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:
closed Bring back Search Forum Titles
Because the current forum search is completely broken if you're looking for a title that's also a common word in posts themselves.
The 2012 French Presidential Election thread is impossible to find!
closed Please restore the Search Function.
For the past couple of days, something seems to have changed about the Search Algorithm. Whether it's the Old or New Search, it's suddenly become much less intuitive. Whatever had been done to "upgrade" the Search Engine, please undo it.
Edited by SAMASclosed Fix how settings are stored
As is, the settings resets whenever the cookies expires (for literally no reason), and it becomes real bothersome to have to reconfigure everything after that, specially because some settings are hidden inside the account settings. So, idea: attach the settings to the account, so when you log in, it remembers the settings as they were and automatically applies that.
closed Add "Rogue/Stealth launch" and "Unilateral edit" as common edit reasons.
Exactly what it says. So that it would be easier in case of dewicking.
closed Updated Image Pickin' thread reasons
Per the results of this Wiki Talk thread and a request from Kory, I'm making a query for the updates to the Image Pickin' thread reasons. The new list (for now) will be:
- Needs Help
- Does Not Illustrate
- Changed w/o Discussion
- Policy Violation
- Duplicate Image
- Suggestion(s)
Once these get implemented, their uses will be spelled out in detail in the IP discussion thread.
Edited by Willbyrclosed TRS thread reason changes
Per this comment and further discussion, I figured I'd copy over what was discussed.
Some of the selectable thread reasons one can start a TRS thread for are a bit outdated. GastonRabbit, I, and others discussed possibly changing some of the thread reasons. Specifically:
- It was suggested that the "Snowclone" reason be removed for redundancy with Ambiguous Name,
- It was also suggested that "Really a Useful Note" be replaced with "Misclassified" (EDIT: Or "Miscategorized", which might be better), so that it encompasses all tropes that are misclassified (e.g., a Main trope that's really YMMV, a YMMV trope that's really Trivia, etc.)
- While keeping "Really a Useful Note" and adding "Misclassified" was also suggested, I personally am requesting the former be implemented, and
- It was suggested that we could replace "Unclear Description" with "Unclear Definition", since, while description issues are not something that necessitates a TRS fix, definition issues are, especially when vague or unclear trope definitions lead to confusion about what kind of examples qualify for a trope/what the trope even is.
If the admins are already aware of this I apologize. I just figured I'd formalize this in the Wishlist in case the admins could more easily view it.
Edited by themayorofsimpletonclosed Make the cut list "Reason" field mandatory
The cut reason serves two purposes:
- It tells the moderators why the page should be cut
- It appears when someone tries to access the cut page, telling them what's happened to it (e.g. why it was removed from the wiki, or signposting to the page the content was moved to). This helps to prevent the page being recreated in error.
However, the field is currently optional.
Any request without a cut reason will normally be immediately declined, for the reasons above — so can we make this a mandatory field to reduce the number of rejections?
Edited by Mrph1closed Rename the Wishlist page to "Tech Wishlist" or something more appropriate
To make it clearer that this is about tech requests only. This is to prevent wishlist queries like these.
EDIT: Another recent example
Edited by JHD0919closed New Creator Page Suggestion: RV Maika
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.
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 SapphireVampBitezclosed 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.
closed 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.
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.
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.
Searching the text of forum posts is a cool idea, but at this moment you can only search for single words. That is, if you try doing a search for "Tom Cruise", it will find all the posts which say "Tom" AND all the posts which say "Cruise"; there's no way to search for posts where both words appear at once, or for the entire phrase.
At this moment it greatly limits the usefulness of the search feature, and if fixed, it would make it a godsend.
I'm not sure if it's already in the plans — I haven't seen it discussed anywhere.