I just discovered Lite today and admittedly, while the label should have been a redesign, clicking a toggle made me think this was a beta replacement UI for Trakt haha.
Now that I understand the intent a lot better, it’s quite nice and definitely would save me some clicks for most of my use cases, while still allowing the more information-dense primary site which is still what I would ideally like as a fallback.
One bug I’ve noticed is requires enabling spoilers under Settings:
I’m a big fan of Watchlist being promoted to a first class tab (whereas in the main UI, it’s technically a list but with magical properties?)
The only thing really missing for it that I can see is just general filtering. If I was going to check my list in lite mode, basic filters like sorting by name, duration, episode count remaining, hours remaining etc would be ideal and is presumably on the backlog.
At the moment, I don’t actually use Trakt as my primary watchlist just due to the amount of clicking to get down to the watchlist (and I never use bookmarks) so I can see this removing a whole bunch of friction so that’s neat
Hey @Sentry we really appreciate the feedback, I’ve opened a bug here for your spoiler scenario.
We’re most likely going to show content on click rather than hover.
The click to show for spoiled labels is something we can definately look at soon.
The only thing really missing for it that I can see is just general filtering.
This is something that we are actively discussing so I’m expecting us to get to it somewhere in the near future
NOTE: Ideally we keep track of community issues on Github, it’s much easier for the development team and easier to manage than having reports spread around the forum (which is a mix of feedback, issues and various anectodal content).
That’s awesome @Sentry! Yeah, we appreciate whomever can communicate with us directly on Github is going to make our lives easier (and will get responses faster).
Forum issues we’re going to convert manually to Github issues to keep things tracked and public, so by reporting there directly you help us elminate this overhead
I think that’s eventually the point, they are calling it Lite and treating it as a “separate experience” for now but it’s obvious they are putting all this effort in so they can replace an aging codebase with one that’s way easier to update with clearer separation between backend and frontend (basically building the frontend on the same API 3rd party apps can use instead of previously being tightly connected internally).
They just can’t do that until they reimplement all (or at least 90%) of the functionality first without making the userbase mad. Wouldn’t surprise me at one point if the toggle switched on eventually becomes the default experience for new users, the current site is renamed to be Trakt Legacy, and then later after that it’s shut down for good.
