yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[About XDA developers] garyd9:
Going out on a limb here... Why not have the developers themselves keep it up to date? XDA has this new "DevDB" thing going on (which I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't even looked at), and I wonder if the genealogy concept could be brought in. (The below concept has many flaws, but I think it might be a step in the right direction.)

So, for a given NEW device, there are two bases for a firmware selection (stock/AOSP.) When a dev adds a new firmware, they are asked which of the two their firmware is based on. (Initial selections for most devices would be "stock" and "AOSP.") At that point, any newer firmwares would include any previously entered firmware as a basis. So, consider the mythical device called "Samorola BlurWiz." I get this device and port CM over to it. That's based on AOSP, so I select that.

Assuming AOKP is still based on CM (not sure anymore), then when AOKP is brought over, they'd choose "CM" as the base. In many cases, there aren't any clear lines. They might take AOSP, and bring in some elements of CM, some from AOKP, and some from stock. When someone takes the stock firmware, de-odex's it, and disabled carrier IQ, that would be based on "stock" (obviously.)

The next person takes BlurWizSense, deodex's it and disables CarrierWTF. That would be based on stock. Actually, most of the branching takes place on the side of AOSP-based firmware, as most of the source for that is shared. In the case of stock-based firmware, I suspect most devs start with the stock firmware as most smali-based changes are simply not shared in source form for some reason. So, for stock-based firmware, chances are there's very little actual genealogy, but the option could still be there.

Of course, that assumes that people start actually using "DevDB." There might be cases when a moderator would need to help things along if a user isn't able to add to devDB themselves. (I don't know if that would be a burden to them or not.)

Take care

Gary
[About XDA developers] TonyTurboII:
Could we please, please get a forum them that is dark.

I'd love a dark theme similar to the one on the android app.

All of the options now light up my entire bedroom and cause unwanted stress with my better half, lol.
[About XDA developers] Pons:
Well, while we wait for an official theme (not sure if it's going to happen or not), why don't you take a look at THIS?!

[USERSTYLE/THEME] Dark XDA + (Universal) Mods/Tweaks!
[About XDA developers] TonyTurboII:
That is awesome, but doesn't work on my tablet. I do thank you for digging that up though. :highfive:
[About XDA developers] wysiwia:
Hey this "DevDB" might just be the perfect solution. I'd like to suggest the following procedure:

- First the sticky genealogical tree based on DevDB content is created

- Second a script goes through all the messages to derive infos and fills them into DevDB

- Then developers where informed to either correct their entries or add new ones.

When the DevDB has enough relevant information, users and developers will start using it and keep it up-to-date.
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
I'll discuss this with other mods and the DC to see if this is a viable working option
[About XDA developers] Magissia:
Hello, it could be nice to be able to reply to personal messages from the forum by replying to the mail notification.

Maybe more tricky, but could be nice to be able to reply to threads the same way.

Regards
[About XDA developers] efrant:
This has been submitted for consideration/feasibility. Thanks.
[About XDA developers] bitpushr:
I agree this would be good as in easier/nicer to use, but unfortunately email is too insecure to trust as an authentication method for the forum.
[About XDA developers] GermainZ:
You can use Firefox for Android and use the Stylish extension. Chrome/Other browsers don't support user style sheets AFAIK, though.

Of course, you can just use the apps. The XDA Premium app has a dark theme. :)
[About XDA developers] Magissia:
It would only allow to reply to a notification, not post anywhere as we would be looking at the forum directly, and if I'm right XDA allow to use a Google account as login now, how would it be less secure to reply from Gmail than from the forum while logging from your Google account that use the exact same name and password? If replying by mail compromise account's security, it means the account itself may be already compromised anyway. Even in the case the user doesn't use Google account to sign in, if you have access to the user's mail adress, you can use the password recovery to get hand on the XDA account.

If you are afraid of sender spoofing, the system can use an unique number per notification in the subject line.

If you have something else in head as security issue, I would like to know what as I'm curious to know what else could be possibly a security issue, for personal knowledge. Thanks for your attention

(we could note GitHub allow to reply directly by mail to tickets opened and doesn't seem to see issues from this)
[About XDA developers] SaNXeVC:
How to get access to post to developers' threads?? I need to post important logcat for developer and can't do it :(
[About XDA developers] GermainZ:
You need to have 10+ (useful/helpful) posts. You can always PM the developer, of course. :)
[About XDA developers] efrant:
Please have a read of this thread. It should explain why some of your posts were deleted, and how you can reach 10 useful posts.
[About XDA developers] morpheusxeno:
Just wanted to say thanks for XDA truely a great website I have come here for any of my mobile software needs and have been greeted by success every time. Thanks!
[About XDA developers] cdaddr:
Now you even deleted the "Hi"-post (who should say Hi, if not the new users?) and the post in this thread (although there was a feedback about your spam-problem).

Why did you not delete my first post? It was neither useful nor helpful at all. But you don't have to. I already lost my interest yesterday and I was not going to get the 10 posts.

And here's another last feedback: If you treat your possibly new members like idiots, only idiots will join you.

Have fun. :cowboy:
[About XDA developers] TagEHeuer:
An option to see todays new threads. I know we have an option in quick links, but I'm sure I and others would like to see todays new threads. :good:
[About XDA developers] Stryke_the_Orc:
All new members are required to read the rules and watch the video outlining what is expected of users on these forums, the 10 post requirement is the same for all users, but only a few seem to have an issue with it. The others all make the required posts and go on to become productive members. It's been my experience that only those who want to fix their problem and move on to the next thing without offering anything back to the community have an issue creating 10 useful posts. If you don't wish to be treated like an idiot or leech, don't be one. You get out if this site what you put into it.

Slithering from the nether regions of a twisted mind and tarnished soul
[About XDA developers] caspboy:
Some suggestions

Well, I've got a few recommendations for xda:

Increase the amount of thanks a user can give daily to 10 - lets face it, theres alot of useful post on xda.

Reserved post like in DevDB - In DevDB, after posting the op, a developer can go back to "edit project" and at the bottom, can a reserved post and remove them. Why not add this to normal threads? I mean so devs don't have to hassle to do so. It saves time, energy, and post count! Trust me, its genius:good:

Remove the "Delete Project" Button from DevDB - I never got the piont of this, sense it doesn't delete anything, but XDA should make this button where it sends a notification to a moderator to remove. He/She will pm the OP and ask for confirmation to remove it:D

Maybe a application to become a moderator - Idk if it is one, but so far I've only seen a recognized developer one.

A Little more Device support - Theres no way you guys look at the developing in the Miscellaneous Development forums, theres some real development communities there, I phones that have over 15 roms and huge support, just no forum. Also, you guys skip past alot of samsung, htc, etc. Name brand devices (And yes, I understand why you don't add some devices, the lack of released source from manufactures, and because of the hundreds of Chinese phones). But I'm referring to phones such as the Samsung Galaxy Young Dous, that do have released kernel sources and stuff that xda requires I guess.

A Preview Development Area - Stick with, I know it sounds stupid:p But you know how devs have roms or kernels, that are not stable, not even for test releases, like extreme alpha, right. So why not make a extra forum in the specific device forum (ex.Nexus 5 forum) for those experimental devices and experimental testers. (this really is debatable)

A Android NooB Section - Not like the Q&A section, the noob section would be where NooBs (not total noobs) can meet with other devs to help get them on the write track, such as pinned topics to explain what a recovery, rom, or specific lib or something means. You can say there is a thread for this, but with some many threads having some unclear or untrue info, its a bit mind boggling.

Some noob Links (this has to do with request above) - When members first signup, Instead of redirecting them to the XDA Homepage, They get directed to this page to show the links to these specific topics.

I have more, but I can't think of it right now, but don't worry, if I remember I will post:D XDA is awesome!
[About XDA developers] shinobisoft:
What happened to the "Report Post" link?
[About XDA developers] caspboy:
Its at the top, to the right of the post, looks like this:
[About XDA developers] shinobisoft:
Well then there's a bug in the XDA 2013 Beta - 1024 Theme because it's no longer showing in FireFox with that theme set. It does appear however in the XDA 2013 Beta Theme. :confused:
[About XDA developers] caspboy:
Nah, im using firefox too with exact theme, 2013 Beta 1024 (for compact screens). Its there
[About XDA developers] shinobisoft:
Well I guess I'm seeing things then...
[About XDA developers] xsenman:
Nope you are not seeing things mate :D , its missing in the beta - 1024 but its OK in the 2013 beta theme

Check this out! Links to useful Guides and " Banned " Documentaries ​
[About XDA developers] caspboy:
no, your not. I don't see it either. But Its working fine from my end. Its there. Have you tried chrome browser?

---------- Post added at 06:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:50 PM ----------

Okay, now I see it, I was using the 2013 beta, not the 1024. Yep, its not there, sorry.
[About XDA developers] LordManhattan:
Yup, the report button is gone (1024). Also, any updates regarding the big avatars? I know you're currently testing it, but is it possible to get an ETA (circa)? Not sure why i'm so interested in this since it's only an avatar, but you know; new stuff excites me.
[About XDA developers] eagleeyetom:
No news at the moment. You need to be patient.
[About XDA developers] JFK1997:
In my opinion the Admins should think again about the 10-Post-Rule for New Members. In my case for example, i wanted to communicate about the ROM i'm using on my Galaxy S Plus, but the S Plus doesn't have an own forum, so its hard for me to help the people in the Galaxy S Q&A to get my ten posts because i don't know the i9000 as good as i know the i9001... :/
[About XDA developers] Jonny:
There is a general questions and answers forum here where you can help people if in a similar situation to yourself.

And the 10 post rule is here to stay unless someone thinks of a viable alternative to keep spammers at bay. If this is the case, please feel free to post your ideas and alternatives here.
[About XDA developers] GavTheStoner:
Here's a suggestion, stop having so many stupid spyware laden advertisements on this site.

Surely there are better advertising suppliers than the ones you are currently using. I understand the need to make revenue to pay for hosting etc. But this is ridiculous. Almost every page load redirects me to a site telling me to update my already up to date flash player, in chrome, which updates it self.

On my phone it keeps redirecting me to an apk download site which is trying to install mobgenie.apk or similar. This is not good for your reputation.

EDIT: Installed adblocker... sorry.
[About XDA developers] ironman38102:
Same here. Using adblock on my chrome to avoid these things but xda needs to use better advertisments

Its Going To Be LEGEND--Wait For it--DARY!-Barney Stinson(How I Met Your Mother)
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
Can you guys please post any intrusive ads here?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1696660

That's the way we locate and handle them. We want you guys to have a good experience here.
[About XDA developers] garyd9:
As a suggestion, it would be useful if whoever is responsible for dealing with the intrusive ads would "thank" the posts of intrusive ads (in that thread) as a form of acknowledgement.

At times, it might seem that the linked thread is being ignored as it takes time for those ads to be removed (or the provider to fix?) A simple "thanks" might be a reasonable acknowledgement to let the poster know that their complaint has been seen and is being handled.

Take care

Gary
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
That's a good idea, or something like it.
[About XDA developers] cajunflavoredbob:
From UserCP, the arrow next to the thread title that links to the first unread post, links only to the last page now. I'm on the 2010 theme.

If I recall correctly, it started exhibiting this behavior within the last few days.
[About XDA developers] StarSphere:
Why Not Have a Forum for Advertising?

I know the current rules, but having a pressing need for data recovery, I wish there was a consolidated place on XDA that I could find service recommendations and read reviews and other user's experiences with them. Right now, where these recommendations do exist, they are buried in particular device Q&As, and reviews, if any, might be in yet another place.

I realize opening a forum like this may allow a lot of crap to be advertised, but perhaps a warning could be put up, not to trust services with no comments, or services with comments only from brand new users.

EDIT: Apparently, there is something like that here: http://xdaforums.com/market But, unless my vision is failing, it is not in the navigation of either the main site or the forum site; and furthermore, it does not have a proper place to talk about services.
[About XDA developers] Avitohol:
Hi,

I'm reading posts in xda more than one year ago and played with different custome roms. I decided to ask few questions and to give some feedback to xda rom developers and I did my registration.

I was surprised to understand that I have to put in 10 stupid posts to be able to help somebody in his work and/or to ask for help.

Could you please revise this rule?

btw This (xdaDevelopers) is realy good, awesome amd helpfull place.:good:

Thanks.
[About XDA developers] ApriliaM3:
If that's what you "understand" to be the case, then you're completely mistaken.

Posting 10 stupid posts will quickly get you reset back to zero.

XDA Moderator on Tapatalk
[About XDA developers] LordManhattan:
I'm experiencing some weird stuff right now. First i noticed that it says how many posts i've made in a thread to the far left, which looks like a glitch, but it doesn't go away (check attached screenshot). Second, XDA is redirecting me all over the place right now, and i'm lucky to even be in this thread. When i click on a thread, it'll redirect me to another one.

I'm not even sure where this post will end up.

EDIT: Yup, i ended up in Samsung Epic 4G > Epic 4G Android Development > [TWEAK][CM7]ODEX CyanogenMod 7.2 Flashable Zip as soon as i clicked the submit button.

EDIT 2: When i clicked on my username, it redirected me to herg62123's profile. So yeah, XDA is pretty much useless to me right now :p

EDIT 3: I'm getting logged out every time i refresh now.

EDIT 4: Tapatalk works just fine.
[About XDA developers] roofrider:
"504 - Gateway Timeout" every time when visiting threads. Everything else seems to load just fine.

-edit-

Fine now.
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
Yeah, we were having some issues which are being addressed and should be fixed soon, if not already
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
I also have weird stuff atm on the Search results page. When I click on the arrow to go to the first new post I'm redirected to http://xdaforums.com/

via Chrome & Firefox browser on my computer.
[About XDA developers] eagleeyetom:
It has been reported and our admin is working on the fix :highfive:
[About XDA developers] rwestergren:
This issue should be resolved now. Thanks for reporting it! :highfive:
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
Perfect! :cowboy:
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
The server will need to update to take in that you now meet the requirements. Should happen in next hour or so

...........................

You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think! XDA, mobile wisdom, not a n00b feeding ground!!
[About XDA developers] LordManhattan:
You sure did it this time. I'm getting errors all over the place, and you even gave me access to another user's account. Nice.
[About XDA developers] roofrider:
+1 ^^

The site has been completely crazy for the last hour or so.

Like,

* Threads taking forever to load.

* Being redirected to incorrect random threads.

* According to the forum's index page i'm not signed but in reality i am.
[About XDA developers] LordManhattan:
Yup, same things here. It's completely useless.
[About XDA developers] TonyStark R.I.P.:
The issues with the server are being worked on. Thanks for the comments regarding site issues, we are well aware.
[About XDA developers] roofrider:
Seems to be fixed for me now. :p
[About XDA developers] AndroPlus:
When I click Twitter icon in "Share Thread:", the URL in tweet became "http://forum.xda-developers./showthread.php?t=***" and I have to add com to make it link...

I confirmed with Firefox 28 and Chrome 32 without extensions.

This only happens with "---- XDA 2013 Beta - 1024" style.
[About XDA developers] cajunflavoredbob:
This issue seems to be resolved.
[About XDA developers] rwestergren:
This should be resolved. Thanks for the report! :good:
[About XDA developers] .rootCoder.:
I've a feedback...

xda is a one from the best comminities

it was a good forum

BUT:

why not add symbian devloppement also ?

is it old ? or the world hates it ?

Thx :D
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
When I click on a XDA link from my email app XDA (premimum) app isn't available on the pop-up to visit the related thread. However I can use Tapatalk app.

Any solution?
[About XDA developers] Androguide.fr:
XDA is amazing, it is

the

place for Android developers to come learn and share the knowledge as well as to promote and distribute their work, I think everyone agrees on that.

However, as the name implies, XDA-Developers is primarily a developers community, and as such I feel we are just missing a small detail (which has its importance, though), and it is code syntax highlighting & formatting in the

[/I] tags.

There seems to have been a push lately to promote the app development forums on xda and get more people to be aware of their existence and to get more involved with them (i.e: through portal posts), but the code tags are a hurdle to this, especially when people start pasting their whole java class; not only is the code hard to read due to the lack of colored syntax highlighting, but the indentation is also broken.

Being presented with a big chunk of unformatted code can be quite off-putting even if the user is initially willing to help and possibly knows the answer to the question.
Another annoyance with the code tags is that Java annotations (prefixed with @) are recognized as mentions, sending messages to unrelated users (e.g: [URL="http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=44020603&postcount=9"]http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=44020603&postcount=9[/URL])

There is a number of free and open-source syntax-highlighting extensions for vBulletin, the best of which I believe is [URL="http://qbnz.com/highlighter/"]GeSHi[/URL], which is [URL="https://github.com/GeSHi/geshi-1.1"]hosted on github[/URL], provides [I][HIGHLIGHT][/I] tags and supports all the major Android programming languages (Java, XML, C/C++) as well as the HTML5 stack (CSS, JS & HTML) and much more.
It seems to be pretty straight-forward to implement, here is an example : [url]http://kb.siteground.com/how_to_insert_programming_source_code_in_vbulletin_posts/[/url]

I really believe XDA would benefit from such a feature.

Either way, that's just my 2 cents, and I love XDA with or without the syntax highlighting. Keep up the good work guys :good:
I guess I might as well write a little web-based parser to highlight the syntax with [I][COLOR][/I] tags instead of ranting^^
[About XDA developers] shuflie:
I've just been browsing on the HTC One forums using chrome on a Nexus 7 and have had popup asking me to install a virus checker which I cancelled, then had another popup completely take over the browser window with no option other than to close the tab or run a scan to speed up my Nexus. Other than use Tappatalk which limits the functionality of the forums is there any other way of stopping this cr@p from happening? Isn't there any form of vetting going on for the advertising on Xda?
[About XDA developers] Siberian Tiger:
There is a thread for this here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1696660

Thank you!
[About XDA developers] EatHeat:
Having a few errors from the last few days.

1. Whenever I try to see who thanked me on any of my posts, I get redirected to http://xdaforums.com by itself.

2. If I try to go to a link from google search except the 1st link from xda, I get to a "File not found" page. This is happens as the "?" and "=" in the link is not parsed properly. I attached a screenshot and the second link took me here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2616083

Browser: Opera Mini.

Device: Nokia E63.
[About XDA developers] aabbcc!:
Hello i wonder the whole time why on the Start page under the most POPULAR ANDROID FORUMS the Samsung Galaxy S3 link is linked with this Forum AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III [Forum Being Separated] that is less popullar than the International Version of the S3 if you compare the amount of Threads and Postings!:crying:
[About XDA developers] v_superuser:
Doubts/Recommendation for XDA Build Servers

I don't know if many people will agree to this or not, but for many aspiring developers like me, who can't learn and practice due to limited bandwidth and home PC specs, this makes sense.

Just a suggestion from my side, since XDA gathers a lot of revenue(I guess:rolleyes: ) there must be a support to the aspiring developers who remain under the hood. Most of the developers are offered BUILD SERVERS from XDA, Goo.im, and other Open Source Project Owners, but what about the normal users who are learning but don't have a good PC to build on. Just saying, atleast with a bit low specs or low internet speed, there must be a kind of low spec BUILD SERVER for them.

There's a reason for my this request, that is my PC Specs, 2 GB RAM and a dual core Pentium processor :crying: ! It built KitKat once and took 12 Hours and that caused it a big damage resulting in Over Heating as well as Battery completely damaged.

Sorry, if this request doesn't makes sense, but I posted this here because I felt this.

Peace.:angel: