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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Important things to know:
- 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:
openFilter Followed by Unread
Since daily routine involves catching up on Followed Threads
and Followed Pages
, some could be checked before others and pagination makes it so some unreads can be pushed to a second page, thinking it can be a QOL to have a checkmark to show only unread activity.
openWhile Editing Calculate How Many Characters Are In Highlighted Text
This can help editors properly figure out if a section of a page has enough characters to warrant getting split to another page. It would also be incredibly useful for those using a sandbox for similar reasons.
openAbility to Watch / Lock pagenames
Garfield.VideoGame was made, then I moved it.
If we could stop everything under the medium names as page names, or at least watch them, that'd increase discoverablity of such mistakes?
Watching names just only for low-edit frequency names though.
Hinterland.Videogame being another such issue.
Edited by MaladyopenButton to expand/collapse indices on a page
Spinning this off from Anonimus' latest post on this bug report
of indices not working properly. A valid point is raised questioning why we have a cap for visible indices, and if page visibility is a concern, then maybe there should be a way to make all indices visible while making a limited number the default view, like somewhere between 10-20.
openTropes with No On-Page Examples don't show video examples
Trope pages check the No On-Page Examples page before showing videos that demonstrate the trope. They can still have Video Examples subpages, and work pages can still show video examples of these tropes.
Edited by FSharpopenMake reviews link to individual reviews
At Reviews Index
I notice the review names link to the work's general review list instead of the reviews themselves, which is counterintuitive, while the work's name where the present link would more logically be is plain text.
openEmail updates for edits
I would like to see the option to follow edit history of pages via email like on Fandom because I think it would be a handy way to keep on top of developments, especially if page is in the likes of TRS or cleanup.
openApp Story Generator
Would it be possible for the App Story Generator forum to moved to the Real-ish forum? It's surely a better fit there since that's where Writers Block and the World Building forum are also located
openGmail-esqe PMs
I use the P Ms fairly often, and it really bugs me that messages with the same subject aren't collapsed into little mini-forums, like how on Gmail, it just displays the subject, then when you click on that, all the messages pop up. I'm rambling now, so uh... yeah, mini-forum messages
openHave a way to show when wicks are added or removed to a certain page
As proposed here
, a feature that shows when, where, and y who wicks to a certain page are added or removed could help in situations like seeing whether wicks are being cleaned up correctly.
openImproved search function for TLP
Would it be possible to add a way to search for specific links within TLP drafts or comments? Say, if someone wants to find all drafts or posts with links to a specific work ("Die Hard 1", just as a random example) for some reason?
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
openAdding character count to another page
Is there anyway to add the character count number to somewhere like the related or history, or even page source of a page? It's hard to check a character count when it's in use by someone else.
openReviews having a link back to the FanficRecs they came from / Related Pages list of their own.
Trying to find what Fanfic Recs made this "Savage" review so I know where to move it to disambig from all the things named "Savage".
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/reviews.php?target_group=FanficRecs&target_title=Savage
openAPP Alter character font size on pages.
Have an option under Display to change the font size for the app, as the font may be big (or small) for readers who grew comfortable reading on the mobile browser.
openWhen you click on reply link on a TLP History page, send you to the page of replies it's actually on
When you browse your TLP history and check your replies to various TLP drafts, clicking on the link will always send you to the last page of the draft's replies. This makes it annoying to find your own replies, especially on drafts with upwards of 4 pages. So just make it so that it always sends you to the right page and reply.
Edited by MrMister04openNotify User when a change has been made to their uploaded video
Hey so you know how when a video example gets regretted, an automated message gets sent saying that it's been regretted? What if the same thing happens with changes made from Video moderation requests
, to an user's approved video, with the requests being tagged underneath reason?

Would it be technically possible to allow page history to be moved to an existing page? Of course it would only be done if the histories didn’t overlap.