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[About XDA developers] burningv:
'Search This Thread' is very bare bones:

It would be great if you add the advanced 'Search threads' options to it:

E.g. when searching for posts in a thread, they're displayed in unchronological order. The ones that interest me the most, are most recent. Having to go through all the results to see which posts are relevant is incredibly tedious :mad:

If I look up the word, battery, in the [APP][MOD][ROOT/NONROOT] YouTube Vanced Edition thread then I get 9 pages of results without being able to sort the posts by date!

Take a gander here: https://xdaforums.com/search/21119925/?q=battery&t=post&c[thread]=3758757&o=relevance
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
I used the same keyword in the suggested thread and get the results in chronological order with the most recent ones on the very top. Did you check your search preferences in your profile?

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[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
The default search settings options are Date or Relevance.

They can be selected in https://xdaforums.com/account/preferences

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I also would like some more advanced in-thread search options
[About XDA developers] burningv:
Touché. I haven't checked those settings at all, and the search results are sorted in chronological order. Many thanks :D

Still, I think it would be great to carry over many of those advanced features to 'Search this Thread'.
[About XDA developers] burningv:
Another feature request: track a user or a topic creator of a watched thread and only receive push or email notifications from that designated user when they post.

This is especially relevant if you'd just like to receive updates from a maintainer of a custom ROM or an app developer. If you tag a really popular thread to receive email or push notifications, your phone or inbox starts blowing up.
[About XDA developers] Tops1:
Hi I had this problem a while ago and you guys fixed it

When I make a short cut of the

eg note20 Dr's page

It makes a short cut of the main xda page not the particular page that I want

Thanks
[About XDA developers] Timmmmaaahh!:
Dear XDA deities, I have a humble CSS tweak request. After clicking the 'bell' (Alerts) icon once, a list comes down of all recent posts in followed threads (and reaction to own posts if that's enabled). Unread items are marked in a darker tone but when hovering the list of items, items are coloured in the same way. Like so it's difficult to discern "I have yet to read this" from "This is where my mouse cursor is". This does not happen when opening the actual Alerts page. In there a filled (unread) or empty (read) bullet is presented on the right-hand side of every item hovered over (also present in the top right Alerts box).

So either change the background colour property of 'onHover' or disable a change entirely. Please? 🐶

It's the same on XDA, XDA - Classic and XDA - Dark.
[About XDA developers] SyCoREAPER:
Please change the ' Forum Home ' button to a more visible location and make it stand our more. This day I click on forum and forget the damn home link is tucked in the bottom left corner.
[About XDA developers] Quigley:
Hi, may I suggest two changes to the forum structure? They both arose based on topics I started:

The General Development forum now needs to be accessed through the Manufacturers forum, which makes little sense in my opinion. Is it an idea to make the General Development forum a new top level forum with a menu item at the top menu bar? Since XDA is primarily for developers it makes sense to have a general development forum that is easily accessible and prominently visible.

The Project Treble forum has three sub-boards for A, A/B and A / A/B devices. However I propose in this topic to create two sub-boards called e.g. "GSI development" and "non-SAR (legacy) development".

Please let me know what you think and if you think these are good ideas!
[About XDA developers] V0latyle:
Agreed, even as a mod I find the new forum layout pretty confusing. There are a couple of subforums under Manufacturers that shouldn't be. We could definitely have a more efficient forum tree.
[About XDA developers] letmedanz:
Hi,

Couple of questions if i may:

a) How to hide the side bar/s (both on the left & right side)?

b) Is the browser the only way of accessing XDA at this time?

(Sorry, tried searching, but it ended up searching all of XDA, although the link was 'search this thread')
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
The lift side bar can be hidden (or shown) via the burger menu left of the XDA icon at the top. For the right side bar, the only way I know of is a stylus script (that I've installed but deactivate as I'm interested in the right side bar's content).

Browser has always been and will always be my personal one and only way i.e. sorry, unable to tell you.
[About XDA developers] letmedanz:
Thanks. On small laptop screens, the additional bars on either side take up a lot of real estate.

Closing the left panel helps
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Customization & Preferences

How to Minimize the left column

Toggle website width button

Hide right column (new posts section)

Ways to use XDA

Desktop Browser

Mobile Browser

New XDA App

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[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"...

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[About XDA developers] V0latyle:
Split the "Latest Activity" feed into a "New Posts" feed that only displays posts, not reactions.

Edit: I'm a dummy. This is already covered under "What's New" and "New Posts". Suggestion: Maybe include post previews like how it's displayed on Latest Activity?
[About XDA developers] NOSS8:
Hi,

I don't know who to contact:rolleyes: but I received the same email 3 times in 5 minutes concerning newsletter@xda-developers.com.:oops:

Thanks.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
@willverduzco Sir, are you able to help our RC regarding his newsletter issue? Thanks a lot.
[About XDA developers] NOSS8:
Not really serious but it's the first time it's happened, that's why I wanted to report it.

It is also possible that it comes from my side.

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[About XDA developers] willverduzco:
Strange, it came through as expected on my end, so this is likely to be an isolated case.

Can you please share a screenshot showing this, as well as your email address so that may look into it with our email service provider later this week? You can DM me these if you prefer for privacy reasons.

Thanks!
[About XDA developers] willverduzco:
Quick update on the newsletter. I believe I've fixed the issue -- and dramatically improved our newsletter in the process!

Turns out, our previous RSS-based email workflow was behaving erratically at times. In addition, it became readily apparent to me that the formatting and article selection of the old newsletter system wasn't great. So I changed it.

Starting with today's send (approximately 16 hours ago), all newsletter sends will be manually curated and formatted to create an engaging experience for the reader. After all, if we're going to send out a newsletter, it might as well be a good one that highlights the very best stories, reviews, and news from the previous day.

Today's email focused on the Galaxy S23 leak, and tomorrow's set to be a great one as well. We're going to be putting a lot of effort into this going forward -- and by "we," I actually mean "I" -- so if you're not already subscribed, make sure you get on the bandwagon!

SIGN UP FOR THE XDA DAILY NEWSLETTER HERE!

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[About XDA developers] Dayuser:
I think it would be nice if this thread is sticky??? Easier to find if needed.
[About XDA developers] Clark Joseph Kent:
Yes it actually is at the top of the forum, MikeC has them stickied: https://xdaforums.com/f/about-xda-developers-com.263/
[About XDA developers] Dayuser:
But this thread is not sticky? i think it should be. That's what i'm trying to say.
[About XDA developers] ipdev:
Sixth in the sticky list.

Requests to Moderators and Recommendations for XDA improvements

https://xdaforums.com/t/requests-to-moderators-and-recommendations-for-xda-improvements.4300729

Gives links to only :

[All XDA Members] Requests to Moderators and Admins

[All XDA Members] Feedback/Recommendations for XDA
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Regarding more visible signature or byline.

For forum access through web browsers on android devices (using android browser agent) where the "expand signature" link is not present, is there any way to display part of a signature or byline so that it is always visible and clickable without people having to navigate through user profile? IIRC, a previous iteration of XDA might have allowed this with the byline which may have been removed. If possible I might use a space like that to share a link to XDA search advice. Such functionality could jam up threads if used for long signatures but for some one-liners it could be quite helpful. It seems that some people use the location field to express a statement but that would not be practical for this purpose and would require making location visible which I would prefer not to do even if the field is occupied by something other than location.
[About XDA developers] Spannaa:
You can see signatures on a mobile browser in landscape mode.

I guess they're removed via CSS when the viewport drops below a certain width.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Thanks for the reminder. Although I didn't mention it I'm aware that landscape mode would do that, but in my case and likely others that would require almost as much interaction as would accessing signature through user profile. More important to my intent, you and I know these tips and will do them as needed, but I'm hoping to share XDA search advice to other people who may not know those tips and might see nothing to indicate there may be a worthwhile link in the signature and nothing to inform how to see the signature. Agreed about width which in my experience does seem to be a determining factor, as might certain display settings such as larger fonts which in turn speak to a level of variability which may be difficult to support, but IIRC the old byline worked around that.
[About XDA developers] Spannaa:
It's probably set using

@media only screen and (max-width:XXXpx)

which edits styles in the CSS cacade to reduce unnecessary clutter and make text more readable as max-width reduces

e.g. Desktop > tablet > mobile landscape > mobile portrait

sigs in mobile portrait view = increased scrolling. Not a fan.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
However it functions it would be nice to be able to do this but, to your point and mine, that could indeed jam threads if used for long signatures, which would occur if not restricted to one line, and even if restricted to one line this would also require extra scrolling.

I happen to think the extra scrolling is worth an informative or helpful one-line byline but understand that some or most people might not like that. In a page containing only posts by you that would add a noticeable percentage of additional scrolling, but in a page containing only posts by me the difference in scrolling might not be so relatively noticeable. That's not just a joke at my expense about your concision and my verbosity but also speaks to different types of communication which might occur around different topic and different perceived values of a one-line byline.

So, I'll go +1 with you against the scrolling that would be required in current implementation but when working in the claustrophobic UI that is the ill performing edit box in mobile browsers I want some of that free page space back (likewise in desktop browsers) if not for bylines then for something else.
[About XDA developers] Spannaa:
Lets wait for additional input 😏
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Oh, I don't think additional input is going to tip this towards restoration of byline, and perhaps more importantly I don't get the impression that XDA has that level of autonomy and flexibility in determining how the site is formatted anymore, yet I dare to dream.
[About XDA developers] Spannaa:
Yeah, I'm just as cynical, but we can hope 😏
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
What about massive Middlesex cockpit drunken drug-addled shell?

Someone really took the time to compile a list of dangerous words and then ensure no matching substring would see the light of day?

Is this a standard Xenforo safety measure, or an XDA decision?
[About XDA developers] osm0sis:
Old XDA had this overkill substring language filter, and it had actually been better since the switch to XenForo, but now someone's gone and added it back again it seems... 😕
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Some major email service providers wont allow the word "naked" (as in nakedape) in usernames even if the name is available. I've never discovered whether they object to it as a phylogenetic descriptor as an expression of nudity. XDA does not seem to object to that wording but automatically asterisked the word "sh1t" in a PM. The filters flitter.
[About XDA developers] pndwal:
That's how this started... @osm0sis's fla****! 😝 PW
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Funny thing about such filters is that things can be made to sound even "dirtier" when we are forced to use "appropriate" words. As to sh!t, I've not used the word enough to recall if that filter that is new or long-standing.
[About XDA developers] pndwal:
Cleaned this
[About XDA developers] Timmmmaaahh!:
What's going on here?!
[About XDA developers] Clark Joseph Kent:
Where's the Mods at, this thread needs cleaning. Must be happy hour, all the Mods are sleeping...
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
This is a bt of a head scratcher, but not too serious, in this case. There use to be a post bugs thread, but I think it may of been closed and melded into this thread, so if it exists somewhere else, of course feel free to move this post there.

I made a post, and when I saved it, I noticed a minor typo, so went into to correct it, saved the change, and the error persisted. When I went into to re-edit the post, the error is corrected in the post! whaaat?"

First the post as is saved. Notice it has "is" instead of "in"

When I click on edit, it shows the correct word as "in"

The actual post can be found at

https://xdaforums.com/t/app-tool-temefi-comprehensive-system-administration.3806260/post-88449773

Actually, I just found another kinda bug, in that I inserted the two images above as Thumbnails, but they are showing as full size

PS: When I 1st posted this post, it had a 1 char typo, which I edited and it fixed it correctly on a save.

PPS: OK, it may of been a timing thing, as it now appears to be corrected in the saved & source post. Annoying at the time when It did not correct​
[About XDA developers] pndwal:
@simplepinoi177, @karandpr, @Oswald Boelcke @alecxs, others

Please would someone take a look at this:

https://xdaforums.com/t/xda-telegram.4594953/post-88633401

and say whether rule 11 (exceptions-to-registration-required for file download part) or other can be made to accommodate a member linking TG hosted file sources for projects/dev forks, such as the one discussed, on XDA... 👍

Much obliged, PW
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I agree that we should be allowed to post links, but Rule 11 requires that the link meet both requirements. (I.e., it is not a matter of getting B to apply; A will not apply)
[About XDA developers] pndwal:
Ah yes, thanks!...

So I've reworded posts incl. the request above to indicate that we really need a revision (+ clarification) of this rule...

The other ruling cited in the moved posts

https://xdaforums.com/t/telegram-chat-channels-way-forward.4454839/post-86993331

under

What about download links?

has clearly caused all the confusion as it seems to indicate that some TG download links are acceptable. However since ALL hosted files (whether in public channels or private groups) require registration for download, none are acceptable under that 'clarification'. 😬 PW
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
I couldn't find a better thread, so I guess this is one for a minor bug in XDA Desktop Web UI?

I normally got o "Watched" threads, and check for new posts in threads I watch, based on the threads with new posts being formatted as bold. I am on the Dark Theme.

For the last few days, one thread is coming up bold when there are no new unread posts.

The following shows the bold on new posts

The following shows there are no new posts on the incorrectly bolded thread title

And an example of a thread that does have new posts

It doesnt happen very often, but I think I have seen it before...maybe...

And the weird thing is that it is now only happening on this single thread. And I have seen new posts come, I have read them, and now it is still bold.

While I am here, every now and then, the new posts URL actually takes me to the OP and not the new posts. I *think* this happens on old threads with a new post.
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I use "whats-new/posts" to find watched threads with new posts. It included this thread, with "unread" on the end of the URL, but it took me to the first post -- I had to click on "Jump to new".

This is not the first time a link under "new posts" took me to post #1. I have no theory about when it happens.

Just to be picky: You haven't shown that some threads you think are being displayed in bold do not have unread posts, only that "unread" was not at the end of the URL. (I'm guessing the first five threads in your screenshot are bold, but I have trouble deciding they are different from the last two.)
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Although I've already posted in your thread I've not subscribed to it so far but now I did:

https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-unofficial-a13-0-sunfish-pixel4a-4g-crdroid-v9-7-with-gapps.4593649/

Let's see if I can replicate that issue.
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
Thanks for confirming its not just me. And this behavior has been happening for me, at least since the upgrade.

On that you need to trust me, I checked.😜

I think you got the wrong thread. Its for the same ROM & device, but someone else is now providing builds, so a different thread, and I have directed others to this new thread. Maybe ask if anyone else watching the thread has the same behaviour.

[UNOFFICIAL] RisingOS v1.4 [Elysium] [sunfish] [Android 13]

risingOS for Pixel 4a [sunfish] What is risingOS? * Rising is a FREE OPENSOURCE Android Operating System based on LineageOS and crDroid, that aims to provide necessary "ricing" aka customizations for ANDROID while being fast and stable. This...

xdaforums.com

I now realise I missed actually posting the exact thread URL :oops:. My bad.

EDIT: Actually, different ROM. That one hasn't acted up
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Oops... No, my bad. Only excuse: Too early and too little coffee at that time. I've changed the subscriptions. Thanks a lot for letting me know. I'll report when I've some observations.
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
FYI: new post today, Read it, refreshed the watched screen. Still bold.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Thanks for the heads-up. I can confirm that the thread's title stays at bold although it gets for me flagged as read (you can recognise it because for me the title goes from green to white).

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@MikeChannon @the_scotsman

Gentleme, any idea why the title of this thread always stays on bold characters?

[UNOFFICIAL] RisingOS v1.4 [Elysium] [sunfish] [Android 13]

risingOS for Pixel 4a [sunfish] What is risingOS? * Rising is a FREE OPENSOURCE Android Operating System based on LineageOS and crDroid, that aims to provide necessary "ricing" aka customizations for ANDROID while being fast and stable. This...

xdaforums.com
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
A quick test shows all threads in that forum stay bold even after reading them. I'm just sitting down to dinner, so I'll check later if Mike doesn't beat me to it.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Sir, for me it's only the subject thread; all other threads in that forum lose their "bold appearance" after bein read:

Spoiler content hidden.

And enjoy your dinner; still about breakfast time here.
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Yea same for me too now. i hadn't clicked through to the last page of the thread.

Seems to be a glitch in the matrix.
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Can you guys test again. You might need to refresh the thread listing page with <Ctrl F5>

Mike
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Yep, that sorted it. What was it?
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Well you were all wrong it was not BOLD at all, you were wickedly deceived.... LoL

In fact the title was in a typeface called "Cambria Math" which shows only a very slight difference between Bold and Normal.

So I re-did the title in the standard Times Roman.

I imagine he'd copied the title in from M$Word or something.

Mike
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Thats the VERY FIRST thing I checked, but could see no way to change the title font in the forum editor, so I discounted it.

Interesting that it copied over. Good find.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Perfect, Mike. I try to remember to check the font set in future.
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Yup, initially I didn't see a way to see or change typefaces in Titles.

BUT two things gave it away:

On the browser Tab for the thread,at the top of the browser, it was looking Bolder than other tabs suggesting it was a Typeface thing

I also remembered that other users, Spammers mainly, often use weird typefaces.

I Went into Edit thread, copied the Title text and pasted it into M$Word and there I was able to see its non-standard typeface.

Mike
[About XDA developers] ethical_haquer:
I have noticed that while logged in, thread titles appear bold, but not my thread titles. When I'm logged out, they all aren't bold. Is this by design?
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
I just assume that only when logged in the system can distinguish what YOU have read and what you haven't. If logged out, the state can only be all bold or none bold; design obviously: none is bold.
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
Not for me.
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
yeah, I was tossing up if it was actually bold or not. I remember in the old days one can specify the "boldness" via a sliding numeric in HTML; ie not just on or off. But it definitely looked different to the read threads, and I assumed the ever so slight difference to other bolded threads was either my eyes or brain playing tricks. I didn't "Inspect" the item html.. I dibt copy it from M$Word, it was a scree4n print.

So is the question now why does this thread have a different font?
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Well, for folk posting ROMs or long guides etc., they will often type it all out in a third party app like "Word" and then paste it into a post here.

They likely only half realize that a host of formatting things get copied in as well. Some of the formatting shows, some does not but often it's there but shows no obvious effect. Our problem is (as with thread titles) we don't have a toggle to show the font... which in bad cases allows users to disguise letters in non standard fonts to appear just like regular letters. Usernames can have this problem too, for a while we had "bad guys" pretending to be well known users by appearing to post under other folks accounts but were in fact using oddball fonts to fake other folks usernames.

Mike
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
Ahhh... Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were saying I had pasted the image through word. Sure, it makes a lot more sense now :oops:
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
What markup is so universally recognized that it goes to the clipboard when someone copies from within a word processor, and then Xenforo interprets it when it's pasted into a title field?

Where, in the web interface, could I see this title, including the markup specifying the font?