I mean, I totally get doing a total ground up revamp, but feature parity is important before you cut over permanently,. My customers at the day job would riot if we ever did anything else. And if something has to specifically be retired, thereās mandatory customer notifications well ahead of time with the sunset dateā¦
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the communication for the past year or so has been pretty bad
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Issues with the new V3:
- My library (once upon a time, my collection) is there, but I canāt sort it by TV shows or movies or any other criteria. I would like to transfer it to a list and I canāt do that either. So, will I literally need to move thousands of movies one by one?
- How do I track more than one episode at a time like before? Now when I select "watched until hereā it applies to the ENTIRE series. Before, I could do the entire series OR per season.
- I canāt easily see rating % on seasons or episodes like you can when scrolling for the entire seires or movies. I donāt want to have to click on each episode to see how they are rated. That would take forever vs scrolling.
- It is really challenging to see my progress on seasons and shows.
- Why canāt I make episode lists full-screen? The side screen is really challenging to navigate and read it. Why canāt I see the sentiment (AI summary of reviews) above the review section and why must I click on the box to see the entire summary as a pop on the side. Usually I scroll to see everything I need. Now there are so many buttons and different parts with side panels.
- I donāt track when I see something; I donāt care about that. Now every single time I track something, I need to select an option.
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Okayā¦but what about when the link to Plex is broken? Weāre given a reworked āCollectionā in the form of a library, where we are to add to it via 3rd Partyā¦āPlexā. Even provide us a setting for it. Only itās a completely broken page.
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I had the same issue, I made a gist. You can add episodes and movies to libray with your API since you are VIP.
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It is really challenging to see my progress on seasons and shows with V3
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I paid because I loved the feature-rich V2 experience. I too ādo everything manuallyā, if that means when I watch something on my PVR I come to the website and find the episode and mark it as watched with the exact time I finished.
Before I found trakt I used an excel spreadsheet (which got very complex over time, but I like it). Because Iāve been badly burned before by very nice websites going bust and all my data disappearing, I still use my spreadsheet. But very little in V3 is nicer than the pre-trakt days. I loathe pixel-thin scrollbars which are almost impossible to use, for a start. They are obnoxious and hostile to the user who is trying to scroll. I want the browser and the UIās scrollbars which I configure myself to be FAT and very easy to grab, like UIs have been for 30 years.
And this new-fangled āminimalā style places useability and features a long way below what the designer thing looks pretty.
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Iāve always loved seeing my stats and V3 has needlessly taken away several stats I liked seeing. I liked seeing how many episodes of a show Iāve watched and how many plays of that show Iāve watched. Now I have no clue how many plays I have for shows like The Simpsons and The Office that I wonāt do a rewatch of, but Iāll just watch random episodes. Also, I liked seeing my total TV Plays and Movie plays that the old dashboard had. The time watched was interesting too. Now that is gone and the only thing I see is an estimate of how many TV episodes and movies Iāve watched. These may seem like small things, but it was one of the things I liked about Trakt and weāve lost it with this change to V3.
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i couldāve sworn i replied to this but i donāt see it now. ill just stick to the one thing i noticed the other day.
looks like this may have changed recently. for firefox i get fat scrollbars now
trakt=totals=statistics
for a site that has advertized such having V3 removed every single number is amazing.
no total numbers on anything, watchlists, shows, episodes, lists, reviews, calendar entries it is like you have removed every number from the site.
Who beta test V3 and said that is cool feature to remove?
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Please bring back V2. V3 is clearly not ready. When I search, I canāt seem to filter anymore and totally irrelevant things are shown first. No more notes on my lists - I relied on those for trigger warnings for movies on my watchlist. Lots of stats are missing and everything just feels so unintuitive. You know what your users liked and they are telling you clearly this isnāt it. Please, listen to your users and at the very least roll this back until itās actually functioning fullyā¦
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Another longtime VIP user echoing so many othersā frustrations with v3, for the dozens if not hundreds of reasons others have laid out. Iām not even a power user, but things like not being able to hide already-watched shows in my calendar (even though the button is there) is nowhere near the ānot forcing VIP users into v3 until itās fully functionalā that was quoted to us several months ago.
That all being said, I cannot find a way to to see what new shows are premiering. I get the weekly digest, which is great, but so many things change as the week goes on, as showsā premier dates get changed, or new shows get added after the weekly email goes out.
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Okay, so the ācontinue watchingā area does not show % complete anymore, and the filter is useless. I want to be able to filter like before: number of episodes left, runtime left, etc. Am I missing something???
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Probably everything has been said about the issues of v3, but still, here are two my biggest problems, maybe there is a solution that Iām not aware of:
- I used the calendar to discover new shows that would premiere in the next month or two, having the calendar only to see the shows I follow is a big downgrade to me (the Discover/Anticipated features are not really a substitution, but being able to sort these for release date would help a little bit)
- not having the option to change the country for the āWhere to watchā feature is also really annoying, used it all the time
I have a VIP subscription until 2028, so Iāll stick around and see how v3 develops, but I will also be actively testing alternatives
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Horizontal scrollbars are even worse, regardless of how fat they are.
Those scrollbars in your picture are way to thin and what I was complaining about. (For example, on this forum on this very page - too thin). I want my browerās scrollbars for every website on the world wide web, permanently visible. I do NOT want each website to design their own, or make them disappear and force me into a stupid āhunt the scrollbarā exercise where I have to guess where they are by moving the mouse around. (Gmailās left-nav is a prime example of this idiocy. I loathe it).
Edit: Iāve just tried it and I still have the horrible disappearing scrollbars, which are half the size of the scrollbars here on the forum, which themselves are also way too thin.
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@great_vc Very sadly, I donāt think they decided, feature by feature, which ones to remove. I think they started from a blank sheet of paper, threw everything away that was working brilliantly which we all LOVED, and then decided which of the 20% of features to build from scratch for V3. Knowing this would be a huge change, then came the promises not to move us onto V3 until everything was properly implemented.
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Iāve been away a bit and have een using V2, so Iāve just come back to find out theyāve phased out the library. At this point plex already does everything else I need from trakt, so the inability to now track the format of my physical media erases the last use case for Trakt for me. Iāve taken an export of my data and will spin up something locally to track that.
Unfortunatley due to a billing issue Iām stuck with VIP for a couple more years but I think Iām done here unless something drastic changes. I genuinely donāt know what the use case is for this app now.
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Took me 24+ hours, But Iāve completely moved my personal lists off Trakt. V2 was so good for making & maintaining personal lists, & was almost unmatched by any other site out there (Except for 1 site, Which Iāve now moved too). Really tried my best to adjust to V3, But with how much has been gutted since V2, Just not possible in its current state. Im out 
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I agree V2 was brilliant. I had spent years gushing praise about trakt to all my friends! There were so many little things that added up to something greater than just the sum of their parts.
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Not to mention that colected status is totally goneā¦
It was a key feature on callendar to make sute I ā¦ colected everything I shouldāve.
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