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workingNo folders in Discussion
I recently noticed that folders no longer appear in Discussion pages. Whenever I try to copy and paste folders into trope discussions, all of the entries under the folder show up in full, and I just get a header where the folder name should be.
(On one trope discussion page, I can still see folders in older posts, so I know they worked previously)
closed No folders in Discussion, no post editing, and backslashes appear before quotation marks
I recently noticed that folders no longer appear in Discussion pages. Whenever I try to copy and paste folders into trope discussions, all of the entries under the folder show up in full, and I just get a header where the folder name should be.
(On one trope discussion page, I can still see folders in older posts, so I know they worked previously)
Also: whenever I try to type a quotation mark in a Discussion page (either a single-quote or a double-quote), it always comes out with a backslash before it.
The "Edit Post" button on the Discussion page also doesn't appear to be working. Whenever I hit the "save" button after editing one of my posts, the changes don't appear.
I'm not sure if anyone else has reported his. If I'm just formatting my posts incorrectly, please tell me.
Edited by TheMightyHeptagonclosed Search function not showing results
I just noticed that while trying to use the site's search bar, it won't turn up results after I hit enter. Not in a "No results" way, but it just won't display them. I tried this with both Firefox and Edge, and neither fixed the problem.
Now, I did try the "Preview our new search" setting and that turned up results just fine. Is the new search function in the process of being implemented right now? If the transition is causing the regular search page no longer turn up results, I can understand that. Still, it's something I thought I should bring attention to.
workingDrop-down menu hard to read in Night Vision
I just realized when making an Ask the Tropers entry that drop-down menus in Night Mode consist of light gray text on a white background, making the text very hard to read.
workingCrowner activity history buggy
The crowner history goes until page 133, from page 134 to 12308 it shows blank.
closedBizarrchitecture cannot link
I'm trying to link Bizarrchitecture in star trek the cage recap, but the trope.does not link, even with pothole.. what gives??
closed Outdated message
The message on non-existent pages ("We don't have an article named...") still refers to YKTTW intstead of TLP.
workingLocked pages aren't showing as locked, in the edit button on History pages.
Locked Pages aren't showing as locked, in the edit button on History pages.
workingLine Breaking in Discussion
My posts in discussion are not line breaking despite using the three backslashes prescribed in Text Formatting. Like so. Is this a bug or is there a different way to format in Discussion?
Edited by DongsGaloreclosed ExistenceFailure is not typed as a redirect. Nevermind, putting it on the cutlist.
Existence Failure is not typed as a redirect, even though it is.
It's typed as a trope...
Nevermind, gonna put it on the cutlist. No wicks and only 3 inbounds.
Edited by MaladyclosedYMMV Tropes on a Character Sheet
How come linking to YMMV pages on Characters.Stretch Armstrong And The Flex Fighters doesn't result in the gas pump appearing? It took me a while to find them as a result.
closedChange CutList's type, into Redirect, instead of Trope.
Change Cut List's type, into Redirect, instead of Trope.
closed Search results
There seems to be a problem with the "search result" toolbar and I'm not seeing any of my results once I've already clicked on enter in the search bar.
closed Search function is fucked.
Using the search bar brings up entirely blank results.
I'm assuming this has something to do with the new search function. But that's completely worthless and makes it impossible to find anything. If you type in "Pokemon" for example, it brings up everything Pokemon related EXCEPT the actual franchise itself.
closed Search doesnt work
Since 6/9 the search doesnt work at all. I type stuff press search, it says there's tons of results but nothing shows up. I have to use google to find the tropes im looking for. FIX IT
working"Main/" has ghost wicks pointing there, when such wicks are impossible to create.
"Main/" has ghost wicks pointing there, when such wicks are impossible to create.
Been clearing some out, by editing the pages, but there's 59 pages left.
Reporting this 'cause this seems worse than usual ghost wicks, since these seem impossible.
Edited by Maladyclosed Search
I’m not sure if this is just my phone or if it’s the website, but on both the mobile version and the desktop version if I try to search something it won’t show the results, even if it says there are results. I have to search it with google while adding ‘tvtropes’ to the search if I want to go to the page.
workingRepair Shop notifiers for pages under such discussion are not showing.
Repair Shop notifiers for pages under such discussion are not showing.
Like, The The Title has no banner-thing saying that there's an active Repair Shop Thread for it.
workingNew Search handles quotes wrong
In the New Search (since the old one is borked), I tried searching "titenic" (quotes included) to make it obvious that I want the deliberately misspelled word (the name of a bootleg video game) exactly rather than approximations (which would return hits for Titanic, not quite what I want)
And instead I got a list of titles with quotes in them. And I checked the first of these hits, the page contains neither the "correct" word nor its misspelling.
Edited by Medinoc
Lines that are commented out on wiki pages are appearing as spaces, noticed first in Captain Marvel (2019).
Edited by rmctagg09