šŸ“¢ Updating Trakt Limits for 2026

Then you really need to put the brakes on all these changes and fix how things end up in the physical Custom Library. It’s completely busted:

No I don’t get more lists even as a free users. Im going from 10 list limit to 5.

I’ve been vip for almost as long as I’ve been on Trakt but this new direction has alienated me and lots of other users and I don’t feel comfortable giving a dime any longer.

This is a joke. EVERY item in my Library be it Plex or Custom is a digital file on my Plex Server, yet this is what I see:

How many more bytes of storage does it use if it’s a digital file or classified as a physical item in a database? This issue only exists because y’all’s Plex Sync is inept. You’ve relied on a BETA software that had issues that were ignored for months to be the deciding factor. If you want to set a limit, set it as a combined limit of 101,000.

FWIW about the vast majority of those 15,800 items are individual episodes like The Flintstones digital rips I made from my BluRay discs, and numerous other tv series where YOUR import method and metadata decided to add the tag BluRay and media_type=1 to it.

Plus I have a suspicion that everything synced using the WebHook has ended up in the Offline library.

@kcador Have you checked with your legal team about introducing these limits for existing VIP customers, particularly regarding the EU Digital Contract Directive, Article 18 (ā€œModification of the digital content or digital service")? I’m not a lawyer, so could be misinterpreting things, but removing a feature that is advertised to customers before purchasing VIP (Upgrade to Trakt VIP! - Trakt still advertises ā€œUnlimited Listsā€, ā€œUnlimited Notesā€, and ā€œUnlimited Library Itemsā€ amongst others) could be argued to be a major change in the digital service, and you would need to make sure that any changes that negatively impact users still respect consumer rights with respect to providing agreed services and contract cancellation

the limits haven’t been implemented yet so this could be seen as notice of changes

I think it would make sense for the ratings limit to match the watch history limit.

For the past few years, I’ve rated every single thing I’ve watched - every tv episode, season, show, movie. It’s at the core of how I track what I watch and enjoy. People should really be able to rate everything they’ve seen without worry about limits.

Is this company genuinely trying to run itself to the ground? How is it even possible for you to release an ā€œupdateā€œ that fucks over your paying users 20 times in a row.

I’m having a real trouble understanding your logic here. You are a movie TRACKING website. If I give you money, why in the fuck is there a 1k limit on collection tracking? that’s like 5 long running shows. This is just baffling. I didn’t cancel my subscription when you raised the price, I seriously wanted to when you forced that shit ass fucking useless Lite version of the website on us, but then you still kept the old one so I’m just stuck waiting until you pull the plug on that, but this is the most ridiculous bullshit you came up with.. yet. I’m sure you will be able to somehow top yourself.

All they’re thinking is.. this only messes with 1% of their users. And those users and their data are using too much of the resources. So we can ostracize them. They don’t care. And they won’t care or change their minds. Nothing they’re doing is illegal. It’s just wrong.

So, I’m a little confused .. I currently use the TV app on Mac to organise my digital video files. These files are then stored on my NAS and I use Infuse to watch them, mostly on Apple TVs around my house, and I have linked Infuse with Trakt to enable automatic tracking of what I watch. Given that I sometimes, when away from home, also want to watch something on my NAS I have also installed plex onto my NAS. This has then enabled me to automate the addition of any new media to my trakt library via the plex web hook. Sometimes this web hook has a hiccup, and so I come onto the v2 website calendar page to confirm an item to be added to my library. All good so far and has been working well for me. I’m happy.

Then a few days ago, I suddenly find I have to add a format and resolution when adding something listed on the calendar. This is a pain point, This has gone from a one click operation to a 6 click per item. This is not information that’s useful to me as all my files are digital and 1080p and really doesn’t make a difference to me. On coming to the forum I find that this seems the way forward, but I ask for a way this could be defaulted to all my files. I’m happy to wait, it’s not affecting me at the moment too much. However, while here I also read that the ā€œunlimitedā€ part of my VIP membership is also soon to change and become limited. No problem I think, while I have a fairly large sized library I can’t believe I’m big enough to hit any arbitrary limits.

I’ve discovered that I can only see these limits on V3 of the website. I never use V3, I much prefer V2 as it has more usability and a nicer layout, but I pop along to see these limits and this is what I’ve found ..

Err .. Why is my digital library showing as 0? All my files are digital!? If it’s decided that a library like mine is ā€œofflineā€ why is the limit so low?

If it’s a case that I need to classify my library as digital, please give me an easy way to make it so that it’s digital and always digital!?

Thanks for listening.

So where do we find these new statistics?

I would like to know as well… But then again I haven’t even figure out how to get to settings in V3 :sweat_smile:

Before any of this is ā€œenforcedā€ … I have a serious concern with what Trakt is treating as ā€œdigitalā€ library vs. ā€œphysicalā€.

My entire library is digital. The metadata, besides anything I manually marked on the website, says ā€œdigitalā€. Yet, the site shows I have zero items in my digital collection, and all of my digital items are considered ā€œphysicalā€, putting me orders of magnitude beyond the 1,000 physical limit even though zero items in my library are physical.

I have an app in my media stack that adds and removes items from my library, through Trakt’s API. That marks the items as ā€œdigitalā€, but Trakt still considers them ā€œphysicalā€.

When I first set up Trakt and Plex scrobbling, I found the web hook did a very bad job of updating library items (this is, as I understand, a longstanding issue, and just related to Plex not providing the right information in all circumstances). That still seems to be the case.

I’ve recently tried setting up Plex sync. Running a full sync changed nothing …. except I now seem to have a few items in my library now with an ā€œadded onā€ date in 2098…. Trakt still considers my entire library as ā€œphysicalā€. Despite the page saying it syncs every hour, the last sync was 11 hours ago, and items have been added to my library during that time that don’t show in Trakt.

Mea culpa, on this point .. in the time I wrote this comment, a sync did run and picked up the new items added to my library; and those items do show as digital. But from the sync history, when it says one sync ran at 8:00am and the next ran at 7:19pm, … was there no attempt to snyc during those times? And ….. how am I supposed to tell Trakt that the rest of my digital library is, in fact, digital?

Edit: Honest add-on, here. Why does Trakt even care about the distinction between digital and physical libraries? It seems weirdly arbitrary. User case here, in terms of what I want from Trakt, I don’t care one iota about any of the extra metadata Trakt stores about library items. ā€œCan I watch this right nowā€ or ā€œCan I not watch this right nowā€ is all I care about. The whole distinction between physical and digital libraries seems like a weird ideological decision that really shouldn’t really have anything to do with a media tracking website.

Edit 2: Real-time additions/deletions through the API has worked great for me, but if they don’t count as ā€œdigitalā€ library entries vs. ā€œphysicalā€, it’s going to be a nightmare. Webhooks don’t work for library updates most of the time. Plex sync maybe works some of the time, but only .. at best .. once an hour. This is not ideal.

Thank you. I appreciate that we might get a limit increase on ratings. I didn’t rate by episode early on but I do now, and I would hate to have to stop at this point. Would you just change that limit unilaterally? Or would we have to request an increase based on our usage? Maybe just a benefit of being VIP if you don’t want to offer the ratings increase for all?

Same here. Hopefully someone from Trakt will advise.

So as a free user who has 10 lists because I was given extra lists due to how long I’ve been using the service, are these lists going to be ripped away from me and I will now be stuck with a pathetic 5 lists?

For some reason, under VIP.

Thks for clarifying

Just canceled. I am going to have to find something else at least bearable.

Trakt may have always been the best option for me and my needs, but these new limitations are just a step too far. Am I supposed to just wait around when I know I’m going to hit those limits?

Hi, these limits are bad, i just renew my VIP yesterday, is it possible to have a refund ?

Thx for helping