And make sure everything you mouseover trying to get a blurb or something instead just jumps around like a Jack Russell terrier trying to grab your attention. I fucking hate having to find a place to park my mouse so it isn't autoplaying some bullshit I have no interest in.
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Or worse finding a space where something doesn't auto play but scroll does work (when on a computer.)
I mean, if they could let you click on the picture and it "flips" over and then there's some info and a few stills from the movie... This was how Video Rental stores worked for years.
The large cover design isn't even the worst bit, it's how hard it is to find concrete genre categories in a lot of these streaming apps. You'd have a bunch of overlapping categories like most popular whatever in whereever and so on, they quite literally hide the option to just go to movies -> genre -> list everything in some apps (Netflix was hard to find at some point).
Now I just pirate whatever old movies come to mind and stuff them in Jellyfin. Right now it's Minority Report. Up next... Hmm I downloaded man from U.N.C.L.E the other day, might watch that.
Which app is this?
Everything about using the internet and its various βservicesβ has turned to absolute garbage in the last 15 years.
It's what happens when you let marketing dickheads be in charge of everything.
Our bold, brilliant leaders and innovators once again doing what everyone else is doing, even when it is stupid.
Click on a cover to get more info.
Honestly it feels a bit like browsing a shelf of books or DvD boxes or something. It certainly could have some improvements but I donβt think this is that bad.
I dont mind the Top 10 Carousel, but it would be nice if it has a Title and a Rating under it.
A lot of the "For You" algorithm stuff is fine, but I would prefer to have that in a Table. Title, Synopsis, Rating, length, Director, Cast. so if it sounds interesting, I can click through, but I am not going back and forth constantly.
Also gimmie a bit list I can sort. You can even have things like Movie Posters show when hovering over the name.
A big part of it is keeping you on the site, engaged. It's best if you are watching a movie, but browsing around is good, too. At least they aren't on a competitor's site.
They don't want to show you ratings, because that will make it obvious how shit their catalog is.
but if you mouse over the cover, it starts autoplaying a preview and you can't stop it
It's pretty terrible for the VI/Blind community
Even worse when the streaming site publishes it under multiple covers. So freaking annoying.
Way too often I see a cover I donβt recognize and think it might be something Iβd like, but get a couple minutes in before realizing Iβve seen it before.
I imagine itβs marketing trying to see what cover gets the most clicks but at the cost of annoying its customers
I didn't look at all the comments, but this is intentional. One of the streaming platforms (probably Netflix or Amazon) originally made an algorithm that tailors posters to the individual. It's the usual A/B testing psychological bullshit designed to maximize your likelihood of watching a movie.
My wife watched The Get Down and another series I think it was called "Woke" (two series with predominantly black cast) back to back in the same weekend and the Netflix algorithm started to put the black character of every show as the center piece on every picture. Like we already watched house of card, we know that the black lobbyist guy is barely a support character, don't try to fool us putting him in the center of the poster
I'm so happy I don't have Netflix... That sounds extreamly manipulative. Interesting to know they do this but not surprising since it's Netflix.
One of the reasons I dropped Netflix was because they kept changing the pictures on shit so I'd think there was new content only to see id already watched it when I clicked on it. That got old quick. Don't have that issue when I just pirate shit.
Exactly. User hostile methods like this are a deal breaker.
Web/UI design in general has sucked for at least 14 years now. Everything is spaced too far apart and text/images are too big. Icons are used for critical functionality instead of words. Pointless animations and gradients slow everything down for no reason.
The thing that drives me the craziest is when a long title or sentence or whatever is just truncated with ellipses, even when there is ENORMOUS blank white space around it that would easily allow the whole thing to be shown with word-wrapping. Youtube shorts is the most egregious example of this, and they recently managed to make it even worse. It used to be that you could open up the comments for a short and that would make the entire long title readable, but they "fixed" that so it stays ellipsized even then.
The app I use at work to clock in and out ellipsizes my own name halfway through my middle name, and it could be easily fixed by just stretching the control that displays the name all the way to each edge. I used to be a mobile app developer and I know exactly why this happens: the UI designer uses a bogus short name like "Bob Smith" on the original design document and the developer who implements it puts in a control just big enough for that. I used to encounter this kind of thing and I would fix it with common sense, and then the UI designer would get mad and insist that my fix be reverted, even though that resulted in something that couldn't display the information properly.
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What difference are you seeing that I'm not?
I think the main complaint is that your examples show detail about the movie, not just a close up of someone's face
For example jaws has a giant shark attacking a person. Compare that to a close up of Bane's face. You might not even realize it's a batman movie of you aren't familiar with it already.
Star wars poster shows space ships and laser sword.
Many movie posters are just the main characters now with head shots vs trying to tell a story.
I don't full agree with the op, just my interpretation of what I think they are complaining about
What we really need is an app that uses the Ghanaian movie posters.
I thought it was about the website design as opposed to the posters. Like why dont you get a small infobox for every movie with name, runtime, age-rating, plotsummary... Instead its just the posters
But words make people read and reading is one of videos competitors.
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A Netflix listing doesn't need to be same as outside a movie theater. They can be more similar to a tv guide.
My local movie theater in the heart of downtown has taken down all the movie posters outside the entrance and replaced them with a single screen that only shows ads for overpriced popcorn "deals".
Before, anyone walking by knew which movies were currently playing; now, all they know is just how outrageously expensive the popcorn is.
I haven't been to that theater since.
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UI's for movie streaming services are not designed to help you find something to watch. They are designed to keep you "engaged", which means in the platform and not realizing that the pool of actually interesting things is about as deep as a puddle. Everything about streaming sites' design is user hostile and this is a classic example of that.
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