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[About XDA developers] Ibuprophen:
I was just wondering if anyone else has been noticing the following weird issue (the specific thread used for this explanation is only as an example).

Recently Google made some (Horrible) changes regarding their search engine and i had noticed that many/most of what I was searching for had some (understandable) XDA results within it.

The weird item in question is that the XDA link it provides has had an "/amp/" added to it.

The following is an example of one:

https://xdaforums.com/verizon-galax...-root-sm-903vl-downgrading-to-4-t3580168/amp/

Even if your logged into the forum via the browser, and you go to that type of link, it will reflect that thread but, as if your not logged in with an oddly big selection box for logging in.

The following image reflects what it looks like.

Now if you select the big login box, all it will do is take you to the threads link with the "/amp/" removed.

This doesn't seem to be a huge issue and it's not, to me, like a show stopper but, I actually wanted to bring this to the attention of those who may not be aware of this (like [MENTION=450224]bitpushr[/MENTION] or [MENTION=335322]MikeChannon[/MENTION]?) in case this may be something that could potentially be the precursor to something else.

I appreciate your time and understanding with this and I hope that it helped in some way for someone! :)

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[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
I assume ths relates to:

https://www.wired.com/2016/02/googles-amp-speeding-web-changing-works/

https://moz.com/blog/amp-digital-marketing-2018

Mike
[About XDA developers] Ibuprophen:
Exactly Mike! :eek:

I only brought this up in case someone wasn't aware of this and asks about it.

I know that XDA has no control over this but, I'm sure someone will play the Blame Game (as usual in many cases) since it's being experienced on an XDA URL.

This is a real pain in the neck!!! LMAO!

Is there a way for the XDA Server to be able to see the "/AMP/" URL and perform a redirect with it being removed?

Just wondering... :thumbup:

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[About XDA developers] :
Ah, my question was answered. 5 years later... :(
[About XDA developers] Dirk:
Please block emoji on the site. I'm not a twelve year old girl and this isn't Facebook.

Also i'll sell my soul to any developer who finds a way to eradicate both emoji and Facebook from this planet.

Bonus points for finding a way to eradicate this planet.

Thanks.
[About XDA developers] :
Suggestion noted. :good::good::highfive:
[About XDA developers] leo72793:
Any reason the sites been going slow? i reply to posts and sometimes takes 4-5 minutes to post, and every other website i use is fine. Also in the app, 50/50 chance of attaching files works

EDIT: Also in the app, can we please move subscribed threads to 2nd tab and Subscribed forums the first part after clicking xda forums? ( XDA LABS APP )
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
Within my profile, I see my profile views go up, but the list of last visitors does not change?

Is this a known behavior?
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Not too sure to be honest. It could be that the same people already on the "last 10 visitors" list have visited again?

Or some privelaged accounts have visited it who don't show up in the list (some admins, senior mods etc). Just a guess, I'm not sure if they count towards the counter or not.
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
I notice it hasn't changed, as a few of the visitors that are listed, I interact with on here, and at least one of them is not on here very often, but has been on my list for some time. I also noticed that don't change order, which if it was updating, I guess it would show the latest first.

Also, once someone visits my profile, they would be quick to understand its the bare minimum. ie "nothing to see here, move along..." ie I would not expect many repeat visitors.:cool:

My view count is a little high to be simply admins/moderators, and for the most part, I would hope to stay out of their attention.;) even if they were to visit, they would not make up the numbers, nor the change I see over time.

It has changed, just nowhere near what I would expect in relation to the count change. Even if it goes up by 10, I would expect at least 5 of the names would change. It appears to me to be using some funky sort order to determine the "last" visitors.
[About XDA developers] iTzCrazy:
Hi all. I suggest you divide the forum into two different audiences: Russian and English. if the idea is interesting, write to me in the Telegram: [MENTION=898748]banka[/MENTION]_parilka
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
I doubt there is a need for that, English is the main language but not the only language at XDA. Members must first post in English but they can also post below that in their native language, translators make up the difference.
[About XDA developers] shaqman89:
Umm.. Please no. That would delineate us that couldn't speak in Russian whenever there is an interesting topic there. Since English isn't my first language anyway, having a third one just for xda seems a bit too much especially when the current one is good enough.
[About XDA developers] AndroZeek:
XDA is forum for Custom ROMs, Discussion, Troubleshooting, etc.

From sometime Thread OP are creating a Telegram group to discuss bugs, troubleshooting and other things, then what is meaning of creating threads on XDA. Why XDA mods are allowing these threads. My personal opinion is all the discussions regarding the ROM or Kernel should go on thread not on other platforms.
[About XDA developers] :
We don't allow them. Please report these posts immediately.
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
That is correct. Though developers can have a Telegram link in their OP, but must still ensure development and support continues in their thread here on XDA: https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s9/how-to/telegram-chat-channels-forward-t3763966
[About XDA developers] :
Why are you asking this all over? It's been explained to you in detail here, https://xdaforums.com/general/off-topic/trend-rom-discussion-t3875451

Are you expecting a different reply asking in other places? :silly:
[About XDA developers] stunned:
Did anyone test this new forum UI? It is awful. How do I go to my subscribed threads or user panel. There is no shortcut to anywhere, only useless dropdown menus, which are not customized to my use and devices and topics.

It is basically an ad at the moment
[About XDA developers] Spannaa:
Yep, it's not very user friendly!

I've switched back to the 2013 template with the very useful 'quick links' dropdown until it's fixed.
[About XDA developers] curiousrom:
New Forum Navigation Bar - Too Thick!

Well I can click on the round human icon top right then click or better right-click on Settings et voilà!

This said having some personal links in the top of the hamburger menu would be nice.

My gripe is with the height of the new navigation bar et the size of the text links: Android Pie, XDA Holiday Guide, etc. which is eating my screen's precious real estate on my rather smallish laptop.

Smaller please! ;)

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Edit:

Could you please post a link to the panel where you selected the "2013 template" please? :cool:

Edit 2: [MENTION=3491794]stunned[/MENTION] - It's in the bottom of https://xdaforums.com/profile.php?do=editoptions > Forum Skin > under the Use Forum Default drop down menu. ;)

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[About XDA developers] stunned:
Ok, I see I have 2 notifications (got email). I press the the dot, press 2 notifications, but my quoted post are nowhere to be found. Only managed to come here through email.

Where can I find my quoted posts?
[About XDA developers] :
The admin are aware and working to fix these bugs. As was mentioned, switching to one of the other templates is the only fix for now.

Thanks!
[About XDA developers] curiousrom:
Wrong Notifications link!

By gosh you are right. It's the round human icon top right > Notifications link that is not correct. :eek:

Meanwhile use the link I posted above & switch to the "2013 template" as suggested by [MENTION=2948558]Spannaa[/MENTION]: https://xdaforums.com/profile.php?do=editoptions
[About XDA developers] Spannaa:
It might have been a better idea to have left the 2015 template as it was and forked it to a new 2018 dev template.
[About XDA developers] SuperR.:
I second this. While new developments are always a good thing, the 2015 dark theme WAS great. I very much hope it returns to its previous glory with an OPTION to use this new theme. Thanks for listening :)
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
I've always used the 2013 theme, not as "cool" looking, but definitely more user friendly and easy to find things without having to peel back layers to find "this" or "that".
[About XDA developers] Spannaa:
Yeah, I always did but I got annoyed by the forums that are only supported in the 2015 theme.

Using the 2015 theme with the XDA Forum Sidepanel Hider script for Chrome was an acceptable compromise until now...
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
Yeah, the 2015 specific threads are a pain.
[About XDA developers] DoR3M3:
Oh I 3rd this! LOL

Should of left 2015 alone and forked into a new theme. Whatever happened to making a Backup before playing Rule? LOL ;)

P.S. 2013 Skin User Here! :eek:
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
Get yourself a plugin. I use stylish on Firefox which allows me to retheme the site as well as remove elements like ads (needed an additional ad blocker for 100% blocked) and the side panel.
[About XDA developers] DoR3M3:
Interesting thanks, I'll give it a test run, I'm not one for plugins, I use only security based plugins, just a few, nothing more.
[About XDA developers] curiousrom:
New Forum Header: XDA Administrator bitpushr Reacts...

FYI the XDA Administrator bitpushr posted here in the New xda interface - many issues... thread:
[About XDA developers] ewoks:
Maybe I am missing something but there is option in profile settings where we enter our devices (guess devices we are interested the most in).

However I see no use of this information anywhere in the forum ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Instead of offering fast shortcuts to dedicated forum pages of these two favorite devices, I still need to dig through (or use un-optimal search function) the bunch of articles, despite forum "knowing" when there is information about what I am really interested in. Proposals:

in Devices drop down on the top should be section of my devices (on top) and than Asus, Essential, etc.. (other that I will never click).

under that main menu first few tags should be tags of devices I choose as my devices, than all the other "hot" tags

on start page https://xdaforums.com, just under "General Android & Windows Phone Forums", between "subscribed" and "all devices" should be link to "My devices".

"All devices" is so useless that can even be moved to the end.

I apologies in advance if there is already usage of my devices info across the forum and I somehow missed it, but pretty much always it feels I need to swim through the see of devices I do not care about to get to some useful information about my devices.

Thanks for hearing the users. Happy holidays
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
Not all devices have a forum here and not all devices are listed in the "my devices" portion of your profile.

Only the devices that have a forum here are listed.

If you want to find threads about your device, use the XDA "search all forums" feature, type your devices model number in the search bar and it will find all the threads here at XDA associated to your device, if there are any threads for your device. Your device might not have a forum but the threads for your device should have an "enhanced tag" attached to them that lists them all together when you use the search feature, the same as they would be listed if it had a dedicated device forum here.
[About XDA developers] ewoks:
if some device is not listed here or/and it doesn't have dedicated forum user shouldn't be able to added to profile as favorite device.

Why I should type it again into search if I already added to my profile?!? This is exactly the point, why not to take advantage of knowning in which devices is user most probably interested and make shortcuts to relevant topic obvious and easy accessable? What is the point of my devices feature if it doesn't put those shortcuts in front of the user?!?

p.s. did you know that when you click profile there is already "my devices" section in a side menu that pops up? My opinion is just that these should be more visible and not hidden there so just 5% of users notice it
[About XDA developers] :
Suggestions and opinions above noted. Thanks! :good:

And this isn't a discussion thread folks.:cowboy:
[About XDA developers] noneplease:
Move from vBulletin to Invision Community (preferably) or Flarum/Discourse, something really just modern. Nobody cares if we're going to loose any features (Dev : DB as an example), we just need to see XDA evolving with the web and the world. We're stuck since 2015 with no updates.
[About XDA developers] daviddema:
Please enable searching for a whole sentence in advanced search. On vbulletin, this is normally done by enclosing the sentence in quotes, don't know why it's disabled here...

Also enable adding operators such as "+" for mandatory inclusion in search results or "-" for exclusion...
[About XDA developers] Passp0rt:
I agree Invision is more advanced than vBulletin, but just out of curiosity, how is Flarum a step up?
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
Considering you have no presence here. And the developers like dev dB. So I don't see them getting rid of it.

Forums in general are a hard thing to keep moving forward. The whole thing is outdated.
[About XDA developers] El Hombre Principal:
Can we make a place to compare phone specifications. That would be good!

Thank you for doing this quickly.
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
To clarify so that those that matter understand what you're asking....

Do you mean a place to compare my phone to your phone or do you mean a place for an overall "this" vs "that" amongst all devices or do you mean a place to compare your current phone to newer phones to select your next device?
[About XDA developers] El Hombre Principal:
Exactly!
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
The question was posed to specify which of those three aspects you are requesting a place for?
[About XDA developers] El Hombre Principal:
You are very right. Thank you for your patience and clarification.
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
So which of the three are you requesting?

This is the third time I've asked and you still have not said which kind of comparison you would like to have a place for.

Would you like to be able to do one of the three? If so, which one?

Would you like to be able to do two of three? If so, which two?

Would you like to be able to do all three?
[About XDA developers] El Hombre Principal:
Huh? 3 what? I'm sorry, you confuse me. Thank you for the thoughts!
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
Which of the three types of ways to compare devices that I posted in the first question I asked.

1) Compare my phone to yours

2) Compare "this" to "that" amongst all existing devices?

3) Compare your current device to new devices to choose your next device?

Which of these three types of comparisons do you wish to have a place for here?

If you are having trouble understanding after this try then nevermind and I'm sorry I even asked.
[About XDA developers] El Hombre Principal:
Yes. My plan is to compare the phones. You know the same I can tell.

I use translate for English, so I think you are seeing my words clearer.
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
Ok, I'm trying to help but you aren't making sense, I'll try this one more time, please, slow down, read, understand exactly what I'm asking.

The moderators can't help you if you can not specify which of the 3 options you wish to choose.

I've asked you all of these questions to get a simple answer from you and still have not answered my original question.

Choose a number from the options I listed above, 1), 2), or 3)?

Only one of the three? Which one?

Two of the three? Which two?

Or all three?

In what type of way do you wish to compare phones? My phone? Your phone? All phones? Your phone to newer phones?

Don't just say yes, tell us which of the ways you are asking for.
[About XDA developers] El Hombre Principal:
If you want to ask me the questions, we can WhatsApp each other probably, and i can maybe try to help with questions you ask to help you more? It is easier maybe?

Thank you friend for your support and friendship!
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
It is a simple question, you are complicating it. I have asked the exact same question in every reply that I have made to you and you are not answering the question. Go back, read very carefully, break it down, understand it, look at every sentence that has a question mark and answer each question, not just one answer for all of the questions I asked. It can't be one answer to answer all of the questions. It requires a single answer for each question.

Answer it here, it helps no one to ask on WhatsApp. Besides, I have never and will never install or use WhatsApp.
[About XDA developers] El Hombre Principal:
Answer what question? I am being confused. But if you want help from here I can try if you want here and no WhatsApp. I will try to help you always!
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
I am the one trying to help you but you can't give a proper answer that makes any kind of sense. You aren't carefully considering exactly what I am asking you. Go all the way back to the first post I made when I first asked you, start from there and read my questions slower and more carefully until you understand my very first original question to you.
[About XDA developers] El Hombre Principal:
I am sorry, my translate not perfect.

Yes, I will consider anything you ask. Your time is special to me.
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
Go back to where we started, read all of the posts carefully until you understand, when you can properly answer my original question, then the people here will understand what you want. I doubt the admins and moderators here will consider a place to make any and every comparison all in one place, that would be a jumbled mess that no one would understand. They would probably consider something like a place for different categories of comparisons with a category for each type of comparison. Maybe, maybe not.
[About XDA developers] El Hombre Principal:
Very appreciate! I will await for your decision. Thank you for the respond.
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
I'm not the one that has anything to do with making a decision. The decisions are between you and the Admin/moderators here at XDA.

I'm just a simple member that is asking you to specify EXACTLY which kinds of comparisons you wish to have a place for, not just a place for "all" comparisons in one place. Be specific.

I was looking for a simple shortcut to see EXACTLY what you wanted, but here we are, two pages of posts later and you still can't say what kind of comparisons you are asking for. Please, stop running us in circles and just answer the question.
[About XDA developers] El Hombre Principal:
Yes, I like the ideas! You have made my plans more perfect too.

Soon we will compare it.
[About XDA developers] Droidriven:
I'm sorry, you don't understand, but that is ok.

Hopefully, if the idea is even considerable to the Admin/Moderators, maybe they will understand something in all of this that helps understand what you want.

Good luck.
[About XDA developers] El Hombre Principal:
You can make my phone unlockable maybe?
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
sometimes its like watching Manuel on Faulty Towers.:D it looks too good to be totally random:p

May I suggest to reduce each post to a simple yes/no.

Post 1. Do you want X? Yes or No

AFTER you get a response, then ask.

Post 2. Do you want Y? Yes or No

AFTER you get a response, then ask.

Post 3. Do you want Z? Yes or No

If you get a yes to all three (which I suspect will be the case....), you will understand where you sit.

Also, could the following be what is being requested?

https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9642&idPhone2=9629

Maybe a post asking what is wrong with the following. Could I also suggest posting your answers in your native language (under the English translation)
[About XDA developers] Vortell:
So just a few suggestions for the web page forum on default theme maybe make the search text in the search bar a shade or 2 darker.

This is a bit more complex but my vision would be to make it so by default right under the op(opening post) of each new thread you put a nice search button. You know in the middle colored differently ect. This would make the search bar feature more but prominent and reduce members annoyance at people's laziness/nooby goodness. Making everyone more chill.?️

I also think xda could make it so searchs are not as important/used as much. One way you could do this is write a link aggregation program to sort all links in thread by how recent (Date) they were linked and then include goes many times it's been Clinked. Then display both attributes attributes with the Link's title. For example:

1. A problem. Date:4/21/18 Clicked Time(s): 1

2. Kernel link. Date:4/20/18 Clicked Time(s): 300

3. A Problem Date:4/20/18 Clicked Time(s): 3

4. Rom link. Date:4/19/18 Clicked Time(s):5000

In the thread page of the forum you either add "Links" tab to top like downloads and/or you put a link to the "Links" under the op of each thread including the 5 most recent, then have link to expand it. This could reduce server load since everyone would hopefully start to always look there first before searching. In the Links page proper you display them as listed and show the post as a list. For then for any thread with more then 1 page be of Links you either have pages for be overflow or limit it to last 5-10.

Now if you have gone that far you could also put a option for mods/thread author/devs to have thier most recent post linked automatically to the bottom of the op as well. Maybe event put a voting feature to promote a post to be at the bottom of the op. The easiest way I thought you could do that is by: linking the post in the last 7 days that got thanked the most. That's super easy to be understand. Plus it promotes helpfulness by almost making kindness a competition in the forum. This methodology simply turn thanking into the voting system simplifying implementation of this enhancements. You could also look the most thanked link ever as well.

So all told hopefully this would highlight the download tab built into xda forum, reduce server load(less searches), promote kindness, make the the search feature more prominent, make everybody a bit more chill, empower the thanks button and finally centralize important info and recent thanked in one place making the op the most important be places in the thread.

Sorry if this is over the top just tired of people being mean cause someone didn't search for info. Sometimes I it's hard to know what to search for, sometimes people might not see it ect.
[About XDA developers] Dirk:
Viewing the mobile site on my phone, the font on the site suddenly changed. Everything is now BOLD. What happened?

Edit: Seems like Adguard is causing it. I'll let them know.
[About XDA developers] post-mortem:
There's a link to themerapp.com at the top of each page, but it's dead.
[About XDA developers] Pkt_Lnt:
E-mail notifications have stopped. Between late May 13 and now May 14 PDT.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
I've contacted the server admin 10 min ago. He looked into it and it should be fixed now. Lots of emails in queue currently. They are coming slowly but surely. :)

Thanks!
[About XDA developers] Pkt_Lnt:
I just got four now, thank you.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
The email issue is back, I have contacted the server admin again. Let's wait and see.

Edit: this should be fixed now.