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 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)?

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.

As of right now you can mark a item as collected with one type of metadata bluray/dvd/digtal ect.
Myself I have multiple editions of a movie like a bluray and a dvd or bluray and digital copy or all of the above.
It would be nice to either be able to mark a movie/tv show/episode as collected more than once.
Like watch history with a view all button and the best quality shown on the main page.
Or be able to select more than one option under format.
I personally prefer the former because it represents what is an entirely different copy.

Hope this makes sense.

The same way there's now a fast switch for dark mode in the main menu (Dark Knight Mode), I think it would be interesting the have a quick method to turn spoilers on and off. For example, when browsing lists, specially when there are lots of special episodes, sometimes I need to click on several items to reveal their titles, because "Special 34" doesn't give as much information as "6x03", and it becomes tiresome pretty fast. Going to settings to temporarily turn spoilers off and later turn them on isn't ideal either. I think a switch where a single click is needed would be fantastic.

I'm an Android user and I've often searched for native apps that integrate with Trakt but I always end up returning to the Trakt website itself because it offers more features, is more robust & also is quite quick.

For a better integration into the OS I always add the website to my homescreen to have the Chrome bar removed and have a separate entry in the Recents with the Trakt icon.

Now over the last few years/months Google has improved upon this simple add to home screen feature and offered "deeper" integration.

For example PWAs can show up in the app drawer (not just as a shortcut on the home screen).
PWAs get an own "App info" screen where we can manage notifications, permissions, storage among other settings.

A good example of this would be the Twitter's PWA.

Also the current Trakt web app shows a small Chrome icon in a corner which those other web app don't anymore.

I'm not exactly sure how these features can be activated but it should be fairly simple.