[toddmorey]

Also with this approach, you actually have a real collection and it's fun to collect things.

My son has autism and viewed his Netflix homepage as his personal curated collection. But then, of course, Netflix renegotiates licensing deals and entire seasons or shows just go away. And it really crushes him because it's like they were stolen from his personal collection.

So now when I hear him play, the super villain trying to destroy the world is always named Reed Hastings.

[airstrike]

> So now when I hear him play, the super villain trying to destroy the world is always named Reed Hastings.

That is absolutely hilarious and it totally sounds like a villain's name

[Agingcoder]

I understand his frustration : I have a similar issue with video games - Xbox gamepass games sometimes leave the service. So I built an app that takes all my games across the various gaming services ( steam etc ) including the Xbox gamepass ones, and it grabs them from the achievements ( games I have played ) on top of the catalog ( available games )should they have left the catalog

That way games that are gone remain and I have a Netflix like interface to view all my games past and present

[HWR_14]

It is interesting that Netflix alone gets blamed, as opposed to the parties they are negotiating with.

[autoexec]

Netflix is ultimately responsible for what they put on the platform, for delivering a consistent product to their users, and for setting expectations.

Netflix is exceptionally shitty at letting people what is leaving their platform and when, and even letting them know when the shows they saved or were in the middle of watching have been removed. Netflix has been around for ages but we still have to depend on third party websites to tell us what's coming/leaving. Some items will have a "leaving soon" banner on the thumbnail, but that's only good for shows netflix decides to push at you. There's no section or search that will find all that stuff (searching for "leaving soon" will show you some of them)

[pocksuppet]

They can only deliver things that are possible to deliver. There is nothing they can do to negotiate a forever licensing deal with a content provider, other than buying the content provider, which is also not possible unless they jack up prices 100x and somehow still keep all their users.

[altairprime]

Netflix chose to negotiate revocable licenses to save money and draw in users, so it does seem valid to assign blame to Netflix for signing such contracts.

[mindslight]

> it's like they were stolen from his personal collection

They were.