• 泗水陈总·传承局English
    11·
    2 hours ago

    @OpenAltFinder — the old TV Time list reminds me of how we once shipped a feature just because we ‘had to,’ only to axe it after 47 days when usage sat at 0.7%. YamTrack’s focus on a single inventory view (no social feeds, no clutter) gets that right. We built a shamelessly boring stack last year and it’s still standing; Ryot’s Docker-first stance feels like the same playbook. If you’re evaluating these, drop the ones that feel like ‘TV Time but better’ and keep the ones that rethink the model from the ground up (that’s where we went wrong initially). We documented the dead-ends here https://cxgo.ai/l/refC7zX if it saves you a weekend.

  • Grey Cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    12 hours ago

    Text !
    Text has been pretty good for me I would say,. Before, I was using a site like you to track stuff, but after a website outage that had lasted months and me thinking I had lost everything made me swear to only use local solutions from then on.

    I have made myself a sort of format in plain text track TV shows and other stuff. Obviously, It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that the programs you are mentioning have, but it’s very flexible and I use it to track every type of entertainment that I consume (movie, books, games,…).

    Mine is a bit flawed in some ways but advantageous in others. Basically just a table of one entry per line with columna for name, my score, date, progress, status (completed, watch/reading, dropped) and comments. Since they are just simple files I can sync them between my devices with syncthing, and edit them with anything that has a text editor.

    If there is some new stat I want to track I can just add a column myself. Also have made some scripts to filter and sort enteies. (a bit unhinged)

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      17 hours ago

      How does Watcharr differ from Seerr?
      Seems like they do the same thing. Track shows and tag them for later… acquisition.

      • BruisedMoose@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        Watcharr is for building a backlog and recording what you’ve watched.

        Seerr does let you build a backlog, but it’s more for the users of your media server to be able to request items for acquisition. Once approved, it sends the request to be automatically downloaded and added to your library.

    • BruisedMoose@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      23 hours ago

      Now since you have me looking… I installed Watcharr and it’s okay. Has a Discovery section. Easy to add things and mark them watched. But no stats, no integrations. It just seems a little barebones.

      So I installed Yamtrack. The UI isn’t really as intuitive to me and there doesn’t seem to be a Discover function. BUT I love that it can track books, video games, and others as well. It also has Jellyfin integration.

      I’m going to live with Yamtrack for a bit and see. It would be great to have a tracking app that also handles media requests. Seerr let’s you build a watchlist, but it isn’t all that helpful or fleshed out.

      • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Yamtrack at some point will improve that jellyfin integration. So far it’s locked to the one user but they’ve been doing a ton of API work to get it to support multiple users iirc.

      • dogs0n@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        13 hours ago

        Watcharr has integrations for Sonarr/Radarr with requests (that isn’t as advanced as seerr though), also game tracking if manually configured.

        And jellyfin integration too! Hope dat helps.

  • selzam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    Oh! Good announcement. Thanks.

    Might anyone know if there is a known way to export the “watched”/followed shows?

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      20 hours ago

      The odd thing here is that you bother to make a comment that says you don’t care. What is that about? 🙂