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Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List by herge on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @04:48PM (#12696302)
I think their UI is purposefully bad to make it hard to notice titles coming in and out of circulation, as the deals they have with different production companies expire.
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Re:Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies from IMDB's Top 250 List by bcrescimanno on Saturday October 15, 2016 @11:54PM (#12716798)
Their UI (which I worked on heavily) is actually VERY optimized and an immense amount of testing around success metrics goes into it.

It has far less to do with "not noticing" and much more to do with the algorithms knowing what you might want to watch that you didn't already know you wanted to watch.

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