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.
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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.
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- 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:
openForums hints
I'd like clarity on how displays at forums main page work.
I'd assume that
- gray = all read
- blue = unread posts
- bold blue = unread new thread
However sometimes read posts, even the ones postes by me, show as bold blue and keep the entire forum bold blue, even if all threads in a forum are fully read.
It'd be helpful if the forum's main page had some legend info, becuase why some links are bold and some are not feels esoteric and would require someone looking at the code.
closed More Tropes about Anteaters and Aardvarks
Anteaters and Aardvarks are lovely but underrated animals, like, it would be really cool to see more tropes revolving anteaters and aardvarks!
Edited by SapphireVampBitezopenAdd "New" and "Large edit" icons to the edit views
The green "New" page icon, and the "Large edit" icon are shown when looking at the list of followed pages - but not when viewing My Edits or Recent Edits for another troper.
Can we add them into those views as well?
openReasons for votes on videos
The current video rating system is... not the most elegant, and part of the issue is that it isn't really possible to tell why something is voted for one way or the other. This is especially an issue concerning videos that are uploaded for multiple tropes. If something is present as a video example on five or six different tropes, how I am supposed to know which, if any specific, one of those tropes a high or low rating is supposed to be in relation to?
I have no idea how feasible this is on a technical level, but at least in theory being able to give some sort of specific vote reason ("I think that this video a good/bad example because...") would help clear up some issues.
Edited by TheriocephalusopenReorganizing pages with the word "The" to base it on the second word.
When pages are alphabetized, any pages with the word 'the' are under 't' which can be a bit confusing. Organizing the pages can help with finding them better through a list and avoid an abundance of pages starting with 'the' be under 't'.
Edited by nightlightieclosed Mailbox notification
With honesty from me, is “we’ve received your report” type of response a question? E-mail works differently from the site's PM, so even an automated validation that it has been delivered can be little more reassuring.
openKeep settings after getting logged out
Every so often I get logged out for whatever reason, and after logging back in I need to go back and check the various boxes (sticky header, font, sidebar position etc.).
Is it possible to have those saved when logging in?
Edited by Chabal2closed Make a mobile version of TV Tropes
I have noticed that there isn’t a mobile app version of TV Tropes like Wikipedia; it could make the website more accessible to people on their phones or other mobile devices. Although the website could be redesigned for the app version, I find it to be a missed opportunity since it could make the website more known.
closed Revome empty space in page footer
The page footer is unnecessary high and contains lots of blank space. When I use the End key to scroll to the bottom of a page, I rarely see any content because most of the screen is taken up by the footer.
closed Remove the Hard-Coded Redirect on the Former Porn Tropes page and PRLC it
(Reposting because I never got a response)
The page's custom redirect to The Content Policy and the 5P Circuit (which itself redirects to The Content Policy) was likely a Fast Eddie facet as a result of The Second Google Incident; removing it and sending it to the Permanent Red Link Club would suffice.
closed Bring back the outcome of DuelingWorks
Imagine a history book. It tells of battles and war.
For each battle, it painstakinly details the setup, the terrain, the forces in presence.
...but not the outcome.
That's Dueling Works right now. And as I learned the hard way, has been this way for almost two years.
openCustom Title menu name
The custom title submission form is in the "WikiWord" menu, and says "Custom WikiWord display".
WikiWord specifically refers to URL name and wick links. The form's name may give an impression it's used to rename pages, which we gets invalid requests for almost all the time.
It'd be more intuitive and consistent if it said likes of "Title customization" and "automated WikiWord formatting".
closed PM inbox search bar
With the most recent site upgrade the private message inbox has been changed to a pagination system. This presumably saves on loading time, but it also means that you can no longer easily Ctrl+F your inbox to see if you have notified/messaged a particular editor before. Is it possible to add a search bar to this feature?
closed PM archive
Have you ever accidentally deleted a private message? I have. Are you afraid of the delete buttons? I am. A PM archive that goes back thirty days would solve this. This way you can read and reply to messages you accidentally deleted.
workingShow ratings and clip length on Recent Video page
Make the ratings visible on the Videos overview. It's might be particularly interesting for the My Videos part.
Edited by eroock
closed Fixing "smart quotes"
When looking at the raw page coding, I sometimes see "smart quotes" (these four marks: ‘ ’ “ ”) running around. Sometimes they're just there, other times they end up being used when someone's trying to italicize or bold a word, so it doesn't get properly formatted as a result. I'd like an in-built way of automatically finding and fixing them into ' and " when editing a page, so as to avoid such formatting errors.
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
openPages locked for editing
When a user, or an administrator, opens up a page for editing or other, its padlock icon is the exact same. At first impression, this doesn't tell the troper anything other than its locked when browsing the page. Your average user won't click on the locked icon...because they know that's pointless...and will come back later, or refresh the page over and over. It's only until clicking on the padlock icon, do they find the page maybe locked all along by administrators.
On wikis, pages that have been locked from editing by staff, have a message displayed at the top of the page (see example):- https://hazbinhotel.fandom.com/wiki/Alastor
I suggest tvtropes does the same.
closed Separate WMG entries by in-universe and crossover
I like reading people's theories on the WMG pages. What I hate is when most of them involve completely different IP groups/creators. *Or different IP groups WHEN THE WORK WAS CREATED* E.g. a theory about Alien Covenant that involves Harry Potter lore. Or a theory about Event Horizon that involves characters from the Marvel comic or Transformers universe.
My wish is that there be separate categories for WMG entries that are work-contained, involve crossovers between works by the same creator, or crossovers between the works and public domain, ripped off of or expyed to hell and back works (e.g Tolkien, Dungeons & Dragons)
VS ones that involve theories that crossover works from different universes made by different authors or IP groups.
This would require manual sorting of existing WMG entries which would be a pain in the ass, but actually figuring out which ones go into which category aren't that difficult provided one knows which works were made by the same author.
Esteemed custodians of the Internet, guardians of pop culture, I humbly request that the You Tuber known as RV Maika be granted a creator page of his own. His reviews of video games and movies are worthy of your time indeed. I have provided the link to his page below. Please consider my humble request.
https://youtube.com/@rvmaika5815?si=VAZQLJm_jDDY-bNM