Shameless self-plug: You might like our site at https://justwatch.com - all the filter options at your power and it doesn't make dizzy when scrolling :)
I'd like to be able to put movies into three groups, want to watch (watch queue), already seen (with a rating), and "have no interest" in seeing.
Then, all my search results would NOT show the movies I've put into one of these three lists, so I only see new content. From the search result list, I can easily put movies into one of my three lists.
Also, if your search results could filter out movies based on buy vs rent, since I have no interest in buying movies online. Also, remove pre-releases, I'm not looking for something I can watch in 5 months, I'm looking for things I can watch right now (GOTs season 5 pre-order).
I think who ever nails this implementation could be a big winner as we need an online tv-guide more than ever. But so far, I only see ways to have the same movies I seen (or don't want to see) thrown in my face over and over again.
As you watch more and more online content, you spend more and more time being offered movies you've already seen and that makes it hard to discover new content in the haystack of stuff you've seen or don't care to see.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for the feedback! Rent/Buy filter is already on the short term roadmap. Actually, your main idea is one that we've been dabbling with in various forms close to the one you're describing, as we're mainly dogfooding on the movie discovery UX we'd like to use ourselves.
In the end, it's still just the plain WatchList feature you're seeing for time to market reasons, but we're back to the drawing board and will definitely release something similar in the mid term.
Now I really don't feel bad about pirating.
I was going to say that my biggest complaint about the existing Netflix site is for me (who doesn't keep an ongoing account) is the inability to search for films without first having an account. I can't just browse anonymously, see if Netflix has a particular show available for streaming and then sign up for a month to watch it.
My only feature request would be rather difficult to implement, but I'd love it all the same: Have Foxtel Play's library in there somehow.
Actually, getting a decent title matching rate was a problem that proved to be much harder than anticipated and allowed some false positives like this one to slip through. We don't have the resources to curate the catalog by hand (and honestly we don't even want to), so getting smarter at this is one main focus area for us during the next half of a year!
- ratings from external sources - ability to queue straight from instantwatcher - similar titles - more info about the movie (actors, awards, genres, etc) on the actual movie page
All that being said, Netflix should have just used the justwatch UI / UX.
As for the features, it tells me we're on the right way to add a lot of those things soon - except for queueing that is. Instantwatcher is one of the handful of apps that was deemed useful enough by Netflix to not be cut off from their API back then, so they still have an ability we won't ever have (and don't want to, as we're focused to have a good experience across all VOD providers).
Was great getting some input on that, thanks for taking the time.