help them if you spend your time staring at the home screen while bad algorithms recommend the wrong things. What? I can read about quality shows to watch on any number of websites or recommendations from people I know, and just search for the title of the show. On the other hand, if you fill up your inventory with 99% garbage, like Netflix has, it doesn’t matter how good your algorithm is, since it’s going to come back with garbage. I don’t notice any performance difference between HBO Max, Apple TV+, Netflix, or Amazon Prime. I press play, and it plays. What I do notice is most of the content is garbage, so I just wait to hear about good shows, and then once a sufficient number of people claim it’s worth watching, I go and play specifically that.

leptons 6y ago

Not true at all, because in spite of all their content, and being able to find it, they still don't have anything new that I want to watch. I've already seen everything I wanted to watch. Now I debate leaving them because there is no new content. And after all "Content is King". https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveolenski/2017/06/21/why-content-will-always-always-king/#3701635eb370 https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveolenski/2017/06/21/why-con... >All the content in the world won't help them if you spend your time staring at the home screen while bad algorithms recommend the wrong things. Their algorithms only optimize for the least profitable use case. It doesn't matter what the algorithm wants to suggest if they don't have the content I want to watch, or I've already watched anything worth watching. Know what their algorithm suggests to me now? Sci-fi in foreign languages that I'm just not interested in because of its low production value and bad writing. But it's all they have left to suggest to me. That and everything I've already watched. "Content is King".

lotsofpulp 6y ago

> All the content in the world won't help them if you spend your time staring at the home screen while bad algorithms recommend the wrong things. What? I can read about quality shows to watch on any number of websites or recommendations from people I know, and just search for the title of the show. On the other hand, if you fill up your inventory with 99% garbage, like Netflix has, it doesn’t matter how good your algorithm is, since it’s going to come back with garbage. I don’t notice any performance difference between HBO Max, Apple TV+, Netflix, or Amazon Prime. I press play, and it plays. What I do notice is most of the content is garbage, so I just wait to hear about good shows, and then once a sufficient number of people claim it’s worth watching, I go and play specifically that.