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open"Stop Auto-play Video" won't stay on
Like mentioned, the "Stop Auto-play Video" toggle in profile settings won't stay on when I click it and keeps resetting, at least on mobile.
openTLP update tag
For some reason, whenever someone posts a comment/reply in a TLP draft, the Last Edited By section would automatically update to say that the sponsor had edited the draft at that exact same moment. This gives a false impression of sponsor engagement, and I've seen people post and add examples to abandoned drafts because this bug makes it appear like the OP is still actively involved in the TLP process even though no one is actually doing the legwork.
Edited by Adept
openCustom titles not working in some places
Custom titles don't work in the following places:
- bulletins
- TLP comments
- PMs
- page links that auto-display with colors
- links to disambiguation pages (green). e.g. Peek A Bangs
- links to pages with titles ending in "discussion" (orange). e.g. All Orange Entry Discussion
openTV Tropes Screen goes black sometimes -- Ad issue?
Occasionally, I'll be looking at a page only for it to go black, with the links remaining blue. I can only assume this is caused by an ad, as it only affect the TVT page (not the top bar, and not the rest of my computer) and it only started now that my subscription ran out. Here's an image of it happening on ATT.
openPM Preview won't open Folder
Hello! I am submitting PM's to another user to quality check for a Tropes Pantheon Ascencion and when I go to view the folder in preview, it stays closed even when clicked on. I don't have the same issue with spoilers, or anywhere else except in thread posts, it's just in PM previews and thread posts where the folder will not open.
workingTLP link not appearing on some launched tropes
Alright, so when a trope gets launched from the TLP a link to its original draft usually appears on the bottom of the page, reading "YKTTW Archive". Like so:
But on some pages, the link does not appear, even though there was a TLP. For example, Creator's Pest went through TLP here
, but there is no link at the bottom (and I had to post the link myself as a reply):
This is a known bug, and I apologize if this has been posted before. Just putting this here in case no one else has.
openRatings aren't displayed on non-featured videos
Self-explanatory. The featured video shows them, but the rest don't.
closed Notifiers not showing messages properly
A few minutes ago, I tried to send someone a notifier for a rude edit reason. However, the predetermined notifier message (in this case, "Your edit was unnecessary rude or accompanied by a rude comment") didn't appear. Selecting other notifiers to see if the message would pop up didn't help either. Yet when I sent the message and looked through my inbox afterwards, the predetermined message was there. Is this a bug or a new feature?
Edited by UFOYeah
workingAll-caps text bug
Using all caps now causes the text within [[AC: ]] to be placed on an entirely separate line from the rest for some reason. It's kind of like this.
openTrope Launch Pad empty pages
For a long time, Trope Launch Pad has had 352 pages, but a large amount of the ones at the end don't have 20 drafts or are empty. See https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/tlp_activity.php?filter=all&sort=latest&q=&page=347 for example. I think this should be updated properly like in the past again. Thanks in advance.
openClicking on ATT takes me to Trope Finder
Hi, I've noticed that relatively recently, attempting to open an ATT link in a new page by clicking on the top-right date takes me to the Trope Finder page for some reason, even though the functions are separate and there is no reason for specific ATT posts to link to Trope Finder.
workingAd prevents me from seeing folder contents
There's an ad after the A to E folder on Chick Tracts which apparently prevents me from seeing any of the tropes in that folder on mobile. This is what it looks like after clicking the "open/close all folders" button.
openNotes within spoiler tagging don't work correctly (Safari)
When a note's within the tagging and the text is revealed (i.e. the note is visible), clicking on it simultaneously expands the note and hides the spoiler - including the note - again.
Clicking on it again makes the text visible but also collapses the note.
The only way to see it at the moment seems to be:
- Click to reveal spoiler
- Click on note (expanding it, but also hiding the text again)
- Click on something within the spoiler tagging that's not note text (complicated by the fact that you can't see the expanded note at this point...) to show the text again without collapsing the note.
This may be browser-specific: other tropers say it's working fine for them, but I'm seeing it as persistent behaviour in Safari.
Expected behaviour: clicking on the note when the text is visible should expand/collapse it without triggering the spoiler text toggle.
Edited by Mrph1
openEdit history context are wrong
Since previous versions of a page aren't saved and can't be viewed (a huge issue as well, we may be the only wiki with no page versions), the "line(s) 1,2 (click to see context)" notes at page histories don't make sense.
For example this edit has "line(s) 119,132 (click to see context)", but clicking it shows lines highlighted in respect to the live version of the page, rendering this feature effectively useless.
openvideo lags on replay
When playing a video using the replay button, it will lag at some point for a split second. (The effect on the audio is especially noticeable.)
Example of short videos to see this:
- "Cape comes off" on The Coats Are Off
- "Specium Beam" on Hand Blast (also has some trouble with the replay button working)
openA possible bug
After adding my last few contributions to the Gory Toons page before retiring to edit it altogether, I noticed how several buttons for Moments pages that have been cut remain visible. Why is that, and how could I resolve this peculiarity?
workingVideos with no attached trope linking to the TropeName article
I never uploaded a video myself but I noticed while reviewing videos on the approval queue that sometimes new users would forgot to add a trope article to the trope name box. For some reason, the system lets them submit the video and automatically lists the main trope as [Trope Name] (which is actual trope page). I don't think this is supposed to happen and it makes it hard to sort out genuine of [Trope Name]. Ideally, the site wouldn't allow people to upload videos without an attached trope at all.
openMobile version troubles
On the mobile version, some pages have massive blocks full of nothing that are below the "switch to desktop version" thing.
Edited by Spidey
closed Appending pages.
I'm trying to get the Star Wars Dark Rendezvous and Star Wars Dark Rendezvous pages added as links on the main Dark Rendevous page, but it just won't work. The Funny page redirects to the general Star Wars Legends page, and I don't know how to get the heartwarming page to sync with the main work page.
Edited by Murloco
I tried adding a couple of examples into the sports section of Common Knowledge. After clicking Save, the entire page - bar the markup - was wiped out.
Edit: I've discovered what happened - I accidentally put /font (with square brackets either side).
Edited by DarcyFoster95