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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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openAuto redlink for any name that has a page that's a work.
Auto redlink for any name that has a page that's a work.
Which turns blue if there's an actual page in Main.
So Main wicks that need to be corrected, can be spotted easily.
Edited by MaladyopenHide your troper page from search engines
I use the same username here that I use on websites like DeviantART and Tumblr, so when I search up my username (which I sometimes do to check if my work has been used somewhere), my troper page is near the top of the search results. I don't have anything to hide on it, but it does look out-of-place alongside the places I post my art. Would it be possible to provide an option to hide one's troper page from search engines?
Edited by AgentKirinopencan we see who adds bombs to TLP drafts?
Because I added some examples to one of my drafts and bumped another that was launch ready but I wanted more examples... and they both got bombs a few minutes later, without comments, even though neither draft appears to warrant bombs. So it seems like someone being a dick and bombing whatever's on the top of the pile, and being able to see who does it would probably prevent that.
I know we've discussed introducing mandatory reason entry, but that won't be coming for a while, would this be quicker to implement?
Edited by lakingsifopenPage Previews
Is there any chance MediaWiki-style page previews could be implemented on TVTropes? [1]
It could really help lessen the problem of getting completely sucked into TVTropes, with a dozen-plus unread tabs open, waiting to be read.
TVTropes does not seem to be MediaWiki-based, so implementing it would be a significant technical undertaking. TVTropes articles also don't always have a succinct summary of each article in the first couple of sentences, so either the style of articles would need to be changed (which may be undesirable) or some (or all) articles would need to have a summary statement written specifically for the previews (which would would create a new maintenance burden).
So I understand that this is a pretty big ask, but I think it would really improve the accessibility and user-experience of TVTropes, and thus it might be worth the effort.
Edited by Dave314159openHide/Delete Duplicate Comments
It can be a problem if you make a comment and you click twice assuming that there's something wrong with the connection, and voila, a duplicate comment. So, I'm thinking we could have something to remove these duplicate comments, save for "Bump"; like, a "Delete Duplicate Comment" feature or a popup that says "Duplicate comment".
openRecent Work Page Launches
Fairly straightforward — I'd like to see something akin to the Trope Launch list but for recently launched works pages. It'd be a great way to see easily see pages that could probably use Wiki Magic, for instance.
Edited by mahidevransopenNamespace index reworking
Namespace indexes are a very good way to show all pages in a particular namespace, however, sometimes they get a little too big to load. The Main namespace index, having 40K+ pages, only shows a message "The Main namespace is too big to display", but the YMMV Index also exceeded 40K+ pages, and it is a heart attack for weaker, pre-2010 computers (it's almost 8 megabytes according to a page size checker). I think I have a solution for massively used namespaces. If a namespace contains more than 5000 pages, it gets automatically split alphabetically to subpages, like "Namespace Index: YMMV: A", and only display pages that start with their letter. If someone would go to the Namespace Index for a huge namespace, they would instead be defaulted to A and find a bunch of letter icons that would look like the ones on Page Type Per Namespace. And it's clear the system can recognise what letter a page starts from. There's currently 23 namespaces with 5000 pages or more, so this would find some use. And it will allow us to display the Main Namespace Index again. Of course, this system is only for namespaces with more than 5000 pages, since doing this for lesser used namespaces would be overkill. Would such a feature be possible? Thank you.
Edited by PiterpicheropenChange color of blue links in TLP section
The blue links at TLP are hardly readable in Dark Mode. Can we find a more eye-friendly color? Like the standard green?
openSecure site connection (HTTPS://) and/or log in with Google
I've noticed that TV Tropes doesn't have a secure site connection, meaning usernames and passwords could be compromised by hooligans on the Internet, and I'd sleep easier, as it were, knowing I'm logged on even if I'm not using the site at the moment if this were rectified.
IM Db doesn't have a secure connection (yet, at least; I was told they're working on that, but who really knows?), but it also allows you to log in with either Facebook, Google, or even Amazon; just today, I logged onto IM Db with my Google account and, voila, secure site connection. So is there any way I and anyone else could be able to log onto TV Tropes with our Google accounts? (One thing to consider: Not everyone has a Facebook account.)
openExact wick counts for Trope Overdosed and Overdosed Tropes
Currently, Overdosed Tropes has to be updated regularly, and even then it's probably outdated as you read it. (The description acknowledges this). Same thing goes for Trope Overdosed, although it doesn't list the pages in exact order, nor does it list their exact number of wicks. What if there were a feature that listed all pages typed as "work" or "trope" by the number of wicks they had, which would be automatically determined by the wiki software instead of created manually. It would probably have to be a non-wiki page, but I wouldn't have to visit each page individually, opened the "Related to" tab, and wait minutes as the wicks loaded. For an idea of what it would probably look like, see the list of all namespaces and the number of pages in them. A similar feature for inbounds could also work. It's just an idea...
Edited by LymantriaworkingA Tour Guide for New Tropers
As I observe a lot of new tropers getting a lot mistakes and sometimes getting suspended for that (such as grammar issues, or format issues, or using the wrong namespace; there's even one troper getting suspended for rogue launching) I think a welcome tour, or a guide, be helpful for new, especially beginner, tropers before they touch anything.
openEdit Reason Types
This will probably take a lot of work to implement, but just a suggestion...
I'd like it if, while editing a page, the "Edit Reason" thing was a drop down list instead of just a text box. Options on the list would include things like "Added new examples or other content", "Grammar/spelling fixes", "Formatting fixes", etc. Then the text box could just be used to provide a little more info if necessary.
Then, on your watchlist, you could set it so that you don't get notified of certain types of edits. Just a thought.
openTime stamps across the site not consistent with a user's settings
So when you're logged in you can set your time zone in your profile. The problem is that that only affects parts of the site.
I have set my timezone in my profile as UTC+1. However when I'm logged in, only parts of the site display date/time stamps in my time zone—the times of edits on History pages, for one.
But e.g. "Ask The Tropers" and other such forums display date/time stamps of UTC-8 (because TvTropes' servers are in California, probably?).
It is confusing that times aren't displayed consistently across the site, especially when users have an option in their profile to set their time zone.
So suggesting to make all time stamps for logged in users consistent, and matching to the time zone they set in their profile.
openExpand «new accounts can t post external links» to thread titles
Because obviously spam bots have wizened up to this loophole.
openMore Complex Type System
Recently, people have been discussing character tropes and plot tropes and which goes where on the wiki (e.g. only character tropes on Characters/ pages etc.).
So shouldn't we have some way of transparently marking which tropes are which? I'm thinking of the page type system, which currently lumps all tropes under the "trope" type. I'm not saying we need a new page type for every kind of trope, but if we could have a new page type for "Characters/ page preferred trope" — for when the trope ought to go to the Characters/ page if the work has such a page.
That or a banner but a banner would probably confuse people even more since atm only non-tropes get banners.
openPlug-in notifier
There have been plenty of edits on this site that were done when people had plug-ins like Cloud-to-Butt or Trump-to-Drumpf operating. Maybe we should update the notifiers to include a new one for plug-in edits.
I found a query on ATT asking about someone who may be editing with a plug-in.
openCan we remove the Medium option for queries in ATT and possibly Trope Finder?
Can we remove the Medium option for ATT and possibly Trope Finder?
'Cause ATT questions aren't supposed to be medium-specific in the first place?
openNotify when a trope is no longer in use
Several times I've gotten notifications that a trope was now an index and no longer usable as a trope (such as Badass or Big, Badass Wolf).
Could there be some kind of wiki-wide announcement for when a trope's meaning/use is changed (or joins the PRLC, etc.)?
Splitting up the initial TLP Draft more finely.
We've already got name, laconic, and page...
Why not split up page into description, examples, image, and quote?
Although, that would take a bit of coding, for unknown utility value...
Edited by Malady