Users should be able to customize the settings for recommendations.
Settings should include:
Ability to turn on/off TV/movies. (I don’t want TV recommendations, only movies)
Hide movies users have already watched or are already on a list
Weight preferences around movies similar to watch history and new discoveries. (For example: I want 70% of the recommendations to be based on ratings from my watch history, and 30% to be new discoveries)
Language setting (only English)
Genre settings (only movies of the selected genres…)
Trakt is a great tool for tracking and organizing stuff to watch, a revamped Recommendation feature would be a huge boost to the feature set.
It’s interesting that most of the things you called out we’ve actually tackled already in Trakt Lite. Not sure if you gave it a go or not but I’ll make some notes on your points
Ability to turn on/off TV/movies. (I don’t want TV recommendations, only movies)
You can collapse sections you don’t want to see recommendations are segregated into the Movies / Shows categories (so you can visit wherever you want).
Hide movies users have already watched or are already on a list
Trakt Lite filters out watchlisted and watched content implicitly.
Weight preferences around movies similar to watch history and new discoveries. (For example: I want 70% of the recommendations to be based on ratings from my watch history, and 30% to be new discoveries)
The recommendations algorithm actually takes into account ratings, watch history and favorite activity. We’ve also added the ability to further filter on interest like decade, genre and streaming services This applies to the entirty of the Trakt ecosystem not just Lite.
Language setting (only English)
On Lite we have multiple languages available.
Genre settings (only movies of the selected genres…)
Global filters are part of the Lite experience and we allow you to save defaults.
@Subatomic8486 is clearly talking about the regular version, why are you trying so hard to push Trakt Lite? A whole lot of us do not want or need to use it, how is this so difficult to understand?
I don’t get why the team is so insistent on pushing us in a direction we clearly have no interest in going, it’s super counterproductive.
I generally like the UI upgrades for Lite, Trakt definitely needs a face lift. I was talking about the main version of Trakt.
Can I ask what the long term plan is? Is Lite going to be the default UI eventually? Are you planning on merging the functionality of the main site with Lire? Sort of a best of both type thing?
The main website has some filters available in the dedicated movies and shows recommendations sections. I’m sure we’ll add more, but here is what you can filter on so far. From your original list, you can do genre filtering already. Watched items are always going to be hidden as well.
Justin what I have noticed on the main site (really not a fan of lite) is the “hide” options don’t seem to work in recommendations. No mater how often I click “hide collected” nothing happens. Ideally I’d want to hide it and Watchlist items, since the idea is to find stuff I don’t know about.
Also it would be great if we could include several genres but exclude subgenres or connected genres (eg include sci-fi but exclude animation, so only live action was shown)
The recommendations use a different system, and that is why some of these filters aren’t working or not in the same way. I basically used the same advanced filtering system as a starting point, but there appears to be more work needed to make it fully functional.
I agree, exclusions are needed. For example, if I search for Science Fiction, the first page is basically all superhero stuff, I don’t want that, I want real SciFi.
There’s a part in settings to filter out watchlisted and collected items from recommendations! Been there for ages actually but yeah can be hard to spot
This is a dilema I also have and I’m thinking about how to solve it every other week
exclusions are needed
This would reduce the problem but won’t necessarily result in satisfying your precise craving if I understand correctly (my assumtion here is real SciFi = Aliens, Space, etc).
For example:
SciFi - Superhero => Jurrassic Park
Personally I hope that we’ll be able to introduce a concept of Sub-Genres (only an idea) where we can actually catalogue all movies with their according specializations to the we can enable filtering on those very specific types of categories when looking to scratch a very particular itch
