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Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

#31

Post by ijidak »

Praise the day!!! The tyranny of auto-preview has ended!

On a serious note, I get why they added it.

For some, it saves a few button presses.

But boy was that an annoying feature.

Literally made browsing Netflix stressful.

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by abhgh »

underbluewaters wrote: post #20

It's amazing it took this long. I can understand how some people might be okay with this feature but it causes me actual anxiety to use the Netflix app on my AppleTV. Before autoplay I could mindlessly browse looking for content. Now I hurry through to check if there is anything new and get out as fast as possible. They must know that people use the app less since this change... right?

Same with their Roku app - I quickly jump from one thumbnail to the next to avoid triggering the autoplay.

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

#34

Post by dylan604 »

rconti wrote: post #16
coreyp_1 wrote: post #7

The Autoplay is REALLY, REALLY, A-N-N-O-Y-I-N-G!!! Actually, I hate most of the current design (UI/UX). It's really streamlined when all you want to do is push "play", but everything else is, quite frankly, laborious.

I know this is going to make me sound old, but so much UI/UX is getting worse. I can't even tell which tile is highlighted on my appleTV because it's only about 5% larger than the adjacent ones. The only way you can tell is by the change as you cursor around, you can't tell at a glance (and this is on a 75" TV).

Yeah, I really don't know why UI/UX designers feel the need to highlighted selection to be so minimal. HBO Go's highlight isn't much better than Apple's

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by t-writescode »

ixwt wrote: post #22
1123581321 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot more people use the thumb system than were using the star system.

They used the equivalent of the thumb system. Many people give 5 stars, or 1 star. There are some that give in between. Many places consider anything less than 5 star to mean there was a problem (Uber, Amazon, reviews for phone support).

Do you have statistics on that? I’m not sure I believe you, given Amazon ratings seem to have quite a broad range, so the pattern is established.

edit: specifically, that people only give 1 or 5 stars

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

#38

Post by mr_toad »

2bitencryption wrote: post #4

Didn't ever expect to see this capability. A bit unrelated, but: anyone remember in the "early" days when Netflix held competitions to develop the most accurate recommendation and ratings engines? Giving out million dollar prizes? And held possibly state-of-the-art tech for this? And then one day completely gutted the star rating system, replacing it with a much-despised "thumbs up/down" system, giving up their "so g…

I only recall them ever giving out one one million dollar prize on Kaggle. As far as I know they never implemented the winning system because it would have been too difficult to engineer the pipeline.

I’m not sure whether you’re trying to imply that non-ML based, non-personalised simple average ratings are better or worse than ML. Regardless, I have nothing nice to say about anecdotes.

Re: Turning Off Autoplaying Previews

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Post by dylan604 »

abhgh wrote: post #33
underbluewaters wrote: post #20

It's amazing it took this long. I can understand how some people might be okay with this feature but it causes me actual anxiety to use the Netflix app on my AppleTV. Before autoplay I could mindlessly browse looking for content. Now I hurry through to check if there is anything new and get out as fast as possible. They must know that people use the app less since this change... right?

Same with their Roku app - I quickly jump from one thumbnail to the next to avoid triggering the autoplay.

I have noticed that the loading of the preview has actually made the jumping to the next thumbnail slower on my AppleTV app
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