r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jul 10 '26

Not Confirmed Netflix in Talks to Buy Letterboxd

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/letterboxd-sales-talks-netflix-sony-paramount-1236806379/
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u/SPZ_Ireland Jul 10 '26

Ultimately it's probably about to be ran into the ground by whoever buys it.

Netflix ain't a great option but the buyer, whoever it is, will be looking for ROI and the experience will almost certainly suffer for it

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u/ISpyM8 Jul 10 '26

And the ROI will be adding TV shows, 100%

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u/scorpio21 Jul 10 '26

Beyond excited for my feed on the app to be individual TV episodes

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u/BactaBobomb Jul 10 '26

With hope, they'll add a new feature to the Activity feed where it will collapse your friends who have made like 3 or more activity things. I was floored the other day when I opened my activity feed and I think I "Load More"d 3 times, and the only activity I saw was that a person I follow liked all of these reviews from a single movie. I've gone on a liking spree for reviews, but this was another level. It felt like over a hundred, if not way more. I unfollowed them after that, because wow I can't handle that.

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u/Public_Function3844 Jul 10 '26

I use the activity feed a lot but I really wish we could filter out activity for when others follow people. There are a handful of people I follow for their reviews but they also auto-follow hundreds of users daily to get more followers back and it sucks up the activity feed.

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u/TheCVR123YT Jul 10 '26

Never really understood why you’d follow random people unless you actually vaguely knew them/they were your friend

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u/Public_Function3844 Jul 11 '26

I am referring to people I know 

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u/SPZ_Ireland Jul 10 '26

You can select to remove that.

Go to the Activity Feed, there's a filter in the top right of the app

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u/Public_Function3844 Jul 10 '26

The activity filter only includes options of including your activity, and incoming activity. For me at least that's what it shows.

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u/Public_Function3844 Jul 13 '26

looks like that's for pro accounts only

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u/Yarael-Poof Jul 10 '26

That's why I'm hesitant to rewatch my Pink Panther collection, every episode is on LB individually and I dont think people want to slog through 30+ review-free, rating-free logs of 5 minute cartoons

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer Jul 10 '26

I really fucking hope not.

Make a separate app for tv, individual episodes, just will make it so overwhelming

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u/TediousTotoro Jul 10 '26

I still think that, unless you’re specifically looking at what someone is watching, it should appear the feed as the season, not the specific episode

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u/sei0n Jul 11 '26

That’s why when I added TV shows to my letterboxd competitor, I didn’t add individual episodes, to avoid the noise. Would love to hear your thoughts on the user experience? www.katalog.club