Sorry if it is not the right place - should it be in Trakt/questions and answers or here? I find the plethora of categories very confusing.
2 things;
First, the announcement mentions checkins and manual watches, for which I could not easily find a definition and what they do.
This is very much needed - ChatGPT saved me but it shoudn’t have to.
And what the hell is a “manual watch”?
I do not watch videos with my hand but use my eyes and an electronic device. This should be “manual logging” or something better. Again, ChatGPT saved me, but the info should be clearer and easier to access.
Second,I understand that these are now rolling 24-hour stats. That’s fine.
But I also have a use for the old way that used real-time data: I use the trending movies pages to identify newly released movies.
The big movies were immediately on top of the page when using ral data. Now they will be there many hours later.
I’d love a switch to be able to visualize real-time trends (aka. the old way)
Checkins is that big red button with the “check-in” text. Hard to miss, unless you’re a external app user only.
You generally use the button when you start an episode/movie, and you’re screwed if you pause/go to the toilet or whatever, because you can’t pause a check-in.
Manual watch means using the purple “add to history button”, and you’ll have three choices for inputting the watch data (I usually use just finished, as I log it right away when I finish something).
Before only scrobbles from mediacenters, and people using the website with the check-in function were considered as “watchers”, now people logging the stuff manually are (finally!) considered watchers too.
If you need ChatGPT to give definitions for the words, maybe it’s just a language barrier. Are you from a non-english speaking country?
I’m not an English native speaker myself, but I know what check in means in the Trakt universe (again, hard to miss if you use the website), and I understand what a watch is, and what manual means… so yeah, not rocket science.
I’ll admit I never had discovered the filtering for the trending until the other day. But I do wish it allowed one to “exclude” certain items too in the search parameters.
For example include genres adventure, drama, action but exclude animation, or say include history but exclude documentary.
But overall I do like the fact that the trending is far more indicative of actual number of watchers.
You can do one or the other, you can’t do both (include and exclude)…at least that I haven’t found out how. Not sure if you are aware of the little dropdown (see screenshot). I have a saved Filter that excludes all anime and animation genres.
Thank you! I figured there had to be a way to exclude by either using a “-“ or a “!” but couldn’t get it to work on my iPad (PEBKAC) but now I know it can be done I’ll set it up on my desktop and save the filter.
Ah ha! Thanks @Sonply ! I hadn’t even thought to use the URL params for doing deeper custom filtering. I don’t normally “include” AND “exclude” at the same time, but if I ever do need to like in your example and @CajunRob 's example…now I know how. Problem is, I hope I can remember it.
