What track what you watch?
this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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Yeah, got the mail yesterday. VIP member for 6 years and immediately cancelled it.
I mean, I am okay with paying for something that I use but double the price just like that? Nope.
double price bump for something like this kinda touch to swallow; was a paying member for 8/9 years too
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
I just started self-hosting this: https://github.com/sbondCo/Watcharr
Seems to work decently and integrates with Plex, and the arr stack
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.
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
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
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.
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.
I cancelled my premium (lite) sub. Don't need that service for $60 per year
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.
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 selfhosted
Cool, 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.
Ugh, so what's the alternative?
Yamtrack
I love this. Thank you for the recommendation!
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.
Anyone tried Simkl as a replacement?
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 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.
What is trakt do ?
As a heads up in case you didn't know:
What ~~is~~ does 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 explains why they sent me a “we miss you” email the other day. Thanks for sharing, I’ve deleted my account since I don’t use it anymore.
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.
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
Dunno about the integrations but Yamtrack might work for you
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