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closed Remove the Hard-Coded Redirect on the Former Porn Tropes page and PRLC it
(Reposting because I never got a response)
The page's custom redirect to The Content Policy and the 5P Circuit (which itself redirects to The Content Policy) was likely a Fast Eddie facet as a result of The Second Google Incident; removing it and sending it to the Permanent Red Link Club would suffice.
closed Bring back the outcome of DuelingWorks
Imagine a history book. It tells of battles and war.
For each battle, it painstakinly details the setup, the terrain, the forces in presence.
...but not the outcome.
That's Dueling Works right now. And as I learned the hard way, has been this way for almost two years.
closed PM inbox search bar
With the most recent site upgrade the private message inbox has been changed to a pagination system. This presumably saves on loading time, but it also means that you can no longer easily Ctrl+F your inbox to see if you have notified/messaged a particular editor before. Is it possible to add a search bar to this feature?
closed PM archive
Have you ever accidentally deleted a private message? I have. Are you afraid of the delete buttons? I am. A PM archive that goes back thirty days would solve this. This way you can read and reply to messages you accidentally deleted.
closed Fixing "smart quotes"
When looking at the raw page coding, I sometimes see "smart quotes" (these four marks: ‘ ’ “ ”) running around. Sometimes they're just there, other times they end up being used when someone's trying to italicize or bold a word, so it doesn't get properly formatted as a result. I'd like an in-built way of automatically finding and fixing them into ' and " when editing a page, so as to avoid such formatting errors.
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
closed Separate WMG entries by in-universe and crossover
I like reading people's theories on the WMG pages. What I hate is when most of them involve completely different IP groups/creators. *Or different IP groups WHEN THE WORK WAS CREATED* E.g. a theory about Alien Covenant that involves Harry Potter lore. Or a theory about Event Horizon that involves characters from the Marvel comic or Transformers universe.
My wish is that there be separate categories for WMG entries that are work-contained, involve crossovers between works by the same creator, or crossovers between the works and public domain, ripped off of or expyed to hell and back works (e.g Tolkien, Dungeons & Dragons)
VS ones that involve theories that crossover works from different universes made by different authors or IP groups.
This would require manual sorting of existing WMG entries which would be a pain in the ass, but actually figuring out which ones go into which category aren't that difficult provided one knows which works were made by the same author.
closed Search option in forums
Install a search option in the forums so you can find a specific keyword, likely a post by you or another user.
closed apparently you have to actually write a trope if you go on the launch pad
i want a trope for like 'the past had technology' like in that rabbids episode with the bearded rabbid it's so cool litterally like so cool
closed Allow fourth-level bullets
On one trope page, I saw a franchise (first level) with multiple series (second level). In one of the series, an episode (third level) has multiple examples of the trope—each of these examples should be fourth-level. I'm sure that Sadistic Choice on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Collaborator" is not the only place where this happens.
Edited by Someone1981closed more indexes
like what i mean is I want more lists of specific types of things specifically tropes relating to different personalities like the ditherer or badass bookworm or the prankster stuff like that
thanks
closed More Voice Acting Tropes
I!d like to add some more voice tropes to the Wiki
“Elders Voicing Elders” - An elder character is voiced by an actual elderly actor. “Altered Voice Acting” - The actor that plays their character has their voice electronically pitched. “Digital Voice” - The character is voiced by an AI Machine “Creator Voices Too” - The creator of their show, also provides their voice for a character
Please Consider.
closed Video reviewer
Some sort of tool that can be included with the video uploader that can be used to rate how much it matches the trope by percentage before posting it.
Edited by TrendingToon1closed Add warnings to video Examples
We already have a spoiler warning on the W.I.T.C.H. clip "WITCH Season 2". Why not add Spoiler, Loud Sound and Flashing Images warnings? For example, "Rath has been naked all along (Loud sound warning)".
closed NO VIDEO AUTOPLAY!!!
If you turn it off, you could prevent spoilers, Ear-Bleeding and Epilepsy
closed Ability to reorder avatars in your gallery
Exactly what it says on the tin. I wanna be able to change the order my avatars appear in in my gallery. For example, there are some I wanna move from page 1 to page 2.
closed Multiple language support
I spend countless hours reading entire pages of tropes and I wish I could let all of my Italian friends have my same experience. Unfortunately translating the whole website would make an insanely long process if made by a single person so I wish there was some way for the Italian readers (like me) to contribute and make things easier for non-English speakers.
closed History tab
We used to have a "show all history" option. It was very useful. Can we have it back please?
closed Namespace language configuration
As the Namespace Cleanup Project shows, each namespace has its own configuration settings. My base proposal is hopefully straightforward—have a language associated for each namespace, for the TV Tropes Translation Project. This would be English by default, but can be set to other languages.
After that's implemented, this could have many uses throughout the site (ordered in importance, IMO):
- Each language should have its own default "Main" namespace. Now you don't have to constantly write the language namespace when linking tropes.
- The namespace header should list different languages separately, so FrAnimationOccidentale.Code Lyoko isn't flooded with English tabs, for example. This means the translated namespaces could also be given icons without conflict.
- Tools such as New Edits or Index Report could be filtered by language.
- Namespaces of the same language (if any) can be prioritized in the auto-disambig when on an invalid namespace.
- The Random Trope and Random Media buttons can send you to an appropriate random page in the current page's language.
The page footer is unnecessary high and contains lots of blank space. When I use the End key to scroll to the bottom of a page, I rarely see any content because most of the screen is taken up by the footer.