Trovesaurus Site Feedback

@Volk

Thank you, what specific navigation tabs are you suggesting?

@XxEsaxX

I would like that too. Are there any specific pages which load slow?

@Cybaros

Yeah some of the builds are older, and I do plan to mark them as old based on what patch they were created in. I feel a bit funny about editing someone elses build, that doesn't feel right, so we'll have to encourage new builds to be submitted for the current patch.

@3rotom7

Thank you for the feedback, you can find these at the top right of the home page already :)

@The Igmo

Thank you for the positive comments. I definitely agree we should have the weekly bonuses displayed too, the Today in Trove section looks like a suitable place for it, as well as the in-game named events.

@MrDracc

Do you mean a dark mode to the site? You can switch the theme to a darker one using the profile nav menu.

@Wyxlor

This was a recently introduced feature, and there should be many boxes which do now show their contents.

@samulek21

I'm not sure I understand how it overshadows the rest of the website, it is on the calendar, and the homepage which I don't feel is shoved down peoples throat. Could you explain your thinking further?

@Elisa

Have you tried clicking the red x in the corner to mark them as read?

@Etaew

Yup.  The actual messages themselves go away once I click the X, but there's one message there, without the X option to make it go away, about an unpublished mod of mine.

@Elisa

Hm is true, I might let you delete unpublished mods.

@MOS_0326

I'm using the auto ads feature from Google, which tries to automatically place ads in the best place. I've noticed some weird placements myself which removes the sidebar and things, but I think apart from that it is a better system than the PC only ads we used before on the old ad network. But you are right, it can be a bit disruptive and so I need to investigate if I can do anything about that.

@MT_LORD

Thank you for your feedback.

Walls of text are something I am aware of, and for a lot of these sections we provided pictures to provide an overview of the section to help with that. Although you bring up a valid point about perhaps linking related videos, it's not videos we would ourselves produce but hopefully others in the community.

A text to speech button likely isn't something we would provide though.

@Kmoney5322

Do you have any examples where the stuff doesn't work well on mobiles? I've tried to make them usable on both.

Notifications should be sent out if you win a giveaway.

Also creating an app I'm not sure I can justify the time invested on that, or how much it would be used vs the website. But it is still an option if I am looking for something to learn personally.

@Unbound Blue

What do you mean the site background doesn't change? By default the background will show Peaceful Hills, to change it you need to edit your profile.

Although another feature is that if you visit someone elses profile page, you will see the background they have hcosen.

As for more builds, I agree.

@Etaew

I tried to change it but It didn't for some reason I'll keep trying though.

@Izzibu

You are right that it isn't optimised for the Trove Wiki keyword at all, because mostly I make a point that this isn't a wiki, it's a database powered by the Trove client. The Trove Wiki is another entity entirely that is powered by people entering data themselves. And they have the domain and optimisations from a full company to promote their pages.

I'm pretty proud in how Trovesaurus has developed over the years to be recognised, with mostly just the work of a few fans.

I would of course love for the site to feature better in search results though.

@Etaew

IMO it definitely outstrips the competition in usefulness! So great work! And thanks :D

@foreverablackboi

Thank you for the feedback, do you have any suggestions which would make it easier to navigate to where the giveaways and codes are? It has a large section at the bottom of the homepage already.

@PotatoJuice00

Thank you for the recommendation, advertising isn't really something I'm too comfortable doing. I did used to be active on the Trove Forums but it can get a bit weird self promoting and sometimes being engaged in discussions with people of differing opinions.

The site has mostly survived on just being discoverable, and most serious players do find us due to the exclusive mounts they can claim, the giveaways, the art contests, the place to submit mods.

However I admit there is a large amount of people that I'm not engaging, which I would love to do better. I'm just not sure how to go about doing that, or what use they would have, veteran players already know the information here, I could perhaps incentivise guide making again, we haven't done things like that in a while.

@SquareX3

That feature is mostly phased out, you can still generate them probably with /link at the end of your profile URL. However there isn't a lot of additional functionality you get with that, if you use Trove Tools you will get Trovesaurus Mail notifications and it used to display on your profile when you were in-game. We didn't develop additional functionality around that so it wasn't really included in the profile page redesign.

@Etaew

Thank you

@MegaJackson (Jasson-I)

Thank you for your feedback.

You are right that an indication should probably be given for platform availability would be nice, as it prevents the need to click.

As for code returns, I really can't offer that, as I can't trust that the code is unused, people could claim, then return. It is a nice idea though, but I don't see a way we can do that safely.

@colbalt_beans

Thank you, do you have any suggestions as to how to make it easier to find mods? You can browse by type and subtype from the mods page, or see the most popular.

@Etaew

I was thinking like filters, so you can search for things like file type, what the mod replaces and such.

@_FutureHero_

Thank you for your requests. I would like to re-work the club builds section, so it's nice to hear that others want it too. For modding videos I don't create content, and I'm not sure if anyone else creates that type of content at the moment, but I would like to make a better written version on the site to start people on modding.

@DunnY_FuntoM13

That's a feature for the Trovesaurus Gold users, the aim is to have the majority of users chose models from the game to work on a consistant style.

@Etaew

wow

I didn't know sorry

@SansyFresh

Thank you, I do try to pay attention to mobile concerns, and one of the benefits of using the bootstrap styling is that they are supported. Some things do require manual tweaks so if you have a specific concern on a mobile I could look at that.

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@Etaew

I personally think that the site is amazing as is, but I'm also a person that thinks that everything can improve, like the ability to change the size of certain things, such as the buttons for us sausage fingered people.

@Azulack

Yeah the site design has changed over the years, is there something specific you are having a harder time finding? This kind of feedback is important to me.

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@Etaew

Maybe including it at the start, right after making an account for the site, like a video outlining the website or the changes that had occurred over the years of its development. Of course the video still has to be accessible to people after they are finished with it, and you can update that video anytime you want. In the outline video maybe include if there are still codes for the sageosaurus, spaceosaurus, tomb raider costume, as that could be a way of promoting the site, as well as that was how I was introduced to the site.

@RemiixSkittleZYT

That is out of my hands as a site developer, either these are provided by modders who have had their items accepted or the Trove team.

@Smasher22

Thank you, do you have some examples of this? Most smaller icons are lazyloaded, which mean they only load when that area is being viewed. Some icons are missing from the site alltogether and may need a specific report.

@Etaew

BTW how do you put/insert image in comment

@Smasher22

At the moment you have to upload the image somewhere, and then press the image icon on the editor taskbar and paste the URL of the image.

@Chevalix

The Trovesaurus player website cannot improve the Trove game servers, I'm sorry.

@addamay123

Yeah suggestive text would be nice, I will see what I can do, we used to offer this not sure why it was removed, maybe performance reasons.

@HattuX

Each club can add themselves to the Discord list by adding a Discord link to their club entry. If that is what you mean.

@BalintMc

Do you mean background images? Well that's possible I guess. What kind of images?

@Etaew

Yeah, like more biome type backgrounds

@gamingpickle500

I'm not sure what you are asking but if you just mean a place for console users to suggest ideas for modders to create, you can use the Trovesaurus Discord #modders channel perhaps

@EpikDisko

The mobile version should respect the themes in the same way the desktop does.

@millox

There are pages for every item in the game, and where we have information we list how to obtain it. If you are looking for some specific information on an item you can let us know about it, and we can work on completing it for you. Or if you have information how an item is obtained you can submit a correction to a page using the sidebar.

You raise a valid point about removing the container to increase the visible area, we did run a test where we stripped out the container, it makes things a little weird on super large screens so it hasn't graduated testing yet. 

You can test this for yourself with: 

https://trovesaurus.com/?container-test=hide 

To undo the test and return to normal use:

https://trovesaurus.com/?container-test=show 

@svrider

You want notifications to be emailed?

@Etaew

對的  希望能有效知道訊息

@NameNotAvailable

Well each dragon egg and fragment should have its own page which has the information, if the page is missing the information I'd like to know about it. I was working on an overview page for all of them which you might be meaning.

@SpaceRebel1125

Yes this is a good point, the ability to turn notifications off or send to email is a customization option I would like to add to the profiles.

@Yamper

Thank you for the report, I will take a look at this feature :)

@SugoiTrash

This is a reasonable request for those who get a lot of notifications yes.

@Blarff

You do make a valid point, for guides there is an option to mark as outdated but not builds. The only information I show is the date they were created or updated. I may be able to use that date to determine which patch it is appropriate for.

@0o0WarLord0o0

Due to the random nature of dungeons this wouldn't be something that would work for a guide on the site, what you are suggesting would have to be included in-game I think.

@Goomy07

We used to have badges and I did start working on a proof of concept Fallout Shelter style system where you could recruit allies and send them out on adventures, although my time was spent mostly on other changes.

@natsuzinho

Do you have any suggestions about how I can improve the information of items so that you don't get lost? What parts do you get lost on?

I've actually been working on improving the information flow of item pages, most notably lately the "How to Obtain" field section.

@Wolfgalaxy

That's a bit generic and there isnt really something specific I can look at for this. Would you like to suggest which items need additional information?

@Darkdrag0n22

I would also like to see more information added to items, this is done manually and requires users to call out to us when things are missing or needs updates. There is a way for users who are logged in to submit corrections to pages which are one of the ways to earn Reward Tokens. I could also bring back the feature which lets people more easily report information that is missing that they are looking for.

As for no items on the Upcoming Calendar that isn't a bug that needs fixing, I just haven't added any future events at the moment. Perhaps I should indicate this.

For Writings of Wonder, I started to write some information on this and then the internet went down and I lost it. From the information I could find it seemed that this item used to be available in Troves of Wonder and Chaos Chests and once appeared on Luxion. Nothing recent shows this as available at the moment but I could investigate some more.

@Ciodaro

I'm sorry but I don't understand this comment. Could you try again in English?

@Yokai Oni

Does PSN / XBOX have online profile pages you can link? or would a field for gamer tags or something be the best way to do that?

Also we used to have badges but took them out. Old old page https://trovesaurus.com/badges I'm not sure how to present that was a more inviting way to work towards things and display them.

@Etaew

No theres no PSN ID linking or typing field on this website, linking like battle.net and bungie.net or enmasse.com and truetrophies.com does or at least typing PSN ID in a PSN ID field to display like my Trove forum account, Twitter, and Discord, maybe add more to Display aswell like YouTube/Twitch/etc eventually be cool features and arigatou gozaimasu for badges part thank you :)

@AntiSpin

Thank you for the feedback, the info in boxes is a new feature we released a few days ago, can you check back now and see if you can find the info you need.

Guides and builds I would love to have updated but as you say that is community creation, I spend most of my time creating the platform for people create that kind of content. However what I could do is either sponsor some content either targeted to individuals or to incentivise a contest.

@Etaew

Your are totally correct! awesome nice to see it and the possible rewards! thankyou :)

@kirBBy

I have always wanted to get around to doing a Trove theme, and while I do like simple we do offer some other theme options check the switch theme feature on the profile menu at the top. Trove theme is definitely on my task list though.

@Henrique12121

For giveaways we can only really rely on the generosity of Modders who donate codes for us to give away their accepted items, we can't pick and choose what we give away unfortunately.

@Etaew

A yes ... I understood, I did not know.

@YTCreeperkiller

Add to what? the site?

@OrangeApple

Thank you for the feedback, the request is reasonable although would require engaging the club leaders to set this, which may be a bit of a challenge.

However I could look at whether the site search feature checks the description of clubs, which might help in what you are looking for.

I'm not sure what exactly you are referring to for searching only in a specific category, if that is related to the site search then you can use the tabs that appear on the search results page?

Edit: I can confirm that the site search does check the club name and description for matches.

@Etaew

by searching only in a specific category i mean either going to a page (clubs, users, etc) and being able to search ONLY in that category, instead of the searchbar defaulting to showing you all results in all categories. sort of in the way you'd be able to search on a forum (though i guess implementing those functions into the main toolbar in the first place may be easier?). something like this:

while the description search works, it only seems to work sometimes? if its a word thats only in the description of my group, it defaults to the 'google' tab and shows only my group as a result. but if its a more common word like 'art', under the 'google' tab it shows EVERYTHING with art in the title or the description in whatever order google chooses, and only groups with 'art' in their name under the 'clubs' tab (picture of this below).

i especially feel this would be improved by the addition of some sort of tag system? now that i've also looked through some other club descriptions---for clubs focusing on making pixel art or making music tracks, it'd make it infinitely easier to find them by searching something along the lines of 'Clubs> music, art' than searching music or art separately and only getting clubs that have 'music' or 'art' in their names, and 300 google pages to scroll through.

ssorry if this is a bit disorganized, i was looking these things up through the search while writing to double-check, so as not to waste your time.

@Questions

That's not something that Trovesaurus as a player-run fansite can arrange. Mods are for the Trove team and the console companies to sort out. As for promos, we do try to have regular giveaways and contests here.

@King_Trove1

I have been working on it, but nothing new to announce yet.

@LoganGamerGlyph

It's not really something I have control over, Dazo needs to become active again.

@LK-AlphaRomeo

Glitches and problems with the site? what leaderboards?

@Yamper

Thank you for the feedback, about theme preview you can use the nav menu for your profile at the top-right of the screen and use the Switch Theme option. It should give you an image preview, and when you click it applies instantly and keeps you on the same page.

I agree that some of the themes don't look great, I included a bunch of default bootstrap ones but I primarily design for the main Trovesaurus theme and secondly Dark since a lot of people use it. It would be a little hard to make everything work on every theme and I might pull some of the lesser used ones. If you have some examples of things that doesn't look right I can take a look and see if it's a simple fix.

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@Etaew

Thanks for responding! I can't find the theme my friend was using that was looking weird. I didn't know there was a theme changing option on the top right.

I have a solution to what you said: "It would be a little hard to make everything work on every theme".

Allow simple color and/or text font choices so that people can make their "own theme", even if it's just a simple color and font change. That way, everything can work because you're only changing the font and colors. I personally have trouble reading text if it's a specific font so that would be helpful for people like me, or with dyslexia. 

Thanks again for your time reading this.

@big daddy

Pictures of what? collections? art? deco? just general theme?

@blackskull467

It's a little vague so could you elaborate on how it could be made easier? Do you mean on mobile devices or on desktop?