TV Tropes
Ranked 6 of 9 wiki software by recommenders
Free wiki cataloguing storytelling tropes across media, loved for its endless browsing; the main caveat is that it easily eats hours.
Free wiki cataloguing storytelling tropes across media, loved for its endless browsing; the main caveat is that it easily eats hours.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Endless absorbing browsing rabbit hole
“I only gained an appreciation for such meta-reading during a weeks-long TV Tropes bender”
Comment from 14 Dec 2025 in “Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class” “As long as you can avoid getting sucked in to an all-day wiki bender.”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long” “caution, TV Tropes will consume your free time”
Comment from 11 Jan 2026 in “"Food JPEGs" in Super Smash Bros. & Kirby Air Riders” Captures the best of the internet
“they encapsulate the best of what I like about the internet”
Comment from 11 Oct 2026 in “Cartographers of North Korea (2019)” “thus it is the true marvel of the internet”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Cartographers of North Korea (2019)”
Other wiki software people recommend
The four most recommended other wiki software, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confluence | 38 | 80 | 32% | 11 | 12 yrs3 owners | — |
| TiddlyWiki | 19 | 1 | 95% | 7 | — | Approved |
| MediaWiki | 15 | 9 | 63% | 8 | 6 yrs3 owners | — |
| Outline | 10 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | Approved |
| TV TropesThis page | 7 | 1 | 88% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“thus it is the true marvel of the internet”
“I found myself nodding along with every last one of those.”
“they encapsulate the best of what I like about the internet”
“as I get bombarded with non stop ads”
“For individual notes there's https://tvtropes.org”
“caution, TV Tropes will consume your free time”
“I only gained an appreciation for such meta-reading during a weeks-long TV Tropes bender”
“As long as you can avoid getting sucked in to an all-day wiki bender.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.