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closed Buttons in crowners aren't visible
The Edit History and Edit buttons in crowner options aren't showing up...the boxes are there but the icons aren't.
Edited by Willbyrclosed Troper Edit History doesn't link to a page's edit history.
If you go to a Contributor page and click the link for a recent edit, it takes you to the page that was edited instead of the page's edit history.
closed Text doesn't show in forum topic search bar
When using the search bar on the all topics page, no text appears when typing.
closed The text shrinker formatting no longer works.
[—— TEXT —-] no longer shrinks the text down.
closed Inconsistency in Thread Watchlist button in forum navigation header
On thread pages, it correctly says "Thread Watchlist".
But on some pages, it says "Watch List" instead, creating confusion with the wiki page watchlist.
closedBeing Given Bottom Page Placement Upon Loading
Occasionally when I load a page, I'll be dumped to the very bottom instead of the top. This is especially annoying in the forums, when you expect to have your view on the most recent post.
Edited by Karxridaclosed More display issues in Night Vision mode
More things that are completely illegible in Night Vision mode (white text on white or very light background):
- Announcement messages posted to the top of forum threads.
- Indexes at the bottom of Darth Wiki pages.
closed Sticked forum posts are white-on-white in night vision
Forum posts that have been sticked to appear at the top of each page in a given thread (such as the one in the TV Tropes version 1.3 thread) shows up as white text against a white background if you're looking at it in Night Vision mode. It looks like it's just missing a new background color tag for the Night Vision version of the sticky text box.
closed Thread headers are WHITE ON WHITE
How in the hell do you do that by accident? I swear, every single thing that got fixed after Night Vision mode was implemented has been un-fixed, and then some.
closed Darth Wiki has pure white indexes on Night Vision mode
The Darth Wiki on Night Vision mode has pure white indexes. It can be fixed by turning it off and on but it becomes pure white after refreshing or going to a different page.
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Edited by SeptimusHeapclosed Search forum titles and search by troper not working
They don't have names (all I see are two search boxes and magnifying glasses) and typed text doesn't show up inside the box. The actual search function works though.
closed No page margins in wide load
There are no page margins on the left and right side in wide load mode and it looks very unintentional.
closed DataVampires while typing?
When typing for long stretches, text randomly stops entering and suddenly pops back up several words later. Is that a site problem or just me?
workingHistory page diff problem
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Film.DontLoseYourHead
There's something weird going on in the edit history for 8th Feb '16 7:46:35 PM axle-k89 that I think might be a sign of a more general problem.
After the edit to line 118 (which is fine, yellow "before" box, green "after" box, shiny new diff highlighting), there's the edit to line 133, where the contributor has added a new line, and instead of just showing it all in green the diff highlighting is acting as if it had the same "before' as line 118.
It looks to me like the syntax highlighter code doesn't reset its variables between iterations, so if a new edit doesn't have a "before" it keeps the "before" from the previous edit.
workingeverything is too big on the mobile site.
There's only room for about ten characters each line, which makes reading a chore to say the least. You have to scroll for miles to reach page bottom, and all the links that were at the bottom of the forum thread pages that were so useful are now gone, so you have to scroll for miles all the way back up to get to them. I haven't seen the site on a desktop yet but so far mobile has been... I have mixed feelings.
closed Next/Previous Page buttons reset Filter By Status
While reading the Bugs forum, I tried using Filter By Status to view only Open reports, but when I clicked on the Next button at the bottom of the page, it went back to showing All reports.
closed No character count
The two numbers at the bottom of each page (one of them is the character count) seem to have disappeared.
closedRecent Edits filters no longer work
The "Recent Edits" page shows the last 100 edits to any page, irrespective of whether or not any of the "filter by page type" or "show large edits only" or, in general, any filters have been applied. Also, is removing the "Show more than the last 100 edits" option on the "Recent Edits" page an oversight or a permanent change?
closed Advertisement
I don't use adblock and yet there are no ads anywhere in the page. Sometimes one appears at the top header, but otherwise they're all empty. The "report advertisement" buttons might be displace too.
The description for the cutlist is the YKTTW description. "You have a trope that you have seen a million times. It just needs a snappy name. Discuss it here! This is also a good place to call for examples."
I happen to be on mobile, so this might possibly be a mobile-only issue, but I can't see how.