Just to touch up on http://support.trakt.tv/forums/188762-general/suggestions/11258295-schedule-movie-refreshes and other things regarding the data refresh. Tbh I have seen little improvement regarding data quality on the site. Really sucks hard that any upcoming movie or newly airing show has a big chance of being "incomplete" or running with subpar artwork. There really needs an additional update job besides the update time on their respective source for the refresh.

(from the "new show calendar")
https://trakt.tv/shows/the-virtues only had a backdrop but posters uploaded over two weeks as well as two days ago
https://trakt.tv/shows/funniest-ever-tv-cock-ups also blank
https://trakt.tv/shows/love-beyond-frontier-2019 has had a non-English "English" poster since Nov 2018...
https://www.thetvdb.com/series/terrace-house-tokyo-2019 same

(stale artwork - at least the image there is gets grabbed at least the one time)
https://trakt.tv/movies/brightburn-2019
https://trakt.tv/movies/the-informer-2019

Also there is still no language fallback for artwork that isn't "English"... there are enough instances where the original language is sufficient for "English" too... and everything is better than blank images. I have been uploading images to the wrong language on TVDB for well over two years now just so that trakt grabs them (or whenever I last requested this)... really would love to stop doing this.

I love trakt. And I love TMDB. I contribute a lot to TMDB and think it is much better of a site and a community and more user friendly than TVDB. I understand that TVDB probably has a more comprehensive database for series compared to TMDB (I think TV shows are only a fairly recent addition to TMDB). However, contributing to TVDB is much more arduous than to TMDB, especially when it comes to getting incorrect data changed. The TVDB forum is fairly dead and slow to respond, me as a user have no idea if they keep track of our contributions.

Anyway, is there any reason why Trakt doesn't use episode information (especially air dates) from TMDB if they don't exist on it's respective entry on TVDB? Could this happen (any time soon- i.e. in the next couple of years)?

I don't do regular housekeeping of my trakt data and things are prone to get messy due to various bugs in apps and plugins but I'll always end up with duplicate plays at some point. Many of those end up going from check-ins to plays at the same timestamp which shouldn't get accepted as valid by the site at all imho or at least end up getting merged. Despite not not being advertised outside of some support threads and a single kodi forum thread I end up getting a lot of visitors on my duplicate removal script (500+ last year) which tells me this is quite a common issue and affects plenty of people :/...

I noticed this problem recently while watching a lesser-known web series: there can be drastic variances from the TVDB's runtimes to reality (seems like this will only get more prevalent as more and more content is created for non-traditional distribution).

The web series I was watching had a bunch of 2 or 3 minute specials. I noticed that after watching 10 of these (25 mins total), Trakt was totaling my watch time at 5 hours (stated runtime on TVDB is 30 mins).

It would be cool if a) I have the given media item collected, and b) scrobble or mark it watched, that Trakt would assume the runtime of the collected item instead of TVDB's standard runtime. If the item isn't collected of course, it would make sense to fall back to the best source.

When searching for lots of movies or shows one after another, it's a pain to have to click the magnifying glass each time to make the each box appear.
Why not just always show it? Or at least have the UI show it by default is there is any search critera already present.

In addition, if there is already a search present, you click the magnifying glass and then have to manually click the cross (x) or clear the previous search before typing.
This could be avoided by pre-selecting the previous search in the text-box so that it can be over-typed, as other UI's do.

Currently, the episode shown to watch next is based on numerical order, so e.g. 4x20 will follow 4x19 - makes sense, of course.
But if there was a special that aired between these episodes, it will not show up as the next episode, which does of course get especially annoying when the specials are important to the plot of the series, for example Sherlock or Doctor Who.

So what I'd love is that the "Next episode to watch" on the Dashboard and the Watched Progress page are (maybe optionally) based on the next episode that aired after the latest episode watched, not the episode after it in numerical order.

The main reason I, and I suspect, many others, use, and love, this website is that it is a near perfect tool to keep track of one's watch history. Seeing as that's the most important thing (to me anyway) I would love it if our accounts could get a little notification everytime a movie entry or tv show (or an episode from a tv show) that we've watched gets removed from the trakt database. Just so that we're aware of the things that are no longer accounted for in our watch history. Rather than 5 years later trying to find the title of a certain movie that you want to rewatch only to realise its no longer in your watch history, etc. If we can get a notification, then we can go and look for another (i.e. the real) movie/tv show entry and add that to our watch history. Or is there isn't another entry then we can then go and add a new entry/contribute new information on TMDB and/or TVDB, import it into trakt, and add it to our watch history.

(I would also love to have this feature for entries that are included in lists- for example I have a long list of things I want to watch and I would hate it if entries from that started to disappear without my knowledge).

I hope that this won't be too difficult to implement (fingers crossed) and that nobody else has already suggested this feature. I also hope this isn't already a feature that I just wasn't aware of already existing?

I originally posted this idea onto the VIP forums but thought that it would be more suitable/should also be posted here.

An option to CHECK IN when using the WATCH NOW services links.

The WATCH NOW services currently open a modal window with Netflix, Hulu, NBC, etc. which opens a new window to the selection. Those who use the CHECK IN feature must either do that before using WATCH NOW or return to the Trakt show page and close the modal WATCH NOW window in order to click the CHECK IN button, and then return to the tab streaming the show/movie, taking away from the intended ease that each of these features provide on their own. A checkbox to CHECK IN would reduce the steps and switching back and forth between tabs, providing a more seamless experience.