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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.

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Make a Tech Wish:

What is your wish for a technical feature to add?

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Hylarn (Don’t ask)
5th Jul, 2021 06:24:22 AM

...You do know that forum threads can have more than one page, right?

I would like post numbers to be easily viewable again. Or quote button implemented, to make the circumstance that require counting posts much rarer

Piterpicher (Series 2)
5th Jul, 2021 07:48:06 AM

I think he means "per page". that (and re-showing post numbers) would be cool, though.

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SilverCrown (Private)
6th Jul, 2021 03:07:13 AM

Both can probably be done. The "posts per page" could be set with a dropdown in your profile and post numbers could be re-added in since I'm sure they're still there, just hidden.

rmctagg09 (Time Abyss)
8th Jul, 2021 09:24:18 PM

I suspect the former would end up breaking a lot of URLs.

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alnair20aug93 (Long Runner)
14th May, 2023 01:15:41 AM

Bumping if this is a good idea. If not, then please add post numbers on forum threads.

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Amonimus (Sergeant)
14th May, 2023 01:23:52 AM

An example of how it used to look like

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_8_692.png

Adding my mockup as well for consideration

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_5_51.png

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alnair20aug93 (Long Runner)
14th May, 2023 02:00:24 AM

^ That thing, yes. Haven't seen post numbers in 5 years: that needs to be brought back.

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Mrph1 MOD (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
17th May, 2023 12:12:39 PM

Post numbers: yes please.

kory MOD (The New Guy)
17th May, 2023 05:22:38 PM

I can add the post numbers back but I'm not sure about changing the number of posts on a thread per page. Definitely wouldn't be able to make it unique per user.

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kory MOD (The New Guy)
25th May, 2023 09:12:11 AM

Threw it in a few diff places to see what it looks like. Can always change the styling too. What would look the best? https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2023_05_25_at_111041_am.png

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alnair20aug93 (Long Runner)
25th May, 2023 09:22:39 AM

^ The top left made me thought of Discord

It looks good near the timestamp, preferably top right.

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Amonimus (Sergeant)
25th May, 2023 09:25:11 AM

Personally favor top right.

Bottom right look like it's taling space thag should have been for text. Top left for me feels can be mistaken for a part of a username (like old Discord tags) for those unfamiliar.

e: lol someone else thought of discord

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kory MOD (The New Guy)
25th May, 2023 09:29:41 AM

Ah true, it looks like its part of the username. I also think the timestamp is best. So like Amonimus suggested, i'll make it look like this if there's no objections: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2023_05_25_at_112857_am.png

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alnair20aug93 (Long Runner)
25th May, 2023 09:30:58 AM

I like it.

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kory MOD (The New Guy)
25th May, 2023 10:31:33 AM

Looks like adding the post number made it appear everywhere, do you think i should disable it for the special forums or is it fine everywhere? The numbers aren't consistent in these forums, they almost seem random. https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2023_05_25_at_122923_pm.png

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alnair20aug93 (Long Runner)
25th May, 2023 10:34:50 AM

That looks like a feature, but the post numbers should be for the Forums for the time being.

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alnair20aug93 (Long Runner)
16th Jun, 2023 08:55:03 PM

Bumping on the status of this. I would say the post numbers on the Forums is better than on the queries section.

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kory MOD (The New Guy)
16th Jun, 2023 08:57:40 PM

Post numbers coming back to the main forums when all the stuff I’ve been doing for the past few weeks goes live. Most likely next week.

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alnair20aug93 (Long Runner)
16th Jun, 2023 08:58:58 PM

Oooh. 👍🏽🧡

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kory MOD (The New Guy)
7th Jul, 2023 05:26:42 PM

This wishlist query has been fulfilled. Check the Changelog or the Wiki Talk Changelog Thread for a full list of recent updates.

Please remember to like and bump any new or old wishlist queries you think deserve attention so i know what the community needs me to work on moving forward.

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