Iâm sorry, but this doesnât really make a case for why you are taking away yet another feature, which is what this looks like. And once again, you originally said nothing will change and collections are meant to include physical media, and then walk back that promise. This is what pisses people off and loses you even more goodwill amidst all the nonsense with forcing people onto v3 before itâs remotely usable or finished. If you have good reasons for doing this, please find a way to communicate them.
As others have pointed out, there is no obvious reason to pretend things the Blu-Rays you have on your shelf and CAN PLAY AT ANY TIME are somehow not part of a playable library. The Watch Now feature basically already allows users to do what you describe as the âdreamâ scenario. You browse Trakt, you find content, you see itâs on a streamer you have and you just watch it there. It works, itâs clear, thereâs no reason to do the same again in another place as well while throwing an existing feature under the bus.
You say nothing is lost, but plenty is lost. The key great things about the collection/library as we use it now are:
- It is not just one of your lists, it is a distinguished feature. When you see a movie listed in a search result, credit list or anywhere else, you can immediately see if you have it collected, and in what format. It being its own feature also allows for better integrations and filtering based on what you have collected and what you donât. If it were just a list, none of this would be possible - you would have to search for that specific list among your other lists and then search through that. It would no longer be right at your fingertips.
- It treats shows as a whole: If you only have two seasons of a four-season show collected, it will tell you wherever the show as a whole is listed, even before going to the detail page or god forbid having to navigate through all seasons to get an overview. Again, a list canât do that.
- You can specify the format in a standardized way. Again, it being its own thought-out thing instead of just a randomly formatted text note allows for better integration with other features like filtering your collection by format or the nice little hover layer in the collection neatly showing the video and audio format.
All of this looks to be going away or severely reduced, and a list doesnât seem like a better place at all. In its current form, it feels like people have put thought into this feature. It becoming a standard list with just text notes feels like a makeshift placeholder for a real solution quickly cobbled together⌠but the solution already exists right now and it works fine, so why mess with it?
If you want to enable new integration and playback flows - cool, great, add it as a feature for those who have use for it, but donât sacrifice another one for it. Add tabs to the library for physical and digital. Add playable digital libraries as a standalone feature for VIPs.
Also, since we still have these ridiculously low list limits for standard users, how is that going to work? Will standard users have to fit their pre-limit collections into the new list limits, i.e. probably having to lose stuff?
Streamlining things is fine as long as it doesnât lose relevant functionality for users. Why isnât your history a list? Because logging what you watched is a separate and unique use case from just throwing movies into a list. You use it differently, so it needs to be presented in its own separate way, and it needs to include additional data to enable different features specific to what it represents. Just like I wouldnât want you to make the history into a list with dates converted to text notes, I donât want it to happen to the collection.
Please show a willingness to listen to your users and reconsider.
) is limited to 100 items for free users, just as lists are. Nothing changes as far as the number of items you can âcollectâ, so good news? (Though even VIPsâ lists are limited to 10,000 items, while VIPs have unlimited âLibraryâ entries, so⌠good news partially revoked.)
