Ratings system has been downgraded

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Continuing the discussion from :high_voltage: New Trakt default web experience:

The announcement post claims that ratings remain the same whilst in user experience the ratings system has been foundationally changed. In the classic Trakt experience, we had a 10-point scale to rate items with, which allowed some nuance and had descriptions for points. The replacement of it with a 5-star scale is a bad decision. It doesn’t even allow for half stars. And making the scale smaller and visually into a star, it has shifted the bias from what a user might feel about a number with its description to what a user will now feel how many stars look appropriate. If a movie you felt was just middling, do you give it two stars or 3 stars, 2 stars don’t look good though…

I cannot believe downgrading a rating system that tried to eliminate the inherent higher number/higher stars bias that has downgraded to a visual star rating system, whilst eliminating the half steps was designed, built, and approved upon. Please return to the sensible option as it was prior.

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Actually, it allows for half stars. Currently though, only by pressing the star again. This is something that needs to be addressed, ideally, half starts should be accessible via a simple hover motion.

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I agree that the switch to five stars is jarring. I miss the row of ten hearts. But at least it’s possible to use half-stars (as it stands now, in an unintuitive way).

Be aware that, for now, selecting a whole star and then going back to refine it into a half star will post to Discord/Twitter/wherever twice if you’ve set that up for your ratings.

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on the app you can long press the stars or the three dots to get directly to the half stars option without rating first. I don’t know how it works on the website since I mainly use the app and also pretty much never rate things

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All these extra steps/ unintuitive ways for half-stars when this 5-star visual scale is inherently worse than 10-point descriptive scale, almost feels like they’re trying push users into voting this way by making the half-points inaccessible. Why are they trying to ruin their old rating data with a new faulty rating system?

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