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What you can’t turn off is the bit where they drop you into another trailer when you’ve just finished watching a series after months of investment. A little tim
by aidos 6y ago
What you can’t turn off is the bit where they drop you into another trailer when you’ve just finished watching a series after months of investment. A little time to digest would be real nice.
- navbaker 6y agoYour "time to digest" is Netflix's "fleeting window of opportunity to keep you engaged" or whatever businessy term describes that.
- jbay808 6y agoThey aren't Facebook. They just need to keep me subscribed, not engaged. I bet someone has an engagement OKR anyway, though.
- dhnajsjdnd 6y agoHours of video watched per month is metric Netflix tries to optimize, because it predicts churn. If a customer is spending decreasing hours on Netflix and watching Disney instead, they are more likely to cancel. Goodhart's law applies. If a customer is watching more Netflix because they are binging some fantastic new context, that’s great for Netflix. If the customer watching more because the app keeps auto playing something they didn’t ask for and gradually pisses them off, not so good. Netflix might have better ways of measuring customer satisfaction that can tell if these behaviors make the customer more satisfied overall.
- js2 6y agoEvery single video app I have on my AppleTV: Netflix, Amazon, Criterion, even Apple’s own TV app, shrinks whatever you are watching down to a thumbnail just before the movie or show ends. I fucking hate it. Yes, I’m one of those weirdos who sits through to the end when the copyright rolls past and gets pissed off when the lights come on at a theater during the credits. It is incredibly disrespectful to the film. This is one of those “good taste” things that I feel like Steve Jobs wouldn’t have tolerated. It’s especially annoying on some older films with short end credits because it happens before the movie is even over.
- wst_ 6y agoYou should consider moving to Japan then. Theater stays dark until the last line of credits passes. Actually this is nice thing. You can still listen to the music, pay silent respects to the horde of people involved or just contemplate the movie.
- gdilla 6y agomany many people in LA stay for the credits too. naturally.
- princetman 6y agoI get the sentiment for live performance, but in your own home, I can not relate to this. Vast majority of people in credits are doing a job and getting paid for it, just like any other profession or trade. We don't pay "respect" to delivery drivers, or to designers and engineers who brings us our gadgets and services in same way. Why should I spend my time and attention on credit rolls? It's not like anyone noticing it.
- dylan604 6y agoYou don't tip? Tips are showing your respect for deliveries. Also, most gadgets I've seen have a screen that can be viewed with credits in them, as well as most software. Video games have credits too. Books have credits too, right there on the cover and is probably what grabs your attention more than the title.
- newswasboring 6y agoYes, when was the last time you actually saw the credits on those devices? Like who is the lead designer of your phone? Who is the lead programmer of the last game you played?
- reaperducer 6y agoThere are credits in the About menu of about 50% of the programs I use each day. There are even credits in the loading screen of Adobe Photoshop.
- madjam002 6y agoYep, this is what I hate. Finishing a TV show, taking it all in, only to find myself scrambling for the remote to press Watch Credits so it doesn’t move on to some random trailer. The Kodi Netflix add-on might not have the best interface, but at least it doesn’t do stuff like this!