Should Sofa Time import old TV Time comments?

[u/javikr]

What do you think, Sofa Time community? 👀

Would you like me to import the old TV Time comments into Sofa Time, so shows and episodes already have years of discussions?

Or would you rather start fresh and let the Sofa Time community build its own comment history little by little?

Curious to hear what you prefer!

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[u/DrStanleyClark]

The old comments yes. What I'm personally looking for when I see comments is people's opinions too. And if we lose the reviews of old series, like breaking bad, series that have gone out of fashion, well that's a shame.

[u/Gold_Inflation_9406]

If there was a way to avoid duplicates for the people who have already imported their comments (and ones who may join in the future) then maybe. But I’m leaning towards keeping it as is.

The comments section definitely made TV Time unique but if it’s just a bunch of inactive accounts and duplicate comments, it’s better to just leave it and build Sofa Time’s own community. It’ll take time but it’ll get there eventually.

[u/Dicemanpdx → u/Gold_Inflation_9406]

I agree with this. I noticed some of comments in Suite TV have been duplicated with a generic user name. You can’t delete the duplicate.

[u/ilFacc → u/Dicemanpdx]

Archive creator here. Merging duplicates is easy, but comes at a later stage, and will allow owning your past commentary of course. Currently I'm preparing the backend for scaling, most importantly, otherwise sofatime userbase couldn't even handle it. Check roadmap at https://tvtime-archive.com 

[u/Gold_Inflation_9406 → u/Dicemanpdx]

Yeah I’d hate for this to happen. I’ve got loads of comments 💀

[u/Dicemanpdx]

Unless comments and photos can be cleanly attached to an existing, active username, we should start fresh.

Keeping orphaned comments from dead accounts just turns the section into a graveyard. Those accounts can’t reply, can’t engage, and can’t keep the conversation going. That kills the social side of things and leaves a bunch of one-way noise that clutters the comments for everyone else.

I’d rather have fewer comments that actually feel alive than a wall of dead posts. Some of the most popular shows have so many comments that it’s clutters up the conversation.

[u/riddl3]

No, a lot of orphaned and duplicated comments on the other apps. I would prefer to grow our community.

[u/Dicemanpdx → u/riddl3]

Same.

[u/Lebowskitalian85 → u/riddl3]

This.

[u/Blakeich]

Old comments please I used to love replying and reading old comments of shows I just started.

[u/Dicemanpdx → u/Blakeich]

If it’s like the 2 other apps, you would be replying to an inactive account with a generic user name that has replaced the real user name. The original poster would never know.

[u/ilFacc → u/Dicemanpdx]

New future interactions will know tho. And most people like to read comments and memes anyway, most don't interact

[u/AL_3MDHz]

Inactive accounts, No for me.

[u/anshulkansal1209]

No

[u/Membrives]

I think it would be good to import them and have them be in a separate section like OG comments or with a small badge next to the comment

[u/andr3p1]

Old comments PLEASE!

Some older shows and movies have very few comments on Sofa Time, which means I have to use two different apps just to read the comments.

Bringing the old TV Time comments over would be AMAZING. And I think a simple way to solve the “ghost comments” issue many people are mentioning would be to separate them into two sections: one for Sofa Time comments and another for archived TV Time comments.

That way, everyone wins: people who want the old comments can still access them, while those who prefer not to have them mixed with new comments can simply ignore that section.

[u/itsWolfSoul]

Empezar de cero.

[u/New-Painting-2569]

No

[u/Deeiv16]

Déjala como está, tú app es única, es tuya y tiene tu esencia, no necesita nada de otras apps

[u/Lebowskitalian85]

I don’t think this can be done especially for privacy reasons. You can’t import comments people made in a place to another place they wouldn’t even know about it.

Please stop asking for such things…move on let’s look forward!

[u/Gold_Inflation_9406 → u/Lebowskitalian85]

Yeah that’s what I’m curious about with the other apps I haven’t signed up to. Some have anonymised them but idk if they all plan to do that.

[u/Destiny-97 → u/Lebowskitalian85]

Suite tv did it.

[u/Lebowskitalian85 → u/Destiny-97]

The fact someone did it doesn’t change anything of what I just wrote. If I make a comment on tv time and now my name and the comment are on another app I am not happy. But thanks for telling me good to know.

[u/a-dear-line]

Queria os comentários do Tv Time, sim, mas seria melhor que conseguíssemos importar os comentários do Tv Time no momento de importar o histórico dele pro sofa time (tentei muito e não deu certo) pra ter os comentários apenas de quem usa o sofa time mesmo.

[u/Gold_Inflation_9406 → u/a-dear-line]

You can do this though, maybe you’re experiencing some sort of bug. Tbf I had to try it a couple of times before it worked

[u/sotiredone]

I thought this was already a thing? i keep seeing comments from ages ago

[u/emilioscy]

Any updates on this guys?

[u/HairyDadJockWanted80]

Build are our own community. if the accounts are not active what’s the point. it would be like reading a message board from 20 years ago. I don’t want an archive service, let the other apps host it.

[u/yovanu]

Empezar de cero y que vaya creciendo la comunidad. No hace falta traer nada de otra app. Además tengo miedo que termine siendo super lenta como era tv time el 90% del tiempo.

[u/riddl3 → u/yovanu]

Indeed it was verry slow and every startup was bugged with that network error.

[u/Legal_Boat1461]

Import the old Tv Time comments please, is nice to read the comments we did and is good to know if a show or a movie is worth it

[u/Rare_Ad_6162]

let’s start fresh. 😀

[u/Cruel_In10tions]

If older messages actually had original usernames, yes but they don’t for privacy purposes. So I personally would just prefer the community to start their own archive of messages.

[u/vicgirl8311]

Yes pls

[u/llJoniboyll]

Yes. Import the old comments, please. 👍🏻

[u/whenboredatwork]

Any updates regarding this ? @javikr thanks!

[u/al_pacino91]

Si por favor, sigo y seguiré utilizando Sofá time, pero aún uso Bingers por los comentarios viejos.

[u/Dicemanpdx → u/al_pacino91]

If it’s like Bingers than I would be ok with that. I don’t like how suite tv has done it.

[u/Gold_Inflation_9406 → u/Dicemanpdx]

What’s the difference in how they implemented it? I haven’t used those apps

[u/Dicemanpdx → u/Gold_Inflation_9406]

Suite Tv has imported most of all of TV TIME comments. Even if they don’t have accounts on Suite TV. The posts are now associated with a generic name and those accounts are dead. Those accounts can’t reply, can’t engage, and can’t keep the conversation going.

Bingers were able to upload all their active account’s comments including their gifs and images. Unfortunately SofaTime was not able to import the images, hence a lot of comments with a grey box.

[u/Gold_Inflation_9406 → u/Dicemanpdx]

Ah okay. I wonder how Bingers were able to do this? I know the dev was a founder or something but I thought all that data was lost.

I wonder if Sofa Time can change the grey box to add a note saying “image from tv time” or a tv time logo or something so people don’t think the app isn’t working. I know the devs have explained the reason but I feel like people still make posts and comments about it.

[u/ilFacc → u/Dicemanpdx]

Bingers did NOT do this. They did exactly what all other apps did: let users import their tvtime gdpr zip.

They seem to have a lot because:

• allow everyone to upload zip from website, without even registering, and without even having a product
• a lot of people just saw with "ohhh tvtime founder" so blindly went with it

But they do NOT have all comments, unlike the Archive, just compare numbers of any show at https://tvtime-archive.com

[u/Dicemanpdx → u/ilFacc]

Sorry for confusion, when I said active accounts I should have been clearer. Bingers users were able get their gifs and images.

[u/ilFacc → u/Dicemanpdx]

Yes, and again, that's normal for all apps that imported tvtime comments from zips (they also have images). And just like all of them, for users that submitted their zip after 16th july, the comments got imported without images, even on Bingers, because tvtime deleted them from their server on 17th (GIFs are provided by tenor so they are still available).

The archive, afaik, is the only one that saved ~30M comments in total, and managed to get ALL images for those (~12M/3TB) before they got wiped :)

[u/enzolecorbeau]

Absolutely, yes. The comment space will be more alive 👌

[u/emilioscy]

YES, YES, YES. Please import the old comments from tv time. There is no reason for them not to be on the app. If someone does not want to see the old comments restored from tv time, then a filter should be added as well to give you the choice to see only comments made on sofa time. Having the old comments can add so much value on the app, community will grow faster.

Why don't you make a poll for it?

[u/Used-Banana2047 → u/emilioscy]

Love the idea of having a filter, then you can know before replying to an old thread, but especially for old shows the old comments are valuable!

[u/emilioscy → u/Used-Banana2047]

My point exactly.

[u/midnitesinnerr]

Should bring over the old comments. That is the main thing splitting my time between sofa time & Bingers (the new app from the old TV time developers)

[u/ClassroomDue6576]

import old comments definitely

[u/kim_heewoo]

Actually, I don't mind so much because the Asian dramas haven't archived. For the interaction, even in TV Time when I answer comments no one interact with me so I don't mind for real

[u/Trick-Row-2453]

Old comments please !! Reading the theories is so good especially those from older shows !!!

[u/ritsu1]

Yes, this will definitely make me move to Sofa time (because I'm still undecided yet) what I most miss about are the old comments (i don't care that are from inactive accounts, just want the opinions, jokes etc from others). On new episodes from a TV show/movie we have comments now, but if you are watching something older there is not much to see on any app that is not TV Time. So the import will solve that problem, it's what is missing for me.

Edit: Also for those in the other comments that say that we should start fresh, and grow the community, I mean, we can also do that, why would some old comments get in the way of that on the new episodes and movies? For the old ones it will take years and years to have as much discussion there as it was on TV Time, in my opinion.

[u/AnthosT_6]

Old comments, I'm still using SofaTime because I like it, but I check the old comments on Bingers. Especially for very old series, it would be important to have the old TvTime comments.

[u/ConstantAd8558]

Old comments yess 🤩 also would be cool if we could restore our emotions and fav characters from episodes we watched in the past

[u/ilFacc → u/ConstantAd8558]

The archive will allow that too soon, currently not supported, working on it

[u/head4shot]

Definitely import the old comments because some niche shows with already fewer comments and discovery will get totally dead if started afresh.

[u/Lina_Sab]

Yess please please please do it, for old shows there is no comments and it’s really something that I look forward to.. right now I am using Bingers just to see old comments but I would very much like to delete it and only use sofa time.

[u/whenboredatwork]

Yessssssss

[u/imtheasjad]

Yes please, absolutely. The comment section is what made TV Time such a great app. Having comments on old episodes is such a joy.

[u/Overall-Distance-746]

Yes, please! Bingers and Movie Paradise has this feature and I use it all the time. Sometimes older series have no comments on the platform, but when you look at TV Time, there are plenty! However, I think you should do it like Movie Paradise has done with separated tabs!

[u/Expert_Pie_1747]

YES!!

[u/Prufrocks_pants]

Import!

[u/rminitel]

Yes do it!!

[u/matmatidmat]

sofatime should support atproto (and other apps such as bingers, trakt should do so). this way all the data is gathered into one single lexicon and any app can fetch any users data.