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To be honest, I would be happy if their 20+ people UX team would create an experience where I can easily find what I was watching instead of shoving stuff down

by cybrox 3y ago

To be honest, I would be happy if their 20+ people UX team would create an experience where I can easily find what I was watching instead of shoving stuff down my throat that I have no interest in. Then again, as long as people pay for that experience, it will continue to be as unbearable as it is.

lubesGordi 3y ago
This is the problem across the board, regardless of service almost. Everything is some crappy recommendation system, instead of enabling me to find what I want. In addition to sucking in general, recommendation systems have this great property of radicalizing people politically.
0xfae 3y ago
Right? Like can we please get a user story on some agile board somewhere that says: "As a user, if the last 10 times I opened netflix I watched the same show, I should be shown the option to resume that show very prominently" The number of times I've had to scroll or even search to find the thing that I very obviously want seems intentionally maddening.
- weinzierl 3y ago
  Same reason IKEA has no story: "As a custom, if I know what I want to buy, I would like to be able to go the shortest way from entrance to product to exit."
  - Doxin 3y ago
    And yet IKEAs have signs notifying you of shortcuts. If you know what to get in an IKEA and know which department to find it in you can get in and out with some real quickness if you pay a little attention. It's clearly not their main target, but it's also obviously still a target.
    - weinzierl 3y ago
      I am old enough to know a time when these signs did not exist and the shortcuts were unlabeled doors looking like the typical emergency exit. Regardless of the signs, IKEA makes it deliberately hard to just get what you want without being exposed to products you probably don't want. I find that apps that send you on a detour is pretty much the same tactic.
crooked-v 3y ago
Why would they do that? They already actively took away any ability to hide things you've already watched or don't want to see.

by cybrox 3y ago

lubesGordi 3y ago

This is the problem across the board, regardless of service almost. Everything is some crappy recommendation system, instead of enabling me to find what I want. In addition to sucking in general, recommendation systems have this great property of radicalizing people politically.

0xfae 3y ago

Right? Like can we please get a user story on some agile board somewhere that says: "As a user, if the last 10 times I opened netflix I watched the same show, I should be shown the option to resume that show very prominently" The number of times I've had to scroll or even search to find the thing that I very obviously want seems intentionally maddening.

weinzierl 3y ago
Same reason IKEA has no story: "As a custom, if I know what I want to buy, I would like to be able to go the shortest way from entrance to product to exit."
- Doxin 3y ago
  And yet IKEAs have signs notifying you of shortcuts. If you know what to get in an IKEA and know which department to find it in you can get in and out with some real quickness if you pay a little attention. It's clearly not their main target, but it's also obviously still a target.
  - weinzierl 3y ago
    I am old enough to know a time when these signs did not exist and the shortcuts were unlabeled doors looking like the typical emergency exit. Regardless of the signs, IKEA makes it deliberately hard to just get what you want without being exposed to products you probably don't want. I find that apps that send you on a detour is pretty much the same tactic.

crooked-v 3y ago

Why would they do that? They already actively took away any ability to hide things you've already watched or don't want to see.