Hello,
How do I go back from app.trakt.tv layout to the old version? My view suddenly changed to the new version (redirects?) and I did not toggle the switch. Is the old one dead?
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so they lied when they said v2 is not going away. i think this might be it for me then after a decade of using this site.
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please, oh please, let us use v2. new one is sooooooooo bad. i open it and immediatly want to go away. it’s just awfull. I’m opening from desktop browser.
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Why is this update, is better dont touch anything this update is arruinated the app. Pls back the last trakt with the progress and all of things. If you have the best app, why you touch all the sistem
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I absolutely agree. We need v2 UI back asap. The v3 is a total mess and looks so clunky, half of the shows are hidden, buttons are also hidden somewhere. It’s not intuitive like before
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Is a really bad new version is a downgrade of the last trakt because you can see ur shows and is the base of the app because why i put my series in trakt if i cant see how many series i see
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My piece of feedback would be that the new progress page does not have a way to sort anymore, which is a feature I used a lot to keep track of what shows have new episodes. Also, some shows give me how many episodes are remaining, while others simply say “Premeire” which is not particularly helpful
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Finished TV series are disappeared from profile. Movie too.
Rating are cancelled.
Trakt is no longer Trakt.
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Kevin, this announcement reads less like a product update and more like an attempt to justify forcing free users onto an objectively worse desktop experience. V3 on desktop is not an upgrade. It is a stripped-down, mobile-style interface that throws away the clarity, efficiency, and information density that made Trakt genuinely useful. The old experience let people actually manage their watching habits at a glance. The new one feels flatter, emptier, and far less functional.
The most frustrating part is the logic being used to defend it. Saying V3 supports the “core workflows” free users rely on is a very low bar, and it completely avoids the real criticism. A product does not become good simply because it still technically allows people to do the bare minimum. “Most users adapt” is not evidence of success either. Users adapt when they are forced to, especially when you remove the alternative. That is not validation. That is captivity disguised as product confidence.
What makes this worse is the double standard. If VIP users are being kept on V2 because V3 still lacks important features and polish, then Trakt is openly admitting the new experience is not good enough to fully replace the old one. So free users are effectively being treated like the disposable tier that gets shoved onto an unfinished downgrade first. That is not a transition strategy to be proud of. It is a clear signal that preserving the company’s roadmap matters more than preserving product quality.
The desktop UI now feels like a phone app awkwardly stretched across a larger screen, with less useful information upfront and worse navigation for anyone who actually used Trakt seriously. One of the most valuable parts of the old experience was the ability to immediately see what was new and what needed catching up. That workflow was not some minor extra. It was central to why the desktop version was worth using. Removing or burying that kind of functionality is not modernization. It is regression.
The overall message here is basically, “We know the new product is worse in important ways, but enough people tolerate it that we are moving ahead anyway.” That may work as an internal business decision, but from a user perspective it feels cynical, dismissive, and deeply out of touch. This rollout does not inspire confidence. It makes it look like Trakt is willing to sacrifice a better desktop product for the sake of simplifying development, then hide behind usage metrics as if user resignation is the same thing as user satisfaction.
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The new desktop UI is a major step backward. It feels like a mobile-first design forced onto a desktop experience, which hurts clarity, usability, and overall information density. Instead of taking advantage of the larger screen, it seems to waste space while making important information harder to find.
The most frustrating part is the disappearance of a clear dashboard that shows new episodes and the series I need to catch up on. That was one of the most useful parts of the desktop experience, because it made it easy to see what was new at a glance. Now, something that used to be simple and efficient feels buried or unnecessarily difficult to access.
What used to feel quick, practical, and well suited for desktop users now feels stripped down and inefficient. The redesign comes across as a UI built with phones in mind first, with desktop users treated as an afterthought. Rather than improving the experience, it makes the site less functional for the people who rely on it most on a larger screen.
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That’s exactly because it is mobile-first. It’s built up from Trakt Lite which was originally designed to be a minimalist version of Trakt for mobile devices. It’s clear that it is built entirely by mobile developers (and ai) which explains why they can’t make it work on desktop
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I inquired about this back in January (from an app perspective):
https://forums.trakt.tv/t/ios-beta-945-next-up-layout-on-ipad/92734/5
I finally figured out how to get rid of that junk!
Go to “Home”
Click on the > next to “Continue Watching”
Scroll until you find the show you want to boot out of your calendar.
Tap the 3 dots at the top right of the show’s image.
Select “Drop show” from the little menu that pops up from the dots.
It might take a few minutes to take, but eventually they disappear from your calendar!
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soo… where do i see my review and comment history now?
V3 blows… imma finna desert this encrapified bih
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I will try to give V3 a chance. How do I request for features so it becomes similar to my V2 experience? I can’t seem to find the post new topic button anywhere on the page. Pls help!
There is a new feedback system, but it’s VIP-only FOR NOW.
You can use Trakt’s GitHub repo in the meantime.
You call that an update? You can’t view and entire history anymore because you had the genius idea to make it a calendar, I could ignore the fact that you couldn’t mark specific seasons as watched, but removing the entire history to the slop you call effort is going too far. Now I’ll need to move all my 300 movies to a different websites, which will take ages, thanks for nothing
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- Force everyone to use the new UI
- Announce that new UI adoption metrics off the charts
- Lose 80% of users
- profit?!?
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The new UI looks good, I won’t deny that, but I don’t understand why they removed or hid the old features that worked very well in the previous version.
Thanks!
Filed here: History feature requests · Issue #1921 · trakt/trakt-web · GitHub
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I would like to give V3 a chance and make it so that it is similar to my V2 experience. This pertains to customization on a user’s History page:
Describe the solution you would like
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True order - Currently, the page is sorted is arranged newest to earliest by date. However, the items under each date is sorted from earliest to newest (reverse of date order). I would like the option to have it arranged like in V2 where it is ALL in the same order. Reasoning: if a binge a show over 2 days and the watch another on a the second day. The order would be: DAY2 [show1, show2] DAY1 [show1] where it should be DAY2 [show2, show1] DAY1 [show1].
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Display [60] items per page instead of ALL items within a week - Currently, the history page is displaying a week’s worth of history. I want to be able to display a certain number of items per page instead (60 just like in v2, you can add other options but 60 MUST be an option - 12 hours, 12 1-hour shows, 24 30-minute shows). Reasoning: if I binge for example Frasier which has 11 seasons of 24-episodes each and watch approx 1.5 season (36x ~25-min episodes) per day then the page for the week would contain 250+ items.
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Use page number as navigation instead of calendar - Reasoning: history is displayed via weeks in calendar which make it very hard to go to the earliest items in the history. I cannot even choose the year or exact week I want to display.
That’s it for now. Hope you guys will be able to accomodate this feature requests as soon as possible. Thanks!
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