Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025
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Hey Trakt Community, We’re sharing an important update regarding Trakt VIP renewal pricing. Transparency is a priority for us, and we want to give you a heads-up in advance. We’re also emailing all members on a legacy VIP plan that will be affected by this change. What’s Changing? Starting May 20, 2025, all VIP renewals will move to a standardized price. This means that any legacy, promotional, or grandfathered pricing will no longer apply to renewals processed on or after that date. Instead, ...

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I also think it’s time for the open source and/or fediverse Trakt alternatives to get some love.

The price change is listed as going from $30 a year to $60 a year, and they’re also changing everyone to that price:

Starting May 20, 2025, all VIP renewals will move to a standardized price. This means that any legacy, promotional, or grandfathered pricing will no longer apply to renewals processed on or after that date. Instead, all VIP memberships will renew at the new standard rate going forward.

People are not happy on their forum:

https://forums.trakt.tv/t/upcoming-vip-renewal-pricing-changes/56676

This user poll suggests that around 97% of respondents (at the time of making this post) will not renew

https://forums.trakt.tv/t/poll-will-you-keep-your-vip-membership-at-60/56923

  • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    13 hours ago

    Things like this incentivise me to sit down and write an alternative. I just wish I had the time and energy to do so.

      • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        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.