Disappearing Profiles

Dear Brian,

We wanted to let you know we will be eliminating Profiles, the feature that allowed you to set up separate DVD Queues under one account, effective September 1, 2008.

Each additional Profile Queue will be unavailable after September 1, 2008. Before then, we recommend you consolidate any of your Profile Queues to your main account Queue or print them out.

While it may be disappointing to see Profiles go away, this change will help us continue to improve the Netflix website for all our customers.

If you have any questions, please go to http://www.netflix.com/Help?p_faqid=3962 or call us anytime at 1 (888) 638-3549. We apologize for any inconvenience.

– The Netflix Team

This showed up in my inbox a couple of days ago. Nice. Donna and I love this feature as it allows us to keep movies and TV shows separate. That way when a movie gets returned a movie comes back, when a TV show gets watched a TV show comes back. Without this feature we are going to have to micro-manage our soon to be single rental queue to keep the mix in that order. I’m a little miffed at what they are doing and how they are handling it, I even signed an online petition, but they are still going to be the best game in town. Since joining Netflix back in 2000 we have probably been in a brick & mortar video store a dozen times and every time we do, on the way out the door we say, “Thank God for Netflix.”

For kicks this morning we went for a bike ride and for the first time in about 3 years we rode separate bikes. Very quirky for the first half dozen miles, but seemed normal by the second half of the ride. The choice of riding a tandem or a single bike has both pros and cons that pretty much even out, so we have decided to toss the single bikes back into the mix with a little more regularity than once every three years.