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I don't understand how anyone can say the netflix UI is anything other than trash.

Part of people's problem with netflix is that it shows them maybe 100 different shows out of the couple thousand they have at any given time, for the rest you basically have to use a 3rd party to discover them. Sure its prettier than it was back when they put everything in a giant tree/list, but now its a dozen or so vertical categories with 20 or so horizontal items and it doesn't even bother to deduplicate shows out of multiple similar rows.

The best netflixy way for me to discover new shows is to log into my wife's profile where she has a 100 different romance/etc movies. Otherwise "whats-on-netflix.com" for example does a better job than netflix itself, including showing a complete list of new additions, and removals, etc.

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Netflix is faster, reliable, and works every time, even on slow and unreliable WIFI. I can fast forward, go back, pause, and resume without delay. Netflix is simple, it works, and I don't need more than that. It could certainly be better, but it's not any worse than other streaming services. Netflix is by far the better user experience of all services I use.

If I know what I want to watch, the Netflix UI is perfect. Every other service's UI makes it surprisingly difficult to find and watch the next episode of "thing I've been watching every night for the past few weeks". Also the other services make it harder to pause/resume/fast-forward, let alone achieve "advanced" things like toggling subtitles.

That is true. As crap as Netflix has become, while you are watching a show, the experience is great.

I don't understand how anyone can say the netflix UI is anything other than trash.

Perhaps because the UI varies from device to device.

When I first had the thought that the UI was trash, it occurred to me that the point of the UI is to drive the user's behavior and not the other way around. I think there's an "In Soviet Russia..." joke around here somewhere.

Can’t agree more, the difference in watching Netflix on Xbox one and Apple TV is noticeable (also the fact that there isn’t integration with the Apple TV app is the solo reason I’m most likely to finish my tv show from Amazon prime compared to Netflix (because let’s face it it’s not Netflix and chill anymore now we have to check more than a sub. app to find what to watch

Yeah it's more of a garbage-in garbage-out status nowadays regardless of device.

Huh? It’s pretty obvious Netflix uses the same UI across all of its platforms. It might be condensed slightly on smaller screens, but it’s the exact same interface.

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