The Announcements category will start being used again for important updates from the Trakt team.
Over time, that category slowly became deserted. Each announcement would turn into a megathread, which made conversations difficult to navigate and even harder to moderate. Eventually we locked it down so nobody could reply, which defeated the purpose of having a discussion space.
Starting today, I’m testing a new approach: replies in Announcements are now open to VIP only.
The goal is to keep announcements focused and readable, while still allowing thoughtful discussion and feedback from our most engaged users.
More Forum Tweaks Coming
This is part of a broader effort to improve how the forums are organized.
Over the next few days, you may notice some categories being shuffled around, renamed, or reorganized. The goal is simply to make things easier to find and more useful for everyone.
As always, we’ll keep iterating based on how things work in practice.
This is something we already tested and didn’t work out. There are other places where everyone can post, reply, say almost whatever they want. This is another test to see how something in-between works.
This was a decision we made, yes, as explained in my first message.
It was possible for everyone to comment on announcements, then we had to lock it down, then, because it was too much locked, we stoped using it.
Why?
It is not the same. We have VIP only categories that we are using for VIP only things. If we want to announce something to everyone but want to keep feedback to VIP only, now we can.
Not going to lie, this is basically telling non VIP members that you don’t care about them or their input on the future of Trakt. Pay up or get lost
Also I feel it’ll cause more threads to be opened about the announcements, rather than consolidating discussions into 1 place, which is probably the opposite of what you’re trying to achieve by opening up comments on the announcements in the first place.
Always suspected it would happen.
Trakt is really getting shittier by the day. Breaking stuff like forcing IMDb/tvdb connections while TMDb is the source of truth.
This would’ve been undone SO fast on the good ol’ Justin-the-kale-hulk-Trakt.
Exactly as I predicted. The forum is now being flooded with new posts because you’ve restricted free users from commenting on the announcement that directly affects them negatively
More Forum Tweaks Coming
