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.
TropesForever
Since: Sep, 2016
29th Mar, 2018 04:23:43 PM
I recall someone made a firefox plugin that shows an article's laconic page when you hover over it. That's sorta similar, right?
Is there any chance MediaWiki-style page previews could be implemented on TVTropes? [1]
It could really help lessen the problem of getting completely sucked into TVTropes, with a dozen-plus unread tabs open, waiting to be read.
TVTropes does not seem to be MediaWiki-based, so implementing it would be a significant technical undertaking. TVTropes articles also don't always have a succinct summary of each article in the first couple of sentences, so either the style of articles would need to be changed (which may be undesirable) or some (or all) articles would need to have a summary statement written specifically for the previews (which would would create a new maintenance burden).
So I understand that this is a pretty big ask, but I think it would really improve the accessibility and user-experience of TVTropes, and thus it might be worth the effort.
Edited by Dave314159