Mark episode as watched greyed out

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Short description of the issue

  • Unable to mark episodes as watched when airing date is in the future

Detailed description with additional context about the workflow

  • When an episode has an airing date in the future, you are unable to mark it as watched.

  • However, some services make all episodes available online on the release date whilst also only airing one episode per week on TV. This seems to be pretty common in the UK.

  • In the screenshots below, Patience S2 is all available online whilst 1 episode is being shown on Channel 4 on a Wednesday. I’ve seen it for other series, like After The Flood on ITV.

  • I use trakt to monitor where I am up to in a series as I forget. This would make using Trakt a lot less useful.

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This would probably come down to what data TMDB saves. Does TMDB explicitly save an air date or just a release date?

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My issue isn’t that the airing date is wrong, it is that the functionality to mark something as watched now relies on the airing date in the app. The website doesn’t have that restriction.

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I see, but wouldn’t the issue also be resolved by having the actual first release date on TMDB instead?

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That depends. What about if I go on holiday to a different country and they have an earlier airing date and I watch it whilst there? Or if you watch a movie at a film festival before it is released (I’ve done this several times)? Surely the easiest thing would be for Trakt to remove the restriction they’ve applied in the app but not on the website, rather than getting the airing date or premiered date correct for everything.

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Wow just wait and in a while we won’t be able to toggle movies as watched before the release in the us of a or whichever country is deemed “original country”.

It’s a good thing the Netherlands is mostly late with foreign shows though. But for movies…. Hmnnnnn. Don’t like where this is going once again.

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Yeah, those are some fair cases