‘cause they’ve enshittified.
We went from cable cutting to piracy to streaming services that were relatively inexpensive and ad-free back to services that emulated cable - expensive and full of ads, so guess what’s next?
It’s getting harder to even find shit worth pirating so… Going outside?
You can branch out, that should be impossible unless you watch stuff 24/7 and are 40+, use an app like trakt to get shown more stuff you typically don’t see. If you use something like stremio, the default view barely shows different content.
I mostly go off recommendations from friends or from reading about stuff online or YouTube shorts and then torrent whatever sounds interesting. The quality of what’s getting put out has just gone to shit with a lot of it just being derivative of things that have come before if not just straight remakes or if it is something new the writing is crappy.
I have an infinite backlog, tons of great stuff out there, a lot of great stuff just never got popular enough to be recommended or stopped being talked about once it finished. I recommend stremio + torbox or some other debrid service, you’ll see a lot more stuff that isn’t popular currently (unlike browsing torrents and yt channels) and it’ll all load quickly since it’s most likely cached already.
Can’t trust reviews, I’ve seen some 3/10 shows/movies I loved, some 10/10 ones I hated, from critics who I thought had the same taste as me.
There’s tons of old stuff that’s good. Newer shit coming out is far more misses than hits. I don’t think I’ve watched a new movie since Godzilla Minus One that actually blew me away,
Going outside is nice.
I picked up gaming again and started to actually play games I bought. Psychonauts is amazing.
I chose TTRPGs. Outside is still way too scare and full of way too many parking lots
Forcing me to relearn how to fucking read. Hate it.
No idea how many movies or TV shows you consume, but there’s enough unseen by me to last me a decade as is.
Wait until they make a subscription for that too.
why bother when you cancel every show after the second season?
And every recommendation category is that same 20 programs in a different order.
Fuck Netflix. Capitalist hell machine.
We could have free streaming via public library systems, or something else that’s not a profit driven malice, but this is the bad place.
We need to revisit copyright laws. Life of the author plus 70 years just encourages people to make money off work they had nothing to do with. 15 years then free domain.
15 years then free domain.
That’s what I always say. Weirdly, a lot of people who don’t have anything copyrighted themselves argue for longer copyright.
I would argue this with “but what about franchises getting slopped up with content that doesn’t fit the original narrative/characterizations?” But then I look at what Disney has done with Star wars and marvel and realize I don’t really have leg to stand on.
Disney is largely responsible for the life plus 70 years rule. And they’re still trying to maintain control over steamboat willie!
15 years max! I was thinking 5 lol
The library app is called Kanopy (for in the US). I use it all the time
My library isn’t on there.
Try Hoopla instead.
Because they randomly cancel shows for no reason
Hard to get invested when they’re all 6 episode seasons, 2+ year breaks, and canceled after 2 or 3 seasons.
You guys are getting two seasons?
And at least one of those episodes is filler
Maybe if they make Three Body Problem S2, 4 episodes, instead of 8, it will solve it. Or they could cancel Kaos again, or try running a washed up comedian, Im sure that will increase engagement. Actually, I think I want an Ad for my paid service, every 15 seconds. yeah. do that.
That and autoplay everything. Are you just trying to read a blurb to see what a show is about? Nah, we’ll just start playing it for you anyway. Christ autoplay pisses me off. And yes, I have found and deselected autoplay in my profile to no effect.
You can turn that off in the Web settings for your account (per-profile in case some monster actually likes that behavior).
Whatever they do, they should definitely spend significantly less on high quality in-house-produced content.
And force the writers of what’s left to increase the total amount of recaps and reminders of what is happening. Just slowly approach pure exposition. With characters just narrating every action they take.
You forgot more AI in everything. That will bring back viewers
probably stranger things 6, for lol, but AI reverse aging the millie brown.
I thought Drake finally left her alone, perhaps not the best idea to de-age her lol
They should definitely cancel their best top 10 shows, that’ll bring people back for sure
Oh but they added WWE shit and had it take up so much space I think they thought that I wanted it or something? Just like when they tried getting into mobile games before that.
How long before they start bragging about paying some billions for exclusive sporting access that I also don’t gaf about but is extra shitty because the whole reason is to remove choice from those that do care about it, not provide any extra value.
its worse bro, my homepage shows an AD right at the top of the home screen now.
And I think… last year, Netflix hosted one of the sports finals, and the feed kept cutting in and out, it was SO bad.
I only have netflix rn cuz I wanted to see season 3 of 1670(Was mid). Cancelling it soon now, cuz I am over it. Ad on the home screen for fuck sake.
I’m still sore about them cancelling the OA.
Santa Clarita Diet :( so annoying they keep suggesting it, when its a half baked show with no end.
Inside Job’s cancellation still hurts.
grumbles in GLOW
blood of zeus was going to have better seasons, but they force the series to end.
they canceled blood of zeus, Sandman, although gaiman made netflix to not continue it. Castlevania nocturne is in limbo, but likely cancelled, probably wont even hear a word from it for another 2years like with sandman.
You a Masochist too? 👀
Because every time you open it, it’s an assault on the senses. There’s no sense of discovery.
Ah, that’s not true! We’re discovering what will keep you paying us money, together! It’s so exciting to find that line, where we can give you just enough value that you won’t bother to cancel your subscription! What a sensational voyage of discovery!
Fuck Netflix and its practice of cancelling shows at their second season. May it crash and burn when the AI market turns.
I wholeheartedly…
why bother when most series get cancelled only after 1-3 season anyway, and its only 8episodes plus extremely long hiatus times between seasons.
Don’t forget the massive cliffhangers every time. It would be fine if a show would run for 2 Seasons if at the end its all neatly packed up. But no.
The OA finishes with them warping to our world and then just stops and this kind of shit.
Well yeah. You open the app and they just try get you to watch whatever they want you to watch. I want to watch what I want me to watch.
Is netflix out of touch?
No, it’s the customers who are wrong.
After 20 years of achieving virtually no forward progress, they just gave up on trying to optimize for individual users’ preferences.
Netflix: here’s a giant heap
It actually was pretty good at steering users towards their preferences in its earlier days.
I don’t know, I never found it very good myself?
Netflix had a million-dollar engineering challenge to improve their recommendation algorithm, awarded the prize, then did not implement it. Literally because it was hard.
They were going to run another challenge, then it got scuppered due to privacy concerns. Without violating privacy, it was hard. There was no effort to resurrect the engineering challenge in a way that would accommodate this issue.
Netflix doesn’t do a good job, and that’s mostly because they don’t value the outcome of improved recommendations, given that it is a monumental and non-trivial engineering challenge. And they don’t want to.
All of their actions show this.
Back in the day when you could choose a number of stars to review how much you enjoyed something, it worked. That was a long time ago now.
Oh yes, I must agree and I think I overlooked that aspect of your point, it was better before. Agreed
I finally canceled my Netflix in favor of going full Plex. They upped their subscription price for the last time and I was sick of it.
I cancelled and went Jellyfin recently. High-five friend! It was the price hike and reality slop for me.
usenet server + usenet provider + an ember subscription all come to less than one streaming service
I paid for a lifetime account to a private usenet server. Less than 1 year of any streaming service.
We’ve cancelled our Netflix subscription almost a year aggo and back then it was already getting faaaaar too boring.
Good shows that only get one or two seasons: Oh great, thanks a lot assholes. Now I’m invested in these characters without any closure. <= it was like that all the time. Fuck that, I’m not paying for demos. Or big corpos that suck up to fascism.
But are users who are doing this unsubscribing? Because if they don’t, maybe that’s what Netflix is aiming for. I don’t pretend to understand the way of
con artistsexecutives.It’s not hard to get people to watch. Produce good shows with actual seasons (minimum 13 episodes, preferably somewhere around 20 for certain types of shows). Then let those shows run for multiple seasons to continue to build up a fan base, so you can start to make money on merchandising. Make sure to always film a proper ending and avoid cliff hangers for the series finale to increase rewatchability. In fifteen years, you can have multiple shows that have at least 5+ seasons/100+ episodes, greatly increasing variety and rewatchability.
I haven’t used Netflix in ages, but their UI was horrible. Considering trends for the past twenty years, I can’t imagine it got better. I’ll never forgive them for deleting the reviews. Often, the Netflix reviews were the best reviews (that was not universally true).
But inevitably, they will increase prices, add more ads, then start spamming those 5+ seasons/100+ episodes shows made fully from AI slop.
Netflix was good once. It all changed once the dropped the percent positive scores now my watchlist is full of content I bailed on after 15 min.
Netflix and D+ inspired me to finally get my arr stack going and now for less than the cost of 1 Netflix subscription I am able to stream anything I want from my remote box. So thanks for that, I wouldn’t be here flying my 🏴☠️ without their service getting so shitty and expensive that I went well out of my way to set this up and now I love it.
Yes, because i am using open source platforms now
