Refract

Track everything you watch in one place 🎬 Movies, TV & anime. Free, no ads, built in public. Games & books soon 💜

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Launch checklist:

✅ App live
✅ Reddit
✅ Instagram
✅ Discord
✅ 70,000 people joining the app within 48 hours and our servers catching fire 🔥
⬜ Twitter

better late than never... I guess 🤷

anyway. hi. we're Refract. we track the stuff you watch.

what have we missed?

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@jinxnvi We are sorry about, please do not resend the files as you might overwrite your import and go back to the end of the queue 🥲 we have you in the queue even if you can't see it (due to the app lagging..)! Should be all fixed in a couple of days 🙏

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The honest part:

The queue is still huge (~29k imports). We're absorbing the entire TV Time wave, and files are still pouring in.

So a lot of you won't feel a big difference yet, and the app can still lag. We know, and we're not hiding from it.

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@kekatothepink Of course! You can join our discord and contact us there directly :) you can find the link in our bio

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@marty327 We'll work in the next days to fasten the import process 🙏

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What's next: more performance work tomorrow. We're attacking a different bottleneck with every update, and the queue is finally shrinking instead of growing!

You've literally watched us scale in real time. Thanks for your patience, genuinely 💜

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Two things worth knowing:
✅ The app is usable, you can open it and navigate, just much slower than we'd like.
✅ Nothing is lost. Your watch dates, lists, favorites, rewatches and episode history are all preserved, that's exactly why imports take time.

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What actually got better today:

⚡ App response times went from 20-40 seconds to under 200ms
⚡ Imports now process several times faster than this morning
⚡ Separate queues by library size, so small imports don't get stuck behind huge ones

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Progress update, honestly 🧵

The big database migration is done, and under the hood the app is a lot healthier now. But we're not going to pretend everything's fixed. Here's where things really stand 👇

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@_R8MA Hi, thank you for your kind words 🙏 and yes we import watch dates and rewatches so those are logged in Refract but unfortunately not reviews and comments as it's much more complex to do it right

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Quick note for TV Time folks 👇

TV Time now has a GDPR export, but heads up: Refract can't read that format yet (coming soon).

For now, use our free Chrome extension "TV Time Out by Refract." It exports your full library and imports straight into Refract.

Keep your file safe💜

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@xandy_tico The wait is almost over! We promise

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@xandy_tico For now we use TMDB but exploring adding additional dbs for better coverage (MAL, anilist, TVDB)

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@rafaelcoutoo_ Migration almost over!

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Real talk about the app being slow right now 🧵

Nobody thought to give us a heads up that TV Time was shutting down 🤔

We're 2 people. Three days ago: 3,000 users. Now: 70,000. Our servers did not sign up for this.

But we know what to do. Here's where things stand 👇

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@patdiguangco The wait is almost over we promise 🥲

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@_tommaonfire_ Joke aside, is it still an issue?

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@dellysambora Ça devrait reprendre petit à petit aujourd'hui 🥲merci pour votre patience

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@Iammoremylrds Don't hesitate to try Refract whenever you get a chance! Our servers got hammered since tv time announcement but we are slowly back on track 🙏

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@_tommaonfire_

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@mu2nira20 @_Skelter_ On it 🫡

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@Mindventure_ @refract_app Puedes donar voluntariamente, además tienen en mente meter suscripción pero SOLO de cosméticos, nunca de funcionalidades... y alguna cosa más tienen pensada, en su discord hay un canal que se llama #the-budget donde explican todo y son bastante transparentes

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@_Skelter_ Best show ever. Not up for debate.