All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXI

[GethN7]

Huh.  That sounds familiar, I wonder if we were using it years ago and just stopped.

In other news, regarding KF and its users, we may have less to worry about than we initially thought.  Matomo Analytics shows only four links from there in the last month, which I'm going to take as encouraging.

Most of the time we only get linked in their TV Tropes thread whenever they want to slag off on TVT or compare and contrast something boneheaded they do to something sensible we do (or at least less boneheaded).

Given their super high SEO, I'd prefer not to be the major target of their mockery, but being linked to so they can snark at something TVT does in comparison is cool.

Also, they tend to like using archive links quite a bit, which can skew the Matomo tally. One thing they do for stuff they fear someone will try to delete evidence of is to immediately make an archive link of it, and many of them use VPNs and proxies which further skews the analytics. We typically don't have a habit of burning evidence of anything embarrassing, we tend to own it and be transparent, so we rarely if ever have had them seriously worry we'll do what TV Tropes does and try to delete everything that could embarrass them. In short, acting like adults has redounded to our credit on that score.

As for the search thing, not to my knowledge, but enabling it should be harmless and easily removed if it causes issues since all it does is add another search mode to the Special:Search page, but does not change the function of the default search at all.