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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.
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Make a Wish:
openMore clear spoiler formatting
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.
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!
workingGive the mods the ability to lock an individual item in a crowner
Ok, I’m not sure I’m the one who should be asking this cause it’s a mod feature, but in the particular IP thread called the Image Suggestion Thread, certain items can be put on their respective pages after it reaches a certain number of votes after a given amount of days and then marked DONE.
One of the rules in the crowner description is
- Do not vote further on items marked DONE
So to prevent this from happening at all, may I suggest the mods be given the ability to lock the items already added and marked DONE.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2closed Notifier that sends a link to an ATT thread instead of an edit?
Based off of this discussion here it seems like sending people links to ATT reports is going to become a standard part of the process. However, I know that me and other people get anxious when it comes to unscripted confrontation, and it's part of why I have trouble sending such links to people. My thought is that if there was some way to send people pre-written notifiers directing them to such threads, it would take a lot of the pressure off.
I don't know if this is possible coding-wise, however I believe it would help a lot to make the new rules easier for people to follow. So, if it is possible for this to be set up, I think it would be a good idea.
closed Make the difference between ! and !! more noticeable.
Header One
Header Two
Maybe it's just me, but it's hard to notice the differences between the two when they're used on works. It sometimes leaves me wondering if it's even needed.
Edited by RetlocliveopenDisplay 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"
workingDisable new crowner option
Speaking of, how about letting mods toggle the accessibility of the "Add New" button between "available" and "mods-only"?
workingBookmark button when viewing individual TLP drafts
Currently the bookmark button on TLP drafts can only be viewed from the draft list and not from the draft page. Since the TLP search can be kind of bad, being able to bookmark the draft you found without having to find it in the list may be very helpful.
closed Add a "search by trope" function to the search engine.
Let's say you're looking to start a TRS or image Picking thread for a specific trope, but you need to make sure you aren't covering redundant ground/want to see why certain things are the way they are. The search engine famously sucks, so it's common knowledge that you should instead google something like "TV Tropes blah blah blah forum." However, not only is this something a newer troper isn't as likely to understand, it's not a perfect solution anyway cause it doesn't account for stuff like Pot Holes.
One thing the search engine is good for is the "search by user" function, which at least in my usage seemed to work fine, so how about similar functionality for tropes? You input the Wiki Word for a trope/article/whatever, and the search engine will only output results that link to that page. I understand that this would be redundant for trope searching considering that related pages exist, but I don't see why it couldn't just be a forum exclusive search funtion.
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.
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.
closed Is it possible to standardize headscratcher threads?
Some, like the Futurama thread, are really confusing
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.
closed Pop-up Preview
I wish, when hovering over a link, rather than merely the link as we have now, a pop-up preview of the first (shall we say) 300 characters of the linked article would appear, granting a quick summary to what the commenter is referring, as is done on Wikipedia.
closed Pronouns field for profile
(This idea was already suggested here back in 2018 but the thread was closed, thought it could be worth bringing up the idea again)
Was thinking it could be a good idea to add a "pronouns" field as a profile option, so people know right away how to refer to each other. Ideally this would be a fill-in box, letting people freely add stuff like multiple pronouns in any order or neopronouns without each option having to be requested and manually added. Of course, if anyone abuses this (as pointed out in the old thread) to make unfunny jokes like "attack helicopter" or "nor/mal" or whatever, this could just be reported and the user in question given a warning - to make it clear to them that this is for listing your actual pronouns and not transphobic "jokes".
(And yes, people can put pronouns in their title/signature if they want people to be aware, but I imagine most people would rather use these spaces for other things)
Edited by Zanreo
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.
Edited by Malady