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openBrowse Tropes trash
Sometimes when I'm bored, I surf the "Browse Tropes" function to find something new to read or as inspiration, but it occasionally present pages that were deleted loooong ago.
Trope and work pages that were cut for various reasons still show up in Browse Tropes, even if they don't lead to any page after clicking them.
The worst examples are spam scam pages like "wtach KUNG FU PANDA 3 free hot singles in ur area giv us mony". "Pages" that were nuked, but Browse Tropes still thinks that they are important enough to show.
And that's not counting that sometimes the list compiled by Browse Tropes can turn VERY long, filled with pages of works, Useful Notes and even some Troper pages.
At this point, I'm betting that a member of the Red Link Club is gonna show up on Browse Tropes one day.
Is it possible to update whatever system Browse Trope runs on, and make it less stupid?
open"Error: Connection reset" when not using a VPN
When I try to use TV Tropes without using my VPN, I've been running into Chrome going "Error: Connection Reset". Cleaning caches doesn't fix the issue, changing pages doesn't work, etc. Only turning the VPN back on lets me continue.
I'm not certain, but could this be due to an IP address issue? Someone else suggested it could be due to me sharing an IP with a banned user.
openNew line markup keeps disappearing
In my draft Famous Time Travel Hotspot, the Doctor Who example has a two-line quote underneath it. Every time I edit the page, the \ markup that indicates a new line disappears and I have to re-add it.
Edited by NitroIndigoopenYou can't escape youtube embeds
Putting anything resembling the code for a youtube embed into a forum post will result in it attempting to turn that code into a video embed, regardless of whether it's empty, escaped, or otherwise shouldn't display. Not really a huge problem normally, but it does make it impossible to demonstrate the code accurately
Edited by HylarnopenForum Search overlooks the Archives
Just tried out the Forum Search, and entering "Cibus" pulls up its two mentions in the old P5 flag evaluations thread, but not a more specific forum thread from later in the Content Violations Morgue.
Is that intentional for any reason?
openBackslashes keep disappearing in drafts
Why is it, when I edit a draft in the Trope Launch Pad, the double backslashes (\), used to start a new paragraph, get deleted?
Every time I edit one of my drafts, I have to add them back again; even simply posting a reply under one of my drafts is enough to delete some of the backspaces, which I then have to manually add for the next edit.
This happens only with drafts, editing a post in a forum or a page doesn't seem to indirectly affect the backslashes.
It's getting kinda annoying, so I wondered what could be the cause behind it, and if a solution would be impossible or not.
openClock broken?
When I was looking around at the forums, I noticed that some edited posts incorrectly state the time they were edited, such as AM and PM being switched around, or the hour the edit was made being different. Anyone else noticing this?
openTrope Description Thread Bugfix Drive
When I follow the Trope Description Improvement Drive thread, clicking the thread name on my followed threads list always sends me to page 1 instead of page 218. The thread is also always marked as unread on the followed threads list, regardless of how many times I click on it.
(Also, clicking on the thread from the Long Term Projects thread list works as normal.)
EDIT: This image I hope should illustrate my problem.
Edited by JHD0919closed Forum search doesn't work.
The prompts: "Ask the above avatar" and Forum Games
The results: Forums in Video Games that don't include the keywords at all.
closed Search not finding forums.
On Safari on my computer and phone when I seared for threads/forums, none come up instead getting weird and oft unrelated results. Tried it in old and new search, same issue.
closed Putting certain code into the edit source breaks source view
p><p><div class="quoteright" style="width:320px;" ><div class="lazy_load_img_box" style="padding-top:129.06%"><img src=', 'ExcaliburInTheRust', 'NoBudget', 'TakeThatAudience', 'BoringButPractical', 'HyperdimensionNeptuniamk2', 'DownloadableContent', 'HeroesPreferSwords', 'HaveYouSeenMyGod', 'GustCorporation', 'MyNameIsQuestionMarks', 'BeefGate', 'VerbalTic', 'ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin', 'YuriGenre', 'HealingFactor', 'CensoredForComedy', 'ArtisticLicenseBiology', 'KarmaHoudini', 'BlahBlahBlah', 'MetalSlime', 'RealitySubtext', 'ShowDontTell', 'PokemonBlackAndWhite', 'CallBack', 'InUniverse']
* VideoGame.BabaIsYou - 84 - 105 uncrosswicked:
As seen in:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Malady?action=source
leads to weirdness where it says "* VideoGame.Baba Is You"
Edited by MaladyopenSuperscript not sticking after making an edit
I have been having trouble making an edit because of superscript not working as intended. (The example I'm using is on the SiIvaGunner page.)
When I had finished making the edit, the page displayed the superscript as normal (image below).
However, when viewing the history, where the superscript was added was instead interpreted as a line break. This also occurred when writing the unicode and html designations for the character instead of pasting the superscript in.
In the editor, this change was retained as well.
In order to keep the superscript in, I have had to manually re-add the character every time I have edited the page.
Edited by nanakiroclosed Cannot add page to cut list.
I am trying to add Sandbox.Joker Folie A Deux to the cut list but it won’t show up when I click DOOM IT.
closed Yack Fest doesn’t appear in the search results.
It doesn’t even work when I use quotation marks.
Sure, I can access the Yack Fest page easily by setting it as a favourite, but I just want to make sure this isn’t because Yack Fest is being phased out or anything.
Edited by MisterToodleooclosed Folder control on TLP not working
On TLP now, the folder control only opens the first folder.
closed Old Search Relevance Seems to Look at Forums First?
I understand old search is old for a reason, but recently it seems that the relevance sort has been changed somehow to prioritize forum results first then the actual relevant TV Tropes page. Say I search for "One Piece", it'll show all the forum discussions first and on the second page show the Manga page. The results seem to vary a bit depending on if the forums have "relevant" titles but overall it isn't actually being relevant.
New search seems to work fine but I only ever use old search.
Thank you for your time.
closed Folders Not Opening if a Stickied Post has a Folder
In this forum post, the first folder can't open, while in this forum page, all the folders can't open. However, the folder in the stickied OP can still be opened. I tried fixing this bug by clearing my cache, but it didn't work.
openToo small box for the video example description
If a video example features a lengthier description, it's nigh-impossible to read properly as the box is too small and even a single mouse wheel stroke scrolls too far, skipping over part of the text. Using the scroll bar is difficult as it's quite thin and requires excessive precicion to handle. It even seems its handle is slightly misaligned.
The Feather Fall and Camera Shy trope drafts say they were nuked. However, they were actually launched, at Feather Fall and Camera Shy, and furthermore, they don't show up in the Discards list or the Launches list.