I've not been very social this week.  Been crazy hectic both at work and at home.  Partially my own doing on the home front, 'cause I've been doing my thing.

One thing worth mentioning is the recent motions of one Netflix.  They are doing away with profiles.

Now, on the surface, big whoop.  Right?  Mrs. NFB and myself fold our two queues together and that's that.  Except, that's not quite that.

According to Netflix, all ratings, all postings, all reviews, all activities under non-main-account profiles will simply be deleted.  So, my ratings, gone.  My queue, gone.  No automagic fold-in, it's all manual.  You either do it yourself, or it just disappears September 1st.  My reviews, of which there may not be many, but I still put effort into the ones that are there, deleted.

I'm sure it made sense to the beancounters (apologies dad) and idiot managers that don't understand databases and computers in general.  It doesn't make sense to those who have a little tiny bit of understanding.

They official stance is that less than one percent of all Netflix users utilize the profiles feature, yet it is a HUGE TAX or disc and server utilization.  This strikes me as:

1. Bullshit.
   
2. Horrible programming if true.
   
3. Really, really big bullshit.
   

Take your pick.

Now, which is easier?  Trying to fold my queue into Mrs. NFB's and then forever arguing about movie ratings?  Or just setting up an entirely new queue for myself with a different service and asking Mrs. NFB to drop her service to one at a time instead of two?  Hmm.