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
Lucha Libre goddess
Gold text is semi transparent and barely readable in night mode.
Make your hearth shine through the darkest night; let it transform hate into kindness, evil into justice, and loneliness into love.
TL;DR: update sucks, change it back.
Peace out, peeps.
Why not have an option to disable the sidebar completely? To me, it's mostly wasted space that takes up a big chunk of the screen. With the previous version, I got around this by using ABP to remove the sidebar element, but when I tried it now, the space for the sidebar is still allocated. But as ugly as it is, the big blank area is still better than the noise of the sidebar.
Never Ask Me For Anything Ever Again
I would like to be able to turn on all spoilers again. Highlighting them or doing them individually is annoying.
"Shout, shout, let it all out These are the things I can do without, come on I'm talking to you, come on!" -Tears For Fears
indighost | he/them
Sig update aside, I honestly would like it if they announced these updates every now and then. That being said, I don't really mind the aesthetic redesign, but also wouldn't mind a toggle between this version of the site and at least the previous version.
Xbox/PlayStation: IndiGhost77 | on semi-hiatus
Takat Empress
A great point made on the last page WHAT HAPPENED TO VIDEO POSTING? Did you guys just remove it just because?
Mileena Madness
'Add Post' buttons are randomly appearing and disappearing whenever I load different threads, on Firefox, including this thread-had to browse 3 pages to find one with a button to make this post.
Current crowner status: 26 people say yes, 1 says no.
Peace out, peeps.
The crowner already has 26 upvotes.
Perpetually Confused
Youtube links are on the list of broken features
Presumably because of "Legacy devices" like a Windows 10 computer running latest versions of chrome and firefox :-P
Basically what Angrok Va said. It would've been really nice to have a warning before the update. Maybe it'd still be as buggy and whatnot as it is now, but at least we wouldn't have been caught off guard.
Something to keep in mind for next time, I guess?
Icon by Civvi the Civilian!
I like how when I go to the bulletin list the link is broken.
Edit: Oh cool when night vision mode is on I can't even see my post.
Edited by BaronPraxis on Jun 26th 2018 at 8:22:49 AM
Perpetually Confused
Something to keep in mind for next time, I guess?
Pretty sure the exact same thing was said during the last layout change to no avail. So, probably not gonna happen.
Can someone link the crowner, please?
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
I seriously doubt this crowner is going to lead to anything meaningful.
On another note, I think the "Thread Watchlist" button should swap places with the "Mark as Unread" button at the bottom of threads. It would feel more natural and might lead to less accidental clicks.
Here's the crowner link. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/SingleProposition/ChangeLayoutBack
Also, notes on pages seem to be getting deleted entirely and just replaced with the word 'note'
hb1290 Thats almost comedic in a way.
Crossed-Over
Not sure if this has been reported yet, but I just searched something on Mozilla on a computer while in night mode, and the results section was still in blinding white. Kinda defeats the point of night mode.
Clueless Slacker
Avatar previews on the Profile page are broken. When I right-click the broken image and select "View Image," the directory is https://static.tvtropes.orghttps//static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/(avatar filename) (which is a nonsensical, nonexistent redirect).
I did not expect to have cause to use the line "STOP DROPPING YOUR ASSES!" but DQ 11 gave it to me.
So I take it no edits are allowed until the bugs in the latest update are fixed?
Not sure if this has been reported yet, but Trope Launch Pad drafts now have barely-readable text on Night-Vision mode.
By now, it should be clear to all except the most dense of us that sheep are secretly conspiring to kill us all and steal our pants.
Raining Fire: That's nothing, not a dumpster fire.