Trakt is a business and thus increased revenue means more cool stuff we can build and more cool people we can hire to build it. Perhaps my wording was weird, but there seemed to be an incorrect narrative on here and reddit that we’re struggling financially.
You are probably right, but we prefer to not make our members and their data into a product.
This was actually a bug with the collection check and the 100 limit has been corrected to use shows + movies (not episodes).
The list stats were pulled directly from our database for active users, it wasn’t a poll or survey.
Any user who used Trakt in the last 3 months is what we consider active for the list stats I mentioned above. Website or API doesn’t matter since we’re looking at the actual data.
Because ads suck, especially programmatic ones. In general the ads were confusing and deceptive and we decided to move away from that revenue stream.
People just don’t think about it. We don’t want to be in the game of selling user data or working with those type of retargeting companies.
There was a lot more chatter on reddit about that, but I posted the same reply in both places.