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openChanged a single letter, Edit appears "blank"
I made an edit to the National Basketball Association page, fixing a typo of "Neggets" to "Nuggets", which can be seen in the first line of the previous edit to my own. However, my edit in the page history appears to be "blank", despite the change having been made. (The page now correctly displays as "Nuggets" in that spot.)
I tried on one of my Sandbox pages but couldn't duplicate this. However, I still wanted to report it as the page history not accurately showing edits seems like it could be problematic in other cases. Thanks!
closed Notification About Email Address?
Every time I refresh or open a new page, I get a notification that I don't have an email address and need one to use the site. This is bizarre, as: 1) I've had a valid email address for years, 2) I haven't changed my address recently, and 3) I can still edit without any issue.
When I try to enter my current address, I'm told it's already in use. I also cannot send a report to the Admins: when I fill out the forms and verify that I'm not a robot, clicking SEND does nothing. Is anyone else having these issues?
Edited by JadeEyes1closed ATT occasionally glitches
This only happens for a few seconds at a time, but lately there's been a small chance that if I check ATT there will just be nothing; a blank front page with the page buttons. Eventually it comes back if I refresh, but I was wondering if anyone else has this happen
closed circular logic
I try to access the site and it says I need an email to access this site. I have been a member since 2012 and always had the same email. When I fill in the blank with my email address it says it is already in use.
Please contact sylvae23@gmail.com - no way I can read any reply here. Thanks.
closed I got a message telling me I couldn't do anything until I verified my account
So I came onto the site, as usual, and they told me I couldn't do anything until I verified my email address. I did it without thinking and got brought back to the site, but now I'm scared that it might have been some kind of scam, some attempt to get into my email account or something. I made the account all the way back in 2012, so this could very well just be perfectly normal, but I'm nervous as hell that I might lose my google account. Sure, all they have is my email address, but what if that's all they need?
openMedia Finder redirect still a redlink
So in a previous query I requested that Main.Media Finder be redirected to the Media Finder page. That request has now been fulfilled, and I can't thank the admins enough for doing it...but it's still a redlink. If the redlink is left as-is, not many people will know it's a redirect - therefore, I request that it be blueshifted.
(I am convinced this is a bug, hence why I'm reporting this here instead of in the Tech Wishlist.)
open1 Double-quote turning into 2 single-quotes
So, I didn't notice this at first, but someone corrected one of my edits and pointed out what was wrong, and even then it wasn't until I copied and pasted their correction that it became visible.
For some reason, when I am using double quotes during an edit, they are being saved as two single quotes. This isn't visible in the edit screen to me, as the font there has the quotes very close to each other, while in the text box I am currently writing in, I can very clearly see the difference between " and ''
I am using Chrome on Windows and have Grammarly installed. I can't think of anything else that could be relevant to what is happening.
I have just tested both with and without Grammarly turned on, and I do not seem to be able to make this reoccur. I can only confirm that it has happened at least twice previously.
openCan't post on forums
I tried to upload posts on a couple of forums but the drafts just disappeared without it being uploaded after i clicked "upload". I pressed it once and it didn't do anything and pressed it a second time and the draft disappeared.
openOffset for timezones
All timezones seem to be offset by an hour. E.g. When I select Europe/Berlin on my profile, forums posts will show 8 PM instead 9 PM.
openDisplay glitch
I'm having a persistent issue where the "Random Trope" and "Random Media" buttons appear stacked on top of each other when browsing forums and pages, but not on the home page or edit pages, for some reason.
closed Editing broken
The only button I can get to wrk while editing is the “confirm changes” button. The save and preview buttons are not working.
openNotes not working in old forum posts?
Hi, I've noticed several posts on this 2012 thread appear to have notes, but I can't expand them (at least on smartphone).
openQuote marks in redlinks become apostrophes
(This one might already be reported, but we're having trouble digging it up, so...)
Potholing to a nonexistent page with "double quotes" in the display text causes the double quotes to become 'single quotes', 'like this'.
closed Random False Red Links
More false red links to report (these pages are all functional):
- Aladdin: The Series
- The Big Bang Theory
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
- Johnny Bravo
- MA Dtv
- Mike, Lu & Og
- Robot Chicken
closed Image uploader won't let me submit
I tried using the image uploader, but when the loading bar finishes, instead of letting me confirm, a checkmark floats up.
Edit:Nvm, it works now. Pls close this.
Edited by moxedenclosed "You're Using an Ad Blocker" Prompt Appearing When it Shouldn't
My account is one where I should never receive ads when logged in thanks to the Kickstarter from a few years ago and I only see the "You're using an Ad Blocker" prompt when not logged in.
Starting this afternoon, I'm getting the same "You're using an Ad Blocker" prompt on every page despite being logged in and no ads appearing when the blocker is disabled (as expected).
openTLP bugs
- A draft's edit history doesn't have the same timestamp links as the wiki history (and should really be near identical aside the inclusion of different sections). I can link to https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/yk_history.php?id=vqc8c6rnhu4rakg8yph0ocrp#edit644857 , but there's no option in the interface to do that.
- Reportedly, if one to send a Notifier to a TLP edit, the link to the edit doesn't show up properly.
openCorrupt page restoration
- has copied page's false linebreaks and HTML comments, creating an absolute mess
- doesn't show up in the article's edit history without the word filter
Edited by Amonimus
closed Link text has a yellow background in Chrome on Windows
As the title says, for some reason all link text on TV Tropes is displayed on yellow background on my Windows 10 computer when viewed in Chrome. Forum links still look normal, and there is no yellow background either when I view the site in another browser (such as Firefox, or the Android version of Chrome). I didn't encounter such problems on other websites either. The problem began no earlier than a week ago.
Edited by PRH
Hey there
I’ve been known on the site since 2011, but when I edited this post in FG, which included a link to the reveal trailer for Joker in MultiVersus, it blanked my post and replaced it with the "new accounts cannot post external links" message like I was brand new to the site.
What’s especially weird is that the post had displayed normally at first; the post had been up long enough for the troper above me to respond to my question.
Will say that I had recently verified my account, so I’m not sure if it’s a known quirk with that or not.
Edited by kablammin45