Comment by thecosmicfrog
Comment by thecosmicfrog a year ago
As soon as a streaming service starts having availability issues, it will garner a reputation very quickly and lose customers just as quickly. Being able to serve N amount of content reliably and consistently (even if less than M amount) is still a strong demonstration of good engineering practice in my opinion.
On that point, I can't honestly recall a time I had Netflix streaming issues that weren't because of a problem on my side. Maybe I've just been lucky though, so ymmv.
Personally netflix went downhill the moment they stopped the "forced bitrate" option. The quality is shit. This was the moment for me where piracy was a more enticing option.
I still kept netflix because it was cheap divided by 5, the value proposition was still there, it was easy enough for 4€/m.
When they stopped it was over for me.