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Make a Tech Wish:
openNumeral Input for Post Searching
Theoretically, instead of having to click all the way to the end of a page of a forum or all the way to the beginning, why not have a middle blank space to insert a page number that directs us to top of that designated page?
For example, there's <<1 - 4,000>> and if you insert 3,000 into the blank space then you are transported to the top of that page.
closed Input validation for new Launch Pad entries
The Trope Launch Pad regularly sees low-effort proposals from people who haven't read the TLP Guidelines, usually consisting of a few sentences and nothing else. The Laconic just being the title verbatim is another common issue. Such proposals are also usually abandoned as-is with the user never coming back to fix the issues. Is it possible to implement form validation for new Launch Pad entries to stop these low-effort proposals from getting through? I feel like something as simple as detecting if the proposal has three bullet points in it, with an error message directing users to the TLP Guidelines if they try to submit, would stop the majority of them.
Edited by Observanceclosed "Italicizing work titles/names" edit reason
For whatever reason, a select few Tropers seem to forget italicizing a title of a given work, whether it's improper formatting, using commas in place of the standard italics (the former is only used for episode titles), or not italicizing a work titlw at all. I feel like we need an edit reason for properly italicizing work names.
open"IP approved" tab for page pics
The idea for this is to have a toggle on the edit screen, staff-access only, that when selected adds a small tab above the frame that normally encloses images and captions on pages that says "IP Approved" or, in the example I created, says "IP" with a checkmark. The tab would have hovertext attached to it stating "Image approved by Image Pickin’ forum." or something similar, plus maybe a statement to go to the forum to make further changes. I proposed the idea here
, plus a draft of how it might look, and the idea has some support behind it.
closed Twitter icon
Twitter was renamed X, so we should change the link to the official account to reflect that.
closed Give mods the ability to suspend Tropers from hollers
Mods can currently suspend Tropers from making edits, posting on forums, making and replying to queries etc. A Holler Suspension feature will cut down on excessive hollers and reduce the frequency of pointless hollers - plus it makes the mods' jobs easier, since they won't have to waste time reading hollers they're not going to respond to.
(And on that note, yes I know the mods can just ignore hollers if they so choose - they've ignored several of mine in the past, and that's perfectly fine by me - but I figure it'd be easier for them if they don't have to do that.)
workingFix 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 Redirect entries on search lists should explicitly be marked as such
Today, I did a search for Agatha Christie's Poirot Loses a Client. The first result was—correctly—Dumb Witness, but I was unaware that this was a different title for the same book. What would have helped greatly is if the entry for Dumb Witness on the search list indicated that it is a redirect target for my search.
Edited by Someone1981closed Thank tropers for edits
This is pretty simple: A small freature that a lot of wiki's have where you can simply press a button and the trooper who made an edit gets a thank you for doing the edit. As someone who struggles with grammar due to both not my main language being english and dyslexia, thanking those who fix my spelling would be great. That being said, this is a small edit, and I understand if you don't want to do this.
openTags and blurs for Video Examples.
I would like to see certain tags added to a video that, if checked, will cause the video to be blurred out, give the reader a warning, and cause the video to not automatically play. These tags would include:
- Spoiler Alert, for plot twists, solutions to mysteries, or story endings, to which It Was His Sled, Foregone Conclusion, or Late-Arrival Spoiler do not yet apply.
- Graphic Content Alert, including blood, gore, childbirth, or Body Horror.
- Strobe Light Alert (for the benefit of Epileptic Tropers).
- Trigger Warning, for depictions of suicide (including Video Examples for suicide tropes), Domestic Abuse, PTSD flashbacks, or other things that could be a Trauma Button for Tropers.
- Foul Language (if a video contains a Precision F-Strike, Cluster F-Bomb, Atomic F-Bomb, or other NSFW words).
Once these tags are implemented, uploading a video example would require tagging it for Spoilers, Graphic Content, Strobe Lights, or Foul Language; submitting a video example that contains these, but not marking any relevant tags, is automatic grounds for rejection, and the Troper will have to go back and add the tags in order for it to be approved.
If these tags are implemented, Tropers would be given a three-month window to mark any of their existing Video Examples with these tags, after which the Moderators would be able to change the Video Example's Approval Status from "Approved" to "Denied"; the Moderator would then be able to change the Approval Status back to "Approved" once the Troper added the relevant tags.
Of course, videos containing sex scenes, jump scares, or Tropes explicitly marked "No Video Examples" would still be denied automatically.
I was inspired to make this Tech wish by noticing how certain Moderators are more lenient or more strict than others on what Video Examples are suitable for approval (for example, one of the approved Video Examples for the trope Bloody Hilarious is a scene from Dracula: Dead and Loving It, where a Vampire being staked results in a character being drenched in blood and gore; and yet a Video Example for the exact same trope from the movie Suck, in which a Vampire drinks a person's blood through a soda straw, was rejected for being "too gory" despite showing significantly less blood). I figured that if both videos were given a "Graphic Content" tag (and/or a "Trigger Warning" tag), they would have both been Approved.
openReview previews
I'd like to have the option to preview any review before I post them added in, much like with pages and forum posts.
closed upload WEBP image type
How feasible would it be to update the image uploader to accept WEBP? It would save a step when pulling images from Fandom wikis, and the display images seem to get converted to WEBP now anyway.
closed an option to change your password if you forgot it
yep. we (me included) sort of need this, especially the forgetful ones
closed QueryBugs and QueryWishlist buttons
They should display as orange (like YKTTW and Ask The Tropers), not as red, since they aren't proper pages but not redlinks either.
closed Orange Links
The strings "Media Finder", "You Know That Show", "Trope Finder", "Trope Launch Pad", and "Query Wishlist" should also render an orange link when they appear in a page link's title.
closed Tech Wishlist redirect
Make Main.Tech Wishlist a redirect to the main Tech Wishlist page
(a.k.a. the page this query is featured on)

Currently, mods can see a sidebar link for when there's a Trope Repair Shop and/or Image Pickin' thread for a page. I think it would be helpful if those links could be visible for everyone instead of just mods.