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Make a Tech Wish:
closed Make it easy to find unread queries
I and others struggle to find old queries marked as unread (new replies) in my query list that has been growing over the years. I suggest unread threads/queries to bubble to the top of the list. Alternatively, there should be a sorting/filter option to bring them quickly into view.
closed Option to save settings Display Options
- Unfortunately it's like this: you enter the options window, choose the items that will appear on the display and that's it, but it's not. The options are not saved and you have to click all the buttons again after logging out.
- I think it's high time these options could be saved permanently by troper instead of having to configure everything again.
closed Here’s hoping for a update feature.
This could be something minor, but I would really appreciate a feature that lets us alert fellow tropers when a tv tropes page needs an update. Particularly for fanfic pages that haven’t been updated in a while or for other canon series that have yet to be updated with the new information revealed.
closed Move start new discussion to the top
Self-explanatory. Discussion tabs are sorted from the latest, so the "Start New Discussion" button should be at the top.
Also, it would help to visually make it distinct from the "Add Reply" button, maybe add a border around each discussion chain and move "Reply" button to the right while the "New" button is to the left, because it's very easy to confuse the two.
closed Adding Webcomic to the New Edits list
It would make them easier to search, especially in the filter.
closed If a TRS thread has multiple crowners, list links to the crowners at the bottom.
Because honestly the crowner index is a chore to search through.
Edit: Oh wait my wish is being misread. I meant a way to list the past crowners of a TRS thread. Thanks for the correction Amonimus.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2closed A "thank you" message ala. Wikipedia
On Wikipedia, it allows you to privately send an automated "thank you" message to another user for an edit they made. It's a little thing, but I think a version of that for this site would be a nice way to give positive feedback to editors alongside the negative ones.
closed Allow bold and italic formatting inside potholes
The way it is now, if you want a pothole where part of it is italicized/bolded and part of it isn't, you have to make a separate pothole for each part, like so: [[AbandonShip The crew flees the doomed]] ''[[AbandonShip USS Stevenson.]]''
If you could bring the apostrophes inside and only have to link it once, that would be nice to have. [[AbandonShip The crew flees the doomed ''USS Stevenson''.]]
closed Non-anonymous crowner votes & optional vote reasons
Similar to what’s being considered for hats & bombs in the TLP. There’s already a wish to let mods see crowner votes, but I think it could be helpful, especially in IP & TRS crowners, for everyone to know exactly who’s voting what on crowners, as well as give them the option to explain their votes.
Edited by PurpleEyedGumaclosed A namespace icon for Franchise
Although there are a relatively small number of Franchise pages, they tend to be the big cultural juggernauts that get lots of attention - e.g. Franchise.Star Wars, Franchise.Spider Man and so on.
It'd be good to have an icon for them, as we have for other namespaces.
closed Add pagination to Followed Threads
Unlike most other forum screens, Followed Threads doesn't seem to add page breaks, so you end up with a single extremely long page.
Possibly add breaks after every 50, as happens when viewing all threads in a particular subforum?
closed Include namespaces in the indexbox
For example the bottom of BrokenBase.Persona 5 says
- Previous: Persona 5
- Index: YMMV/Persona 5:
- Next: Persona 5
The other two are actually BaseBreakingCharacter/Persona 5 and HilariousInHindsight/Persona 5, but you can't tell that without hovering the links.
Edited by Amonimusclosed Disambiguations should also be green in edit histories.
Just kind of a minor suggestion, but it could help a lot, it would look neat, and it would make it consistent.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2closed An options menu for the random buttons
and more specifically the Random Media button, such selecting what types of media you wish to appear and whether or not to include creators
closed Fix possibly unintended bleed-in error spawned from Post Number Addition
After post numbers were introduced to the forums, some of the "relationship status" text began to bleed into the post numbers. Here's an example:

Needless to say, I'd like for this to be fixed.
EDIT: And I just realized it's possible this might be yet another bug. Should I have posted this in the bug report section?
Edited by JHD0919closed Change the button label when making a new discussion page post / threading clarification
Discussion pages show exactly the same edit box whether you're starting a new discussion or replying to an existing one.
The post button is always "Post Reply", even if it's a new post and not a reply. As there's no confirmation above the edit box as to whether it's a new post or a reply, this can get really confusing and can easily lead to mistakes (I've just made a real mess of one thread today, hence this request).
Some of this might already be covered by other work-in-progress changes, but can we -
- Swap the "Post Reply" text for "Start New Discussion" (which currently only appears if there's no discussion page at all) if it's a new thread
- Add a "You are replying to this thread" / "You are starting a new thread" style note above the edit box, so it's clear which you've selected.
Thanks!
Edited by Mrph1closed Bulletin counter
Apparently bulletins can have more than 3 announcements, so it should probably indicate that.
Mock-up:
closed Genre page type
Not namespace, but page type (i.e., that thing on the right). This would be to better differentiate genre pages from indices and trope pages, as they are typically a hybrid of the two.

Click a button that will make you randomly go to a page within the wick list in a Trope/Work/Page's Related Tab.
Edit: Nevermind, already in the works.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2