If you all hate AI-generated content so much, you should have complained when the app was in the planning stages. It's not like it was a secret that the app would use AI.

Well, there's nothing I can really say about the technological elephant in the room that no-one else has, so I'll just give this feedback - a search on page feature wouldn't go amiss.

Maybe I'm just spoiled by pressing "search on page" to look for something without having to scrub through the whole page, but I feel like that kind of convenience would be a big help.

I remember there being some discussion about it, which I believe went something like;

"We don't like the AI"

"Then don't use it"

Now, I'm pretty sure that was smaller scale, I'm pretty sure I only know about it because I happened to hang out in the thread it was mentioned in. This was advertised to everyone with what spent some time being an unremovable banner on the top of the screen, which is bound to attract more eyes.

Yeah, the comparison doesn't feel fair to me as well, since they have totally different use-cases. Who knows, maybe the bigwigs have a use case in mind, I don't own a website.

Edited by Marchen on Mar 19th 2025 at 9:56:03 AM

Edited by b-wolf95 on Mar 19th 2025 at 4:58:45 AM

X4 I didn’t know that this app was even being made, it’s just now being pushed in my face. How would I have known to push back against it? Also AI sucks.

Maybe they’re adding it because AI is sort of a big thing nowadays, and they want to capitalize on that.

One question that may be of use to many, if the Claude Sonnet is a locally downloaded model or uses Anthropic's online cloud/API services.

Like I said, it's a technology that has attracted significant controversy over generating content without human involvement. It was bound to attract this sort of stir the moment it went online. Just because there is an option not to use such a feature, it doesn't hide the fact that such a feature is there in the first place. It is a Tu Quoqe argumentative fallacy that does not address the issue at hand.

I'm still less than trusting of their official statement without it being verified by a third party source. I still don't see the purpose of it on a T Vtropes app.

at least youre not dismissing everyone's feedback on account of being 'anti-ai rhetoric' anymore. That's a change, I guess.

Edited by WinningPony on Mar 19th 2025 at 2:01:10 AM

^Especially since they don't name the 'external experts', admit they produce heavy emissions, and are vague on what they do to make up for it.

Baby steps

Outside of the obvious controversy that usage of AI innately attracts, looking at the feature itself it really doesn't feel like it has anything that any other text generator doesn't? On a fundamental level it feels like a gimmick that someone curious would maybe use once and never again, which is only lending credence to the argument that it feels unnecessary and shoehorned in.

For something positive, I really like the Badge shop. It's cool that badges show up even when using the site outside the app and I think it has a lot of potential to be a fun way to customize your profile going forward.

Edited by ReginaldOgron5 on Mar 19th 2025 at 2:10:29 AM

Some other non AI Feedback:

This could really use a random trope / random work button

The layout kind of sucks? In particular the giant TVTROPES banner at the top that occupies like, 1/10 of my phone's very limited screen real estate and does nothing. Sure there's the important link button in the corner, but that doesn't require an entire banner (and clicking the tvtropes logo doesn't even return you to the main page). Said blue banner turns into a page title when you're on a work/tropes page but again, the title is at the top, it's just eating screen real estate. It's not like the app supports tabbed browsing (see below) so it's not like I need a reminder of the page im reading when its the only page I can see.

The app is very slow. Some pages take upwards of 5 to 6 seconds to load, versus < 1 on the same phone in browser.

The lack of tabbed browsing is almost criminal on a wiki, for a decent Wiki Walk experience. Like, I want to click all those blue links but I can't because it'll take me off the page I'm in.

Feature request: a page preview when you press on a link before you open it. The Other Wiki's app does this.

I can't seem to add badges, when I tap on a category, the app crashes, can this be fixed? I'm on iPhone Xs, IOS 17.