Thanks for this feedback!
Could you please share why youâd like to have the link? If we can integrate the information you are looking for directly in the app, we will!
I personally use TMDB link so I can easily grab a certain poster for when I share what Iâm currently watching on social media. Having the ability to see all the available posters and save them would be a nice feature of Trakt, especially if given the choice to pick what poster is displayed on our profiles.
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âAll bugs are still being addressed and we do not intend to stop supporting Classic.â
Can you precise your sentance please. When you said trakt classic will be in maintenance mode, for me it means it wonât be supported anymore. And completely removed at some point. Letâs be honest here, if the first is true (maintenance mode) the second is obviously true (it will be completely removed at some point).
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Why use Notepad where you can use Notepad++? 
Did users asked for LITE or developers get bored?
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Yes, I noticed too on the trakt android app. Clicking on IMDb just open the IMDb app in the play store. Not much useful.
Was much better when it opened a new web age with directly with the movie link. Same for tmdb. Donât forget people like us need to be able to adjust and correct data sources too like the other said above. Having ids and links to these platforms is a must have.
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And they are welcome to do so⌠like anyone is welcome to use our own Public API for free to do it. You can even start from our open source web version if you want to get a head start 
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I mean the git is public: Pull requests ¡ trakt/trakt-web ¡ GitHub
Whatâs unclear to me is how the overall design and vision started out. Why was itâs focus being âLITEâ and app-esque and then suddenly sufficient enough to replace the full trakt experience while cutting away core site features? Bugs and errors are not addressed while theyâre busy adding halloween theme support⌠Justin is not involved in any of these - he and the team built this site up and secured the initial funding this is running on; I hope you can understand why itâs alienating to have all that replaced by essentially a playground that disregards the current ecosystem (website and official apps).
As it stands this is still far from being ready or stable. You can ask for even more testers but I had my experience with that â> ignored. And since you already prefaced this with axing the proper site I see no saving this.
PS: Those numbers donât mean much if we donât know the user retention or the scope of how theyâre using trakt. Can you start out on lite? Sure, but they will probably never build any deeper appreciation of what trakt actually offers or used to be. Lite is only competing against other apps atp. Other competitors will eat the desktop market up⌠(I also assume existing users were ignored there because the same reactions you got on here.)
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Iâll rephrase and edit my post: when I said âwebsiteâ there I meant Classic, New and our official apps.
Not as a result. It is a result of what we are doing.
I donât know how to answer this other than with everything else I said.
Iâm trying to give as much context as I can.
When I say âwe do not intend to stop supporting Classicâ and âClassic is in maintenance modeâ, I want to say the the same thing: if there are bugs/issues with Classic, we will fix/address them.
It doesnât mean that we drop everything and stop fixing things on Classic.
Iâm sorry if it felt condescending. It was not my intention.
By asking that question, I received this answer, which is a good feature request.
My question wasnât to dismiss your valid use case either. Thatâs why I complemented my question with: âif we can integrate the information you are looking for directly in the app, we will!â.
This is because we were flagged by Google on our current Play Store version for using external links. We are being careful with external links for the time being.
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Of course.
I use TMDB because in some cases it allows me to get the title of the series or film in French. The episode summaries are also in French.
I understand English, but itâs nice to be able to read certain details in your own language.
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I found out recently that the new âLiteâ version will someday become the default version of Trakt. I ignored it before because at a glance I did not like it. I spent some time with it today and I still donât like it. I primarily use the Dashboard, the show pages, the episode pages, and Search. Here are some of my initial thoughts on the DashboardâŚ
I donât like the separation of âContinue Watchingâ and âStart Watchingâ. I primarily watch TV shows and TV episodes, so I like having the one Up Next section showing what shows are available. I like todayâs sections for Up Next and Watchlist as they more closely align to how I choose what to watch.
I do not like the episode thumbnails. They make it difficult to see what the Show actually is. It is so much easier to decide what I want to watch based on a large Show picture.
I donât see the value of knowing how many episodes and how many minutes are left to watch. I got confused with how YouTube and other streamers show you how much time is remaining in the video you started watching. Putting this together with my previous note about episode thumbnails, you are actually mixing two concepts â showing you the next episode to watch (as a thumbnail) but placing on top of it information about not the episode but the show (how many episodes are left to watch). That is confusing.
The order of the episodes makes no sense, and there doesnât appear to be a way to change the order. I guess itâs in order of what you last watched? But thatâs not helpful to me. I donât binge shows. I watch one episode of a show and then I watch an episode of a different show.
The minus symbol (â-â) is not good UI. While it may imply a thing you can compress (like in a tree structure), as a standalone symbol on a page like this, it implies a list item, and this is not a list. Another confusing aspect of the page.
What is with all the white space at the top of the page? I like the summary info at the top of the current Trakt page.
Generally speaking, the current dashboard looks better to me because all of the images are bigger, which is great for me because I primarily use Trakt on my iPad, and occasionally on my computer. When I use Trakt on my phone itâs mainly for Search. I do not use the apps.
Thatâs all I have for now. I have not seen if the current âclassicâ Trakt will be available after the âLiteâ version becomes the default, but it should be.
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It will not. No way they are going to support two versions that are so different for much longer. For example, the new Trakt has a rate system with 5 stars, while the classic Trakt has 10 hearts. I have a rating system where 1-4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 hearts are all very different from each other, and have a meaning to me (based on rewatchability and recommendation potential) so if I canât give 3.5 or 4.5 stars, the new site is completely useless to me.
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Yes, the rating system change is a big deal to me too. I checked a movie I rated 7 in Classic, and when I switch to Lite, it shows it as 4/5. Iâve got more than a decade of data using a 10 stars or 5 stars with 1/2 ratings. Making a major change like the degrees of precision makes it difficult to properly compare ratings before and after the change. Iâd recommend anyone to take an export or backup of your Trakt data now to make sure you have a preserved copy of your data as it currently is.
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Yeah the rating system is a big deal, a 7/10 is not the same as a 4/5. If theyâre going forward with the 5 star system then at least give us half stars. There is no good way to convert a rating out of 10 to a rating out of 5. This change alone ruins years worth of ratings
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I donât like horizontal scrolling on websites. full stop. and I agree with everyone that going from 10 stars down to 5 with no option for half stars is a bad choice. There was nothing wrong with Trakt classic. I didnât mind the cosmetic changes from a few years ago, because I actually prefer purple over red, but this new layout is not it. I donât use the Trakt app, because I spent hours on the classic Trakt webpage when I first signed up logging all the thingâs Iâve watched over the years, I have gotten very very used to the Trakt Classic layout. I love the site how it is, the new Trakt is cluttered, messy, and makes it harder to find things. I spent a while looking for the word âHistoryâ, since that âs what it has always been called on Trakt Classic, only to feel dumb when I see itâs now âRecently Watchedâ. And that leads you to not a cleanly laid out page with each dayâs plays separated by date, no, itâs one giant grid of tiny thumbnails with vague dates like âlast Sundayâ. That has to change.
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I think people are being a little harsh now, but I appreciate this response. I donât mind change. What I do mind is when features I used are taken away from me or dumbed down.
So long as classic is still an option as is, or the new trakt eventually has all features that are currently missing, then Iâll be happy.
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That is something I think we can address in a future post and go into more details about the design system and the technical foundations Iâm talking about in my messages.
It is not sufficient enough to replace the full Trakt experience. That is why we are not cutting anything away.
Yes, we want to have some fun while doing what we do 
You are just picking one pull request out of thousands, ignoring the bugs and issues and core feature we are working on.
Justin is involved in everything we do. He just trusts his team to do their best work with what he (and Sean, who is also still very much involved) started. They are working on more core and infrastructure, under-the-hood stuff. Thatâs all.
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Thanks for sharing some context and answering couple questions.
This is totally misleading. You are forcing new users / unlogged users to the new lite experience. Itâs not like they had a choice.
Now try again with an option that says, 1) Do you want to use the simplified beta and trimmed/dumbed down version or 2) the full version with all the options and settings.
And who do you want to listen to, the new and clueless users, with your metrics or your users that are here and use trakt for years, even more than a decade for some of us ?!
Even with a scenario where you would eventually back port all the âfeaturesâ & âoptionsâ & filtering and sorting possibilities to the ânewâ version, this new UI is completely crappy on the web on a desktop. There is nothing that will fix that user experience on a desktop. And the only perfect solution, already implemented that have all the two important things, with both a perfect UI and all the features, sorting, filtering etc⌠is the actual âclassicâ version.
Why are you trying to fix something that is working perfectly for your users? Rule number one in IT : If It Ainât Broke, Donât Fix It!
To be honest, this is like shooting yourself in the foot.
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