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Annoyingly, nearly every video streaming service uses this horizontal-scrolling skeuomorphism, presumably modeled on video tape rental shelves. Give me vertical

• 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.