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It is amazing to me that they offered a superior interface by any measure back in the DVD days. The AppleTV interface for Netflix is a disgrace. I don’t understand how they have all of these brilliant engineers, yet make an interface worse than what Spectrum provides.

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What exactly are you looking for?

A better layout. Those ribbons are difficult to use, and the app uses a different design language than most.

I also find the discovery experience to be lousy... I often don’t hear about new shows for months, although I use the app every day.

What interface do you want?

I, for one, want a Tinder-like interface. Photo, title, synopsis, production budget, main cast, etc on each page. Swipe right to add to favorites, swipe left to reject. Choices presented best first as determined by machine learning model. It would be nice to be able to train multiple models, and to mix model predictions with those of friends and family. Separate favorite lists for things already watched and things not watched yet.

Second interface: "continue watching" list, most recently viewed at the top.

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