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 
Others have reported that if they connected Discord, Twitter, etc. to post their activity, doing .5 star ratings posts twice (once for the whole star, and again for the half).
It’s possible to have a 10-point scale decently squeezed into 5 stars (see MDL, which actually has a 20-point scale displayed using 5 stars) but the UX for actually setting one’s ratings needs fixing.
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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