[nullc]

> Scrolling through it is tough, but not because of too many options, but because too many repeats.

Repeats and already seens.

I seldom want to rewatch movies, I do so usually only to show someone some classic they missed. So I find the interface of netflix (and youtube, for that matter) infuriating in that they seem heavily centered on showing me things that I've already seen and don't have any option to suppress them.

What the heck is with that? While my preference to see something new might not be the majority of their views, I assume that most people will want to see something new at least some of the time-- so why isn't this an option? If anything it should make the service more sticky since they'll have hold of that already-seen data.

Now some better search -- year ranges, category/keyword, credits search, etc. but presumably that would take a lot of work compared to just letting me skip the stuff I've seen or seen recently.

[tpmx]

The presumed Netflix UX prime directive: Mask the shallowness/low average quality of the catalog at all costs.

Similar, and as the article notes: Why can't you see an alphabetical list of content by category?