📢 Updating Trakt Limits for 2026

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Damn, not a single week without bad news from the Trakt team. Impressive achievement!

So let me recap,

  • Price increase
  • Shitty v3 deployed and enforced in the throat of everyone removing 80% of the features
  • A “Myth Busters” post is made, because all the users here and on reddit are lyers!
  • Major API changes without versioning and couple weeks of notice that act as a tentative to kill the trakt apps ecosystem
  • We, VIP, are going from unlimited to limited limits
  • A lot of the limits for the VIP are way too low and a lot of the power users are already past or close to these limits
  • the Trakt team doesn’t understand their own choices and have no clue what’s “Digital” and what’s “Physical / Offline” and think that a “1k” limit for physical items is enough (lmao).
  • Trakt is getting more and more confusing with all these changes that are getting enforced for no good reasons (funny because v3 is supposed to be “simpler”)
  • the Trakt team want to enforce their way of how to use trakt and how to use lists and library because someone stuborn choose to do it, who cares about users that are here since years if not more than a decade!?

Let’s be honest guys : This a fucking circus and trakt should be ASHAMED of it!

I’m here since now over 13y and I’m shocked by how everything is being handled. Totally disgusted.

*List made by a real human, not AI-slope work.

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The watch and rate limit is my deal breaker, i draw the line there,

I will be actively looking for a different solution

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This is a pretty niche case. Let me give another example.

You once owned a full DVD set of a show where seasons were split across discs. You’ve now lost or damaged a disc so you now only own a physical copy of part of a season. Therefore you own physical copies of those episodes but not the whole show/season.

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Limits on watch history and ratings defeats the very purpose of this website. Why are you running Trakt into the ground?

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Oh man, I assume that’s a slip and you meant ratings! But that’s what I keep saying, limiting a value that fits in less than a MySQL TINYINT column (8 bits) so strictly is nuts. Let alone limiting it to less than the history limit!

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Yep, one of many ways you could manage to “own” not-all episodes of a show or season on physical media. Goes well with my previous examples in 📢 Updating Trakt Limits for 2026 - #27 by dgw (which, I’ll note, seems to have been passed over for reply by staff).

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didn’t see that. Good list and definitely expands on why this decision is stupid.

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Thanks, I fixed it.

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I guess I will have to delete 95% of my Jellyfin collection :clown_face:

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Limiting watch history is my sign that this is end of the road for me and Trakt. I have loved this website for nearly 13 full years. I dislike a lot of the previous changes, but accepted it because things like lists, notes, etc are bonus services to me since what I really want is just a catalog of my watch history. This cap on watch history is a huge bummer, I’m at 83k between tv and movies.

I guess I’m going back to the old school “giant excel spreadsheet” method.

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I already export my watch history by Show/Movie/Episodes on a semi regular basis. Copy and Paste everything to one Excel Sheet and follow the provided link to add any missing information that you think is needed. Then add formulas to simplify everything.

Been doing it for a while because shows/movies do get removed for being copies or for whatever reason every so often… But you don’t have to start from scratch.

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So you doubled the price and now added limits?
Well done :+1: NOT

Not even worth mentioning dead features for months now…

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Trakt.tv - Discover. Track. Share.

Discover what’s hot and where to stream it. Track shows and movies you watch. Share comments, recommendations, and ratings.

Now with exciting new feature - limits! Think of it as a fun game that will test your memory of things you (may or may not) watched many years ago.

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So I really don’t get it. All of my media has been added to Trakt via the Plex webhook, but somehow I have no media added through Plex?

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And as you can see, I’m a long time Trakt VIP user (13 years) and I’ve reached the limits a long time ago.

Like other members said, it used to be Unlimited and hassle free, but going from Unlimited to Extremely Limited for long time users or heavy watchers is a bit strange.

Like others suggested, maybe a limit that’s raised every years you are subscribed to Trakt, if it’s such a strain on servers or traffic.

Or maybe bundle digital and physical media as one overall limit, no matter what kind of media it is.

And just a final note; I guess I’m old or something but I really don’t get the new V3 layout. It’s so not intuitive nor visually pleasing, but that’s just my two cents. And I’d really like to keep using V2.

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Meanwhile on Letterboxd (free tier):

  • Unlimited watch history
  • Unlimited ratings
  • Unlimited lists
  • Unlimited list items

They only support movies for now but TV shows are coming. When they add TV, Trakt is absolutely cooked. Great timing from the Trakt team.

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it’s the same for me.

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So where exactly can I see my summary? I see nothing, be it in v2 or v3. App or website.

I seriously hope that the 10k rating limit is immediately reconsidered. That it was ever considered realistic, clearly tells me that whoever is responsible for these numbers didn’t pay much attention to actual usage profiles.

People logging what they watch and how they rate content is actually valuable data for Trakt. Limitations should be avoided there.

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Follow the discussion here: :pushpin: Follow-Up: Fair Use, Abuse Prevention & What Happens at the Limits