Hey tropers, we are working hard on making consistent progress with the wiki and being better about updating everyone with what we are doing. Updates are listed under each staff member that worked on them. Expect to see more frequent updates on this thread moving forward. Please comment below if something was not fixed properly.
Note: Use Query Wishlist and Query Bugs for requesting new features and reporting new bugs, thank you!
Updates are also listed here in the actual Changelog.
- The new forum search is now live
- Removed Forums, Discussions, TLP, Reviews, Liveblogs and Queries from the main search.
- Updated New Edits page per Wishlist Request
- Updated Trope Repair Shop thread choices per Wishlist Request
- Updated Image Pickin thread choices per Wishlist Request
- Single word links now properly have {{}} for visual editor
- Main/ removed in links for visual editor
- Made cultist reason mandatory
- Uploading thumbnails for videos fixed
- Renamed "Wishlist" to "Tech Wishlist" everywhere
- Renamed "You Know That Show" to "Media Finder" per crowner on this thread
- Youtube embedded videos fixed
- Added TVTropes visual editor to most edit pages.
- Added Confirm Changes button to source view
- Search by troper with auto-complete and search by content added to article history pages
- (NOTE: auto-complete only pulls last 2 years of tropers)
- Added Show and hide buttons on edits for easy viewing
- Added edit reason hover tooltip for easy reading when collapsed
- Added estimated number for Added, Changed and Deleted text for each edit.
- Page title visible when editing a page
- Edit timer duplicated on bottom of edit pages
- Checkbox system added of common edit reasons that auto populate input field
- Editor character length counter added to edit pages
- Markup help dropdown added to edit pages
- Fixed edit links not properly linking beyond the first 15 edits
- Edit reason box is now expandable
- Fixed PM notifications from blocked tropers still showing up
- Fixed pagination icons showing up when there was no results in your inbox and followed pages
- Added filter options for PMs to sort by sent, received, discussions or pings
- Added checkbox system to select and delete PMs individually or all at once
- Added the ability to preview PMs on hover
- Added search bar with filter to search by troper or by content
- Added mod and engineering icons next to troper names
- Added notification icon next to ping and discussion notifiers
- User queries page is now properly sorted by the latest reply
- Added drop-down menu for each query type
- Added extra "status" column
- Adds status drop-down to Trope Finder, You Know That Show… and Ask The Tropers useable by the original poster and moderators.
- when set to “resolved” it will lock the query automatically.
- Added ability to sort by Open and Resolved queries
- Added a report button for queries and their replies.
- Added a report button for the TLP drafts and comments.
- You can now view others query activity through your own queries page after you've edited the URL. user_queries.php?for=TroperName. This will be made into a button on the troper page in a future update
- Adds the ability to ping other users in Query Forums, Trope Launch Pad, Reviews and Discussions on trope/media pages when you're posting a new comment.
- Added WarJay77 & Amonimus to the new engineer role
- Added Mrph1 as a new moderator
- Removed MacronNotes as a moderator per their request
- Adds separate follow functionality for discussion pages. Wish
- Makes discussion button bold if discussions exist for that page and the user hasn't seen it yet. Wish
- Pulls discussion button outside of the “more” dropdown by increasing buttons by 1
- Sends the author a PM when someone responds to their discussion
- Discussion pages are now sorted by latest reply and then latest discussion posted
- Added mobile menu to recent videos pages
- Adds "mine" and "replies" filters to query pages that work with current filters for extra sorting options.
- Adds the user join date and signature line to query forums, Trope launch pad, Discussions and reviews as well as their replies.
- Adds text option for user join date chosen in your profile. add more options here
- Sets the relationship status to "NULL" for the "-not set" option so it actually stops it from showing in the forums
- You can no longer like your own queries
- Fixed delete button being covered in avatar gallery
- For Edit History, edit reasons on the bottom will only show when the edit is greater than 600 pixels
- Removed duplicate Report Bug button in mobile dropdown
- Fixed unsaved changes warning popping up for TLP, Query and Discussion edit screens.
- Removed 3 bulletin limit
- increases upload image size to 5mb and max-width to 1000px
- Edit reason on edit history duplicated on the top for convenience. I will make only one edit reason appear for smaller edits in a future update. Wish, Wish, Wish
- Fixes missing buttons on mobile dropdown. Buttons that were in the "more" dropdown weren't being pushed to mobile dropdowns. Wish, Wish
- Adds “Mod tools” “page type tool” and “bulletins” from sidebar to bottom of page in mobile view. Wish
- Adds post number back to just the main forums. Wish
- Changes the TLP flag icon to a bookmark + adds tooltips of "Show bookmarks" and "bookmark”. Wish
- Adds unsaved changes warning to various input fields when leaving the page (editing a page, sending pm, new discussions, new trope drafts, forum posts, editing a trope draft, posting a to do list, editing a to do, posting a new query and their replies).
- adds "back to profile" button on avatar page.
- adds title tooltips to the upload image and view avatar gallery buttons on your profile.
- Adds link to directory thread on Ask The Tropers.
- Removes synopsis page type. Wish
- Added all “moments” as options in “Create New" dropdown. Wish
- Fixes wording mistake in wishlist header.
- Adds link to Reviews to mobile menu.
- Put Administrivia and FAQ links on side bar under “tips” dropdown.
- Put “tips” drop-down from sidebar under main mobile drop-down menu.
- Fixes CSS for "posts" on the main forums. the 's' and 'ts' were being pushed to a separate line when you shrank the page and sometimes even when full screen. Wish
- Moves changelog link in side bar and adds it to mobile menu.
- Minor changes to Changelog page.
- Inserts previous updates from Wiki Talk thread into changelog.
- Fixes duplicate rows in the troper table + adds default creation date to prevent further “0000-00-00” creation dates.
- Fixed wishlist and bugs pages not showing results when their statuses are set to "working" or "closed"
- Added Link to wiki tools in sidebar under "tools" dropdown
- Changed flagging icon of thumbs up back to flag for TLP and made button highlight when you click on it.
- Adds wishlist to sidebar
- Added link to your troper page through the dropdown menu.
- The descriptions for "on the rocks" and "on the tropes" in the community showcase were swapped.
- For IP threads that start with the Just A Face And A Caption, Suggestion, Does Not Illustrate, Duplicate Image, Changed w/o discussion, and NSFW/Image Macro thread reasons, the "save draft" button now works.
- Allowed PM banned users to view their PM
- The issue helper now displays previews of the notifier messages properly.
- Added transparent backgrounds to the
![[tup]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thumbs_up_emote.png "[thumb up]")
and ![[tdown]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thumbs_down_emote.png "[thumb down]")
forum icons.
- Allowed multiple cut requests to be accepted/declined at once.
- For regular users, now the launch button on a draft appears only when it has five MORE hats than bombs (before it showed up when a draft had five or more hats).
- Prevented edit-banned users from launching TLP drafts.
- Wicks for disambig pages now have green text.
- Content Violations will prompt non-logged-in users to do so.
- CV and FAQ forums now have morgues, and locked non-stickied threads are now morgued.
- Deleted button has been removed from crowners.
- Disambig redirects fixed and also made green.
- Folders in the forums that wouldn't open/close properly now fixed.
- We recently discovered that a non-US IP address was hitting us with thousands of SQL injection attempts, none of which succeeded. They did, however, put additional load on the database. This wasn't intended as a DDoS attack per se but rather an attempt to take control of the site.
- The administrators activated additional security measures on our Cloudflare firewall that have had the unintended side-effect of causing frequent ReCAPTCHA prompts for users. We are aware of this problem and working on a resolution.
- Improvements to new user registrations and the user experience when suspended or banned. See this post for details.
Mar 21th:
- The adblocker bug (popup message) will now appear for logged-in users after a certain threshold of page views has occurred while blocking ads.
- You may snooze the bug for up to 7 days at a time if you have contributed to the wiki (by editing articles) recently.
- There is now a subscription option to use TV Tropes ad-free for certain periods (monthly, yearly).
- You can use this link to access the subscription system.
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- Users who received one year of ad-free usage as a perk for contributing to the Kickstarter campaign at the 25 USD tier or higher will no longer have that perk. (The 95+ USD lifetime perk is not affected.)
Jan 25th:
- Fix Podcast query so newest episode appear on home page
- Add save option for users to select which search users want (ours or google’s)
- Remove backslashes from crowner descriptions
- Change account confirmation process so users get verification email right away then can wait for mod approval if needed
- Fix bomb message bug
- Speed up javascript even more (cuts size of code in half, adds http/2 headers to load asynchronously)
- If a guest hits login-protected page redirect to login form instead of giving an error
- Further improve new search results for articles and forum posts
Jan 10th:
- Forum crowner styles and layouts should be back to normal, mostly.
- Crowner voting doesn't change the icon to a weird swirly-eyed face when you click on the arrows.
- Moderators can edit locked articles again.
- The edit lock icon now appears and performs correctly on all views of an article, not just the primary one.
- namespace_index.php pagination now works as expected.
- [Moderation] Moderators can now view substantially more accounts queued for approval, so we shouldn't lose them any more.
Jan 8th:
- Added pagination to all namespaces.
- Bug fixes and messaging around editing locked pages.
- Title link edit bug fix in TRS/IP threads fixed.
- Crowner bug fixes (partial fixes deployed, additional fixes in progress)
- GDPR Integration.
- Image Pickin' typos
- Links at bottom of mobile page for "back" and "top"
== KLINT ==
1. Fixed article image max-widths for good this time, hopefully (350px max width)
2. Passwords are no longer displayed in plain text, after successfully being changed from profile page
3. Fixed username links on Cut Requests page
4. Users can now delete liveblog comments
5. Starting a new forum thread will now apply forum markup correctly
6. Fixed word-wrapping for long text links (no longer break to a new line)
7. Fixed edit functionality for posts in discussion threads
8. Fixed double posting issue on query pages for certain tropers (shoutout to instanityprelude)
9. Fixed “save draft” functionality in forums (now saves the whole post, instead of up to the first line-break) (also will now delete the saved post after successfully posting)
10. Fixed spacing around featured trope images on homepage
11. Tuned up WMG Headings style
== END: KLINT ==
== KLAYTEN ==
1. The "Alternate Title(s)" section on the individual trope page no longer touches the ad on mobile.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou
2. The infinite scroll feature on the browse page is active again.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/browse.php
3. There is now a space between "On Topic Conversations." and "You".
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/createconversation.php?topic=85yve01xv34d73ppv15ghva4
4. Small typo of "Ineligable" instead of "Ineligible".
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/mods.php?a=Main.YesPrettyCure5
5. "Television" link under "Media" tab on side bar now links to "https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Television" instead of "https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Television".
https://tvtropes.org/
6. Font size for "Latest Trope Edits", "Latest Forum Activity", and "Launch Pad Activity" is now larger on the home page for mobile.
https://tvtropes.org/
7. We hid the comic viewer on the main page until we finish the replacement.
https://tvtropes.org/
8. Now only Tropes will appear on the home page under "Newest Trope".
https://tvtropes.org/
9. For Google Analytics, we split the categories for guests versus members so we can track who visits our site the most.
No Link.
== END: KLAYTEN ==
== RICHARD ==
1. Fixed last modified date that was previously showing much longer times than there actually was since the last time an article was modified. Previously said, "11 years ago" as the last modified date : https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OutOfFocus
2. Got rid of bloated 3rd party adblock message and created our own to alert non-members when their adblock is on. To test, visit any two pages, while not logged in with your adblocker on.
== END: RICHARD ==
== CHRIS ==
1. Enable caching system for server - If you are NOT logged-in you'll receive a cached page from the server which can be as old as 3 minutes old. Unless you submit a form then it will bypass the caching system. This should greatly reduce the server load so it doesn't have to dynamically build the page for every pageview millions of times per day. The future versions should cache trope/forum pages for everyone and then rebuild it only when something changes.
2. Remove unused pixels (ie: comscore, retargeting, etc.)
== END: CHRIS ==
== TOM ==
1. Fixed 'Avatar sharing bug' where users were able to share avatars with other users that did not have the 'avatar sharing' feature enabled in their account.
2. Re-enabled the 'Main' namespace in https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/namespace_index.php and paginated the results.
3. Redirect pages can now be edited without an error being displayed.
4. Protection against cross-site scripting like this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/%22%3E%3Cbody_____onload_=___alert%28%27xss%27%29%3E
5. Setup new email account to contact Moderators and made changes to the 'Contact Us' form to support it.
6. Cutting a page no longer deletes links to it's related pages.
7. Fixed errors in the error log and slow query log.
8. removal of all anti-vandalism page-locking code.
== END TOM ==
Complete (awaiting review)
- Added the Preview button, image upload button, Markup Help and emoji bar to the TLP, Discussion pages, Query forums, and Reviews. Also fixed the folders not opening in previews. Wish 1, Wish 2, Wish 3, Wish 4
- Badge shop redesign and making all badges except awards free to add. Wish
- Your Badges, signature line and account join date will appear on all comments in the TLP, Query forums, Discussion pages and Reviews. Signatures will be able to use markup and emojis.
- Revamped the Troper page to show your badges, avatar, title, signature, site usage stats and adding an activity drop-down with links from wiki tools.
Edited by kory on Apr 15th 2024 at 4:28:02 AM
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Well, since this wiki's user edits pages only save so many edits, I've taken to archiving them. NBD though, I can just take screenshots instead.
Another vote for "please do not have videos autoplay by default." People really don't like that, and it could drive a lot of newbies from the site.
Honestly I think the whole idea of video examples is unnecessary; if a video demonstrates a trope, it can be linked to or described. But I'm not the one coding it.
Friends forevermore
Weblinks are not examples. Anyway, I'm of the opinion that video examples should not autoplay by default.
Yeah, autoplay should be opt-in, not opt-out.
Short-Term Projects herald
![[tup]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Thumbs_up_emoticon_3268.png "[thumb up]"){kind=small}
Opt-in autoplaying, off by default, perhaps alongside the sidebar display options. I know that audio is disabled unless the video is clicked on, but I fear for loading times.
What's the planned format for these videos? There's a difference between two seconds of animation, and ten minutes of people sitting around a table communicating ideas entirely through audio. I'm not saying Vine, but it seems like a good idea to establish a maximum length early.
If a user sees a video which doesn't illustrate the trope (or if the trope is reworked so that it no longer fits), how would they go about getting it removed? There's also a risk of video creators becoming invested in their work and getting mad if anyone tries to remove it or change how it's used.
Edited by Prime32 on Apr 16th 2019 at 1:30:44 PM
Bonnie's Artistic Cousin
Yeah, please don't force auto-playing videos. That'll cause more problems than it's worth.
Also... can we please get our subscriber badges already?
Edit: Prime 82 also makes some good points. I'm worried about how these videos will affect...well, a lot of things... and some limits and standards will be appreciated.
Edited by WarJay77 on Apr 16th 2019 at 9:00:38 AM
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
... are you ever going to STOP making that bottom pop-up window about adblocks appear?? It's been on the site for like a month now, and it keeps counting up on the number of pages i since navigated to. I found i can snooze the message which appears to stop it.
- Edit, and it'll stop for a week.
I guess it should say that?
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
You're barking up the wrong tree here, the moderators are not involved with site changes. The admins have ignored the userbase after the storm of critique about the ad-blocker pop-up and it's likely they will ignore users complaining about auto-playing videos.
We've heard nothing from the admins about it, so it's very likely the pop-up is here to stay. You can snooze it for a week after you've made an edit.
Bonnie's Artistic Cousin
I'm aware the mods aren't involved. I'm holding out hope that maybe the admins will actually bother to read this thread and listen to us, though it's looking less likely by the day that they're willing to engage with us directly.
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Lost in Space
~Prime32: I have seen the dev site and looked at the feature myself. The videos we have in mind are clips from movies and TV shows that demonstrate the trope. Any such clip would presumably be associated with an actual text example in the main body of the article.
Let's say that the trope Soft Glass has an example from TV Tropes The TV Show wherein Alice smashes through a glass window without hurting herself. The video example could be a clip of that scene. It could be however long it needs to be to adequately illustrate the example, although Fair Use would prevent us from using shows in their entirety and basic taste would suggest keeping them to no more than a few minutes in length.
You will be able to play or pause the video, control volume, move forward or backward in it, and select other video examples to watch them instead. The video player will have a feedback tool built in. This tool will let you indicate whether you like or dislike the video and submit text comments. You can also report the article as you would any other, using the tool in the sidebar, whereupon the mods will see it and take appropriate action.
Since the submissions for video examples will be limited to moderators and staff (at least for the time being), we hope that you would not often encounter a video example that is offensive or wildly unrepresentative of the trope.
Edited to correct something: The basic embedded player will not have any controls on it. Clicking or tapping will open a full-featured player as an overlay. This appears to also pause the original video. Essentially, the on-page widget is more like a low-res animation than an actual video player.
Edited by Fighteer on Apr 17th 2019 at 5:05:21 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Veteran Editor IV
Since today (I think), the placement of "edit lock expires in XX:YY" is aligned to the left, rather than the center. Is this intentional? See this.
Also, I'm unable to add images; after pressing "Submit", nothing happens (and no, trying to copy what the image's code would be does nothing).
Edited by Piterpicher on Apr 17th 2019 at 11:47:19 AM
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)
I also can't upload images.
I made a bug report here.
We just released the Video Examples feature as a test. I put the details in a new thread so we get some feedback on it
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=15555379800A44269900&page=1
@Primis The video uploading is now fixed. I updated your ticket as well
Thank you!
Lost in Space
Hi, folks. Not mentioned yesterday is that we fixed some more permissions issues.
- The 'bounce' flag once again correctly prevents posting in the Edit Banned topic.
There are some more issues under investigation. Because of these, I've asked the developers to perform a full review to make sure we didn't miss anything else. Please continue to report any problems you come across.
Edited by Fighteer on Apr 18th 2019 at 10:23:42 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
And it happened, as I feared.
Tvtropes' plan to tackle the ads on the site is: NOT to. We now have the option to buy a subscription. :(
- You, as a troper, have the option to get them to go away for a whole week, with one edit...
Bonnie's Artistic Cousin
I think its more the principal of the thing. The ads here run the gamut of being mildly annoying to outright malicious, and yet theres been no obvious attempt to fix that problem.
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
That's been here for a few weeks now, what are you talking about?
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
Mostly it comes down to a fundamental miscommunication of the website and its sense of ownership and purpose.
- Users — These are the people the website is for. It is completely free and accessible to everyone in the world, except where their network providers have safeties (school firewalls or national blocks). Users can read any trope/work page, even on the subwiki portions, like Pantheon or Darthwiki. This is 99% of wiki traffic. It is the goal that 99% of wiki traffic is this, as we want to be a website people are encouraged to visit for information on Tropes. When traffic drops, due to stuff like Google deciding not to send people to us, that's bad for non-monetary reasons.
- Contributers — These are the people that help this website grow. They do the grunt work around here, like fetching coffee and Cross Wicking. Recently, joining the contributers allowed access to the ability to pay a subscription fee which removes advertisements from appearing. It's also supposed to get you a badge, but the devs haven't made that a priority it seems. :(
- Moderators — Middle-management types, they're tasked with the job of keeping the wiki going, even when the higher-ups aren't speaking with them. One of the previous devs retired to Contributer status, but they've been slowly worked back into moderator status, but they're just sweeping things up in the corners, not posting very often.
- Developers/Owners — These are the people trying to keep the wiki in the black, despite daily/weekly ddos attacks, server issues, outdated coding, full-time jobs at a family-sized small business, and playing wack-a-mole with advertising software that lies to them.
The Devs lost a lot a sympathy from me when they didn't keep to a regular schedule of contact with their Contributers, instead lumping almost everyone into a "userbase" criterion that they want to surprise every so often. I like that they don't make frequent unanimous rules, but instead they make infrequent wiki overhauls without announcing changes to the beta server first so that it can be tested. Ads appear to affect everyone equally, but the difference between the mobile userbase and the computer userbase is amazing. I assume my observations hold true for the Users, but the Contributers appear to experience frequent malicious redirection while on mobile devices, whereas the desktop ads have pretty much all been tamed to comply with the goals explained on the Advertising Issues thread. Users do not have access to the subscription choice, so we're crowding out part of our market by allowing the annoying/malicious advertising.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
NaNo 4328 / 50,000
I think I ended up ranting more than talking. Sorry about that.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Edited by Fighteer on Apr 16th 2019 at 5:05:56 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"