Month in review - movie stats

[2Ls1T (Elliot)]

I would have replied to this topic - Month in Review! - but it wouldn’t allow me to for some reason.

Anyway, I like the Month/Year In Review feature, however, I feel like the movies aspect is slightly nonsensical as it stands.

Taken as a Lifetime set of stats, it makes sense to list Most Plays for movies, but to do this for monthly or even yearly stats is slightly pointless. Most people will only watch a particular film once in a month and still most will only watch a particular movie once in a year (but I know there will be a greater number who watch a particular film more than once in a year than those who might do it in a month). Nevertheless, I should imagine this current stat is rather meaningless for the overwhelming majority of users, especially as it secondly ranks it by minutes watched, so a single watch of a longer film ranks higher than a single watch of a shorter film. This is entirely arbitrary and of no real value/interest.

Most Plays works for TV shows but it’s a little bit of a case of comparing apples and oranges.

I think the only part of Month/Year In Review feature that works / makes sense for movies is the “most watched genres” - perhaps something more interesting could be done with this - graphically at least, rather than just the simple type of stacked bar chart that it current is.

Maybe there’s an additional movie-related stat you could include in these monthly (and yearly) reports (“most watched decade”?), but whenever I read mine, I’m always struck by how meaningless most of the movie stats are and how it just feels like “we did this for the TV stats so we’ll do this for the movie ones, too”, rather than there having been an evaluation of the point or purpose to include it.

Perhaps I’m on my own on this and nobody else cares, lol, but I thought I’d offer some feedback, which I hope is at least somewhat constructive!

[lifeiscrazy (꧁『marr』)]

Yes, I agree, I think ratings you gave movies would be nicer!

Here are some of the monthly wrap-up graphs that Storygraph offers.

I like the Summary one:

They also have a cover collage, with and without ratings:

And a Calendar image, but that doesn’t make a lot of sense for Trakt so I won’t post it here XD

I really miss the ratings (for movies!!) on the mir page, but also on the shared image;

For TV shows I don’t care about the ratings, because most shows are longer than a month and will not be rated (yet)

[jluftman (Jim Luftman)]

I was thinking the same thing about movies and was going to post.
My thought is, rather than “most watched”, maybe a just a list of all movies watched in the month with small posters. (Possible the same for shows-series)

[pmndaniel7 (Daniel)]

I was thinking the same about Most Played, but I was too lazy to open up a thread about it lol

I totally agree with you, I think - at least for Month in Review - that information is pretty much useless.

[justin (Justin Nemeth)]

These are some good ideas and I agree it does make sense to take a closer look at movies and finding stats that make more sense for a 1 month timeframe.

[mrtickleuk]

I would have replied to the main “Month in Review” topic, but it wouldn’t let me either.

I have a suggestion based on the August “Month in review”. For some reason, it’s expanded from reviewing what I’ve watched, and taken on a life of its own!

Section called “Let’s review your streaming service subscriptions” - nope, don’t want to.
”We suggest reviewing these streaming service subscriptions, as it appears you haven’t watched any shows or movies on them recently.” - Bzzt! No! In that case Trak has completely misconstrued why I have those streaming service subscriptions.

I don’t have them because they are packed with things I regularly watch.
(a) I have them set because I have a number of Lists, containing things I want to watch, which are very, very hard to find. It’s a huge amount of work to keep checking, which is where Trak Lists come in.
All I have to do, is browse my lists, and “filter by streaming services…. All Favourites”, and then I can see anything with a WHITE filled-in play icon (“>”) is available to me.

The last thing I ever want to do, is remove streaming services from my Favourites which someone else has decided is “dormant” or “not being used”. It might be a full 5 years before one of the many FREE services I have set as a favourite shows the one movie I’ve been waiting 10 years to watch.

then it goes on - “We recommend periodically reviewing your favorite streaming services so we can provide the most accurate suggestions for you.”. Again, this is unwelcome sorry. I don’t want suggestions, accurate or otherwise. I have a thousand-hour backlog of TV and movies that I have already very, very carefully chosen. The very last thing I need is suggestions. In 25 years since I got my first PVR I have never, ever been stuck for something to watch or needed a suggestion!

Please consider re-wording this, or removing the whole “Let’s review your streaming service subscriptions” into a SEPARATE item all of its own. Perhaps sent out every 6 months. I do not want to see it monthly.

”Here’s a breakdown of what you watched recently on each of your favorite streaming services.” - yes, but most of them are free. I don’t really care where I watched my content. The only use I could see for this is for the small subset of them which are paid services. It would be better if there was a very clear distinction between free and paid services, and only if you opt in to a “review” would you get such a breakdown. I can imagine people wanting to save money might value those reviews, but that isn’t why I’m using Trak. I’m using it to help me find very obscure rare content, with Lists and Alerts, which lie quietly for years and then one day pop up with a match.

Many thanks!