Where do you all track your movies? Or why don’t you do that?
In my social circle there is just no one tracking movies at all so I wonder: is this considered odd? I love tracking and writing short reviews, so far I tracked it all with Letterboxd.
But now I wanna swap my movie tracking to trakt.tv due to nicer import options and the possibility to track series as well. (Did anyone do this before? I’d have to manually track like 650 movies 🤐 but I can’t find any script or app to automate this 🫠)
So where my fellow trackers at?^^
I have a text file with scripts to sort and filter the entries.
The flexibility is pretty nice since I can track anything not just movies and shows.I track the movies I watch in my head.
What is tracking?
Keeping track of movies (or whatever you want) by documenting every event (in this case: “i watched a movie”)
Okay, thanks, just never heard that before
https://github.com/bonukai/MediaTracker
Self hosted media tracker for movies, tv shows, video games, books and audiobooks
When I’m all grown up I’ll self host too 🪄✨️🔮✨️
I was using trakt, and it was originally great, but they started locking more and more behind subscriptions, so now I self host yamtrack.
I just realized how much trakt.tv paid tier is. I guess I won’t swap to them 🫠
I have a text file.
Thats how I started movie tracking in the early 2000’ lol. Sadly I lost that file
I use trakt.tv for series, but they lose data every once in a while. Suddenly an episode of some series shows up as not watched. A few years ago they lost a little more than just that. Fortunately I also have a text file for series, but I only track seasons in there instead of episodes.
that sounds smart, I’ll consider a text file as backup now 🤔
I don’t. I don’t need the world knowing what I watch.
I’ve since started using a habit tracker app to do it so I know for myself. I use Hindsight on iOS. I’m not sure what’s on Android. But there can’t be too big of a shortage of apps like this.
So I set up one called “Watched a movie” and then I just log whenever I watch one. At theater, at home, who with, etc. Have one for shows, anime, and games, too.
I actually do rate movies on IMDb, but there’s nothing quite like it that I know of. I know, it’s owned by Amazon so it’s trash, but what’s the alternative? I mainly use it to look up who’s in what, and the trivia.
I’m not sure if I track for myself or for the world to know what I watch 🤔 Sometimes I wanna rant about a particular movie scene but like I said - no one in my social circle is into it and so I feel like talking to a wall. I guess that’s why I like the social aspect of letterboxd - reading other peoples reviews is fun for me.
I do both so far, tracking my streaming habits in one habit-app and tracking the particular movie in letterboxd.
Well, Trakt has a community too, and so does Letterboxd (as you know, you use it, I do not). So for the social aspect, those sites beat my implementation.
We’re both using a Lemmy community where we can talk about the movie I just watched or that particular movie scene you’re thinking of, so we both have a half-measure (it’s not connected to tracking) that serves that purpose as well.
A few months back I started using the fediverse platform NeoDB. Doesn’t have all the features of Letterboxd, & not handy for individual episodes of TV shows.
But it’s free-libre, ain’t gonna monetize you & ain’t gonna enshittify.
Review:
https://wedistribute.org/2024/07/neodb-review-culture/JoinFediverse.wiki:
https://joinfediverse.wiki/NeoDBMy homepage on eggplant.place, bleeding edge instance:
https://eggplant.place/users/klu9/Simkl
Oh first time I heard about this
It’s OK. I can’t speak to the web version, but the app is rather mediocre - Can’t rate anything and for TV shows you can’t get individual episode synopsis without multiple clicks leading you to the web version.
