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If you've stumbled upon this site, you might be asking, "How are you different from TV Tropes, other than the slightly differentincreasingly-divergent content?" This site is what is referred to in the software community as a "fork" -- a point where we decided to go a different direction from the original site. It's a major undertaking, so we should explain the reasons why we built this site.
 
;Modern Wiki Engine
:We have a website that supports multi-level namespaces, and where any character can be in the title. We have an auto-completing search box, to help you find pages faster. (And the suggestions the search box offers are all live links, so you can open any of them to a new tab without waiting for a results screen first.) We run all web traffic through SSL. We have an editor that doesn't rely on weird hacks to display page captions, but actually has buttons to help you with formatting. Once you get used to the [[Help:Editing|new syntax]], you find it's quite easy to work with and much more flexible.
:[[User:Labster|IOne of our admins]]'ve has chatted over dinner with Patrick Michaud, the author of PmWiki. , Iand likelikes him a lot. And his wiki software has seen better days. He's moved on to become part of the [http://perl6.org/ Perl 6] project, and so we should move on too.
 
;No Advertising
:We're not going to annoy you with ads, and we plan to stay that way. We won't be influenced by corporations to regulate our content, just fromfor the income. If you want to help with the upkeep of our servers, you can [[m:Donate|Donate]] to Miraheze to help cover our costs. Or not. It's entirely up to you.
:Just so we're clear, embedded videos may feature ads from the video-hosting site. We have no control over these ads, nor do we profit from them. It is your right to use browser add-ons to disable these advertisements.
 
;No Anti-Ad-Blocking Shenanigans
:TV Tropes actively attempts to subvert ad-blocking and ad-disabling technologies in its users' browsers, and when it can't, resorts to flat-outnagging withholdingand its content fromguilt-tripping you to ''force''"persuade" you to view their ads. We don't ''do'' ads, so we have no reason to try to take over your browser to maximize our profits.
 
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