I think it would be helpful when looking through sometimes 50+ shows to be able see the language the show was broadcast in. I love these emails, but it can be a lot to wade through sometimes. Having that information would help my decisions to investigate further, or just pass.
I already asked long time ago to allow us to have customized weekly emails. I’d love them to be filtered by genres and languages. I don’t care about documentaries or animations… Also I don’t understand German or Korean… And after some API went paid and Trakt started using TMDB, these emails are now so cluttered (even with trash sometimes)
I think the Language could be added pretty easily.
But the custom emails? Do you know anything about coding/programming? There is no way they can allow their millions of users to make their own custom emails, that would be a nightmare for any developer. Let alone the maintenance that would require.
Yes, I’m a full stack web developer and I know it’s a pain. But possible. Not sure what Trakt uses for email sending, but that’s the only part I’m not sure how to handle, but I magine shouldn’t be too complex.
And I wonder how many VIPs Trakt actually has. I’m pretty sure it’s nowhere near millions. Maintenance also shouldn’t be a problem, because that’s just a filter based list.
How I imagine it:
There’s an email template with placeholders
The way placeholders for email address or unsubscribe link are replaced for each user, same way individual filtered list placeholder can be replaced
The one potential issue here probably is resources
Hi Justin,
I haven’t actually, but I don’t want to just dismiss a show wholesale because of the language. The poster image, as well as the studio/network also factor in whether I want to dig deeper.
I’ve watched something in just about every language, so I’d rather not risk missing something interesting by completely filtering out a particular language.
Appreciate the tip though. I seem to miss the new features that roll out from time to time. I wish there was a email I could subscribe to for the change logs.
I have several languages selected, but this way I already missed some shows that are dubbed or have good subtitles. Without that filter the email was basically just spam with tens of shows I’m totally not interested in.
Setting a country doesn’t really make much sense I’m my case, because lots of countries produce content in English too
My main filtering would be genres. I’d love to exclude animation and documentaries (it’s been a while now, when documentaries just dominate these emails)
@videntis, thanks for the tip. Not really interested in another service to deal with, but you got me searching and I found that you can subscribe to the release notes here.
I’m not sure if it sends an email for every update (which could get annoying fast), but I’m going to try it out. I would prefer options to get weekly or even monthly dumps.
I also think a Release Notes link should feature in the user drop down menu on the site. It would improve user engagement, and help users find information easily when they notice a new feature, or something is working differently.