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Topazan from San Diego Since: Jan, 2010
#1: Mar 12th 2012 at 6:13:40 AM

I tried to post a new YKTTW earlier today, but submitting the form took me straight back to https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/yk_activity.php and my YKTTW didn't show up. I tested it several times afterwards, and the same thing happened each time.

I'm using Firefox 10.0.2 on Windows XP.

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#2: Mar 12th 2012 at 9:52:33 AM

Make sure that the laconic does not contain any links. That's a known issue.

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DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#3: Mar 12th 2012 at 1:12:14 PM

Well I didn't have any such thing in the laconic bar, and I'm getting the same problem.

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DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#4: Mar 12th 2012 at 3:39:15 PM

Well I finally got it to register, but I'm not sure if it was fixed or just didn't catch the glitch this time.

EDIT: And now the open/close draft button doesn't work.

edited 12th Mar '12 3:40:26 PM by DragonQuestZ

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#5: Mar 12th 2012 at 4:53:57 PM

On Ask The Tropers, Eddie said something weird is going on and that we must use the permanent link until he can fix it.

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lebrel Tsundere pet. from Basement, Ivory Tower Since: Oct, 2009
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#6: Mar 12th 2012 at 6:44:42 PM

OK, and now every single YKTTW has five hats. I bet that will be a pain to sort out.

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Topazan from San Diego Since: Jan, 2010
#7: Mar 12th 2012 at 8:25:51 PM

Looks like everything's fixed now. Thanks.

Topazan from San Diego Since: Jan, 2010
#8: Mar 12th 2012 at 8:50:31 PM

I spoke to soon. There's another bug with YKTT Ws submitted after the previous issues. When you go to edit a new YKTTW, all the single quotes are escaped with backslashes (ie \'). These remain in the text when you submit the edited YKTTW.

Stratadrake Dragon Writer Since: Oct, 2009
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#9: Mar 13th 2012 at 8:44:24 AM

Double-escaping is a much older known bug. And it keeps happening over and over and over and over again until you can\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t see anything else but the backslashes.

Really, the backslashes multiply faster than Plot Bunnies on Viagra.

edited 13th Mar '12 8:45:06 AM by Stratadrake

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lebrel Tsundere pet. from Basement, Ivory Tower Since: Oct, 2009
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#10: Mar 13th 2012 at 9:36:38 AM

[up][up] Except that a lot (most?) of the YKTT Ws that had hats before the glitch no longer do. And I was so close on a couple...

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#11: Mar 13th 2012 at 9:59:00 AM

It seems that Eddie is now implementing a new YKTTW system - I've just seen a headline being thrown up mentioning this.

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