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Here’s a list of updates and bug fixes to the Trakt website in 2016. If you’d like to support Trakt, please consider signing up for VIP.

December 27, 2016

UPDATES

  • The friends watched and friends collected sections on each show and season summary page include progress info in the tooltips. Movies and episodes have a similar update, but will display the play count in the tooltip instead. Clicking on an avatar will load the user’s profile page.

BUGS

  • Dashboard last 30 days charts correctly take into account any recent days without any data. The chart will correctly adjust each day, even if you haven’t watched anything.

December 19, 2016

UPDATES

  • Episode specific runtimes are now used in stats and other calculations. This will likely adjust (up or down) your overall stats and they’ll become more accurate.
  • Improved search results which boost up phrase matches (2+ words) and items with higher vote counts. This helps return more relevant results earlier in the results.

BUGS

  • Clicking on a December stats bar in the Year in Review uses the correct end date now.

December 12, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • BETA: Filter the TV, Movies, Calendars, and Search section by which streaming services the items are available to watch on. Click the ▶ icon to launch a popup with direct links to watch the item. U.S. only streaming sources for now.
  • All options added in advanced filters for genres. By default, it includes items in any of the selected genres. This updated allows you to specific it must include all of the selected genres.
  • None option added in advanced filters for genres, certifications, languages, countries, networks, and status. This is very useful to exclude items you don’t want to see.
  • Don’t forget to save your advanced filters for easy access in the sidebar! Just click the + icon after you apply the filters you want.

UPDATES

  • The summary page comments (on all movies, shows, seasons, and episodes) has new tabs to display comments from your friends and yourself.
  • Full screen mode in iOS will remember the last viewed page and correctly restore it after switched to another app, then back.
  • Serviio added to the apps page, v1.8 supports Trakt scrobbling!
  • Episode specific runtimes will start filling in and display on each episode summary page. It will still fall back to using the main show runtime for any episodes without this information.

BUGS

  • If you Twitter name contains emojis, sign in will work correctly now.

December 6, 2016

BUGS

  • Hawaii time zone applies the correct offset.
  • Liked notification email has the correct links for seeing what else the use has liked, along with the title bar going to the liked item.
  • Fixed a bug with the reply link for comments listed under a user’s profile.

November 21, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • Amazon Alexa skill is available! Interact with your Trakt calendars and ask what’s on TV today or what movies premiere this week? Read more.

November 16, 2016

UPDATES

  • Filtering added for seasons (show pages) and episode listing (season pages) to fade and hide based on your activity.
  • New Anime genre to better separate movies and TV shows from the more general Animation genre. Anything tagged on TMDB with anime will be added to this new genre. Existing items need to be refreshed to pick up this change.
  • Calendar URL shortcuts for relative date ranges. Instead of the date, append last, next, lastweek, nextweek, lastmonth, or nextmonth to any calendar URL.
  • Better support for season level fanart, we’ll manually fill these in for some of the more popular TV shows.

BUGS

  • Mountain time zone applies the correct offset, similar to Central time.

November 11, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • New calendar notifications for DVD & Blu-ray releases. Get notified by email when movies on your watchlist come out in disc format. You can configure the day and time each email is sent too. Read more.

UPDATES

  • Movies include the DVD release date on the main summary page. We get this info from TMDB so if anything is missing, please add the missing release date over there and Trakt will sync up the next day.
  • New DVD & Blu-ray release calendars, including a personalized calendar to items you have on your watchlist.
  • Clickable date dividers (history, collection, and ratings) to collapse the posters for that day.

BUGS

  • Inline comment spoilers will be correctly blurred out in the last comment section on a user’s profile page.

November 8, 2016

UPDATES

  • View all episodes for any show, sorted by air date by default. A new link added in the recent episodes section or when viewing any season in the link bar.

BUGS

  • Pressing enter to search sometimes wasn’t working when searching for peoplse, lists, or users.

November 7, 2016

UPDATES

  • We’re starting to populate show, movie, and actor social info for Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Hashtags will be used when sharing to your social networks and social links will be added to the website sidebar when viewing a summary page.
Notice the #DoctorStrange hashtag is now included.

November 4, 2016

UPDATES

  • When viewing search results, you can update the search terms then click a sidenav link to update your query. Previously it would ignore any changes to the terms when clicking those links.

BUGS

  • Smoother scrolling when loading comment replies.

October 31, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • Profile card widget uses the correct links for TV and movie posters and opens up in a new tab or window when clicked.

UPDATES

  • This does not affect the Trakt.tv website at all. Images will no longer be served through the API due to greatly increased hosting costs. All other API functions will remain the same. More info.

BUGS

  • Fixed @username highlighting for usernames with the - character.

October 25, 2016

BUGS

  • Your selected time zone will be correctly applied on the show, season, and episode pages. If no time zone is set or you are viewing the website signed out, it will use your browser’s time zone.

October 17, 2016

UPDATES

  • New setting added for the list icons. By default, it displays all your lists to check off which lists the item should be added to. The new setting allows a single click to add it to your watchlist directly. If you choose this option, you can long press (click and hold) the button to get the lists popup.

BUGS

  • Fixed the dashboard and year in review history links for usernames with spaces in them. The bar graph has these links.
  • Fixed 500 error when saving notifications without a saved time zone.
  • Turn off form autocomplete on the settings page.
  • Fixed ad rendering on the mobile calendar grid view.

October 1, 2016

UPDATES

  • WebP images are displayed for browser that support them such as Google Chrome and Opera. Visually all the artwork looks the same, but the filesize is much smaller so it loads faster and consumes less bandwidth.
  • Country and language are links to the popular movies or TV pages with that advanced filter pre-filled in. This is a VIP only feature.

September 22, 2016

UPDATES

  • The mobile website supports gestures to navigate better in fullscreen mode. Swipe on the top header bar — right to move back, left to move forward.

BUGS

  • Popular lists have the read more… link for long list descriptions.
  • Fixed rich data when sharing links on Facebook and Twitter for movies and episodes with a blank overview.

September 14, 2016

UPDATES

  • The dashboard on deck and upcoming schedule have better links to view the show and episode.
  • Your progress page can be sorted by oldest activity now, which is the reverse of recently watched or collected.

September 5, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • Calendar notifications are live! Get notified by email when your TV shows and movies are airing. This can be enabled for all your TV shows, premieres, new shows, and movies. You can configure the day and time each email is sent too. Read more.

August 31, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • Calendar notifications are in BETA! Get notified by email when your TV shows and movies are airing. This can be enabled for all your TV shows, premieres, new shows, and movies. You can configure the day and time each email is sent too.

UPDATES

  • Sharing and Notifications split into their own settings pages.
  • Dashboard top stats are links to the corresponding section in your profile.

BUGS

  • Fixed the all link in the popular lists section on any TV show or movie summary page.

August 23, 2016

UPDATES

BUGS

  • Hiding a season from your watched progress correctly refreshed the dashboard on deck section.
  • Progress pagination indicates the correct page count.
  • Comment replies place the cursor at the end in the Safari browser.
  • Fixed a bug with the assets not loading properly if going back from an error page.

August 20, 2016

UPDATES

August 16, 2016

UPDATES

OSX Notification Center
  • Mobile summary pages (show, season, episode, movie, person) include the sidebar external and VIP links.

BUGS

  • Filtering the user progress reloads at page 1 instead of a potentially non-existant later page.
  • Deleting individual history plays would sometimes fail.

August 6, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • Push notifications for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Slack, and Pushbullet are now in BETA and can be enabled in your notification settings. Get push notifications when someone follows you, @mentions you, replies to your comment, likes your comment, comments on your list, and likes your lists.
OSX Notification Center

UPDATES

BUGS

  • Remove whitespace to help format some comments better.
  • Fixed check in button for items with “ “ in the title.

August 1, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • Comments CSV includes the comment_url which is a permalink for each comment or reply.

UPDATES

  • Your avatar will be dynamically added to the user activity section after checking in on the website.

BUGS

  • Dashboard network activities was doubling up movie titles.
  • Date picker removes future years and days since that didn’t make sense to use when adding to your history and collection.
  • Featured watchlist on a user profile uses the correct fanart if a season is in the first position. Previously it used a placeholder image.

July 27, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • Year in review genre charts are clickable and will load your watched history filtered for that genre and year.
  • Added more TV show genres to the advanced filters including crime, family, music, musical, mystery, romance, short, suspense, and war.

UPDATES

  • History and collection user sections can be filtered by genre when a specific type (movies, shows, episodes) is selected. The is very useful with your collection since you can filter by a specific genre and sort it by popularity for example.
  • Dashboard genres chart is clickable for the episodes, shows, and movies counts and will load your watched history filtered for that genre over the last 30 days.
  • Calendars add tomorrow as a start day.

BUGS

  • Page titles were sometimes truncated in the browser title.

Jul 25, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • Year in review weekly and monthly charts are clickable and will load your watched history for that specific week or month.
  • Progress CSV returns additional columns for episodes, completed, plays, minutes, and last_activity_at.

UPDATES

  • Dashboard minutes chart is clickable and will load your watched history for that specific day.
  • Ended and cancelled TV shows will indicate the date of the last episode on the summary page.
  • Comment replies auto fill in the username so they are tagged more easily. Reply links also added to replies to make that easier to respond to individual users within the thread.

BUGS

Jul 18, 2016

UPDATES

  • Added 2 new spoiler options for episodes to only hide screenshots or hide screenshots + blur overviews while leaving the titles visible.

Jul 15, 2016

UPDATES

  • Cached watched and collected data stored in your browser reduced about 40%. If you have a a ton of data, this fix should help the icon overlays to work more reliably. The data format will be updated automatically as you watch and collect more items, nothing you need to do.

BUGS

  • Fixed a scrolling issue where it would jump to the top with some advanced filter options like countries and networks.
  • Remove the episode title from the browser page title if you have episode spoiler setting enabled.
  • Optimized a blur effect that should reduce CPU usage in Google Chrome.
  • Cancelled shows display the correct status.

July 12, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

UPDATES

  • Spoilers can be prevented by hiding unwatched episode (screenshot, title, overview), show (overview), or movie (overview) info. Enable this in your settings. Titles and descriptions will be blurred out (you can click on it to reveal the text) and screenshots will use the top level fanart to help hide potential spoilers for things you haven’t watched yet.
2x02 is unwatched, so the info is blurred out.

BUGS

  • Dashboard genres sometimes doubled up the graph when navigating forward or back to the dashboard.
  • If you include specials in your watched or collected progress, the overall % and counts, and the next episode correctly adjust to include the aired special episodes.

July 9, 2016

UPDATES

  • Series Premiere and Season Premiere indicated on the calendars, dashboard upcoming calendar, show, season, and episode pages. The green tag quickly identifies new shows and seasons.
  • Improved watched buttons and icons to include the play count and total time spent watching the item. Also improved the collection icon tooltip to include the collected date for movies and episodes.

June 30, 2016

UPDATES

  • Season pages adds episode sorting by popularity.
  • Show pages allow season sorting by number, popularity, percentage, votes, watchers, plays, collected count, and lists count.

June 21, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • Year in Review allows years prior to 2000. Navigation also updated to better account for switching years.

UPDATES

  • Inline spoilers can be added to comments by wrapping the text in [spoiler] tags like [spoiler]This text will be hidden.[/spoiler].
  • Rich formatting in comments is more clear with hints under the comment box with the syntax for bold, italics, code, quotes, and inline spoilers.
  • Comments indicate the last updated date if the author has updated it since originally posting. We’ve also loosened the time based restrictions so you can edit your comments more easily.

June 9, 2016

UPDATES

  • List icon tooltip includes the number of lists it is listed on as does the list popup title. The list popup itself displays the active lists at the top, followed by all your other lists.
  • Several updates for comments including inline replies, inline editing, a quicker Add Comment button on each summary page, and better reply loading in the context of the main comment.

June 3, 2016

UPDATES

  • Bottom pagination added to mobile calendar pages.
  • Dashboard graphs have more detail such as the play counts and unique items that you’ve watched in the last 30 days.
  • Trailers will start filling in for seasons and episodes if they are available on TMDB as YouTube trailers.

May 24, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • Custom calendars can be created from any list. When viewing a list, click the Subscribe button. You’ll be redirected to your new custom calendar and a new item will be added to the sidebar of your calendar section. Read more on our blog.
Subscribe button in the top right of any list page.
Click the + to save your advanced filters.

UPDATES

  • Popular lists added to the bottom of each TV show, season, episode and movie summary page. This helps to discover new lists and create custom calendars based on those lists.
  • Related TV shows and movies expanded to display 6 items and use poster artwork.
  • Improved auto linking in comments and VIP forum posts for all trakt.tv domains. Other auto linked domains include imdb.com, thetvdb.com, themoviedb.org, and fanart.tv.
  • User ratings filtering is more clear with the number and rating text.
  • The #KaleForJustin campaign has ended. Thanks to everyone who contributed!

BUGS

  • Stats are correctly reset after cloning a list.
  • Fixed an issue with the like list icon being incorrect set to on.
  • Dashboard graph correctly displays 30 days and not the null entry.

May 9, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • Widgets can be viewed by any user (but not used on other websites until unlocked with VIP) to see what they look like with their own data.
  • Dashboard adds additional quick access icons for RSS/iCal/CSV feeds in the recently watched section along with a link to your watched widgets.
  • Clone any list by clicking the icon in the top right on any list page. This copies the list and all items into a new list under your account. Cloned lists contain attribution to the original list it was cloned from.
Clone a list by clicking the icon in the top right.
Attribution to the original list.

UPDATES

  • All dashboard sections can be optionally turned off in your settings. For example — if you aren’t interested in seeing your recently watched items, simply hide that section.
  • Lots of dashboard style updates for tablet and mobile devices.
  • Dashboard Last 30 days at a glance updated to be much more useful including time watched, movies watched count, episodes watched count, full width graph (with much better tooltips), and more complete genre breakdown.
  • Dashboard Recently watched and Network activity have their own sections instead of columns. Network styles are cleaned up and set the stage for more detailed activity in a future update.
  • Dashboard recommendations switched to posters. Once a recommendation is hidden, a new one will be added to its place.

April 29, 2016

UPDATES

  • Lists page header cleaned up and reordering updated so lists can be moved first or last quickly. Drag to move manually, or click the arrows for quick move.
  • List page header cleaned up to accommodate longer titles better. Edit or delete the list directly from this page. Reordering has been improved so items can be moved first or last quickly. Drag to move manually, click the arrows for quick move, or delete the item when in manage mode.

BUGS

  • Fixed avatar size on the user network pages.
  • Fixed an issue where some TV show titles were changed to non English.

April 19, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • RSS feeds added for all calendars. You can use these easily with IFTTT.

April 18, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • RSS & CSV feeds added for watched progress and collected progress pages. These feeds include the next episode to watch or collect.
  • Dashboard has quick access to RSS/CSV feeds for the on deck section (same shows and episodes as your watched progress) and iCal/RSS feeds for your upcoming calendar.

April 13, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

UPDATES

  • Sort item comments by most replies.

April 7, 2016

UPDATES

  • Watched percentage and time left to watch are displayed on your watched progress. Collected percentage is displayed on your collected progress. Hover to see more precise episode numbers.
Watched percentage and time left to watch.
  • A fade unlisted filter is available in sections that support filtering such as TV, Movies, Calendars, and most User sections.
  • A hide unlisted filter is available in your Calendars and when viewing other lists (other than your own lists).
  • Compare your watchlists and lists with other users. For example, to see only items you both have listed select fade or hide unlisted. To see only items the user has listed, but you don’t, select fade or hide listed.
  • Search results can be sorted by the most recent year if you prefer. Change this in your search settings.
  • Improved ID search results when multiple items are found. Also added a Trakt.tv ID search type in the main search type menu.

April 5, 2016

UPDATES

  • Several user progress updates and new settings added. Choose your default sort for watched and collected progress. You can also include watchlisted shows and special episodes in either section. Watched progress can include collected shows (helpful so you know a show is ready to watched). Collected progress can include watched shows (helpful if you want to collect all the shows you’ve watched). The dashboard on deck uses the same settings as watched progress.
  • User history has a new filter for hide rated. This allows you to easily identify items you’ve watched but haven’t rated yet.
  • Social icons can be added to your user profile. Enable the icons in your notification settings.
Optional social icons.
  • Auto watch movies and episodes when you rate them. Enable this setting to use today’s date or the original release date. If the rated item is already watched, another play won’t be added.

BUGS

  • Display issues with some dropdown menus incorrectly overlaying the header or user menu.
  • List percentage sorting had some rounding errors.

April 1, 2016

VIP UPDATES (more info)

  • Advanced filtering is out of beta and enabled for all VIP members!
  • Year in Review actors should be correctly ordered now. There was a bug with the counts and ordering that affected some users.

UPDATES

  • Search results updated with a new look! They use a grid of results and allow you to choose which type of images you prefer including thumb, screenshot, fanart, logo, banner, or poster. This also looks lot better on mobile and tablets.
Search results
  • Mobile user pages cleaned up to display the filter options when you click the gear icon. The filters were taking up too much room previously.

BUGS

  • Seasons and episodes sometimes weren’t being auto removed from your watchlist.

March 24, 2016

UPDATES

  • Dashboard on deck and upcoming calendar can use season posters instead of the show poster. Enable in your settings under the Dashboard section.

BUGS

  • Hide icon in the dashboard on deck moved to the left side to account for shows with longer titles.
  • Fixed a desktop scrolling issue in the actors section on movie and show summary pages.

March 21, 2016

UPDATES

  • When applying the listed filter on your calendars, it will now also check if the show itself is on your watchlist and fade/hide as needed.
  • User progress has a new filter to hide Airing Shows. This can help you can binge watch shows you know you can actually complete since they’re ended :)
  • User progress can be sorted by popularity.
  • User movie history, show history, and episode history can be sorted by popularity, rating percentage, and votes.
  • User ratings supports dividers when sorted by recent activity. This is similar to the dividers on the history and collection pages.
  • Dividers can be turned off in the user history, collection, and ratings pages. This tightens up the grid if you don’t care about grouping by date.

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