yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[About XDA developers] Therev86:
Ok, i'm not a newbie to these forums, i had an established profile from early 2011 with hundreds of posts in the the HP touchpad, Xperia Play, HTC HD2, Desire Z, Desire, Galaxy S2 and Galaxy n7000 forums on here and a few weeks ago after a weeks absence on the forums i attempted to login and was told my password was wrong! i thought that was a bit odd so i went through the usual process of recovering my password and was told my email address was invalid (i only have one) so i emailed the forum support with details of the problem and they had no record of my account ever existing! I was able to setup a username using the exact same username i had before but now i have to start all over again and have to make 10 posts before i can even get back into the development threads!

Has this EVER happened to anyone else? i still have my activation email from way back in around February 2011 when i first created my account, somewhat bizarrely the same thing has happened with my Twitter account, it's completely vanished with no record of it ever existing yet i have emails documenting my activity on the site

I'm either going mad, or i'm slowly disappearing from the internet, i've worked in the IT industry for the last 11 years and have never seen anything like this.
[About XDA developers] timmymarsh:
Hi there,

Odd indeed, perhaps someone is playing a prank on you (it isnt that hard to work around passwords ;) ) as ive had my twitter & Live account hacked recently :mad:

I've passed this on to admin for you, who will probably make contact when he's got a free minute :)

CHeers.
[About XDA developers] Therev86:
That's brilliant, thanks for the help :)
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
I have sent you a PM with some questions.

Mike

Forum Admin
[About XDA developers] Ankru:
Nice thanks, that was really quick. My old one wasn't really up to date.
[About XDA developers] Clark Joseph Kent:
Thread Cleaned, of the OT. And thenookieforlife3, the answer is negative.
[About XDA developers] Master Cylinder:
Get Rid of Side "XDA Portal Posts" etc...

Hello!

How can I get rid of all of those things that are on the right 1/4 of the screen on this site, to include "XDA PORTAL POSTS" etc ...? I don't want all of that! It makes it more difficult to see and find what I'm looking for - to me it's just squeezing the useful space. I guess I'm talking about "Portal View" or something. If I just want to look at the forums and threads, etc ..., how do I do that? To fill the screen? This seems to come and go in the past. I searched and dug, but I guess I'm just not smart enough to figure this one out on my own.

Thank you:good:
[About XDA developers] Sunandroid:
There is probably no such function but: Download Adblock and mark it as ad and pick the right settings. Should be gone then. ;)
[About XDA developers] mdfzhi:
my request: disable ability to quote first post of threads. usually first post is long and some is just wall-of-texts. some considerate op sometime use spoiler tag, but some just doesn't. then along came idiots who think it a good idea to quote the whole feakin first post, even quoted in first page!
[About XDA developers] _that:
I think that's the wrong solution for this problem. I propose as alternative that as soon as a reply is bigger than X characters, the amount of quoted text must not exceed Y%.
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
You know I would be behind this in the development forums. There is no need to quote the whole first post of a rom/Kernel thread.
[About XDA developers] mdfzhi:
Yes, especially for thread in dev subforum ie devdb threads. Those usually are wall-of-texts threads. Maybe add option in devdb setting to disable/enable quote for early first, second, third and so on posts where op deems unnecessary for quoting?
[About XDA developers] :
[MENTION=5744495]Sunandroid[/MENTION]'s answer does not apply to the sidebar; instead, it applies to ads. You are talking about the XDA sidebar, not ads.

If you're currently using the XDA 2015 theme, you can't disable that sidebar. What you can do, though, is scroll to the bottom-left corner of the page you're on, and click on the theme picker. Choose "XDA 2013 Beta 1024" from the dropdown menu, and enjoy the full screen without the sidebar.

:good:
[About XDA developers] Sunandroid:
For sure it does. You can specify the Add-definition in Addblock (for each side). So you kinda missuse the adblocker. But just tried it out: it works perfectly. Do i have to upload screenshots? You just define the object on the web-page as add.
[About XDA developers] Master Cylinder:
Happy Days!!!! Thanks a million!!:victory:

I knew there was a way but it sure is hidden.

PS - I have adblock but no need here - it's done!
[About XDA developers] Ohmster:
Admin needed for OMAP4 Q&A Thread

'scuse me guys, I was kindly referred here by RC Member, Darth,

I am a member in the developer [ROM][4.4.4][CDMA/GSM] Official CM11 (M12 Snapshot Final) thread and XDA created a child thread for new members to post questions as a Q&A sub thread with no post count required for new questions. This is the new thread created:

[Q&A] [ROM][4.4.4][CDMA/GSM] Official CM11 (M10 Snapshot Available 9/18/14)

Notice the difference in the thread title. There is no real admin for the Q&A thread. I cannot request that the "admin" update the thread title because the admin is a "Guest QA Bot". Currently Senior Member ktimque is the Admin on the developer parent thread. When I asked him to update the title of the child Q&A thread, his reply was:

"I don't have access to change it, I think it's stuck as is."

Can somebody help me get a real person Admin to take the OMAP4 Q&A thread, please? Thank you very much.
[About XDA developers] Siberian Tiger:
That is because the rom got updated recently and the Q&A thread was created before that update.

You can just report one post in the Q&A thread and request to change the title giving the link to the original thread ?
[About XDA developers] Ohmster:
Thank you, Tiger. I already did post a title update request in the Q&A thread here, before I realized that the thread was "Moderated" by a non-responsive bot. Of course I did not give a link to the thread because I was already there. I can return and edit my post to include the URL to the thread itself, if you think that will help. I will do it now. Not sure I understand it but if it will be picked up by a moderator elsewhere, then I get it. I will go post a direct link to the thread now. Monitoring this thread for replies.

...done. See if anything happens. :confused:
[About XDA developers] kinfauns:
Moderators are generally not monitoring every single post, so the odds of one of us spotting a posted request in your thread are not very good. It's a much better idea to use the "Report Post" button (the triangle icon with the exclamation point inside of it) available at the top of every post (bottom left for the 2015 theme). Moderators assigned to the forum will be notified of the request and take care of it.

The title has been modified as you requested. :good:
[About XDA developers] Ohmster:
WOW, thank you very much. :D

Yeah, not very good. I did see the report button but was afraid to try it. I thought it would immediately flag the post as inappropriate and of course, didn't want to do that. Now I tested it and see how it works. Nice to know. And, I got my thread name changed. You guys rock. Thank you and good night. :victory:
[About XDA developers] TRusselo:
just realized in the new site theme (2015) light and dark, at the top of a thread there is no "News worthy thread" link to recommend for portal post. I had to switch back to the 2013 theme to do it, then switch it back.
[About XDA developers] :
Just tried to mark the About XDA forum as "read" and received this message:

Help?

EDIT 11/30/14 - Still getting the error message. :confused:
[About XDA developers] efrant:
Yes, it was removed in the 2015 theme. The news team is now trying to encourage users to send tips using the Tip Submission system instead: http://www.xda-developers.com/suggest-content/
[About XDA developers] efrant:
Have you tried: a) signing out and signing back in, and b) clearing your brower's cache?
[About XDA developers] taomorpheus:
Hi! I have read that only admin can hide a poll.

Is it possible to delete an old poll on my thread? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1581371

Thank you so much!
[About XDA developers] Toledo_JAB:
Your request has been forwarded.

You can use the report button for such requests.

Also a PM to your local moderators will get the job done :good:
[About XDA developers] Toledo_JAB:
I often get this error when I leave a page open overnight and forget to refresh before using.

I just figured it was due to being on a page that requires me to login

Also check that your PC time is correct?
[About XDA developers] :
[MENTION=1566190]efrant[/MENTION] and [MENTION=3506348]Toledo_JAB[/MENTION], the problem is fixed - thank you both.

I don't know how I fixed it, because I did try signing out and back in several times like [MENTION=1566190]efrant[/MENTION] said, and my clock time was exactly right, but for a few days, that specific function just didn't work.

Now it does, though - thanks again! :)
[About XDA developers] taomorpheus:
I didn't know, thank you so much!
[About XDA developers] Minacious:
I was unaware that I started an account here back in 2008. Now that I have decided to become an active member, If possible, I'd like to get my display name changed to Minacious. This is the name that I use everywhere else.

Thank You
[About XDA developers] edan1979:
i had a request. can we just limit the Sig size... some of the user here at xda use a big size picture in siggy. sometime half of the screen we can see only a sig. with 1 post. since some recognize contributers/helpers/mods/themers are using siggy as a place to link their work... the hide siggy function kind of unhelpful. we should start limiting the siggy size.
[About XDA developers] methuselah:
Please clean this thread

well i am not with the phone once again. And i see this crap talk in development thread... Personal Talks

http://xdaforums.com/moto-g/development/rom-cyanogenmod-12-t2942491/page113
[About XDA developers] Toledo_JAB:
If you think that a signature is to large then please use the report button or a PM and notify the moderators.

We will review the users signature.

Also I was thinking that the 2015 theme applied scroll bars fir large sigs. Iirc :)

EDIT: The scroll bar idea is still in the works, sorry.
[About XDA developers] _that:
I personally think that all signatures > 4 text lines are too large. Pointless to report all signatures, so I turned off display of signatures. Increases signal to noise ratio tremendously.
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
Dont feel bad. Alot of people, myself encluded do the same thing.
[About XDA developers] meissen:
Mods / admins / powers that be,

Can we have the Unified Development forum removed as a redirect from the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5 section? It's confusing XDA veterans and newbies alike when they see threads about CM and other roms located in a subforum beneath the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 5 section. Due to AT&T's bootloader being locked, we cannot partake in any of the ROMs located under the Unified Development section. There's already been people posting that they bought the AT&T Galaxy S5 because they saw the Unified Development section and thought they could flash some of their long-time favorite ROMs only to later find out the bootloader is locked and that we can't.
[About XDA developers] svetius:
Perhaps we could put a warning in the forum description? Which Galaxy S 5's can have the bootloader unlocked?
[About XDA developers] AndroPlus:
Hello,

I have a problem with inserting link with non-alphabet domain (Internationalized Domain Name).

For example, when I insert the link

http ://ftf.あんどろいどのこと.みんな/

(Punycode: http ://ftf.xn--l8je9byecb9a3syb.xn--q9jyb4c/)

and submit a post, the link is converted to

http ://ftf.ã‚ã‚“ã©ã‚ã„ã©ã®ã“ã¨.ã¿ã‚“ãª/

If I insert punycoded link it shows correct link,

but it's troublesome and there will be more Internationalized Domain Name in future.

Please support Internationalized Domain Name.
[About XDA developers] methuselah:
I am not with the laptop so can't report . any moderator can please clean this thread or lock it. Unnecessary replies. I don't understand why so much fuss when you know the real thing and a buddy here just quoted whole country people. .....

And I am editing this to say sorry to shut some nonsense people who are showing disgrace to my country. .... I didn't said anything wrong apart from facts.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2959524
[About XDA developers] :
Your report has been forwarded, thanks.

Regards,

Nookie
[About XDA developers] methuselah:
Please delete all those nonsense that I wrote in that thread. What I say is I deeply humiliated what I said there but it is not me who started it. I respect everybody. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2959524
[About XDA developers] Moscow Desire:
Well, let me clear some things up.....

1) Phones and Android could care less what country. Phones and XDA are not racist, nor will we tolerate it! Period!

2) XDA is a site to "LEARN". And yes, not everybody who comes here is a top notch developer. Some "new" people want to learn, and XDA will help them.

Or maybe I should pull up some "noob" posts that "some" people made when they first joined? :eek:

Oh, By the way, we have profanity rules here...... I'd highly suggest not continuing in such manner, and treat other users with a touch more respect.

Cheers!

MD
[About XDA developers] Sk.D:
Hey, yes I know xda is a place to learn and I fully admit it because I learned a lot of things from here. I responded so harshly because there we such post about some country which were really insulting. At that time no mods cleared up the mess(I don't know the reason why) , and just as I posted my post was deleted. Most of them starts as a noob even I was and still consider myself but have love for Androids and xda that taught me so many things. I never wanted to insult anyone but when someone says this ' country is poor' or a post like because' he is that countrymen' or 'your population is not even half of that country' , such kind of post shows so much hatred towards that country or that people. I also belong to one of that country. I didn't pointed someone directly but said it indirectly and since post was already reported was waiting for answers. Thanks for pointing my mistake but please delete post at that instant those are insulting to some people, community or a country.

Regards Sk.D
[About XDA developers] GermainZ:
If a post breaks the rule, that doesn't make it right for you to reply in a manner that breaks the rules as well. Report it and move on instead of adding to the noise. Cheers. :)

Our greatest secret is revealed -- we're only human and aren't active 24/7! D:
[About XDA developers] south956:
Please any MODS clean this thread, its a development thread and is becoming Q&A with no relevant feedback

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2783192

For your own custom Sig : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1922304
[About XDA developers] Hannah Stern:
Robots.txt on XDA-Portal

I'm so thankful finding this thread to ask this. :)

why does the Robots.txt of XDA-Developers (not the Forums)

completely disallow

the Wayback Archives?

http://www.xda-developers.com/robots.txt

not this: forums.xda-developers.com/robots.txt
[About XDA developers] Visca Barca:
Hey guys!

Im having issues importing my account to iphone-developers.com and i found this thread that sent me here. Can you guys help me? :)

Edit: I get this error when trying to import my account

Warning: file_get_contents(http://xdaforums.com/bridge/?u=VmlzY2EgQmFyY2E=&p=84d961568a65073a3bcf0eb216b2a576) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in [path]/login.php on line 77
[About XDA developers] eagleeyetom:
Hmm, seems like an issue that [MENTION=450224]bitpushr[/MENTION] can look into :)
[About XDA developers] Benholder90:
Dont know if this is right place, i am currently using my google account to sign into xda forums but i would like to have a actual xda account. Can i make the same account ibe been using into a xda one or do i have to create a new account with xda?
[About XDA developers] Visca Barca:
Seems like [MENTION=450224]bitpushr[/MENTION] has disappeared from the cyber world, anybody else that can look into this?
[About XDA developers] pahlbrandt:
Post flagged by system

Greetings, and happy new year.

I am trying to make a new thread in the HP Touchpad Q&A subforum and it is getting flagged. I have searched Google for a day and XDA/Android central for a few hours regarding my issue. Is there any way you can allow me to post my questions? it will be titled "Help with Mouse+Keyboard Issue, CM11 4.4.2, cant use both at same time"

Many Thanks,

Paul
[About XDA developers] bayank:
Just want to say thanks fro the great community here!
[About XDA developers] :
[MENTION=2659076]pahlbrandt[/MENTION], instead of making a whole new thread, try making a post in this general help thread where there are a number of knowledgeable helpers ready to assist you.
[About XDA developers] pahlbrandt:
Will do, Thank you.

Edit: Tried to Copy/Paste what I was going to post in a new thread and I get the same error ,its blocked in the general questions thread as well even as a reply post.

Edit 2: found out my post is too long, Cut it in half and split into two separate posts.
[About XDA developers] :
Can you please screenshot the error and post it for me to review?

EDIT - Nevermind, looks like you got it posted successfully.
[About XDA developers] pahlbrandt:
See attached for reference. I had to cut my post in half to get it to work. Thanks again.
[About XDA developers] :
You're welcome.

I would look and make sure you don't have any special characters in your post - sometimes XDA treats that badly.

Other than that, I'd have to recommend you to the pros: [MENTION=2235607]svetius[/MENTION], [MENTION=450224]bitpushr[/MENTION], [MENTION=278202]the_scotsman[/MENTION].
[About XDA developers] jcfunk:
Hello,

I have an issue of not being able to login from my home network. The login is rejected from home ip, if I use my mobile internet I can login fine. This just started 2 days ago.
[About XDA developers] vanessaem:
Have you tried resetting your router?
[About XDA developers] jcfunk:
Yes, I've traced problem to my router. Bypass router everything works. I'm using dd-wrt I'm going to reflash router. Hope that fixes it.
[About XDA developers] Hannah Stern:
Please don't blame me posting this.

Hello, everyone.

Please don't blame me. But...

I made a Guide http://xdaforums.com/general/off-topic/guide-how-to-make-phone-waterproof-case-t2998771

I'm VERY Sorry for posting it in the Q&A's. So i am asking to move it into the General Forums.

(→Forums→General discussion→General)

—————————————————————————————————————​

And also this: Thread-ID 2996137 is closed because a Moderator thought, that i want to

interfering

into some professional work.

But that's not true, so i send this message:

I'd like this thread to be opened - TEMPORAIRLY just to post this:

As soon as i posted this, the thread can be reclosed again.;)

Thank you. Please don't misunderstand me.
[About XDA developers] :
[MENTION=6011384]Hannah Stern[/MENTION], the entire content of your post ^ could have, can and should be condensed and put into a post report, which is usable by clicking the circled icon shown in the screenshot below:
[About XDA developers] :
Bug report - Edit Post broken?

[MENTION=2235607]svetius[/MENTION]

It appears that the Edit Post feature is broken. When I click on it on any of my posts, make a change, and click "Save", the text box just instantly reverts itself back to the old text and does not exit from the text edit UI. I am able to exit the text edit UI by clicking "Save" when the text is unedited, but it never allows me to change anything.

This has been occurring for the past ~half hour in the About XDA and Q&A forums (maybe more).
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
[MENTION=450224]bitpushr[/MENTION]
[About XDA developers] xtal191:
Hey I'm trying to get in to iphone-developers using the import xda account but keeps failing and asking me to enter id and passwrod again

Any help please?
[About XDA developers] milski65:
Hey all. Question. I'm having consistent connection problems to favorites when I try to open. No other sites I have issues with. Security warning. Anything I can do to fix it.
[About XDA developers] :
Bug report

[MENTION=2235607]svetius[/MENTION] [MENTION=450224]bitpushr[/MENTION] [MENTION=278202]the_scotsman[/MENTION]

It could just be me and my connection, but all of the images uploaded by users but hosted by XDA (Signature Pictures, Profile Pictures, Avatars [when in profile], Social Group icons) are either not appearing or appearing as black-outlined boxes with the image's caption inside.

:confused:
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Yep, we're currently doing some upgrades/maintenance on our servers, which means some of the avatars, attachments etc will be intermittent for a while. They'll be working again soon :)
[About XDA developers] bitpushr:
Yes as [MENTION=278202]the_scotsman[/MENTION] said, I was doing some server maintenance and had to take those offline for a bit. For most people the CDN cached them. It should be back in working order now, we may have a brief period again when this is happening tonight (EST).
[About XDA developers] jandoria:
do we have a paid account for this ?
[About XDA developers] :
Paid account for.....? ?
[About XDA developers] :
OT

Woah, you're a mod? Congratulations, sir! :)

/OT

(Please feel free to remove this post.)
[About XDA developers] riahc3:
There needs to be a "What device do I get" section:

A thread dedicated to this has its problems.

First off, its huge. You cant look at someone that maybe has the same requirements as you and see what other people said about it. A typical example is a lot of people that want to switch to a Nexus phone. It would be easier to search for that in that section, see what people say and then not have to make the same thing again

Second, way too many posts. Similar to one but if the thread is on page 1000 and some posts a thread saying "What phone do I get?" later another 10 people post the same thing and we are on page 1001. Everything on page 1000 gets lost because noone looks thru them. You would have to double post.

A dedicated section where people can post threads on what device they are look for wouldnt clutter the forums and would let everyone express what they are looking for.

The XDA forums are getting WAY WAY too cluttered:

Back when XDA started out, it was pretty big but more or less guidable. Now.....its just a joke.

Looking for someone is basically impossible in the all section. My personal improvement would be something like the Steam forums.

They have thousands of games but they are put into a "grid like" view. Apply the same thing here and you can even add a + icon next to each device and it would expand the usual General, Q&A, Dev, etc.

Its just getting too much bloat and it takes a hit on page loading (and I imagine the servers/database as well)