This is not a hate post. I intend this to be a positive thread in which we show what made us fall in love with the old Trakt so the devs can understand us moving forward. I think the most important aspect of this will be screenshots. A picture is worth a thousand words.
Sadly I am a free user, so I no longer have access to V2 and can’t show screenshots illustrating what I loved previously. Therefore I’m asking VIPs (or free users who have saved screenshots) to post images of the V2 UI that illustrate why it was so user-friendly.
First reaction, the way it was easy to visually see whether you had watched something, whether you had Collected it (in Library), quick access to when you had watched it (just a mouseover), whether it was in a List, whether it was available in a Watch Now alternate location.
In other words, no need to go hunting on different pages to see if the info is still available.
And while some of these actions are available, e.g. adding to a List and seeing view date after digging deep into non-intuitive pages, there’s absolutely NO WAY in V3 to add an item to a Library. None. Besides automation from Plex Sync. Something paid for as a VIP is simply not available.
Everything that made trakt v2 a GOD APP. THAT
S..tty v3 no longer support or have
The clearness, cleanliness, the user friendliness that v2 had that v3 doesn’t have
In short scrap v3
Bring back v2
My daily Trakt use relies on Season Finales, as I am a binge watcher. I know there is no revert back to v2 since the Trakt team has make it clear that it was becoming technically unmanageable. Although I prefer the look and feel of v2, I am trying to use v3 as much as possible, learning new workflows and seeing constant improvements, but I have to use v2 for my “Upcoming Schedule” and Calendar functions, which need Finale filters and a monthly calendar.
Way more information dense: the mini-posters took up half as much space as the current mini-poster with the episode info to the side. They included whether you’d watched or collected the episode / movie, and if it was on a list. The current side-by-side system wastes so much space on the episode information and rating by putting it next to the mini-poster.
Cumulative hours watched in a day – not visible anywhere anymore.
V2 was not organized by weeks. Now if I want to know what I watched 2 days ago but that happens to go past a weekly boundary I have to page back to the previous week. How is that useful?
Simple buttons that did obvious things. Now if I want to remove something from watched I have to click a “hamburger menu” and then use a second click to remove the item – and that hamburger menu has only 1 item on it! And there’s no option at all to mark something as collected.
Things like filters worked in a reasonable way. If I filtered to just “Animation” it would show me the days on which I’d watched “Animation”. Days where I didn’t watch “Animation” would just not show up. Now I filter on “Animation” and see 1 day of results. If I go to the previous week I get a page that’s so blank that they have to put placeholder text there to make it clear that I’m not seeing a server error. Go back another week, same thing. Go back another week and finally 1 result.
This could be a very looong list, so I’ll try to limit it to the main points:
Data richness - Profile page with tons of statistics: total watched time, most watched shows, last 30 days usage, etc.
PERSONALIZATION! - Choose what to show on Dashboard (with posters or thumbnails), reorder your lists, hide seasons, etc.
Distinctive and clear look - On every page you could simply know the status of every content (watched, collected, rated, listed, etc.)
Progress page - With clear completion percentage representation and total episodes missing
Seasons details - Dedicated pages to every season, with specific data and info
Guest stars - Showing them separately at show, season and episode level
Reports - Making the site look better asking for images and data refresh on every level
A general sense of attention to TV/movies fans needs
Unfortunately, I have the impression we’ll never get back to a similar experience with this new stripped down V3 version. There is so much lost in the transition…
I was able to rate seasons (super important with shows like Survivor), I was able to rearrange lists order (I hate that it reorganizes on its own now), I was able to ignore past seasons, it wasn’t as messy and confusing (V3 UI is just horribly bad) and so much more. It feels like V3 has about 20% of the old functionality, is infuriatingly messy and buggy and just pain to use. I’ve only been using Trakt for couple of years, but the quality of the service is only going down.
A proper calendar that shows a lot of information on a single page. The old calendar could easily show dozens of shows at one time, now in the new one it requires endless scrolling.
Progress page with clear information on how much you have watched, where in the entire list of episodes you are missing items, etc
Easy mouse-over buttons with loads of information. Like watched: how much you have watched, etc
