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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.
- 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:
openAdd a link to video guidelines to video upload form
Self-explanatory. Video Guidelines can easily be overlooked because at no point of the uploading process it's visible.
openHeadscratchers icon too dark.
In Night Vision mode, the icon for the Headscratchers subpage is so dark that it is practically invisible. It color should be modified to be visible under all modes.
openAdd feature to video examples.
You can hover over a video’s name to view its description and secondary tropes, and also, a feature where you can rate the video from the video selection screen.
Edited by Memesdontdie66openForum enhancements: slow mode
This has already been discussed elsewhere, but raising it on a wishlist ticket for visibility:
The Wiki and Forum Policy
thread currently has a slow mode setting that prevents non-mod users from posting more than once every two hours.
However, this is specific to that thread - and can only be amended when the admins make a code change, so isn't very flexible.
A more versatile slow mode tool would be very useful when moderating the forums - e.g. when threads covering major new media releases become busy and heated, or for OTC discussions.
The proposal, as previously discussed is:
Key elements
- Slow mode should be available on any thread, not just the wiki policy thread.
- Mods should be able to switch it on/off for specific threads without the need for a code change
- Mods should be able to change the slow mode setting between 1-24 hours. Different threads should be able to have different settings.
- Mods should be able to see the current slow mode settings for any thread.
Additional "Nice to have" elements:
- Ideally, threads with slow mode switched on should display a prominent banner explaining the current rule.
- If a user is blocked from posting due to slow mode, the error message should explain the current setting.
- The mod exception should only apply to posts with the mod hat checkbox ticked, not posts in a personal capacity.
openSpecial message for salted pages
This forum post
notes that the default message for a nonexistent page is misleading if the page is salted, as it can't be created by normal users:
- We don't have an article named Main/BogusPage. If you want to start this new page, just click the edit button above. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the Main namespace are tropes and should be created through the YKTTW system. Don't put in redirects for shows, books, etc.. Use the right namespace for those. (if the page never existed)
- You may want to ask in Ask The Tropers about whether it's safe to recreate. (if the page was cut)
If the page is both cut and locked, the message should instead read:
Due to abuse or the potential for it, this article has been permanently locked from being created or edited. Please refer to the Permanent Red Link Club for a more detailed explanation. Attempts to subvert this process such as re-creating the page under an alternate title may result in your account being blocked.
openSuggestion pop-ups while editing
I think that, while editing a page, there should be pop-ups suggesting potential changes, such as grammar or formatting, or a reminder that a trope is a YMMV or Trivia item and should be moved to the appropriate page. I think this would help users a lot, especially since I still keep seeing people put creator names in italics.
openCreator namespace - disable trivia warning icon
As per our Creator Page Guidelines, Trivia relevant to a creator's career and works (not Real Life Troping) should go on their Creator/ page.
(Trivia examples for specific works by that creator can go on a matching Trivia/ page if no work page exists, but they're the exception)
However, Creator/ pages also display the Trivia "wrong page type" icon if trivia examples are added.
Can we switch this warning icon off for the namespace?
openCutlist - add request notes to edit history / improved transparency
Currently, when a page is submitted to the cutlist, a 'Request' edit appears in watchlist, but there's no actual change recorded in edit history.
Proposed behaviour:
- When a cut request is raised, the request should add to edit history, with the following edit reason:
- If a cut request is declined, it should add a second edit:
- If a cut request is approved, it should add a second edit immediately before cutting:
openPage History widget in Editor
Before editing, some useful information to have:
- Checking when the last edit was made, in case it was shortly before you
- Last few edit reasons in case they are relevant to what you're about to do.
So it may be of use if the Edit page had a simplified version of page's History, to the side of the edit box.
openTrope Launching Pad-style voting template for forum threads
Aside from all sorts of cleanup threads, Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard rely entirely on voting, but it's kinda tedious.
Having to count the votes must suck for the moderators, and you can't even see how much votes have been passed regarding a certain proposal/removal/tweak/rewrite or whatever. Or the stuff that you wanted to put to a vote gets ignored altogether or gets a tiny amount of votes.
Maybe adding a TLP-esque voting template for all forums will streamline the process a bit, since it's green and big and very visible, and it conveniently displays the exact number of votes.
No idea how to actually implement the idea (or it's even technologically feasible), but still the idea is worth consideration.
openAdd a checkbox/radio button for 'mod only' crowners
By default, once a Crowner's been created, anyone can add new items to be voted on.
Sometimes that's exactly what we want, but sometimes we don't want new items added midway through a set voting period, or items added by users without a full discussion first.
Add a new checkbox or radio button that controls whether anyone can add to a crowner, or whether only mods/engineers/admins can add new items.
openTool for automatic trope namespace moves
This wish was inspired by a recent thread of mine
in Trope Talk concerning a possible YMMV move for a 15,000+ wicked trope.
So, there has been discussion (can't find the link) in the past for creating a tool to make wick cleaning easier. In my opinion, such an idea is potentially fraught with error, specifically with regards to misuse in wicks.
This specific wish, however, concerns an area I believe is quite a bit less controversial (bolded for visibility) — a wick cleaning tool specifically designed for namespace moves. As in, Main to YMMV or Trivia or the Useful Notes family of namespaces.
Such a tool would help with mammoth namespace moves for large tropes, making TRS work much easier for us all and clearing out slots easier. It would also help with work namespace moves, which take up their own large amount of time. Hence why I've filed a request for it.
If it isn't possible Kory (or another admin), that's fine. Just a request.
Edited by themayorofsimpletonopenA “Personal Sandbox” (Addition to the “Profile page”)
I’ve grown both familiar and comfortable with the format the website uses to list tropes, especially character pages.
Im asking if the option to create a work page for your eyes only accessed from your profile was possible without interfering with actual works on the website, including Fan Fics.
I’ve tried World Anvil, but it didn’t feel the same and preferred to keep any ideas private for the sake of avoiding giving anyone cringe before deciding to share it.
openAutomatically update indexes when the page is created
To to how it currently works, page indexing refreshes only when the index page is changed, not when the indexed page is changed. This results in taking extra steps that aren't intuitive to new tropes as:
- Creating a page by a Red Link
- Moving a page with mod tools
It'd help that when a page is created/changed, if an index is in Related pages it'd update by itself.
openTroper-made/unsourced image transcription
Would it be possible for images on Images Without a Source and Troper-Made to be auto-transcribed to text/close-to-pre-existing variations of the images?
To be more specific, I'm talking about:
- A code that would convert unsourced images into a downloadable collage of similar variations of the image whenever they're opened in a new tab, similar to what TinEye does. That way the need to use TinEye to look for sources could be decreased by a certain amount; one of the main issues for a sourceless pic like Determinator is the countless variations dating back years, so something like this would make finding the oldest variations easier, depending on how similar they look. There's a Linux framework
that does something like this:
- A code that would convert unsourced images into a downloadable collage of similar variations of the image whenever they're opened in a new tab, similar to what TinEye does. That way the need to use TinEye to look for sources could be decreased by a certain amount; one of the main issues for a sourceless pic like Determinator is the countless variations dating back years, so something like this would make finding the oldest variations easier, depending on how similar they look. There's a Linux framework

- A code that transcribes text/graphs from troper-made images into an actual spreadsheet/.pptx file/document selection dropdown, with a redirect sharing the file name (but obviously not file type). Something like the picture for That One Boss being converted into an actual, hoverable graph would be really cool. In this case we might need permission from the tropers beforehand though.
openThis is an automated message
For Notifiers, Forum Paging/Ping and video denials to append to the end of the PM:
This message is automatically created by the system.
and for forum pings specifically also add
Unless it's meant to be private, please respond in the linked thread.
This should reduce confusion with unfamiliar tropers getting defensive against monotonous-sounding messages.
Edited by AmonimusopenIf a page is edit-locked, lock changing the pagetype as well
Self-explanatory. Someone brought up there are no restrictions for pagetype edit form.
openMobile version's profile picture is smaller in comparison relative to the Random buttons
Comparing the size of the desktop profile picture at top right
And the mobile version of that same picture,
Using the Random Media button as a ruler, the Mobile version seems smaller in comparison? And therefore harder to click?
Just throwing out numbers here:
If desktop profile picture is 90% of the Random Media button, them mobile profile pic is 80%. But I want them at the same percentage.
Or am I incorrect?
Edited by MaladyopenDiscussion previews
I'd like a "Preview" button to be added for "Discussion" pages, so users can see what their posts look like before they're added.

Square Peg, Round Trope is a common reason for examples to be moved to different tropes or outright deleted.