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closed Search function is fucked.
Using the search bar brings up entirely blank results.
I'm assuming this has something to do with the new search function. But that's completely worthless and makes it impossible to find anything. If you type in "Pokemon" for example, it brings up everything Pokemon related EXCEPT the actual franchise itself.
closed Search doesnt work
Since 6/9 the search doesnt work at all. I type stuff press search, it says there's tons of results but nothing shows up. I have to use google to find the tropes im looking for. FIX IT
working"Main/" has ghost wicks pointing there, when such wicks are impossible to create.
"Main/" has ghost wicks pointing there, when such wicks are impossible to create.
Been clearing some out, by editing the pages, but there's 59 pages left.
Reporting this 'cause this seems worse than usual ghost wicks, since these seem impossible.
Edited by Maladyclosed Search
I’m not sure if this is just my phone or if it’s the website, but on both the mobile version and the desktop version if I try to search something it won’t show the results, even if it says there are results. I have to search it with google while adding ‘tvtropes’ to the search if I want to go to the page.
workingRepair Shop notifiers for pages under such discussion are not showing.
Repair Shop notifiers for pages under such discussion are not showing.
Like, The The Title has no banner-thing saying that there's an active Repair Shop Thread for it.
workingNew Search handles quotes wrong
In the New Search (since the old one is borked), I tried searching "titenic" (quotes included) to make it obvious that I want the deliberately misspelled word (the name of a bootleg video game) exactly rather than approximations (which would return hits for Titanic, not quite what I want)
And instead I got a list of titles with quotes in them. And I checked the first of these hits, the page contains neither the "correct" word nor its misspelling.
Edited by Medinocclosed Classic Search is broken and unusable
SO when I search using the classic search, nothing comes up, although it does find results as evidenced by the search results counter below the search bar, it just doesn't show them on screen.
closed Discussion page links
On certain discussion pages such as Star Wars: The Clone Wars, links to forum threads and ATT queries get broken because of the formatting problems. Can this please be looked at? Thanks.
workingRelated pages are not showing an option to edit the main article in the bar at the top.
Related pages are not showing an option to edit the main article in the bar at the top.
Unlike the History pages, which do allow that.
Or was that functionality to edit from the Related pages, removed on-purpose?
workingNew index under Game Gourmet not appearing.
Just added Game Gourmet to Trope Namers: Video Games, under Kirby, and it's not appearing under the trope page, unlike Quote Source from just yesterday.
Edited by SeaRoverclosedDuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials blocking ads?
I finally got tired of being bugged by the "please whitelist us!" message, even though I'd *already* told Ad Block to whitelist tvtropes. So I went through all my extensions, and found that when I disabled Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials, ads started working again.
I don't think that extension was listed on the message (I can no longer see it), and for that matter, I'm not sure it should block ads - it's supposed to block tracking, right? Are those two inextricably connected nowadays?
Anyway, just letting you know.
workingWicks in forum OPs are broken
Internal links appear to be breaking in the opening post of forum threads; this one, for example, shows the problem. ' marks are being added to the URL of the link, breaking it. Subsequent wicks in the same thread are working.
https://tvtropes.org/'/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SharedUniverse/'
vs
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SharedUniverse
Edited by HeraldAlberichworkingIndexes No Longer Listed On Page Bottoms Alphabetically
Since the update I've noticed that the part of a given wiki page that shows what indexes it happens to be listed in seems to from top to bottom chronologically (Ex. The most recent index that the page was added to happens to be on the bottom) rather than alphabetically as it did before.
workingNo notification for updates on followed pages.
I had followed Game Gourmet yesterday, and failed to get any kind of notification for when someone updated it just half an hour ago.
closed Forum Issues
(Chrome/Android Lollipop)
An issue I've discovered recently is how the forum's page and post formatting seems to have been altered.
This wouldn't be a problem, but I've also discovered (to my utter dismay) that my bookmarked and saved forum links are now linking to the incorrect pages.
I would like to request that the forum changes be reverted, since I am having serious issues on locating forum posts that I've bookmarked (they seem to have all advanced by several pages), and pages on TvTropes that link to the forums will also utterly suffer thanks to this change.
Update: For some unknown reason, this seems to be affecting certain forum pages, but not others. This might be a bug of some kind that involves skipping pages, or something similar, but, nevertheless, I would love for this to be resolved.
Edited by SymeSynthclosed Title Search, Search Forums broken
This is actually about two independent aspects of the site's system:
- The Title Search Input tool from Itty Bitty Wiki Tools no longer works. Like, at all.
- Search Forums, while technically working in that it does bring up search results, we can no longer search only for thread titles like we used to, and the drop-down menu on the right that presumably should allow us to limit the search to one of the specific subforums (e.g. On-Topic Conversations) doesn't work at all.
Both of these problems have manifested themselves in the wake of the Version 1.8 update to the site.
workingCannot add new PM blocks
Existing PM blocks seem to be intact (I can see them in the relevant page), but it appears the 1.8 update broke the ability to add new ones; the "Are you sure?" message does come out, but after clicking OK and the screen vanishes, I find that nothing changed.
closed Index not listed under page added to it.
I've just noticed now that Gameplay-Guided Amnesia itself has not had Alliterative Name: Tropes F to L listed on its page.
Edited by SeaRoverclosed Index lists updating chronologically instead of alphabetically.
So, I just added Game Gourmet to Image Source: Video Games (M to Z), and on the page, the index got listed beneath the other indices already there, which themselves are still listed alphabetically.
There seems to be a problem with the "search result" toolbar and I'm not seeing any of my results once I've already clicked on enter in the search bar.