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.
Is there something we could be doing better? We want to know. Do you think we look fat in these pants? We were totally afraid of that. See a bug? Report it.
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:
closed Sidebar button and Color
I think there should be a button at the top of the screen or a profile option to remove the sidebar entirely or put it back whenever needed, that way we can use the wide load option to widen the screen on both sides instead of just the one. If T Vtropes needs somewhere else to put advertisements either the top of the screen just under the tropes/media/indexes/forums/etc. bar and at the bottom of the page right under everything else are both good yet out of the way spots for them.
While I don't really mind the colors myself and greatly enjoy the night vision mode, one of the most common complaints about this website's design is the color of any number of things. I think there should be a number of different color options for the background, text, headers, and pretty much everything else to allow each troper to customize the pages to their liking possibly with even all colors and shades if possible which will remove any reason to complain.
closed "Toggle children" button should be preserved across refreshes.
The "toggle children" button in the ATT/TF/YKTS format needs to be preserved across refreshes of the page.
openBring back the "Help" dropdown in the main menu
The Help dropdown included very useful links like Text-Formatting Rules which I used all the time, and are difficult to find otherwise if you don't already know what to look for.
closed New color scheme seems flat
Much preferred the blue tones and light grey sidebar. The white and steel grey is hard to look at.
openMinor Issue: Sticky Reader in the forums
Whenever I click a post's date with Sticky Reader ON, it covers the poster's name and almost everything besides it. Maybe make it so if one has Sticky Reader ON, I'm linked to a few pixels above it usually takes me to?
closed Old Random Buttons
The new Random buttons look both childish and three decades old; they don't go with the new look, in regular or Night Vision. I miss the dice.
closed Font size on mobile
In the new layout, the font size on mobile (ios running safari) is significantly larger than it was before, and it would be nice to have an option to reduce the font size back to what it was before.
closed Reduce Sidebar Width
The sidebar takes up 1/4+ of the page width. This is a little too wide for easy browsing.
closed Would it be possible to implement some sort of colour change mechanism to the site?
Due to a very particular disorder of the eye, the present layout with it being largely white and gray is hurting my eyes. While night vision does aid me, it is still very difficult to use the site on it in certain sections.
Would it be possible to add in some sort of mechanism to change colour theme, such as a list of various colour options imposed on the site as is?
I liked the previous pure-black background in Night-Vision mode. Is there a way to bring that back?