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The most annoying thing about these streaming platforms is no IMDB rating being displayed. I have to type in every suggestion one by one which is annoying, or u

The most annoying thing about these streaming platforms is no IMDB rating being displayed. I have to type in every suggestion one by one which is annoying, or use a third party search engine. It'd be such a huge UX boost to simply include the rating, and better yet allow filtering by rating, I really don't get it. Perhaps they're trying to build network effects around their own rating system but it really detracts from the UX.

computerphage 5y ago
IMDb is owned by Amazon. Amazon Prime shows IMDb ratings in its app.
- rajasimon 5y ago
  They display IMDB rating only for some titles and it has to pass certain level of rating ( 6 +)
  - fighterpilot 5y ago
    And at least when I'm on it through my browser, I need to actually click on the title to see the rating, which makes it difficult to use it to filter out junk quickly.
michaelt 5y ago
> I really don't get it Presumably poorly rated movies are a lot cheaper to license; and when you're licensing 2/10 rated movies, user satisfaction is a lot higher if you don't show the ratings.
SiempreViernes 5y ago
Maybe it's because filtering by rating would expose how shallow the catalogue is? At least in my locale a good way to be reminded of this is searching for any movie you'd like to watch but isn't on the front page of netflix, typically they won't have it.
- RobertoG 5y ago
  I think you are right. My impression is that all the UI is dedicated to fool the user perception of the catalog, to make it look better than it is.
vimy 5y ago
You can add IMDB ratings with extensions. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trim-imdb-ratings-on-netf/lpgajkhkagnpdjklmpgjeplmgffnhhjj https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trim-imdb-ratings-...
gustavorg 5y ago
They made a change at some point (2017?) so as not to show movie ratings. I figured the reason was to give low rated movies a chance because I won't necessarily dislike a movie with IMDB rating 5.2/10. I've seen excellent movies with rating < 6.0 and lousy movies with rating > 7.5 It's just that my taste sometimes doesn't match with IMBD users.

computerphage 5y ago

IMDb is owned by Amazon. Amazon Prime shows IMDb ratings in its app.

rajasimon 5y ago
They display IMDB rating only for some titles and it has to pass certain level of rating ( 6 +)
- fighterpilot 5y ago
  And at least when I'm on it through my browser, I need to actually click on the title to see the rating, which makes it difficult to use it to filter out junk quickly.

michaelt 5y ago

> I really don't get it Presumably poorly rated movies are a lot cheaper to license; and when you're licensing 2/10 rated movies, user satisfaction is a lot higher if you don't show the ratings.

SiempreViernes 5y ago

Maybe it's because filtering by rating would expose how shallow the catalogue is? At least in my locale a good way to be reminded of this is searching for any movie you'd like to watch but isn't on the front page of netflix, typically they won't have it.

RobertoG 5y ago
I think you are right. My impression is that all the UI is dedicated to fool the user perception of the catalog, to make it look better than it is.

vimy 5y ago

You can add IMDB ratings with extensions. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trim-imdb-ratings-on-netf/lpgajkhkagnpdjklmpgjeplmgffnhhjj https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trim-imdb-ratings-...

gustavorg 5y ago

They made a change at some point (2017?) so as not to show movie ratings. I figured the reason was to give low rated movies a chance because I won't necessarily dislike a movie with IMDB rating 5.2/10. I've seen excellent movies with rating < 6.0 and lousy movies with rating > 7.5 It's just that my taste sometimes doesn't match with IMBD users.