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workingButton overlap
In the mobile view, on article history, the show more dropdown is drawn below the "hide all" button, which is ugly and slightly inconvenient as the "discussion" button is covered over.
Edited by AmonimusworkingLegacy account being flagged as a new account
Hey there
I’ve been known on the site since 2011, but when I edited this post in FG, which included a link to the reveal trailer for Joker in MultiVersus, it blanked my post and replaced it with the "new accounts cannot post external links" message like I was brand new to the site.
What’s especially weird is that the post had displayed normally at first; the post had been up long enough for the troper above me to respond to my question.
Will say that I had recently verified my account, so I’m not sure if it’s a known quirk with that or not.
Edited by kablammin45workingTwo revisions for one page on Followed Pages
When I followed Fun with Acronyms, two revisions of that page show up on Followed Pages. The first is the most recent revision, while the second is an extremely old revision.
workingDouble posting edits
A couple of times recently I've made an edit and it's double or triple posted it into the page's history and my edit history. e.g:
Edited by dcutter2workingA problem is still happening in some Magnificent Bastard pages
So some weeks ago it was reported here that some Magnificent Bastard pages like Comic Books and Western Animation were suffering of a problem where despite having been edited several times for months (as seen in their edit histories) the actual pages had stayed the same since around December. The report was then locked as the issue was said to be fixed, except… it hasn't? The pages are still looking the same to me as they have looked for months.
Something else to mention is that I have found that the pages for Literature K to Z and Live-Action TV: A to G are also suffering from these same problems.
Twiddler said that "to fix this issue, just do a null edit to the page type" but, uh, I'm sorry but I have no idea what that means? What is a "null edit"? What is "the page type"?
workingThe "Have you tried rebooting" bug is back
Once again, "random trope" is only sending me to Have You Tried Rebooting?. I believe it started at midnight Pacific time.
workingIssues uploading images
Similarly to this post, I'm unable to upload images for an Image Pickin' thread. I'm getting the same thing. Oddly enough, I successfully submitted images for a separate thread literal moments prior.
Edited by PaperflyworkingNew discussion page triplicated in watchlist
After starting a new discussion page, it appeared three different times in my followed pages list. All three have the same revision number.
The duplication persists once the page is refreshed.
workingCan't turn to page 2 in video examples
I've been making a lot of video examples and naturally it made a new page to accommodate it. The problem? I can't seem to turn to page 2 in my videos section and it keeps redirecting me to page 2 of the recent videos of other people's examples and not mine. I don't know what is going on, I just hope to have this problem of mine fixed asap. Thanks your help!
Edited by Observerfromafarworkingghost editor prevents me from saving changes on a new workspace page if the edit lock expires
i was making a page in the Music namespace when the lock expired as i edited; when i finished and clicked 'save', it told me that someone else is editing the page and i need to wait for them to finish
i waited the 30 minutes to see if anyone actually editing a blank namespace; so far, no one has
it is also a fairly obscure band; i dont think anyone else was actually editing it
workingApostrophes in crowner text are causing edit problems
Apostrophes in crowners are being converted from ' to \' whenever the crowner's edited. It doesn't seem possible to fix this in subsequent edits.
This doesn't seem to be a smart quote issue.
Edited by Mrph1workingTo-do list problems
Crowners and to-do list items have backslashes before all the quotes and apostrophes, as though they used the wrong method of sanitization.
workingEngineer permissions - "Add/Fix Title" tool problem
Engineers currently have a mismatch on their "Add/Fix Title" permissions. This tool is used to correct wikilinks in thread titles (e.g. for Image Pickin' and Trope Repair Shop).
When a mod or engineer selects the "Add/Fix Title" option from the "Options" menu on an in-scope thread, this should launch the "Make/Alter Article Connection" screen, allowing them to edit the linked article name and then save their changes.
However, as it stands, for engineers:
- The "Options" menu is displayed for threads within in-scope subforums.
- The "Add/Fix Title" menu option is displayed within "Options", and can be selected.
- ...but if an engineer is using this option, they're intercepted by a blocking message. The "alert-mod" modal triggers, and the displayed message states that: "This page is only for moderators. Try something else".
Expected behaviour
Either Engineers should be able to use this feature without errors, or the "Options" menu and/or "Add/Fix Title" links should ideally be suppressed so that they can't start the process and don't hit the blocking message. Edited by Mrph1workingOdd links in Search
Notice the green. They keep appearing once in a while, but show as proper links when the page is refreshed.
Not sure how to reproduce it, but noting it for the record.
working"Page info" glitching
I have seen a rare number of pages with glitchy page info. "Page created" and "last modified" are both listed as N/A, and they don't show up on wick lists, though the actual page history is fine. The most recent one I saw was Fanfic.Tiberium Wars. I decided to do a null edit to see if it would help, but now it says it was created today, 6/20/2020.
It's not a huge or common problem, but it is worrying me.
workingPage is missing in the watchlist
Confirming the issue from here, I have added WesternAnimation.Kung Fu Panda 4 to the Following and see its icon, but it doesn't appear in Followed Pages at all.
workingText in Search Results glitches up.
Sometimes after I used the search bar for the site, I notice a weird glitch with the text in the results. It specifically happens in the greentext directly below the page titles (so, where it says stuff like "TV Tropes > Tropes" or "TV Tropes > Quotes", etc). The text glitches up and says "TypeError: Vars.breadcrumbUrl is undefined: Vars.breadcrumbUrl.crumbs". It happens only occasionally and disappears when I refresh the page, but it's still an odd glitch.
Edited by chasemaddigan
In the listing of all pages with the Sandbox Namespace here you can see two pages whose Wiki Words begin with a space character. It makes it hard to access them, or submit the pages to the cut list. The pages are: Sandbox/ MightyMorphinPowerRangersS2EP31WhenIsARangerNotARanger and Sandbox/ MightyMorphinPowerRangersS2EP32RockyJustWantsToHaveFun
Can someone take care of these pages somehow?