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closedJust got a "Welcome to [Forum Section]" PM right after a post, but not my first post.
Just got a "Welcome to Long Term Projects" PM for posting there, apparently, but I've been posting there for a while.
Edited by MaladyworkingForum threads and images
On the mobile browser, images appear as though they're slipping out of the post.
Been seeing that in various Image Pickin' threads.
openAvatars not uploading, strange, long error message
I tried to upload some avatars just now, and I've been having some issues.
The first time, the loading bar went really slow. Eventually, I got the X indicating that the upload failed, and I got a long error message of some sort. I tried another avatar, and that one worked. Then I tried a third avatar, and I got the same error message as I did the first time, pictured below. I'm on desktop Google Chrome. Any ideas of what could have happened?
Edited by DrNoPumaopenEdits not showing up on-page for non-member
One of my friends I chat with regularly has pointed out an issue. He doesn't have an account here, and has noticed that when viewing pages he knows I've edited recently, the changes aren't actually visible right away. The "Last modified" tag under "Page Info" is changed, and the edits are shown in the history, but they aren't showing up on the modified page until a day or so after the edits have been made.
Any idea what's causing this?
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
openLive Blogs desperately needs debugging
Whenever I post a blog entry on my liveblog, these random backslashes and quotations are being added.
And also, links are completely broken. Whenever you link to another page on TV Tropes, it inserts single qutation marks into the actual hyperlink, so all the links themselves are invalid when you click on them. For example, {{Seers}} gave me a link to "https://tvtropes.org/'/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Seers/'". See what I mean? The weirdest thing is probably that the Preview of the blog page works perfectly fine, but the real thing (after you click "Publish") is what shows all these glitches, so I assume it's a rendering issue that arises when you are converting the raw text to html when a blog installment is published.
From what I can see, this problem seems to go back to about December 2018, when blogs started showing this problem. Everything before that seems fine. Please check the links below for further demonstrations:
- Broken link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/lb_i.php?lb_id=15478559820B49715200
- Working one from 2011: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/lb_i.php?lb_id=12920297360B27700100
I hope this can be resolved as soon as possible, because the simply copious amounts of problems that this is causing is enough for me and some others to just give up on maintaining a Live Blog in the first place. Which is a real pity, because I was quite excited by the Live Blog concept to begin with.
Edit: Now this is just ridiculous; spoilers and quotes don't work either!
Edited by NinjaMatrixopenAnchor links sometimes fail on folderized pages
(Yes, apparently I'm on an anchor link kick today.)
- AlternativeCharacterInterpretation.Final Fantasy#XIV
- AwesomeMusic.Final Fantasy#XIV
- Memes.Final Fantasy#XIV
- ThatOneAttack.Final Fantasy#XIV
- ThatOneBoss.Final Fantasy#XIV
- ThatOneLevel.MMORPG#FinalFantasyXIV
ACI consistently jumps to the wrong location on a first click. Awesome Music and Memes seem to work fine every time. That One X fails to jump at all if I open them in a new tab, and are inconsistent otherwise (browser caching seems to help?).
e: After some testing, all pages almost consistently fail to jump at all if the page completes loading in a new tab before I switch to it. (ACI, oddly, consistently jumps to the same wrong location even in this case.)
Edited by wingedcatgirlopenEdits on forum always show AM
It seems to be that edits on the forum always show up as AM, whether the edit was made AM or PM; cf. my second-most-recent post in the RWBY spoiler thread, which says it was edited twelve hours before it was made.
openCut reason on a cut page shows oldest reason
When pages get cut listed or cut more than once, the reason shown when the cut is processed should be the most recent one. Currently, it shows the oldest, which is likely out of date or misleading.
openSlashes after quotation marks
On some parts of the site, such as discussion pages, whenever quotation marks (single quotes and double quotes) and apostrophes are used, a slash is inserted after the quote or apostrophe.
I've seen other folks' posts with this problem, so I know it's not just me.
openRecap Page not Indexing
The recap page for Milo Murphy's Law isn't working as an index, despite what multiple tropers have been trying to do. There have been null edits, and the "does indexing" box is checked.
Edited by PantaroPopenLinks in issue helpers messages
Okay, probably signaled already, and certainly part of a bigger problem in private messages, but here we go:
When I send one of the pre-set issue helpers message, any inside (for example to Example Indentation in Trope Lists ) is broken by the presence of unnecessary apostrophes.
closedidentical note content messes with opening notes
When two notes have identical content inside, clicking on the second one will only open/close the first one.
See here: note abc note abc
Edit (Jan 23 2023): this got fixed at some point.
Edited by TwiddleropenVideo autoplay, despite setting(s)
On Android 7.1.2 (LG Tribute HD), Opera, split screen with YouTube:
Occasionally - as in every third or fourth new page - the YouTube video I'm playing would end up stopping, and a 'audio/video stream' start/stop notification would pop up for Opera, as if a Video Example had started playing. Except: 1. I have 'no autoplay' set, in both Opera settings and my Trailer profile settings; and 2. Most of the pages involved didn't have a Video Example at the bottom.
(Quotes.Armed With Canon was one such page.)
Edited by CurledUpWithDakkaopenPersistent accented-character work bug
Music.Istvan A Kiraly was originally created as Music.IstvánAKirály (this mess of a link; you can also try copy-pasting the plaintext Music/IstvánAKirály to your URL) and it's haunting the page to this day.
The latter link does not work at all. But it's a redirect to the first link, which is how the work page should be setup with a simple custom Wiki Word.
A while ago I submitted a cut request to the latter link, but the redirect bugged out and somehow the first link with all the page content got cut (I still have a copy and pasted backup of the page content so that can be restored easily).
More confusingly, now the cut Music.Istvan A Kiraly page suggests YMMV.IstvánAKirály and Trivia.IstvánAKirály (accented URLs) that don't exist.
The accidentally cut correct page's subpages still exist — YMMV.Istvan A Kiraly and Trivia.Istvan A Kiraly (but show up as redlinks). But if you were to go to one of these pages and click any of the navigation buttons at the top — whether to Music.Istvan A Kiraly or the other existing subpage — it lands on the accented title.
Edited by DarkarosopenYKTTW link
There's a remaining link to YKTTW on Trope Finder, where it tells you to make new tropes at You Know, That Thing Where. It should tell you to go to the Trope Launch Pad.
I was editing Rockets Missiles And Grenade Launchers and tried to add a new paragraph to the Carl Gustaf entry. When I tried to preview it (and later submit the edit), I noticed that paragraph spacing between the prior paragraph and my addition just isn't there, which makes reading a bit hard since I can't make out where one paragraph ends and the other one begins if the old paragraph's line fills the entire width of the page. Other paragraphs outside folders, like in the main Cool Guns page, is functioning normally.
This is a bug, right?