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openCan't create TLP draft, error message seems incorrect
Attempting to create a TLP draft titled "Playersexual" fails with the error message "That working trope name and namespace is already in use." However, there does not appear to actually be, or ever have been, any existing draft by that title.
openPotholes aren't actually case sensitive?
So there's a trope called Just in Time, and a show called Justin Time (note the pun; it's two words). However because they're both spelled exactly the same in formatting the show Justin Time gets rendered as Just in Time on the page title.
Edited by BreadBull
openEditing scrolling issues
Some pages I've tried to edit, such as Marvel Cinematic Universe and Infinity Crisis, have been acting oddly. I can edit, but they won't let me scroll down on them. Others work just fine though. Any explanation?
openMissing Video Source index
The My Little Pony: Equestria Girls index page is not having any links on the example pages! (Take A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil for example)
openUnable to set avatars
I and some users on here have not been able to set avatar on our profile. Clicking on any avatar I have uploaded makes it lit up with blue border but none of the change applies after I refresh. Also, the share/receive avatar option on the profile page could not be turned on either. I have tried this with both Chrome and Safari along with both desktop and mobile device. I would really appreciate if this issue gets fixed.
openLong page title bug
In the Namespace Index pages, I've found some pages that apparently exceeded the title character limit when someone tried to make them. Following the links leads to a "We don't have an article named..." placeholder, but they're still listed as existing pages in the Namespace Index pages.
Some examples:
Sekkaku Cheat Wo Moratte Isekai Ni Teni Shita N Dakara Suki Na You Ni Ikitemit
Sexiled My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out So I Teamed Up With A Mythical Sor
I Became The Strongest With The Failure Frame Abnormal State Skill As I Devas
Im A Behemoth An S Ranked Monster But Mistaken For A Cat I Live As An Elf Girls Pe
Garbage Brave Revenge Story Of The Hero Who Was Thrown Away After Being Summo
Trapped In My Own Shitty Light Novel After Killing Myself So I Might As Well Co
The above pages don't exist, but are listed in the Light Novel Namespace Index here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/namespace_index.php?ns=LightNovel
I assume these pages are using up memory in a database somewhere since the Namespace Index lists them, but if there's no way to read the page contents, it's probably better to remove them and prevent new ones from being created.
Edited by foley
openEdit lock notification referencing wrong administrivia
"This Article is checked out until [time] by [troper]. Please consult this page for more information on page locks."
The edit lock that causes this message is entirely separate from administrative lock, so "this page" should be potholing to Edit Stomp, not Locked Pages.
e: Edit Stomp might be moved from Main/ to Administrivia/ per the Outdated Pages thread, so whoever would make this change, you may wish to hold off until that's resolved.
openWeird trope title glitch?
With tropes like Rogue Angles Of Satin and Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?, the lowercase words attach themselves to other words, or it creates a redlink.
openCannot edit proposed trope on Trope launch pad
I submitted a trope, but now when I try to go in and edit it when tropers comment or make suggestions, I can enter my edits just fine, but after I click SAVE, the changes are not there. I'm pretty sure the problem is entirely me, I just don't know what I'm doing wrong.
workingNarm Subpages Automatically marked as FlameBait
While Narm is now YMMV, for some reason, a bug is listing it's subpages (Ie: Star Wars) as Flame Bait, even though it's no longer Flame Bait.
openGrammar Notifier
Please replace the broken link in the Grammar notifier with the following link to the "Get Help with English" Thread.
I am told that this requires admin level intervention.
openCan't save edits to page
Each time I hit save after editing X Com Chimera Squad I'm getting a gateway time out with a Cloudflare error that says the problem is with TV Tropes.
openRedirected to Trope Finder.
For some reason, doing these steps:
- Searching ATT reports by term
- Hitting "back"
- Refreshing on the "confirm" white page
Sends me to the front of Trope Finder. Strange, since you'd think it'd send me to ATT...
openNo Title
This might be more of a feature request than a bug, but
Pinging someone by typing ~Tropers/TroperName in a forum post doesn't work, only ~@/TroperName, even though an @ followed by a / is converted to Tropers/ anyway.
Edited by wingedcatgirl
openNo Title
When you go through Kelly Lebrock's list it shows an entry for the sorcerers apprentice made in 2002 yet when you click on it it goes to the page for the sorcerers apprentice made in 2010.
workingMark all as read
The mark all as read function still isn't working. When done on an individual subforum, it goes through as if it worked, but actually doesn't. And when done on a whole section or all forums at once, it spits out a generic error message.
openMultiple-Line Captions broken on TLP
As seen here, the caption is supposed to render as:
But instead is rendering as:
[[caption-width-right:302:Left: Aerith in a cutscene. Right: Aerith's actual in-game model.]]
EDIT: Welp, it's happening here too, I guess!
Edited by Primis
openLinks broken in Messages
I sent a standard Namespace message through the Issue Helper and both links led to a 404 page, with extra "https://tvtropes.org/%22" at the beginning and formatting messing them up
Looking through past messages, it is effecting previous messages
This is a big problem since it stops helping newbies
Edited by jormis29
openDrafts for forums posts
I'm active in the Magnificent Bastard Cleanup thread. I am currently typing up an effortpost and it got a bit wordy. I pressed save my draft, and when I came back it hadn't saved my draft. Luckily I backed it up in a word file, but others might not be so lucky.
openPicture on the front page
A minor bug, no doubt, but on the front page the "Newest Trope" and "Today's Featured Trope" will display a picture... even if said picture had been removed from the page following an Image Pickin' discussion.
openFlame Bait icon quirks
Two things regarding the little icon that pops up next to Flame Bait potholes:
- Mousing over it shows alt text reading something like "This entry contains a Flame Bait trope. It should be moved to the Flame Bait tab." Obviously the result of copy-pasting code from the YMMV/Trivia icons—we don't (and tbh shouldn't have) a Flame Bait tab. This could be easily fixed by changing the alt text to something like "This is a pothole to a Flame Bait trope! Please remove the link to avoid flame wars."
- It appears on subpages of tropes that are themselves Flame Bait. This doesn't seem like something that should be a problem, since if you're on, say, a SBIH page, you know what you're getting into.
openPage disappeared the moment I hit "submit"?
I'm working on the recap pages of Peeking Through the Fourth Wall and Pound and Pumpkin Cake's Adventures (and Misadventures) in Potty Training, but when I typed up the recap page for the first chapter of the latter, the moment I hit submit, it was like I hadn't done anything, it was just "We don't have a page called...". What gives?
openQuotes glitching in search
Today I've noticed that most of the time when you do a search with quotes in it (which normally is a search for that exact phrase), it will glitch out and turn the quote symbols into %22 instead. And then the search returns no results because nothing on the wiki uses %22sample quote%22 for anything.
And this is the standard search, to be clear, not the new search. On Firefox, most recent version.
openLive Blogs indexing is screwed up
Sorting by "Latest Updated" is backwards - it starts with the most necrotic live blogs on page 1 and ends with the most recently updated ones on the last page. The Author and Subject sorting options don't work at all, they just sort things the same way as Latest Updated.
You know how ---- is supposed to create a line break? Well it's still doing that...technically. But the line is invisible. I just tried it out in the Sandbox thread, and it's also happening in several other places, such as on the page for Dadnapped and a TLP draft
of mine.