There are already plenty of thoughtful responses in this thread plus it’s already getting excessively long so I just wanted to echo my bewilderment with those changes. this is not a good move. if the watchlist limit had been in place when I joined I would have stopped using the site right away…
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to this day I find the social aspects of trakt to be severely lacking/clunky despite it imho being the one thing that will help the site grow (I’ve given enough suggestions and pointers on where to improve over the years). frankly no one wants to be active in a barren wasteland - I’ve given up mostly myself with posting reviews/thoughts as it is usually not worth the effort for me. we luckily still have some great reviewers on the site but the visible engagement compared to memeboxd is minuscule (I can lookup 90% of movies and find nothing on here, whereas the other site has multiple reviews). but this isn’t what’s getting changed… just passively impacted.
lists offer up far better “targeted” recommendations and discoverability than the on-site feature ever can so hampering their creations to basically only allow it for VIPs is not helping trakt against the competition. if you feel like you need to limit their creation maybe have a look in regards to limiting the amount of public lists - or allow reporting some of them to be flagged as such preventing automated - or vip feature circumventing ones like genre lists - to clutter up the feed (have apps flag theirs as automated?). If anything I want to see more lists - if a user makes the effort to submit content to the site it should be valued and not regarded as “unneeded” data junk. I’ve added a lot of lists in the early days of trakt… and I still get “flooded” with follows bc of that, can’t tell me users are not looking for that (yet their discoverability remains low except for on included items).
as to the watchlist limit… it’s easy to break 100… my backlog is huge, but if I decide to watch something I want to be able to pick from options depending on mood, time, etc. and for that we need space. imagine being born in the year 2025 - try looking up movie recommendations and be hit by a decade of movies to choose from… but trakt forces you to pick a 100 of those…
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