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Comment by lofaszvanitt | Hacker News Reader

Their front end is just plain garbage. It does everything besides helping discovery of content. And people look up to Netflix like it's some miracle thing.

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It is well engineered and meticulously manicured garbage though. In your example, the harder it is to discover content the easier it is to realize there is nothing new to watch. (Hence the rotating thumbnails, for a trivial example)

One thing I hate about netflix that category recommendation also include other category stuff like Trending/Recently watched etc I just want to watch some classical movies so plz show me your whole catalog of such movies I don't use netflix often so this issue is more prominent for me atleast since I am not used to the UI bloat

There is always a lot of good things to watch, but you have to dance around the idiotic recommendation system to find the hidden pearls. I'm sure there are a lot of good, talented people working there, but for what, when the frontend team kneecaps their work with the abysmal user interface.

And the best part... you chat with the support and they try to force a how to use our webpage shit on you when you want to report an annoying UI issue. It's really mind boggling how a congregation of idiots with their heads up their asses runs that place.

That you don't like how you have to use the Netflix interface has nothing to do with how it's engineered.

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