yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[About XDA developers] Eleo:
So twice as many work for XDA staff to firstly search whether the written device is available (like samsung note 6) and also possible to have a local device manufacturer that may not be available to other countries (and may be interpret as "not a device") and so on... it starts many problems before it closes. I dont understand why you want to add a device not listed in XDA instead of making it available in XDA devices list?
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
Adding it to XDA's list would be even better but I doubt they would do that for devices that don't specifically have development here.

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No, profiles are viewed by members all the time, the visiting members can be the ones reporting when they see it, it doesn't require staff to specifically search them out.
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
It wouldn't tax the staff at current capacity, but the idea itself seems to serve little purpose.
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
True, it just seems counter-intuitive to even have the "my devices" list in our profiles when we can't actually list the devices we have. I'm just an all or none kind of thinker.
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
To be honest I've never even looked at that or knew it was there, so yeah for me I'd say the option itself is pointless, especially when lots of users just put their devices in their sig.
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
Putting them in sig works, but still.

It isn't important, just one of those things that irks me.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
XDA admins informed us it should be fixed now. I've tested myself and I can confirm it's OK on my end. Please let us now if it occurs again. :)
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
Can I get a name change to bacon man?
[About XDA developers] Eleo:
I think you just need to PM [MENTION=335322]MikeChannon[/MENTION] about that.
[About XDA developers] NotATreoFan:
He can also post here. There's a few of us who can change names. It's mentioned in the first post as well.
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
Hell yeah, thanks my dude.
[About XDA developers] jagdtigger:
If you want me to disable adblocker reduce the number of ads and the size of them. 9 is nuts on one page, especially since all of them are big....
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
That isn't happening, running the website isn't free. If you don't want the ads but you still want the website to run then get every member here to donate some money when they visit or pay for the XDA ad free option. Otherwise, the ads are a necessary evil.
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
That completely depends. There was a time xda was completely ad free and ran just fine. But ownership changes and greed got the better of people.
[About XDA developers] methuselah:
This was hard truth
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
That's complete BS, you of all people should know that and how unfair and ignorant that statement is.

If there's an issue with ads please post in the ads thread, the Admin can take a look at making things less obtrusive so you have a good browsing experience.
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
Not really. But I bet you assumed I meant the greed was on xda part. Which I didn't.
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
Um OK.. Hard to imagine what else you could have meant.

At least you now admit neither XDA nor it's owners are "greedy" and that the insane amount of traffic and bandwidth this site uses is not easy to handle.

Let's just say I took your meaning wrong and move on.

Again if you guys have any intrusive ads please post in that thread, with any pics etc so it can be handled by the admin team.

Time 4 Bacon time.
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
The cost for memory has gone down over the years yet server space all seems to get more expensive.

As for ads well you know where I stand on ads. They are all intrusive to me lol. Heck thats why one of the most popular apps on XDA is an ad blocker lol.
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
That's fine, and that's why we have Ad Free XDA so you can support the site AND get no ads.

But for those who don't have the desire or means for that but want to support XDA can have ads display but notify us which ones are too obtrusive.

I don't like ads either, and I pay a premium cost for sites that I really like and want to support. But there is no greed here by anyone at XDA, all if the internal discussion is about how to make a better experience for the end user.
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
Yeah I think we will leave this here. Maybe one day ads will be a thing of the past.
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
I'm down for that.

You get any ideas on keeping up server costs etc without either ads or premium membership / in site purchase I'm all ears.
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
I was just saying that either members deal with the ads, donate to the site, pay for ad free or leave it alone, enough said. Didn't think there would be this much discussion on the subject.
[About XDA developers] Neo:
You know how we roll dude [emoji14]
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
A suggestion

I posted the issue below in a general help thread. I think a possible suggestion is to add an instruction that the user needs to be explicitly selected, or simply default to the user (or all users?) selected, with text explicitly telling the user that people have to be deselected. Or maybe showing the selection check-boxes next to the icon/names instead of within the avatar (it was hidden to me)

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[About XDA developers] jagdtigger:
The one occupying the top third of the screen and the ones between post(this one is not only obtrusive but straight up discusting). Plus you should reduce the number of scripts because its a cluster****:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9lm1mhbbvaunocp/script.png?dl=0
[About XDA developers] Eleo:
Please post here.

Thanks
[About XDA developers] kiwigi:
lost posts

Hello Admin

I have posted a couple of questions/replies yesterday the 2nd of Jan 18 and cannot find it any longer.

Here are the links emailed to me by XDA regarding replies to my post

https://xdaforums.com/apps/magisk/beta-magisk-v13-0-0980cb6-t3618589/post75049201

https://xdaforums.com/apps/magisk/beta-magisk-v13-0-0980cb6-t3618589/post75049315

I have searched the items and have taken a screenshot and inserted below.

Have those posts been deleted? Thanks
[About XDA developers] xanthrax:
Most probably has been deleted, check out the announcement from the first post View attachment 4378053
[About XDA developers] osm0sis:
Issues in the DevDB FAQ/Feedback thread aren't getting addressed anymore, so I'm posting here for the Admins as I believe this is an important site bug.

All DevDB Downloads pages break when the "Mods & Devs Only" special setting to disable ads on xda is set on the User Profile > Edit Your Details page.

Note this doesn't happen all the time, but it's regularly recurring, so it may be contingent on what ad was supposed to be displayed.
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
I'll flag this to [MENTION=450224]bitpushr[/MENTION] the server admin.
[About XDA developers] linckandrea:
Hello everyone,

someone can delete or close this thread (i created by mistake)

thank you in advance
[About XDA developers] Neo:
Done.
[About XDA developers] Stoeff.at:
Hey guys, hope this is the correct section to post this.

I currently switched to a Honor 9 and realised it takes screenshots in .png

The size limitation for attached .png files is very limited on XDA. Do you see a change to level it with other picture file formats?
[About XDA developers] Zekamashi:
Could I get permissions to post a new topic in Miscellaneous Android Development please? I made a TWRP recovery for the Life Wireless X325 Obamaphone and I want to give it its own thread so it's easier to find. I can't post new topics because I only have 1 post and I don't want to spam the place up. Thanks.
[About XDA developers] Eleo:
You can join other threads and write helpful posts rather than spam. That is how you are expected to fill the necessary post count rather than spamming.

Good luck
[About XDA developers] Zekamashi:
I don't think I'll be of much help. This is all brand new to me and it took many hours and a few headaches just to make and flash a recovery rom which would probably be trivial to real developers. I didn't even really 'make' anything, yuweng and out386 did all the work. I merely found the right combination of tools and guides to use through trial and error and at least a million gotchas that seem specific to this device (adb android interface is the wrong driver and the one you want is the mtk composite adb interface driver, adb boot doesn't work and you have to flash instead, the device doesn't obey ro.secure=0 and you need to use adbd insecure to run adb as root, only the adb.exe that comes with the universal adb devices will restart as root and every other version will just fail silently...)

Point is, I'm not a real developer. I just wanted to share the finished product and potentially save someone else a headache or two.
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Done. You should now be able to create a new thread in there :good:
[About XDA developers] Eleo:
But, if there is a law and it is possible to overcome the law by adding extra posts to the user's account, then why do we see so much spam posts on threads like "thanks" "good" "very helpful" "perfect" and etc by users who post a game or similar after reaching 10 "such" posts.

If there is such a cause, then why not to add an option "if you join XDA to open a new thread, then tell it, so that we can add 10 posts to your account so that you can overcome our own rule of writing 10 posts"... Am I the only one finding it weird? I thought the rule was there so that users would start experiencing forum (even though "I" think rules should be provided at first sign up, but it is not my forum and I should not be the one to judge it) and after being on forum to post 10 "useful" posts, they could open a new thread...

Maybe this is also a new rule on XDA. I have seen that some new additions/changes were were provided to previously presented rules (e.g. XDA Sharing rules)...

Can somebody enlighten me please?

Thanks in advance:o
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
I would hazard a guess that the original code was written to block automated spam machines.
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
This is a throw back to the old days where we had a restriction in place where we required members to have 10 posts before they could post a reply in a development forum. This caused people to post random stuff everywhere. But that restriction was lifted back in January 2016. Anyone can post a reply in a development thread.

The only post restriction in place now that [MENTION=8868023]Zekamashi[/MENTION] was asking about is that you need 50 posts to be able to CREATE a new thread in a development forum. The admins will waive that restriction on an account at their discretion, if the member has a valid reason. Generally if someone says they have a development thread to post, they are being genuine. It's not because they want to post spam.

You are correct. The old 10 post rule was put in place to prevent spam, and to prevent people from asking the same repeated questions over and over in development threads.
[About XDA developers] Cuvillier:
Hello all, does XDA theme style will be updated?
[About XDA developers] Neo:
It is not, actually. Please send me a descriptive PM with the situation and it will be addressed.
[About XDA developers] Wolfcity:
I think that post doesn't belong here and it's against a lot of rules: https://xdaforums.com/android/software/pa-gapps-continuation-t3098071/post75395439
[About XDA developers] xanthrax:
Has been already reported and cleaned, please use the report button, would be easier for us this way to deal with rules violation, thank you.
[About XDA developers] methuselah:
Right now I am not with my computer, someone please taken care of this "senior member", using bad language !....
[About XDA developers] SacredDeviL666:
a little bit more specific, such as thread or username also you can try to report from xda labs/legacy app using webview option.
[About XDA developers] methuselah:
https://xdaforums.com/mi-a1/development/recovery-twrp-3-1-1-0-touch-recovery-t3688472/page87

Sorry I forget to add the link.. The last post
[About XDA developers] SacredDeviL666:
All good with the last post and last two page of that thread so not sure which one you are referring to. Use the above mentioned method to report if I have missed to see what you are pointing.
[About XDA developers] xunholyx:
I looked at the last 5pgs and didn't see anything. (I'm a curious fella)
[About XDA developers] :
I believe the offending post has already been removed. :good:
[About XDA developers] SacredDeviL666:
Curious :p

Another MOD cleaned it, just saw :good:

[MENTION=4231759]methuselah[/MENTION] use webiew option next time for reporting :highfive:

EDIT:- Ninja'd by MC Lead.
[About XDA developers] methuselah:
[MENTION=1205214]SacredDeviL666[/MENTION] [MENTION=5302753]The Merovingian[/MENTION] [MENTION=4987085]xunholyx[/MENTION] its already been removed. Well, whenever I see bad language being used by any user, then I step in here whenever it is not possible for me to log in or report normal way.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Why wouldn't it be possible for you to report the normal way? You can use any web browser even on mobile device when you want to report posts. For instance, if you use XDA Labs, check this post: https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/labs-t3241866/post74071503
[About XDA developers] joppy:
I've just got the Huawei Mate 10 Pro. I tried to add the phone to "my devices" on the web forum but I can't as only Mate 10 shows up. The BLA-L29 is the Mate 10 Pro. As there seems to be some differences between those devices I think the Mate 10 Pro should also be in the menu list. That would make it easier for Mate 10 Pro users to follow threads specifically for the Mate 10 Pro.

Btw the xda android app gets the device name correct and show BLA-L29. But I can not add that as "my device" in the app either.

So seems that one of the moderators or admins would need to add the BLA-L29 as separate entity in the list of mobile devices. There are some things that works for Mate 10 that will not work for Mate 10 Pro and vise versa. Reading a whole thread several pages deep before discovering on the very last post it will not work for the BLA-L29 Mate 10 Pro seems like a vaste of time and energy.

Hopefully clear distinguising between Huawei Mate 10 ALP-L29/L09 and the Mate 10 PRO BLA-L29 will increase the forum activity for each of those two devices as well as it will make for easier navigation and a better forum user experience.

If there ain't no significant differences between them and all apps etc for Mate 10 will also work on Mate 10 Pro pls let me know.

Btw I've already posted this in another thread, feel free to delete that entry as I was pointed to this thread rather then where I posted it originally. The thread in the link below can be deleted.

https://xdaforums.com/general/about...evice-menu-t3744575/post75438715#post75438715
[About XDA developers] htc 600:
Hi.

I'm from Russia and I do not know much English. Can you please tell me where to read the forum rules?
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Hi,

there's a link down at the very bottom of the page to the forum rules.

Or you can just click here: https://xdaforums.com/announcement.php?a=81 :)
[About XDA developers] htc 600:
Thank.

I became acquainted with pleasure. One more question: where can I read about the restrictions for new users? Which files can be uploaded to the forum and so on.
[About XDA developers] osm0sis:
I'd like to request the maximum zip, tar and img attachment sizes for RCs and RDs be raised from 20mb to 40mb. Thanks for your consideration. :)

Edit: This might belong in the recommendations thread instead? I'll add it to my post there as well, though things don't seem to be getting addressed there..
[About XDA developers] SacredDeviL666:
It does get addressed there as well for sure :good:...

sometimes there is a slight delay or accidentally slips through the keyhole...blame the Keymaker or the Matrix itself.... :eek:

[MENTION=278202]the_scotsman[/MENTION] already picked up your convo there
[About XDA developers] methuselah:
All moderators please look at this thread.

User Screwing Phones

Well, the OP clearly states that moderator that this is a Testing thread and please flash at their own risk. But, the user got no idea about what he is doing. There few posts that states he ruined devices from people. Even a Senior Members and an RD talked about what he is doing wrong by posting blind builds even when he doesn't possess the device himself. But keeping fellow newbie unknown users safe is also the needed. This thread needed to be locked. Senior Mods needed to have a look at this thread. Just shared in case, something could be done else people will blindly ruin their devices and hard bricks are not far.
[About XDA developers] :
I have been actively monitoring this thread. I definitely feel your concern but every thing a member or user flashes on xda, is done so at their own risk. We do allow blind builds on xda as well, as long as the OP states the dangers clearly, which this thread does. Unfortunately, as I'm sure you know, not every user takes the time to read carefully first.
[About XDA developers] methuselah:
Oh I don't know that. Then let it be. Who knows this user will do come up with something somehow
[About XDA developers] :
That has been my hope all along. The member has a good history and really does appear to be trying. After all, this is the spirit of xda. :)
[About XDA developers] methuselah:
Yeah that's what xda but user Need to own a device. Let's hope for best
[About XDA developers] Eleo:
This post can be removed if hurts anybody. It only contained my thought.

No need to continue this topic. I didnt think it would take such negative attention.

Bye
[About XDA developers] SacredDeviL666:
^^^^

already responded/answered by [MENTION=5302753]The Merovingian[/MENTION]
[About XDA developers] Bajanman:
Thank you! :good:
[About XDA developers] methuselah:
Post Moderated

i don't know why but still i don't find this decision by vatsal appropriate what he did with my post. Its maybe be just me who is not finding it well deserved judgement. If any senior moderator can see the edited post(as i don't have a screenshot of the original post ). What I said was that other users are just sync warriors and real developers are like senior mod chainfire, dhacker, faux. Other people just sync ROMs and just contribute. Most of the opensource is run by few developers other just cherry pick stuff and never bother to help anyone and sometimes don;t even give credits. Is that not respect? I think that hurt some people who just posting other's work in the forum.
[About XDA developers] xunholyx:
That was totally out of line. There are a lot of other devs who do original stuff. IMO, you don't know what you are talking about at all

Never heard of Magisk, Xposed, Tasker, Adaway, Viper4Android etc....?
[About XDA developers] methuselah:
if you go with the line. Most of people are sync warriors. People who contribute are rare. You still don't get it what i mean.. The users who just set sync repo and do builds. I am with xda from so many years. Things are like that lately. There are so many developers who had issues with other people posting their work without their approval. its because xda has robust mods that those people are dealt with in timely manner.

edit: You are not getting what i am saying. My post was for people who just steal others work. They themselves call developers. See the broad picture buddy.
[About XDA developers] xunholyx:
It's hard to see the "broad picture" for me since the post has been deleted. But from what you posted here, your statement is untrue. Especially since it seems to relate to XDA as a whole. Sure there are those that do that, but there is still a lot of original content here, so you were out of line with your statement in my opinion. Also, your post probably (can't say for sure since I can't see deleted stuff) from what I see, violates forum rule 2.3
[About XDA developers] SacredDeviL666:
May i suggest you to pm any of the SMs rather than opening the discussion in public and others might take it out of context with back and forth answers.

you are more than welcome to pm [MENTION=5302753]The Merovingian[/MENTION] [MENTION=4203241]Neo[/MENTION] [MENTION=2484146]mark manning[/MENTION] [MENTION=3125148]KennyG123[/MENTION] or any of the Sms you are familiar with.

For the rest please don't make it into a debate now, he expressed his view about a moderation done and the SMs will look into it :good:
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
I can see your post, and those before and after that were deleted.

ROM threads are for discussion of the ROM, and ROM development. Not for arguing, flaming or random discussion.

You even said yourself "This can start a war. But its true.". So you knew what you said was likely to cause an argument.

This is why it was removed. ROM threads are no place for arguments about what constitutes a developer, and what doesn't.

If you have any further issues with a moderator's actions, please contact the Moderator Committee account.
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
Did we finally pull the plug on tapatalk compatibility? Every thread says I don't have permission to post. Have to use a web browser.
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
Its been tripping in different ways here lately, sometimes I get the same thing you did, other times, the threads load but when I tap to reply, all I have is the share option, no reply option.
[About XDA developers] Neo:
I've been frustrated with it the last couple of days. Glad I'm not the only one having major issues with it.
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
I know it's something done on xda end as I have not updated the app is a while. (didn't like some of the "features" they added)

Web browser works well enough if worst comes to worst.
[About XDA developers] Neo:
[MENTION=335322]MikeChannon[/MENTION]

I hadn't brought this up because I assumed it was on tapatalk's end. I've been experiencing issues the past couple days where I don't have permissions to post in certain threads, when I reply to a post it doesn't quote it, I can't thank posts, and I can't load subscribed threads. FYI that something is up with the use of Tapatalk on XDA
[About XDA developers] Ibuprophen:
I had asked Mike about this earlier today and, at the time, he knew that some work was being done on the server side but, wasn't sure about it being/affecting the Tapatalk at all.

I did see that this issue (specifically with the XDA) has been mentioned on a handful of Tapatalk forum support posts.

I wouldn't believe that the plug was pulled from Tapatalk without some type of announcement regarding it but, this is just a guess on my part.

I've got a feeling that this may be a server update/upgrade/maintenance thing that's being worked on by the XDA "Geek Squad" Guys.

Though, this is purely speculation on my part as well.

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I DO NOT provide support via PM unless asked/requested by myself. PLEASE keep it in the threads where everyone can share.
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
Your statement assumes that ROMs are the only development being worked on here, if that were true your statement might have "some" truth, but ROMs aren't the only things being developed here.

Your statement tells me that you haven't truly explored everything that is offered here at XDA, even though you've been here for years, you haven't dug in deep enough. Your statement implies that ROMs are the only things you've explored here.

IMO, ROM development is on the small end of development. The most complicated things here requiring developer skills are all the mods and apps being modified to work on other platforms and other android versions. These projects are more plentiful and influential in this community than just the ROM development side of things.