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. Iād say Iām disappointed with the change, but Iām 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 itās 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 Iāve 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 donāt see any option to.


Why canāt I sort my shows by % watched, runtime, or even title? Why canāt 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 canāt 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 canāt 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 Iāve clicked into.
Iām sure Iāll find more frustrations, but this is just within the first 20 minutes of playing around, hoping that there are some things Iāll maybe like better than with the previous version. I am so confused by the transition to a design that seems marginally ācleanerā yet at the same time lacking so much of the functionality and information density that the previous version had.
Iām not sure if the developers see it the same way (I hope so, itās in the name), but at its core Iāve been using Trakt as a database and repository for keeping track of the shows and movies I watch. This change to streaming-service-like ācardsā is such a huge step back that Iām going to have to re-evaluate if this is the site that I want to continue investing my time (and data) into.