Thread:7o'clock/@comment-188432-20200606004644

Hey there :)

In doing review of your JS today, I discovered that certain core functionality of the site was impeded. The main thing was that searches in the top search bar failed to produce a suggested links dropdown, meaning that certain namespaces (like Special) were completely unavailable.

Unfortunately, I can't tell you the cause of this, despite efforts to try to resolve by withholding approval of new scripts, and by returning all live pages to intentionally blanked states. (Obviously your work is still in the page histories, so don't worry about that.)

It is imperative that you figure out what is causing this sometimes intermittent problem. By turning off all local custom pages, you can now focus on your very long list at MediaWiki:ImportJS. That many imports really weren't meant to work together, and our developers at Dev Wiki couldn't have been expected to test them alongside each other.

That means, unfortunately, that you're going to have to do it. Remember, our ToU doesn't allow you to hinder core functionality of the site.

I suggest you figure out what of that stuff you actually need, and get rid of what you don't. Then check again to see if you can reliably access Special pages through the search bar. If you can't, then you should remove one script at a time and check until normal search functionality has been restored.

Only when that's done should you start adding new local scripts again.

I want to stress again that this problem is intermittent, so success won't be defined by trying, getting a search drop down, and then thinking you've solved things. Compare with a less JS-ed up wiki, like w:c:starwars and make sure you're reliably getting smooth operation of the search bar again.

Oh — one last clue for you. Safari seems most affected by this problem, though I've also been able to repro in Firefox and Chrome.

I know this is a bit of a pain, but thanks for going through it! 