Why is track not working on some apps/links?
Looks atrocious, any way to change it back to the classic style?
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Please do not bring this horrible new update to the iOS app! I can barely tolerate it on web, but can get around some of it with css edits. Updating the app is permanent and unchangeable. I really hope you look at this feedback and give users the option to keep the old design. I’m not sure what the need was for an entire brand update anyways…
It’s already been stated before, but the new logo looks generic, like a to-do app, and blends in with the mass of other check mark icons that exist in the app world. It has a super similar color scheme to Instagram’s gradient colors too. The old logo was a known symbol and changing it is going to hurt the brand overall. It’s giving Twitter to X rebrand almost.
On web the button colors in light mode look way too neon and bright. Accessibility wise the font change is horrendous and a huge downgrade in readability. The functionality of the site is way worse now and I can’t imagine the hot mess it’s going to be on mobile considering it’s an even smaller screen.
Please read all the users’ feedback and see that the overwhelming majority are not in favor of this update. I hope many of these changes are rolled back or at least give us the ability to opt out of using the redesign.
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Looks absolutely amazing! I like the new change
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Agreed with all of this. Trakt is my favorite platform and visiting it tonight only to discover the redesign was a huge shock. Feels like a nuke to the site’s identity.
As others have said, red against black was perfect and a core part of the site, while the purple is terrible in comparison in addition to creating weird design inconsistencies across the site that didn’t exist before.
I’m also not a fan of the new font, it makes the site look cheaper imho, looks to me like a default font that a site that’s just starting out would have, not the “improvement”. Letters are just slightly too close together and look more awkward than they used to.
And finally, the T logo was another core part of the site’s identity—while this one just looks like every other generic media tracker app icon on the App Store (complete with ugly Instagram colors) when we all know that Trakt is not a “generic media tracker” at all. Not to mention the change of the design of the word “Trakt”. Seriously, this feels like a practical joke.
Classic case of if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Please reconsider these changes or at least allow for users to toggle on/off.
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This. Trakt is my #1 used site because of how user-friendly it is. Please do not abandon what made the site so great before in favor of a pointless redesign that many active users clearly have a problem with, or at least offer a setting to revert back. Really uncool to just drop this on your userbase without testing the waters to see how people would respond first.
Feels similar to when the logo was recently changed to no longer take users to the dashboard, only for the change to be negatively received and subsequently reversed—except this change is on a much larger, more alienating scale.
Cosmetic changes are certainly far from a dealbreaker—I still love everything the site offers and will always support its growth—but they are a massive misfire and step back considering how perfect the design was already. To say the changes come from a want for users to “feel at home” in an announcement of a large overhaul that destroys years of comfort/familiarity with the site feels inherently contradictory, and the other simple reasoning that it was time for a “glow-up” is just plain silly. Would anyone envision Letterboxd changing their logo and overall design this late into the game?
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First post on the forum just to say how much I HATE the new logo. As someone on twitter posted, it looks like you used the seriesguide logo and the colours, OMG the colours. They scream “cheap instagram copy” so much that it is painful to look at.
Don’t mind the colour on the website so much, though its contrast is considerably less making the website more difficult to use (which when it comes to a makeover is not a good thing!!
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I realize a lot of time/energy/money has been sunk into this rebrand, meaning it’s likely not going to be reversed. However, the comparison to the Twitter/X rebrand is spot on. Short of changing the site name, the amount of brand identity being intentionally discarded is astonishing.
The logo change is really unfortunate for all the reasons others have already said. Hope you will reconsider.
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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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After all the years y’all have been doing this you should have learned one key thing when having a large community - INVOLVE THE COMMUNITY when big changes are about to happen.
The many negative comments are absolutely on point and a lot of the problems could have been avoided had you actually had a public/VIP test/beta and whatnot.
I for one find the new logo incredibly boring. The old one was your BRAND and easily recognizable.
The animations around the website are cool, I guess. The purple WAS NOT the right choice. Again, red was your BRAND color, why move away from it?
I love you guys, been around here forever, but you always go in full steam ahead with changes that you fail to communicate well to us beforehand and that’s a problem.
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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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Hmmm, I don’t know. Kinda loved the older logo better. Is there a reason for the makeover?!
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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.