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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:
openTrope Finder: Allow to search for troper names
Sometimes I would like to see the Trope Finder history of a specific user. The search option does not include the name of the user who posted a query, only the words from their post. I can see my history but that's not good enough for this task.
Can we include the user name in the search results? Similar to how work pages can be searched for tropers and content. If possible within the same search field.
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.
workingImage Pickin' subforum for works
I think splitting off an Image Pickin' subforum specifically for work and creator pages could help reduce backlogs and bottlenecks by spreading the load.
closed an option to change your password if you forgot it
yep. we (me included) sort of need this, especially the forgetful ones
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 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)
closed Editing using a smart phone
I don’t know if there’s already a fix for this, but one problem using a smartphone (iPhone in my case) is the quote symbols are not the right ones for coding. For example, ‘’Pride and Prejudice’’ does not work correctly, because it does not use the “right” quotes. See also the double quotes: the iPhone automatically changes them to open and close quotes. Is there a way round this?
openA tool to search for YMMV and Trivia tropes as well as links to the Disambiguation type pages
Some work pages can be long, and the symbols for the YMMV and Trivia tropes, as well as the green colour links to the Disambiguation type pages, can be easily missed by anyone scrolling through the page.
Having a tool to pick these out will make cleaning pages of such things much easier.
closed Red and Green Links in TLP comments
Right now, comments in the Trope Launch Pad display all WikiWords in blue, regardless of if they're valid or not. I can't count the amount of times that misremembered, misspelled, or wrong-namespaced WikiWords slipped into the draft because which ones are which aren't visible in the comment that proposes a given example.
Edited by LendriMujinaclosed Make Red Text and Red Link coloration more distinct from each other
The coloration of Red Links is far too similar to that of the Red Text markup, to the point where one could easily mistake one for the other. I'd therefore like for their red coloration to be more distinct from each other.
(To make things easier, here's a more direct comparison
)
openPage that assigns YMMV banners for nonenglish languages
Currently, Trivia assigns the Trivia banner and Audience Reactions, YMMV.Home Page and YMMV Redirects assign YMMV banners. Yugnat has compiled a list of similar pages in the translated languages here
, which need the backend functionality installed.
working(Database report) List of reviews attached to disambiguation pages, redirects or nonexistent pages
I'd like to get a list (an one-time database report, not a permanent tool) of all reviews attached to either:
- No page.
- A disambiguation or Main/ page.
- A nonexistent (cut or no page) page.
Longer-term fix might be to disallow cutting pages with attached reviews until the attached review(s) has been reassigned or deleted. It's a bit of a clunky workaround I must admit.
workingMake all Image Pickin' threads display on the same page
Currently, the subforum is capped to about 60 threads, but 10 of them are on a second page. Is it possible to make all of them display on the first page?
(Per internal moderation discussion)
workingSmall suggestion for the cutlist mechanic
The input box for a challenge rationale should work also when declining or accepting a cut request (not just like currently, when challenging one), so that moderators can make notes when they accept or deny.

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.