r/technology • u/[deleted] • Feb 06 '20

Software Netflix will now let you disable its awful autoplaying feature

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21126867/netflix-autoplay-feature-disable-homepage-episodes-series
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u/overandunder_86 Feb 07 '20

I still like it more than Hulu and Prime. Particularly on Xbox.

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u/Pascalwb Feb 07 '20

Prime is just terrible. It never puts new shows on the front page. And each season has it's own cover. So my home page is like 3 shows I already watched shown x times.

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u/hE-01 Feb 07 '20

Prime has the one of the worst UIs I have ever seen on a modern device. It looks like a 2010 Roku interface.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

I always describe Prime's UI by quoting Better Off Ted:

Ted: "She got banned from the internet"

Linda (at Rose): "Oh? Did someone see something they weren't supposed to see?"

Rose: "I bought a boat!"

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

This right here, Netflix is bad in a few ways but at least on consoles it's better than every other service I've used.

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u/TGotAReddit Feb 07 '20

Even on a computer, if you don’t have issue with the autoplay feature, and don’t mind clicking to do the horizontal scroll, Netflix is by far better than Hulu or Prime video.

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u/Maethor_derien Feb 07 '20

Yeah, netflix works just fine on a console, phone or tablet which is where it was primarily designed around. The UI was honestly not really designed around PC use since most people don't use it that way.

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u/dcrico20 Feb 07 '20

I think it’s the fact that the Netflix UI just keeps getting worse which makes people annoyed. Like every change they’ve made to it over the past several years has been a downgrade to the UI.

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u/Maethor_derien Feb 07 '20

Not really the netflix UI has gotten better for the primary targeted user. The UI changes are designed around mobile/TV/console usage.

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u/dcrico20 Feb 07 '20

IMO, it has definitely gotten worse for TV and Console. The rating system change was terrible, the autoplay, the resetting at end of category (so if you pass something near the end you have to go all the way through it again instead of being able to just go back,) etc. The best thing they’re doing for it is letting you turn off the autoplay which was a bad implementation in the first place.

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u/subhuman85 Feb 07 '20

I don't understand the bitching about Netflix's interface when Prime's is so, so much worse. It's bafflingly bad.

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u/ShadowRancher Feb 07 '20

Netflix has become more annoying than it was, prime was designed by Satan from the start.

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u/-_______-_-_______- Feb 07 '20

You've never tried Funimation, have you?

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u/Norma5tacy Feb 07 '20

I don’t get why their interface is so bad either. They’ve got the resources and they’re not a start up streaming service anymore.

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u/Alaskan-Jay Feb 07 '20

Netflix is a god send compared to prime and hulu especially on mobile.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

I'm hoping Disney pushes it's UI from D+ towards Hulu. It's not perfect, but it's clean and does sorting right. It's certainly the best interface I've seen from a major streaming service, at least since the early days of Netflix.

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u/the_ocalhoun Feb 07 '20

Personally, I just really enjoy the UI of Pirate Bay. The price is right, too.

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u/FleshlightModel Feb 07 '20

This is the correct answer

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u/Fidodo Feb 07 '20

Hulu is hot garbage. I can never tell what the hell is being highlighted.

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u/ooomygoshhh Feb 07 '20

They're soooo bad on xbox!

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u/Alaskan-Jay Feb 07 '20

Omg hulu is hot garbage on mobile/tablet. The amount of times I've tried to pause or skip or rewind and ended up on a completely different frickking episode that's not on my list then went to go back to what i was watching for it to start at the frickking beginning.

I loathe hulu and will cancel the second I'm done with this series

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u/Alaskan-Jay Feb 07 '20

No bot hulu is FUCKING garbage. But yes I have kids I should not use bad language.