Trakt relies a lot on TVDB for shows. Sometimes TVDB has duplicates which eventually get fixed. But when that happens, these dupes are still available on Trakt.

I suggest coming up with a notification system that warns when a show has a TVDB entry disappear. Who would get notified? Well, mostly you guys, since you're the ones with the ability to remove dupes. Maybe you could also add a warning on the show page that the TVDB entry is gone and that Trakt admins are investigating.

This might cut down on dupes and the constant reports about them.

Note: this implies that shows on Trakt auto-refresh periodically, otherwise the disappearance of a TVDB entry will never be noticed. I assume that is the case.

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)?

On the subject of failed pilots being duplicated, the Aquaman 2006 pilot:

https://trakt.tv/movies/aquaman-2006
https://trakt.tv/shows/aquaman-2006

These are the same piece of content, a put pilot for an Aquaman spin-off from Smallville which was not picked up, but was released on iTunes and later on DVD.

I see below that this merge has previously been requested and you stated that since it's on both TMDB and TVDB, they both stay. Is it not technically possible to attach the TMDB entry to a "show" or vice-versa?

Apologies if that's a question you get a lot, I'm not seeing anything in the knowledgebase or a search of data removal requests.

Personally in an ideal view i'd have just a single line per show with in-line tick to confirm if a show has been marked collected!

The calendar has been improved greatly of the years, thank you, I currently have it set as basic as possible with a grid with no pictures and filtered to only display my shows in progress.

I'd love to take this further, and be able to have a ultra simple text-only at-a-glance calendar view of multiple 4-5 weeks at once, where i could scroll through the weeks vertically like a calendar app.

The Settings page could have an option for the Basic calendar which would have a Smaller font size on the calendar to fit more in on the page, with maybe an option for 1 or 2 lines per show.

Via the calendar settings you could add tick boxes in the same vein as the current one for "Hide Specials" for the calendar items of: Time, Channel, Watched, Collected, Hide this show, Lists, rating etc. So that the calendar only displayed the things that were important to the user.

These hidden items could be displayed in an expanded box like that of the (clock+ icon) on the right of the watched/collected boxes on episode or movie home pages.

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.

Hi TrackTV team,

I know I'm onto a topic that have been discussed already, and I'm trying the shed a new light here, my apologies if this has been already discussed also.

I'm seeing more and more rating on episode that have not been released yet, which is annoying (because it is not very smart) but mostly it is biaising the overall rate of a tv show (unless it gets loads of votes), hence degrading the trust a user can have of TrackTV ratings.

I have seen several other requests that have been denied but none pointing out the negative impact on ratings and user trust. This could also be handled by banning early rater from rating a new show for example ?

Many thanks for your help
KR
François