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Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Sun September 05, 2021 3:58 pm
by light bulb
It randomly crashes, if the show has more than 8 seasons you can't really see what season you're on, and their "My Shows" system is just crappy.
What gives?
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Sun September 05, 2021 4:22 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Sun September 05, 2021 6:23 pm
by macphisto
There are a lot of shitty apps out there. It's like they don't even care. This is one of the greatest threats we face that nobody is talking about. Thanks for shedding some light and creating space for the dialogue to take place.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Sun September 05, 2021 7:55 pm
by VinylGuy
Im happy to learn this app is awful in all parts of the world.
I was surprised on how bad it is.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Sun September 05, 2021 9:58 pm
by light bulb
It seems like HBO didn't get the memo that simpler is better.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Sun September 05, 2021 10:33 pm
by Jorge
It hasn't crashed on me yet but yeah the interface is awful
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Sun September 05, 2021 10:44 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Sun September 05, 2021 10:51 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
tragabigzanda wrote:the worst is jumping from one episode to another in a different season. Kid wants to watch a Sesame Street episode from S51. We finish it. Then she requests one from S50. Such a huge pain in the ass to get there on Roku.
maybe it's time your child learns a hard lesson about the laziness of fathers
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Sun September 05, 2021 10:53 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Sun September 05, 2021 11:17 pm
by light bulb
Seems like they expected people to watch on their computers instead of smart TVs.
But instead of redoing the app, they just doubled-down on bloated menus.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Mon September 06, 2021 1:51 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Yeah this app is terrible. It's like some coding student made it for a class project
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Mon September 06, 2021 2:10 pm
by VinylGuy
it also take a lot of time to actually start. And the same with the computer.
Its just so fucking bad.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Mon September 06, 2021 2:42 pm
by light bulb
Oh yeah, I forgot it also takes like 2 minutes to open.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Tue September 07, 2021 7:36 pm
by B
VinylGuy wrote:it also take a lot of time to actually start. And the same with the computer.
Its just so fucking bad.
I haven't had many of the problems you mentioned, but yeah, it runs significantly slower than all my other streaming services on the computer, phone, and ROKU.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Tue September 07, 2021 8:42 pm
by Monkey_Driven
The app through my LG TV works fine, but the PS4/PS5 app is atrocious.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Tue September 07, 2021 8:44 pm
by epilogue
I don't really have any big issues with the app on my Apple TV. Really, the only issue I have is getting out of the app sometimes.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Tue September 07, 2021 11:26 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Also the clicks when you move the cursor between shows or selections are abnormally loud.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Tue September 07, 2021 11:32 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Wed September 08, 2021 2:53 pm
by Monkey_Driven
Hulu has the worst menu/navigation.
Re: Why is the HBO Max app so terrible?
Posted: Wed September 08, 2021 3:21 pm
by epilogue
Monkey_Driven wrote:Hulu has the worst menu/navigation.
aw huh
It's also WAY slower and glitchier than any other streaming app I've used. It all around sucks. But it also has most of the content I want to watch these days (outside of HBO, which I still think of as a different thing -- "it's not streaming, it's HBO")
