It could just be an issue of reality always being worse than potential. Potential is limitless: an unreleased console has theoretically limitless potential: a released console just exists.

On Point: I got a friend request and notification of such. Someone from this site entered my name, the Home Button on the U Pad blinked, then it directed me to my friend list.

Yep, Netflix needs patched to turn the gamepad off after a min or two of selecting to play a movie/show.  It just stays on the entire time and if you go to the controller settings and turn off the gamepad then Netflix stops.  The only work around that I've been told was that you can take it out of range from the system and the gamepad turns off then (from a comment on Miiverse).  Not sure if this stops Netflix.  I put my gamepad on power save mode so I believe it dims it after awhile but it is still on the entire time.  I would like to use the Wiimote for Netflix too since I can rest the Wiimote on top of my couch while I watch a show. 

Yeah it notifies you if that person used miiverse. But some people initiated the request through the friendlist I think. Idk, its hard to tell if you're missing requests. I currenlty have a few people from this site. I have yet to send out a request though, I'll likely get to that a little later.

Have you tried starting netflix with the wiimote while gamepad is already off? I'd just put the gamepad back on my charger as I have it purposely set next to my couch.

That hasn't been working reliably for me. As of last night (when I checked), half of the people in our friend code thread had added me as a friend, but I got ZERO notifications from my Wii U regarding it, even after I had the system on for over an hour and was browsing other online activities. When I manually added everyone, they instantly popped up as being online (meaning they already added me). Hopefully Nintendo updates this in a patch soon...

Also, I don't think you added me yet!

Yep, the Wiimote goes dead (even with gamepad off) on the Wii U Netflix app when you start it and you can't reconnect it to the system unless you leave Netflix.  It isn't that big of a deal (gamepad not turning off) but I'm sure they will address it soon in a patch because of decent amount of people on Miiverse Netflix community have already stated this issue (including me).

On a side note I love the streaming quality of Netflix on the Wii U.  It blows Netflix on the Wii out of the water considering it has a lot more memory to use.  On the Wii most scenes where the camera was moving you would see choppiness.  That is all gone now from what I can tell and the image quality is a lot better (I suppose they are now streaming HD for the Wii U).

bolded: this is awesome use of miiverse. Direct connection to devs and hopefully a central part of why Nintendo created it.

As for netflix, while memory is likely a solid improvement, i think it may have more to do with the wifi-n built into the device. So long as your router is also wifi-n of course.

Sorry about that. Yesterday i was bogged down in data transfer.

Quoting for awesome. Seriously, this is pretty great.

Have only played Nintendo Land and NSMB U so far. Spent most of the day playing with its features. I just want to say that bot games required an update. Both times, I opted to skip it and both times, the update downloaded in the background while I played the games.