šŸš€ Trakt Product Update – June & Mid-July 2026

pretty sure they spent more time purging this thread of comments they didn’t like than they did working on v3

which tells me they simply do not care what their paying customers want

increase in price, degradation/elimination of quality - like everything in this world

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you cant filter the things in your collection (or i guess now… library) out of the trending page anymore? that was 90% of what I used this website for, finding new things people are watching that i don’t already have

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man… you could have subscribed through play store… I was paying R$10/month!

I was horrified by the new version and so excited when it suddenly reverted back. And now I’m horrified again. We hate it. It’s the worst. Something that was so nice is now so confusing and unintuitive. I can’t find anything I actually used or get the info I want at a glance. I used to recommend Trakt to everyone, but if this is the forced direction, I can’t do that anymore. Please get the memo from your loyal customers.

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where are my hidden items? is the only way to get a show of my ā€œcontinue watchingā€ to drop the whole show? even if I’ve already seen multiple seasons of it?

can we not track a whole season all at once now?

why can’t I see how many items are in my list?

also I have 7 list right now that have 0 of the items I put in there and instead have shows/movies I’ve never even heard of? and when I click on them I just get a blank screen. Does anyone else have this problem?

the progress area is basically useless if we have to click into every single show for the episode and then track it off

are we only going to be giving a weekly breakdowns? (screen time) and do we not get to see our monthly data unless we are vip?

Is the only way to navigate history just by scrolling down? why didn’t you make the calendar interactive so that you could click on the month and day rather than just showing us the date and month? I don’t want to scroll through the whole entire year to get to look at what I watched in December.

I started paying for vip because of the last update you guys did which made the app hard to use for people who didn’t have VIP and now you guys just made the app hard to use in general. Are these updates based on customer feedback I just don’t understand who is benefiting from this since it seems like no one asked for this. so why are you forcing this on people who don’t want it?.

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Wow, I’m really sorry to say, but this new version is terrible. Very hard on the eyes and incredibly difficult to figure out where to find things, or to clearly see if you’ve watched something or not on a show or movie’s page. The previous version was very user friendly and clean and clear. I absolutely loved it and had no issues or suggestions of improvements. This new version, when I go to my profile page, I click History to go to look at my show and movie watching history, but it’s not my history at all. Somehow, it’s showing the history of a family member that I follow. I can’t figure out how to look at my own history.

Is there a place where we can choose to go back to the previous version?

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Hello – I don’t really post on the forums, but I’ve been using Trakt for 10+ years and been a VIP member for most of that time. Please bring the option to use V2 back. If folks want to use V3, that’s great. But it makes core things I use Trakt for – like adding a new watch for an episode I’ve already seen, trying to opening an individual page for an episode, and reading and posting comments – much more cumbersome. This creates significant friction in how I use Trakt, and I’d really appreciate it if you could allow VIP members to use the prior interface. Thank you!

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You can find your dropped shows here https://app.trakt.tv/profile/me/progress and changing the icon to the Dropped Shows image

you can track a whole season by clicking on the season, then the three dot menu for the season you want to track

you can find your monthly and all time data on your profile page at the top

this is happening for me as well, likely due to the switchover from v2 to v3 for all users. more traffic on the new servers with all the old v2 holdouts being forced over.

if you’re talking about the progress page from your profile that i linked to above, you might have better luck from the continue watching page. you can mark the next episode as it shows it by clicking the three dot menu

I don’t know what to do with this section… I already watched these titles…

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Apparently I missed all the communication leading up to this about the transition to V3, because I was caught completely off guard when I loaded up the site today. I’d say I’m disappointed with the change, but I’m more so just confused? I understand the desire to provide more cohesion between the website and phone apps, but honestly anytime I tried using the app I gave up within minutes because it lacked the information density of the website. Now that this V3 update has rolled out I find myself experiencing the same frustration of not being able to glean meaningful information at a glance about the shows I have in progress.

I have a lot of Youtube channels that I track on here, and I commonly watch out of order, and I can already tell how much of a nightmare it’s going to be trying to find the right episode to check off. This is made even more difficult by the fact that the only visual indicator of whether I’ve watched an episode or not is a small checkbox the size of my cursor and the same color as the background, plus some longer episode names get cut off.

Why is the progress tracker limited to each individual season, rather than the whole show? Why is it allergic to having any color/contrast? Can I change colors? I don’t see any option to.

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Why can’t I sort my shows by % watched, runtime, or even title? Why can’t I differentiate between episodes remaining and time remaining? Why not label the Default by what it actually is [ie Most Recently Watched]?

For a movie list I created, why can’t I randomize the list like we used to be able to? (this was great for not having to make a decision of which movie to put on)

Why can’t I filter by streaming service?

On top of all that, the website has been freezing up and failing to load about 50% of the pages I’ve clicked into.

I’m sure I’ll find more frustrations, but this is just within the first 20 minutes of playing around, hoping that there are some things I’ll maybe like better than with the previous version. I am so confused by the transition to a design that seems marginally ā€œcleanerā€ yet at the same time lacking so much of the functionality and information density that the previous version had.

I’m not sure if the developers see it the same way (I hope so, it’s in the name), but at its core I’ve been using Trakt as a database and repository for keeping track of the shows and movies I watch. This change to streaming-service-like ā€œcardsā€ is such a huge step back that I’m going to have to re-evaluate if this is the site that I want to continue investing my time (and data) into.

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ā€œV3 is the default web experience for everyoneā€ for SHUTTING DOWN V2 is incredibly disrespectful wording.

V3 is not the default. It is the ONLY web experience now.

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ā€œV3 is the default web experience for everyoneā€

Great, how do I undo that?

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Thank you Trakt for being the central point in my life for the last 10 years. I’ve spent hundreds or even thousands of hour on the website enjoying every single time. Now the inevitable sad day I have been fearing for a very, very long time has come true. Trakt has changed into something I can no longer support. It is time to move on.

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Why did you get rid of the dashboard? I liked seeing my total play time for tv and movies and the total plays and episode plays for each. Now I only see an approximate amount of episode plays and movies watched rounded to the nearest 100. That’s not good enough.

Also, where can I see my total plays for a show? That seems to have disappeared.

I can’t even figure out how to rewatch an episode on the new design. The history is so much worse. Feels like I have to scroll forever in my history if I want to find something I watched years ago. Please let us switch back to V2. V2 was great. V3 is going to make me cancel my VIP if it still works like this when my membership is up.

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Why isn’t there a separate page for episodes? All of the information for specific episodes are scrunched into the right hand side of the page. This is super ugly UI like how do I view the information about an episode as a full page?

There’s so much I dislike about v3 like where has all of the colour gone? It’s a grey wasteland now. I miss V2. It seems so weird you’re framing this as ā€œfinally giving VIPs V3ā€ when if we wanted it we’d have been using it.

Edit: Also, how do I ā€œcheck inā€ that was primarily how I tracked my watching and I can’t even figure out how to. While rewatching a show, clicking on the tick now defaults to asking if I want to delete my watch of it? WTH?

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Is there a way to revert to the old UI? Because the new one is practically unusable. Nothing makes sense. You have to open the season to get access to episodes beyond the 8th. Adding historical watches by arbitrarily choosing what two things you watched it between first before being able to edit the precise time and date is absolutely insane. This might genuinely be the worst UI update I’ve ever experienced from any website in history. Why did you try to fix what wasn’t broken?

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Why are only the last 10 plays available in Ā«historyĀ»? I see movies as I listen to albums – sometimes one play is just not enough. So where are my other plays for movies/episodes I’ve watched more than 10 times?

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This is my biggest issue as well. The big reason I use Trakt is to be able to manage, track, and engage with what I watch on an episode-by-episode basis. Scrunching episode-specific content to the side, hiding additional info and commentary behind extra clicks, and not having options to add individual episodes to lists completely frustrates the purposes for which I use Trakt. Please allow users to use the old interface. Thank you!

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this has to be them forcefully eliminating their desktop experience in favor of their ideal mobile/touch only world

it makes absolutely no sense from a desktop perspective, no professional would be this bad at UX/UI

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I am a VIP member. Now that v3 is the default for all, exactly what do I get that is not available on the free version?

Is it at all possible to have v2 as still an option for paying members, I do not want the app on a bigger screen, I want a dedicated webpage which would appear to no longer exist?

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