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NOTE - Report bugs along with your browser/version, operating system/version, and device. There are thousands of these combinations, and most bugs right now only affect certain combinations.

Tropers - As you are probably well aware by now, we've made a ton of changes to TV Tropes. Although most of the changes you see are primarily cosmetic, we are also part way through a complete overhaul of the backend code. With so many changes under the hood, it is entirely possible we broke a few things. If you find something that does not appear to be working correctly, this is the place to report it.

Please note, this thread is for BUGS only! If you have an idea, wish, or anything to say that is not related to a bug, please do not post it here. Those things can all be posted and discussed on other threads in Wiki Talk or the Tech Wishlist.

The more information you can provide about the bug (e.g., browser, operating system, etc.) and how to re-create it, the more likely we will be able to squash it.

Happy Troping!


EDIT: Here are some things that have been reported:

  • Login issues
    • Logins not sticking between devices
    • Some people are still having issues with dropped logins.
    • You can't log in if your username contains a space. Remove the space.
  • Javascript: Your device must be able to run Javascript from tvtropes.org, static.tvtropes.org, ajax.googleapis.com, and netdna.bootstrapcdn.com. If you are blocking any of these, lots of things won't work, like editing pages.

edited 3rd Apr '15 7:03:53 AM by SeptimusHeap

TonyG (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1501: Aug 3rd 2015 at 5:02:53 PM

I'm having trouble with viewing on IE 9 on Windows Vista. (I get it, my computer's old, moving on.) When I open the home page, it freezes and the browser has to restart. This then happens again after a few pages.

SmartGirl333 New account is voidify Since: Nov, 2014
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#1502: Aug 3rd 2015 at 5:08:16 PM

Solution: Don't use IE. This update's buggy enough without the devs having to code twice.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#1503: Aug 3rd 2015 at 5:18:06 PM

IE 9 support is definitely not in the cards. The bug in Chrome with the edit window is fixed in the development site, the beta for which should be up any week now.

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Bisected8 Tief girl with eartude from Her Hackette Cave (Primordial Chaos) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#1504: Aug 3rd 2015 at 6:26:12 PM

It might just be me, but the site seems to be running a lot more slowly than usual.

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batmreload Since: Oct, 2013
#1505: Aug 6th 2015 at 12:00:19 AM

Search function displays blank screen Opera 12.16

EDIT: Cleared out cache and restarted, working again.

edited 6th Aug '15 12:04:25 AM by batmreload

SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#1506: Aug 6th 2015 at 1:57:29 AM

A couple of days ago, my browser started crashing whenver I'd visit the TV Tropes page, typically after a few minutes of browsing but especially when trying to add a post in the forums. The odd part is that this is affecting both my laptop AND desktop, even when different internet connections are involved (I tether my phone's wifi to the laptop to use it's data connection when I'm at work). This is not affecting the other forums or websites I frequent either, hence why I think this is an issue specifically related to either the ads being shown on TV Tropes or the website's coding.

I believe the issue might be partially related to the shockwave app, or any background applications being run when browsing TV Tropes. Reason why is because I decided to check the processes and the amount of CPU power they were using, and one of the Google Chrome processes was taking over 300,000k, and rapidly grew from that. As soon as I shut it down, the site began to act normally for a few minutes. Unfortunately the issue repeated itself shortly afterwards, the CPU processes increased in size, and the site crashed again. Any ideas what the cause might be, guys?

drewski Since: Aug, 2013
#1507: Aug 6th 2015 at 9:35:19 AM

[up] It might be related to the ads. If this happens again, try and do an inspect element on the page and open the console. If you see a bunch of stuff flooding in, take a screenshot if you can and send it our way.

SmartGirl333 New account is voidify Since: Nov, 2014
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#1508: Aug 6th 2015 at 1:29:32 PM

The bug that I reported still happens in wiki editing.

Proof: [1]

Karxrida The Unknown from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
The Unknown
#1509: Aug 7th 2015 at 7:44:43 PM

Sometimes when on my iPhone (5, I think?), the site doesn't load. I'm not sure if it was just because the site was down or some other issue, but it's happened to me at least 3 time.

edited 7th Aug '15 7:45:03 PM by Karxrida

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SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#1510: Aug 8th 2015 at 3:16:35 AM

Well good news... whatever was causing the site to crash for me has stopped, and the site is behaving normally again.

Absolutely no idea what I did (or didn't) do though - I didn't even get the chance to implement the troubleshooting advice Drewski mentioned.

MorningStar1337 Like reflections in the glass! from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
Like reflections in the glass!
#1511: Aug 8th 2015 at 1:27:46 PM

So is there something wrong with the youtube markup?

Imca (Veteran)
#1512: Aug 8th 2015 at 2:13:01 PM

Its still broken.

Has been for over a month now, and it is a known issue.

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PhantomHeartless5 Since: Sep, 2012
#1514: Aug 10th 2015 at 6:51:47 PM

Okay, I'm using my LG tablet and something is wrong with the search function. The pages come up blank.

PoweRespect Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#1515: Aug 10th 2015 at 8:27:24 PM

So...why is the search broken? The page comes up blank when you try to search something.

LiamA Since: Mar, 2010
#1516: Aug 10th 2015 at 8:30:45 PM

I too am being affected by blank pages when I use search.

PhantomHeartless5 Since: Sep, 2012
#1517: Aug 10th 2015 at 8:33:01 PM

[up] I dunno. I tried emptying my cache and resetting my tablet, but the same thing keeps happening.

Angeldeb82 Since: Dec, 2010
#1518: Aug 10th 2015 at 8:56:16 PM

The same thing happens to me, but I'm on desktop and using Google Chrome. When will the "empty search page" be fixed? sad

Imca (Veteran)
#1519: Aug 10th 2015 at 9:24:17 PM

Firefox, Windows 7.

Same issue with blank search.

ssygir Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
#1520: Aug 10th 2015 at 9:28:42 PM

Same blank search problem. Chrome and Windows 10 here.

PhantomHeartless5 Since: Sep, 2012
#1521: Aug 10th 2015 at 9:47:26 PM

Glad to see I'm not the only one experiencing this. Now, is it ever gonna be fixed?

MrUnderhill Since: Oct, 2010
#1522: Aug 10th 2015 at 10:19:54 PM

Also getting the blank search of doom. Running Linux Mint 17 and Firefox, so it's not just a Windows problem. Firebug reports some pretty big-ugly Javascript errors: something to do with a URI being too long, but that happens on every page, not just search.

Kimarous Since: Jul, 2010
#1523: Aug 10th 2015 at 10:28:51 PM

Blank search issues as well. Firefox on Windows 8.1.

edited 10th Aug '15 10:29:15 PM by Kimarous

drewski MOD Since: Aug, 2013
#1524: Aug 10th 2015 at 10:56:48 PM

We aren't sure what happened with the search, but will get it fixed asap.

SmartGirl333 New account is voidify Since: Nov, 2014
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#1525: Aug 10th 2015 at 11:30:53 PM

Search thing looks fixed now, it wasn't working for me either earlier.


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