Since the new “drop” feature replaced the “hide” button, none of my dropped shows are being removed from my calendar. It could be because they’re still in my collection, but I have no idea. No matter how many times I click “drop,” the shows never stop showing on my calendar. Is this a bug?
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Yep, me too. it is very annoying as I like to see a clear space of shows I could watch rather than a plethora of shows I either couldn’t or am not interested in. I am thinking if this persists it may be time to cancel my subs and go back to using exercise books to keep abreast of what I watch..
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I noticed this today as well. My main use of the Calendar page is to see what new shows I am interested in watching. The ones that don’t interested me I used to Hide and now Drop. Only catch is when I return to that week, all the dropped shows are still showing. Hoping this is just a bug.
This sounds like a bug for shows collected, but not watched. I will take a look next week.
It seems to me as if the drop button only possibly functions now for shows watched in part, and not in the calendar and uncollected. It is probably a memory saving change so that the host of hidden shows before now come back if no saving to your profile either in collection or watched takes place. I often thought of the amount of memory this deductive process must involve in listing for each person looking at the general rather than personal upcoming calendar. I don’t expect many used this, preferring filters, but I find they are of limited use, as the numbers of items filtered grows.
A[n extreme] workaround is ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶o̶l̶l̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ pretend-watch the first episode, then drop, and so far the show stays gone from the main calendar. Obviously not in the spirit of maintaining a true account of watch history and periodical stats trakt offers you, but clearly such misinformation has to be endured for functionality to be maintained. It was likely the pretend-watch that managed to do it, not the ‘collecting’. I am no expert, I just like to find a workable solution. This makes a one-step operation, for us on the main calendar page assigning what shows we desire to see presented, into a merely two step one, with upset stats as the fallout. I never read my stats! Not interested. Too meta!
Caveat: It is a date sensitive solution meaning that shows as yet shown according to their date/time of transmission will be unaffected, and so will reappear. Therefore a pretend-watch will somewhat garble your progress feature if on the cusp of transmission, although it hasn’t thus far for me. So such a clearance operation as I have described, ahead by one week, or one day, will not work. Of course the hide feature was a boon for such clearance, so we must mourn its passing but remember it can live on in the present, or the past, but not the future.
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I use a youtube account set up just for upcoming trailers anyway, so that tends to show me all the content I would like to see. Also in feedly i have an entertainment section for reviews and trailers from several sites so the calendar was not absolutely necessary, but a good way to ensure something wasn’t missed. It still can be that, just not as interactive as it once was for sorting.
I didn’t have a chance to get to this bug yet, but I think I have some ideas on how to fix it. Hopefully next week I have some time.
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I’ll have a fix out for hiding from the calendar later today. The issue was an unwatched show can’t be dropped, so the calendar will use the standard hide functionality to allow hiding unwatched items.
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