Netflix is rolling out a redesigned homepage that brings the biggest change to the desktop version of the streaming video site since it ditched Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in in favor of HTML5 with Safari for OS X Yosemite last year.
The overhauled design behaves much more like an iPad or iPhone app with fewer page changes and much more information and interactions on a single web page.
Netflix now presents several rows of genres with relevant movies and TV shows listed beneath in a layout that makes content more discoverable. These rows don’t scroll although they look like they should be able to, but you can click through screens of episodes or films without leaving the homepage.
Clicking a title expands to reveal an overview of the video, again without leaving the homepage, and clicking away will close the expanded view to go back to the browsing view. Overall, the new homepage is much more animated and displays a lot more content at the same time without jumping to new pages. I typically use Netflix on my iPad or Apple TV, but the new desktop design is definitely more inviting and app-like and less like an old website which is great for Mac users.
Netflix says the new design should roll out over the next two weeks.
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The Netflix website still looks like it belongs on Windows.
But… Does it allow 4K streams for us with the hardware to support it?
Depends on whose definition of “supported hardware” you’re using.
I still find the “Continue watching for…” quite useless as it shows episodes I have already seen, or things I started seeing and would like to remove from the list. Not to mention there is not single location where you can see if any of the shows you have seen, have new episodes to watch. Lots of nice content, but very difficult to manage (on the web, in the iOS apps, on Apple TV).
Not to mention that the “Continue Watching for…” is not synchronized properly between devices…
Pity because the service is really nice (recently available in Germany).
It needs a top rated list. Surely it’s super easy to add. A list from 1-100 of the films with the highest number of 5 stars
Supposedly, Netflix is planning on doing away with star ratings altogether, so I would think this would be unlikely. Netflix tries to cater to personal preference, a Top 100 is contrary to that.
Ahh that’s a shame, my thinking behind a top rated list would be law of averages. If most people who use Netflix like it. Then chances are, you may also like it.
I hate it.