I am a VIP for 13 years, one of the old timers here. I can’t say I like this new update. I understand the necessity to update the website, so maybe it takes some getting used to. But in particular having the 5 star rating instead of the 10 heart rating is unacceptable. I spent 13 years building up my ratings. I do not want to lose this information. I also do not want to migrate to 5 stars in the future. I want my 10 stars or hearts or whatever. I’m almost begging you.
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The 10 scale rating is still there but it is hidden.
If you want 7/10 (i.e. 3.5 stars) you need to tap the fourth star twice - the first tap rates it 4 stars and the second tap lowers it to 3.5 stars.
I think 5 stars is a more common movie rating system so I think I like this particular change.
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I agree not because of the change of scale but because you can’t see your ratings at a glance anymore. It really is unacceptable to have something so valuable and discard for such a trivial reason.
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Trakt, Rotten Tomatoes, and IMDb use an aggregate percentage rating, which is closer to a 10-star rating system. It’s not coherent.
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I agree. If I needed to choose only 1 feature that Trakt would have, it would be ratings. The current 5 star (and needing to rate twice for a .5 rating) system completely killed that feature.
I really hope this gets resolved as currently I have no use for Trakt.
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thanks for that! i hate in general the 5 star rating, but the half-star makes it a bit ok cause you can match the 10 star rating. I was coming to complain about that but now i’m better 
Definitely, and you can track progress on selecting half stars dircetly here: Improvements to ratings · Issue #1413 · trakt/trakt-web · GitHub
Yeah, I also see more 5-star rating systems, and not only in movies, but on other media too. So I do the same thing you have described. I get used to it and it works pretty well, helping me stay consistent with ratings for things I watched or read.
I can live with half-star ratings. imho it’s counter-intuitive to press twice to go down a half but ok. As long as I don’t lose my submitted info, I’m down with it. cheers.
5 stars sound like a copy of letterboxed
The 5 star system has existed ages before Letterboxd