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
The page source on Jurassic World indicates that the text is still there, it's just not visible for some reason.
Bug Report:
You can bypass the edit lock by manually entering the edit URL (Desktop Win 10, Chrome latest build)
I just fixed Jurassic World that way.
Edited by Ghilz on Jun 27th 2018 at 9:16:40 AM
Two more issues I've spotted:
1) In the page edit box I can no longer highlight text by double-clicking or click-dragging. I had to resort to shift+arrows.
2) Trying to click on the Random Trope or Random Media buttons makes them jump up away from the mouse, trying to hide behind my bookmarks. Are they scared?
Not-really-a-bug-but-more-of-a-minor-aesthetic-annoyance report: Indentation on second-tier bullet points looks wrong. Rather than there being a separate column for the white bullet point, the text simply wraps around as if the bullet were part of the paragraph. It's hard to explain it with words, but it looks ugly. Further, arrow indentations (using --> and --->) also appear to be a little out-of-whack.
Edited by CantNotLookAtThisSite on Jun 27th 2018 at 2:20:49 PM
On this iPad, in the search box, the magnifying glass and word Search are overlapping. Made worse by the fact that there's big spaces between everything in the header bar, so there's no need for it to be so cramped.u
In general, and its minor, in the TLP main page the number of hats a draft has is shown to the left of the bombs (both on the right of the title), but on the draft where you give hats/bombs, the bombs are on the left. It's very confusing.
Edited by lakingsif on Jun 27th 2018 at 6:32:28 AM
OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!When trying to redirect a page it doesnt seem to work. For example somone tried redirecting Galaxy Express 999 to Galaxy Express 999 and it didnt work. Just ended up looking like this :
[[redirect:Galaxy Express 999]]
Edited by miraculous on Jun 27th 2018 at 6:31:27 AM
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."Bug Report:
You can edit other people's discussion page entries by entering the URL manually. (Win 10 / Chrome)
@Cant Not Look At This Site Oh thanks God this is not just something that happend to me. I was sure this was just something with either of my machines, because bulletpoints display differently on my PC and on laptop. Both are changed, but the "depth" of that bulletpoint "cut" is different.
Edited by Janko_Walski on Jun 27th 2018 at 6:34:31 AM
TV Tropes - They Changed It, Now It Sucks!They obviously Didn't Think This Through.
"We all fail. We all make mistakes. That is what makes us human."So do I.
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!I know I said that my list of suggestions for the next time an update was attempted would be my last post for this forum, but I had to change my mind after my zillionth attempt at editing the page for Dirty Old Man to correct a misspelled trope (one of the article's entries under the Comics folder had a pothole to the nonexistent trope of Bad Trick when the editor likely meant to type Bed Trick).
I have no idea how it's happening, but clicking Save still doesn't save your edits. All it does is refresh the Editing page, which isn't very useful for this wiki at all.
And another thing I've discovered is that in addition to it being impossible to save our edits on these pages, clicking the Preview button does jack all.
By now, it's becoming extremely doubtful that the people who started this update took the time to see if there weren't any glitches and errors to come as a result of fiddling around with the coding of a website that pretty much no one asked improvement for.
I don't know which infuriates me more: How long it's taking for this irritating nonsense to get fixed, or that this forum just keeps piling up with our complaints and criticisms for this shortsighted decision.
Both.

Hrrrm, Jurassic World got both blanked AND locked