For me the specials that tie in with the storyline should be in sync with the seasons, so that you dont accidentally miss them, then specials such as behind the scenes stuff should be where they currently are.
Unless you activate specials you dont see them on the dashboard, and even then they dont come up in date order.
This is a great idea, and welcome back to the forum. Thanks for the suggestion. I think this should go under feature requests but I think the staff may move it there.
Trakt doesn’t control this type of thing. These things come from TMDB and/or TVDB (through their APIs). Trakt just places them in a very appealing visual way for us to simply track what we watch.
Good luck getting TMBD to implement anything like this, they are incredible resistant to doing anything that goes against their norm. Even if it makes the most sense.
Quick question, what setting do you/we change to get the extra name next to our username? For instance, your username = LloydWLDavis but you also have “Lloyd Davis” between your username and the VIP badge.
I cannot find the setting for this.
Maybe the Display Name configured in your Settings?
Yeah, I have that set on the main Trakt website as well as here on the forums, so I was just wondering if I missed some other settings (maybe a checkbox or something) that says “display on forums” or something similar.
Try signing out of the forums, changing your name on the Trakt website, then signing back into the forums. That should cause it to re-sync the single sign on info.
Yours shows as
terryapodaca Terry A Apocada VIP for me.
Yeah, I did what Justin said to have the sites re-sync…and that did the trick.
Great, apologies for the slow reply. Been away.
This is a big part of the reason I’m trying to find services better than Trakt. The fact that 24 of the most important episodes of “Doctor Who” are shunted off onto a 199-title “season” of “Specials” makes it impossible to properly track a watch-through of “Doctor Who” — especially for someone new to the show.
It’s a problem for “Futurama” and many other shows too.
It’s hard to believe nobody at Trakt understands why this is a problem, so I can only assume they don’t care enough to fix it.
Reelgood and TV Time are the only watchlist services I know if that don’t have this problem.
TV Time sucks.
But by all means, if this is such a big issue, use one of those other services.
Whether or not TV Time sucks isn’t relevant to my statement — which was that it’s one of only two options that doesn’t screw up the chronology of shows with narrative specials.
As for whether it’s a “big issue,” the point is that Trakt fails anyone using it to track a show like “Doctor Who.” If you’re new to the show, and employ Trakt to make sure you see all the episodes, there are 24 stories absolutely vital to the arc of several seasons, and to the show as a whole, that you’re going to miss, and become horribly lost, because it’s impossible to know where those episodes fall in the narrative when using Trakt. Trakt dumps those stories into “Specials,” along with 175 making-ofs, and mini-episodes, and after-shows, even though they’re some of the most important episodes in the entire series.
Telling me I can use another service doesn’t solve the problem. I’m a “Doctor Who” super-nerd. I could probably recite the order of all the episodes. I don’t need an app to help me with that.
The whole point of Trakt is to help people track their TV shows and movies, and it fundamentally fails in that task for any show that even a little bit colors outside the lines of traditional “seasons.”
In case you don’t know, we do have the alternate orders for shows. Like these ones:
Doctor Who: Chronological - Trakt
Futurama: Digital Order - Trakt
Those can help users to know when a special matters and where it should be watched. They also help when shows are split differently on streaming services.
It’s really not a question that Trakt doesn’t understand why it’s a problem, it’s a matter that TMDB doesn’t think it’s a problem. Trakt relies on other databases for the information. That’s where the fault rests.
Personally I wish that Trakt would rely on TheTVDB for series but there’s most likely some reason why that can’t be done. Ideally Trakt users would be allowed to choose the source of the metadata but that becomes unnecessarily complicated I’d assume.
as far as TVDB, they used to use it but they had to stop due to TVDB charging for API usage. But yeah if there were better free options it would be nice to switch to those