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:
closedPLEASE IGNORE! I MADE A MISTAKE!
EDIT: My bad! Looking for the answers in the wrong places.
Edited by MagnusForceopenBigger TLP, PM and ATT boxes
The text boxes for TLP, P Ms and ATT (and TF, YKTS, Bug reporting...) are only two lines tall, but several lines tall when being edited, making it easier to look over the entire post. Is it possible to make them larger from the beginning, rather then just when editing them?
openMaking the title character limit more visible.
The signature is easy to do, since there's a clear count of how many characters you can use, but the title is tricky as it doesn't tell you and it doesn't stop you if there's too many characters, so you have to guess where the limit is. It would be nice if we had a way of counting down how many characters we had left.
openFormating is HARD
It's hard to format comments or pages. For example, there's an enter hit after the previous period, and seven spaces after the comma and before "and".
Did I get it working? I used two enter spaces to make a new paragraph, right? Wrong. there was a three-space indent before "Did".
Stuff like that. also WIKIWORDS cannot be all caps, even though caps don't matter aparently. Thanks( <—-7 Spaces).
openA Preview button when
Adding or editing a comment, like in here and in TLP, especially when you're not sure of the formatting.
openTool for inbounds
I would really like if the tool to look at inbounds for a page was brought back.
openLinking to Trope Talk from Ask The Tropers' description?
Can we link to Trope Talk from the Ask The Tropers' description?
closed Trope Namer in Description
I don't know whether this is already in the descriptions and I just didn't see it (which is highly likely) but could you maybe add to the main pages of each trope what the Trope Namer for that trope was.
Edited by onurubuopenTruncated Namespace.
Okay, call me a professional nitpicker if you want...
Among the buttons sporting namespace entries on top of the page, the (standard one) longest possible is "WesternAnimation". As such, it is truncated to "WesternAnimati...". Where it becomes silly is that the ellipsis take about the exact same amount of space than it would take for "on", thus it's rather pointless. Pushing up the display limit, even so slightly, would avoid this for a very common namespace. (I don't care about rarer, longer namespaces.)
openMake it possible to put italics or bold lettering within blue links?
I can't remember where exactly, but I've come across instances where people write out examples wanting to put italics or bold lettering within a blue link, but have to write it out the trope multiple times because the website doesn't allow for letter-type overlap.
A clean example would look like this as one link: ''Too'' much '''BLUE''' lettering
But to get what you really want, it has to be written out like this as four separate links: Too much BLUE lettering
EDIT: Finally came across one of the examples in the Narm Star Wars page. Just go down to the "This is TENSE" example under the Phantom Menace section for the Prequel folder.
Edited by RetlocliveopenChange the colour of the Random Media button
If I look at the random media button out of the corner of my eye, I always confuse it with the red icon telling you that you have a new message.
openMake Discussion Page Updates Visible From The Watchlist
Can we *please* have discussion page updates visible from the Watchlist? I'd like to be able to use them, but as it is, right now, unless I specifically mention it in the Edit Summary, I might as well be shouting into the void.
openConfirmation for leaving a page while editing
On MediaWiki wikis, if you try to leave a page while editing it, a message appears asking you to confirm if you want to leave and erase your work. Would it be possible to implement something like that here?
openAdministrivia/ for works the need to differentiated
This sort of query
got me thinking, there are a lot of Similarly-Named Works that are created with a year to distinguish them but the original page and it's sub-pages have not been moved as well (eg Max Steel (2013)/Max Steel, Utopia (2014)/Utopia, The Eagle (1925)/The Eagle, Overboard (2018)/Overboard,Tomb Raider (2013)/Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront (2015)/Star Wars: Battlefront,Star Wars Battlefront II (2017)/Star Wars: Battlefront II, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)/The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Dillinger (1945)/Dillinger, The Jungle Book (2016)/The Jungle Book, Adrift (2018)/Adrift, The Wave (2015)/The Wave, The Maltese Falcon 1931/The Maltese Falcon, Legit (2006 TV series)/Legit'The Lost World (1998)/The Lost World' Leap Year (1921)/Leap Year'The Hunted (1995)/The Hunted'Tag (Riaru Onigokko)'Tag) presumably because the troper don't know how
So prehaps there should be an Administrivia/ page that lists workpages that need to be moved/have their wicks checked like the Work Pages In Main page
Edited by jormis29open"Rainbow" text color
I and some other tropers on Forum Games were wondering if it would be possible to implement a "rainbow" option for text colors. See this post
. Currently, the only way to do that is by coloring each letter separately, which is very tedious.
closed The ability to delete/share avatars from your profile's gallery.
Could we make it so you can delete or share avatars from both your gallery you'd find on your post and the gallery you can go to in your profile? It just seems to make sense.
openMore features in avatar gallery
So, I guess there are two different gallery pages - the one you access from your profile, and the one you access from a forum post. Why doesn't the profile gallery have the "delete" and "share" options like the forum gallery?
Also, would it be possible to implement a way to organize your avatars, by dragging them around?

I'm someone who's not that bothered by most website ads, which is why I'm not currently using an Ad Blocker, but is it possible to axe showing off the "Cliff Jumping / Zorbing / Diving With Sharks" ad? I've never seen an ad lag a website as much as this particular one.
Edited by Retloclive