They’re all really bad. Because every one of them, despite being a paid service, wants to cram the same content down your throat over and over again.
A lot of them have vast libraries of actually interesting content but you’d never know it because the only way you can find them is in the search function.
They want to jam sports down my throat over and over, even though I don’t give a single fuck about watching sports of any kind.
I appreciate being notified of the newest content, but also I don’t need to be reminded every single time I open the app, or watch a preview every time I start or finish a completely different movie or show. If I scroll by it 6 times, I’m probably not interested…
Also 99% of the time I do not want to watch your recap of the last episode, or a preview of the next episode, I don’t care about BTS crap, I don’t want to watch the intro again when I’m on the 37th episode, and I don’t want to watch the credits. So maybe instead of a “skip x” button, just add a “watch x” button? I can’t imagine I’m alone on this, or even in the minority. Also your timestamps are fucked, so even if “skip x” actually appears, I often have to skip forward 10-20 more seconds for some reason?
Why when I finish a show does it disappear from the UI entirely?
Why are there no filters by genre? Should this not be an absolute basic function of a media library?
You have a “for you” section but how could you possibly know what kind of content is “for me” when you’ve never even asked?
You wanna sell paid content? Great. Just give me an option to filter it at my leisure. Again I’m already paying you…
Right now the HBO skip button is broken entirely on my machine.
YouTube is a whole other pile of shit that I would totally pay for were it not bested by a handful of nerds working for free building clients with vast improvements in functionality.
Same here. I have Prime but only for their Amazon Prime delivery services, not for their video or audio thing(Amazon refuses to unbundle their stuff in my country). To make it worse, Amazon Prime Video, Atleast last I tried didn’t go to full HD(or even 720p) on Firefox on Linux, so there is no point to it.
And there is hardly an ethical concern to it. I am paying for a service but getting my hands on the material; just via a different supply chain because Amazon sucks.
I actually get Prime TV series from the high seas even though I’m subscribed to Prime. It’s simply better UX this way.
It’s shocking how bad their ui is. I don’t get it.
They’re all really bad. Because every one of them, despite being a paid service, wants to cram the same content down your throat over and over again.
A lot of them have vast libraries of actually interesting content but you’d never know it because the only way you can find them is in the search function.
They want to jam sports down my throat over and over, even though I don’t give a single fuck about watching sports of any kind.
I appreciate being notified of the newest content, but also I don’t need to be reminded every single time I open the app, or watch a preview every time I start or finish a completely different movie or show. If I scroll by it 6 times, I’m probably not interested…
Also 99% of the time I do not want to watch your recap of the last episode, or a preview of the next episode, I don’t care about BTS crap, I don’t want to watch the intro again when I’m on the 37th episode, and I don’t want to watch the credits. So maybe instead of a “skip x” button, just add a “watch x” button? I can’t imagine I’m alone on this, or even in the minority. Also your timestamps are fucked, so even if “skip x” actually appears, I often have to skip forward 10-20 more seconds for some reason?
Why when I finish a show does it disappear from the UI entirely?
Why are there no filters by genre? Should this not be an absolute basic function of a media library?
You have a “for you” section but how could you possibly know what kind of content is “for me” when you’ve never even asked?
You wanna sell paid content? Great. Just give me an option to filter it at my leisure. Again I’m already paying you…
Right now the HBO skip button is broken entirely on my machine.
YouTube is a whole other pile of shit that I would totally pay for were it not bested by a handful of nerds working for free building clients with vast improvements in functionality.
I could go on but I digress.
Same here. I have Prime but only for their Amazon Prime delivery services, not for their video or audio thing(Amazon refuses to unbundle their stuff in my country). To make it worse, Amazon Prime Video, Atleast last I tried didn’t go to full HD(or even 720p) on Firefox on Linux, so there is no point to it.
And there is hardly an ethical concern to it. I am paying for a service but getting my hands on the material; just via a different supply chain because Amazon sucks.
you will run into similar restrictions on other services that use drm.