Freemium Experience: More Features for All with Usage Limits

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The single big premium cost is a bit outdated IMHO. Why not do it with 3 tiers Free, Plus, VIP. Gradually priced. That’s how most services out there do it and it works.

Plus could be Free + increasing lists limits + something
VIP could be Plus + everything else

This makes the platform much more approachable. Currently even though VIP consists of tons of features I can hardly see it aligning with a typical user who probably needs 1 or 3 of these and it’s hard for him to justify 60$ just for a small percentage of features he would actually use.

But if he had a choice to pay 19.99 just for an essential subset then hey, the user is saved with a chance to upgrade to VIP later if he loves the experience.

Instead he just leaves and Trakt gets 0$

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Another free user, who’s now forced into looking for an alternative…

I’ve been with Trakt from the beginning, but this just seems like a slap to the face for all free users. The service definitely isn’t worth 60 dollars a year.

I too expect some form of data export, as a requirement under GDPR rules, and will be reporting this breach if it is not made available.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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Literally just your watchlist. Watching isn’t watchlist.

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Currently Trakt shows I have 180 items on my watchlist :man_shrugging: I’m pretty sure it was similar when I was on a free plan years ago. It’s just that I never got to watch these items. I hope some day though…

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limiting the lists i can create and the items i can have in that list is fine but watchlist being limited to 100 is kinda awful and i might just end up switching to another service because of it

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Personally it’s more the opposite for me, limiting custom lists impacts everyone including VIP users, limiting watchlist just impacts me. However it’s all wrong

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What does this mean for the tracking of what I have watched?
Does this basically mean it will no longer track that after 100 episodes or films?

So is my personal “collection” is unusable?
Will my (currently synced) at home media collection no longer be logged as I add to it?

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You can still track stuff just fine!

Collection will be limited to 100 entries. But maybe instead of adding episode by episode you can do it season by season or show by show. If you collected it all.

(Illegal downloads or (il)legal streaming I don’t consider collected :woman_shrugging: )

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I purchase digital and store locally, as I like to keep things off online platforms. Thanks for the weird piracy comments though.

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You just need to email support@trakt.tv for that

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I purchase digital and store locally. It then marks things as watched and tracks my collection. I have more than 100 films. Does this mean It won’t add them anymore?

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Thanks for the pointer, I’ll do that.

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As a VIP member I find the idea of limiting lists for free users at least strange. Limiting them in such an extreme manner while attempting to market these changes as a general improvement is just ridiculous.

No idea who thought this would be a good idea. But a friendly reminder: For us already paying VIPs the size of the community is a factor of very relevant value.

If you alienate too many people it’s only a matter of time till the rest will migrate too.

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What was the previous limit? (10?)

I have more than two personal lists. That’s currently not a problem because I’m trying VIP for a year, but the two VIP features that I want to use (automatic backups, specific RSS feeds) are both broken and support is not very supportive/talkative, so I’m not sure yet whether I want to continue VIP next year.

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So what happened to the items that were in my collection before this ridiculous cash grab? Now all of a sudden my tv show collection is exactly 30 and movies 70. I’m quite sure that wasn’t the case previously. Which ones got filtered out? It would have been nice to have been given time to thin out the lists to meet the new limit so things didn’t just disappear.

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Can say 100 item per list without beeing VIP is going to kill this website

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I think 100 item limit for the listings are ridiculous. I can do my listing on imdb freely. Listings are a way to create a community. You are breaking the community which means that in 5 years nobody will remember trakt.tv. You are shooting your own leg.

It’s time to migrate to another service.

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Trakt is dying, wtf is 100 items by collection ? I’m here since 2014 and updates only remove things. Next thing is 1 check by items ? The basics mechanics of this site is limited by a VIP membership, you regress from the others apps…

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Is that apply to ‘Your List’ and ‘Liked Lists’? … I won’t be able to add/mark more than 2 in each of them? :worried:

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Yeah… so this is insane. :eye: :lips: :eye:

I pay for VIP not because I need the features, but to help support the website—for everyone.

But the changes lately? Laughable. After years of paying to keep this site going with no plans of ever leaving, I’m starting to think it’s time to explore other options. Let’s be honest—it’s obvious you’re either getting greedy or bitten off more than you can chew since diving into mobile apps. Whether you hired inexperienced designers for the rebrand/redesign or just did it yourself to save money, it shows. Now you’re forcing people into VIP while still refusing to address the long-standing pricing issue? Not the move.

At this rate, I wouldn’t be surprised if the free API is next to go.

What. A. Waste.

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