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[About XDA developers] efs12:
Guys, it's true, it has happened, this is my 10th post, and i'm a little bit proud of it :laugh:

But back to topic.

XperienceD's post is nearly that, what i want to say with the difference that i'm new in this forum.

I don't agree 100% bout stickys, I think they are very helpful, if they are maintened and not spammed by different silly questions. In this threads most of the problems should be solved in a few words. But sometimes they are to general. Sometimes they are to specific. There should be a good middle-way between basics (rooting and so on per devices) and the rest based on the rom you have in a rom section. I know it's not easy, but i know, you have more experience in development of phones than me. As already mentioned, a good all-about of a rom, could help the dev/op, but he has to maintain it. for forum mods it would be a hard work.

e.g. apps are things, which should be transfered into it's own section. if you search the site bout gapps 4.2 you'll find 500 posts in different device-threads. "noob"-user don't know if it's working on a specific device, with a specific rom (including me). A genereal thread could be more helpful, but it should contain some information. "People, we have extracted XXXapp from xxxrom for xxxdevice" is to little for the public and all other forums.

I don't know the original xda-dev, but in my opinion you can't step back to the originals. You have to block a lot of users, clean a lot of posts and threads and i don't think that the good old feeling of old devs would come back. Also, as XperienceD's already mentioned, and also what I've written, there are to many links back to this site. There are thousands of forum / threads / posts regarding android/devices/roms and so on but if something is really new or difficult there's always a link back to xda.

Perhaps there would be a good middle-way for xda to go back the part of the old-dev forum with a strictly registration-process (or whatever it was in the past) and serving all necessary information for the community but in better way like: Device / "stickys" or whatever with a complete description and no user posts allowed. Not like all the other 1000 of posts like rooting can be found in link 1, goldcard in post 2 and so on. If there would be an idiot-proof "sticky" i think it should/may work. But this posts have to be maintained e.g. evolution - difference between rooting a HTC desire with alpharev/revolutionary and HTC-Dev instructions. pros and cons. no user comments allowed. Tested and proofed from pros like the xda-devs.
[About XDA developers] boborone:
I just added the first person to my ignore list on any forum I've ever been on here earlier. I like the ability to ignore someone. Good choice to have. But I try not to let people bother me and so I've never used it before. But now that I've added someone to my ignore list, I don't quite see the point of it. Because when you do ignore someone, the forum still notifies you of their post. Just hides the text of it. Why have an ignore feature if the site is going to show every post made them in a thread? You're not quite ignoring them with that, just hiding the post and still seeing they made a post to begin with.

If that's the case, why have it? Just leave it up to the person to not read the post as I've done for years. Not much difference.
[About XDA developers] prototype7:
Same issue here, been happening for a while now, running Chrome, happens on Linux Mint and Windows.
[About XDA developers] theraker007:
How come there is no forum for the Samsung Note 8?
[About XDA developers] d0shu:
10 post rule.. Seriously.. I am about to give up.. Never been a troll until now. I am trying really hard to find threads to contribute in but it seems I am only interests in development stuff. 3 posts is plenty I think..
[About XDA developers] Stryke_the_Orc:
This has been covered to the point of being redundant. Your interest may be development but seriously guy, it takes maybe 10 minutes of going through Q&A to make 10 helpful posts. If you can read the development threads, you can help 10 people.

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[About XDA developers] boborone:
I'm waiting for perma IP bans to people that complain.
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
Everyday, another person complains about the 10 post rule. Has no one any patience or the ability to help others any more? Disappointed tbh
[About XDA developers] :
Maybe they just try to gather 10 posts by posting against rule. This posts have less chances of getting deleted than spam posts.
[About XDA developers] boborone:
Yea. That's the most irritating thing. Spam for em...deleted. Complain...they stay. O.o
[About XDA developers] coolsandie:
Wondering why the XDA-Portal is still 2010 themed?

Its not much of a concern from my side, because I very much uses the 2010 theme. But I'm sure about 95% of the users uses the 2013 theme and themeing the Portal too would make the site completely adapted to 2013 new theme style.
[About XDA developers] vbhtt:
This used to happen to me too, but off late I've not had a problem. I use Chrome on windows 8
[About XDA developers] undercover:
Quoted post email notification. Is that something new or just got activated randomly for me?

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[About XDA developers] coolsandie:
http://www.xda-developers.com/announcements/new-feature-for-the-forums-mention-and-quote-tracking/

Disable Mention emails / Quote emails :silly:
[About XDA developers] GermainZ:
Can the old behavior for the sidebar be brought back, please?

Currently it's set to float so it doesn't scroll along with the rest of the page. It wasn't like this yesterday.

The way it behaved before is better (on my screen, at least), as it doesn't fit entirely without scrolling - and if I want to quickly view the top again, I need to rescroll all the way up.

Maybe make it an option?

Thanks.
[About XDA developers] undercover:
Really liking the new mention tag. I understand people will overuse it for a bit until they get bored with it, but eventually it will be a great tool to call people to any particular thread for any particular question.

Be patient for now guys, let the excitement die down and do not disable it yet. It will end up being extremely useful.

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[About XDA developers] flastnoles11:
Didn't some people in this very thread request this feature? Definitely can't say they haven't been listening! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

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[About XDA developers] _Variable:
[MENTION=710782]Fallen Spartan[/MENTION]

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[About XDA developers] roofrider:
I quite like it the way it is now, was just about to make a post here thanking them for it.

Now i don't need to scroll all the way up to go to another subscribed thread.
[About XDA developers] GermainZ:
Actually, I just figured out what's bugging me about it: when I go to the last unread message, it doesn't automatically scroll like it should (it stays on top). Then as soon as I scroll a bit, it teleports.

For the rest, I kind of like it better that way now that I've been using it for a day.

So, to alter my request: can you fix this slight issue? :D
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
What's up?

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[About XDA developers] _Variable:
Testing usernames with spaces

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[About XDA developers] mnishamk:
quotes notifications?

personnaly i dont like it, the quotes bar is great, just the notifications, just how many times do we quote and be quoted every day?

can it be removed

and the [ mention] tag at the @ symbol is great...:good:

edit: nevermind, found disable button, sorry
[About XDA developers] Gloix:
Hi, I'm having problems with the site in terms of its css (page styling). It wont't load in Chrome, Firefox or Opera. This started yesterday night. Then went to my university and everything was fine until I came back home and css stopped working again.

Anyone knows what could the problem be?
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
Can you post screenshots of these page styling issues
[About XDA developers] tmbarta:
I'm having the same issues. It started yesterday for me. See image attached.
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
ok, I'll alert admin to see if they can fix this
[About XDA developers] boborone:
I get when my connection is slow. Is that going on or is everything else loading fine on other sites?

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[About XDA developers] mnishamk:
I have seen it a few times, but all when the connection was dead slow. Refreshing it usually got it right for me.

Regards

-N
[About XDA developers] boborone:
Yea same here. Only when connection is slow.

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[About XDA developers] vbhtt:
Same here, but xda isn't the only site that does this

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[About XDA developers] :
Shouldn't there be a restriction on how many times a member can change his/her username?

I have a member in my device's forum and he literally changed his username like 5/6 times in less than a month (idk about past, since I am just one month old here). This is something xda admins should take care of as this stops new registrations from using one of those used names.

You can't use any of those used names if you are registering. Xda admins can later change the name to any of used ( as in case with Android Pizza ).

I tried to check the username availability with new registration and couldn't get any of those used earlier.

This is just my opinion, I would like to know what others think about this.

A Hero Can Be Anyone
[About XDA developers] Deadly:
^ i agree some of it as some users change it too many times in too less period of time.. and admins may not be able to remember due to vast number of users.. ( I assume there are no record of number of changes and time period.. )

Instead of a limit on number of times a user can change their name for an account.. how about you can change user name only once in 6 months or some period which ever admins think is good..

And release the username previously used after say 6 months or may be more? As I can understand its not available because other users may get confused with the identity as the username was already in use by some other user who has now a new identity..

Thus solving both lack of user name availability problem and a limit on number of frequent name changes?

Don't know how hard it could be to implement though.. :(

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[About XDA developers] undercover:
There is a record :rolleyes:

And more than just about username change. But it's irrelevant. I agree, such a rule should be introduced. 6 months sounds reasonable to me.

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[About XDA developers] Pons:
Either that, or a fee introduced to discourage it, like on Xbox Live.
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There are many teens here without credit cards. You can't expect everyone will be able to pay.

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[About XDA developers] vbhtt:
Once every 6 months sounds reasonable. But I really don't see the reason why people need to change their user names more than once

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[About XDA developers] Pons:
vbhtt summed up my main point. True, not everyone has a credit card/pay pal, but then, should we really be changing our handles every other month?
[About XDA developers] :
Well everyone doesn't think like we do. Some guys/gals like to change it.

A Hero Can Be Anyone
[About XDA developers] :
That will make things easier for you right?

Ichigo - Jessica - urahara - josepho:rolleyes:

A Hero Can Be Anyone
[About XDA developers] Pons:
Yes, but it's how we are identified on xda, and makes keeping track of people difficult, since all we have that is static is a member number (for instance, I'm 2910818, but who looks at that besides the mods?). It's like me meeting someone and saying, "Hey, I'm John," and then we go about our conversation. Tomorrow is "Today, I'll be Steve."

If we can change our handles so frequently, we need another name static instead. Maybe keep the handle/username linked to the member number, but allow maybe an alias or something? I don't know since I disagree with the constant changing overall, I'm just spitballing ideas to keep everyone happy.
[About XDA developers] Babydollll:
This coming from the guy that changed his username how many times now??
[About XDA developers] :
Thats what I am saying. Put up a restriction on no. of times you can change it.

Look up for my post above. It may not be a complete list but I have listed what I have heard.

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[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
Guys, you're taking thread off topic. Let's discontinue this please and get back on topic

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[About XDA developers] LordManhattan:
Remember when you (XDA) disabled the thanks button in Off-Topic? You should do the same with the Homescreen thread. 10-20 thanks for posting a screenshot? Are you ****ing kidding me? How are they contributing any more than the people in the Off-Topic section?

1. Post a screenshot

2. Receive tons of thanks

3. Repeat process in an hour

Ridiculous.
[About XDA developers] _Variable:
Maybe the thankers were inspired by his work?

There are even times that the screen owner posts instructions on how to make his screen for everyone to use, and that is a thankworthy thing.

Maybe have rules that the screen owner should ALWAYS share the apps involved and how to make it? That would be great.

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[About XDA developers] jugg1es:
The same can be said for wallpaper threads

“I've had great success being a total idiot. ”*―*Jerry Lewis
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
dropping the ability to use thanks in a forum is easy enough, but not sure how feasible it is in a thread using vbulletin. Would need to check
[About XDA developers] KidCarter93:
A great example of that is here.

OP has 3000+ posts just in there. Around 1000 posts in a different S2 wallpaper thread and has 22000 thanks just for wallpapers.
[About XDA developers] Nickamina:
I think signature size is becoming an issue - it's something I'm seeing more and more.

See my example attached. At the moment I'm working round it with adblock but this is nuts. Shouldn't there be some kind of restriction on signature size to prevent gargantuan garbage like this? It's taking up my whole screen!
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Wow

That's huge.

I know this has been brought up and discussed, but xda should implement scrollable signatures.

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[About XDA developers] Nickamina:
Scrollable signatures are a great idea. For now however, do you (or anyone) know if this is even a reportable offence?
[About XDA developers] undercover:
I think someone mentioned pics of a size greater than (don't quote me on that) 300x600 that are not allowed. Ad it stands, it's more of a common sense thing rather than a rule. I'm always on app, so it doesn't bother me, but from what I've seen, it is becoming rather a nuisance as of late.

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[About XDA developers] LordManhattan:
I bumped into a user last week who used (I'm not kidding) a wallpaper as a signature. I dropped a (manly) tear that day. Some people just want to see the world burn.
[About XDA developers] electricsheepdreamer:
I've heard a rumor that some malicious groupation is making a giant wallpaper. The world has come to an end, I guess. :)

I don't care where is it sent from.
[About XDA developers] vigoos:
I've observed that Android Mod Market whose username is thunder stick on xda is taking things for granted. Without any permissions he is taking our ROM OP content and putting on his website. I sent him a PM once but for no response. The worst part is no credits. How can some person do such an act is something I cannot understand. I would have given him permission but when he takes me for granted I get angry man. This is absolute nonsense. Strict action must be taken. He has taken all ROMs from salsa forum without giving their respective developer credits. I staunchly object to this. Anyone agree?
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Link to that user's profile and website please.

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[About XDA developers] vigoos:
Here's his profile-

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=3120416

His website androidmodmarket.com
[About XDA developers] upndwn4par:
I agree...I have a problem with this.

See this site too: igottadroid.com

It looks like he's reproducing xda to sell his app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thunderstick.androidmodmarketpro

I brought this up in the RD forum. It looks like nothing was ever done about it.
[About XDA developers] vigoos:
They are the same person. The fact is that developers community strives so hard for better technology and then we get such pests who play spoilsport. I request any senior mod or some person to take cue of this situation and put away such pests.
[About XDA developers] :
Are images in tapatalk signatures allowed. I posted above quote in requests to admin/mods thread and got no reply.

Posting this again as we had some discussion in other thread regarding a user having a image in tapatalk sig.

There should be a rule. Or can I simply report those posts without a valid (since no strict rule) reason?

The user's arguement was its just too small and won't affect anything.

A Hero Can Be Anyone
[About XDA developers] Stryke_the_Orc:
Aren't there options to turn off signature viewing?

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[About XDA developers] :
There is.

In usercp.

But you can't disable tapatalk signatures.

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[About XDA developers] boborone:
Yes. But why block all including helpful info in sings when a rule can be implemented about them. I don't see why img tags can't be disabled and only the use of the sigpic tag enabled in signatures. The limit for those is 100*300. I think mine is longer than 300 but it is only 100 pixels in height. That is enough for any pic IMO.

Maybe make the limit 500*100. That would be just fine to hold any fancy pic someone wants.

The pic in a sig if for a banner, not a wallpaper after all.

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[About XDA developers] Deadly:
This ^^ he meant

He meant the app sig.. you get an option to put some text in every post.. it appears below the text you type in each post..

And adding an image to a tapatalk/xda app makes it really a problem.. as everytime they post.. the image gets downloaded.. and in every quote that image appears ..

And too many images also makes app laggy in that thread.. at least in low end phones.. and image takes more space than actual posts sometimes.. and it will be an addition to xda sig if you are browsing via pc or browser..

I think the issue was resolved when it was brought up last time, saying we should pm them to remove it or report to mods.. couldn't find the posts though..

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[About XDA developers] Skazzy3:
I didn't know where to put this so excuse me if I made a mistake.

I found a bug on the forum with the xda portal and news thing on the side overlapping wide images.

Check the screenshot.

Edit: LOL even the image I posted gets overlapped!
[About XDA developers] LordManhattan:
This. I'm not interested in blocking/hiding all signatures. Huge signature images has to go. I have experienced some people with huge signatures only write like 7 words in a post, but have a huge signature pic that covers half my screen. Now, why would i be interested in seeing that monstrous... thing? A 500x100 limit would be great.
[About XDA developers] Stryke_the_Orc:
I agree with you there, the huge pic sigs are a bit of a hassle to navigate sometimes.

I was thinking there was an option in tapatalk to hide the signatures, I was mistaken, sorry.:o

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[About XDA developers] boborone:
Now that I'm on my phone's browser, if the rule comes down (which no reason why not and is something I've been advocating for a while now) that sigpic is the only IMG tag allowed, can you enable gif images? Stryketheorce's gif image is small and I think even fits into a 500*100 limit.
[About XDA developers] zimlokks:
[MENTION=243864]xda[/MENTION] :) hi! not a new user ive been here on XDA and other forums for a while, ive seen other forums add a "Like" option. It would be great to add this feature since it would stop users from freakingly pressing the Thanks button. Its also great since sometimes i wanna like something instead of thanking someone. This is only a suggestion i would love to this feature implemented :D

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[About XDA developers] roofrider:
.gif for avatars too would be nice.
[About XDA developers] Jonny:
He has now removed the huge banner
[About XDA developers] LordManhattan:
Now, let's hunt down another "bannerista".

AMC presents "Banned Bannerista by Banners: The Banner Story".
[About XDA developers] eddhard:
I agree with the previous post but one. I love the post before mine and think it might turn out to be a late night tv hit. I would have clicked a like button but instead I had to thank him.
[About XDA developers] boborone:
Its been talked about before. I don't remember the reason why it was dropped.

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[About XDA developers] roofrider:
No probs, was just throwing it out there. Skinny said xda is the only forum where gifs don't work in tapatalk..wonder what the admins/mods have against gifs.
[About XDA developers] Stryke_the_Orc:
Could just be the server load :confused:

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[About XDA developers] It_ler:
Yes, you are right. There are some "strange" Thanks activities ... or habbits.

Everyone has a different attitude to the "Thanks". Some never use the Thanks button, others click it nearly everytime for everything.

AFAIK, nothing on xda is directly controlled/triggered by the number of Thanks a user has.

So think different: Instead of each "Thank", there could be a reply/post to say "Thank you".

Now imagine the homescreen, wallpaper or whatever thread with all its posts + 22k "Thank you" posts :eek:

I prefer hitting the "Thanks" button ... and having to read less posts ;)
[About XDA developers] Nameless One:
With this being a fairly technical forum for the most part, and one under tremendous load it seems, I would have hoped

that the e-peen waving (the massive signatures and the tapatalk sigs) would be kept to a minimum. Animated avatars

also fit into this category, rather than simply saying "this is who I am" they scream "HEY EVERYONE, LOOK AT ME!"

Having the server force shrink any large inline images (both from a download size and massive waste of screen space

point of view) would also be nice.

To bring up another topic, some days, like today, I find the pages on this site get into a cycle of continuously refreshing themselves

upon being completed, to the point where the server brings up the under load error message, and the only way I have to stop it

(since the stop button doesn't affect what's going on) is to turn off scripting via noscript. If I knew for certain that this only broke

the useless search facility I wouldn't be too worried about it.
[About XDA developers] mnishamk:
I totally second this. The like button should be introduced.

Regards

-N