Comments on The Official Netflix Blog: Discussion Thread: Your Queue

The queue page needs to have minimal graphics so i...

2008-10-29T17:19:00.000-07:00

The queue page needs to have minimal graphics so it doesn't take so long to load.

Also, we need more than 500 movies per queue, or the ability to have more than one queue per profile.

Very Long Wait – WITHHOLD SHIPMENTS (for this titl...

2008-10-09T11:04:00.000-07:00

Very Long Wait – WITHHOLD SHIPMENTS (for this title) button?

I have a feature request and wasn't sure where best to ask -- so here it is. I've had a "very long wait" for a title at the top of my queue for a few months now.

What I would like to do is somehow increase my chances of getting that title. I would be willing to forfeit my next shipment, to wait until that “very long wait” shipment can be mine. How about WITHHOLD SHIPMENTS (FOR THIS TITLE) button?

I like Tish's idea about organizing and categorizi...

2008-09-08T14:11:00.000-07:00

I like Tish's idea about organizing and categorizing the queue. How about having tabs that the user could label as neeeded? Expamples: Comedy, Drama, Hitchcock, Spielberg, Documentary,70s Movies, Foreign (or French, Russian, British, etc)... Is that doable?

Also, I might have missed it, but I didn't see any feedback from Netflix here even though there's over a year's worth of great suggestions. Can you comment back on some of these ideas and also update on any progress being made?

We have been using the Roku Netflix box for the la...

2008-08-27T18:37:00.000-07:00

We have been using the Roku Netflix box for the last 3 months like crazy. We love it. We try to keep our queue around 200-250 movies. The interface is nice and simple, but we're finding a bit too simple. We would love to be able to categorize the queue on the Roku box. Movies/Documentaries/TV shows/ and our favorite part of instant plays - Movies we watch over and over. Or, a category "Safe for Nieces and nephews to watch" when the kids visit.

Right now they are just all over the place and it's hard to organize movies that we want to keep on the list and the movies that are a "one time watch".

Any thoughts?

...and it still hasn't been fixed nor acknowledged...

2008-08-15T12:23:00.000-07:00

...and it still hasn't been fixed nor acknowledged (at least to me from my message sent to Support).

With either IE7 or Firefox 3, when I remove a titl...

2008-08-03T23:43:00.000-07:00

With either IE7 or Firefox 3, when I remove a title or more from the Quene, it takes between 30 to 60 seconds for the page to reload, sometimes crashing the browsers! This has been happening within the last month. Horrible!

I am so frustrated with your website that I am rea...

2008-07-18T15:21:00.000-07:00

I am so frustrated with your website that I am ready to cancel my subscription. Any time I try to "Update My Queue" I get the error "Cannot process your request".

I would like to know why the ratings no longer sho...

2008-05-05T05:59:00.000-07:00

I would like to know why the ratings no longer show in the queue? It was so great when I could look quickly at my list and put a PG film at the top if my daughter was in need. Now I have to look at the genre and then the description to find what I want. This was a great feature! Please put it back!

So far so good. Only suggestion I would have would...

2008-05-01T07:03:00.000-07:00

So far so good. Only suggestion I would have would be the implementation of multiple queues per profile.

I really enjoy my Netflix and think the site is gr...

2008-04-21T19:48:00.000-07:00

I really enjoy my Netflix and think the site is great for my needs, in most cases.
There is one big irritant, however. There is no way of knowing when a movie selection will ship from my local distribution center or from a remote distribution center. We only know it is being shipped remotely after it is too late to make a different selection. We really need a flag in the queque. The email notice saying your movie is shipping from a remote site is too little too late, I want to be proactive in my selection.
I will not presume to set your priorities or task, but as an retired IT professional, we both know this is a simple request, so come on folks, make a lot of silent users happy, put in the flag.

Best regards,
While I wait, again, for my movie.

I, too, would love to see the movie's year in the ...

2008-03-16T13:41:00.000-07:00

I, too, would love to see the movie's year in the queue list.

Like others have mentioned (at least in other thre...

2008-02-15T11:42:00.000-08:00

Like others have mentioned (at least in other threads), I would like to revert to the old way of displaying the total # of DVDs in your queue (which includes saved). In my current queue, I have 386 movies. I try to add one. I'm at 500 apparently because I get that irritating msg to remove one to add another. I have 114 movies saved but there is no way to know how many unless I manually count. If it's not reverted to the old way, I'd like to see either a total # of saved movies (at top of saved) or a numbering of each saved movie (and then I'll just add the numbers together to determine if I've reached 500).

It would be very helpful if movie selections were ...

2008-02-15T10:58:00.000-08:00

It would be very helpful if movie selections were flagged to identify the shipping site as being local or remote.

I experienced a delay of about 3 days because of my selection shipping from a alternate location rather than my local distribution center. I will have further mailing delays because this movie is returned to the alternate location for check-in.

Had I been aware of this situation prior to making the movie selection, I could and would have made a different selection to insure a more prompt movie delivery.

Please add the flag that will enable me to see a "remote" or "local" shipping point flag in my queue. I can then move, add, or delete movies in my queue when I see fit.

Put it in the form of an "*" and footnote, or a verbal flag when movies enter the top five of my queue, I don't care, just please had this helpful feature.

I think it would be more than apple polish.

Thanks

I need to see the ratings (PG, R etc.) in my queue...

2008-02-15T09:52:00.000-08:00

I need to see the ratings (PG, R etc.) in my queue like it used to be, please, please, please~!!!!!!

Drag and drop is good, but the recent addition of ...

2008-02-14T12:48:00.001-08:00

Drag and drop is good, but the recent addition of the "watch instantly" field displaced the MPAA rating field and that is a real loss. The MPAA ratings are a major factor for me quickly sorting which movies to move to the top.

Drag and drop is good, but the recent addition of ...

2008-02-14T12:48:00.000-08:00

Maybe an "Add multiple movies to your queue" featu...

2008-02-11T02:49:00.000-08:00

Maybe an "Add multiple movies to your queue" feature. I always save lists of movies I want to see and it's obnoxious to have to enter each one at a time.

The drag and drop must be rolling out VERY VERY VE...

2007-12-27T08:18:00.000-08:00

The drag and drop must be rolling out VERY VERY VEEEERRRRY slowly. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who still doesn't have it- although the last post about not having it was back in October and it's not almost January 2008. So, if you're reading this, and you STILL don't have the drag and drop feature, have no fear, you're not the only one!

queue should have a "shuffle" feature. i often ha...

2007-12-24T12:38:00.000-08:00

queue should have a "shuffle" feature. i often have more than forty movies in my queue, and would like to be surprised by their delivery.

A warning if the film in your queue has been watch...

2007-12-04T21:27:00.000-08:00

A warning if the film in your queue has been watched prior by yourself. I'm not always good at rating my returns and I recently had a movie come out that we had watched 5 months prior. The storyline sounded good so I added it to my queue. When it came out, we had it on for 5 min and then realized we had seen it before. So.. some type of warning for when a movie in your queue has already been returned by you would be great

I found this thread because Im looking for a way t...

2007-12-04T20:12:00.000-08:00

I found this thread because Im looking for a way to randomize/shuffle my que. Im not on a mac, so I guess Ill keep looking.

but while Im here... being able to sort by genre would be great. But only if I could save some sort of base "play list" to sort back to.

As I read in previous posts- cues too I think would be great.

idea would be if I had 100 movies in my cue. Of those I could have 30 in a "playlist cue" that I could shuffle or sort how ever I wanted. While the other 70 movies I had in my cue, which I could also sort or shuffle by such great things as genre, year, etc, could sit there and not be disturbed. Of course the ability to move things in and out of cues and .... oh I should stop .

thanks.

~j

Chalk me up as another person who would love to ha...

2007-11-15T10:39:00.000-08:00

Chalk me up as another person who would love to have a bigger queue. I like to add movies to mine as I come upon them - the problem is, I'm always running at around 500 movies in mine.

The notes feature is a brilliant idea, though I would want it to either be a) a hover feature or b) a toggle that would utilize a "show/hide notes" button.

Having the production year listed along with the title is another important feature to me when I want to see things in order (such as a series of films by a certain director/actor or with discs that contain only single episodes of TV shows).

Having "watch now" links in my queue on titles that are available that way would save a lot of clicking around and allow me to better sort my queue.

Also, instead of just telling me a movie is in my queue, show the number it's at.

Finally, having multiple queues in one profile would also be welcome. I hate having to jump between profiles (and having to sign in every time I go back to the main account). In addition, it's silly for me to have to have multiple profiles that my friends have to be invited to in order to fully see what I'm renting. It would be nice to have two queues in one profile so I can easily divide TV shows from movies and have accurate ratings and better recommendations. Right now, I sometimes have two different ratings between profiles because I rated one disc on different days between two profiles. I also hate that half my recommendations for my "movies" profile are for episodes of "The Twilight Zone" while many of the ones on the TV side are for movies. One profile with multiple queues would make this a non-issue, especially if when you add a disc, the system would give you the option of which queue to add it to.

Dunno if anybody mentioned this yet but having the...

2007-11-12T06:44:00.000-08:00

Dunno if anybody mentioned this yet but having the DVD delayed AFTER I order it is a big pain.

As in, I have a item come up in the queue, and instead of shipping locally, it ships from (for example)
Spokane. Anybody in W. Washington can tell you, the I-5 stays open year-round, the east-west highways CLOSE in bad weather, so anything coming in the mail over the mountains gets delayed

If the system KNOWS a disk isn't available locally, that should be flagged just like the "Long Wait" thing

Queue Notes and an end to the 500 limit. I'm alrea...

2007-10-27T11:29:00.000-07:00

Queue Notes and an end to the 500 limit. I'm already hooked on Netflix, but I am easily frustrated by these holdover quirks. The longer I cannot add more movies, the greater chance I may just find another service that will let me. This seems painfully obvious.

Consider yourself lucky if you have drag and drop....

2007-10-22T10:30:00.000-07:00

Consider yourself lucky if you have drag and drop. My wife's profile has it, she can rearrange her tiny queue with ease (and yes, it works fine in Firefox).

But me, the primary user, whose queue is five times the size of hers? No drag. No drop. No joy. Same account, different profile.

When the drag-drop feature was first released in July, I read the FAQ and learned it was being rolled out slowly. So I waited. And waited.

After three months of waiting, I called customer service today. All Greg could tell me was to keep waiting, they're still rolling it out.

Maybe we'll switch to Blockbuster for a while, until the time Netflix deems me worthy of this feature.