Freemium Experience: More Features for All with Usage Limits

[tonybeatle (Anthony Scalise)]

@justin

Watchlist and Collection Limits: Free users are now limited to 100 items in their watchlists and collections, down from previous limits.

This is a joke. Please remove this limit for free accounts. I’ve been using this app to track my movies, now I’ll use google sheets. I’m not gonna pay $6/month for that. No one here is in favor of these changes. Please undo all of this

[OakSorcerer (Paul)]

For people who use kodi + elementum - watchlist is still an option. Collection was amazing, but i guess we need to move on.

[videntis (Rob)]

@L0bsang

On the other hand we have Trakt increasing their price to the point where it is approaching actual streaming service fees…

Indeed! Would that be the reason that every now and then we see a post here from someone who expects to be able to watch movies / TV shows (the actual content) using Trakt?

[andyd17]

This sucks. Collect one tv show with many seasons and thats it for the whole list. Time to look elsewhere.

[LoganWolverineX]

Was a bug mentioned by Justin. This supposedly has been fixed. One show with many episodes collected should be counted as one item.

[JordanF26]

“If this service is providing you with great quality features that you use on a daily basis, why not pay for it?”

Happy to, if it’s a reasonable price. $60 is unreasonable - hence why people are unhappy. Also to point out, VIP already had a bunch of great features, there was really no need to lock more behind VIP than there already was. It has only served to alienate free users who may have bought VIP in the future.

[andyd17]

Bring back the 3rd party ads.

[Maddcow]

@dg1974it

Trakt is really pushing hard to piss off its user base.

Indeed it is.

[karloswins (Carlos C.)]

@justin

atchlist and Collection Limits: Free users are now limited to 100 items in their watchlists and collections, down from previous limits.

Please bring back watchlist with no limits.

[videntis (Rob)]

@dg1974it

Looks like Trakt has also removed the widget for free users: Reddit - Dive into anything What’s next? No more API? No more third-party clients? Trakt is really pushing hard to piss off its user base.

Also discussed on this forum:

iOS Widget No Longer Available without VIP - v2.4

This isn’t a bug, but was done at the beginning of January and I did miss including it in the release notes, however not necessarily intentionally. Due to the time line of having Month In Review ready for 1st Feb iOS was submitted in advance for any possible review delays and I’d been focusing on those changes plus the limit bug fixes hence the release notes. When I’m back in the office this week I have some things to bug fix with the latest release and I’ll see if I can include this change in …

[Mangel248 (Miguel Angel)]

Guys, this is a lost battle. They are killing their App, I got the point of having extra feature with vip membership. But the price is almost the same as the streaming service, what is very high for a fancy “note” tool. And the limits for free users are more likely a free-preriod than an usable limit. They will star losing many users that won’t pay subscription and free plan is shit. I don’t really understand how they don’t take in account how many data they get from free users that they are going to lose…

Any recommendations for alternatives?

[Karmalakas]

@McBaumwolle

if someone needs a replacement, I highly recommend SeriesGuide

It uses Trakt API What’s your point?

[PattyandSelma]

I just want to post to also let you know of my displeasure. It’s a joke, and you deserve all the bad reviews people are giving.

No different to apple just deciding to charge for something previously free, huge company or not.

[darkstorm1720]

Limiting free users is just wrong bet there are alot of free user would agree off to a new one SIMKL same features and no limites also cheaper

[DipperDolphin]

Please revert these changes, one of the things I enjoy about Trakt is the community in the comments - with these changes there won’t be many left it seems sadly.

[Maddcow]

@McBaumwolle

…the Play Store rating already dropped to 3.7

Now down to 3.5 in the 7 hours since you posted. Seems to be dropping fast.

[LTnG]

Totally agree. I was going to try to delete shows and make room, but sort function doesn’t work, and you can only filter with premium. Thanks for nothing. Cant add anything, cant fix it. No help function easily accessible. See ya. Thats not how you garner, or reward customer loyalty.

[LoganWolverineX]

the new limits are for watch list, collections, and custom lists (max 2 lists) not watched history or aka recently watched items. Your recently watched items are not affected as well as your up next is not affected. those are still unlimited.

[Adaj]

@aylwardreed

It seems like everyone seems to think lists didn’t have limits up until now so let’s compare:

5 personal lists - down to 2
500 personal list items - down to 100 (it was only 250 pre-2022 and your existing lists stay)
1000 watchlist items - down to 100 (again, it was only 250 pre-2022 and your existing watchlist stays)

There were no limits pre-2022. Back then, Justin was complaining about lists with 100,000 items in them.

I’m guessing that you’re misinterpreting Justin’s post from May 2022, which shows 250 (for new members) crossed out.

The crossed-out numbers weren’t existing limits, they were new limits being proposed at the time. Many users complained that such limits were excessive, so the following compromise was reached:

VIP Members

• Unlimited lists
• 10,000 2,000 items on your watchlist
• 10,000 2,000 items on a personal list

New Members

• 5 personal lists
• 1,000 250 items on your watchlist
• 500 250 items on a personal list

Existing Members

• 10 personal lists
• 2,000 500 items on your watchlist
• 1,000 500 items on a personal list

For long-time users such as myself, the watchlist limit has quite quickly dropped from theoretically infinite, to 2,000, to now just 100. I think saying that’s “a big drop” is a bit of an understatement.

[aylwardreed (Jonathan)]

Ah ok. Fair enough. Thanks for pointing that out.