What
I would like to have another option in the filter list on the /progress page to hide “up to date” shows:
This would fulfil a similar function to hiding “Completed”, but would hide shows for which you have watched the most recent episode.
Even better if this was an option for the “Up Next” section in the dashboard and app too.
Why
I started using Trakt about a year ago and only track things which I have watched since I started using Trakt.
If I have just watched season 2 of a show, but watched season 1 before I started using Trakt, I can’t hide it by hiding completed shows because season 1 is incomplete. For example:
I know I can just mark earlier episodes as watched as a workaround, but these are extra unnecessary actions and just out of personal preference, I want Trakt to be a clean slate for my watch history.
you can hide individual seasons to fix this. I’ve had to do this with shows like So You Think You Can Dance. you can do it from the progress page in the app or website but it might be easier on the site.
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Thanks, that’s a better workaround than making historical dummy entries. I found how to do it in the iOS app. You have to do it from Progress (Up Next only seems to let you hide the whole show) and the option shows up if you long-press the hide button.
Couldn’t find a way to do it on the website. I don’t suppose you know the method?
on the website when you go to progress you click on the plus sign to expand the seasons and then hide those seasons. That way any future seasons will still appear as you’re watching instead of hiding the whole show.
If you decide you’re not going to watch future seasons or episodes of a show you can just hide the whole show. I went into my hidden items and unhid this show (I thought I’d only hidden seasons but had hidden the whole show). Now I’m hiding the individual seasons that I haven’t watched by clicking on the hide icon.
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Nice thanks! I had to turn off grid view to be able to view seasons, but now I can hide them individually.
That works for me as a workaround. 
Edit: Maybe not quite, but almost. There’s some shows like Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- - Trakt (maybe this is just an anime thing) where everything is under “Season 1” even though there’s actually 3 seasons. So I can’t hide the real season 1 without hiding the entire show.
Yeah I noticed that too with some anime, its just unfortunately how the metadata comes in from TVDB but you can hide individual episodes in that case. Same steps as above but just expand the season. It’s tedious for sure but it works.
This site is using data from TMDB now…they have been making the transition away from TVDB for several months now, so if you see shows that are incorrect, check tmdb.com first, but then you can always “report” a series/movie by looking down the left menu at the very bottom of the individual show page.
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you’re exactly right, i always get the two sites confused. Trakt uses TMDB (i even have an account there so I should’ve known lol)
Oh I see so it’s TMDB at fault here.
Just saw this forum discussion over there. They have some strange guidelines there that because the episodes are numbered sequentially on the official website, despite them being split into multiple seasons on the official website they will be merged into a single season on TMDB.
And the mods in that thread also stated that they plan to go back over various other anime and make the same “fix” at some point in the future too.
Well that’s midly frustrating. I guess that means Trakt will have this issue with anime more and more over time as TMDB update their database according to their guidelines.
Though if something like my suggestion for hiding up to date shows could be implemented then that wouldn’t matter anymore for this scenario.
yeah its really an odd decision by TMDB, especially since many older anime are divied up by season and not just one giant season with dozens or hundreds of episodes. it would be better if Trakt used Anime Planet or MyAnimeList as the default for anime. I prefer Anime Planet, thats where I moved from when I found Trakt and now I dont use AP anymore other than to occasionally update my anime watch history there
I used to use MAL years ago, but at some point their site went down for a really long time and I moved to Anilist. Didn’t realise for years that they had come back. But yea, I also track anime elsewhere too. I like Trakt for the stats and visuals, and how easy it is to log things, but it’s nice having a list elsewhere dedicated to my anime watch history.
Don’t know what the best source of data is for anime. Until today I was unaware that this debate even existed, but given the way TMDB presents the seasons it would be nice if Trakt could pull from a source that is consistent with how all the various anime tracking sites present seasons.
Though I guess that’s a separate feature suggestion (if it doesn’t already exist).
Yeah I was going to keep my anime watch history separate on AP since I was using that first but its just so easy to have everything here in one place. I also really like the fact that it shows when I watched something as opposed to just simply that its been watched. I started out with MAL way back when it started (almost). A coworker at the time back in 2007 told me about it, his friend was the site owner or creator or something. It’s a good site its just archaic looking compared to sites like AP or Anilist.
And yeah there’ve been plenty of people suggesting Trakt pull from another source for anime (or anything really, they just want to get off of TMDB) if those other sources have APIs to allow for that.
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