how about solve your revolutionary problem that is causing your decline, stop cancelling shows after 1-2 seasons/. besides that the extreme hiatus between seasons of shows, which also plagues other streaming.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
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Our family's policy is that we don't follow a show until it's completely over, and we know it's a complete show.
Netflix hates that, but it their own fault, for being so irresponsible with their programming. We wouldn't go to a movie that we know quits in the middle of the second act.
Allow me to draw you a picture of time.
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it's a flat circle!
Did they just reinvent it?!
You know. For kids!
Riding the same wave the best phone companies will propose a revolutionary new smartphone with the handset and the dial
never needs charging because it's stuck to the wall
Have we considered that inputting phone numbers could work better with a reduced set of motions? We could have all numbers arranged on a circle and all you have to do is rotate a dial and let go.
That's very infinite jest
Ok but I've wanted this forever
Everyone knows the joke about spending an hour looking for something to watch, this could be great for discovery
Now if these services would just let us shuffle episodes...
(I know I know jellyfin/ whatever would be better but I'm broke and $10 a month for a shared account is easier than buying the server equipment right now)
Have you heard of cable? Broadcast? Satellite? This already existed. That was the experience. Flip channels to find a show that's good enough and find something new along the way.
But that's the real thing that happened. It was never about tech "disrupting" TV any more than it was Uber "disrupting" cabs.
It was just tech going, "hey we want to be in cable, let's take over and replace cable."
Swapping one base technology for another, and price-dancing the whole way there, so when your streaming service costs $300/mon, it has been so long that you forgot $80/mon cable used to exist. Read-only services that couldn't serve you dynamic ads every 3 seconds while profiling your home network and watching your cat through a webcam to figure out what litter coupons to e-mail you next week.
The cable guy screaming in the middle of the street on the streaming service South Park was spot on.
No? I didn't forget anything. There were things I liked about cable - but the ads and the not being able to watch what you wanted sucked.
Something like tv channels, but with no ads and you can go pick and watch what you want like you always have sounds great. There's a reason there are so many tutorials to set up that experience on services like plex or jellyfin.
And you can say we are going to slippery slope ourselves up to $300 but people are getting better at saying no to higher prices, look at game pass or doritos for two recent big examples
This just feels like netflix giving users something they have been asking for forever and everyone is making the same OMG THEY REINVENTED CABLE LMAOZ comment and I wanted to point out the other side.
This has a funny secondary effect in that in some countries they would definitely need to get a broadcasting license then, when so far they got around it, being a video-on-demand service falling under the same laws as rental places for VHS tapes and such.
Oi, You Got A Loicense For That, Mate?
Getting a broadcasting license isn't all that difficult if you are just an entertainment channel. Big German twitch streamers had that problem and while its not cheap, a license costs pretty much nothing compared to all the licensing costs Netflix has.
Wow, there are some real geniuses there, or did they possibly pay one of those consulting companies?
From Netflix to Nutflicks.
You can do that? Live? Like it's happening RIGHT NOW?
It's like we're living in the future.
Hello Jellyfin!
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Have they considered putting literally any description about shows up? I don't want to have to scroll through a list looking for something interesting and go to a second website to actually see what it is, and nor do I just want to watch ten minutes of stuff different shows too decide because then I've already wasted an hour.
That was a major reason we cancelled. Now we have Disney plus (I think someone else pays for that and shares with us - I don't watch anything on it on my own initiative so it's not my realm) and BBC, and the seven seas. Two legal services seems like a sensible amount.
Or how about trailers that actually give you some clue, instead of a snippet of a random conversation that has nothing to do with the plot.
best they can do is cancel the show after 1-2 season, rarely 3, and 4 if they are lucky.
I think it's all part of the same mindset: they want all conclusions to be drawn from watching the show. So they make shit shows that they shouldn't have started making (or rather: shit by their metrics, not viewers') and then can them when the experiment says doesn't meet their requirements.
Astonishing. Absolutely fascinating.
Can I use plastic bags again yet?