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[About XDA developers] dully79:
Have the people who pilot the ship considered putting android themes into its own section?

From there you could create theme sub sections for:

Q&A, help

General themes, mods.

CM based.

RRO/layers.

Third party apps, launchers.

With themeing growing ever more popular, it would seem logical as threads constantly get swamped within a matter of hours.

And the impending explosion of RRO, this will only exacerbate things (word of the day toilet roll;)).

It would be nice to have some structure instead of wading through pages of randomness to find something useful.

Regards.:)
[About XDA developers] Jonny:
We already have a Themes and Apps forum per device, unless you mean something different?
[About XDA developers] dully79:
Thanks for replying.:)

Yes i thinking something different. This can be a general theme section instead of device specific.

Instead of having one little sub section for a variety of themes and all things concerned housed here:

http://xdaforums.com/android

Give it it's own section as I explained above, I really think it could help and improve navigation around the site.

I especially think having its own q&a, help sub section would be really helpful for people starting out or having trouble.

I'm surprised you have not done this Xposed also.
[About XDA developers] Spannaa:
Yep, this is worth considering :good:

Themers currently have two choices:

Post in a device specific themes & apps forum and users on different devices that could benefit don't see the thread.

Post in the android themes forum and the thread is swamped and disappears into oblivion within a couple of days.

Some structure within the android themes forum would be helpful to everyone.
[About XDA developers] ponchofiesta:
I changed to Vivaldi browser and XDA forum is displayed with mobile theme. Could someone fix it?
[About XDA developers] Oscarandco:
Hi to all, since two days I will be return on the old version of XDA... It's a bug from my computer or something else...?
[About XDA developers] Neo:
If you scroll to the very bottom of the page, you will find an option to change the theme in the bottom left hand corner. Switch it back to 2015 and you'll be good :good:;)
[About XDA developers] Oscarandco:
Right, thank's... I look around all the corner of the page and don't see the button...:p It's good to return in 2015...:fingers-crossed::good:
[About XDA developers] gock:
The current css on DevDB is broken with the dark theme.
[About XDA developers] Yogesh1969:
No sent messages link in user control.

Guys I'm not able to see the sent messages link in user control. It helps in keeping a track of communication from my side. Am I missing something ?
[About XDA developers] :
The Sent Messages section is not available directly from the Control Panel; you must first click "List messages", then click "Inbox (x Messages)" (underneath "Jump to Folder"), and lastly click "Sent Items (x Messages)". Then click "GO".
[About XDA developers] Yogesh1969:
Thanks a lot for replying.

I had earlier seen it. But what's perplexing is where are all my messages gone ? It shows only 1 message,whereas Ive sent more than 11 or 12.

Many of them are within this week. Do they get deleted automatically ? i haven't deleted any message as far as I know. :)
[About XDA developers] :
Try navigating [Control Panel > Edit Options > Private Messaging > Save a copy of sent messages in my Sent Items folder by default] and ensuring the last section's check box has a check mark inside it. If it does, un-check and re-check it; if it doesn't, check it. Then, scroll down and click "SAVE CHANGES".
[About XDA developers] Yogesh1969:
Sent Messages

Thanks a lot for all the trouble. I've done the edit and save. If there's any issue I'll get back. ....:):):):good:
[About XDA developers] Paul.ryan:
Don't like the new website layout.

I haven't used the web to view XDA for a while so I don't know when it changed but I don't think that it is an improvement over the old one.

I never understood how the phones were organized under the "All" tab. They weren't listed alphabetical, by manufacturer, by carrier or anything else I could figure out. It seamed quite random. Now that hasn't changed and it is even worse because all of the sub forums under each phone is listed with a description of it so that each phone in the list takes a whole page on my computer screen. This seems unnecessary as those sub forums repeat for each device.. The list was quite long already and now it is completely unbearable. When I first visited this forum I would scroll down that list looking to see if the phone I had was in the list. Even the "New Devices" & "Top Devices" tabs lists are long because of how they are displayed now.

When I tried the "Compact" tab I found something that was compact & organized by manufacturer and very easy to search. This is great for someone new or who doesn't know exactly how their phone is titled in the forum. Now the "Compact" tab is gone and even though I'm more comfortable using the search tool provided here I still used the "Compact" tab to see if a phone I'm interested in buying has a thread here or not. It's was just faster and more direct.

Some people would say "Why don't you just use the "Device Search" tool here in the forum?" and I would say I have and sometimes failed to find a phone that I knew had a thread here because I didn't use the exact title to describe my phone that was use to describe it in the search list. I have also found information about a phone on XDA with a Google search and then tried to find that same thread with XDA's search tool and failed to find it.

I'm sure that it was my inadequacy that caused these failures. What I am saying is that while the search tools are useful they are not necessarily idiot proof either.

Please bring back the "Compact List" tab and at least consider compressing the other lists to make them easier to scroll through.
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
The Compact tab is still there :confused: http://xdaforums.com/compact
[About XDA developers] :
The devices are listed by release date. Newest at the end of the list.
[About XDA developers] cptechnik:
peregrine (Moto G 4g) dont appear at profile/devices

I own a "Moto G" and a "Moto G 4g" ,...

The "Moto G 4g" appears at "edit profile", but not the "Moto G 4g" ...

...have a litle respect of this lonesome smartphone... ;)
[About XDA developers] indigobv:
Confirmation for "Tip us"

I think there should be a confirmation when voting a thread to appear on XDA News (after pressing on "Tip us"). It's the second time I found myself pressing it by mistake and there is no way I can undo that.
[About XDA developers] :
Hello,

Please post your device forum requests in this thread to minimize clutter in this thread. :)

Regards,

Nookie

XDA Senior Member
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
Also, please keep in this in mind from the OP of this thread:

Remember though, it is not a thread for asking questions, reporting bugs, discussing the XDA app etc. It's sole purpose is to improve XDA and collect your thoughts and ideas.
[About XDA developers] pemell:
Don't know if this has been asked/answered but,

How do you search within a thread in chrome mobile user agent mode? Can't seem to find that feature.

Cheers

Per
[About XDA developers] GermainZ:
It's not complete yet, but what do you mean by "problem in replaying"?

Tap on "Page X of Y" then tap the search button in the upper right corner.
[About XDA developers] pemell:
Yes if I want to search page numbers. I want to search text content within a thread, sorry if I wasn't clear about that.
[About XDA developers] Khaled Neda:
I mean still the problem of layout for mobile , will it be modified and when?

Edit: and also pm messages layout
[About XDA developers] GermainZ:
Ah, my mistake. That doesn't seem to be possible yet. [MENTION=450224]bitpushr[/MENTION]

It's still in the works but should cover all commonly accessed pages.
[About XDA developers] :
i would like an option in Subscriptions that says something like "OP Updates". I would like to get notified when the thread gets updated by the creator. many threads are updated in the first post so this would be nice. Users would be notified when the creator does something new or updates to a newer version. financially, i think it will also create more traffic on the site (more ad $).
[About XDA developers] Siberian Tiger:
You can do that if the thread is a DevDB thread. You can just push the Follow Project button and you will receive notifications when the OP is being updated.:)
[About XDA developers] jrc2:
On mobile site, there are ads that cover a large portion of screen that are hard to close sometimes due to the small "X" button.
[About XDA developers] Hannah Stern:
Please sorry me, i don't want to disturb again.

I suggest:

Jump to last page, if ?page=last or &page=last is attached to a Forum Link.

More than 5 Tags for a thread.

Look, how much tags this thread has...
[About XDA developers] OfficerJimLahey:
Hello,

Thanks for including the optimus-f3q tag in the Device Search box. Very much appreciated to have some organization for this device in lieu of a forum. :cowboy:

However, I tried to add LG Optimus F3Q to my devices under my profile...because it's a tag (I imagine) it's not enough to be able to use it, because when I select F3Q and Save Changes, I get this error (all three times over the span of a day):

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

I realize by the last line you would already be aware of it. Thanks.
[About XDA developers] blocked2014:
I spent a few days because I have not looked in Spam(this is my fault). But even without activation I managed to post on this thread (I do not know how). When i tried again i get the message with '10 posts'. This is wierd.

Then i activated the account from Spam and everything returned to normal.
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
Not sure what happened there, but everything is fine now yeah?
[About XDA developers] blocked2014:
Neither do I known what happened there. Now it's ok.
[About XDA developers] AndyYan:
I've already put forward this idea back in October but got no response, so today I decided to say it again...

Isn't it time to clear up the "all devices" list for a bit? The "legacy devices" list had long been abandoned with no new device adding in since more than a year ago, yet many devices not in that list has already come to a halt (some are too old, others are just so unpopular that I wonder why XDA decided to add them in the first place).

The reason why I want to say this today is that scrolling down the full devices list and trying to find the device I need in the mobile client is becoming increasingly painful...

Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM12

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[About XDA developers] orangekid:
You know about the device search at the top right works best, right? Do you not use that?
[About XDA developers] GermainZ:
In addition to orangekid's suggestion, the other tabs also provide a "cleaned up" list:

Top devices.

Compact view.

Newest devices.

Smartwatches.

Tablets.

The "All devices" list naturally includes all devices. :)
[About XDA developers] AndyYan:
I do, but 1) the mobile client's search function searches everything and is unbelievably inaccurate, and 2) often I'm not looking for a specific device (I can subscribe to where I often go to) but going through the horde of devices trying to find something interesting.

Oh yeah, and 3) for unknown reasons the device search box often won't work - I type stuff in there but nothing comes up for me to click, even though I type in a legit device that has its subforum in XDA.

Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM12

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---------- Post added at 12:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:27 PM ----------

Compact view seems alright, but still not for the client.

What I'm trying to emphasize here is the fact that we have a "legacy device" section that's long not updated for no apparent reason. If "all devices" is to remain the current state and swallow up every new device we have, then why does "legacy" still exist? :confused:

Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM12

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[About XDA developers] efrant:
With the 2015 template now in place, the legacy device list is no longer being maintained. The link has been removed from the 2015 template, and it will soon be removed from the 2010 and 2013 templates as well.
[About XDA developers] AndyYan:
Good to hear a proper explanation :thumbup: Removing the Legacy section altogether is indeed quick and effective.

However, in this way, where will those old Windows Mobile devices go? They are too old to be in the All Devices, yet there isn't another section for them to reside in...

Sent from Google Nexus 4 @ CM12

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[About XDA developers] mcbyte_it:
Frontpage news (and RSS feed) now has too much news, mostly useless

Before the latest website complete change, news (and newsfeed) were acceptable, only most important news were publicized, but since then the newsfeed is full of articles that no longer are that much important, new CM Themes, linked to apps on sale, links to small projects, articles from 3rd party sites (the feed reader goes immediately to 3rd party site, and not to an imntermediate xda page), polls were readers answer in comments.

This started getting more of a spam feed than XDA feed, I already have few rules on the feed to hide such posts, but still a lot of less important stuff are coming in.

can you please make the frontpage more of a professional thing for XDA and don't post useless things?

Thanks...
[About XDA developers] GermainZ:
Some people want all sort of Android news, others want new stuff to grab, and others yet prefer our longer XDA articles. We can't please everyone but we can come close. :) Linking to 3rd party sites is done to reduce blog-spam by giving you a quick summary, and you can decide if you want to check the original source or not (without "stealing" clicks or encouraging blog-spam).

We still write full articles, of course, especially for more interesting links.

You can only view certain tags if you prefer. For example:

XDA articles: complete articles about various news and original articles.

Forum links: links to XDA forum threads/posts with a summary.

Discuss: discussion questions where readers are invited to comment with their opinion.

External links: links to 3rd party websites with a summary.

Get it now: links to deals or fresh apps for those who want to discover apps.

Finally, if you have interesting topics to suggest, feel free to tip us or contact any portal writer via PMs.
[About XDA developers] mcbyte_it:
i know about the pages to read certain tags, so this bring me to suggest a new feature, provide rss feeds for each tag instead of a single feed for everything.
[About XDA developers] wolfmanro:
Guys, is there any way you could change the carrier option for Romania from Cosmote to Telekom? Cosmote became Telekom last year - https://www.telekom.ro/

It's not a big deal, just if you have some time.
[About XDA developers] michal.rutkowski:
Forum's categories suggestion.

You guys should categorise the forum, place the devices sub-forums into the brand sub-forum. What I mean is, all HTC devices in 1 "HTC devices" sub-forum, all LG devices in 1 "LG devices" sub-forum, Google Nexus devices in 1 "Google Nexus devices" sub-forum, and so on.

Tapnięte z D390n
[About XDA developers] doctorman:
car Radio Head Unit category

We desperately need a sub forum just for the Car Head Units

there are many WinCE and Android Radios for cars/trucs and the forum has few discussions on them each are full to the point that it is almost useless

no one will review 12000 posts to keep up to date with one thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2660662

we need a subforum for the radio head units so different topics could be discussed organized in separate threads.
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
The shortcuts for the most thanked posts into a thread don't work. Tried on 2 PC browsers and my phone (desktop agent). BTW with XDA 2015 theme, no issue with XDA 2013.
[About XDA developers] TWEAKiMP:
Why is it called quick reply when I have to press an extra button?

Can you please remove the necessity to click a random "quick reply" button to use the quick reply field?

Otherwise it is not that quick :)
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
quick reply takes you to the bottom of the page, where the quick reply window is.

Posting in there and hitting the quick reply button posts without an extra step. Doing just "reply" takes you to a window to post in and then you have to submit reply, therefore it is one step less and hence "quick" is a correct word to use.
[About XDA developers] TWEAKiMP:
I'll explain it the other way round:

If I read the last post of a thread and want to post another entry, why is the quick reply field blocked? Why do I have to click somewhere else? (Not in the quick reply field and start typing.)
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
That is a good point, may be an issue with vbulletin.

I will see about this one.
[About XDA developers] bitpushr:
Quick reply on all posts should be instantaneous. It sounds like you may have a Javascript issue. Do you have any errors in your Javascript logs?
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
It works, but you have to click on "quick reply" in a post in order to activate the ability to type in the box below.
[About XDA developers] TWEAKiMP:
If I dont do anything, the quick reply box says "Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply."

I just want that removed or change its name to "Medium Speed Reply" :)
[About XDA developers] PG101:
Your sarcastic banter won't make things move faster, neither is it amusing. The server admin and the senior mod is helping you troubleshoot it and trust me, if it needs fixing, it will be.

______________

PG101

RC-RT Liaison / Senior Moderator
[About XDA developers] Robbie P:
TWEAKiMP does have a point, the need to click on a particular post's "quick reply" box before typing is only really relevant if the poster then decides to tick the "Quote message in reply?" box, since there would be no post to reference. It does seem more intuitive if you are just allowed to start typing in the window, therefore accepting the fact that you do not wish to quote a particular post (The "Quote message in reply?" tickbox greyed-out possibly?). The "Quick Reply" box in each post could then be made redundant, since if you wanted to quote a post, you would use "quote" or "multi-quote" boxes before starting typing.

A better idea for the "Quote message in reply?" tickbox would be that, if ticked, a user could then click on the "Quote" box (or #number of post?) of any post they wanted to add, and it would be inserted at the current cursor position, and can be used multiple times. This could eventually make the "Quote" and "Multi-quote" boxes in each post redundant too, if using the #numbers to reference posts, but that might be a bit too much to change all in one go, and might be a tad confusing.

Does this make sense?
[About XDA developers] bitpushr:
:laugh:

:cowboy:

This is built-in vBulletin functionality, which we haven't changed from the default usage pattern. I do remember being confused by this at first - I thought the same thing you all are, that 'Quick Reply' was just a quick way to reply on the page. The reason for that is probably because vBulletin is actually a threaded system, each reply has a parent and quick reply wants to know which post it is a reply to. But, from a user perspective, this doesn't really matter and I definitely see why it should just allow a reply out of the box. We'll take this into consideration and change the function if possible - sometimes built in vB things are hard to change, sometimes they are easy.
[About XDA developers] TWEAKiMP:
Thanks, I'm looking forward to the change. :victory:
[About XDA developers] Bigjohn_S:
how about a theme that does not look like it was done by the windows8/win10/googleMaterial Design team?

Gray on white/light gray? really?

Hell, this one was better:

http://web.archive.org/web/20101130023136/http://www.xda-developers.com/
[About XDA developers] TWEAKiMP:
You did it!

Thank you for this great change and the quick reply to my "quickreply"-problem.

:victory:
[About XDA developers] Wixcee:
only half of videos shows up in my g3

Hi, I saw that videos on XDA shows only half. I cant go to full screen and I cant to see video normaly even on landscape. I thought it was UC browsers problem, but the same bug shows on chrome and lg browser.
[About XDA developers] FlyOnTheWall43:
It would be nice if you could subscribe to a search. That way you would get notifications when something matching your search gets posted.

Thanks for your time,

Fly
[About XDA developers] efrant:
I'm not sure it would add any other functionality that doesn't already exit when using Google Alerts. If you add "site:xdaforums.com" in the alert (without the quotes) along with your search terms, it should do what you want.

EDIT: Fixed typo.
[About XDA developers] FlyOnTheWall43:
yeah, this was one of the first things I thought to try... did some playing around and I couldn't get the search wording correct to get results. I'll try again, Thanks.
[About XDA developers] FlyOnTheWall43:
Yeah, I figured out before you edited to add the ".com", but I still can't seem to get the search terms correct to get the results I'm looking for.
[About XDA developers] Hannah Stern:
Poll Options

Please don't feel disturbed, but i think, it's a nice idea to set the limit of characters per poll option up to a higher number like 64, 80 or even 100…

The current limit is 50. That is pretty low.
[About XDA developers] beli3ver:
Hello,

is it possible to add, some of these for the user profil:

Instant Messaging:

- Jabber

- Tox

Provider

- Germany - blau.de

- Germany - Aldi Talk

Profils

- GitLab Link

- Diaspora

Thank you
[About XDA developers] halfmetaljacket:
I don't know how many other people have reported this, but I'm having the same issue on both my older phone (Galaxy S4) and also on my my new phone- Note 4. Makes it impossible to view any youtube videos on this site. Chrome and default browser on TouchWiz 4.2.2 on the S4 and both browsers on TW 4.4.4 on the Note4. Is there a fix for this?
[About XDA developers] masterX244:
RSS-Feed

Small suggestion regarding the RSS feeds:

there is no link on the frontpage pointing to them (many other news sites i read have a link thats easy to find on the main page). finding them currently requires a search on the forum.
[About XDA developers] MastahF:
A suggestion for the 'Donate' option on XDA:

I like the feature to enter a paypal email ID for donations and find it very useful. The only trouble is, is that the default currency for the donation link generated by XDA is in USD$, why I would prefer to receive my donations in EUR.

In the 'normal' paypal donate-button creation process a currency can be chosen. Could you please also add a similar (dropdown menu) for the major currencies when generating the donation link on XDA's profile page?
[About XDA developers] Hannah Stern:
More than 5 Tags

I see some threads like the XDA Welcome Thread or the Device Suggestion thread - with more than 5 Tags. How is that possible?
[About XDA developers] Neo:
Powerz. You have none. :p

There is a limit to the number of tags a member can use based on their status with XDA. Do you really need more than 5 though? :)
[About XDA developers] Spannaa:
AFAIK the OP can add 5 tags and every RT, RC (& RD?) can add 2 more. MODs can add/edit tags too.