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.
- Subscriptions use a third-party payment facilitator called Stripe. TV Tropes does not collect or store any of your payment information. You will be rebilled at the indicated interval unless you cancel.
- Subscriptions are linked to your account. If you change accounts, or are banned, you will lose your subscription.
- Additional subscription options are being considered or are in development.
- The badge advertised as a reward for subscribing appears not to be working currently.
- To unsubscribe, send a message to "The Staff" via our contact form. Additional cancellation options are forthcoming.
- You can use this link
- 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
Basically canon
Speaking for myself, for many other users on the site, and for the mod staff who's just as in the dark about a lot of them and inevitably has to face the wrath of dozens of angry users over something they can't do anything about, I feel like far too many of our updates are being pushed on us with either no or extremely little warning. The nag popup over disabling ads is just one: we had maybe two days' worth of warning before the 3.0 update hit, and Fast Eddie's resignation and Drewski/ITCDR taking over was, to my memory, announced the day of.
I can't tell you how to do your jobs, but personally, I feel like you'd get a far more positive reaction to most of the changes to the site that get rolled out if you'd just announce them a week or two before implementing them. That way you give yourself a deadline so you have more pressure to iron out the kinks before the feature launches (a troubling amount of major updates seem to have received minimal if any bug-testing, ensuring that the days and weeks after their release are spent frantically patching out glitches that really should have been caught earlier), and can also get some public feedback and a chance to address any concerns your users may have over the new floor plan, so to speak. It'd help build a better relationship between the administrative staff and their users, which is crucial for any website to have, but especially one as community-driven as TV Tropes.
Or, in other words: Suddenly pushing updates to the site once they're done is a surprise, to be sure, but with how error-prone they tend to be (at least early on), is it really a welcome one?
There's my two cents. It probably won't get you anywhere in today's economy, but it's the thought that counts.
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There are ways to avoid the pop ups. I'm doing it with some common Firefox add-ons, used in a sorta un-intuitive manner.
Some people have already explained their methods to achieve the same effect, so all is not lost.
But I'm on mobile, right now, and haven't found any obnoxious ads. Just the super bottom banner.
There might be an ad whitelist going on, given the high amounts of ads for this site that I'm seeing here??
Edited by Malady on Mar 24th 2019 at 4:35:55 AM
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
@Midna: Couldn't have said it better myself. Also, I understood that "a surprise, to be sure" reference.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Mar 24th 2019 at 6:29:48 AM
Tief girl with eartude
Personally I use noscript; it let's me block 99% of popups and redirects without blocking the ads themselves (FWIW, I've yet to see the "please whitelist" message, so I'd assume I've got all the right things blocked/whitelisted).
TV Tropes's No. 1 bread themed lesbian. she/her, fae/faer
I attempted to whitelist the site on mobile as an experiment to see if adds have improved.
Within the span of about 10 page changes, I was hit with an auto redirect add that was shoving me elsewhere dispite the fact that i was in the middle of a long page of threads with no adds in sight.
You can imagine my next action. I'll have to deal with the nagging popup, but you guys should probably try to improve the "quality" of the adds, or at least not have redirect ones, or otherwise add something else akin to Imca's idea, one I support.
Alright, I completely understand not wanting people to use adblockers because the staff doesn't get paid for this, it's perfectly fine. However, I can't turn it off here. I did whitelist this site a few years ago because the ads on here were rarely intrusive. But then I went to a page and started getting automatically redirected to somewhere else and it scared the shit out of me. I've had to put TVT in my adblocker ever since then. Now I know this isn't the websites fault, you can't control the ads that show up here and I know you have no malicious intentions, but can you really blame some of us for blocking it with experiences like that?
I feel that at the very least, the notification should be a little less intrusive. Just speaking from experience, but the more intrusive websites tend to get, the less traffic they start getting. Especially since I've seen multiple complaints saying that it still pops up even without adblockers installed. Or maybe just make the box not as wide? (Or is that just happening because I have wide load on? I'm not sure.) Granted, these are just suggestions. I'm not about to force you guys at gunpoint about this. If nothing else though, I do have to stress that more testing should be done before stuff gets rolled out. It seems like every time something new comes out, I find myself here on the forums wondering if it's broken for others too and saying the same thing every time.
Honestly, the constant annoyance of the pop-up makes me less want to white list it. Especially since I know the ads are malicious.
Let's be completely honest. Who here really trusts or clicks on internet ads these days? Like I said before, I turned off my ad-block for TV Tropes and all it did was just lag the hell out of it. I use ad-block not only to improve my user experience but to protect my computer from malware and other computer viruses; most of which actually originate more from online advertisements than porn sites. The fact you guys essentially put up a paywall for such an inane reason really pisses me off and others from the look of things. So bottom line, although I sincerely enjoying being a part of this wonderful and amazing website, I not gonna turn off my ad-block and potentially compromise my computer's safety just so you guys can spam your user base with these annoying ads and "go ad-free" subscription banners. My words probably won't change your mind on this matter but I've said my piece.
I don't think clicks matter much anymore. They have better ways of assessing if they were seen and effective. Meanwhile clicks are easily abused.
Fresh-eyed movie blog
Perpetually Confused
Any update on the badge that people are supposed to get? Coz like, the wiki is sort of in fraud territory by not delivering it.
Tief girl with eartude
Which badge?
<— This one?
Edited by Bisected8 on Mar 25th 2019 at 8:46:25 AM
TV Tropes's No. 1 bread themed lesbian. she/her, fae/faer
Perpetually Confused
The one sold with the ad-free pass.
I don't approve of the constant nagging either, given how much of a minefield it would be to disable adblock. And even if I do enable ads, load times are significantly slower.
I think it would be better to like put up a Patreon or Gofundme campaign as an alternative revenue source from those who opt out of ads on security grounds.
Team Eggman for life
As someone who previously had a computer that got an ad that basically downloaded a virus by redirecting to its download from browsing TVT, I see absolutely no reason to disable my ad-blocker for this site, and the pesterbox really isn't going to change my mind on that. As Lunick said, it makes me less likely to consider whitelisting the site.
Perpetually Confused
I noticed that once you do have an ad subscription, the only one to cancel it is by managing staff. Not via stripe. This is shifty as fuck considering that staff of this website has yet to reply to the bugs we've created (such as the fact they are not delivering the promised badge), there's no guarantee staff's going to actually action this in time should one not renew.
Furthermore, it seems when buying the add pass, you guys don't send and invoice. Which is kinda hilarious considering how not having an email crashed the whole process.
So, When do I get my badge and invoice?
Lost in Space
Update from the devs: At some point today we expect some fixes to be pushed live, one of which is the promised "snooze" feature for the adblock message.
- If you have edited the wiki in the past 14 days, you can snooze the message for 7 days.
This is intended to reward people who contribute to the wiki by improving its content. AFAIK, discussion posts, Ask The Tropers, forums, reviews, and such don't count.
The missing badges are in the development queue to be addressed, along with emailed invoices and a PayPal option for subscriptions.
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Ghilz, I've brought your concern about the cancellation options up with the devs. Edit: And I've been told that it's also in the queue.
Edited by Fighteer on Mar 29th 2019 at 11:09:50 AM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
These are the voyages...
With all due respect, anything involving money changing hands should be feature-complete on release. I think all of us recognize that bugs happen, but the mess with the ads/subscription system smells even worse than the now-common practice of having end-users replace beta testers.
Now that that's out of my system, it's nice to be able to snooze the ad-bug if you edit the wiki, but there are people who support the wiki without editing (P5, Real Life Example maintenance thread, etc). Any plans to help them out?
Also joining the horde saying that "every page" is excessive. Can the ad-bug be put to "1st of the day then every 5" or something similar? After all, how many people come here for just one page?
Be careful what you wish for, 'cause you might just get it all...
Lost in Space
You can always help execute the decisions made in those topics. For example, in Trope Repair Shop, you can work to apply the decisions to the wiki.
We've said before, and it's still true, that the forums don't contribute a great deal to the site in terms of covering its costs. The "business" side is great, and all contributions are appreciated, but we have to draw the line somewhere, and that line is editing. The articles are what bring people here, so improving them is what we are rewarding with the ability to keep blocking ads.
That's as far as we're willing to go for the time being. One edit every two weeks hardly seems like a big deal to ask for.
Edited by Fighteer on Mar 29th 2019 at 12:29:26 PM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Lost in Space
The changes listed above should now be live. Please note that caching may mean that not everyone sees them right away.
Perpetually Confused
Can you ask Dev why the money features are "in the works" and this wasn't released in a completed state? This is entering some really skeevy territory of fraud.
Someone made a little boo-boo with the Followed Threads button, and it now directs to https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/'/pmwiki/thread_watch.php' (two different stray apostrophes) , which in turn gets me a "Page Not Found" error
Lost in Space
Already reported it.
I get the frustration, but the payment feature works, so it's not fraud. Let's not go crazy.
Edited by Fighteer on Mar 29th 2019 at 12:16:02 PM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
I appreciate the addition of a snooze button for the Adblock counter.
Lost in Space
The subnavbar error should now be fixed.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
"Please whitelist us or purchase a ad-free pass to support TV Tropes."
Great grammar, guys. Top notch. Perfection. See me after class.