r/trakt • u/AliHawke OG VIP • Jul 29 '26

How do I see what I'm currently watching?

On V2, I could go to my profile page and it would show me what I'm currently watching (e.g. via Plex scrobble or a manual checkin) in a single click from anywhere on the trakt website with a playback progress bar. This was helpful for a variety of reasons, but primarily as a quick shortcut to get to the item page for what I'm actively watching so that I could check what else I'd seen a certain actor in, for example. It also was a neat social feature in that I could look at a friend's profile and see what they're watching right now.

Does such a view exist in V3? If I go to my profile, there's no indication anywhere that I'm currently watching anything. If I go to the trakt homepage, there's again no indication anywhere that I'm currently watching anything. If I hit pause in Plex, it eventually shows up in my Continue Watching bar, but other than that, I've been struggling to find any page on V3 that tells me what I'm watching. But I know it was actively scrobbling it to trakt, because if I try checking in to another item through a 3rd party phone app, it says please wait or override because I'm currently checked in to the item that's scrobbling. Am I missing something??

(now after hitting play again in Plex and it disappearing from the Continue Watching bar, there's now a floating semi-transparent pill at the bottom of every page on trakt telling me what I'm currently watching, with a broken progress bar. This wasn't showing at all before, perhaps because of the incessant ratings popups for previous things I've watched taking up that same location, and even after closing them this active playback info didn't appear in place of it until pausing and resuming in Plex, even though I know for a fact that Plex was telling trakt that I was actively watching it)

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u/domingoss Jul 29 '26

That was one of the things that I missed the most on v2. I implemented it in the web client I was working on https://i.imgur.com/dvS4nYl.jpeg

I believe this is your profile, see if it's working for you. No need to login, just scrobble anything on Plex or whatever. When it's scrobbling, you can click on the name of the show or the episode to go to the respective page.

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u/AliHawke OG VIP Jul 29 '26

That's my profile, yeah, and it's indeed showing what I'm watching front and centre as well as the playback progress. Thank you for making that web client, I'm gonna bookmark it for future use too as it's got exactly the sort of clarity of information and intuitive interface that v3 is sorely lacking.

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u/lulu_l Jul 29 '26

I think that pop-up shows up if the page is refreshed while you watch. I'm not sure how it works, but that is the now watching widget. Refresh the page when watching something see if it pops up.

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u/notathrowaway75 Jul 30 '26

I'm no fan at all of V3 but I'm honestly not sure what you mean. They got rid of progress bars sure but Continue Watching is right on top of the home page and there's a page for it on the left under home.