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'''2018 October 3'''
* ''[http://musictheoryprof.com The Music Theory ProfBlog]'' links to [[Truck Driver's Gear Change]] on their page [http://musictheoryprof.com/2015/03/decoding-the-love-on-top-modulations/ "Decoding the “Love On Top” Modulations"].


'''2018 October 1'''
'''2018 October 1'''
* This is an odd and interesting one. [https://alternativeto.net AlternativeTo], a site where you can get crowdsourced recommendations for ''software'', will recommend us if you ask it for an alternative to TV Tropes.
* This is an odd and interesting one. [https://alternativeto.net AlternativeTo], a site where you can get crowdsourced recommendations for ''software'', will recommend us if you ask it for an alternative to TV Tropes.

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With the implementation of Matomo Analytics for All The Tropes in late August 2018, it once again becomes possible to track, albeit broadly and crudely, links from other sites into the wiki.[1] This page is for bringing anything odd, unusual or amusing among those links to the attention of the wiki community. Please add new entries below the banner and above the previous entries.

Weirdest Inbound Links

2018 October 3


2018 October 1

  • This is an odd and interesting one. AlternativeTo, a site where you can get crowdsourced recommendations for software, will recommend us if you ask it for an alternative to TV Tropes.


2018 September 29

  • The DOOM Wiki links to us on several of their pages. There's nothing weird about the links -- but it turns out that the DOOM Wiki has coded "allthetropes" as a link markup in exactly the same way that we have "wikipedia" as a markup; their users just have to type in something like "[[allthetropes:Ascended Meme]]" (with perhaps optional pothole text) to have a link to us.
  • Meanwhile, you've got to wonder what's up at the Troup County School System that they're linking to us.


2018 September 28


2018 September 24

  • Four days later, and El Reg is now our largest inbound referrer, with almost a hundred links. Someone find the article and what it links to!


2018 September 20

  • Snarky IT news site The Register has suddenly popped up with more than a dozen inbound links.
  • Gaming wiki 1d4chan's page on TV Tropes links to us as its "most notable fork"; they are our third largest referrer, after AOL and Reddit.


2018 September 18


2018 August 26

  • Confounding all our prejudices and expectations, we have multiple inbound links from TV Tropes of all places! Isn't it still an autoban to even hint that we exist there?



  1. Given the actual power of Matomo Analytics as described at their home page, we should be able to get more info and finer detail, but at the moment that's not available to us.