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I don't quite understand the problem here. On every device I use Netflix, it defaults to highlighting the last used profile. So essentially, it takes two 'OK'
by silisili 2y ago
I don't quite understand the problem here. On every device I use Netflix, it defaults to highlighting the last used profile. So essentially, it takes two 'OK's to login - once to launch the app, once to select the profile.
I don't see how the existence of a children's profile bothers anyone so much. It's not extra work. You don't have to scroll past it or anything. It's just a nonoffensive thing that sits there if you ever need it on the initial profile page.
- john_the_writer 2y agoIf you've lost a kid, or can't have kids, it's a daily reminder. But also it's just annoying. In some apps it's remembering what the heck you set the password to.
- bowsamic 2y ago[flagged]
- maest 2y agoVery poor take. Nobody said people should never be reminded of the existence of children, so not sure who you're arguing with.
- bowsamic 2y agoWell that's literally what he said, that the existence of children in a list of accounts is a reminder, and thus it is bad to be reminded that children exist at all
- robin_reala 2y agoI’d suggest that a degree of empathy is a useful life skill.
- bowsamic 2y ago[flagged]
- DonHopkins 2y ago[flagged]
- bowsamic 2y agoWow
- DonHopkins 2y agoWell, have you lost a child? Or have your parents? Is this what you said to your spouse or parents when your child or sibling died? >"you are asserting your own neuroses too much on the world and you should get it fixed and take responsibility for it I don't have patience for such childish reactions from supposed adults" -bowsamic
- bowsamic 2y agoThere’s so much projection here that basically none of this has anything to do with me, so I may as well not reply. Have fun with your Musk derangement syndrome, which btw you incorrectly identified me with
- xmprt 2y agoI'm not sure what kind of take this is. If you've lost a child, you don't need a button on your Netflix screen to remind you of the tragedy you've been through. No bereaved parent is going through life ignoring their child's passing only for a Netflix button to be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
- paulv 2y agoSometimes you can be having a great day and bam, some small reminder of something you lost can send you in to tears. Grief isn't linear.
- CrossVR 2y agoThe problem isn't that the Netflix button will make them break down into tears. The problem is that the daily confrontation just brings the mood down. They're just sitting down for a relaxing movie or series and the first thing that comes up is the question: "You don't have kids right?"
- bowsamic 2y agoFrankly, Netflix cannot be expected to account for such a trigger
- edent 2y agoWhy not? They have an algorithm which can account for every micro-taste on the planet. What's the point of having computers if they can't properly account for the real world?
- bowsamic 2y ago> Why not? Because phenomenal experience of children exists unavoidably outside of Netflix > They have an algorithm which can account for every micro-taste on the planet Citation needed
- tetromino_ 2y ago
- nottorp 2y agoIf you want a use case, when i want to start a movie while pedaling on my elliptical trainer i do manage once in a while to hit the children profile instead of mine ...
- troupo 2y ago> e. On every device I use Netflix, it defaults to highlighting the last used profile Stockholm syndrome in full force. Why doesn't it log in to the last used profile automatically?
- morsch 2y agoI think that would be pretty bad UI for people who actually use more than one profile, as a) it'd be very easy to use accidentally use the wrong profile and b) it's not super easy to switch the profile when your within one (and making it easy probably lands you at the current design). At the same time, the existing one is fine for people (like me) who only use one -- as GP says, on a TV it's just a double confirm, if designed well. That said, for accounts that only have a single profile, I'm not sure why you'd show the select in the first place. Hide it by default, show it when the user creates a sub profile. DOS didn't have a login prompt.
- troupo 2y ago> That said, for accounts that only have a single profile, I'm not sure why you'd show the select in the first place. Hide it by default, show it when the user creates a sub profile. Indeed :)
- yard2010 2y agoIt's frustrating and saddening to pay more and more money for a product that gets worse and worse.
- bazmattaz 2y agoIPlayer is especially poorly designed in that if there is only 1 adult account you still have to get through the profile screen which is your 1 adult account and a “do you want to setup a child account” button
- silisili 2y agoYeah, his Channel 4 complaint was completely valid, but I feel like it would have been a better article about examples of poor implementation like that than just a blanket anti-kid statement, where most apps handle it perfectly reasonably.