Thanks for the heads-up about the TOC. I mistakenly had thought I had until my renewal in July to commit to the first year at $30. Turns out that offer is only good through tomorrow. I’m canceling my VIP membership instead.
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Agreed. I cancelled Trakt and donated the money to charity, because it is not about the money. I do not do business with dishonest companies or individuals.
The decision to attempt to gaslight us about the meaning of “grandfathered” or pretend this is normal practice in the industry confirmed I made the correct decision.
Even if this were the case, how is grandfathering a price less than a year any sort of transition on a service that is paid annually?
What a sad end, after an unforced error on their part.
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€4,99 lifetime
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Not just Justin, it’s across the board, no input / replies anywhere, appears the self destruct button has been activated and all " employees" have abandoned ship, RIP trackt, ( I really did love you)
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I’ve been evaluating this app with Simkl as its backend this week. There are a few pet features in the client I miss from TV Forecast, but otherwise I’m content with the experience and will be switching.
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Sofa Time is only an app, right?
No back-end included, but it can sync with Trakt/SIMKL.
Yes, I know this won’t be a popular opinion but one of trakt’s biggest downfalls IMO is that it grew from community feedback.
If memory serves, trakt started out life as a last.fm for tv/movies. That was the goal. Scrobbling & suggesting and obviously allowing manual check in also.
It continued to evolve in lots of different directions delivering solutions for a wide array of people in the community. TV calendar/list manager/stats/ratings & reviews/3rd part integrations/apps etc etc
No doubt doing a great job, but the problem is that they’ve been left with a product that doesn’t have a razor sharp definition of what it does and so that’s proving quite hard to price and communicate the value proposition to the customer IMO
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I did some sleuthing in LinkedIn yesterday, and not all employees have yet jumped ship. But, this is no longer a community site either. The top 3 employees at Trakt by title are all ex Google/Fitbit employees, including senior developers and the “product manager”. They also have 2 india based recruiters.
If you know the history of FitBit pre-Google then the shift makes more sense. The product manager also started last May, which lines up with a lot of other poor decisions.
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Hiding away. @justin ‘s profile is now marked as hidden.
Definitely lurking around though, we now know for sure.
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I am also testing Film Noir
Well -1 subscriber after 8 years double the price. No thank you I was tracking manually because not great automations. After cancelling Netflix, Prime Video, apple TV, Disney + due to the stupidity of US, my goodwill Has really short fuse.
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Well, I was pretty sure I was going to cancel, but I thought I’d give it a few days to see how they responded to the criticism. Being as @marius statement effectively doubles down on their position, I have now cancelled my subscription.
Realistically speaking, my media watching habits have changed in recent years to the point that trakt’s usefulness was already questionable for me. I think this has given me the final push to not only cancel the subscription, but delete my account too. It really is a shame to see a site that started out with such promise and community passion, become yet another soulless “service” which feels justified in exploiting prior goodwill to squeeze the few remaining drops of blood from a stone, but I’ve been on the internet long enough to recognise this pattern only too well.
Goodbye, trakt. It was fun while it lasted.
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Doesn’t Film Noir use Trakt as the back-end?
(I don’t think it has SIMKL integration)
It does indeed
So… this SIMKL thing I’ve been reading a lot lately… their homepage says that they “automatically” track what you watch (https://simkl.com/apps/), does that work with TV apps or only when using for example Netflix on a browser?
That’s just the simple ios app to mark episodes watched on the fly. Evidently, they don’t put much value in the app and suggest for full functionality that you use the ‘Add bookmark to home screen’ function to turn the full simkl website into an ‘app’. I think this is one area where Simkl is far inferior to Trakt.
Edit: Directly from the main Simkl Dev just a few hours ago on Discord:
Simkl Lists app was always designed to be very simple with main function - to quickly mark somthing as watched and see the next episode number to watch.
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Their website is currently where it shines. The app hasn’t been updated bc they are working on simkl 2.0 beta and there’s no api created for 2.0 beta yet.
You can install it as a webapp on Android or iOS so it is a shortcut on your Home Screen.
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Well the iOS app is just a wrapper for their web application, so there aren’t really many updates needed. It stays up to date as deploys are made to the site.
That said, I think Simkl offers a great core product that’s accessible to third-party developers. Sofa Time is a solid app of which I only have a few minor requests.
70 euro for 1 year Simkl VIP is also nuts
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