Hulu's new format SUCKS!
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Anonymous
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What were they thinking? Weird, nonsensical layout. Garish colors. Requires more clicks to access things you're watching.
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Anonymous
| Hate it. I'm ditching it as soon as The Mindy Project is over. |
Anonymous
| Agree, it's awful. |
Anonymous
| I like it..... |
Anonymous
I really miss PIP on the iPad. 
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Anonymous
| Another huge thumbs down. I also hate being greeted by "Welcome Larla" |
Anonymous
+1. At my house, the account is in Larlo's name, so it's especially irritating. |
Anonymous
And then it's a full screen ad for some show that I have zero interest in watching. PSA, Hulu I'll never watch Larry king no matter how many times you push this show. |
Anonymous
| It's the worst! It's so difficult to find what I want. I watch it much less now. |
Anonymous
| + one million!!! |
Anonymous
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Sorry I still love it.
Go watch The Handmaid's Tale and rewatch the Golden Girls. |
Anonymous
It's not the content that's the issue--it's finding and watching it that they've made much more difficult. For example... The home page devotes a full screen to some show that you're not watching. Guess the thinking is that you will start. Not sure if it's based on any algorithm, but the shows it continually highlights, I have zero interest in. In the app, from the "home page" it shows you're on the "Lineup" tab. WTF does this mean to the user? If you click it nothing happens, but you can sideswipe (not intuitive controls at all) to see a bunch of random shows--most of which they're promoting vs. ones you're actually watching. So if you click the link to the right of lineup, it's "keep watching" which links to the last show being watched. If you share the account with say a spouse, it could be whatever they were watch last which may or may not be what you were. On it's previous iteration, if you had another user, it wouldn't allow you to create a separate watch list. So this may not fix the problem. So you have to click, "my stuff" at the bottom of the screen--again unintuitive controls and stupid naming. This layout is frustrating b/c it takes longer to find shows. If you're watching a new show that has an episode being added weekly, it will have the latest episode but you have to click back to details to see previous episodes. If you're watching the same tv shows but at different times, it's just an additional step whereas all the show information was on one page in the previous version--the show description, the list of episodes, ones that were watched. if you're watching a show that doesn't have new episodes being added, it shows you the episode you're on and the last episode in the series. Why? What's the purpose of this? At the end of an episode, instead of letting forward to the next episode, you have click "fliptray" yet more unintuitive controls and stupid naming to get to the next episode if you don't want to go through the credits of the last one. From the fliptray, you can add an episodes to "my episodes" whatever this is or get the details of the show, or select other shows that they recommend as similar. You can't get back to the home screen as crappy as it is or whatever's in "my stuff." While watching an episode, you can't navigate to these places either without hitting back buttons--clunky and confusing. They'll get a big boost after the Emmy win, so it's a shame the app is such sh*t. |
Anonymous
| it's terrible |
Anonymous
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no happy about it
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Anonymous
| this format sucks!!!! |