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

Over the last few months, I noticed that I've become really obsessed with finishing watching things before midnight local time to avoid messing up my dashboard graph with stats that appear on the "wrong day".

It occurred to me tonight, after yet another movie finished just after midnight, that actually, software can solve this problem.

I propose that Trakt take the timestamp and duration of each item played into account when generating graphs, such that if (as happened tonight) I finish a 126-minute movie at 0:03, 123 of those minutes still appear in the graph for the previous day, and 3 of them appear on the same date as the play.

One could nitpick this and say the split should be 122 and 4, for example; I've no preference either way there. I can also see potential objections with regard to the genre & play type counts that appear on the graph: Does "1 movie" have to become "1 movie" + "1 movie", for example, or does it become "0.95 movie" and "0.05 movie"?

Whatever the answers to those (and other) questions, I think this sort of commitment to statistical accuracy can only help in the long run.

I've already opened a ticket about this (closed now) but if we're gonna just do it manually then it's going to be quite the long list. So here's what I'm suggesting...

Since the issue here is TMDb's definiton of what constitutes an 'adult movie' (most of Tinto Brass' filmography is not marked as such, while most people would describe his movies as "porn but, like... with dialogue") a middle ground can be found in the tags of these movies (which makes them appear in the recommendation sections and search). So while, say, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens is not marked as 'adult movie', it still has 'sex', 'explicit sex', 'erotic movie' in the tags.

The problem is that some of these tags are used by legit movies like Shame and 50 Shades (though there's an argument to be made there lol) and blocking the movies based on tags could mess with people's libraries. So i'm suggesting again an option in user settings for those of us who want to just omit them from search and suggestions and any other place they would appear, and if one clicks on one of their links a page would tell him that this is an NSFW movie.

I still think this feature should exist at least to be enabled by default for underage users.

I'm only posting this again because it's surprising how often one encounters these movies even when they don't seek them out, You'd be looking at a european movie (most of them contain nudity, occasional sex scene) you scroll down and here's 5 softcore porn suggestions.

An alternative suggestion is to make the recommendation engine ignore these tags in its process.

I'm not a prude or anything, it's just something one would rather avoid if possible, would you agree?

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").

On the profile page, the section titled:
MOST WATCHED TV SHOW
Is, or can be, a bit misleading. Example of what I mean:
TV Show 1 (TV1) has 150 episodes
TV Show 2 (TV2) has 20 episodes

Now, I watch TV1 in its entirety, so that is 150 watches. Now I watch TV2, all episodes, 5 times. That is 100 watches. Now, the section titled most watched... will say that TV1 is most watched. Now TV1 has the most watches, because it has the most episodes, but really TV2 is the most watched as it has been watched 5 times compared to one for TV1.

I can see both sides, almost equally. Just bringing this up so maybe it can be changed and/or added to with intention to be a bit more clear. To me viewing a profile, most watched would tend to make me think it is one of the users favorite series, since they watched it most. But the reality in this scenario it is simply the series with the most episodes.

During my childhood I watched many animes such as Dragon Ball Z.
If I check-in the seasons the TV Show becomes my most watched TV Show by far.
Therefore this will never change since it has over 200 episodes and no new TV Shows today will have that much (I think)
I would like to be able to add this TV Show in my watched list but don't think having it as my most watched TV show is really relevant.
This applies for movies too.

Suggestions

- Allow in settings profile section to choose if Most Watched boxes should refer to either 'current year' or 'all time'. If no movies or shows have been watched during this current year choose 'all time' by default
So the box's title should indeed go to "Most Watched in 2016"

- Another idea would be being able to replace those two boxes with featured lists or even some little widget showing what the user currently has on his deck

Could be a VIP feature

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 if there was a way to set your default Collection viewing options. There is a place to set settings for Collection progress, but unless I'm missing it, there's no way to set preferences for the Collection itself. Currently, it defaults to All Types by Recently Collected... for me, it'd be more useful to show Shows by Title every time I see my Collection (thankfully, it does that on Kodi where I primarily use my Collection, but it would be helpful not to have to reset my view every time I go to it on the website). Thanks :)