Comments on: Netflix website redesign angers users, again

By: Year in tech: The 5 “improvements” you hated the most | here's the thing

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:06:46 +0000

[…] MPAA ratings, or (best of all) user “star” rating. What they changed: In June, Netflix unveiled a major home-page revamp, complete with large, slowly scrolling rows of “Watch Instantly” movies and TV shows. […]

By: Netflix bows to pressure, will re-enable sorting for instant videos : here’s the thing

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:21:58 +0000

[…] a month after unveiling an extreme makeover of its home page that provided “more focus” on instant videos while nixing the ability to sort them, […]

By: Another solution to Netflix’s instant-video sorting problem: InstantWatcher : here’s the thing

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:32:22 +0000

[…] annoyed that Netflix’s recent website redesign won’t let you sort through the video giant’s massive cache of streaming movies and TV […]

By: How to re-enable sorting for instant Netflix videos : here’s the thing

How to re-enable sorting for instant Netflix videos : here’s the thing — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:22:32 +0000

[…] of Netflix subscribers howled in protest last week after a controversial site redesign left movie lovers without the ability to sort streaming “watch instantly” movies by […]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:55:00 +0000

In reply to Greg Swan. Agreed—although for me, the ability to sort by star rating was the biggest loss in the redesign.

By: Greg Swan

Greg Swan — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:37:00 +0000

The inability to sort by year is a huge omission. Netflix is full of super old crap nobody cares about, and now that super old crap nobody cares about is intermittently sparsed between what few good movies are available for streaming. And the comment about paying for this is a great point. When Facebook makes a UX change, so be it. But I’m paying for Netflix.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:50:00 +0000

In reply to Jim Stanley. Yep, a surprising move—I had to triple-check to make sure I wasn't missing something. Worth noting that you can still sort DVD listings...for now, at least.

By: Jim Stanley

Jim Stanley — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:42:00 +0000

Yo Ben, Netflix being a very data-driven company I’d be surprised if they didn’t user test this to the gills…but then again just because they put a lot of analysis an algorithmic prowess to work to make movie/video recommendations, that doesn’t mean they necessarily put the same discipline to work testing the usability of the website. Simple but important usability tools like “sort” might be getting lost in the allure of super smart recommendations and “modern” page display capabilities.