On Hold means you still want to watch it, but after having started you had to shelve it for one reason or another. You just don’t have time, you’re saving up to buy the next box set, you unsubscribed from the service it’s on for the time being…
Dropped means you decided you’re not going to continue watching it. You don’t like it, you thought it was something else, something happened on the show that turned you off or made you feel uncomfortable…
In both cases, the show should be hidden from normal view so you can focus on the shows you’re actively watching. In both cases, your existing watch data is retained but you aren’t being pegged with notifications about those shows because the site knows you’re not waiting for the next episode. But shows marked Oh Hold would be more easily accessible from some menu feature so you can reactivate them at any time.
Unnecessary. As Justin said in one of his comments, current solution is already enough.
You have WATCHED it, or WATCHING IT, or WANT TO WATCH (watchlist). If you have done watching it, for whatever reason, you can still leave it in progress to see how much you didn’t finish or hide it. It works really well. And if someone didn’t even try it… how can we talk about it?!
Even stuff you ,dropped" are still possible to continue. If you aren’t interest now, you could be in the possible future, so I don’t see a reason for this function. You are still in middle of ,watching it" and just ,hide for yourself".
If we want to see more stats about how much people ,finish" certain show, currently we can see it on the number of ,plays" or ,ratings" on every episode, which really helps. But it could be absolutely stellar to have some sort of visual stat on every show to see, how much people finish it, and which SHOW (on the whole Trakt) is the most finished show. Or where is the trend in leaving it.
(But we certainly don’t need another feature for it, it would be way too ,over-complicated".)
If this won’t be done, then maybe a few ideas to expand the hide section:
Search function
Sort function (For example sort on episodes left to watch)
Because sometimes I hide a show when I don’t want to see it on my next up list (Because I am tired of watching it at the moment, but I want to maybe finish a few months later)
When I hide things it’s got cluttered and without a search/sort function in the hide section it’s gets cluttered a lot.
If I literally say “This is trash” then I have no reason whatsoever to keep watching it.
It could be interpreted like a paused but sometimes stuff is just not your cup of tea.
But as it was said before, hiding it, kinda fits the bill but also kinda not.
Dropping a show is the same like a divorce: You. are. done. with. it.
I use separate lists for shows and then hide the progress on shows i’ve dropped or are waiting to air so that they are not clogging up my progess page but id love the ability to easily mark a show as dropped or on pause and then switch between progress pages for all three. A lot of my paused list is airing in America but I need to wait for it to come to the UK before I can watch it so I don’t want them showing on my dashboard as I can’t currently watch them.
This is one of two features that I miss having moved from TV Time. Having migrated over a year ago I think this is a lacking feature which could be done with lists but list have a weird implementation in trakt, as you have 1st class lists (watchlist, wishlist) and 2nd class lists (everything else). Unless ‘on hold/not watched in a while’ becomes a 1st class list the UX will always be lacking as it can’t seamlessly integrate into ‘up next’ or ‘upcoming schedule’.
Maybe this is just due to the lack of feature richness in the up next section, I would love to be able to sort it by recently watched, rather than it always being sorted by release date (this is also all that ‘not watched’ in a while really is).
The other thing I miss from TV Time is the simple day countdown of when episodes or movies are about to release, again people will suggest the calendar but it is not possible to do this using it.
Basically I think the TV Time app nailed these two summary features perfectly.
On the up next bit, that is my fault for not being clear, I was meaning in the iOS app which I think does not allow filtering or am I looking in the wrong place? Also not even sure you can do this on up next in the web, it just shoots you to progress which is the same but not really the same cause the dashboard will not hold these changes. (Ah are we talking about the bit in the settings page?)
Furthermore if we assume that up next would expose the progress filters, I see no way to sort by more than one column which would then enable something like ‘recently released followed by recently watched’ which would get close to the ordering I miss from TV Time.
What do you mean figure something out? Just add a dropped option. It’s not even just for shows, I want to be able to track movies when I don’t finish them too because it would prevent them from popping up in recommendations and also let me track how many I dropped. It’s a tracking feature, the site is literally called trakt. I don’t understand why this fairly simple feature that most other tracking sites have, that has been requested for years, that contributes to the primary purpose of the app, still hasn’t been added.
i’m pretty sure when he says “he has to figure it out” because he can’t just plop add it and it works magically… it has to be coded and adding something new could break other code or interfere with other functions that trakt already does. something may seem simple in theory, may be needed to be thoughtout code wise.
Yes I think you’re right one should avoid being rude. But I wonder how long should it take to add essential missing features?
I’d like to log the shows I have watched, but eventually dropped too
House of Cards got a perfect ending after season 2. I’m sure the rest is good, but I’m not interested if it doesn’t have a good ending. Edited to remove spoiler here
Westworld. Same situation with season 1 I think. Do the other seasons go anywhere? I’ll never know
The Simpsons is a show that seems to never end. I don’t know exactly when I gave up, but for rewatches I found my perfect ending and will stop watching after I reach a certain point.
Grey’s Anatomy same thing. It doesn’t end and it doesn’t feel the same when main characters leave the show.
I’m new here and I don’t have too high expectations as Plex consistently disappointed me for many years by now. But when the price for Trakt is $60 a year it comes with expectations. If you are a paying customer waiting multiple years for an essential feature, isn’t it fair to be a little upset? As I understand Trakt is for tracking the content you watch or plan to watch. This missing feature makes that annoying to do.
Now I of course know Trakt is a work in progress and competing services are not perfect either! I hope Trakt can become the place I use for all my movie, tv and short film tracking. But for now I’ll work with multiple
Dropped and on-hold shows I still want to see in my progress, because I did see some episodes of it, but not on my main dashboard, because i don’t watch them anymore/ at the moment.
Well this helps but it’s different than the originally suggested feature. Having dropped and on-hold separately would be even better, as we could filter our shows on the progress page by our personal status.
So the common use case of seeing an ep or two of a season and regretting it now has a sitewide one-click solution so you’re not reminded in some or fashion you made this regrettable mistake?
If so HALLELUYER and YHANK YOU!!
(and I’m ok with the temporal watch data–just not posters of said series, then graphics that I’m only 2% watched, in progress nuking from schedule etc.)
now has a sitewide one-click solution so you’re not reminded in some or fashion you made this regrettable mistake?