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.
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.
This is such a simple coding solution. Nobody using Trakt today will have been alive on Jan 1st 1900 12:00 AM – so that could be a special date and time that all the stats could ignore. It’s not rocket science. And the rest could be handled in the UI easily.
This is actually the reason why I never really got into Trakt the first time I tried it!
I am currently looking for an alternative to my current TV show tracker, and honestly, the fact that I still can’t do it, is the reason I am not 100% sure I’ll go with Trakt.
It would be great to have a “stealth” feature on Trakt, similar to Backloggery, that allows users to mark shows as watched without adding a date stamp. This would help track completed shows without affecting the timeline, especially for those who started watching before using Trakt or want to fill in progress for earlier seasons without altering the current tracking.
