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workingavatar gallery is broken, shows up fine in own gallery
whenever i go to someone else's avatar gallery, their avatars show up in a line instead of a grid like it should normally. it makes it harder to scroll and find whatever avatars i want to see
closed Mayumi Tanaka is on the Pokémon Anime Related Page
According to the Pokémon (Anime) Related Page, Mayumi Tanaka has a WikiWord link to outdated Pokémon link, yet the page doesn't exist at all and the Mayumi Tanaka has the new Pokémon: The Series link. It seems to be a bug that needs purging.
openAds showing up in mid-paragraph
I don’t know what’s been causing it, but for months now, ads have been inserting themselves not just between entries but into the body of the text itself, almost always between words and in a seriously awkward location (e.g. between a word and a piece of punctuation, like a comma, that immediately follows it). It has extremely negative effects on readability. This happens most frequently on subpages but is by no means limited to it
I have been reporting it in the advertising and security issues for as long as it’s been occurring, but the issue persists
openRedirection to spam sites noted
I was trying to browse the website earlier. I was looking up the Guide Dang It! trope subpage for The Legend of Zelda video games and I kept getting redirected to spam sites advertising what claimed to be security products (antiviruses and the like) but were probably just vectors for my computer getting hacked.
Edited by koryopenCutlist - redlinks in the cut explanation text shown as bluelinks
Any broken links in the cut list justification are shown as blue, not red links.
This makes it hard to spot typos. As a consequence, cuts may be declined when a replacement page seems to be missing - or the cut may be processed, but Tropers visiting the cut page afterwards won't have a useful link.
May be linked to the issue with cut page name wikilinks also showing in blue and misbehaving, but not quite the same problem.
Edited by Mrph1workingIssue Helper PMs have non-functioning text formatting
I've noticed that if you send someone a PM through Issue Helper (the little "Is there an issue? Send a Message" button that appears beside edits), any text formatting you add to the message will appear as plain text, like it was surrounded by a [= =] markup. This doesn't happen with normal PMs. Sometimes I'll send a new troper links to Administrivia pages through this, and I have to send a follow-up apology/clarification PM after I remember that I basically sent a jumbled mess of text.
Sorry if this has been reported before. I think this is quite an old bug, but I've never remembered to report it before.
workingFolders don't open in previews of forum threads
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but I've been having a consistent issue with putting folders into forum posts and then not having them open if I click the "Preview" button before posting and try to open them in the Preview window. It's something I've seen on both desktop (Firefox) and mobile (Chrome, on a Samsung Galaxy A20).
The folders work fine when I post them — it's when they're in the Preview window that they don't work. Even after double-checking to see if I inserted the coding in right, they won't open.
closed Custom Title approval tool is lacking
Mods would have to elaborate on this, but if true, mods effectively approve display titles for pages as good as blindfolded, instead of having the same information the tropers have when requesting them.
e: Apparently everything is visible, but it has no link to the pages in the tool.
Edited by AmonimusopenCan’t edit unlocked pages on iPad.
When I go to click on some pages to edit them, nothing happens. The weird thing is that this only applies to some pages on the site. Some examples include Team Hand-Stack and the 2014 version of Tom and Jerry. I do have a old iPad but it works well with the site otherwise so I’m not sure what’s going on.
closed Query Search
I think searching in queries (all of them) broke. It shows no results after 2011 and lists multiple empty pages.
closed Weird bug
I posted on the forums. Only for it not to go through.
Even weirder. When I go into a forum thread when the blue link should disappear (indicating you've read it). That doesn't happen.
It's like the entire thing Is frozen.
Like even weirder it won't show that I've posted. I ran my name through forum search. And uh weirdly shows i have posted in the complete monster cleanup thread recently. But those posts aren't viewable
Edited by miraculousclosed What's going on at the forums?
Something very bizarre is happening right now.
First, I tried to reply to a post by Miss Conduct on this thread, only for both of our posts to just vanish from my view despite the thread still being bumped with updates. Now the last comment I see on that thread is from Alicorn Gaia at 3 AM this morning, clearly not the most recent activity...
And my posts on Dumb Blonde's IP thread disappeared too, as well as the responses.
workingBlack screen
Sometimes on desktop, I will load a page, only for the entire body to go black, after all the content had loaded.
this example◊ came up when loading the forums. I don't know what would be causing it, but it's happened more than once, so I thought it would be worth noting.
closed How does auto-disambig show two capitalizations of a single page? [Fixed?]
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Mai/AngelOfDeath
Do you see the two Darth Wiki-s too?
Edited by MaladyopenParser inserts comment markup in percent-encoded URLs
With how the parser detects comments between percent signs i.e.
%things like this%percent encoding in UR Ls is broken, e.g. %C3%A9 in a URL should result in 'é' but instead ends up with the 'C3' in an HTML comment in the resulting link, like this.
workingCan't open folder on mobile
(Because this thead is misplaced and this thread is locked)
The first folder at Lonely Wolf Treat shows no content on Galaxy S8 Chrome. It's fine on Desktop even in mobile view.
workingMissing Character Page
Hi, I've tried to contact moderators and staff and I am not getting a response so I'm going to try to see if it is a bug. All the folders and content on the Character Page for the movie Oppenheimer have completely disappeared with no warning. What is odd is that the edit option and the history are still there, and there is no evidence in the history of anyone deleting the content. What is going on and can we have the page restored? I am sure that there has to be some bug and backup.
I know it is not just my problem because I started a thread on the discussion board on that page and other users are having the exact same issue.
closed Mobile not showing some images.
This is weird. I'm on Google chrome on mobile but it isn't showing me images on some pages and character sheets.
workingvideo lags on replay
When playing a video using the replay button, it will lag at some point for a split second. (The effect on the audio is especially noticeable.)
Example of short videos to see this:
- "Cape comes off" on The Coats Are Off
- "Specium Beam" on Hand Blast (also has some trouble with the replay button working)
Some forum posts made by tropers say they created their accounts in January 2001, even tho the site didn't exist until around 2004, I believe.