It isn’t as refined as the usual lists for tracking (like the one here) but you can create custom tags.When you go into your list, whether the manga or anime one, theres the score, type, progress and finally tags bar. There you can put whatever tags you like and sort your stuff like this cause those tags are clickable so if you put the “horror” tag on several of your entries and then click that tag, the entries with that tag will open in their own separate list.
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Ooooooh right. I forgot about that! I use that function to tag all anime I watch for the yearly challenges hahaha!
It was nice while it lasted. Guess I’m looking for another service now. I heard simkl is good?
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I didn’t like Simkl. So confusing, bad design, a lot of missing features… I’m gonna miss Trakt so much. As I live in Brazil, I didn’t know the VIP price here is different. Maybe I pay some months until I do my own mini Trakt with the features I want lol. I really don’t trust and respect this service anymore.
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@justin, I thought it might be useful for you to see how Trakt is used in my particular situation.
I’ve been using Trakt on multiple devices with Kodi since 2012…but I only use the Trakt Collection function and only with TV shows so we (my household) can quickly bring up the Collection list to see if new episodes have screened and are ready to watch. For the last 13 years, it made no sense to me to pay for VIP because I literally use ZERO VIP functions. However, if I’d had to pay for the functionality I need, I would have done so.
In our household, we have multiple family members who add their TV shows to our single Trakt Collection and at the moment, there are 143 shows. Of course, the new 100 item limit means we can’t add any new shows. I’d be happy to pay $$ in order to have a Collection of more than 100 items but I’m curious as to your thinking why I should suddenly be forced to pay US$60 annually (which is AU$100) for all the other VIP features that I will literally never, ever use? I only found out about the new limits yesterday when I was researching online why my family members couldn’t seem to add new shows to our Trakt Collection; there were definitely NO email notifications (I check my Spam folder every day) and because I don’t use Trakt for anything other than the barebones functionality listed above, I never even log into the Trakt website…so I never saw anything about the new limits, let alone the doubling of the VIP price. So this double-whammy with Trakt has been pretty frustrating.
I understand the need to monetize Trakt but the ridiculous overkill here with restrictions and price rises - especially with barebones functionality such as a single Collection list - is nuts. Provide a mid-level tier and I’ll be happy to pay a reasonable fee, but an all-or-almost-nothing approach requiring most free users to suddenly have to pay AU$100 annually just for barebones Trakt functionality is a bewildering decision.
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Yep, the collection was the thing for me too.
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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…
edit: also got flagged. forced edit to restore 
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I’ve also imported my movie and tv Collection into Simkl, but can’t figure out how to integrate it into Kodi where I can find my lists. I also only use the collection feature on Trakt and upgraded at one time on Trakt only to find out that none of the VIP features were useful to me. If Trakt offered a paid option to just remove limits from lists, at a much cheaper price, I wouldn’t have a problem paying for it. However, $60 for a list tracker is obsured, especially for someone that doesn’t use any of its other features.
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this is the position i am in to
First time into these forums (didn’t know they existed)… Skimming through comments, it seems like no one is happy with these changes (but who likes change?). Moving some of the features behind the paywall seems like a bad choice. Once users have something for free, it’s bad practice to take it away…
That said, while I get the need to encourage users to pay, there are other/better options to encourage people to WANT to pay rather than removing key features to FORCE users feel obligated to pay. The list change, in particular, makes me glad I never consolidated more lists here. I had to look up why my lists weren’t working correctly, and that’s when I found the change log outlining the overly restrictive change to free lists.
Ultimately, this will just make me use this site less and rely on other services. Until now, the value proposition has been great, but the change (along with the lack of communication about the change to a feature I’ve used regularly) is very disappointing. I hope leadership reconsiders…
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So excited for the day when letterboxd adds TV Show support.
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Same! I already transferred all of my movies, ratings, watchlist and lists. Letterboxd has a great community, UI, and they do not limit users to 2 lists and a watchlist with 100 items, unlike a certain app.
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what app are u using?
Letterboxd, I edited my comment to be more precise.
@justin i’ll never drop trakt, but can you make vip accessible from Russia. I’m stuck with my collection now, and this is sad.
I loved this site, but it’s time to say goodbye.
I’d rather have the site sell my data than charge me to add more shows to my collection.
I’m moving to Simkl.
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I’ve looked into this and I can’t find any Kodi addons that support Simkl lists; this is apparently due to devs not (yet) being allowed access to the necessary APIs for Simkl. I emailed Simkl today to ask about this.
At the moment, Simkl scrobbles really well but it isn’t yet a ready replacement for Trakt in terms of Collection or Lists.
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exactly, its just not worth it.
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Just logged in for the first time in this forum to say goodbye.
You did not balance our needs, but only your needs as a service in a most predictive way followed by most abandonware sites. Thanks and bye
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I’m very disappointed that I have to leave Trakt after using it since 2017. I use Trakt multiple times a day. Working in the digital space, I knew that the day would come when Trakt progressed enough that more limitations would come that would lead me to pay a subscription. But when I went to see the cost of VIP and saw it at $60, my jaw dropped.
The only VIP feature I truly care about is a high cap on my collection list. I cannot justify $60 to do that in this economy.
Many are discussing whether or not it’s “worth it” and “not that much.” It is worth it, and it isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things when looked at in isolation. But the reality is that when we add up every service we use that is “worth it” and “not that expensive,” it adds up to hundreds of dollars and suddenly becomes unaffordable.
I do not like TV Time or Simkl or using my family’s advanced Plex Pass list workarounds (the only free options that meet my unlimited list needs), but now I have no choice. And if I spend hours on end to make the switch and get used to the new apps and find out in a few months that Trakt reduces its VIP amount to 30 CAD, I will be pissed at having wasted all that time and adjustment and am unlikely to return.
Quite frankly, I would rather have adds and other features I like that don’t limit my basic app use and move them to VIP than this 100 list cap. Then, if I ever decided to move up to VIP to get those nice perks, I would feel less like I am being FORCED to move up. They know full well they are forcing longtime users to upgrade or leave. Heck I would even very strongly consider paying a one-time lifetime fee. But not this.
It would be nice to have at least special prices or deals for long-time users.
In any case, I wish Trakt the best and truly hope this change brings them new paid users and more growth. It is by far the best platform, even with its API connection issues and it’s been a pleasure to see it evolve. I am still using Trakt to track the content I watch until I make the switch, but I have exported my lists and am currently testing my options before deciding on the move I will make. Farewell, Trakt; it was a nice ride while it lasted!
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