yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
I went to my Profile to edit my "About/Signature" at the end if my posts (updated my ROM), but I for the life of me, can't work out how to edit it????

Scratch that, I found it. If you click on your name in the top right, and go to "Signature" it goes directly into edit mode. A VERY LOW priority, but it would be logical for an edit button on the first page (Profile ==> About); entering based on profile and switching to the About tab.
[About XDA developers] khusika:
This is not a big deal, but List of Forum Moderators and Admins still linked with an old domain instead of xdaforums.com
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
But as far as I see the hyperlinks work or did you find one that doesn't. If affirmative, please advise and I forward it to the file owner.
[About XDA developers] khusika:
I didn't see anything broken, everything works fine for me.
[About XDA developers] badabing2003:
I'm not sure if this is the correct thread to post this question, as I didn't find a better fitting thread, and my attempts at landing on a similar question were fruitless.

Email notifications are broken for me (and I suppose for everyone else as well) since the forum migration.

Are there plans to fix it? If yes, any rough ETA?

I personally rely heavily on email and push notifications to be responsive to queries, and they are both broken currently. You can tell I'm not a big fan of pulling.

Thanks in advance.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
I had not checked XDA email since the migration until you mentioned it, when I just now found nothing since from after the migration... until looking in the Junk folder where they were all found. I'm still trying to figure out if it was the local MS Outlook 2021 Junk settings or the Outlook server filter but which ever filter was used, it probably reacted to the new domain. Thanks for mentioning it.
[About XDA developers] badabing2003:
OMG, silly me, it never dawned on my to check the spam folder, which is full of emails from xdaforums :oops:

Thank you.
[About XDA developers] dancer_69:
This is a question(or request if there isn't a way).

I'm using firefox in linux if that's matter, and I'm very annoying because forum doesn't keep zoom setting. The font sizes are too small for me and I need to zoom about to 150%. Firefox has a button/mouse combination to do this, which works until the page refreshed, go back or forward a page, or just change a next/previous page. This doesn't happens on other sites, so it seems that it's this forum's bug or "future". Is there any way to fix this that I'm not aware?
[About XDA developers] khusika:
Try this hidden feature

[Index] How to Navigate the XDA Forum

[INDEX] How to Navigate the XDA Forum Welcome, this thread has been created to encompass everything you may need to navigate the XDA Forum. Please only post in this thread with feedback on how to improve this document. Do not post "Thank you"...

xdaforums.com
[About XDA developers] dancer_69:
I tried this and I don't see any difference, fonts are stiill the same size. I found a user setting though which change the font size, and setted to "larger", but still fonts are small Just now I can reduse the zoom size from 150 to 120%, but I need this 120%.
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I use Firefox (Windows). I am reasonably comfortable reading posts here.

In Firefox Settings there is a place that lets you set two font sizes. Use the Advanced button and set all 4 or 5 options, especially the "Minimum font size". It may screw up other web sites, but I think it improves legibility of XDA.

I thought there was a Firefox setting for Zoom. Maybe you have to go into "about:config" to change it. Or maybe I'm remembering three other programs.
[About XDA developers] dancer_69:
Well, I'm not. Wtih the "larger" font option enabled, the left sidebar's fonts are okay, but all smaller fonts are not. With zoom setting to 120% are fine. But the problem is not the firefox's settings. I've set them and working on other sites. This forum resizing the fonts to its settings after reload or switch pages. For this I asked. Because it resets the zoom setting constanly. Otherwise I will just use the zoom future of firefox.
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
You talkin' to me?

You're not what?

I have XDA set to "font size: Medium". I think I fussed with Firefox font sizes and saw some effect on XDA. I understand it could screw up every other web page.

Also, as @IronTechmonkey reminded us, the XDA web site theme can screw up the simplest aspects of appearance. Try other themes, if only to remind yourself why you hate them.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
If you've not already done so you could try testing different XDA templates (but note the app templates will not offer search features).

(@J.Michael, you ninja-ed me while I stopped to check font sizes :))

I recently switched from the old XDA app-based template to one of the new ones which seemed to make fonts in the threads bigger than they were before in Firefox on Windows desktop and smaller than they were before in mobile browsers on android. See what happens with different templates.

Also FWIW, in Firefox 118.0.x in Windows 10 with Firefox's native zoom controls the zoom setting, which I changed from 100% to 110% for this test, persists at the XDA site when the page is refreshed and when the browser is closed and reopened. Perhaps Firefox is behaving differently on your Linux box. If you're using any zoom controls other than the Firefox default (eg add-ons) that could be a factor, and if you're not using such third-party zoom controls then trying some might yield a workaround.
[About XDA developers] badabing2003:
You can try setting it with tampermonkey script

// ==UserScript==
// @name Font Size Changer
// @namespace http://example.com
// @version 1.0
// @description Change font size on certain sites
// @match https://xdaforums.com/*
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
'use strict';
const fontSize = '20px';
document.body.style.fontSize = fontSize;
})();

This extension might work as well.

extension
[About XDA developers] dancer_69:
I meant I'm not comfrotable...

Thanks, this works for some of the fonts. Probably will need to add some configuration for others too, but works and doesn't reset the settings.
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
Sorry if I missed something. Since the last Migration, the old XDA app became practically useless for me

When I open the app and click to see alerts, it asks me to login - however, when I click to Login, the app does not let me to login inside the XDA app but it redirects me to my default browser.

So it actually opens my Chrome - but I'm already logged in to XDA in Chrome and I really wanted to use the XDA app, not the Chrome or any other browser

If I uninstall or disable Chrome, then clicking to Login in the XDA app would open me another browser, eg Firefox, Edge, ADM or whichever one I installed in lieu of Chrome.

Again, it will login me in that browser, and I will again be using Forum from the browser, not from the XDA app

If I disable/uninstall all browsers and leave only WebView, then Login in the XDA app does no more do anything / does not open WebView - before Migration, XDA app IMO used the embedded WebView frame where it really had different layout then when using from browsers.

So,, is it still possible to use the XDA app, and particularly,how to Login inside the app without being redirected to the browser?

Or, if the app is no more supported and not supposed to be used after the last Migration - please remove it from the Playstore

Btw, why I ask about and prefer the old XDA app (although it was never full-proof and the last time it was updated back in 2021) - because the app was far more more practical for me than reading/writing the posts from a mobile browser, and I NEVER used (or wanted to use) PC to read the Forum.

Eg, in XDA app (when it worked - before that last Migration), Watched threads were on a single click, while in the browser half a dozen of actions are needed to find it and to open the list, etc

Attached is a screenshot showing how XDA app went to the background by still displaying Login tab,, while Chrome got opened instead, and displaying that "Running in Chrome" was activated
[About XDA developers] badabing2003:
See this by @dr.ketan who kindly fixed the app and then some.

See the caveat about the app signature.

If you ask him I'm sure he'd kindly share it you as he has done with few of us.

I'm using his version and I'm operational as before thanks to him.
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
Thanks, will try

I have actually started a new, actively developed, unofficial app:

[CLOSED] [Development] [UNOFFICIAL] XDA Forums App

INTRO : Instead of that XDA app on Google play that the Devs does not update it regularly, takes a lot of time to open and has some bugs, so I decided to introduce for you a new unofficial replacement --- a new XDA Forums app ! In-app...

xdaforums.com
[About XDA developers] khusika:
Dear Admins and Moderators,

At this time i would like give some input related to XDA Achievements. I will be brief on a few points here:

1. Most Achievements

Most Achievments Link shows "No users match the specified criteria.". Doesn't this feature display the ranking of members who have received the most achievemnts?

2. 1 Year Member Badge

I really understand that we can earn this achievement multiple times (marked as loop symbol), but compared to the others similar achievment shouldn't the level increase every year you become a member and not stay at Level 1? for example I have been a member for 10 years, it should be displayed as Level 10 right?

3. Happy Birthday Badge

I think this achievement algorithm is broken, I've tried to logout/in/post something on my birthday but it doesn't work. If take a look into it, there are no members who earned it.

4. Webinar Attendee Badge

Some Senior Moderators embedded links on their signature about XDA Podcasts for example X-Bulletin. My suggestion is, is it possible to create a system in a XDA forum or Portal to broadcast a show like XDA Podcast with the condition that you have to log in using an XDA account? With this system, users will later get a badge such as Webinar Attendee. Or even simpler, change the Webinar Attendee badge to Podcast Attendee.

5. Login Streak Badge

In fact, I always actively access this forum every day. Is this badge broken? or is there a right way to get it?

That's all from me.
[About XDA developers] Timmmmaaahh!:
Kindly alerting @MikeChannon to this matter. In short:

'Most Achievements' = empty (so is 'Highest level')

'1 Year Member (Level 1)' can be earned more than once but doesn't really work

@khusika You have the other badges, right? 2 Years, 3 Years...

'Happy Birthday!' badge earned by 0%

Podcast plugin, wen?

'Login Streak' badge incomplete? I got 3 of them as well.

All confirmed on my end.
[About XDA developers] Dayuser:
I also do not have Happy Birthday and login achievements. Looks like they don't work.
[About XDA developers] khusika:
- no 1: Confirmed Highest Level as well

- no 2: Everything is good with 2 Years and 3 years badges

- no 5: It seems strange that i don't have them all, i'm not sure how to get them
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Ok so for now I removed the items that were showing zero achievers , birthdays, webinars, competition winners, most achievements and tidied a few others like login streak which was clearly broken in some way. Some of these are nested for example birthdays and as the site was reset ages ago not to display certain aspects of birthdays I think this probably broke that one.

I can look in more detail when I get time, but for now hopefully it is at least tidier.

Mike
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
AAAAArrrrggghhhh! I thought i'd have a quick check if it would show a birthday achievement when it turned my birthday, so I put in the day just about to come around, with a random year. It says I cant change it unless I contact an admin. Could someone please clear my birthday?👃
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
@khusika I've results there. Did you change the timeframe and checked?

Spoiler content hidden.

@MikeChannon Please see above. Most achievement list was/is working. But it's good that you've disabled webinars and birthday. The system was obviously not able to read and correlate a set birthday.

And please remember, shortly after the transition to Xenforo (and before Valnet purchased XDA) we had some occasions where the achievement system completely broke the forum!

And Mike, below quoted post for your attention.
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
hey, @khusika and @NOSS8 didn't your mother teach you not to laugh at the less fortunate :mad:
[About XDA developers] khusika:
I think that's broke since domain migration
[About XDA developers] khusika:
That's not me, trust me
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Doesn't look like to me. I've just switched to the current monthly results for October and get results:

Leaderboards

xdaforums.com
[About XDA developers] khusika:
That was not link i mentioned before. It was inside Members > Most Achievements (https://xdaforums.com/m/?key=adav_achievements)
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Yes, I remember well the screenshot for your post and was already wondering because I don't have that line "Most achievements" in there.

Spoiler content hidden.
[About XDA developers] khusika:
I have another issue, but I'm not sure if this is a bug or not and it's been there for a long time. This issue come from both Desktop and Mobile web versions(tested with Google Chrome). About Tab under user profile sometimes redirect us to a new page when double click it and sometimes automatically redirect us to new page by a single click

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Go to your or someone's user profile, My profile for example

2. 1 Click on About Tab, this will direct you to

khusika

xdaforums.com

3. Give it 1 more Click (double click it), and it will direct you to

khusika

xdaforums.com

(without # prefix)

I attached the video below as proof
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
I was always wondering how some users got to the about without the #. Thanks for the explanation. But I'm personally unable to reproduce; even if I follow your procedure it doesn't bring me there. The only way for me is to remove the # in the URL.
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
I cleared your birthday.

Mike
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Yes, it's confusing because the "Most Achievements" that showed on the Left side hamburger menu was showing zero results and I removed it.

The profile "Most achievements" tab does indeed show achievements and is still there and working as you say. So, I have to conclude the two things were/are different things.

Mike
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
I can't reproduce this either... always has #about on both Chrome and Firefox and in a couple of different forum themes (Classic and Dark).

As "Oswald" says, I too get the cut down bannerless version but only if I manually remove the "#". Seems like something in your setup.

Mike
[About XDA developers] Dayuser:
I just received notification that i have earned Recognized Contributor achievement.

I have been that atleast over year for now and i also think i already earned that achievement ones??

Time stamp on achievent does say earned today.. Weird.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Likewise have I been re-Green-ed. There had been some talk in one of the threads about restoring badges or achievements to a particular category of users or something like that. Maybe this relates to that change.
[About XDA developers] Clark Joseph Kent:
You're welcome, better late than never. 🤣👍🏼
[About XDA developers] Clark Joseph Kent:
Maybe or maybe some of us are lazy, and we're just bored today.

🤣👍🏼
[About XDA developers] NOSS8:
Me too but

​
[About XDA developers] Clark Joseph Kent:
This notification might wake some up! Wonder how many will even notice.🙄🤣
[About XDA developers] Dayuser:
I'm double trouble now :devilish:(y):ROFLMAO:
[About XDA developers] heinhuiz:
It seems that xda is doing everything they can to push their users away.

First the news feed in the app stopped working, then we couldn't log in to the forum part of the app anymore, and now suddenly we need a separate login for the news feed. Why is that?

Does anyone have suggestions for a good alternative for the news feed? The xda one got less and less interesting for me since it is mainly PC/Windows oriented now. I'm looking for a nice news feed concentrating on mobile/Android. More like how xda was 2 years ago.

Edit: This post made me reach level 41 :D
[About XDA developers] :
The question is off topic. How do I turn this off because I don't want this. This offends my religious feelings. Sorry for the question I sent you. I got a notification that I'm there, and I don't want it.
[About XDA developers] V0latyle:
If you know your question is off topic, maybe you should make sure you post it in the right place.

Post moved.
[About XDA developers] :
Where. I sent an email, but I haven't received a reply yet. Why is something imposed on me that I don't want?
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
@MikeChannon @the_scotsman

Gentlemen, is it possible for users to disable specific achievements?

If the system doesn't allow that, can you disable the Halloween achievement for @ZmisiS?
[About XDA developers] V0latyle:
Account > Preferences

Not sure if this disables all achievements
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
That just to disable/enable notifications not the achievement itself.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Moderator Announcement

Thread has been cleaned from off-topic posts e.g. regarding religious feelings.

The request has been raised to our forum administrators if a user can disable specific achievements or if our administrators can do that for a specific account. Let's wait for the response.

Regards

Oswald Boelcke

Senior Moderator
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
I removed the achievement for @ZmisiS regarding Halloween.

However, it looks like although I can remove the achievement, as soon as you post again today it is likely to give you the achievement back again.

The way this XenForo forum software is setup it looks like it awards this to anyone posting today... of course it DOES NOT mean you are in any way supportive of this or any of the other religious, holiday or festival type logins for which the system awards achievements.

From what I can see the only way we could remove this for an individual, would be to remove it from all members.

Mike
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
Sorry for annoying you but i want to remove "Halloween" achievement, too !
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Well I removed it, not sure that'll stick, but we'll see.

Mike
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
I have just got that achievement again !

The idea is, Why ?
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Just read a very few posts above!
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Yes, as soon as you post again you will re-achieve it.

So I've removed it again BUT if you want it to stick you'll need to NOT post again today.

Mike
[About XDA developers] alecxs:
Ok? Okay?? Did you got it!?
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
Nice

I have posted about 4 posts and I haven't get the achievement:)

EDIT : MISSION SUCCEEDED !

I didn't want this achievement
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
That's interesting... But then you complained; however, that's very fine! However, please remember nobody invited or forced you to join XDA. It was your own and sole decision! Therefore, I suggest to stop complaining how the site and the system is set-up.

If you don't like how this site is run, here's the link how you can get your account GDPR compliant deleted:

Data Deletion Request on XDA-Developers

Please supply your XDA username and the associated email address. For us to process an account deletion, the email/username combo must match. Our representative will email you to confirm your identity. Once we hear back, we will process the account deletion. It can take up to 7 days to process...

docs.google.com

Regards

Oswald Boelcke
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
All I've said is that I want to remove the achievement from my account, I didn't say that xda system is bad or anything.

I only wanted to get that achievement removed, and that's done ✔️
[About XDA developers] khusika:
Dear Admins and Moderators,

It's me again giving some input related to the Account details

I saw that Twitter, Facebook, Github, and Instagram should be described with prefix link as mentioned in the description (see picture below).

But, if we put only username and save the settings, they aren't displayed as hyperlinks.

shouldn't it be displayed as hyperlinks?
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
@MikeChannon @the_scotsman

Gentlemen, above for your attention please.
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Yes, due to some recent changes this has broken.

So for now I've changed it so Members must enter the full URL of their Twitter, Facebook etc.

Mike
[About XDA developers] Spannaa:
Still outdated though.

Twitter is X and there's multiple other social media platforms now.

Maybe just keep Github as it's dev or remove the lot.
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
Yeah also in the place where you choose the SIM carrier you use, In Egypt, MobiNil is Orange now, but i see that on XDA is still called MobiNil :(
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Lol well yes, I'll agree that a lot of those are likely out of date and being honest we just don't have time to monitor the entire world for changes. We can add or change the odd one or two when people let us know (like I just changed the one you just mentioned), but otherwise I don't think it's a priority even for our Members. It was started 20 years ago when things were simpler but you know what it's like, taking things away from users always causes problems;)

Mike
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
Thanks for changing the name

BTW "Misrfone Telecom" is called "Telecom Egypt" now, sorry if i take from you a lot of your time
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Affirmative, Mike. @svetius created a respective reporting thread in this forum 13 years ago:

Operator Logos and Country Flag Problems

Hey all, Thanks to the efforts of TaurusBullba and now the_scotsman, we've recently updated most of the operator logos and country flags. It was a big job, as there were literally hundreds of images to be normalized. But now, most of the logos...

xdaforums.com
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
I changed that one.

Mike
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
Thanks. :)
[About XDA developers] gkennedy88:
I feel like there needs to be an option to received a once a day digest email.

That way rather than getting an email every single time someone quotes or mentions you, you get one email per day with every quote or mention or whatever other notification you want in the one email.

I get so tired of posting a comment in a forum thread and then getting an email saying someone quoted me, and after I've replied to that and deleted the first email I get another from someone else who has quoted my first post and then again and again and again, which is very annoying.

Or I'll make a post and have someone reply asking questions so they can better understand and help, which I'll gladly provide. However then shortly after I've repeated myself a second time, I get another email and it's the same person asking the same questions over again as if they just sort of skimmed my response and didn't pay attention to all of what I actually said which is why they are asking again, which only aggravates me because I can't tell they are just being lazy since I've already told them the answer to what they have asked 3 times now.

With a daily digest email this won't happen and I won't get frustrated at them for asking me over and over again because I won't even know they have quoted or mentioned me again until the end of the next day.

Because currently the only options are get back to back email notifications because someone is being lazy, or none at all, which isn't right.