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I also think it’s time for the open source and/or fediverse Trakt alternatives to get some love.
The price change is listed as going from $30 a year to $60 a year, and they’re also changing everyone to that price:
Starting May 20, 2025, all VIP renewals will move to a standardized price. This means that any legacy, promotional, or grandfathered pricing will no longer apply to renewals processed on or after that date. Instead, all VIP memberships will renew at the new standard rate going forward.
People are not happy on their forum:
https://forums.trakt.tv/t/upcoming-vip-renewal-pricing-changes/56676
This user poll suggests that around 97% of respondents (at the time of making this post) will not renew
https://forums.trakt.tv/t/poll-will-you-keep-your-vip-membership-at-60/56923
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Geez a 100% price increase to the normal price is an insane hike. They must either be either at the point where they think they’ve got enough people locked in who won’t leave that it will get them a bigger margin and profit per user on the books (possibly for a sale of the company), or they’re in absolutely dire financial straits and this was a hail mary to save the company.
I never found enough use in Trakt to pay for it, or even use the extremely limited free version, so this doesn’t affect me. Unfortunately as the cost of living increases dramatically more and more services are going to be doing things like this. Holding off on price increases as long as they can is great, but had they increased it by $10 a year a year ago, they could have done another $10 now and more people would have stuck around.
I thought I cancelled a couple years ago, so I appreciate them sending me an email telling me they were still getting my money.
What track what you watch?
I just started self-hosting this: https://github.com/sbondCo/Watcharr
Seems to work decently and integrates with Plex, and the arr stack
There are open source alternatives? Do they handle Plex/Infuse integration? Trakt’s obsessive march toward enshitification has been pretty predictable, but maybe this price hike will be the last straw.
Dunno about the integrations but Yamtrack might work for you
I saw RYOT (roll your own tracker) a few months ago but haven’t looked at it since. Will take a deeper look tonight after work
Is there something self-hosted I can use to track my movies/TV? I like seeing my monthly/yearly breakdowns and I’ve been using trakt for this for a number of years.
Integration with jellyfin would be a plus.
This user commented about trying Watcharr earlier in this thread
https://lemmy.ca/comment/16523668
I also see mentions of Ryot, Yamtrak, Simkl, Jellystat
What is trakt do ?
As a heads up in case you didn’t know:
Whatisdoes trakt do?This comment gives a good summary, but in short it lets you track what movies and shows you’ve watched / want to watch
This user poll suggests that around 97% of respondents (at the time of making this post) will not renew
Hahaha, I’ll be pleasantly surprised if 10% of them actually quit.
A 2x price increase (or more for people who are on discounted or grandfathered plans) will likely get people to reevaluate if they really need the service. Based on the comments so far, it looks like a lot of people already have dropped it
This.
It’d be one thing if they increased prices nominally, but a doubling prices, especially at this moment in time when everyone everywhere is feeling drained financially, is just absolutely moronic.
Plus it’s not what I would call a critical service, it’s a nice-to-have service which makes it easier to stop using.
Well that’s just not how anything works, also it’s worth mentioning that people upset about this are more likely to respond to the poll thus skewing data
Anyone tried Simkl as a replacement?
I use simkl after using Trakt, and I prefer it. I can’t remeber what I liked better about it, I guess just the general ux. Oh and it can track Anime, although that can be a bit wonky.
From quick research, it certainly seems to be the preferred alternative. It’s been around for quite awhile and look to have a legit business model. I also found an open source app that looks decent.
How is it a replacement when the price is pretty much the same? I am happy with trakt, I am a VIP member for exactly 10 years and like the feature set, I just can’t justify a 100% price increase.
I didn’t even get an email about this. I would have been angry when my subscription auto renewed. I love Trakt but this is too much. I’ll be cancelling too
EDIT: I cancelled. Bummer. I’ve been a user for 12 years. I track things religiously and I tried to contribute to their site by creating public lists that have actual value.
It’s too short a notice, a flimsy justification, and a poor execution. The auto tracking features they added recently really messed up my watch history so now is as good of time as any to quit.
Things like this incentivise me to sit down and write an alternative. I just wish I had the time and energy to do so.
Yamtrack is a possibility :)
Even selfhostedCool, thanks a bunch. Looks like I’ll be installing this right away.
Edit: bummer, there’s no Kodi integration currently and it doesn’t seem to have REST endpoints. So even if it works, at least for some time it would be Kodi -> Trakt and Trakt -> Yamtrack.
I cancelled my premium (lite) sub. Don’t need that service for $60 per year
Ugh, so what’s the alternative?
Yamtrack
I love this. Thank you for the recommendation!
I really wish the kodi addons would start working with overseer/jellyseer or something similar, it seems to me the tech is there.
I use the basic free Trakt account and it saves my watched episodes and give me recommendations. I agree though, it should have more options
If youre looking for watched info, you could use jellyfin as your kodi backend (which is supported out of the both with Kodi), then something like Jellystat for in-depth viewing info by user.
Less for tracking watched statuses… and more for say using kodi with addons like thecrew and similar that stream shows from torrents etc… that currently allow you to have a page that is a list of shows/movies on your trakt tv, and you can select from there to watch them.
Marking things as watched is pretty far down on the list of features I care about. Having the addons put new episodes up and have a quick list of my shows rather than having to search them on my firestick using the god awful remote to type in the names and search for them… and actually having it syncronized on my network, would be the main feature I’d like to use anything else for.
Unfortunately I’d guess the first and foremost part of that is, it will need to start with the addons actually adding support for something other than trakt to do that.
Ooof, I don’t use it enough to justify that price…
