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:
closed Move edit reason to the top of the history window's instance
It's honestly kind of annoying that you have to scroll down to the bottom to see it, especially for large edits.
openClean up URLs Browse
e.g. remove /pmwiki/ (the most blatant offender) - the ugly URLs would redirect to the pretty ones, of course. The forums need some work too.
Edited by sroracleclosed PM archive
Have you ever accidentally deleted a private message? I have. Are you afraid of the delete buttons? I am. A PM archive that goes back thirty days would solve this. This way you can read and reply to messages you accidentally deleted.
openTweak image uploader to add potholes into markup General
Something that would be helpful with the image uploader would be the ability to incorporate the wick that will be potholed in the pic. Say, once the pic is dragged into the field, have an extra field pop up once the pic displays that you would put the wick in, which would then be incorporated into the markup that the uploader generates at the end of the process.
Edited by Willbyrclosed Unify watchlists
It would be nice if all items one has watchlisted - be them threads or wiki pages - would have one instead of two watchlists.
workingLaunched or discarded YKTTW's should not be editable
This has been used for vandalism in the past. With the exception of moderators (for removing inappropriate material), this should not be permitted for regular tropers.
openRandom buttons Home
Please can we have the random buttons visible, not hidden under that new icon?
openExpand ATT, TF, YKTS acronyms in top bar
The acronyms can be a bit confusing if you aren't used to them, and there's no reason to keep it short because there's plenty of room on the top bar for all of them (for normal resolutions, assuming you also cut out the "Home" link like you have for the Trope/Work pages).
The top image is what we currently have, the bottom is my proposal.
Look at the grey bar.
openFolderization tool
There used to be a nifty tool that would turn any Asscaps folders on a page into collapsible folders. Can this be reworked for TV Tropes 1.3?
Edited by Morgenthalerclosed Thinner Sidebar
I know it's been mentioned, but the sidebar makes the site look incredibly cramped.
openGive "New" button on YKTTW another meaning
It took me until today to find out that the "New" button on YKTTW is not broken but indicates threads I have never opened. That info is of little relevance to me (others: come forward if you like to differ). What I want to see is if a thread has updates after I last looked at it. This is currently indicated by a green speech bubble on the right. I would like to have this indicated on the left of the title box where you start reading the titles. Hence the "New" button becomes this indicator. It would just be a reverting to the old days or how it still operates on boards like TRS and IP (green check boxes).
openLink to trope on Trope Depictions
For Trope Depictions on the front page, the big blue text (currently says "Hot Line") right underneath the picture should be a link to the trope in question.
openSearch ideas
I have this idea for search, inspired by Wikipedia's search . Google isn't the best. You can configure the searches to do this:
1. Searches the main site(including works and tropes) 2. Searches subpages(except for Darth Wiki and Sugar Wiki) 3. Searches Just for Fun 4. Searches Sugar Wiki 5. Searches Darth Wiki 6. Searches Just for Fun pages. 7. Searches the forums 8. Searches queries like ask the tropers.
closed Nightmare Fuel Links
I noticed the links on the nightmare fuel pages are red. Obviously, this can cause some confusion. Shouldn't they be made blue again?
closed Allow guests to view reviews
Work reviews cannot be seen unless you're logged in. (Bug?)
openCheckbox deletion on wiki and forum watchlists
As is the case with our PM boxes, right now items on the watchlists have to be individually dropped. If possible, it'd be handy to have the watchlists set up with checkboxes that you can click in and then have a "Delete selected" command.

Because I feel like we shouldn't have to track down individual posts or make new ones in order to share avatars with people.