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One thing I've noticed is that for all how the page for They Might Be Giants claims them to be the unofficial official band of this wiki, there's relatively few people on this site who seem to ever reference them.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 13th 2024 at 12:59:03 PM

CardboardBot from Saudi Arabia (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#10501: Sep 10th 2022 at 12:01:30 AM

NO-

Well this is a page topper.

Edited by CardboardBot on Sep 10th 2022 at 10:01:47 PM

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#10502: Sep 10th 2022 at 12:02:11 AM

RE: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13646132210A95550100&page=420#comment-10499

It does make you wonder what the thread with the most pages/posts is. I think I saw one with 3000+ pages once?

Edited by techno156 on Sep 11th 2022 at 5:02:25 AM

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#10503: Sep 10th 2022 at 12:02:20 AM

Only 245 pages to go

[up] I think this was discussed previously, but at the time consensus was the Complete Monster thread. Right now it's nearly at 13K pages. Dunno of any 300,000 page thread though

Edited by WarJay77 on Sep 10th 2022 at 3:03:52 PM

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#10504: Sep 10th 2022 at 12:19:03 AM

I never get these sorts of numerical milestones... every number has something special about it. 421 is a prime where every digit is half of the previous one. 10503 is the product of a prime and a cube.

I think I might've tried to start a forum game about that at some point but no one else thought it was funny. :P

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rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#10506: Sep 10th 2022 at 12:41:55 AM

The Complete Monster thread is probably the largest thread that serves the site directly, but in terms of absolute pages, the We Are Are Avatars RP thread is most likely the largest on the site with its more than 1.2 million posts and 49,381 pages by the time it ended.

EDIT: [nja]'d

Edited by rmctagg09 on Sep 10th 2022 at 3:43:10 PM

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
harryhenry It's either real or it's a dream Since: Jan, 2012
It's either real or it's a dream
#10507: Sep 10th 2022 at 2:21:02 AM

I think the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic thread could've been the longest had the 2013 hack and resulting deletion of the original thread not happened. That speaks to just how omnipresent that show was on the site at the time, in what still might be the largest active fandom the site's ever seen.

NitroIndigo ♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves from West Midlands region, England Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves
#10508: Sep 10th 2022 at 2:31:22 AM

[up]It's definitely a staple of Just for Fun pages.

Libraryseraph uu~ from Canada (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: Raising My Lily Rank With You
uu~
#10509: Sep 10th 2022 at 7:32:19 AM

[up][up] Wait, what 2013 hack?

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#10510: Sep 10th 2022 at 7:48:07 AM

Yup,someone discovered how to access the mod tools and deleted a bunch of threads,and it all happened overnight from what I can remember

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
RacattackForce (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#10511: Sep 10th 2022 at 8:21:26 AM

Part of me feels like Accidental Innuendo is a Just for Fun page in everything but namespace.

ChloeJessica Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Awaiting my mail-order bride
#10512: Sep 10th 2022 at 8:20:55 PM

how much server space do we actually have for images that running out isn't a worry?

Edited by ChloeJessica on Sep 10th 2022 at 8:21:02 AM

GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
C'est la vie. (he/him)
#10513: Sep 10th 2022 at 8:53:23 PM

[up]I have no idea, but considering the admins haven't had to implement a function for automatically deleting unused images, I'd say we're good for now.

I got a rock for Halloween.
WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#10514: Sep 10th 2022 at 8:57:46 PM

I wish we could delete images now, it means there's still copyrighted images and troll images and likely porno images just sitting in our servers forever. I know it's not a server priority but it feels like a no-brainer.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
ChloeJessica Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Awaiting my mail-order bride
#10515: Sep 10th 2022 at 9:04:02 PM

think about all the duplicates from someone forgetting to copy the URL of an image they uploaded, since there's no way to find it again if you lose that

not that ive ever done that, or accidentally uploaded the wrong image from my phone

GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
C'est la vie. (he/him)
#10516: Sep 10th 2022 at 9:04:24 PM

[up][up]The admins actually can delete images. I've just only seen it done once since I became a mod.

(That said, the fact it's an admin-only thing and not at least something mods can do is inconvenient.)

[up]I do know URLs are why a Complete Monster image was replaced with The Boss Baby (since immortalized on Funny.TV Tropes).

Edited by GastonRabbit on Sep 10th 2022 at 11:07:05 AM

I got a rock for Halloween.
WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#10517: Sep 10th 2022 at 9:17:31 PM

Duplicate images are a big problem with me. I don't forget to copy the URL, the popup is just janky and prone to closing while I'm trying to copy it.

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badtothebaritone (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Snooping as usual
#10518: Sep 10th 2022 at 9:17:43 PM

[up][up][up] Literally happened to me yesterday. If only you had an "uploaded images" page like you do with videos...

Edited by badtothebaritone on Sep 10th 2022 at 11:18:00 AM

Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#10519: Sep 10th 2022 at 9:20:13 PM

There is one (it's under "Tools" in the sidebar), but it only records images uploaded from wiki pages, not the forum.

ChloeJessica Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: Awaiting my mail-order bride
#10520: Sep 10th 2022 at 9:21:52 PM

this is officially the strangest image i have uploaded wikiside

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/capture_2020_06_23_22_28_40.png

GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
C'est la vie. (he/him)
#10521: Sep 10th 2022 at 9:25:03 PM

[up]"Oh, I didn't know there was a kind of soup you could eat without silverware. It tastes horrible, though."

I got a rock for Halloween.
BlackFaithStar [Hiatus til March] from 🇲🇾 (UTC plus 8) (Less Newbie) Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
[Hiatus til March]
#10522: Sep 10th 2022 at 10:21:14 PM

I kept forgetting where that Image List was, thanks.

Now I definitely know that the page image for Film.Level 16 (page made by someone else this year) is the same image I uploaded when I wanted to make the page back in 2021 lmao. Left it lying as a WIP in my sandbox until I learned that someone made the work page. https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20220911_131732_chrome.jpg

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Zanreo Gizmondo from Glitch City (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Gizmondo
#10523: Sep 10th 2022 at 11:28:10 PM

I feel like if the site was having problems with space, they'd be going after something like videos before images, as those likely take up way more space

My favorite failed console tbh
GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
C'est la vie. (he/him)
#10524: Sep 10th 2022 at 11:43:33 PM

[up]Well, unlike deleting images, deleting videos actually is something mods can do. However, doing a mass purge is probably an admin-only task, so those of us without access to the backend stuff would have to play whack-a-mole if videos had to be deleted en masse.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Sep 10th 2022 at 1:45:08 PM

I got a rock for Halloween.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#10525: Sep 10th 2022 at 11:50:37 PM

Not sure what kind of server the website is hosted on to have no media upload restrictions, but if admins get concerned about that, they will tell in advance (or pull You Didn't Ask and ask for an immediate cleanup).

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup

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