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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

Leftywright Since: May, 2013
#201: Jan 9th 2015 at 4:59:40 PM

Ok one big problem... i cant set my spoiler default to visible whenever i try it goes back to hidden when i save it [tdown]just bugs me

TairaMai rollin' on dubs from El Paso Tx Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Mu
rollin' on dubs
#202: Jan 9th 2015 at 5:01:35 PM

Is there something wrong with the [quoteblock] tag? It doesn't seem to work.

I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#203: Jan 9th 2015 at 5:03:20 PM

[up] Blockquotes are bugged. No, they have not been removed entirely, if I understand Sep correctly.

ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NO
SWFMax Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#204: Jan 9th 2015 at 5:11:24 PM

On YMMV.Matthew Santoro, it says that the page has not been indexed, and needs to be put on an index. As far as I know, YMMV pages don't need to be indexed, so I think this should be fixed. (I'm not 100% sure if this counts as a bug, but I think it does, so I'm posting it here.)

desdendelle Hooded Crow from Land of Milk and Honey (Sergeant) Relationship Status: Hiding
Hooded Crow
#205: Jan 9th 2015 at 5:14:55 PM

I'm getting the same indexing bug on Troper pages (including those I know were already indexed in the contributor index).

On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.
Technicolourtardis Since: Mar, 2012
#206: Jan 9th 2015 at 5:30:00 PM

Constantly the pages suddenly redirect to full-page advertisements. Try to edit? Full page advert you can't close out of. Try to publish aforementioned edit once page cooperates? Full-page advert again. Lather, rinse, repeat. If you go back after, say, finally being able to edit the page and publish the edits, it'll take you back to the edit page. These adverts are making the site impossible to use and navigate.

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#207: Jan 9th 2015 at 5:35:20 PM

I'm pretty sure this has been mentioned already and I'm not even sure this qualifies as a lag, but I have to keep log in time after time, even though I clicked the remember me function. It's rather inconvenient.

Or is it just me?

Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#208: Jan 9th 2015 at 5:39:40 PM

[up][up] You should repost that in the [[/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13223684920A10189100&page=38#941 advertisement issues thread]].

EDIT: I'm logged back in on my phone now somehow. Thank you!

edited 9th Jan '15 6:04:42 PM by Noaqiyeum

ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NO
SWFMax Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#209: Jan 9th 2015 at 6:20:15 PM

The YMMV scales aren't showing up. For example, on the Harry Potter page, under the entry for the trope Anyone Can Die, there's a pothole to Like You Would Really Do It. If I open the page up to edit, it does say that Like You Would Really Do It needs to be moved to YMMV, and there are no other potholes to Like You Would Really Do It on that page, so I know the coding knows that the pothole is there, I just don't see the scales.

DonaldthePotholer from Miami's In-State Rival (Emeritus Troper) Relationship Status: Married to the job
#210: Jan 9th 2015 at 6:24:52 PM

I'm thinking that we should split this thread into 2.

  • One thread for Cookie-related issues (Login, Watchlist, Spoiler Setting, etc.)
  • Another for Direct Site-related, like the YMMV-not-auto-indexing and Quoteblock markup things.

And yet another example of the second type: I tried to create a Franchise-specific subpage for a Trope (specifically, Early-Installment Weirdness/Pokemon). Entering that as a page gets me to the "Inexact Title" prompt as standard. When I try to Edit (that) Page from the Dropdown, I get shunted to the Home Page.

Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#211: Jan 9th 2015 at 6:25:16 PM

I just noticed that crowner hierarchy is messed up - it orders the options alphabetically, not numerically.

I.e.

5
4
3
2
1
0
-5
-3
-10
-1

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MobileLeprechaun (: from Grayrock, TX Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
(:
#212: Jan 9th 2015 at 6:27:37 PM

Forgive me if this is misplaced, but I'm not sure where else to mention it.

Whenever I use the site on my iPhone, it works great, but is rendered nigh-unusable because of some redirect ads that hamper my navigation. Whenever I try to look at my PM box, they stop it from loading entirely and just keep making me go to these magazine sites, and it's driving me nuts.

Any way around this at all? One of my friends is confined to her iPad, and she's experiencing the same debilitating redirects.

make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019
megarotic Crazyman-In-Chief from USA Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Sinking with my ship
Crazyman-In-Chief
#213: Jan 9th 2015 at 6:28:32 PM

Huge bug! I can't edit anything from my computer because the edit button doesn't show up! I can see it on my Kidle, but Windows seems to be a no-edit zone. Also, the content of The Cummoner was erased (the links are still up, so I can just repost, I guess). I mention this because I created that page and troped it like there was no tomorrow. :(

Turn it off, man, turn it off! It's sucking my will to live! Oh, the humanity! 😜
Willbyr MOD Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Hi
#214: Jan 9th 2015 at 6:29:30 PM

[up] The Cummoner, IIRC, was axed by the P5 for pornographic content.

The wiki editing button, for the time being, is in a dropdown list in the icon that looks like a square with a pencil in one corner on pages.

edited 9th Jan '15 6:30:28 PM by Willbyr

AFP Since: Mar, 2010
#215: Jan 9th 2015 at 6:41:07 PM

Another bit of anecdata, I seem to also get logged out every time I leave the TV Tropes page to go somewhere else. Windows 7 PC running Chrome.

Misterian Since: Mar, 2011
#216: Jan 9th 2015 at 6:43:07 PM

Sometimes when I try to search something, my browser gets automatically moved to some random page with no links back to TV tropes to indicant it's some form of advertising.

Quag15 Since: Mar, 2012
#217: Jan 9th 2015 at 6:51:00 PM

The upload form/pic page is blank. Is it broken?

Knowlessman hey i dunno, why don't you tell me from Stupidtown, USA (FL) Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
hey i dunno, why don't you tell me
#218: Jan 9th 2015 at 7:07:56 PM

Search Forum Titles and Find Post By Tropers bars are both 10,000 kinds of borked.

edited 9th Jan '15 7:08:10 PM by Knowlessman

i care but i'm restless, i'm here but i'm really gone, i'm wrong and i'm sorry, baby
Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#219: Jan 9th 2015 at 7:09:24 PM

Something's up with dashes; the forum seems to be rendering them as question marks. Seen in this post on the Armored Vehicle Thread.

Schild und Schwert der Partei
desdendelle Hooded Crow from Land of Milk and Honey (Sergeant) Relationship Status: Hiding
Hooded Crow
#220: Jan 9th 2015 at 7:12:06 PM

Not only dashes. Curly quotation marks, too. I suspect that everything that isn't basic punctuation is affected.

On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.
MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#221: Jan 9th 2015 at 7:17:56 PM

- - - - - - - -

" " : : "

I assume by basic quotation, you meant "Stuff that is seen on the keyboard", right?

The Japanese characters seem to be unaffected though, as are the greek characters

edited 9th Jan '15 7:20:50 PM by MorningStar1337

desdendelle Hooded Crow from Land of Milk and Honey (Sergeant) Relationship Status: Hiding
Hooded Crow
#222: Jan 9th 2015 at 7:22:35 PM

“” –- ϼзᴔطṴ῏
It would seem that just punctuation is affected.

edited 9th Jan '15 7:22:56 PM by desdendelle

On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.
Knowlessman hey i dunno, why don't you tell me from Stupidtown, USA (FL) Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
hey i dunno, why don't you tell me
#224: Jan 9th 2015 at 7:46:44 PM

Just thought I'd mention that the Forum Topics link at the bottom of the page is redundant, as it goes to the same place as the Forum button directly above it.

i care but i'm restless, i'm here but i'm really gone, i'm wrong and i'm sorry, baby
Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#225: Jan 9th 2015 at 7:52:06 PM

Knowlessman: "Find posts by tropers" is working for me (using Firefox)... o_O

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