We've just pushed a large overhaul public. Please report complaints, comments and concerns here. When reporting bugs, please make sure you include which browser(s) and platform(s) you have encountered the issue with.
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
- Why did we do this? This update has been in development for over a year. It replaces a vast amount of messy code on the back-end, gives us a new modernized design, updates us to https, and creates a platform that we can more easily build on for future updates.
- Can we go back to the old design? This isn't happening. We'll make the new one work.
- Why are there so many bugs? As with any major overhaul, some problems will occur. The developers are working full-time on fixing stuff.
Frequently Reported Issues
This isn't everything, just the most common problems.Status Values
- Being logged in as someone else, sort of. [FIXED]
- Where'd the "Folders Open" toggle go? Not a bug, it's in your profile.
- Multiple issues with the new site search feature. [Logged]
- No sorting options.
- Forum poster search is gone. [FIXED]
- Can't search specifically by thread title, making results unhelpful.
- Pagination doesn't work correctly — the last page displays as if there were no search results.
- Line breaks don't work in some areas. (Ask The Tropers, Trope Launch Pad, forum previews) [Patched]
- ATT, TLP, forum previews fixed. Some more line breaking issues were identified and are being worked on.
- The Cut List does not work.
- Cannot approve or deny requests. [FIXED]
- Line breaks don't work. [FIXED]
- Cut request reasons don't appear. [FIXED]
- Additional cutlist issues noted here
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- Note, subscript, and superscript formatting are broken in various places. [FIXED]
- Night vision has significant readability problems. [Patched]
- Namespace index is broken. [Logged]
- Articles may become locked when edited, or when backing out of editing without clicking Cancel. Moderators can remove the locks but can't fix the underlying problem. [Patched]
- Remaining issue: the lock system still doesn't distinguish between an article that's locked and one that's checked out for editing.
- Edits won't save when "<" or ">" characters are present in the markup. [Patched]
- HTML detection was disabled for the time being. We're working on a more robust system.
- Edits won't save when the [norreallife] tag is present in the markup. [FIXED]
- Redirects are broken. [Patched]
- This is at least partially fixed. We need to know if there are any remaining problems.
- Indexing is broken. [In Progress]
- Images on wiki articles are rendered smaller than in the previous design. [Patched]
- Resizing images with [quoteright] tags is still broken.
- The "Following" list (formerly called the Watchlist) doesn't distinguish visually between viewed and unviewed articles. [In Progress]
- Custom titles are no longer appearing in all places where they should. [FIXED]
- In-line icons for Flame Bait, Trivia, and YMMV wicks are intended, but sometimes overlap preceding text. [Patched]
- Trivia icons should not appear in-line. (Design issue, logged)
- In second-level bullets, icons overlap preceding text. [Logged]
- The [invoked] tag no longer suppresses the aforementioned icons. [Logged]
- [quoteblock] markup causes everything inside to appear italic and squashed together. [FIXED]
- Line breaking for external links doesn't work correctly. [FIXED]
- Post numbering is no longer visible, although you can retrieve it from the hard-link. [Logged]
- "Delete all posts by user" mod feature now causes posts to be completely hidden instead of replaced with "Troll Post". [Logged]
- "Mark all as read" forum feature doesn't work. [Logged]
- "Save Draft" feature doesn't work as expected. [Logged]
- Forum post preview doesn't show all markup. [FIXED]
- Unread indicators on individual forums (topics.php) seem to have nothing to do with whether you actually have any unread posts. [Logged]
- Avatar upload is broken. [In Progress]
- Avatar galleries aren't formatted properly. [Logged]
- Crowners are broken. [Logged]
- Namespace configurator (mod tool) is missing some auto page type options, and the namespace locking feature doesn't work. [Logged]
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Edited by Fighteer on Jul 13th 2018 at 3:56:59 PM
@lakingsif - I've noticed that flashing. I've also NOT noticed it when I happen to blink at the wrong time. Design-wise, it's not what I'd call a great solution. Nor is a shade of grey for unread that you need a spectrographic analysis to distinguish from the other shade of grey that means read.
Now, green checkmarks on all unread threads, like the Followed Threads page has? Great solution!
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Yeah that's a good idea!
I really appreciate everything you've done and fixed so far, and it's quite easy to distinguish when you have a block of unread pages, but when you start reading a few of them and update the page, it gets really quite hard to see which is read and not.
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There's a forum glitch (?) where not all threads are marked as read no matter how many times you click on them, while others are.
So am I correct in believing that the broken display toggles for IE are never going to be fixed?
I'm Sad Frogerson.
I brought up earlier how on the discussion pages links to forums up end being broken due to the URL getting screwed up. It's still happening, but I've also noticed some other issues.
For one, apostrophes will be turned into slashes after hitting save. It's properly formatted when I got to edit it, but it's still messed up even if I type it out again. Which leads to the large issue in that I can't actually edit my replies. I've been trying to add a word I omitted from a sentence, but it just won't save.
Here are some links to the Discussion pages I recently posted in to demonstrate the issues I'm having.
Edited by chasemaddigan on Jul 30th 2018 at 1:55:01 PM
it's a living
Just in case: I'm unable to change my vote on a crowner page. It gives the prompt, but then loads to a blank page. Is that a known issue?
Edited by Unsung on Jul 31st 2018 at 1:40:27 PM
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
~Pushover Media Critic (this post): That has been a problem since before the 1.8 version. Several years, in fact.
Hi
I believe it is...crowners are just about useless in general right now.
Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph
Sometimes, on forum threads, avatars show up as blank unless you reload the page.
Do we know why this update was so buggy?
Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
It had a very small and exclusive closed beta.
And then due to outside pressure (mostly Google pushing websites to adopt HTTPS), it was released before it was completely ready.
The Wanderer
The flashing for unread wiki pages in Following also isn't as clear in Night Vision.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Redmess
So once again, Google is to blame for drastic changes on Tv Tropes. 
Perpetually Confused
So, Today's Featured Trope used to change several times a day. Now it's doing the opposite. It's been the same one for several days? Like, at least since the beginning of the weekend.
Lost in Space
We moderators manually add tropes to the list. I'll pop a few more into the queue today.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Blapper of Water
Glitch on android: the sticky header scrolls a bit upward when you scroll down in the forums, making about half the header disappear off the screen. This doesn't seem to be an issue in threads themselves but in the page that lists the different forums.
Not a glitch but a question: How should we format or change pages where folders and such are above the example list? I just found ComicBook.Miracle Man and the page almost looks like a stub at first because the description is contained in a folder pushed down the page by the image.
Though the paragraph spacing in the folder is messed up, so that's a glitch to (re-)report.
Edited by WaterBlap on Aug 1st 2018 at 9:35:23 AM
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they pretty
Characters/TNA is locked. So yeah, that's still a thing.
Why the heck was that opening section on the Miracleman page hidden in a folder? Just got rid of that (the header was superfluous too).
Tief girl with eartude
I've seen this before occasionally but not sure this has been reported: escape characters and broken links in forum posts. Seen in my post here but also elsewhere, not sure why this sometimes happens.
Apostrophes are prefaced by a backslash '/, and links (to TV tropes pages anyway) have https://tvtropes.org/' and '/ appended the left and right sides of the URL, breaking the link.
Latest Firefox on OS X El Capitan.
Edit: Unlike the Discussion page bug, I was able to fix this with a null edit.
Edited by naturalironist on Aug 2nd 2018 at 3:51:10 PM
"It's just a show; I should really just relax"
I have the exact same problem with the liveblogs. I put in a link, but the site puts https://tvtropes.org/' in front of every link, making them all useless. I've tried Null edits, but they do nothing. Also, for some reason the site also automatically puts backslashes right next to every ' and ".
Edited by WillKeaton on Aug 2nd 2018 at 1:56:41 PM
The HTTPS bug also appears in discussion posts.
I can't edit discussion posts. I accidentally replied to a discussion on this page (bottom/oldest thread) and have tried to edit my reply several times, but the edit doesn't save. If I blank the post, it takes me to a page saying
Back to the liveblogs for a sec, External Links don't work. At all. For example, on this page
every single link has https://tvtropes.org/' before the web address, thus, instead of taking you to the correct page, it takes you to a 404 error page every single time.
Edited by WillKeaton on Jul 29th 2018 at 6:56:17 AM