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openComments should handle image locations like wiki pages.
Would like comments to be even more like wiki pages, since this works in-wiki to make two images on one line, but not in comments either in TLP or in the forums.
[[quoteright:219:[[VideoGame/OneStepFromEden https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cold_medicine.PNG]]]]
[[quoteleft:219:[[VideoGame/TouhouLostBranchOfLegend https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_from_2023_09_20_21_54_27.png]]]]Edited by Malady
openCrowner improvements
- For crowners to display the calling time, which is almost always 3 days from being set unless more discussion required is apparent.
- Automatically Holler at call time.
- Mark the consensus option (highest up:down ratio and is larger than 2:1), maybe with icon. If no option ended on consensus then stylize the crowner as "failed".
This should optimize the workflow of moderators, who have to check or keep in mind which crowners are due.
Also wanted to propose some optional automation to further reduce mod pressure, like
- Changing the image on select page with winning option
- Changing the thread/TLP title with the winning option
- Add winning pages to No Real Life Examples, Please! or No Recent Examples, Please!
openAlphabetization tool
Similarly to Folderizer, would like to see a script or a button that sorts examples alphabetically.
For work pages it's trivial, because tropes are always the first word in a line. ** second bullets would need to be attached to the above line.
Trope pages would be really tricky. Even if the namespace can be taken for a folder to be place at, work wicks may be practically anywhere in the example. Not sure if going by the first link in italics is reliable.
openColor hints in the editor
For markup text in the wiki editor to apply fonts and colors depending on a markup to show areas it's affecting.
This can be done by using a div with contenteditable instead of textarea for the code and another div as the background, then OnChange the content of the text div is copied to the background div and span elements are inserted based on regex.
I'm not sure how editors like FANDOM's do it.
Edited by AmonimusopenMove liveblogs back to the forums
It came up in an unrelated discussion that the reason the Live Blogs system exists separately from the forums is an old and no-longer-relevant issue with storage space.
This liveblog system being separate from the forums is unnecessary fragmentation that leads to liveblogs barely getting any use, so we suggest archiving it and reopening the old Live Blogginations forum — or opening a new liveblogs forum if that would be preferable, but moving liveblogs back to the forums one way or the other.
Edited by wingedcatgirlopenDisplay custom wikiwords in Crowners
Bluelinks in Crowners (e.g. work and trope names) currently pull the default page name, not the custom version.
Generally this is just an annoyance, but sometimes it causes more significant confusion.
Can we expand custom WikiWord support to present that version of the page name in crowner options?
openBe able to sort/filter follow pages
The current follow pages is fine, but I would like to able to sort through the list by selecting "Sort by page type" or "Sort by namespace"
The options can be like:
- Discussions
- Creator
- Indices
- Trope
- Disambig
And more
Also sort by "last updated" and "least updated"
openLoad templates when creating new pages
A lot of problems of work pages from new editors (missing descriptions, messed up formatting, bad indentation, incorrect alphabetizing) seem to stem from people not taking the time to familiarize themselves with how the site works/what is expected before diving into it. While templates to demonstrate what they should do exist, most new users don't seem to know about them (probably because they're located behind two separate menu options and aren't linked anywhere on How to Create a Work Page).
New Main/ namespace pages used to automatically load "Describe Trope Name here" upon creation, and while that was removed for being pretty pointless, maybe we could do something similar with Program Entry Template and Character Sheet Template (with some edits) when creating a new page in certain namespaces in order to provide an outline for new editors that's easier for them to understand. If it'd be really annoying for experienced editors to select-all and delete each time they create a new page, maybe it could be a togglable option for an account to load them when creating new work pages.
openPut newest work/featured work on the homepage
We've got a daily featured trope and automatically display the newest created trope on the homepage, so why not have the same thing for work pages? It'll help get traffic onto newly created pages that might otherwise fall by the wayside, and if there's a place that work pages are vetted before qualifying to be a daily featured one (a forum thread maybe?), it might encourage people to clean up pages they've made that have issues so they can be featured. Maybe each day could have a different medium, like movie mondays, theater thursdays, etc.
openLock down namespace creation.
Could we make it so that any namespace can be drafted in TLP, but if someone tries to make a namespace that's not one of the usuals, it blocks it and sends the person to TLP so there's forewarning in case people make another Synopsis or something?
I was going to use the future TLP feature of drafting non-Mains to draft a ReferencedBy.Zork for all the Grues out there, but Referenced by... isn't on the list of TLP namespaces.
openDiscussion page-like formatting for headscratchers
Reposting from this thread eleven years ago: During this discussion, the idea was mentioned that Headscratchers would benefit from having a discussion page-like formatting akin to Lost And Found, You Know That Show and Ask The Tropers. Salient points:
- A discussion-like formatting system is more streamlined and easier to read than the current bullet point/Thread Mode system.
- Headscratchers is for questions and answers akin to Ask The Tropers and other pages mentioned above and should have the same skin as these.
- It is easier to reply in a discussion page instead of slogging through many bullet points in an edit page.
- Attaching the name of the posters to their questions could make them more responsible and avoid several common issues there, including Complaining About Shows You Dont Like.
- Converting it to a forum-like formatting would discourage certain forum-like behaviours (e.g Justifying Edits and Conversation In The Main Page) from actual wiki pages.
openAdd a preview button to cutlist
As it stands, there's no way to preview a cut justification before it's submitted - and it's one of the few things that can't be edited once posted.
It'd be great to get a preview icon for this so that tropers can check formatting before submitting it.
This would help reduce the work (and decline rate) for mods, as well as helping to ensure we leave a useful, well-written note for future tropers once the page is cut.
(All of this is also aggravated by the current bug which prevents red links showing for cut list submissions - previews would at least slightly improve the chance of spotting typos in linked page names)
openAdd comment numbers to ATT/Bugs/Trope Finder/YKTS replies
Visible comment numbers have been really useful on the forums - can we get the same style on queries? Probably most relevant to ATT, where a dozen or more comments on a query aren't unusual, but if the other query types share the framework it'd be good to have them on all.
openOption to replace an avatar in your gallery/rearrange the gallery
The hi res avatar thing gives a nice thought, to be able to replace an avatar in your gallery without having to delete it from it's spot, or even to re-arrange your gallery. That's it. I feel this is hard from a coding perspective for some reason, but I hope it sure isn't.
Edited by ZuggaluggalocoroGopenGive an option to link your profile to a work page.
You ever have that moment when you see someone's profile pic and be like "Hey, that's a cool person/screenshot in your pfp, I wonder who that character is/what show that's from."
Well if you do this option, you can go to a Troper's avatar gallery and the gallery will provide links to the source. Again this is optional, so a Troper can decide if they want to link to the image's source/work page or not.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2openDefault image code additions
For image uploads the default code is:
[[quoteright:1000:imagelink]]
[[caption-width-right:1000:some caption text]]
- While the image size was increased, there no good reason to use image width above 350 on-page, so in the default markup it should probably be capped while allowing opening original upload.
- The line with the caption starts with a space. There is no reason for it and it's annoying to remove every time.
openincrease video title length limit
Currently the limit for video titles is 30 characters. This is too small for some titles. For example, on Stylistic Suck, the intended title of "Chloe's "improved" presentatio" is one character over the limit, despite only consisting of three words.
ETA: The length limit also makes it hard to warn for spoilers. Even if there is room to put "(spoilers)" in the title, there is usually not enough room to also fit the work name, meaning that most people will have no idea what the video is a spoiler for without clicking into it.
Edited by TwiddleropenCreating a list of Tropes to find media it applies to.
One thing I've come to this site looking for is a way to add tropes to a list and then see if those tropes are applied in any media. It appeared to not, so I wish to see a feature like that as I don't know of any website that has one. To give an example of what I'm talking about, let's say I'm looking for a piece of media that uses the tropes:
Artifact of Doom, The Quest, Suicide Mission, Anti-Hero.
If there were a feature I could input all of those tropes, and then it would bring up every piece of media that has them, it would be extremely helpful in searching for what pieces are similar to other pieces, so you can then compare them in how they use the tropes.
openshow video length in thumbnail
For video thumbnails to show the video length in the corner, like on Youtube.
While this may be buried because it isn't new content per se, I think it would be really nice if spoiler formatting told you what part of a work it's spoiling. While on most works assuming that you shouldn't click to see spoilers if you haven't finished it works just fine, for pages where completed works and ongoing adaptations are on the same page (especially Anime & Manga), it can cause problems for people who /thought/ they had finished it. Example for clarity: I have seen the MHA anime through season 6 (which, at the time of writing, means I'm caught up), so when scrolling the page I usually leave spoilers off from the sidebar. However, every so often I come across a spoiler for parts of the manga that haven't yet been adapted. While this is probably my own fault, I think adding a way to write on top of the whiteout would improve everyone's experience. In my example, this would be something like "season 4" or "unadapted manga" on each spoiler, so people like me would click on the spoiler for season 4, which we've seen, but no for the manga, which we haven't read.