Agreed. The colours of the new logo resemble instagram so much that when I saw it I was afraid Meta had bought Trakt. The red logo was instantly recognisable. The new logo is instantly forgettable and waters down the Trakt brand.
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Auto update is always off for me, exactly for cases like this (thought mostly for apps that ruin or remove features) . I have no intention of updating the app and subject myself to the new logo
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I like purple, but there is a lot of it now.
Honestly, I thought that Instagram had installed a to-do app into to my browser or series guide had done a logo update. Did not put it down to trakt at all. Don’t know if I hate or like the new logo, just that I didn’t pick it up as Trakt.
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The black/red combination was perfect, what is this purple abomination? At least give us a chance to go back to the old design.
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This! So much this!
I’ve been here since the very start and I remember the first big “makeover”, it got even more backlash than this, so you would think that you learned from it…
Personally I went straight to settings, hoping it would just be the default theme that was changed, surely they wouldn’t change the look this much without having the option to change it back? Guess I was wrong and seeing how many people have the same opinion, I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling like this.
I love you guy and all the hard work you put into the site, but sadly this was a big miss. And I’m sad that nothing will probably change your opinion and make you change it back and I’m pretty sure you won’t even bother giving the option to change back the color theme for us that prefer the old colors.
Either way, instead of just complaining, here are my two cents on why it’s a miss:
- The purple color makes the focus on the wrong things, stuff like dates and “x people watching” stands out more and makes it hard to see what you really care about.
- The purple color is sometimes way too dark, I’m not color blind or generally have issues with sight, but I need to focus to see some texts, especially if I have mouse over them.
- Even if you would change the above to brighter/darker purple, it wouldn’t change the fact that purple in general just stands out more and will always have that issue. It makes the site look “childish” for lack of a better word, red is more of a natural color and gives more of a “serious” look.
- The logo, how do I put this nicely? It reminds me of when you’re learning to set up a website and you have an exercise to set up a todo-list website/app and that icon is what you get to use for the project. It’s generic and look like a logo for a todo-app is what I’m trying to say. The old logo had more “soul”, was unique and made a clearer connection with the brand, “T” → “Trakt”.
I know that you put a lot of effort and time into this, just like the last rebrand, I’m also guessing that you’re thinking “everyone is gonna bash on it because people don’t like changes”, so our input asking you to change it back is not really gonna have an effect on you.
But please, please, at least consider the option for us to change the color theme of the website back to the old, even if you don’t want to change your new “brand” with the logo. Worst case you can always make it a VIP-setting or something, just so people like us that’s been supporting the site for so long don’t feel like you don’t care about us at all.
I hope that I didn’t come off as rude, I just really want you to understand that this can be a big deal for some of us.
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I love the new look. And I’m really excited about the «super exciting stuff». Nice cliffhanger.
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Absolutely NOT a fan of the new font. Feels bigger and much more in your face compared to the old font. Makes the whole site really uncomfortable on the eyes now, most specifically the Dashboard page.
The other changes I can adjust to and don’t bother me much (although they weren’t per se needed imo). But the font is just horrible.
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Why i stil believe that the new font and logo is something that stands out, the old one font was pretty classic. I get the thing about the logo it is not a T but a todo list but as a graphic is quite good and update. And the font above
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I’m glad for the people who like the purple but it’d be even better if we could choose our own accent color in the settings by just entering an RGB code.
Regarding the logo: I get that sometimes a makeover is needed, but I feel like the new logo looks quite boring and generic. Just like a to do list logo when you open up a default template for a web app, I feel like the previous one had more soul to it.
However, we’ll probably just have to get used to it as it always is when these big changes happen. People (probably including me) tend to complain a lot in the beginning and after 2-3 months everything’s back to normal.
Still though, I hope you’re listening (and I firmly believe you do) to all of the constructive criticism here such as accessibility issues with the color and other problems with the design (for example the “Add to watched history” button under “Up Next” not being properly aligned or the titles under “Up Next” being cut off at the bottom).
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Could you guys share the vector/svg for the logo somewhere? i wanna use it on a wallpaper.
Ok thats all great but could someone explain to me why i cant lig into trakt in other apps like CinemaHD to merge my accounts.
Uf
If anyone has an answer please reply to scottdman@sky.com or dm me on X via scott_A_point because i am very rarely on this forum and i dont know how to get notifications of any responses on here
Yes im a complete novice with a badic iPhone 15 pro max and have no Super gaming PC setup like a tv/radio podcast show
Mmmm not a super fan of this new color and branding, but I guess I’ll get used into it. While it doesnt affect the excellent service it’s ok.
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I wasn’t sure at first, but I’m warming to the Purple …
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The purple really hurts my eyes when I look at it (I use dark mode). Also, red is my favorite color so I personally really liked the red that was used. So please at least give us an option to switch back to the old version. It was a lot better on my eyes.
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@videntis I honestly don’t see it. Where is this “T”??
OMG. They did it. They destroyed Trakt. My favorite website/app for all the movies and shows. Instead of trying to battle competitors like Letterboxd, including much wanted features from Feature Request and make most of features from website available also in App. Or going more into social interaction between users… they change the ONLY thing that was TOP NOTCH. Reasonable…
Logo was perfect, this is literally trash.
It’s sad to see how unmature the team around Trakt actually is. Just imagine any stock company destroyed the most valuable thing they have - brand. Like let’s change Netflix into different logo (completely different), with different colour and then laughs how people are scared of new things. It’s ridiculous.
It doesn’t make sense and from graphic standpoint it’s not the fresh design you should want to seek, more like a cheap Instagram rip-off. Just look at all the great graphic ideas on Dribbble. This is seriously not a good choice.
Purple is a nice color… but everyone is kinda sick of it right now. Just look at all the live-service games from Concord, Suicide Squad, Fortnite even Call of Duty, Snap and currently Veilguard… everyone tries something to do with Purple, and it’s pretty criticised.
But the amount of puple I see on a homepage is just terrible. Like seriously I cannot look at the page. It’s terrible smog.
And what is wrong with the font?! Was this a contest for finding the most annyoing font for page?!
Like what is the reason for this “redesign” when everything stay the same and just Logo, Color and Font is changed. Be bold and do a proper full redesign, maybe rather discuss it with paying community first, or stay with what works and focus on new features and stuff people actually wants… people who are paying you… 
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I’d love for them to do a user-wide poll on these changes. Based on the comments here it seems obvious the consensus is that the changes are unwelcome, but I think we all know people are wayyy more likely to speak up when they are upset about something rather than when they like something or are indifferent to it, so a quick “how do you feel about the recent logo and color scheme changes” poll “Love It - Hate it - Indifferent” would be interesting data.
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Ok, yeah, zoomed in like that I can kinda see the T. But on the website, the logo top left is much too small to see the individual white lines and I can only see a check mark.
Regardless of whether there is a T or no, the colours still remind me way too much of instagram
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NOOOOOO! That would be sensory overload if that was to happen…
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