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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ?)
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.
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.
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