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.
- 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:
workingA "Back to Top" Button
Scrolling long pages back to the top can be a bitch, especially on mobile, so my wishist is exactly what it says on the title.
Edited by alnair20aug93workingLive post preview with a rich text editor
We've got a preview post button, so maybe a live preview? With rich text editor. And bouncing on from that, live pages. Either a notification while composing a post (eg TWO new posts) or live previews of the new posts.
closed Increase size of edit reason text.
The new size is smaller than the edits themselves, so the eye is not drawn to them.
workingEdit Timer
It would be nice if we had an edit timer on the bottom of an edit page as well, since the bigger edit window means that you can't see the timer anymore when you scroll down.
workingDirect link to video examples
I don't know if it's possible but it would make life easier if there was some way to directly link to a video example.
Edited by MacronNotesopenIgnore whitespace at the start of folder labels
On most of the wiki, space at the start of a line is ignored. But for some reason, this doesn't work for folders.
Simply adding a single space after the [[folder: markup puts extra space in the folder label. I usually try to fix this, but I think it should just be consistent with other wiki markup, ignoring spaces at the start of the line.
closed A namespace icon for Franchise
Although there are a relatively small number of Franchise pages, they tend to be the big cultural juggernauts that get lots of attention - e.g. Franchise.Star Wars, Franchise.Spider Man and so on.
It'd be good to have an icon for them, as we have for other namespaces.
closed Non-anonymous crowner votes & optional vote reasons
Similar to what’s being considered for hats & bombs in the TLP. There’s already a wish to let mods see crowner votes, but I think it could be helpful, especially in IP & TRS crowners, for everyone to know exactly who’s voting what on crowners, as well as give them the option to explain their votes.
Edited by PurpleEyedGumaopen"Show all spoilers" for current page
As it stands, tropers can set "show all spoilers" in their profile, or can manually reveal individual tagged spoilers one-by-one when reading a page, but there's no middle ground.
Can we add a feature (e.g. button in sidebar or top of page?) that refreshes the current page to toggle between all spoilers shown and all hidden?
Users who've read/seen a work may prefer to see everything on the page for that work, while still avoiding spoilers for things they intend to watch or read later.
We already do something vaguely similar with foldercontrol, toggling every folder on the page.
openOption to make images smaller in forum posts
So recently the site increased the size limit for avatars, which is cool! However, when posting them in avatar-based forum games (especially ones using multiple avatars) the new, bigger ones often end up unnecessarily and annoyingly big for the purposes of the game. Being able to size them down, similarly to wiki pages, would be nice
Edited by ZanreoworkingAdd pagination to Followed Threads
Unlike most other forum screens, Followed Threads doesn't seem to add page breaks, so you end up with a single extremely long page.
Possibly add breaks after every 50, as happens when viewing all threads in a particular subforum?
openVideo Examples Star Ratings
Let the overall star-ratings number not be shown until a user leaves a star rating of their own.
closed null edits don't duplicate edit reasons
If an edit doesn't change anything on the page, the edit reason only shows up once.
open"Myth" icon
The button for pages in the "Myth/" namespace still doesn't have an icon. Wasn't there a discussion about it at some time?
It would be nice if it has one, it's an accepted namespace. I'd suggest something like an Ankh icon.
workingSearching in ATT/YKTS/etc. should include the poster
Would it be possible to add the posting troper to the field that "search questions" is searching? This would allow an efficient "find by troper" for ATT, YKTS and even the bug list...
workingThe ability to watch "Related" pages.
I wish that we could have a way to follow the Related page for articles, getting updated on when it gets linked on other pages.
openAcknowledging Toys
Copying what I've said in "Ask The Tropers" here, I think we should add Toys to the filters for "Ask The Tropers", "Trope Finder", and "You Know That Show...", as well as give them a their own subsection under "Media" in the Forums. I mean, we have pages for Toys and Toys get their own folders on some Trope pages, so I don't see why they shouldn't have these.
workingEdit War detector
Since page history tracks who edited what, in theory it should easily notice if a user deletes or adds something they've deleted/added previously and notify a moderator.
openAdd unread badges to Followed Pages.
Please do the same as in Followed Threads and add checkmarks to unread pages, with this color scheme it's impossible to tell.
Alternatively use a more contrasting color scheme.
So there's the glitch that requires every draft to have a laconic in order for any edits to go through. Wouldn't it be an easy fix to just make the laconic a required field before posting a new draft?