Netflix users 'wishing' for major switch up on platform that would be a game changer for viewing experience

Just because we use something every day, doesn’t mean we don’t think it could be better.

I mean, Netflix is practically an essential for plenty of us and yet some users have been ‘wishing’ for a major switch-up on the platform.

And if it actually happened, it could be a game changer for our viewing experience as we seek out the next film to watch or series to binge.

It’s been just under two decades since the streaming service came onto the scene, now having millions of paid members all over the world. But it has had some changes over the years - some which you may have forgotten ever existed.

Ratings used to help determine what to watch next (Getty Stock Image)

However, some viewers want to go back to one of the older features of ratings.

One Reddit user recently suggested: “Netflix could include ratings from Rotten Tomatoes to save us all a web search.”

The platform used to give viewers the opportunity to rate shows and films, giving them an average rating while they browsed various titles.

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But this was later replaced by the current thumbs up or down system, that enables Netflix to fit suggestions to you based on your opinion.

And one other user said: “Or make their own rating system even a little bit useful.”

Let's be honest, you'll carry on using Netflix anyway (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

As another slammed: “When they went to the thumbs up/down rating system, I stopped rating things. I've only used it a few times for movies that were absolutely terrible. But outside of that, it's a useless system. There's a lot of 'middle' movies where only giving me a yes/no option isn't good enough.”

Users said a ‘five star system’ would be ‘perfect’ as they claimed it used to be ‘pretty dependable’.

While some aren’t so impressed by the current thumbs up and down situation, someone else wrote: “The thumps up thumbs down is good for customizing your Netflix account to see more of what you want and less of what you don’t. Netflix will use your ratings to do that but I agree they should have a more advanced system.”

Back in 2017, Netflix's VP of product at the time, Todd Yellin, told reporters that the company had tested the thumbs system with hundred of thousands of members and found it got 200 percent more ratings than the traditional star-rating feature.

“We made ratings less important because the implicit signal of your behaviour is more important,” Yellin added.

LADbible has contacted Netflix for comment.