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:
openremove or increase notifier limit
There is currently a hard-coded limit to the number of edit notifiers that can exist, which as discussed in the notifier thread is inconvenient. Would like that limit removed, or at least increased to the point that it is not an inconvenience anymore (e.g. doubled)
openalphabetize notifiers
For edit notifiers to be alphabetized within the dropdown menu.
open[Video] Support subtitles
I uploaded a video recently that had speaking in a voice other than English. While the video itself contains embedded subtitles with translated text, the site's video player does not, meaning that viewers would not be able to understand the video.
Supporting embedded subtitles would allow users to switch between subtitles if they need, or if available, turn them on for English-language videos, if they are hard of hearing, and require subtitles to understand the video.
openSearching Administrivia
As a freshly hatched troper, I’ve been trying to learn everything I need to through Administrivia. Unfortunately it seems like the only way to find administrivia pages is by clicking through wicks (I think that’s the term?). This means that finding an Administrivia page again requires remembering the steps taken to get there along with the page name. It becomes particularly painful when trying to figure out policy on something without knowing for sure which section it might be under.
openCreate a TVTropes App
Can you create an app for TV Tropes. It will be great for Tropers with smartphones and smart tablets. The tropers can take the app on the go.
openTLP - Hat/Bomb Delay
Since there is a three day delay on being able to launch drafts from the TLP, perhaps Hats/Bombs should not be able to be applied during that time.
Too often, I see TLP drafts that snag three, four, maybe even five hats the day they're created. Even with the pop-up, it seems that too many people will "Hat" things ideas they like, rather than what they think is ready to be launched. I've also seen this happen with certain tropers who I suspect get a few of their troper buddies/sock puppet accounts to get some Hats rolling.
With this, I believe drafts would have some time to breathe, get some quality discussion going, and really get fleshed out before their trope worthiness gets evaluated.
I went back a few pages and didn't see this suggested previously, apologies if it is a duplicate.
Edited by BeerBaronopenSee comment history on bug reports/wishlist items
Since there is no ability to follow reported bug reports, or wishlist items, it would be useful to have a list of items you've replied to, like in the Trope Launch Pad, which would let you go back and see if anyone has responded to your post, rather than having to root around your own profile to find much of the same, or having to dig through the wishlist/bug reports to find the post.
Edited by techno156openAmbiguity warning
If an item is in the Ambiguity Index, have a warning popup if it is added in an edit when hitting save.
For those wicks that were already on the page, have a flag that shows up in editing, like how we had warnings for misplaced YMMV/Trivia back in the day.
openBlocking Users
Exactly What It Says on the Tin. The blocked user is unable to send you PMs besides Notifiers and if they try pinging you, you won't be able to get the ping. You are also unable to see the blocked user's posts.
openNullify the YMMV and Flame-Bait icons if they are Word of God.
Word of God goes under trivia and pertains to everything the author of a work has stated about it. Sometimes, the author states things such as "we tried not to derail the characters" or says stuff about the character's alignments.
In these cases, I don't see the need for the icon to appear. It's not like wicking the mentioned tropes is out of place. In fact, it fuels the wiki.
openFix links in PMs
PMs are all in plain text, which means links or wicks won't display properly. These are terrible if you want to send notifiers and you want to send in multiple occurrences of the same problem happening in multiple pages from the same person. If it's a full link (such as another edit), you have to copy and paste it in your browser, which is extremely inconvenient.
workingAdding WebComics to the New Edits Dropdown Filter
Web Comics is not listed in the New Edits Dropdown Filter. It should be listed with all the other namespaces.
openBetter Organization for TLP History
Don't get me wrong, the new TLP history pages are exactly the sort of thing people have wanted for years... But they're weirdly organized with a seemingly randomized trope list. I think it'd make more sense if it was ascending or descending in order of recency.
openTV Tropes Video Tutorials
I was wondering if you could make some TV Tropes tutorials on You Tube. It will be great for those who don't know how to edit on the site. The videos on You Tube you can upload can teach newcomers to make proposed tropes, edit some pages, and add examples.
openBetter templates
Trope Entry Template, Program Entry Template, and the other things are great. I like them. However, they're a bit lacking. I'd like there to be templates for other page types, like Laconic and Quotes. Plus, I think the templates should be moved to keep them easier to access. Instead of having Trope Entry Template or Program Entry Template, we should move them to Main/Template and Work/Template, as well as having the other templates written in said format.
closed Please Let Us Edit our Edit Reasons
I wish we could edit our own edit reasons in case we happen to make a mistake (e.g. a typo) in one.
EDIT: For the curious, when I edited this, I just added "Please" in the title.
Edited by RandomTroper123openCharacter limit counter
Since certain pages, like the trope and forums have issues if the page/comment is too long, and will either cause the server to crash, or for the comment to be done deleted, a character counter would help by suggesting that the page/thread be broken up if the limit is exceeded.
openKeep Redirects off the Icon List
Currently, if a work has a redirect in another namespace, that namespace still shows up on the top list even though the page doesn't technically exist. All it does is make things really confusing and cluttered. It'd be great if the redirect code could automatically prevent icons from appearing.
I've noticed the art namespace doesn't have a small icon in its tab as every other namespace does.
A small brush dripping paint would be cool, I think.