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Early images of Netflix.com show how far it has come in 20 years
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#32Netflix recommendations are so bad they are downright comical and make me laugh every day. I can't believe their developers get paid 300K+. For that kind of salary and the work they put out, they have got to be the world's most unproductive employees.
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#33The quality of Netflix's recommendation engine went downhill quickly after their move away from the 1-5 star rating system last March. I put a lot of time into picking the right values for each of the movies I watched and was constantly amazed and how good its recommendations were. Still a happy subscriber, just a little less so.
I believe this was changed because of abuse.
Alt right people were giving Amy Schumer's standup 1 star. I remember watching it thinking it was good, not amazing, but certainly not 1 start standup compared to most of the filth out there.
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#34Downvote me if you want but I love the massive amounts of text in the early version. For me. The web is better with more text and less whatever else.
For you and for other tech-heads like us, possibly. For the public at large? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy#Prevalen...
I find this list fascinating, because it seems counterintuitive. I expected to find generally lower illiteracy in countries with simpler/fewer languages, but Romance languages (Italian, Spanish) top the list, while countries with multiple official languages (Switzerland, Canada) are in the middle, and at the bottom are countries with multiple languages and which are generally thought to be difficult to learn (Danish, Finnish). That seems almost backwards.
What I get from this is that when it comes to success in language learning, technical difficulty is mere rounding error compared to other factors.
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#35The quality of Netflix's recommendation engine went downhill quickly after their move away from the 1-5 star rating system last March. I put a lot of time into picking the right values for each of the movies I watched and was constantly amazed and how good its recommendations were. Still a happy subscriber, just a little less so.
I believe this was changed because of abuse. Alt right people were giving Amy Schumer's standup 1 star. I remember watching it thinking it was good, not amazing, but certainly not 1 start standup compared to most of the filth out there.
And yet Rotten Tomatoes had made it work for years.
Re: Early images of Netflix.com show how far it has come in 20 years
#36The quality of Netflix's recommendation engine went downhill quickly after their move away from the 1-5 star rating system last March. I put a lot of time into picking the right values for each of the movies I watched and was constantly amazed and how good its recommendations were. Still a happy subscriber, just a little less so.
I believe this was changed because of abuse. Alt right people were giving Amy Schumer's standup 1 star. I remember watching it thinking it was good, not amazing, but certainly not 1 start standup compared to most of the filth out there.
Could you provide a source that it was Alt right people doing this?
Re: Early images of Netflix.com show how far it has come in 20 years
#37The quality of Netflix's recommendation engine went downhill quickly after their move away from the 1-5 star rating system last March. I put a lot of time into picking the right values for each of the movies I watched and was constantly amazed and how good its recommendations were. Still a happy subscriber, just a little less so.
I believe this was changed because of abuse. Alt right people were giving Amy Schumer's standup 1 star. I remember watching it thinking it was good, not amazing, but certainly not 1 start standup compared to most of the filth out there.
Not just “alt-right” people. Quite a lot of groups have expressed their dislike lately. Personally, I find her incredibly bland, and I can’t say for sure that I didn’t leave one star for The Leather Special.
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#38The article lists that hand curated selections have been replaced by algorithmic recommendations, pointers to DVD sales on Amazon are gone, columns are gone. None of these things sound like a plus to me. Especially given how their algorithms seem to optimize for something (me spending time searching? watching particular movies that clearly aren't a match but Netflix has done incentive for me to watch? No clue) that's…
I also hate it.
It is almost impossible to find the foreign movies I care about.
Sometimes I find them by language, other times by the name, and worse just scrolling hoping that they get suggested again to me.
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#39Downvote me if you want but I love the massive amounts of text in the early version. For me. The web is better with more text and less whatever else.
It seems somewhat counter-intuitive to go to an on-demand video delivery service and want to see a lot of text though, no? People didn't go to Blockbuster to go read a description of the movie on white note card. I see this mentality a lot on HN and it seems like there's a large population of "get off my lawn" techies who only want the WWW to be text and nothing else, ever. Not trying to criticize your opinion, which…
What else can you expect from techies that insist using their computers as a PDP-11 replica as if Xerox PARC never existed?
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#40The quality of Netflix's recommendation engine went downhill quickly after their move away from the 1-5 star rating system last March. I put a lot of time into picking the right values for each of the movies I watched and was constantly amazed and how good its recommendations were. Still a happy subscriber, just a little less so.
Do they need a manual rating now with so many subscribers? If lots of people give up watching something after 15 minutes then it could be considered "not very good", and if people watch something multiple times then it could be "very good". Yes there are holes (people may give up on something good because they don't like the genre) but in general?