Trakt gets a makeover!

13-years of using Trakt on a daily basis. The new font is absolutely fucking terrible.

I think the new logo is shitty, but who cares I can live with that.

Who encouraged these majorly flawed changes? ChatGPT? An overly supportive wife?

Is this a user-base engagement social experiment?

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I really hope the team is taking time to rectify these changes. If it was just a select few people alongside myself that disagreed with them, I would understand the team’s insistence on sticking to the new look. But if this thread is any indication, there are a lot of people that have a problem with it, way more controversy than can just be waved away. Again, could anybody see Letterboxd doing this? Absolutely not, because they have maintained a strong brand for years. I have not been on Trakt since its beginnings, but in my four-ish years on it, its look has stayed consistent, which is important to maintain. To drop a bomb like this on users without warning, when so much of what makes Trakt special is its engagement with its community in these forums, is insulting.

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Hey forum guys!

Just letting you know that I and a guy from Reddit have made two scripts to kinda return to the old experience.

(this one is mine) Change the header logo and the favicon (and soon colors and fonts): Old Trakt Brand
Remove purple in some areas: trakt.tv - depurple — UserStyles.world

During the next weeks, I hope to make a better version or as soon as the Trakt team confirms they don’t plan to revert the changes. The team has made almost 800 changes in the CSS, so it’s a hard work. Check it: https://www.diffchecker.com/mFsv4HnN/

If you know how to make my code better or have made a better one, please share or get in touch.

I know it’s hard to see so many people not liking your work to the point of somebody making a script to revert changes, but… That’s life.

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Seems there are several of us who are working on styles/scripts to revert some of this crap xD I’m slowly working my way through all the changes currently myself as well in a private repo (will be public and available at different places once I’m done) changing things back to how they used to be.

btw I’m not sure why but when testing your script the favicon does not seem to change any in firefox, though the header logo does.

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Good! Please share when yours is ready!

About the favicon, I haven’t tested my script on Firefox, but on Vivaldi (Chromium) it’s working for me!

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Just joining the majority here in saying, that I am also not a fan of the redesign.

I see how the old “T” in the logo is still used in the new logo but if you are not a longtime user you won’t notice, so for the most part it looks like any ToDo-App logo.

Like many I also feel like the purple is harder to read than the color scheme before. Maybe if the colors were adjusted for WCAG it would be a better experience for everyone. I am not against the purple in general, I just wish it was a shade of purple that was more legible.

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Thanks for posting that. I was using the CSS snippet posted by someone else in this topic before to get rid of some of the purple but esp. the new font was still absolutely not ok imo. That “depurple” style changes most of the things back to what they were before and the site is finally useable again.

I’ll continue using that until either the developers realize that this change was a big miss or they AT LEAST give us options to choose a different style/color scheme in the settings.

They really did a Twitter/X here and threw the baby out with the bathwater. The first redesign years ago was already a near catastrophe but this now… why. :frowning:

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Plan on it ^^ There are a couple areas here and there where I’m having to play the guessing game with the colors a tiny bit as the selectors didn’t exist in the old css but I’m working my way through everything as quickly as I can.

Honestly just wish that @justin and the others would just revert this stupid makeover already.

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One thing I’ve noticed going through the css… They have so many duplicated selectors in their css that it’s crazy… After I get everything initially done and the first version posted (I’m still a good long away from finishing) then I’m going to do a full sweep through and clean up the duplicates in my css at least.

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No, there’s nothing wrong with the progress bar.

The issue is the poster and buttons have a 1px border in normal mode, and no border in dark knight. Your fix just breaks the normal mode.

Actually the correct way to do it and not break it in normal mode would be:

body.dark-knight #ondeck-shows .grid-item .quick-icons {
	border: solid 1px #1d1d1d;
	border-top: none;
}

body.dark-knight #ondeck-shows .poster {
	border: solid 1px #1d1d1d;
	border-bottom: none;
}

So, did Elon Musk buy this site too then proceed to destroy it? Change the logo, change the color scheme, might as well change the name to XTrakt.

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I’m also not a fan of this redesign.

I don’t really mind the new logo but remplacing the red by a purple is meh (feels more generic in a way, wasn’t red supposed to making us think of theaters seats ?)

Also the font is absolutly horrible…

I’d love an option to go back to the old style.

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Well I’m about a quarter of the way through reversing all the changes at this time. I’m hoping to release version 1 of the reversal theme within a couple days.

But yes I do agree I really do hope that they just reverse this makeover themself as literally no one was wanting this so called makeover.

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Sorry, but really not a fan.
I’m more sad about the logo than the other aspects of the change but I really dislike purple as the progress indicator.

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Literally no one? don’t speak for me or other people. Trakt has over 9 million members, a few hundred people who take the time to complain shouldn’t worry them too much.

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Most people will not bother to write on a forum their opinion on the redesign. It looks generic af!

if they’re not bothering to write their opinion on a forum, the either don’t care about the redesign that much, or they don’t care about Trakt that much

I would dare them to take a poll in the main page about the logo… and while at it one separate for the purple accent too.

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What are you even talking about? The general feedback here has been incredibly negative. And that is the only feedback Trakt has.

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