Friend / User Compatability
Here's a thought I had last night: I think a cool, unique, feature would be something like a compatibility meter between yourself and other users. For example, I go to another users profile and in the top bit I can see we're 92% compatible (doesn't have to be a percentage). This "compatibility" is a combination of recent watch history, all ratings across movies/shows we've both watched, and overlap in favorited movies/shows.
From this compatibility, I could tell pretty quickly if we have the same media preferences, and from there I'm more likely to explore their favorites, lists, and recent ratings.
While I personally don’t follow anyone (my friends still prefer Letterboxd), I do often find myself looking at other user profiles after reading a review I agreed with. I like to find users with similar preferences, and from there find new movies or shows I haven't heard of. And, since I mostly lurk, this is more likely to get me engaged with the social side of Trakt.
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Jun 12
PinnedThis has been done, you can now see a Match score on other user’s profiles and get more insights on both your preferences and their preferences to see how they match. Enjoy!
SatchellBC
Jun 12
So awesome! 🎉 Send my thanks to the whole team!
SatchellBC
Jun 9
Looks like they took this out of the “preview” options and it’s been officially implemented! It’s got me clicking on people just to see what our overlap is, lol. I’m enjoying it so far. Thanks team!
SatchellBC
Jun 2
I saw they added a “user match” preview. This is great! Definitely can use some tweaking and perfecting, but I’ve already found new films on other users profiles utilizing this feature.
It also brings up an interesting subject (I will probably make a new post for this): “Shared Topics”. The list of “topics” is different than “genre”, and I would love to see what my top Topic are on my own profile. The EOY stats were great, but the new stats aren’t very interesting to me. I think there’s room for growth in this area. New post coming once I can make my thoughts concise :)