i'm a Trakt noob. when my favorite iPhone app completely shifted over to using Trakt for their backend, i had to create a Trakt account if i wanted to continue using it. so i did.

recently i learned that the Trakt website lets you also track Movie's & such too (yes, i had not visited the actual website until recently); so i began to explore the site & thought i'd start filling in what i've seen & wanna see etc.

i was astonished to find that i could NOT add any movies to the "History" & "Collection" areas without providing a date & time. THAT's HORRIBLE!!! how the hell do i know when i first watch "The Princess Bride" or "Aliens" or "Braveheart" etc etc etc ?!?!?!?!

surely this can't be so, so... i dug in a little to the support pages - only to find that the Trakt people have made an intentional decision to NOT allow us users to add vids we've watched &/or own without requiring the date & time of such watching/buying! this is INCONCEIVABLE (pun intended) in my opinion!

to me, this renders my utilizing this service/site useless!

but, since this site SEEMS to be the best option to track both tv & movies, i would like to make a plea to the owner(s)/developer(s) to make the date/time part optional. or, if you can't conceive of how to do that (for some weird reason), then put an "unknown" or "i don't remember" option in the date/time sheet.

i read on one of the other posts linked below, where Founder/Admin Justin Nemeth said, "We don’t plan on supporting an unknown date right now since everything is key off of dates" - if that's true, then perhaps you can program in a hidden date/time for database purposes; or just add the date/time of the "Add to..." action AND having an optional date/time of watched/seen option for the users to use if they want to (and if they remember the date/time of when they saw it). all that to say, i bet some creative out-of-the-box thinking could figure out a solution.

now, i spent all this time to try, search, read, & write this but i do recognize that i could have missed something somewhere to render this post a stupid waste; and if that's so, then my apologies!

lastly, if you've actually read this far, then...
thank you for your time & consideration.
.peace.

REFS:
http://support.trakt.tv/forums/188762-general/suggestions/6899488-please-fix-trakt-2-0-re-the-diary-function-previ
http://support.trakt.tv/forums/188762-general/suggestions/4938996-seen-date-should-be-uncertain-different-from-th
http://support.trakt.tv/forums/188762-general/suggestions/9548070-remove-time-option-when-manually-adding-a-title-to
http://support.trakt.tv/forums/188762-general/suggestions/10829259-watched-at-obscure-date

Hello
I have small idea - special page in profile, where user can observe they milestones for using trakt.tv.
Milestones would be like:
- watched 100 episodes,
- watched 1000 episodes,
- watched 150 movies,
- watched 30 comedies,
- watched whole [eg. Marvel Cinematic Universe] list,
- spend 100 hours watching shows,
- spend one month watching tv shows,
- started watching [eg. The Big Bang Theory]
- finished series: [eg. Strike Back]
- created first list,
- added 100 items to Watchlist,
- friended 10 users,
- had VIP account for 6 months.

It could be also place for some Easter Eggs, eg:
- watched Hobbit before watching Lord Of the Rings,
- girlfrieend make you watched whole Twilight series

It could be nice place to connect with social media - twitter/facebook to allow users to share they milestone (personally I think that some people would be more interested to share milestones than single episodes - more shares - more people will hear about Trakt).

It could be VIP feature.
Of course it would be quite big feature, but I think that basic milestones (like in first section) could be done quite simple.

Greeting
Piotrek - franiis
(sorry for bad English)

It would be nice to be able to indicate where and with who has been seen a particular movie/episode. In particular:

[1] Every "watch date" should have its "where" and "with".
[2] In the "where" field I can write what I want.
[3] In the "with" field I can write what I want or add a trakt user.
[4] If in the "where" field I enter "Sunshine Cinema", this place is automatically saved in a specific "Places" page, in which I can add/delete/edit all the places.
[5] The places in the "Places" page are automatically suggested when I set the "where" field of a specific movie/episode.
[6] If in the "with" field I enter John", this person is automatically saved in a specific "People" page, in which I can add/delete/edit all the people names.
[7] The people in the "People" page are automatically suggested when I set the "with" field of a specific movie/episode.
[8] In the settings should be added a privacy option to restrict the visibility of these fields ("Everyone", "Only Friends", "Private").

This problem mainly arose with the most recent 2.0 update to the trakt addon in XBMC, I love the two way syncing system however, when I want to rewatch a tv series I can't make use of the XBMC "watched" feature which is a pain. This happens because if I mark the tv series as unwatched (to start tracking my XBMC progress again) it will automatically mark it as seen upon next load.

I often watch videos on different systems so the two way syncing is like an angel from heaven, however I think that some sort of system on the website should be created to aid in the rewatching of tv series while still keeping the episode watch count. If the "easy" method of rewatching a tv series is taken (marking all episodes as unwatched on trakt) I feel as if it is hindering the trakt service... With people unwatching tv shows that they have seen, it seems like a backwards step from the goal.

I wish that I could suggest a viable method of doing so but I can't seem to think of any...

Thanks - Weston Knight