Old layout look

Send in a bug report to the devs maybe?

Since there’s no ads for vips :eyes:

Also I like the new profile update. It looks very modern!

I am also using uBlock Origin and I was able to fix this issue by disabling cosmetic filtering on the site

Loving the changes so far. Trakt has felt somewhat dated to me for a while now with its design, so I appreciate the more modern approach with the refreshed look.

Looking forward to seeing what else is to come. Hopefully this is just the beginning and the rest of the site will get a refreshed look over the coming months :slight_smile:

The ad blocking rules are too generic, so it would require an update on their end.

Some posters need to be reprocessed to pick out the colors used in the gradient. I’ll set a default background so it at least looks better until those are processed.

This will be added in the next update.

I am on firefox 114.0.1 and the scrollbar shows up for me also.

A few updates are out.

  • Fixed scrollbars to be conditional. If they still look bad, please post a screenshot since this is highly browser and OS dependent.
  • Favorites background image has a default gradient.
  • Ratings graph change to a bar graph (trying this out)
  • Ratings graph is clickable on each point.

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The ad blocking rules are too generic, so it would require an update on their end.
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Understood. But my response to that would be that there was not an issue with the previous interface. Whatever was changed by the Trakt team resulted in an issue. The issue is more likely going to be fixed by the Trakt team reverting whatever changes were made that have lead to adblockers now blocking content. I don’t expect to get any traction reporting the issue to the developers of uBlock Origin.

The genre styles are the same as the dashboard uses, which also has the same issue with it being ad blocked. They are blocking elements with the class “light” which is super generic. We’re unfortunately not going to code around ad blockers for something that generically blocked.

The scrollbars are gone for me as well, thank you!

The ratings bar graph does fit better with the site IMO as it is used elsewhere. Clicking works for me, the only thing is perhaps the clicking target should be extended upwards. When you are clicking on a bar that does not have many items in the bar it is difficult to select. I have noticed this on the year in review and all time stats pages as well when it comes to the number of plays bars.

@BubbaHoTepSr I’m a huge ublock origin fan myself. That being said, an inherent flaw with ad blockers is that they’re going to break the occasional site. Good news is, you should be able to disable filtering just for trakt.tv.

Pushed some general performance improvements which will speed up the profile a lot. All sections lazy load in and also cache more heavily. This should increase performance across all profile pages.

Recently watched episodes use screenshots now. Comments expanded with 3 items. Still working through the other feedback and suggestions.

I’m not sure I have control over the click area with the charts. I will take a look though.

I didn’t know where else to put this but it is regarding the change on the profile page UI.

With the recent update, the ratings graph’s clickable links seem to be broken for me. The bars are linked to the wrong ratings filter, using the number of items instead of the rating.

For example, I have 1001 items rated as 7, but when I click on the “7” bar, the link that is provided is something like “sbairedd/ratings/all/1001”, when it should probably be “sbairedd/ratings/all/7”.

It is doing the same for me

Good bug find, I’ll have a fix out tomorrow.

No plans for that currently.

We’re planning to allow some customization in a future update.

Why is this thread marked as solved? Just curious. There were a number of things reported by users not happy with the change, that based on feedback, are still being considered. I would have expected the thread to be marked as solved once those things had been addressed or the response had been updated to say there were no plans to address the things users had flagged.

It was marked solved by the original topic author. We’ll continue to consider suggestions and will continue to update the profile page.

I’m honestly also from the “yuck, what happened” camp, especially since the design elements differ quite a lot from the rest of the site (rounded corners, transparent text background, padding between elements). That said, the previous layout was also left underdeveloped for quite some time so a refresh definitly wouldn’t hurt.

As for feedback (with repeats):

General things

  • The page ends rather abruptly after comments. The footer is just right there. Some space between there would help.
  • I would put the recent history before favorites since trakt is about your watch history (that content is also more interesting and dynamic imho)
  • Make the profile about the user you’re viewing. If the person rated something in their recent history then show us that (instead of just our own data).
  • More space for the user backdrop is nice for us VIPs but looks bad on regular users w the stock pattern (I think it’s time to update that design?)
  • This is a general UX thing on the site but you always have to do a lot of scrolling up to access “more” content or specific filters (doesn’t lend itself to “browsing”).
  • Content blocks don’t load in that smooth/fast (especially notciable on images and the history feed) demo: https://streamable.com/a0b92w (pretty much visible on desktop and mobile)

Recently watched

  • Not a fan of combining movies with episodes → Watch behavior between them is generally different; most people watch TV daily/more frequently and time spent also isn’t equivalent. Movies are also a lot more varied between people given that there is way more overlap on (currently airing) shows.
  • Poster view for episodes sucks and looks especially bad when it’s the same show back to back.
  • TV show titles are asbent but would make sense to include as not everything is readable on posters, especially at these sizes.
  • You should increase the amount of “history” that is displayed without having to load a new page. This can be done by doing an inline scrolling thing like on cast pages, some sort of pagination or even better by combining this with a grouping function for TV series like we had on V1, eg. “Watched episode XY of Z + 3 more”

Most watched section

  • Did anyone really care about that card before and finds this useful? This is either skewed by stuff like the Simpsons or quite static. Imho this should be set to a timeframe and be something like “recent obsessions” (but even then, I’m doubtful this works for movies (there it would be other meta data that would be interesting there like genre, production companies, series, actors, etc.))

Comments

  • I feel like this could be a two column thing on Desktop. Show one of the sub sections parallel to it or swap the image alignements between rows to make it look more “dynamic”?
  • Increase the number of things shown? Three isn’t a lot. You can still limit the count depending on if they’re “review” length or not?

Favorites

  • Certain title lenghts pretty much touch the border of the box. Needs some more padding? https://i.imgur.com/XEbYBZz.png
  • That this can be dynamic with the “random” option should be made more evident to users imho (or be the default) - quite a specific setting to know. Offer a dropdown there?
  • Square posters in a rounded box might look OK when quickly scrolling through but I think it’s needs something extra.

Ratings

  • If this is taking up such a huge junk at least the sections should be properly linked up.
  • Intro text could show the rating average instead of pointing out the obvious that it’s from 1 to 10?

Genre

  • Includes dead genres (from TVDB?). For me it shows “Special Interests” as 1 movie but when I click on it shows me all movies and it isn’t in the dropdown either.
  • The genre names are showing a link cursor when hovering but arn’t actually linked to anything?
  • On desktop there is a horizontal scrollbar but smhw on mobile you have to scroll through the whole thing… It takes up more than one screen and if you touch in the empty space to stop scrolling it fades the whole thing to grey since this has some kind of focus element (that extends to whole width
  • The horizontal (Desktop) view does not size the boxes in relation to %s at all (2000 items are the same size as a single one)?

Agree that it’s dumb that it is blocked but Easylist literaly has ‘trakt.tv##.light’ on it’s block list which is kinda baffling… Should definitly be reported on their forums to fix.

sp1ti - These recommendations are absolutely the best so far. I sure am glad I am not the only person that thinks the “Poster” only option is dumb, but apparently Justin is not even willing to consider the option of having the "episode “Thumbs” back. I am absolutely pissed off at this because this in my opinion should be a simple decision, but the fact that I am a “VIP” and had a simple request to give users the option, and he said no, has me considering alternative sites, which aren’t that great, but has a few feature that I am used to.

Anyway, maybe if enough people complain, then he may reconsider. Just, you should certainly consider all the suggestions made by sp1ti.