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openDisplay glitch
I'm having a persistent issue where the "Random Trope" and "Random Media" buttons appear stacked on top of each other when browsing forums and pages, but not on the home page or edit pages, for some reason.
openImage Uploader choked
Multiple times by now I have observed that the Image Uploader rejects an image, while the console types "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 () 04:17:52.073 /ajax/uploadImg.php:1", the image gets submitted when I click Submit several more times.
openLinked creator not appearing on related pages
I noticed that one page, Creator.David Errigo Jr, does not appear on the related pages of works listed in the actor’s filmography, such as WesternAnimation.Tiny Toons Looniversity and WesternAnimation.My Adventures With Superman.
Edited by BigBadShadow25openIssue with drop down "More" tab in Real Life page
On the Real Life page, when clicking on the drop down menu "More" along the top row below the page title, the menu list only goes down to "Madeof Explodium" before cutting off
Edited by GooooombahworkingTwo inaccessable pages under the Sandbox Namespace due to the WikiWord beginning with a blank space
In the listing of all pages with the Sandbox Namespace here you can see two pages whose Wiki Words begin with a space character. It makes it hard to access them, or submit the pages to the cut list. The pages are: Sandbox/ MightyMorphinPowerRangersS2EP31WhenIsARangerNotARanger and Sandbox/ MightyMorphinPowerRangersS2EP32RockyJustWantsToHaveFun
Can someone take care of these pages somehow?
openChanged a single letter, Edit appears "blank"
I made an edit to the National Basketball Association page, fixing a typo of "Neggets" to "Nuggets", which can be seen in the first line of the previous edit to my own. However, my edit in the page history appears to be "blank", despite the change having been made. (The page now correctly displays as "Nuggets" in that spot.)
I tried on one of my Sandbox pages but couldn't duplicate this. However, I still wanted to report it as the page history not accurately showing edits seems like it could be problematic in other cases. Thanks!
open502 Bad Gateway
Trying to click the page image from Some Dexterity Required to access the Steel Battalion page just gave me a 502 Bad Gateway error, no matter how many times I tried it - I had to search for the page myself, which let me access the page properly, after which clicking the trope image worked correctly as well. Not sure what's up with that.
openScreen randomly goes black
When I'm scrolling through on mobile the screen turns black and becomes unreadable, even though the bottom of the screen shows the site still being scrolled.
IDK why youtube uploaded it as a short but I have a video showing the error https://youtube.com/shorts/ao-eJcs87eg?si=RBwsPBeWLCODEBfs
workingButton overlap
In the mobile view, on article history, the show more dropdown is drawn below the "hide all" button, which is ugly and slightly inconvenient as the "discussion" button is covered over.
Edited by AmonimusopenCan't post on forums
I tried to upload posts on a couple of forums but the drafts just disappeared without it being uploaded after i clicked "upload". I pressed it once and it didn't do anything and pressed it a second time and the draft disappeared.
workingLegacy account being flagged as a new account
Hey there
I’ve been known on the site since 2011, but when I edited this post in FG, which included a link to the reveal trailer for Joker in MultiVersus, it blanked my post and replaced it with the "new accounts cannot post external links" message like I was brand new to the site.
What’s especially weird is that the post had displayed normally at first; the post had been up long enough for the troper above me to respond to my question.
Will say that I had recently verified my account, so I’m not sure if it’s a known quirk with that or not.
Edited by kablammin45closed Notification About Email Address?
Every time I refresh or open a new page, I get a notification that I don't have an email address and need one to use the site. This is bizarre, as: 1) I've had a valid email address for years, 2) I haven't changed my address recently, and 3) I can still edit without any issue.
When I try to enter my current address, I'm told it's already in use. I also cannot send a report to the Admins: when I fill out the forms and verify that I'm not a robot, clicking SEND does nothing. Is anyone else having these issues?
Edited by JadeEyes1closed ATT occasionally glitches
This only happens for a few seconds at a time, but lately there's been a small chance that if I check ATT there will just be nothing; a blank front page with the page buttons. Eventually it comes back if I refresh, but I was wondering if anyone else has this happen
closed circular logic
I try to access the site and it says I need an email to access this site. I have been a member since 2012 and always had the same email. When I fill in the blank with my email address it says it is already in use.
Please contact sylvae23@gmail.com - no way I can read any reply here. Thanks.
closed I got a message telling me I couldn't do anything until I verified my account
So I came onto the site, as usual, and they told me I couldn't do anything until I verified my email address. I did it without thinking and got brought back to the site, but now I'm scared that it might have been some kind of scam, some attempt to get into my email account or something. I made the account all the way back in 2012, so this could very well just be perfectly normal, but I'm nervous as hell that I might lose my google account. Sure, all they have is my email address, but what if that's all they need?
openMedia Finder redirect still a redlink
So in a previous query I requested that Main.Media Finder be redirected to the Media Finder page. That request has now been fulfilled, and I can't thank the admins enough for doing it...but it's still a redlink. If the redlink is left as-is, not many people will know it's a redirect - therefore, I request that it be blueshifted.
(I am convinced this is a bug, hence why I'm reporting this here instead of in the Tech Wishlist.)
open1 Double-quote turning into 2 single-quotes
So, I didn't notice this at first, but someone corrected one of my edits and pointed out what was wrong, and even then it wasn't until I copied and pasted their correction that it became visible.
For some reason, when I am using double quotes during an edit, they are being saved as two single quotes. This isn't visible in the edit screen to me, as the font there has the quotes very close to each other, while in the text box I am currently writing in, I can very clearly see the difference between " and ''
I am using Chrome on Windows and have Grammarly installed. I can't think of anything else that could be relevant to what is happening.
I have just tested both with and without Grammarly turned on, and I do not seem to be able to make this reoccur. I can only confirm that it has happened at least twice previously.
A minor observation, when a mod edits a query post, "changed by" line names the original user instead. Assuming this post implies this and this post were edited by a mod.
While at it, I've noticed query posts don't have an edit timestamp like forum posts do.