I use a website called Backloggery for tracking the games I play, and they have a super nifty feature called “stealth” that lets you stealth add or stealth update a game - when you do this it updates the entries but does not date stamp them or add them to your timeline.
I would love a feature like this on Trakt. There are SO many shows I completed before using this website that I would love to add, but I don’t want them to be date stamped. This would also be useful for filling in the watched progress of TV shows that I’m tracking current seasons on Trakt now, but earlier seasons are shown as unwatched because I wasn’t using Trakt at the time I watched them.
I agree with this so much! This is far and away the biggest thing missing from trakt for me at the moment for me. If I recall correctly, this has been brought up before and the devs said that there was no plan to implement it, but I hope that they change their minds. I’ve thought about using an older date like 1970-01-01 for all of my unknown shows dates, and have heard of others doing the same, but that feels like a really time consuming and clunky way for users to implement this themselves.
Exactly what I do.
I use 01 January 1950 00:00 so all my “pre Trakt” watched shows or movies are in one place.
It is time consuming to start with but I only do them as and when I come across them when looking for something else.
Its a method when nothing better is available.
Unsurprisingly so since it really is a needed feature.
I understand Trakt is very reliant on the date when adding a play but there has to be a way to implement this.
My suggestion is to automate what is commonly done, choosing a date way in the past. So when you add a play and it asks you when you watched it, there’s an unknown option that sets the watched date to 1/1/1950. If possible that’s only for the backend. When you go to the episode and history pages it ideally should say Unknown.
Or even have an earlier date. I’m sure there are 75 year old Trakt users so have the Unknown date be 1/1/1850. Then code it so every instance of that date is replaced with Unknown.
Unknown needs to be reflected in the All Time Stats too.
Even though it has been requested Lots of times Justin has also said that trakt is too dependant on date data or something like it. For graphs and such.
I really do not see the problem of putting 1 January 1950 00:00 (the earliest date/time on Trakt) as the date when you do not know the actual date watched.
As long as you do the same for all in that category you will have consistent data to identify “unknown/undated”.
It really is that simple and not difficult to do, I do it and it works fine. I have 1757 items on that date, easily findable.
