Discuss TV Tropes itself, such as observations you've made about the site/forum/wiki.
NOTE: Keep it civil; try not to get into any Flame Bait-y territory, per the forum rules (in particular, drama importation and popcorn posting are not allowed, and this thread is for discussion about the site and not the users). In addition, while discussing the Edit Banned thread is not prohibited on its own, discussing and/or alluding to specific cases is not permitted.
One thing I've noticed is that for all how the page for They Might Be Giants claims them to be the unofficial official band of this wiki, there's relatively few people on this site who seem to ever reference them.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Mar 28th 2023 at 7:19:52 AM
We were talking about this club’s 20 year anniversary, not Avengers: Infinity War.
I like to keep my audience riveted.Well, Tony Stark better defeat Thanos or I will never come back!
Discord: Waido X 255#1372 If you cant contact me on TV Tropes do it here.Does anyone even know what date TV Tropes went online?
Somewhere March 2004.
Apparently we all have collectively missed the 20th anniversary.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupWikipedia says April.
Good thing we're not wikipedia and can check by ourselves.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupHuh, never seen that early version of TV Tropes. You'd think with a website created just 20 years ago we'd have better records of its creation.
If nobody documented it back then, then that's how it is. You can see the rest at Timeline.TV Tropes.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupAs a prospective writer, this interests me. There's obviously many resources for writers here, like So You Want To and the Writer's Block forum, but the site feels more geared towards resources for audience members and fans nowadays, a way to analyze tropes as a viewer, not as someone using the tropes in writing.
It's ironic given how the website was less professional in its youth, yet it posits itself as a resource in a way it no longer does.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Doesn't stop me from repeatedly pressing the "random trope" button in hopes of finding something I can use to tie a story together. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't.
Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.I think the site hasn't been "for writers" nearly never and is mainly a wiki for wiki sake, what others do with it is up to them. It's not like we actually encourage writing outside a designated subforum or actively make Analysis pages.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupIts for people who like the idea of writing and coming up with endless ideas for a story they're too distracted to write!
New theme music also a boxRegarding the site's launch date, I think someone previously brought up the fact that Eddie's account was specially coded to say it was made on April 2004 due to that being when the site was made, despite registration dates only being tracked since 2009 (meaning his original account would say January 2001 without that coding, which is what mine says despite being made in 2008), but I noticed that both his original Fast Eddie account and his eyebones account (the latter of which was made a while after the site started tracking registration dates) are coded to say they were made in April 2004.
Edit: Also, the Wayback Machine archive Amonimus posted still says April and not March (the banner says "4 Apr 2004") and there are no captures before that one, so I don't see how it contradicts what Wikipeda says. I did notice the timeline says that the site moved from tvwiki.sytes.net to the current tvtropes.org domain on April Fools' Day of the following year (or at least that's when the current domain name was registered), so I guess April is the anniversary of both the site itself and the current domain name.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 28th 2024 at 10:53:00 AM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.The end of a page has a last edit timestamp, which is earlier than the capture's date. There isn't a real way of knowing when the site factually went public, Web Archive only has when someone first decided to capture it.
As I've mentioned at Timeline.TV Tropes, one page had a history from even January.
Edited by Amonimus on Apr 28th 2024 at 6:55:52 PM
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupInteresting... overlooked that edit timestamp earlier. I also noticed that there's a link to a General Suggestions page, which explains why the link to it is orange (I think the fact that it's orange despite no longer existing was brought up in this thread a while back, but I'm not sure if anyone had an explanation at the time), even if it's not clear why it's still orange years after it was discontinued.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 28th 2024 at 1:24:33 PM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.Oh hey, I turn 20 this year too. Neat.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.The TV Tropes ads that encourage signing up / going ad-free, are pretty good because they also mean that the bad ads aren't happening too?
I wonder if it'd be a good idea for the site to have an option to choose which ad provider they want. It seems Google is pretty good at not being bad?
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576That wouldn't really make sense, the ads people get are usually either targeted or randomized. (And google ads aren't always perfect, there's been a lot of issues recently)
Reading JustForFun.Ad Of Win makes me sad because nowadays we're lucky if we get adds that just aren't intrusive, let alone funny or ironic.
Edited by WarJay77 on Apr 29th 2024 at 3:21:02 PM
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Purenesshttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/TVTropes
It pains me unintended image glitches will NEVER reach such an hilarious high again.
Discord: Waido X 255#1372 If you cant contact me on TV Tropes do it here.I remember that day. You never knew what the imagine would be when you went to a page.
ah, the original tv tropes. i only recall one or two people who were still troping in 2012 who had been on the original site, and im not including gus or janitor
hail, holy queen of the sea, you're whirling-in-rags, you're vast and you're sadI know tropes are tools but I am realizing there are almost no positive LBGT tropes anymore. That's a sad state of affairs... and now I realize if negative storytelling is SO COMMON shouldnt it be People Sit On Chairs?
Discord: Waido X 255#1372 If you cant contact me on TV Tropes do it here.
Aegis P crumbles into dust
Discord: Waido X 255#1372 If you cant contact me on TV Tropes do it here.