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[About XDA developers] garyd9:
Is that sugar coating an accusation that I'm complaining and not giving feedback? ;) (<-- intended as humor. please don't misinterpret.)

Seriously, and I'm really tired of typing the same thing over and over: I had NO intention whatsoever of targeting specific threads, people, moderators or anything else. If you go back to the first page of this thread (Early/Mid-November) I was saying the same thing - and it was before the re-organization of the moderators and had no examples. See post#7. Here's two sentences from that post (along with the very last sentence):

The difference was that in that post, I didn't give any specific examples of posts. In this more recent case (which opened a can of worms I never intended) I picked two threads that I felt demonstrated not only the same point, but also allowed me to show how the same concepts of those threads could be abused and get out of hand.

For my efforts in trying to clarify the point, I'm rewarded with nearly every moderator on XDA assuming that I'm attacking them personally, at least 2 users who either think I hate bacon or hate them (or something like that), and now someone is tossing numbers and dollar signs at me and I guess I'm just too old to understand words without letters.

You've lost me there. I guess 42 is just too old to understand what "4$$4073" is. (Funny - and I thought that 42 was the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything...)

Oh - and I hope you'll pardon me if I keep on giving feedback and suggestions. I've been around XDA too damn long to not give a damn...

Take care

Gary
[About XDA developers] Sleepy!:
I've been hearing a lot of people talk about the ways XDA has been deteriorating lately...

This was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2087824

If XDA is supposed to be a community, why ban OT threads in device general forums?

Granted, the "Official SGS3 Indian Owners Hangout" and the "Official New York City Moto Razr Owner thread" kind of threads can get irritating, but the members who socialize on those threads find them very useful.

Except for phone hardware and software stuff, anything else you post on XDA is OFF-TOPIC.

The hangout and off-topic threads in the general device forums are supposed to be a place where people from all over the world (having their phone as the common denominator) can get together and share their experiences about everything.

With the way things have been going, posts like this one are going to get very common:

Devs have been abandoning XDA (some-times silently, sometimes not-so-silently) for the past few years. It looks like the power users are, too, now.

If the mods can let noobs get away with asking the silliest questions without being pulled up for it,

If the Dev committee can make a guy who de-odexes a stock ROM (and adds Gapps and a few other apps to it) a Recognized Developer,

If people can lose Recognized Contributor status just for getting mildly angry at people noobing it out in the Dev section,

I THINK IT'S TIME FOR A REBOOT.

XDA NEEDS TO RETHINK THE WAY THINGS ARE DONE.

/Rant end.

Got lots more to say, but not enough time to say it. :(

Might come back later with a few specific suggestions.

KTHXBYE.
[About XDA developers] AtoZ0to9:
Let it out buddy... most share your opinion... unfortunately XDA has grown so large that it's being sponsored by major companies... and that requires that it be neutered... I't's a money thing, despite what anyone says... The crackdown I have referred to many times has begun... The suggestion box is full, no one is reading it... This is a pointless thread, and it should be shutdown, because NOTHING the users say will EVER come into fruition...
[About XDA developers] roofrider:
@Sleepy

I think one 'Official' OT thread is allowed in a device fora.

But then ctm said this decision rests with the Senior mod who leads the mod team..and looks like broncogr has decided to disallow all kinds OT threads from his forums.

This is the inconsistency everyone has been talking about lately.
[About XDA developers] KidCarter93:
my post was merely to explain that while trying to defuse the situation and get Gary's post back to its original purpose is a good thing and, probably needed doing, I just didn't think it was ideal right away considering the conversation exploded much further than expected (or needed) the first time round and could've quite easily happened again.

The above hasn't been the case this time around so, thank you for doing that.
[About XDA developers] conantroutman:
Oh please, this is just getting silly now.

As I said last night, if we were trying to enforce a site wide zero OT policy then you might have cause for complaint. That's a big might, it's only my opinion and not one shared by the silent majority of users, developers and mods.

It's not inconsistent at all, it's been this way for goodness knows how long (since before I was a moderator).

And this is why people who like to post a little OT now and then and deemed a pain in the ass. Time and a place, this is not it.
[About XDA developers] Sleepy!:
If just one OT (hangout thread), why not just one "Error report" thread too?

Why not just one "Guide" thread too?

Why not just one "Your fav apps/wallpapers/games here!!" thread too?

All of these threads are frequently dupicated (triplicated even)...

But the rationale for this is that everyone has a different point of view that's expressed in each thread... each thread addresses certain factors...

One thread's OP may not tolerate "spam" at all, while others want a friendly atmosphere, going to the extent of posting memes on their thread...

Each thread is like a sub-forum at times... and this is a good thing as XDA is supposed to be a community.

And moreover, I understand that there is a Mod committee...

They and the admins are supposed to be the ones giving out guidelines to the forum mod teams...

I think that they should clarify the whole OT thread and other issues by issuing a site-wide set of guidelines that the mod teams would then adhere by.

Now such guidelines are probably already in place... if they are, then their content should be updated, reviewed by the members for a week or so, then changes be done if consensus says that they need to be made, and new site-wide guidelines be put into place.

This place really needs a bit of democracy... (which I understand it's not gonna get)

It's become too big for a small team of moderators to manage effectively.

Those are just my two cents... two cents that nobody (who can actually do something) is going to give a sh!t about... :rolleyes:

EDIT... That last line just got validated after reading what you said four posts back, CTM.
[About XDA developers] AtoZ0to9:
Expand OT to include sections for manufacturers and in those sections have threads for each model... No OT in device forums...

Not sent from your phone...
[About XDA developers] roofrider:
Even better, add an OT subforum to all the device forums. Problem solved.
[About XDA developers] AtoZ0to9:
General OT should stay...

Not sent from your phone...
[About XDA developers] Sleepy!:
Of all the posts I've read here, I feel that this one is perhaps the most pragmatic.
[About XDA developers] PVL_93_RU:
Can confirm about the layout issue on Chrome v52
[About XDA developers] SkandaH:
Can it be possible to add support for vBulletin's

feature? For example, the first post of
this thread
can be more appealing with the use of table.

:)
[About XDA developers] SyCoREAPER:
I'd second that. I've been on here since 2009 and only have 1233 post and I see people who have joined just recently in the thousands.

First and foremost I think anything Pokemon should be banned or put in some abomination pit deep in the forum.

Secondly, the Carrier logo badge for Project Fi is not working (when you click 'More' under someones profile)
[About XDA developers] efrant:
This has been bought up with the admins. The

code could, in some instances, interfere with the way current XDA template/theme displays so, unfortunately, it won't be enabled.
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
The description of http://xdaforums.com/general/general when viewed in a browser is

as questions are not to be posted in General (see ***NOTICE*** Do NOT post questions here by Perseus)

I think it should be rewritten to something like

Thanks

Edit: Additionally perhaps General should be changed to Discussion

http://xdaforums.com/general/discussion
[About XDA developers] marsisabar:
I have two huge issues with the desktop website interface :

1. It is difficult to find out who I am logged in as. My username should be displayed at the top to show a) I am logged in, b) which username I'm using

2. It took me a while to find the logout button. It doesn't exist in any menus. There is that icon at the top but it doesn't SAY logout, even if you hover on it. And nowhere in the menus will you see an alternate LOGOUT button prominently labelled as such
[About XDA developers] efrant:
1. Your username

is

displayed at the top when you are logged in. And as you know from reading the rules, you are only allowed one user account on the forums.

2. When you hover over the button, it does say "Log out".
[About XDA developers] demlasjr:
I've got all day errors when I was trying to search for something into a thread.

"Sorry, we encountered an error processing your request. Please go back and retry or wait a minute.

The Administrators have been notified of this error"

This is very very very frustrating :/
[About XDA developers] pierceheart:
I've got the same thing happening. I'm trying to do the right thing, and search the HTC 10 forum for a solution to a potential problem, as I've just gotten a 10, but the search just ain't working.
[About XDA developers] demlasjr:
Yep, very frustrating since I'm neither the guy who likes to repeat an answered question or create a dupe thread, but the forum (I guess database corruption) makes our life harder. And the worst is that repeating the answer you risks to be ignored lol
[About XDA developers] Jonny:
Use Google - a lot of our threads are indexed on Google so if our search goes down its a useful backup.
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
There is a search plug in for Firefox and a few others that is great. It's all I have used for years and never fails.
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
Where can I find this plugin? Search withing a thread doesn't work at all (tested with 2 browsers including one that doesn't have any addons, custom settings).

I use Startpage to search for a specific thread but it doesn't help to search within a thread.
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
It doesn't help to search within a thread (and it's using Google APIs...).
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
If you know what your looking for and search for the terms it works just fine. As for Google api. Most searches already use them
[About XDA developers] efrant:
The server admin is aware of the issue and it is being worked on.
[About XDA developers] Trafalgar Square:
The new search engine is the best.

Thank you very much :good::good:
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
Please add a button to mention a member at the bottom of each post:

It's fastest than using the auto-suggestions or copy/paste. After using this "mention" button, the related username is automatically available in the Quick Reply panel (e.g @ Trafalgar Square)
[About XDA developers] andy356:
The results from search plus are shown as Devices, Sections and Best Threads. A suggestion is to make the news feed articles also appear under a separate section.

I tried it on the mobile site and I got no news article results at all. I'm not sure if this is because it doesn't search them at all or they were buried under other results.

If they aren't, I suggest that the news articles be made searchable, so that they don't have to be googled.
[About XDA developers] PalmCentro:
The new search engine gives me ads even when I paid for XDA ad free... Not complaining, just pointing out.
[About XDA developers] NOSTALGIA:
will contact an admin regarding this. will get back to you.
[About XDA developers] SecUpwN:
One word: HTTPS. All admin know that thread in XDA!
[About XDA developers] In_a_state:
Could the threads be more moderated? Have trash posts be deleted by a mod after 1-2 days after they are posted? There is so much non-value-added content being posted that the forum needs some chemotherapy.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Moderators can't be everywhere, they can't monitor every threads. So if you see problematic posts, just report them with the report button below each post and mods will be notified to handle them. We all have to take care of the website, not only mods. :)

But I assume you already know what I say. :confused:
[About XDA developers] Clark Joseph Kent:
[Using "Report" button] How to Report issues / Moderators assistance

Dis ^^^^^
[About XDA developers] coal686:
That's because you didn't pay for XDA Ad-Free Plus/Premium/Premiere. To get rid of those ads, send your $10,000 payment via untraceable bitcoin to coal686@.... :p
[About XDA developers] CDB-Man:
1) I stick to the 2013 theme, as the 2015 theme's "quick reply" area lacks the checkbox for "Quote message in reply?" -- which is very useful.

2) I notice that if I have an IMG tag in my signature, that instead of pulling the image from the source on each load, XDA seems to local cache the image instead. I want to use a dynamic image that updates based on info being fed to it, any way to do this, and/or to disable XDA's auto-cache of the image?
[About XDA developers] alray:
Is it normal that when we click on someone's nickname from the "Reviews" tab of a DevDB thread that we are redirected to the profile of the OP instead of the profile of that person?

I.e: http://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/?id=7064#reviews

click on any nickname, you'll always be redirected to santod040's profile, the OP.
[About XDA developers] Pkt_Lnt:
Broken forum skin(s)

After the site outage last week, a number of forum skins are broken. The attached is the XDA 2013 - beta - 1024. Most others have something broken, mostly graphics. This is using Chrome browser on a laptop, yeah, I'm old skool. ;)
[About XDA developers] :
You tried clearing cookies/cache and what not? I've had that issue, on 2013 as well, and clearing all security/privacy items usually cleaned it up.

Just to check too, try Firefox or something else? :)
[About XDA developers] Pkt_Lnt:
Yeah, I had cleared cache and xda cookies, finally had to do everything, including passwords and auto-fill data. Weird, but good to go. Thanks
[About XDA developers] yanleites:
Hi.

There are forums that in "subscribe" options I can choose "send me an email when the first post being changed". It's very helpful, so I can find out when the DEV updated\changed his app.

I was wondering if you can add this option in XDA too.

Thanks !
[About XDA developers] Easy_as_Pi_3.14:
Dunno if this has been mentioned before, but as we all know, when you post two or more posts in a row, it adds them together with this in between:

[PLAIN][COLOR="Silver"]

[SIZE=1]---------- Post added at <time> ---------- Previous post was at <time> ----------[/SIZE]

[/COLOR][/PLAIN]

However, if you try to @mention someone at the beginning of the second post, the closing COLOR tag goes right up against the @ symbol, making the mention not work. It could be solved by changing it to this:

[PLAIN]

[COLOR="Silver"][SIZE=1]---------- Post added at <time> ---------- Previous post was at <time> ----------[/SIZE][/COLOR]

[/PLAIN]

[font="Fira Sans,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"]Sent fr​om my SGH-I727 using AWESOME COLORS!!![/font]
[About XDA developers] Granite1:
Not sure if it's intentional or not, but the site won't show any thread while Adblock is active on Chrome. I can see the forums and sub forums, but once the thread loads it blanks out. I haven't had time to look through the HTML codes to see if I can figure it out.

I fully understand the site needs revenue and I click on an add every time I'm here to generate some revenue, but if this is intentional to discourage adblocker use you're holding it wrong.
[About XDA developers] Ibuprophen:
Display Issues When The "2015 - Dark Theme" Is Applied...

I would like to start off with a deep apology, in advance, if one or more of these have already been addressed in another post/thread elsewhere. I did indeed performed a forum wide query/search and was unable to locate these specific issues that i am reporting here. If one or more of these issues were, in fact, had been addressed elsewhere, then the verbiage used was more than likely different.

I also had searched around for a place to post this and came to a conclusion that this thread seems to be the most logical place to provide this type of feedback and i didn't feel the need or necessity to send out any email's, pm's, etc... As i always felt that those avenues are more of a last resort for these type of issues.

[MENTION=710782]Fallen Spartan[/MENTION] , i would like to bring some areas of concern to your attention as this threads OP and I apologize if any other individual(s) are the one(s) who handles this and, by all means, this is for everyone who overlooks these issues.

With that being stated, let's get down to the issues at hand...

Okay, I had gone to "Home -> User Control Panel -> Edit Options" and scrolled down (towards the bottom of the page) to the "Forum Skin" within the "Miscellaneous Options" and i changed the setting to "-- 2015 - Dark Theme" and selected "Save Changes".

Afterwards, i then logged out, closed the browser, opened the browser then logged back in. Now I see the Dark Theme applied.

Here is a list of a few areas/locations within the XDA website i had noticed (so far) that boarder between being really hard to read to almost impossible to read that resulted only after i had applied the "2015 - Dark Theme".

1) A screen display issues within the "Results" after performing a "Thread Search". This happens wherever i perform a Thread Search.

Note: Just to clarify, there are No screen display issues after performing a "General Search" is good.

2) A screen display issues within the "Download Information" screen.

3) A screen display issues within the "Followed Projects" screen.

I've attached screenshots to reflect a visual example of what I've outlined above. The screenshots have been labeled the best i can and only reflect the display issue itself because the issue is reflected on all those areas.

For example... one of the screenshots i provided only reflect 1 of the "Download Information" screens (XPosed Framework)...

BUT, all the "Download Information" screens return the same display issue.

I do hope that I had provided everything you need to know regarding the issues I had outlined above. I can't think of anything else that I can provide but, if there is, then please let me know what and how i can provide it to you.

Thank you for your time and understanding.

~@Ibuprophen
[About XDA developers] dansou901:
I can't access the Android Development forum of the OnePlus 2 anymore from XDA Labs. From the browser it's fine. This happened after I posted my ROM there...
[About XDA developers] woodman:
This is a known issue currently, from the XDA Labs back-end, I think admins are working on it.

Please read HERE from XDA Labs thread:

Backend issues

...

* 54- Page content of some threads or entire sub-forums or thread lists are sometimes not displayed, we can see "Network connection error" message instead.: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE

...​

Edit: Forgot to say that this Labs problem should be related to unicode character in one or several latest updated threads of this sub-forum. If someone posts something new in of the problematic thread(s) of this sub-forum without unicode characters in the post (or in the poster's username?), maybe the problem will be temporarily fixed and the sub-furum will be shown up again...

XDA Labs back-end has recently been changed with unicode characters handling, so there is unfortunately some new problems to solve in the back-end.

cc: [MENTION=5136613]rwestergren[/MENTION]; [MENTION=2637227]blk_jack[/MENTION]
[About XDA developers] rwestergren:
We're aware of it and working on it. Will keep you posted. :good:
[About XDA developers] dansou901:
At least the OnePlus 2 development subforum is working again, did you fix it completely?
[About XDA developers] rwestergren:
Most issues should be resolved but still working on a permanent fix. :cowboy:
[About XDA developers] woodman:
If we know places where it's still broken (network error page), do you need corresponding links or the permanent fix you're working on will fix the thing everywhere?
[About XDA developers] rwestergren:
Permanent fix should be out now for this specific issue (posts not showing is Labs due to improper characters). Please do let me know if you see any more issues like that.

As far as characters in usernames within search: usernames are cached in various areas and we're working on fixing those but they shouldn't break any functionality (as the above issue did). :highfive:
[About XDA developers] woodman:
I don't know if we're talking about the same issue because here are pages where I still can see "network connection error" :

- page 1 of this thread: http://xdaforums.com/mi-5/development/kernel-brand-kernel-cm13-alpha-1-0-t3480663

- page 1 of this thread: http://xdaforums.com/mi-5/development/rom-t3453680

- page 1 of this thread: http://xdaforums.com/oneplus-one/development/rom-pure-nexus-oneplus-one-t3477772

- and maybe more.

Thanks [MENTION=7570546]andy356[/MENTION] and [MENTION=5334871]david72262[/MENTION] for those examples of links. :good:

About usernames, I don't remember telling you about them in search, I rather meant the content of posts in search screen. (1st screenshot).

Also we still can see bad rendering of unicode in user titles (2nd screenshot).
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Another weird thing.

Sometimes unicode characters are ok and sometimes they're not in posts. This applies to xda labs but also from a web browser.

For instance, byline of those posts below (from the same member) contain unicode characters and:

- it's well displayed in this post : http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-ressurrection-remix-m-t3270121/post69836536

- it's wrongly displayed in this post: http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-ressurrection-remix-m-t3270121/post69863597

Thanks for your help :)
[About XDA developers] woodman:
The above links (page 1) are now OK. No more network connection error! Thanks [MENTION=5136613]rwestergren[/MENTION]. :highfive:
[About XDA developers] rwestergren:
No problem - user titles should be fixed shortly in Labs also. :good:
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Thanks :)

Forgot this in profile page of Labs (I've sent you a PM about this a few days ago).

Please check my screenshot.

http://xdaforums.com/verizon-lg-g3/help/im-screwed-wifes-lg-g3-verizon-vs985-t3482300/post69287997
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Hi,

These last days, I often see posts like this below with only a the attached thumbnail but no ability to see the full picture ("the image could not be loaded"). Is it a known bug currently?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=69891600&postcount=223

It seems to be a big picture but not sure since I can't see it :)

Edit: Maybe the problem is beacause of the name of the file itself?

Thanks
[About XDA developers] teorouge:
Hello, did RSS feeds broke recently?

As pointed in http://xdaforums.com/general/about-xda/xda-rss-feeds-broken-t3490031 and http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=222464&page=6 I get main articles feed only working now. Can someone look into it? Thanks! :)
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Hi Randy, quoting you below from XDA Labs thread:

Why do we sometimes need to refresh the page on the website (and XDA Labs?) in order to show up correctly unicode characters? You already mentioned this behaviour in your post quoted above but I assumed it was a rare case. It seems to happen quite often. Is it normal? Is it known as a bug? Is it something that is planned to be improved?

Thanks in advance for your help. :)