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Netflix’s bad habits have caught up with it

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Post by freemint »

mrweasel wrote: post #399
WillPostForFood wrote: post #226

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They were probably fooled by metrics. People were watching the crap, so it looked like crap was good enough (until it wasn’t).

Metrics can easily fool you on Netflix, because many will watch an entire bad season of a show. If you had to watch an episode a week, and you don’t care for the show, missing an episode one week will easily cause you to just drop the show and viewer number quickly drop off. On Netflix I’ve watch entire seasons of bad shows, because it’s easy, and it might get better and now I’ve already watched the first two episode…

And it would result in people not sticking around till the end of the season -> less views.

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Post by freemint »

makeitdouble wrote: post #144
ummonk wrote: post #89

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This view seems to be contradicted by the extent to which people binge-watch shows, which involves way more than 90 minutes of continuous contents.

Binging happens on your terms, you can stop and resume on smaller units of time (e.g. 1h for western tv shows, 20 min for anime). Worse case if you’re disrupted is you’d restart the eps you were on at a later and you’d lose less than an hour of watch time. Current movies go up to 3h… I see as the same paradox as people watching Tiktok shorts for hours. Yes, in aggregate it could be more than several movies stuck toge…

What you skip the opening and ending when you binge?

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Post by oxfordmale »

bdavisx wrote: post #465
oxfordmale wrote: post #407

One of my Netflix bad habits is fast forwarding through predictable scenes. A lot of their series appear to be padded out to make up a series instead of a long feature film, and as a result I find myself fast forwarding through at least 50% of a series. Time wise I am watching it all, however, engagement is self evidently lowrr

But that's not unique to Netflix - I can remember thinking how much better '24' would have been w/o all the filler crap - but then they wouldn't have been able to make a "real time" TV show (well, they could have, but they didn't). Also I tried watching the reboot of "Kung Fu" a few weeks ago - wow, there's more Asian family drama filler than there is actual "Kung Fu". It seems like the filler stuff is everywhere now…

Not unique to Netflix, however, most other streaming platforms also broadcast their series on old fashioned television channels.

Netflix may solve this problem by introducing adverts on their cheaper plans.

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Post by Izkata »

cato_the_elder wrote: post #468
Izkata wrote: post #447

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Yes it is. GP is talking solely about what's already happened: -200,000 after having cut off 700,000 from Russia, which is a net gain of 500,000 outside of Russia.

But the projection has nothing to do with cutting off Russians. At least not directly.

They were responding to someone who phrased their comment as if they were also talking about what already happened, not as if they were referring to projections.

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Post by throwaway4220 »

lf-non wrote: post #325
scyzoryk_xyz wrote: post #198

“Content is King” We all know this, Netflix knows this. And yet for some reason for years they have been aiming for quantity and not quality. Money is not enough in this department and baseball metaphors don’t do justice illustrating just how hard it is to put together a team that has that special thing going on. Some would argue it’s impossible - teams like the one behind Better Call Saul are just extremely rare and…

Yeah, I agree. I mostly gave up on netflix because their SFF catalog has been underwhelming for so long. SFF genre has outstanding authors like Brandon Sanderson, Will Wight, Jay Kristoff, Jim Butcher etc. who are producing amazing content for an adult audience at a much faster rate than I can consume with a busy schedule. In contrast Netflix titles simply fail to catch up - there are few good titles (100 & Arcane ar…

Science fiction and fantasy

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Post by nasmorn »

Gys wrote: post #184
asr21 wrote: post #165

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It was a good movie, but not a great movie. I would be surprised if you would rate that movie in top 20 for the last decade.

You are implying netflix needs to offer a ‘ movie in top 20 for the last decade’ every week or so. You will indeed get very disappointed by all streaming services.

You will also be disappointed by basic math given that a decade has 520 weeks.

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Post by PartiallyTyped »

PartiallyTyped wrote: post #410
vimy wrote: post #383

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If anything this validates those complaints. They are course correcting. Wouldn’t need a memo like that if their content wasn’t leaning to one side. The only reason Chapelle is on Netflix is because one of the CEOs is a huge fan. There was a lot of internal pushback.

That is not as good of an argument as you think it is. > The only reason Chapelle is on Netflix is because one of the CEOs is a huge fan. There was a lot of internal pushback. In other words, CEO endorses and demands a "comedian" who punches down on __other minorities__, and somehow Netflix is "woke".

I find it very disappointing that a +3 comment went to -3 without any reasonable responses, I expected more from HN.

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Post by carlmr »

ajmurmann wrote: post #105
carlmr wrote: post #14

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But that's a problem. Watching a whole season makes you more invested in the show, so you're pissed off when it gets cancelled. I also agree with OP that encouraging binge watching is not good. Netflix pumped out more content than any cable TV package I've ever had in the past, but by allowing binge-watching people binge and then get bored and say Netflix has no content. If they spread out these shows it would be hea…

If they release it piecemeal, I'll just wait longer to resubscribe to their services. If something is on HBO that I really want to watch, I won't subscribe to it until the season is either entirely wrapped up or at least will be within the month of the subscription.

But in that case you don't matter as a customer, because either way you only subscribe for binging one show.

I would bet that some people would pay for always getting the newest content, if only for being able to talk to their friends about the newest episode each week.

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Post by the_only_law »

55555 wrote: post #200

I’m bored of Netflix. They have simply gone the assembly line direction instead of the direction of art, at least for some big niches. For example, every True Crime docuseries on Netflix is the same crap. Once you’ve seen three, you’ve seen them all. They get each cop involved in a big empty room, sit them on a solitary chair, put a dramatic light above them, and shoot them in 4k. Then they direct it at a pace to bor…

Tbh half the stuff I watch on Netflix was taken away an out on put on the many “new developed streaming platform for IP owner” sites.
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