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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

Pyrarson Everybody's dead, Dave. from NaN Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
Everybody's dead, Dave.
#1651: Oct 9th 2015 at 2:57:55 AM

The advertising and security issues page goes off the page. I can't scroll to the right to see it all.

H.B. Ward
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#1652: Oct 20th 2015 at 6:12:33 AM

I keep getting a "you have PM" banner even though whenever I open it it says I have no new messages.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
TheMungoman Since: Jun, 2014
#1653: Oct 20th 2015 at 12:50:36 PM

Every time I search for something using the Search bar, it loads for a moment and then shows me no results at all.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#1654: Oct 22nd 2015 at 10:59:56 AM

The problem [up][up] remains.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Hjortron18 Since: Jul, 2015
#1655: Oct 22nd 2015 at 1:06:57 PM

I have problems uploading images using the image uploader. After hitting the "submit button" a blank page appears. It worked for me before, so there shouldn't be a problem with my device. Has anybody experienced similar issues?

Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#1656: Oct 26th 2015 at 9:01:05 PM

Whenever I go into the Bilingual Bonus page, the alignment gets screwed up by moving to the right and Firefox crashes. I think it may involve an advertisement that appears on the left of the page, but I'm not sure.

valozzy Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: Desperate
#1657: Oct 27th 2015 at 10:29:16 AM

I don't know if it is intentional, but on Ask The Tropers, there are scrollbars on the sides of all of the posts. The problem with that is that all of the posts are sized to be big enough for all of the text to be showing already.

I'm currently using Chrome OS Version 46.0.2490.71 (64-bit), if that's needed (I know there's normally a settings tab that shows the version of Google Chrome, but it only shows the Chrome OS version, so I assume they're the same.)

SmartGirl333 New account is voidify Since: Nov, 2014
New account is voidify
#1658: Oct 27th 2015 at 2:57:44 PM

The post-making page up bug still happens. The window can be snapped into place by ctrl+f'ing for "topic:", but it's really annoying.

ijffdrie Since: Jan, 2010
#1659: Oct 28th 2015 at 6:23:17 AM

Editing a page when using google chrome results in insane amounts of lag. When I type a sentence, it took over two minutes to show up in the editor, during which the page was pretty much frozen. This problem isn't present when using internet explorer to do the same.

Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#1660: Oct 29th 2015 at 12:45:55 AM

Been noticing in mobile that I am occasionally not able to scroll up all the way to the top of the page. No idea what causes it, but it may be forum-related.

Pyrarson Everybody's dead, Dave. from NaN Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Hugging my pillow
Everybody's dead, Dave.
#1661: Oct 29th 2015 at 1:05:50 AM

And my face is a giant keyhole!

H.B. Ward
Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#1662: Nov 1st 2015 at 3:51:41 PM

When on page 54 of the Advertising/Security Issues thread, the text goes off-screen without me being able to scroll to the side to see it (the bar doesn't even show up). I think it has something to do with large text snippets without spaces being on the page.

Odd1 Still just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Still just awesome like that
#1663: Nov 4th 2015 at 9:02:30 AM

When viewing the "customize wikiword" page in night vision mode, the majority of the text is still black, so it's black text on a nearly black background, nigh impossible to read.

Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Hi
#1664: Nov 4th 2015 at 10:01:03 AM

[up] There are several pages that night vision mode does similar things to.

effessem Since: Nov, 2015
#1665: Nov 7th 2015 at 1:05:07 AM

In the last few hours, when trying to view the site on my iPhone via both safari and chrome, whenever an ad loads at the bottom of the screen, the page blanks completely. If I switch to reader view before the ad loads, the text stays, but once I exit reader mode, the page is blank.

Spinosegnosaurus77 Ramen Fairy from Ontario, Canada Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: All I Want for Christmas is a Girlfriend
raziel365 Anka Aquila from South of the Far West (Veteran) Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
Anka Aquila
#1667: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:14:43 AM

Same on pc browsing

Instead of focusing on relatives that divide us, we should find the absolutes that tie us.
CurledUpWithDakka from Kansas City, MO, USA 64127 (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
#1668: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:17:00 AM

On the ad thing... It first causes the screen to resize/rezoom, then go blank; but only for "ad ply" ads. And they only show a black bar, right before this happens. Chrome 46.0.2490.76 on a ZTE smartphone running Android 4.4.2.

I said "drop it: it's hot," not "drop it like it's hot!"
drewski MOD Since: Jul, 2013
#1669: Nov 7th 2015 at 12:06:56 PM

We removed all of the Adiply ads that were causing this bug.

Ramona122003 Since: Jan, 2001
#1670: Nov 7th 2015 at 1:19:07 PM

I am not sure if this is a common problem, but I have been having trouble with this site for awhile. Every now again pages won't fully load or load very slowly. My bowser, which is Safari 6.2.8, will slow to crawl and I am force to Force Quit. The site will also something freeze when I am trying to edit a page. These problems are especially bad if I use the new view instead of Classic View.

SmartGirl333 New account is voidify Since: Nov, 2014
New account is voidify
#1671: Nov 7th 2015 at 3:04:51 PM

I get "Server hangup. Description: Server hangup" errors frequently when attempting to load pages. Reloading fixes it, but it's still annoying. By the way the page up bug still exists. Still chrome on windows 7. The page up bug doesn't happen in Firefox it seems.

edited 7th Nov '15 3:06:36 PM by SmartGirl333

AnthonyMercer Since: Jan, 2001
#1672: Nov 8th 2015 at 3:38:27 PM

Right now, any page that I go onto on the wiki repeatedly refreshes.

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#1673: Nov 9th 2015 at 2:47:30 AM

Wiki Word -type Troper names all over the forum lost their spaces.

edited 9th Nov '15 2:47:49 AM by Medinoc

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
TheWealthyAardvark Since: Oct, 2010
#1674: Nov 11th 2015 at 8:26:45 PM

Night Vision mode: Chapter 5 works fine, but Chapter 5 still displays all of the text inside of the link.

lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#1675: Nov 12th 2015 at 5:55:27 AM

Main.Young Adult Literature seems to have stopped showing up on related pages. I think for a while it stopped indexing, too.

I put Literature.Messenger Of Fear on the page, and it indexed on its own page, but doesn't show up in its related pages on the YA page.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=Literature/MessengerOfFear

The Protomen enhanced my life.

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