[Feature Request] Add season/episode rule value for media that's still being watched (previous seasons/episodes)

[jorenn92]

Explore the possibiltiy to create a rule value that returns true when previous seasons are still being watched.

Discord request https://discord.com/channels/1152219249549512724/1194061855426097314

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Hoping to get some advice on creating a rule.
I currently have a rule that deletes any TV show that hasn't been watched once in the past year. To make it work I had to add two sections to capture all cases.
It works well, but I have it running against "shows" and I'd like to run it against "seasons". The problem being when I use the same logic for seasons it selects seasons that I haven't got to watching yet, but I will once I've finished the previous ones. There's nothing wrong with this logic obviously, it's doing what it's told, but I'd like to exclude seasons that aren't the earliest season available.
For example if a show has 5 seasons and I only have seasons 3, 4 and 5 downloaded, and I'm halfway through 3, I want 4 and 5 to not be included in the rule. Once I've watched 3 and it gets deleted, 4 would then be included in the rule unless it gets watched.
Is this possible at all? If not it's no worry, just wanted to get a bit fancy.

Reply:

Hmm, I don't believe that's currently possible. However, I don't think the use case is too exotic; it seems logical to want to keep future seasons of a show that's still being watched.
I'll explore the possibility of adding a season/episode rule for this purpose!

[jorenn92]

Perhaps just add a flag that returns true if a season is the first available season of a show? (or episode is part of the first available season)

[appiekap653]

Should the already existing value: users that watch the show be empty for all the shows you want to remove?

So if User 1 is watching season 3, and season 4 and 5 are checked against the value: users that watch the show, it should give back User 1.

Hence checking for an empty users that watch the show should do the trick right?

For myself I use: users that watched all existing episodes contains Users that watch the show.