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workingEditing redirects me to the home page.
I noticed today while editing that when I go to save my edits, it'll randomly redirect me to the home page for TVTropes and not save my edit at all. I have to go back and do my edits again to make sure it saves properly, but sometimes I have to do this multiple times. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it, as some edits will go through okay and some will have the redirect bug.
For the record, I am using Firefox and the bug happens even if I have adblocker turned off.
EDIT: Clearing my cache and cookies doesn't work. I tried editing on Edge, and the bug doesn't seem to happen there.
Edited by chasemaddiganopenImage 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.
openVideo not uploading
I've tried three times to submit a Transformers: Animated clip to Railroad Tracks of Doom, but the upload sequence keeps stopping at 7%. I uploaded two clips earlier with ease, but I'm having problems with this last one.
Edited by MagnabossMaximusopenJaws
I'm having the same problem discussed here—I was trying to edit the "Jaws: Characters" page and Kee getting booted to the home page and my edits aren't uploading. Well, at least I haven't been suspended again. (Sorry, I only just noticed the admonition not to repeat a previous complaint)
Edited by DrOO7openSaving a page only to get to the front page (mobile)
While editing on mobile, I noticed that when I save a page, I get transported to the main hub page. Not only that, all of my progress is not saved.
openNewest trope has broken display
I've noticed that when the newest trope is launched without spaces, on Home Page the title will stay that way even after the page title is fixed or customized.
Edited by Amonimus
openlength limit on tropes for video examples is too short
On video examples, the field for the primary trope that the video is attached to has a length limit, which is shorter than the allowed length for trope titles. This means that, for example, a video cannot be moved to Inopportune Impersonation Failure, because it is one character over the limit:
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.
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 Amonimus
Opening a Preview page to check if everything is okay before saving an edit, I am intermittently getting a blank page headed /preview. This isn't happening all the time on every page - it's sporadic. Sometimes, but not always, two or three attemjpts will cure it and bring up a full Page Preview.