Your Feature Wishlist

What do you still want to see on the Netflix site? (Let's leave out the obvious few since we know about them and know how much you want them: >500 things in queue, 1/2 stars, mac-based instant watching, linux support, 7-day shipping, etc.)

What ELSE?

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Permalink Reply by Robowriter on July 24, 2008 at 1:09pm: Cool. But I think they'll just do it on a monthly basis. As of the billing date, you can pay for the full month but they won't refund for part of the month. Before the billing date, you can pay for part of the month and if you wrap it up before the billing date, then your payment was proportional to the service you used (and you can still watch the extra movies if the higher movie count outstays your guests).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by jeldobar on July 24, 2008 at 12:01am: Well i just wish Netflix could work something out with Instant Watch while they are doing their Site Maintenance. Like keeping it on. There is no way that they are working on Instant Watch every time.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by jeldobar on July 24, 2008 at 1:45am: I change my ratings often for a film. I will get a slew of friends who drop me notes because they saw this activity, assuming I just saw it, or something/i>

Yeah i hate that too .... It also happens when i let my wife use Instant watch because of course it is only available on the main account profile and not hers. so every movie she watches shows up on my slider that my friends and movie pals see and i always get asked either why i watched that tripe or why didn't you rate this one... also when i come across a movie i've seen and didn't get to rate yet .. but i dont have a fix for that yet.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on July 24, 2008 at 10:48am: I don't think Netflix is ever going to allow members to see which friends or members clicked Helpful or Not Helpful! Our favorite service is less than transparent on so many less granular things.

You can ask a friend for their email address and maintain it (or a list or group of same) in your mail program for greater flexibility in sending movie notes outside of Netflix. I will say that Netflix notes help force me to write efficiently (to be as terse as possible).

This may be stretching it, but it would be nice to know what friends of yours have clicked helpful or not helpful on your reviews.

Major gripe about notes. They're only 3 sentences long. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable about sending someone your email addy or offering it up to discuss a topic further, but the note system seems rather obsessive to send 100 notes to a person to make about an average paragraph worth of conversation. What if like Myspace, your email address was made available to new friends if you so choose. What if that option was given. Or maybe like Ning, we had the option to let people send messages, not notes, to us.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Spindaddydad on July 24, 2008 at 10:54am: How about the ability to hide your queue or a certain title. I know that sometimes I have a questionable title or a film that I am renting for a friend and I don't want to scare folks off.

You can do this by clicking the "movie privacy" tab and click the titles you don't want to show up to your friends.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gattopardo on July 24, 2008 at 11:17am: Where do I find the "movie privacy" tab?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Spindaddydad on July 24, 2008 at 11:27am: Click on the Friends and Community tab. Then on Friends and Faves (right-hand column). You'll notice "privacy" along the top of the window beside "Community Home," "top 10 lists" "Invite Friends" and "friends home"; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by spiderpig on July 24, 2008 at 12:10pm: Thanks Spin! I was wondering where the privacy link was. Did they move it or am I going crazy?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on July 24, 2008 at 10:59am: Thanks for all your nice ideas BTW, Noise. Are you saying let members send notes but remove the All Friends checkbox so they must individually click any friend as addressee? That might accomplish what you say but I would suggest allowing members to opt out of notes to all friends -- graying out their name in the send list so that friends who want mass notes can get them but those who don't don't. (I personally try to deselect the 2-3 friends who don't want or need a mass note -- because they read my reviews rather than relying on my notes -- but I have told the rest that I want anything they have to send and others have told me the same. Though yes, shameless self-promotion is, well, shameful.)

I have migrated to keeping queue lists (pre-queue or add lists) and save lists and IW lists because I have longer lists than one (or five) queues can hold. A save queue would be nice. Actually I've freed up one queue just for save titles since I want to see what I can receive with only save titles in the queue. It would sure beat trying to get save titles from blockbuster or the library as I've been doing.

PLEASE take away the feature of mass noting. People take this opportunity for shameless self promoting. I have had to drop 2 people already for this, and am still debating dropping a few others. It's nice to know what you've been doing, but when you're interested, you find out. We all want acknowledgment for when we write reviews, etc., but shoving it down my throat won't make me take notice. It will only make me see you as a person who mass notes.

I've said this fifteen times. We have an Instant Watch queue. This made my NF life much more easier. But what about a "saved" queue. I don't want to add a film to my queue that isn't available, but I want NF to know I want it, and I want to remember I want it... so instead of making a list to keep it there, I want to have a seperate queue that doesn't hog space. I already am fighting for room on my queue.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tom on July 25, 2008 at 11:45am: I would like to see Netflix enhance the top ten lists feature. Lists are a fantastic way to find movies of a certain type. The other day my wife and I were looking for "cheesy computer movies" that do a very bad job at representing computer technology (because we find them hilarious). We had seen Hackers and Brainscan already and wanted more stupid stuff. After a lot of clicking and hunting around I was able to find Antitrust and Virtuosity (which were great fun). The process could have been much simpler if Netflix implemented a feature that would allow us to search for keywords in other user's list names, and, better yet, to tag the lists that we all create with certain keywords so others can find them (similar to YouTube tagging). I'd also like to be able to see more than five lists that feature a particular movie.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robowriter on July 25, 2008 at 11:53am: Agreed! And see Sneakers, The Net and my computers list.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by spiderpig on July 28, 2008 at 9:15am: I would like to be able to tell if one of my friends has reviewed a movie when I click on it to view details. Right now it tells you "what your friends thought" and lets you see what your friends rated it or if they've even rented it, but I would like to be able to see if any of them wrote a review so I can read their thoughts on the movie. As it is now, you have to just go through their review list to see which movies they've written reviews on.; ▶ Reply to This