aeronmelon
@aeronmelon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back 3 hours ago:
Reverse onion. I thought this was satire at first.
- Comment on Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025 8 hours ago:
Yep, there’s an export feature built into the site now. It used to be by request only, but now anyone can create a backup from the Settings > Data page on command.
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Stops typing
- Comment on Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025 16 hours ago:
For people outside of the loop,
Trakt has been running since 2010, it got popular because it lets you track and record your watch history with a UI that no one else seems to offer. It connects to Plex and other services so you can scrobble your watches, get notified of new episodes and movies, and has a social layer throughout the site to commune with other users and comment on what you’re watching.
In the past few years, however, there has been one controversy after another.
Trakt abruptly stopping using TVDB for its data due to API costs and now uses TMDB. This created a number of problem with data being mismatched or completely wrong. The leadership of TMDB has a lot of weird ideas about how shows and movies are formatted, splitting episodes into multiple episodes here and merging episodes and entire series together there, or even disqualifying series from being listed over arbitrary technicalities. Trakt blindly follows whatever TMDB does and their admins locked a long-running thread complaining about these issues on their own forums.
Trakt started arbitrarily changing the way the site looks. Including locking the original color scheme behind a paywall, leaving free users a new, gaudy bright purple color scheme that isn’t even complete (random elements of the free site are still the original maroon). The site overall is getting harder to load and uses far more resources than it did just a few years ago. Trakt launched a “lite” version of the site which is not light in size, it’s just the mobile UI for desktop which is just as resource intensive.
Recently, Trakt nerfed crucial features for free users (and even for paid users in certain ways), limiting playlist making and record-keeping to the point where free is almost useless. And the reduction of playlists, which are curated and shared by users on the site, reduces engagement throughout the entire community.
Now this.
The whole company is becoming corporate and as a result been subjected to enshitification.
I am still using it, for now, because I still benefit from the recommendations it gives me based on what I’ve already watched. Once that stops being the case, I’m just going to leave.
I keep text documents of everything I watch. What I enter into Trakt is just a mirror. Trakt does allow all users (including free users) to download their data and just bugger off. So everyone who uses them should go test that feature.
- Comment on And you think YOUR job sucks 1 day ago:
He’s way ahead of us in life. We’d better CATCH UP!
- Comment on Spoon 1 day ago:
I remember those stupid things. The junk drawer in my childhood home had roughly 70 of them at any given time.
- Comment on looks can be deceiving 1 day ago:
Bulma ‘bout to void the warranty on Link’s outfit.
- Comment on Based 1 day ago:
Understandable, have a great day.
- Comment on Lead becomes gold for split second during LHC experiments 2 days ago:
When you see the placeholder graphics just before the real ones load in.
It’s like the whole universe is the slit experiment on the grandest scale.
Observed object: “I am lead.”
Unobserved object: “I am all things.”
Observed object: “Back to lead.”
“The entire universe in an instant.”
“Back to lead.”
“The beginning and the end!”
“Lead.”
“Alpha and omega!!”
“Gold. OH SHIT, I mean… lead.”
- Comment on hehehehee 2 days ago:
“A witch!”
- Comment on Front is back. 2 days ago:
My grandparents’ house was built this way. The front door was facing the street and connected to a family room that they never used, while the back door was facing the carport and connected to a sitting room that they were always sitting in. So the back door was regarded as the front door, even by the neighbors.
Even they were surprised when someone rang the front doorbell.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 3 days ago:
We listened to music as 41kB RealAudio files that sounded like the song was underwater, which was the style at the time.
- Comment on Every week has WTF in it (MTWTFSS) 4 days ago:
My tits! What the fuck? So stupid…
- Comment on "I want that gift" 4 days ago:
Still a mimic.
- Comment on Why is it so satisfying 4 days ago:
Is it bad that I know that in the source of this image he is listening to Puddle of Mudd?
- Comment on 28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it" 4 days ago:
We’ll get there eventually, brick by brick.
- Comment on Hungy 5 days ago:
I assume it has the same voice as Pepe the Shrimp.
- Comment on The onion writers crying 5 days ago:
Commonly known as Title Case. Pretty ubiquitous when it comes to article headlines.
- Comment on Golfing with the moms 5 days ago:
I would love to get four of those, paint them different colors, and run up and down a golf course playing Full-Contact Hungry, Hungry Hippo.
- Comment on Savage Garden - A community for fans of carnivorous plants 5 days ago:
I want to subscribe, but I don’t know if I need to.
I’d like to find out, though.
- Comment on Stay on the path. 6 days ago:
Welcome to Gravity Falls.
- Comment on The FBI launched a special task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’ 1 week ago:
“A task force”
I knew Daredevil Born Again was going to touch on some of the same issues, but holy crap it predicted the future.
- Comment on The FBI launched a special task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’ 1 week ago:
How thin does that metal paneling have to be to wilt due to grief exposure to fire?
The Cybertruck makes vinyl home siding look more durable.
- Comment on Sweet pic 1 week ago:
Went on a walk today, took a beautiful picture of the clouds.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 1 week ago:
I appreciate them putting their money where their mouth is after delaying the game to next year.
Hope to see running gameplay soon.
- Comment on froge 1 week ago:
“Not Wednesday yet.”
- Comment on Going back in time to see how the fishes and loaves trick was done 1 week ago:
It’s white Jesus, so they accidentally travelled to present-day Las Vegas.
- Comment on sorry i never replied 1 week ago:
I have two modes; taking weeks to reply and sending a paragraph in response seconds after you hit send.
- Comment on Hear me when I tell y'all 1 week ago:
And now he’s the Mayor on Family Guy, after Adam West’s passing.
- Comment on Apparently it was in the manual, but I'm just learning it now. 1 week ago:
If you press F in Skifree, you can outrun the snow monster.
