Your mama may have had eyes in the back of her head, but our admin team just can't see everything at once. It takes a village to make sure TVTropes is running the way it should, so when it comes to spotting tech snafus, dreaming up a better digital mousetrap, or just diagnosing plain old asshattery, the quicker you let us know something's up, the quicker we can address it. See a bug? Point to it and we'll squash it. Have idea for a new feature? Post in the Wishlist.
openTeen Titans Go Recap Page
On the Teen Titans Go! page, I noticed the episodes are not indexed. I have tried indexing them, but it doesn't seem to be working.
Edited by ultimomant
openEmphasis formatting not working on iPhone
I just created a new page using my iphone. I can’t format emphasis in the way specified (ex. ‘’’this should work but it isn’t bold’’’). I also indexed the new page, and ran into the same issue.
openPage is blank despite still intact source text
While editing Pillars of Eternity — Other Party Members, I realized the preview buttons were turning up completely empty pages. I hit save and the actual page is blank as well. When I check the edit history and page source, the text is still there, it's just not showing up on the main view.
I tried deleting all the lines that were quoted out to see if they had anything to do with it, but the page is still blank.
openFalse Page Creation Dates
Today, I've noticed a few pages with inaccurate creation dates. Celestia VS Cleverbot and Fairy Tale Friday both claim they were made today (Feb 15, 2021) instead of, well...2014 like they were actually created during. This means my edits are classified as being on "new pages" when that's not at all the case.
openDiacritics showing up as HTML codes in editing mode
When editing a page, a ton of characters turn into their HTML equivalent, such as "é" becoming "é". This happens for accentuated characters, diacritical characetrs, cyrilic characters, kanji characters, etc.
This is really bothersome on pages such as the ones relating to the Pokémon franchise, since it constantly butchers the name, and an absolute nightmare on foreign-language pages that use a lot of diacritics, which become absolute gibberish.
The issue has been present for years now, but the previous ticket was closed without anything actually being done about it. There is a script on the forum that "fixes" the issue, but wiki newcomers just won't know about it and tend to get discouraged immediately from editing diacritic-heavy pages.
Edited by Yugnat
openCan't get "Woolseyism" to turn into a link
On the Trope Index page for YMMV tropes for Spider Riders, "Woolseyism" won't turn into a link. I thought I misspelled it, but no. I have no idea why it won't show up.
openLabelnotes with same hidden content only opening the one highest up the page
This is probably a very minor glitch, and may have already been addressed before (I couldn't find anything about it), but labelnotes that hide the exact same text always open the one at the top of the page, rather than the note that is clicked/tapped on. I've only seen this on WebVideo.Citation Needed, which just makes a running joke thing a little clunky, but it may seriously be affecting other pages. The bug occurred on an IPad in the Safari browser.
openBroken caption
The caption on the page image for Happy Tree Friends is messed up. Anyone know how to fix it?
openLinks in notifiers (Issue helper standard messages) are broken
Another troper reported this already
a while ago, but since there was never a reaction, I'm submitting this again:
All the links in our "Issue helper" standard messages, otherwise known as notifiers, are broken.
For instance, the notifier for Natter is supposed to link the recipient to Administrivia.Conversation In The Main Page (URL: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/ConversationInTheMainPage ), but the pothole actually leads to https://tvtropes.org/'https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/ConversationInTheMainPage/', which produces a "File not found" error. Note the duplication of the "https://tvtropes.org/" part and the superfluous apostrophes. I suppose the system expects a Wiki Word, not an URL.
For some reason, the name of the page on which the offending edit was done does also not appear as a bluelink in the message. The message text actually prints out an unclickable "Main/TropeName", rather than a blue "[Trope Name]".
Lastly, I've also noticed that selecting "thanks!" from the "Choose the issue" drop down menu sends a completely empty message.
Long story short: Notifiers are currently unusable because none of the links that are supposed to send the recipients to our rules-and-guidelines pages actually work.
Edited by LordGro
openForum search does not "Forum Topics" dropdown or quotes - hard to find relevant results
I was looking to see if we had a "blood bowl" thread under Tabletop Games, and I didn't get any results.
I changed it to remove the quotes and searched again, and now I'm getting results from outside the Tabletop Games forum.
openUnable to search on mobile
Is it just me, or why am I unable to type in anything on the TV Tropes searching feature while on Android?
Edit: NVM, appears to be a temp issue. Lock.
Edited by Siegfried1337
openTLP draft bug
I notice that after TLP drafts reach a certain size when you click the Submit button the page greys out, and while the edits are saved, it doesn't go back to normal until you click away.
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.
openProfile title not saving
I'm trying to save a title for my profile pic but the system refuses to let it save. This is quite weird.
openAudio / Video Out of Sync on Uploaded Video Examples
Loving the new video examples tool. However, twice now on stuff that I've uploaded, the audio is out of sync with the video. One example is the one for String-on-Finger Reminder I uploaded from Timothy Goes to School. Another is on one that I just uploaded but hasn't been approved yet for Hates Being Touched from The Mentalist. I've checked my local files and the problem definitely isn't on my end, so I can only assume something is going wrong during the upload/conversion process.
openAn index listed on a work page's "index"
The bottom of AmericanFilms.A To C says that it's the one item in the index Film.Bad Boys 1983. As far as I can tell, Film.Bad Boys 1983 doesn't contain the word "index" or "AmericanFilms.A To C" anywhere.
openCustom titles don't play nice with backslashes?
I'm fairly sure I put in a custom title request for Bracketed Backslash to show as "[\]", but it's currently showing as "[]". (I've just sent in a request which I formatted as "[\\]", which hopefully cancels out and shows as intended? Still, it's weird that this is a thing that needs doing.)
Edited by wingedcatgirl
openAvatars are blurry on Chrome
Switched to Chrome briefly for a forum game and noticed it messes up the quality of avatars. They look blurry, presumably due to some resizing issue.
It's not a big deal and they look fine on Firefox (my main browser for TV Tropes), but it felt worth bringing up.
closedEdit unable to be saved
I'm trying to save an edit, yet I am unable to do so for some reason (it directs me to the main website page). Why?
closedEdits Won't Save
Tried this out on a few pages; every time I attempt to make an edit and hit save, it sends me back to the home page.
closedBlocked from Fridge and WMG pages
When I tried editing the Fridge and WMG pages of The Purge and ERB, I keep getting redirected to the front page after saving. I have not been sent any messages regarding a suspension or ban. It seems others are experiencing similar problems.
closedEdit won't save.
On the MCU: United States Government page, I'm trying to change the image that's meant to show the U.S. Agent Suit to one that shows off more of the suit because the current image on the page only shows the suit from the shoulders up.
But when I tried save my edit, it just ended up taking me back to the homepage and when I returned to the page I was editing, I found out the edit didn't save. I tried to do the edit again and the same thing happened as last time.
Another thing I noticed was that when trying to view a preview of the page with my edit, all that will come up is a blank page titled " / (PREVIEW MODE)"
closedUnable to save my edits on the Characters/StreetFighterTheMovie page.
Hello,
I am unable to save my progress on the Street Fighter: The Movie page. When I press save it goes back to the title/home page instead. I am able to save other pages but this one.
I'm trying to create a new Works page, but when I click the Save button it just takes me to "we don't have an article named..."
The content shows up fine when I try the Preview button, and it shows up in my edits and recent edits that I've edited the page (that still doesn't exist).
I tried clearing my cache, restarting my browser, and using a different browser, but none of that worked.
Update: The page shows up as a Blue Link despite still taking me to the same "we don't have an article named that" page.
Edited by Opabinia