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openNo Title
On the discussion page for Periphery Hatedom I quoted Official US Playstation Magazine. Everytime I click on the blue link I get sent to a blank page with the text "File not found" and the url: https://tvtropes.org/
'/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Official US Playstation Magazine/'
openPage creation saves no edits
Every time I try to create the article for Sponge Bob Square Pants S 7 E 21 Hide And Then What Happens Shellback Shenanigans none of my edits show up and it still says the page wasn't created, despite my edit showing up in the new edits list. What's going on?
openMissing images in the images list
The pic for Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak (one that I uploaded) does not appear when searching for images with my troper handle. I'm not sure why.
openSome pages have no history
Like the Parabombing page: No history entry at all. Even if it was never modified after its creation, there should be an entry for the latter.
If only to know when a page was created.
That said, I'm conscious there are more urgent history bugs (broken newlines in context, lack of context link for "added" lines...)
openTypo in Tabs
As seen on Demonic Possession, one of the tabs called "Video Examples" is misspelled as "Video Exampes." The link still works and the alt-text is spelled correctly, though.
openStrange redlink
Analysis.Toon Physics shows up as a redlink despite the page existing. I checked the Permanent Red Link Club and it's not there.
openQuote formatting issues
Not sure if this is only in TLP, but when you edit the description, any \s (double-backslashes) at the end of the line are replaced with a single line, which borks the formatting, making it all one paragraph.
openBold italics in edit reason creates line breaks.
In a recent edit on Silent Night, Deadly Night, I typed exactly this in the Edit Reason field:
You've mixed up ''Silent Night,'' '''''Bloody''''' ''Night'', which is the one Gershon Kingsley scored.
In the actual history, it showed up with a line break before and after the bold-italic "Bloody".
closedLack of an option for right and left-hand side menus.
I don't know if this is a bug or not, but the option to determine if the side menus are on the left or right has vanished. I'm used to putting mine on the lefthand side, and if I can't put it back there, then I'm going to have a hard time navigating the site.
openBujold WikiWord customization not taking
Links to Lois McMaster Bujold have a space in the Mc Master despite the custom wikiword title not having a space.
I suspect that this is an example of a more general bug, as I vaguely recall seeing similar problems elsewhere.
EDIT: The bug shows up in the Trope Launch Pad - but obviously not here and apparently not elsewhere.
Edited by sablesword
openMissing drop-down options on mobile
On the mobile site (Android Google Chrome for me), only the first four options are present. "To Do", "Page Source", and "Wiki Word" are missing, and so is "Discussion" on work pages because of the "Add Review" option. This was an issue before, and was fixed with the 1.8 update. You just had to screw up the biggest thing the 1.8 update fixed (despite all of its problems at launch), didn't you?
Edited by rjd1922
openCrowners borked. Again.
Every single crowner appears to have had all of their options replaced with:
openNo To-Do List on mobile anymore
I can't access the to-do list in the menu at the top on mobile anymore. (iOS). It's still working on my laptop.
working"Video Uploading is now Available!" Banner
Every single day when I go onto the forums, I get that banner about the uploading thread. Helpful the first time. Not so much after a week+. It doesn't seem like this is a common issue others are having, but I sure am; clicking "x" makes it go away for the day, but then it always comes back.
Edit: Huh... way more common than I first thought.
Edited by WarJay77
openFolders Open randomly turning off
I have the “Folders Open” setting in my profile set to on, but for some reason, it randomly turns itself off.
Edited by TyVulpintaur
openTLP search function
Yay, another TLP issue.
Much like the normal search function, the TLP search function is pretty buggy, and in this instance it makes it almost impossible to use correctly.
Say I type "fish" into the search. The first 10 results:
- Dynastic Drama
- Former Bigot
- Serenading The Snack
- Shark Pool Level
- Thieving Pet
- Bathroom Stall of Angst
- Haute Cuisine Is Weird
- Face-Mook Turn
- Our Pixies Are Different
- Bratty Food Demand
Only a fraction of these can be said to have anything even tangentially related to fish, so I really don't get it. Most of these are drafts found within the first two pages of the TLP normally, so in essence all the Search does is spit back the drafts already at the top of the pile, and no, the later pages within the search aren't any more helpful. Now sure, "Fish" might be a random subject for a TLP draft, but I guarantee there's some fish-related draft in the back that hasn't been made any more accessible by the search. Hell, it took 7 pages just to find a draft with the word fish in the laconic.
Edited by WarJay77
openHuge number of pop-ups off TV Tropes
Including ones that seize your browser. I'd like to turn off 'add blocker' but I literally can't risk visiting the site without it ON.
workingSlashes in quotation marks on Discussion pages
This thread was closed as resolved, but it's still happening. Still the case in both Chrome and Firefox and after clearing cache/cookies.
Edit: And for some reason, when I type a backslash on the Bugs board, it doesn't appear at all. There should be one in front of each of these: ' and ".
Edited by Unsung
openHistory links
Usually, using a time-stamp link will link right to that edit. Example: My newest edit on Characters.TheThreeMusketeers. But today I learned that links to edits not in the immediate history (ones that need to be shown by clicking "see all edits") don't work even with the time stamp. Example, linking to an edit from 2014, same article, only shows the normal history.
openCut list not working for me
Twice, I have tried to cutlist a page due to it being a stub article. Neither time did it show up. I have used the cutlist several times in the past with no issues.
I have seen others report this before as a possible glitch.
closed Can't buy ad-free pass - subscription page not working
So after the ad-free pass was introduced, I considered buying this as an alternative to adblock - only issue is I can't currently buy it. Clicking either of the subscribe buttons doesn't do anything except adding "#monthly" to the end of the url (and both of them add "monthly", instead of the "yearly" going to... well, I'm assuming that would be "#yearly") I've tried this on Firefox and Chrome (Win10) and mobile (Samsung browser) and got the same issue in all of them.
Edited by Zanreo
workingEditing TF shows all replies
When going to Trope Finder and Ask The Tropers (and even the Bugs page), all posts show only the initial question, but after editing my own post the page then displays all the replies for every question on the page.
Is there a way to set this as default, letting replies be automatically shown on the main TF page without having to go to each individual query to see them?
Edited by Chabal2
closed ad-free pass Bugs
A) Buying the ad-free pass reset my profile setting. Timezones, location, relationship status, etc...
B) I don't have the badge that was promised. Please deliver the good I paid for.
workingno title
This Troper is still unindexed.
If I try to search with the old search (which I find more agreeable than the new search) it doesn’t find what I’m looking for, but instead finds pages with the word “false” in them.