why bother when you cancel every show after the second season?
And every recommendation category is that same 20 programs in a different order.
‘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?
Hard to get invested when they’re all 6 episode seasons, 2+ year breaks, and canceled after 2 or 3 seasons.
Because every time you open it, it’s an assault on the senses. There’s no sense of discovery.
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.
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
Fuck Netflix and its practice of cancelling shows at their second season. May it crash and burn when the AI market turns.
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.
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.
