💬 New Trakt Feedback

I hadn’t thought of that. Thank you, that helped.

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I’m sure they’ll look into it. But first, they’ve suggested an easy fix, and it worked. Now that they know it’s not working permanently, they’ll take a closer look.

Exactly! Unfortunately, currently the name Trakt LITE still fits, and a lite platform is not good for the many power users Trakt has.

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Huh, I tried a few more times with the new Trakt, and while it’s slowly getting better, there’s still not one feature missing

  1. Episode/movie card
  • Labels. Anime tracking is a nightmare here, and labels are really useful, you know all those ‘mid-season finale/mid-season premiere’ :slightly_smiling_face:
  • Rating - good way to spot filler/recap episode before opening it. Or just bad movie.

  • some shows had episode number in (), like Dragon Ball Z here - it was a nice touch.

  • also I do miss season poster, they were better than thumbnail.
  1. The indication for watched seasons/episodes/shows is so subtle it’s practically invisible. Be kind, many years have passed since the laser correction :sweat_smile: Hiding watched content? Unfortunately, no. Tough experience on shows with many seasons.

  1. There was this really convenient indication of sequels/prequels in Classic. Especially when I find something in recommendations or big lists. On the old Trakt, you could see immediately on the first screen whether it was the first film or if it had prequels. In the new version you have to REMEMBER to scroll down, check whether there’s an “official list“, open it to see order. Bruh.

  1. The lack of “hide watched” on actor/director pages is genuinely painful. And I hope that horizontal scroll will disappear from here just the way it did on the Dashboard (that’s my wish after scrolling all Samuel L. Jackson filmography to the very beginning huh).
    On the other hand ‘From My History’ is a good one, maybe even worthy to be the first carousel :slight_smile:
  2. Dropped shows in new Trakt? No indication, no page to see full list, nothing (sometimes I go back to the list to give show another try).
  3. All Time Stats seem to have vanished. Looks like the new version didn’t find any room for them.Funny thing is, this tiny feature is why I subscribed years ago. I later got disappointed, but still checked in occasionally - mostly to watch countries disappear from the map (I had a goal to watch a film from every country; finished it, the entire map was filled; today 20+ countries are suddenly “unwatched” again. Magic :magic_wand: ). Also the numbers are screwed ever since Unknown release, so it really looks like the feature is gone.

P.S. I really like how aggressive Cloudflare is on Classic Trakt (sometimes every 3-5 clicks I need to prove being human) and how I got zero checks on new. Still not convinced to switch fully.

P.S.S. Overall, thanks for bringing familiar features back - at least some of the angry complaints we left here are no longer relevant. Though I still had to dig through a pull requests to figure out that I need to double-click to give a 0.5-star rating, because the release notes are basically impossible to find now :sweat_smile:

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Please add the ability to do half ratings and please show the ratings under the posters. I really don’t care how many people are watching something and would rather see the ratings from all sources or at least trakt users.

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Click again on star and it will change to 0.5

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It would be way easier though if we could select half stars with the normal hover motion

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Sadly Trakt is not a desktop site anymore. It’s a mobile interface stretched wider. So don’t look for hovers - touch interfaces don’t have hover states but have more clicks.

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They can still implement it though…

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Like a developer I know once said: if something needs a tutorial, it’s bad design :woman_shrugging:

Or something along those lines :joy:

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The new design is too complicated and only makes things harder for the user. It took me two minutes to understand where to mark an episode as seen, and to find history, and find new menus …..

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Well, I have my fair share of criticism with the new site too, but I don’t see that. If anything, it might have become oversimplified. It just seems like you’ll need to get used to it. Or can you share any specific examples?

Both things can be true in this instance.

By oversimplifying it they’ve made it unnecessarily complicated to find what are common actions for a large number of users. What was once an easy action now requires several steps to achieve the same (if you even can).

Maybe this is the result of Trakt not being aware of how large numbers of their customers use it. Something that has become apparent from several comments made by the devs for example about incorrect use of things like “Library”.

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Has something changed as for the last couple of days, I no longer have sight of my ‘Watched History’ on my homepage/dashboard at. Discover. Track. Share. - Trakt. I can see Up Next, Upcoming Schedule, and then instead of my watched history, that is completely missing, I go straight to my Watch List and 30 Days Stats).

How do I get my Watched History block back?!

I noticed that too :frowning: have to go to history and lots of time get a cloudflare verify you are human thing again…oh wait it’s back. It’s under 30 day stats now! I don’t know if that was the same before but I swear yesterday I couldn’t find it.

Cloudflare is driving me nuts :sob:

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Fair, workflows can become more complicated and require more clicks.

The original post noted something about not finding history or where to mark an episode as seen; and in these cases, I don’t agree.

the watched history shows up as “Recently Watched” directly under the 30 day stats

This is the most important point to be made.

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Just understand that this recent flood of feedback came because the new and completely unfinished site was suddenly made the default URL, so all users who rely on V2 were shocked upon login. Myself and probably a lot of others turned off the “lite” site months ago, forgot about it, and don’t frequent the forums at all. So now you’re getting the rush of people trying to figure out what the heck is going on.

All we ask is for full parity between the “old” and “new”, and the shock of seeing an incomplete site made the default URL got a lot of paying customers seriously worried. Now that the URL has reverted back to V2, you probably will get far less negative reactions. Maybe a lesson learned?

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