Actually no I do actually have a real complaint. Not having compact lists without tiles that don’t have labels.
A user should be able to open a folder or sub-library or section, and see many things and glean information from that without relying on missing scraped covers or FUCK scrolling text. Big labels where you can only see like ten characters and it has to scroll to see the entire thing makes me want to actually rage even just thinking about it. Or like in jellyfin, only seeing ONE text title (that you’re selecting) at a time. Jesus fucking Christ. It’s like whoever designed the interface was just trying to copy Plex or Netflix. God. I didn’t think you could design things worse than Plex, yet… There it is.
These designs rely on all of the same deeply flawed and limited principles: list of scrolling tiles of pictures and you click on one and it shows you details. Like come on. That’s how people’s brains work when they want to watch a movie? Give me some genre tags or era tags or searches based on related stuff. The actors/directors type stuff is awesome - more of that. Or like give me lists by studio or curated top lists that editors or other users make. “In 1999, these were the top grossing movies in theaters” or “all movies that inspired gta vice city” or “the Arnold extended universe” or “all the Ghibli movies”. Stuff like that. Stuff how people ACTUALLY think. That data is out there.
Like. This is piracy, too, not Netflix. We can actually have good lists that aren’t limited by licence, or limited even by what is currently available. We can have pages and lists of actual just suggestions or like “uncollected” because in this day and age, you can literally just go get it.
Actually no I do actually have a real complaint. Not having compact lists without tiles that don’t have labels.
A user should be able to open a folder or sub-library or section, and see many things and glean information from that without relying on missing scraped covers or FUCK scrolling text. Big labels where you can only see like ten characters and it has to scroll to see the entire thing makes me want to actually rage even just thinking about it. Or like in jellyfin, only seeing ONE text title (that you’re selecting) at a time. Jesus fucking Christ. It’s like whoever designed the interface was just trying to copy Plex or Netflix. God. I didn’t think you could design things worse than Plex, yet… There it is.
These designs rely on all of the same deeply flawed and limited principles: list of scrolling tiles of pictures and you click on one and it shows you details. Like come on. That’s how people’s brains work when they want to watch a movie? Give me some genre tags or era tags or searches based on related stuff. The actors/directors type stuff is awesome - more of that. Or like give me lists by studio or curated top lists that editors or other users make. “In 1999, these were the top grossing movies in theaters” or “all movies that inspired gta vice city” or “the Arnold extended universe” or “all the Ghibli movies”. Stuff like that. Stuff how people ACTUALLY think. That data is out there.
Like. This is piracy, too, not Netflix. We can actually have good lists that aren’t limited by licence, or limited even by what is currently available. We can have pages and lists of actual just suggestions or like “uncollected” because in this day and age, you can literally just go get it.
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You can change the library view to a list