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.
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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.
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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
Hi
The suggestions I've made so far in our mod chat, in regards to the hooker interface, are:
- Have some way to access the old crowners
- Change the text in the Question field to "Enter the page the crowner is being created for.", or put that under the field in small text.
- Change the text in the Description box to "Enter notes about the crowner's purpose; leave blank if not needed." or something along those lines.
Edited by Willbyr on Nov 11th 2021 at 12:41:29 PM
Hi
Other suggestions:
- The text for the vote ratios needs to be the same size as the other text.
- The crowner icon should only show up while the crowner is live, and remove itself when the crowner is closed.
Edited by Willbyr on Nov 11th 2021 at 12:23:42 PM
🍊orange fursona🧡
- From Wishlist query I have:
With so much Bibble Bobble on the crowners, may the Crowner example menu be fixed so we could edit the Bibble Bobbles without hassle?
- Also from this query:
Officially intimidated
The crowners' new UI looks beautiful. 
Veteran Editor IV
I think it's fine. Nothing terrific, just slightly modernised to look more like our current style.
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)
Discarded and Feeling Blue
How do we make crowners now? Attempting the old way just redirects me to How Crowners Work. Or am I just being a dumdum?
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
🍊orange fursona🧡
I have missed the UI being revamped. It looks quite nice I say.
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Hi
~War Jay 77: Yeah, that needs to change, pronto. I'm contacting the admin that's heading this project right now.
EDIT: Got official word that, for the time being, crowner creation is limited to mod-only. We've made it clear that this needs to be changed and moved to the top of the priority list for further changes. If I'm understanding things right, crowners created by non-mods will be placed in an approval queue.
Edited by Willbyr on Nov 11th 2021 at 1:45:45 PM
Hi
~alnair20aug93: Can you check a crowner and see if this is still happening?
Veteran Editor IV
Do they even need to be in mod queue for approval? As far as I know, crowners cause problems very rarely, and moderators have enough responsibilities as is.
![[down]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_down.png "[down]"){kind=icon}
that as well.
Edited by Piterpicher on Nov 11th 2021 at 9:23:54 PM
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods of Incremental)
🍊orange fursona🧡
I tried to check on editing crowners like this one, but so far, it's redirecting me to the "How Crowners Work" page, and most crowners I've seen have a lockpad in it. I'm assuming it's in process of overhauling or something.
Discarded and Feeling Blue
Forgive me for being paranoid, but if this "approval que" is anything like the video approval system or the custom title approval system, then we're all screwed. Especially for places like TRS, where an ill-thought-out crowner might need alterations after being hooked, or might just be blindly approved regardless of what the options are.
I don't want to believe there'll be issues like these, but so far the track record for approval systems here have been...
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Hi
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
As I understand things right now, that's what we're going to be going to, and we may not be able to get around it.
I'll make a note of that for the admins; hopefully that will get changed.
I agree. I'm not sure how this system is going to work, but hopefully it won't create the same issues.
I'm helping!
Literally the only times we can think of crowner-related problems have been when people came in on already-existing ones and added bad options, up to and including spamming demands to be unbanned on random crowners.
Creating crowners in the first place seems to be almost if not completely devoid of troublemaking.
Edited by wingedcatgirl on Nov 11th 2021 at 4:13:32 AM
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
Discarded and Feeling Blue
Not necessarily true. The TRS has had several examples, especially recently, of a badly written crowner creating a huge mess once the votes come in and people realize that, oh, the options they voted for make no sense in context and now what do? That's not an issue that'll get fixed by this system, if anything it'll just make it that much harder to quickly notice and resolve these issues, whether by replacing the crowner or rewriting the options before the votes explode. And if people can't see the crowners before they're posted, that makes it impossible to get feedback in before it's hooked.
It's not "troublemaking" because nobody intends to create a botched crowner. But it happens all the time.
Edited by WarJay77 on Nov 11th 2021 at 5:18:22 AM
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
I don't think it will add much extra work to the mods, as they were needed to hook them anyway. However, since we'll have to wait for the mod for the crowner to be visible in the first place, they will become visible to the general public later.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.
That's going to be discouraging for users who want to make Best Episode crowners.
It will when the mods have already been ridiculously busy lately.
The new crowner system has some serious problems, which I have noticed from my participation in the Real Life Maintenance thread.
1)The crowners themselves are no longer in the same place that they used to be, and links to the old location redirect to the How Crowners Work page. This has broken all of the historical links on Administrivia.Keep Real Life Examples.
Example :
Old Link : PageAction.Real Life Section Maintenance 63
New Link : https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php?crowner_id=434g1uks
2)Many crowners appear to have been outright deleted. I chose RL #63 for the example above because according to the Crowner Index, 1-62 and 64-66 have all ceased to exist. This can be verified by the simple action of searching alphabetically.
3)The 'Crowner Index' discards sort order and filter setting when moving off of page 1. Choosing any other page reverts to "Alphabetical Ascending" and no filter.
Edited by Zyffyr on Nov 12th 2021 at 5:19:38 AM
Hi
Yikes...I'll pass that on.
he/him | Image Pickin' regular
Do red links show up red in the "at issue" section in crowners now?
Keet cleanup
Discarded and Feeling Blue
One far more nit-picky complaint is that on Night Vision, the border is so faint that it looks like its basically blending in with the rest of the page.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Hi
I don't know; I can check that.
EDIT: No, I believe they'll show up blue. I'll make a note of that.
I see what you mean; that's noted.
Edited by Willbyr on Nov 12th 2021 at 12:59:18 PM
Hi
I've created a sandbox page for this topic: Sandbox.Suggested Crowner Changes
I'll be doing running updates as things are mentioned; feel free to discuss anything that's there.
The buttons (both the "show options" button and the like/dislike buttons) are smaller than the previous design, that's the one thing that bugs me the most.
I'd like to apologize for all this.