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closed Theatre Icons
For quite a while, I have seen that the theatre namespace lacks an icon. Perhaps the comedy-tragedy mask icon could work as that is most associated with theatrical productions.
workingReviews by troper
I'd really like to have the option to search for reviews by a specific troper (just like it can be done with forum posts), so others could look up reviews from someone specific and I could know what I've already reviewed. Thank you.
Edited by Piterpicherclosed Give us the floating Heading 2 back
Since the design change around 2017, the second hierarchy heading enforces a section break which can create an awkward blank space on pages with large images. See example below for the Shutter Island page which had a much better composition in the past.
Edited by eroockopenGive indices their own icon
Indices are allowed to be used on trope pages, but they aren't supposed to be used on work pages, and there's currently no visual indicator of that like there is with other things that are forbidden from certain page types, like YMMV and Trivia items.
workingShow how often a page is actually visited/looked at
I've realized that inbounds, on the whole...aren't actually all that useful to us. They tell us what pages are linked to outside of TVT, but that's it; not what pages are the most popular to read, not how often people actually look at a page, not how often wicks get clicked on, etc. I think if we started counting a pages' actual viewcount, it'll be a lot more helpful and paint a much better picture of what pages are and aren't that popular.
Edit: Or, we can count both Inbounds and total Viewcount.
Edited by WarJay77openAdd Troper's Discussion History to the Dropdown Menu
I feel like the Page Discussions are not given much attention in my opinion, so much like the Troper Page being added on the Dropdown Menu when you click your avatar, I hope the Discussion history would be added as well hopefully.
workingAdd a preview button when making a new forum thread or editing a post
I don't see why you should only be allowed to preview a new post you're making on an existing thread.
EDIT: Also, add a preview button to ATT and TLP.
Edited by Zuxtronclosed Add wishlist and bugs queries to the sidebar
All of the other query forums like Ask The Tropers, You Know That Show, and Trope Finder have links on the sidebar and the community menu at the bottom. I think the wishlist and bugs queries should be there also as they aren't as accessible.
openRecent Cuts stop mentioning Discussion pages for cut pages
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/showcuts.php
Because cut pages can't have discussions.
openIcon for Character Tropes
We have icons for tropes marked as Trivia and YMMV to help tropers move tropes examples to the correct category when they appear in the wrong namespace (like a YMMV trope appearing on the main work page), however, we still have difficulty with users recognizing characterization tropes, as evident by the Are these Character tropes? thread. I think having an icon for these types of tropes, or a banner or maybe a subtype category (like Trope -> Character Trope) would help tropers be able to sort without having to go to a thread and wait for a response (if they get one).
Not only that, but having this handy distinction would make it easier to clean up character pages of non-character tropes, which artificially bloats them and has resulted in character specific pages getting cut and needing to be remerged back to the main characters page once the non-character tropes are removed.
openPersist Links (YMMV, Trivia, Characters, etc.) on a Work's Sub-Pages
On a work page, there is a helpful list of links available at the top of the page to go to related pages for that work (YMMV, Trivia, Characters, etc.). However, when that page needs to be split into subpages due to the number of tropes (Ex. Work - Tropes A-C, Work - Tropes D-F, etc.), those links are no longer present. This makes navigation annoying (for example, when a trope is made YMMV via TRS and you're going to move it). It would be helpful if those links could persist in the subpages of that work.
Edited by BeerBaronclosed Page Colors
Noticing that some complaints amount to the coloring. But most of them just consist of "the coloring is bad". Therefor, I have compiled a more specific chart of what should be done.
- Normal Pages:
- Grey headers: Make them blue. This is TV Tropes. Our primary color is blue.
- Negative Space: Make it light blue.
- Footer: Make it blue.
- YMMV Pages:
- Top Header: Make it dark blue. Make green button grey.
- Orange Headers: Make them dark blue as well. Make green button orange.
- Space Around Text: Make it grey.
- Negative Space: Make it a dark grey.
- Footer: Make it dark blue.
- Links: Make them orange when highlighted.
- Sub-page tabs: Make the outlines orange and the words dark blue.
- Sugar Wiki:
- Top Header: Make it bluish green. Replace bluish green button with yellow.
- Bluish Green Headers: Make the pink button yellow.
- Negative Space: Make it pink.
- Links: Make them bluish green.
- Nightmare Fuel:
- Top Header: Make it red. Make red button black.
- Space Around Text: Make it grey.
- Negative Space: Make it black.
closed Report button for AskTropers
we need a report button for Ask The Tropers like the forums has
closed Link colors
Recently, Disambiguation pages got their own link color. This is very useful for finding and fixing them on work and trope pages... so can we please have something similar for redirects and index pages, for the same purpose?
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
openMake the buttons adding emoji to a forum post, not move the cursor to the post's end?
Makes it slightly difficult to repeat an image.
closedSegregate Archive pages from other wicks on Related pages
Currently on Related pages, archives are mixed in with the other wicks. Since archives are not to be edited at all, it would be helpful to move those links to either the top or bottom of the list and visibly separate them from the other wicks, either in a box or with a banner or divider of some sort.
A namespace icon for Theatre.