Netflix ramblings

[frelling_tralk]

Netflix's Latest Numbers Show It Has One Demographic in MindI’ve definitely been starting to get the feeling lately that Netflix are becoming a more traditional network with chasing youth. Clearly they want the younger viewers who have more time on their hands to binge watch in a weekend and make something part of pop culture immediately, as

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[_profiterole_]

What I'd like from Netflix is a list of ALL the content, rather than (or at least in addition to) a gazillion rec lists.

I got the 10-year email too.

[frelling_tralk]

Oh that would be helpful as well! It seems like they are very selective about what they choose to recommend to you, like for example when you go to recently added content it might have shows there that have already been available for a year or more?! Also the shows they tell you that they think that you might be interested in because of something else that you’ve watched, half the time they have nothing in common with one another that I can see?

[_profiterole_]

Maybe they use an "other people have watched both" algorithm, but I agree it often doesn't make sense.

In the same vein, Amazon often recommends me books I've already bought on their website.

[frelling_tralk]

Oh Amazon always makes me laugh when you buy idk say a DVD player from them, and then they’ll spend months after that still recommending different ones to you. Once you’ve actually brought a product from them, you’d think they would be able to detect that that there’s not much point to keep recommending more to you, but they don’t seem to know how to differentiate if someone is still browsing

[frelling_tralk]

It’s funny to go back and see what you were talking about back then isn’t it :) It really doesn’t feel like ten years ago in some ways, and then in other ways it really does feel like ten years (or longer even!) when you think about well yeah actually how long have I been aware of a particular show

[bm_shipper]

It's a bit sad how Netflix seems to change everything at the moment and how they seem to rely on people that DO watch shows with like 20 episodes in a weekend. (Yes, I know people who do that...)
I read somewhere they ALSO wanna keep people from sharing an account. Like a friend of mine does that with her whole family, but I read that's something they wanna "fix" too, so you can't do that anymore... I'm almost glad that I don't really count with what I watch anyway as I barely watch any Netflix shows and end up buying the shows I love on DVD or Blue-Ray anyway, so there's that...

[frelling_tralk]

Yeah that’s definitely the feeling I get, but personally I don’t know know why they would value those kind of consumers over others because really it’s going to be a lot harder to create enough content for people who have time to binge watch an entire series every single week, as opposed to someone taking their time and watching episodes when they can. It seems more likely that slower watchers would be the customers to stick around, while those who do rush through everything really fast might just subscribe for a month and catch up with everything as fast as they can

And I tend to prefer Blu-Rays as well, but unfortunately their popularity seems to be dying a bit in comparison to digital media. I’ve noticed that a lot of shows these days make very little effort with commentaries and special features sadly in comparison to how it used to be, it seems like it’s generally expected that most people with now just buy their preferred shows on iTunes instead

[eowyn]

Netflix's algorithm of recommendations is so broken. And then their search feature to find something outside of that is so hard to use, too - they REALLY want you to watch their recs, and not much else.

[frelling_tralk]

I’ve definitely noticed that, they seem to love pushing their own original movies and shows to me especially over everything else

[ragnarok_08]

Oh jeez, it really is a huge mess :/

[frelling_tralk]

I do hate seeing my list rearranged every time I reopen the app :sighs: