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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
Minor bug, but when I click the 'preview' for a forum post, it fails to register any 'enter' key presses. Google Chrome, Windows 10, Desktop.
Those poor bastards won't know what hit 'em when the grey geese fly.The preview button on work pages doesn't do anything for me. My edits themself were fine though. Issue spotted on Film.Velvet Goldmine, using Firefox on Mac OS 10.11.6.
"It's just a show; I should really just relax"Thanks, Discar!
TV Tropes's No. 1 bread themed lesbian. she/her, fae/faerCan't do anything about pages not being indexed even though they are listed in an index (and this isn't happening for all indexes, I've seen some pages with indexes working properly). Can't even edit certain pages because you keep getting an error message saying that you can't insert HTML into the source editor even though that kind of warning has nothing to do with what one is trying to do to the page.
I know this has been mentioned countless times, but those are the glitches this update has caused that I really want fixed ASAP.
It frustrates me that no matter how many times I try to edit the page, I can't save my changes!
I was trying to edit the "Evil Gloating" page with a new example. This is the text I was trying to enter:
- The Parselmouth of Gryffindor parodies it mercilessly: all of Voldemort's incarnations just cannot stop monologuing grandiloquently, even when they are in absolutely no position to gloat or brag. The Cup Horcrux is particularly bad once he's merged with the Sorting Hat.
Pretty standard, I thought. Yet when I try to save it keeps refusing to do say, with the error message given being “Sorry, you cannot insert HTML into the page source.”
(I'm using Opera.)
I think this has already been reported but the "Mark All as Read" button on the forums doesn't do anything for me (Firefox).
Linebreaks don't show up in ATT posts. And the missing cursor problem is everywhere in the site- forums, ATT, TLP, the wiki...
Edited by naturalironist on Jun 28th 2018 at 11:31:04 AM
"It's just a show; I should really just relax"Again on Opera, trope names which would normally gain punctuation on a finished page even though it doesn't show up as a wiki-word… don't. Didn't Think This Through doesn't become Didn't Think This Through, etc.
Also on Firefox. It's been jumping between "not working" and "marks all forums everywhere as read no matter where you use it."
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Your friendly neighborhood mobile Safari user here: I found forum avatar galleries easier to navigate through when they were just in a regular line and not vertically listed, like they are now.
And speaking of easier navigating, can I expect the page numbers on forum threads to actually be listed for me to click on in the near future, like they were in the previous version, instead of having to type in a specific page number just to go, like, one or two pages back? Would definitely appreciate it if that were the case.
Also, "Mark All as Read" still doesn't work for me, and I'm not exactly a fan of how words potholed to a link for another site become smaller than the rest of the words in an entry.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jun 28th 2018 at 9:43:32 AM
I can't remember if it's been mentioned already, but the avatar picture for the profile page and time of membership got fixed.
~Scrooge Mac Duck, that's a custom title, which are currently not working
And re: the bugs I brought up, my icon has been restored on my profile! And the date is back! I was only one day off.
I'm not sure if they were ever broken in posts, but you can still color text on forum posts. They're still broken in the signature, though. Jawbreakers on sale for 99¢
The Moments are missing from the Create New + drop down bar.
EDIT: Search bar is missing from the home page on mobile Chrome, and the Remember Me cookie isn't sticking.
Edited by rmctagg09 on Jun 28th 2018 at 12:27:23 PM
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.I agree with @Senor Cornholio that the new image-borders are rather ugly.
And since we're on cosmetic things, I sorely, sorely miss the Smallcaps of folder titles, can we possibly have that back?
Third time I'm asking this.
My profile information was deleted. Sig, title, everything, only my avatar was left untouched. My e-mail is now incorrect on the profile page, and when I attempt to switch it back, I'm getting an "This E-mail is already in use" error.
Can someone, be it a mod or someone who knows where these types of problems are dealt with, please tell me who I have to bother to get the E-mail fixed?
Pages get locked (and sometimes become empty) without any reason. MCU: Iron Man was locked and empty for a day, MCU: Thor was locked (but not empty) for a while as well, and now MCU: Loki is locked.
Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous.![]()
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I feel like the Forgot my password
thread would be your best bet.
Edited by rmctagg09 on Jun 28th 2018 at 1:03:51 PM
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.

Another display problem summary post:
Anything else? And try to include your browser and OS.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.