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closed Post Number
Posts on the forums used to have numbers attached to them, which was very useful for many things. Bring them back.
closed Update the Administrivia/AboutImagesAndCopyright page
So I just learned that when using images as page illustrations, the policy is now to use less than half of the original image. As About Images and Copyright only says "You can only show an excerpt, not the whole thing." rather than less than 50%, it should be updated to state that.
closed Transparent Thumbs Up / Down icons.
There's an ongoing Long-Term Projects thread to swap out images with solid-color backgrounds for transparent versions, so that they look better when Night Vision mode is enabled. As part of that, could the Thumbs Up [tup] and Thumbs Down [tdown] icons be replaced with transparent versions?
I'd upload transparent versions myself, but ever since the site update, images have to be a minimum of 100px.
The [bugs], [wmg], and [lol] icons could also stand to be replaced. They've got some artifacting going on.


closed Contributor's Edit History and Forum Activity
Somehow, a troper's edit history can only go as far, with only edits from the past week or month if a troper is very active; same goes for forum and discussion activities.
So, my wishlist is for the edit history to go all the way to their very first edits (from upon joining the wiki to now).
closed Magnum Opus page and FLCL
These two topics (seen in the title) are unrelated to each other, and I've placed them in order of subjective importance, and I'm leaving it here because I don't necessarily know who to talk to about this.
In regards to the Magnum Opus page, from my understanding, the page was officially made to be "in-universe only" because a lot of users were adding real life examples that were heavily biased (and I'll admit I myself may have even be guilty of that). That said, I think that we should seriously reconsider this stance, mainly because I believe that part of what made the page so interesting and entertaining to read was seeing what artists works were considered their very best. Simply put, it's what made the page so fun, and I think it really loses something when you take that away.If the real life examples were to be allowed again. What they need is an overhaul rather than being banned outright. There should be guidelines as to what counts. For instance, an authors work can't be counted as a magnum opus just because "well, it's MY favorite". The general rule is that it should count as a magnum opus when general consensus, among fans, critics and scholars, is that this is the authors most enduring work. Their legacy (for instance, C. S. Lewis wrote many novels, such as Literature/The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, but what he's gotten the most recognition and acclaim for, even after his death, is the The Chronicles of Narnia. Another example: Akira Toriyama created Dr. Slump and Franchise/Dragonball, both are well-known in Japan, but the Dragonball franchise is known around the world and has received more popularity and acclaim, while Dr. Slump is very obscure outside of it's native country, making Dragonball Toriyama's magnum opus of the two. It also might be better if the work in question has been finished. And if the artist tops themselves and people come to a general consensus about is, an example can be changed accordingly. I think we should at least consider allowing real life examples for each medium (literature, anime, film, western animation), and this time make it more objectively written.
As for FLCL, I feel the current page image for or it (official artwork of Mamimi, Naota, and Canti), should be replaced with the one from this wiki page:
http://flcl.wikia.com/wiki/Fooly_Cooly
(my reason being that Mamimi is more of a supporting character while Haruko is more-or-less the face of the series, and the second most important character after Naota. A FLCL page image without her is like a Calvin and Hobbes page image without Hobbes).
closed Night Vision (forums)
I'm not sure if it's a bug, but for me, the background-on-text is dark grey-on-medium grey when previously it was dark grey on white. This makes it difficult to read and forces me to turn night vision on and off depending on where I am. I would very much like for this to be fixed/changed. EDIT: After initial submit, I noticed EVERYWHERE (except the wiki pages themselves) was like this. Clicking on the date/time of a comment to highlight it blue makes the text completely illegible. EDIT 2: It only seems to happen in waves (sometimes) and I'm not sure what causes it.
Edited by AgentParadoxclosed Ignore List for the Forums
Basically, the option to have a list of members whose posts are replaced by "Ignored member" or just not visible (perhaps with the option to make those posts visible).
On-topic's been full of cynicism and doomsayers lately, and it'd be nice to block out the worst of it.
closed Give the New Edits page the ability to filter by YMMV.
Give the New Edits page the ability to filter by YMMV.
'Cause right now it has to be done by URL.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/changes.php?filter=YMMV
closedLast ditch email address to submit catastrophic bug issues
Having been hit by the I Pv 6 issue today and literally having no way interact with the site until it was fixed, it would be nice to have some way to file a desperation bug report that doesn't depend on the site working properly.
closed Preferred Pronoun option for the Forums
I've just been thinking, and since the last re-design there would be enough space for it.
Would it be terribly hard to add a 'Preferred Pronoun' option for the Forums? Put it before the 'Relationship Status' and have Tropers fill in their preferred pronouns for themselves.
It would really be a helpful feature, I think.
Addendum: As someone pointed out to me, a free fill form may be rife for abuse. As thus I would consider it a variant proposal to make it a drop-down selection like the Relationship Status with the Tropers being able to suggest pronouns beyond the basics of he/his, she/her, they/their and 'Please use my name', but that's Implementation Issues I guess.
Edited by 3of4closed Button to mark TroperFinder topic as solved
Make it easy for users to mark their topics as solved like an icon as used by mods on TRS:
closed General To Dos
It would be nice to have a general to do list, or a way to add to the to do list outside of the context of a trope or work. I've had a few ideas or thoughts I've wanted to ask on but just could not think of proper wording at the time or just did not have the time, and it would be nice to have a general way to do that.
closed Add a "flag for discarding" option to the Trope Launch Pad
Bombs are supposed to mean "this entry has a hat it doesn't deserve". Unfortunately, this doesn't allow you to distinguish between "this has potential, but needs more work" and "this won't work, so let's discard it". I propose reserving bombs for the former and using flags for the latter. Flags, not bombs, will then determine whether a TLP gets discarded. I believe this has some advantages over the current system:
- If bombs are no longer tied to discarding, we can change the program to (1) only allow bombing if the TLP really has at least one hat it doesn't deserve, and (2) use net hats — not total hats — to determine whether a draft can get published.
- We might be able to implement a system where moderators can discard flagged troll TLPs and obviously unviable TLPs (duplicates of another trope, blatant policy violations, etc.) without waiting for five bombs and three days. If mods get a special "view flagged entries" button, we also get a way to remove old, now-useless TLPs (e.g. if a recent launch has made it redundant, or a policy change has made it unviable) without having to bump them to give them more bombs.
- If it's clear that bombs mean "I think this needs more work" and not "I want this to be discarded", receiving a bomb becomes less discouraging for the sponsor.
closed Show names of who gives hats or bombs in TLP
There seem to be too much anonymity in Trope Launch Pad's hat/bombs system. Like when a draft suddenly accumulates too many hats or bombs in a short time...
What do you guys think?
closed 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
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closed Better History Feature
The "History" page is quite lacking compared to other wikis, and it takes away a lot of the value of having such a feature. A majority of edits on tropes are adding or expanding examples, and this can easily bury a change you're looking for.
Some features that are noticeably missing:
- An abbreviated list of changes. That all changes are displayed in full makes it annoying to scroll past a lengthy edit. Alternatively, one could be able to collapse edits in the history page, possibly/ideally with all edits being collapsed by default.
- The ability to compare any two revisions, or alternatively view the page as it appeared in a particular revision. This would be an extremely useful function, as it allows one to check if a particular change happened between two revisions and hone in on the exact edit that made it.
closed Moment subpages in "Create New" drop-down menu
At the top of every article, there is a "Create New" button for making new subpages, but the Moment subpages ("Funny", "Heartwarming", "Awesome", "Tear Jerker", and "Nightmare Fuel") are strangely absent. Seems like they should be included, to make creating them easier.
Edited by Primisclosed Get Rid of Laconic?
They're basically worthless.
I cannot tell you how many tropes I've been asked to edit or rewrite due to Example as a Thesis. But holdup, if I wrote a laconic, why do I have to basically do the same thing in the first sentence or paragraph? Ideally, the laconic should be doing some of the work for the writer, but it's actually not even shown on the page unless you click Laconic section.
Either we get rid of the laconic entirely, and demand that the first sentence fill that space by describing the trope. Or we should make the laconic actually show up on published tropes, so the burden on the writer to write in a certain way is not as heavy because the laconic explains exactly what the trope is about.
Berserk Button: misusing Nightmare Fuel
closed Warning when linking to an index on a trope page
I sometimes see people treat indices as if they were tropes, or to group up related tropes under second-level bullet points in a way that violates our rules on Example Indentation. Maybe adding a warning icon, like the ones we currently have when linking to trivia, YMMV, and Flame Bait pages, would help dissuade people from doing that.


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