As your friendly neighborhood Admin Team, the gang here at TVTropes HQ is always working to improve the site.
Many of those improvements begin with suggestions posted right here, on the Community Wishlist. Is there a feature you really want on TVTropes? Post it.
Is there something we could be doing better? We want to know. Do you think we look fat in these pants? We were totally afraid of that. See a bug? Report it.
Important things to know:
- We're all about that content-creation life! The top contenders for our attention are ideas that'll create more content, like the video uploading feature, or speed up launching new pages. On the flip side, design or layout tweaks won't be our top priority.
- Help us dig through the goldmine of old wishlist items! If you have an old request gathering dust or spot one you're totally on board with, give it a bump and a like. There's a treasure trove of 6+ years' worth of ideas just waiting to be rediscovered. Items without enough love may not make the cut and will be closed.
- Was your wishlist item locked up without an explanation? It was most likely disapproved or just too big of a task versus the benefit it would ultimately have. Time is precious, and we want to focus on updates with the biggest bang for the buck. Don't be discouraged though! We appreciate every idea and we're always listening.
Make a Tech Wish:
workingAdd Preview Button in order to preview query posts
Adding a preview button to the dialog box used to write query posts would help users correct typos such as spelling mistakes and improperly written markup, and would reduce the need to edit posts immediately after they're posted in order to fix such mistakes or make clarifications. Not only would this greatly benefit the Wish List, but it would also benefit other sections of TV Tropes that use the same box as what is used here, including Ask the Tropers and Trope Finder.
EDIT 5/16/24: I want to clarify, this is primarily a request for queries, as forum posts and wiki edits already have this function.
Edited by JHD0919openGive subpages Darth Wiki skin
He Panned It, Now He Sucks! is now on Darth Wiki per TRS, so it’s subpages should probably have the Darth Wiki skin.
Edit: They should have the Flame Bait banner too.
Edited by LymantriaopenCut invalid sandboxes
At present there are two sandboxes on this wiki with spaces in front of their names. I presume both of them were made before such page names were made invalid. These sandboxes still technically exist on the site, but attempting to access either of them produces an error.
Can the admins cut both sandboxes, please?
workingImproved Video Edit Window
I know video updates are slated, so let me pitch one more. I'd like if the window that pops up for edits (and, heck, uploading in general) can be improved. Right now it's wayyyy too narrow which makes it way too easy to accidentally click out of. Expanding the description box is nice, but if you're not careful you leave the window. It also cuts off links and doesn't differentiate between valid and invalid pages.
At minimum I'd either like it to be made larger, or for it to be like an actual tab window that doesn't disappear just because you clicked on the edge by mistake. Making sure it knows which pages and namespaces can have videos added to them would also be awesome. (It should filter out redirects, disambigs, indexes, subpages, Useful Notes, etc)
Edited by WarJay77closed Custom "bad title" page like Wikipedia has
Markups that I made for what they'd look like:
Edited by opal6561
closed Media Finder redirect still a redlink
I asked about this in a bug report query I made a week-and-a-half ago but got absolutely zero response, so I'm reposting it here.
So in a previous query I requested that Main.Media Finder be redirected to the Media Finder page. That request has now been fulfilled, and I can't thank the admins enough for doing it...but it's still a redlink. If the redlink is left as-is, not many people will know it's a redirect - therefore, I request that it be blueshifted.
workingCancel TLP vote
It has occured to me that there's no way to take back a launchpad vote, pressing the same option gives a pop-up that it has already been voted on, and pressing the other option switches to it. There should be a third option to remove your vote from a draft.
openAllow replacement of your own approved video with a better version without deleting the whole thing.
There are at least a few video examples of mine I want to replace with a higher quality version, but well, since they have so many votes on them and some of them are nostalgic to me due to them being some of the first ones I have uploaded and I don’t want to lose all that. Additionally, it would be easier than having to get it approved again. Some of them also didn’t have a higher quality version I could find at the time, and now I would like to fix that. I hope I explained it well as I genuinely tried my best here to explain it.
Edited by Pokemon439workingAdd "cutting complaining" as a common edit reason
I can see an edit reason like this streamlining the complaining cleanup thread's efforts, even if only slightly. It might also be worth adding an internal link to Complaining About Shows You Don't Like.
If a query like this already exists, feel free to disregard.
openReverse-flagging tool to stop revenge-reporting
Moderators could have access to a checkbox/button which disables the "This page may violate the Content Policy" checkbox in the report page dialog, to be used for pages which have already been reviewed.
So for a page like Cuties (which has been revenge-reported three times within twenty four hours by now-bounced users), the idea is that simply ticking the box would stop the revenge-reporting entirely.
Relevant discussion starts here.
workingAdd extra message from new TRS threads to new CV threads
Newly launched TRS threads have the following message at the top:
However, newly launched CV (Content Violation) threads do not have the bottom part of the message, instead simply saying this thread is locked. I would like for that part of the message to be added to newly launched CV threads.
Edited by JHD0919openInclude hypen to special characters
Boop-Oop-a-Doop was made despite hypens in wikiword being forbidden, and we also have a list at Hyphenated Titles. I was wondering if an empty page has hypens in the wikiword, allow editing existing pages for now, but block creating a new page.
workingAdd 'sort by year' and 'sort by wick count' to the Namespace Index.
The Namespace Index currently lists all the articles we have in the typed namespace. It defaults to alphabetic sorting but I think it'd be dead useful if the items could be sorted by year and wick count. The Main/ namespace, at the very least, as it'd make it easier to identify TLP crashes and starving tropes.
closed Move Query Bugs to the Main "Important Links" section
I suggest moving Query Bugs from Important Links' "Resources" section to the main "Important Links" section.
Query Bugs has been pretty inactive lately, and I believe it being in the "Resources" section is to blame for this. If the link is moved to a more visible place, more people will be able to see it, and more bugs will be reported.
closed PM block other tropers without sending a PM
Currently, PM blocks on other tropers can only be applied while viewing a PM that's already been sent to the troper being blocked. I therefore suggest giving tropers the ability to PM block other tropers without having to send them a PM first.
Eight years ago, ~SatoshiBakura made a wish for different site colors, which ~kory closed last year, saying we should make a second thread to vote on color changes. Since I'm running a custom stylesheet, I experimented with some colors and I found some that looked good. (All strings preceded by "#" are HTML hex color codes.)
Note: Most of what I wrote is similar to what Satoshi wrote, with some minor fixes for color specifications and stuff like that. I know TV Tropes was redesigned in 2018, so if you see stuff no longer relevant, point it out to me and I'll delete it.
Corollary: I did look at some old 2016/17-era pages on the Wayback Machine, so these colors shouldn't be too screwed up. Also, note that I will post screenshots to demonstrate what I am thinking once more people have seen this post.
Font change
Font: Open Sans (the font I currently run on my userstyle). I'm biased, though. I'll run a comparison and show the screenshots in a bit.Normal Pages
Grey headers: Make them blue (either #004aab, #00204a, or #00306f).As Satoshi said, the primary color of the site is (or used to be) blue.
Negative space: Make it light blue (either #00484d or #00124d).
Footers: Same color as the grey headers (either #004aab, #00204a, or #00306f).
YMMV Pages:
Top header: Make it dark blue (same color as the new headers). Alternatively, make it orange (#ab5f00) again.Grey header: Make it dark blue or orange (#ab5f00). The gray button (formerly green) is OK, I think.
Space around text: Not sure what Satoshi meant by this in 2016.
Negative space: Make it dark grey or light orange (#ff710087)?
Footer: Same color as top header.
Links: Should be orange (#ab5f00 or #ba4500?) when highlighted. (Alternatively, you could make them all orange, but...)
Subpage tabs: The proposal in 2016 was to "make the outlines orange and the words dark blue." I believe that meant the fill for the subpage buttons should be orange and the words dark blue, so, say, #ffb938 for the buttons and #00008d for the words? Alternatively, if we wanted the blue aesthetic, we could do dark blue for the buttons and orange for the wording.
Sugar Wiki:
Top header: In 2016, the proposal would have made the top header blue-green and the "random" button yellow. However, given that the appearance of the website has been updated, something like this might work (#990053 for the header bars). We don't need to worry about the "random" button.Bluish green headers: Not applicable to the 2018-era design.
Negative space: Make it lighter pink.
Links: Should be pink when highlighted. (Alternatively, you can make them all pink, but...)
Nightmare Fuel:
Top header: Make it dark red (#8b0000). Make the red "random media" button black.Space around text: Again, not sure what Satoshi meant or whether its applicable.
Negative space: Make it grey.
What say you?