The entire reason I bought VIP was for advanced search functionality but not being able to sort the results is a huge letdown when my search turns up about 30 pages of items.
Specifically I’m trying to sort by rating percentage. I thought maybe I could export the search results to a list and sort that way but I don’t see an option to do that either.
Rather then use the search page, start with another page like https://trakt.tv/shows/popular then apply advanced search there. The results are already sorted by popularity, which you can then refine (including titles + descriptions).
This is an okay workaround but I tend to sort based on percentage and not popularity. I remember seeing in the API docs that popularity is ambiguously calculated from percentage and number of ratings but it seems to be heavily weighted towards number of ratings. I would guess that rather than a Bayesian average you’re doing a cumulative one which disproportionately takes into account the number of ratings.
Take the first page of results - the mediocre Suicide Squad at 67% is 10 spots higher than the classic LOTR at 87% because it has 56k ratings to the latter’s 42k. Shouldn’t 42k ratings give a high enough confidence interval that we can reasonably say that 87% is an accurate score?
It may be worth revisiting the popularity algorithm.
