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Nothing against you and your family, but I am disappointed when for example, the Netflix app shows 2 rows of 6 titles when probably 100 could fit on the 3024-by

Nothing against you and your family, but I am disappointed when for example, the Netflix app shows 2 rows of 6 titles when probably 100 could fit on the 3024-by-1964 native resolution display. Heck even the top 10 list scrolls to the right and only shows 1 through 4.

bqmjjx0kac 4y ago
Annoyingly, nearly every video streaming service uses this horizontal-scrolling skeuomorphism, presumably modeled on video tape rental shelves. Give me vertical scrolling, or give me death!
- Nathanba 4y ago
  My opinion on this is that it's purposefully slower to browse through titles so you can't ever create a full mental map of all available titles. That way it feels like you could still find something new if you just tried harder.
  - threeseed 4y ago
    They also put the same content in different categories with sometimes different thumbnails. If you had everything on one screen it would be much easier to pick this (and their many other tricks) out.
    - isametry 4y ago
      > They also put the same content in different categories with sometimes different thumbnails. And I thought I was going crazy! And seems like it does work, at least on me. From the frontpage, the Netflix catalog always feels like twice its actual size — and it only occurred to me now how they do it.
- jbay808 4y ago
  It would at least be nice if I could scroll all the rows together, instead of one row at a time. In the video rental store, I could do that. But I'd also be happy with just a file directory.
zaptrem 4y ago
Conversely, I like that it forces me to actually consider more titles I otherwise would have scanned over without giving a second thought.
kcplate 4y ago
Seems your complaint is more about Netflix’s UX design choices…
happyopossum 4y ago
What the heck does Netflix’s crappy UI have to do with my comment here?

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Nothing against you and your family, but I am disappointed when for example, the Netflix app shows 2 rows of 6 titles when probably 100 could fit on the 3024-by

by hnburnsy 4y ago

bqmjjx0kac 4y ago
Annoyingly, nearly every video streaming service uses this horizontal-scrolling skeuomorphism, presumably modeled on video tape rental shelves. Give me vertical scrolling, or give me death!
- Nathanba 4y ago
  My opinion on this is that it's purposefully slower to browse through titles so you can't ever create a full mental map of all available titles. That way it feels like you could still find something new if you just tried harder.
  - threeseed 4y ago
    They also put the same content in different categories with sometimes different thumbnails. If you had everything on one screen it would be much easier to pick this (and their many other tricks) out.
    - isametry 4y ago
      > They also put the same content in different categories with sometimes different thumbnails. And I thought I was going crazy! And seems like it does work, at least on me. From the frontpage, the Netflix catalog always feels like twice its actual size — and it only occurred to me now how they do it.
- jbay808 4y ago
  It would at least be nice if I could scroll all the rows together, instead of one row at a time. In the video rental store, I could do that. But I'd also be happy with just a file directory.
zaptrem 4y ago
Conversely, I like that it forces me to actually consider more titles I otherwise would have scanned over without giving a second thought.
kcplate 4y ago
Seems your complaint is more about Netflix’s UX design choices…
happyopossum 4y ago
What the heck does Netflix’s crappy UI have to do with my comment here?