yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] DB126:
Yep - reoccurring performance issues (which aren't readily acknowledged) dissuades discretionary forum participation; I now skip over many threads or FC the app in frustration and step away. No, not going to resort to a clunky browser session on a mobile device. Can't speak to the ads; never seen one.
[Android Apps and Games] shinobisoft:
I'll have to concur, I've NEVER seen any ads in XDA Labs.

Bugs are bugs and this is software is still under development...
[Android Apps and Games] Eleo:
He means ads in WEBsite:D not XDA Labs

Even if you have adaware, adblocker, adremover, adgetridofer, adgo####yourselver, addidaser and etc you will get a significant lag on website when opening any thread/page as shown here:

https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/labs-t3241866/post76894566
[Android Apps and Games] DB126:
Sometimes - but not often (or even usually IME) correlated in side-by-side real world testing. This seems to be the convenient fallback explanation for most XDA Labs performance issues which is easily repudiated. Is what it is; it's a best effort labs app which generally offers a superior UX vs the web interface. Happy to provide candid observations (which some view as b#tching) but not going to complain given price tag. Moving on.

[Edit: clearing cache is still the best way to clear the constipation. I suspect the local flush has nothing to do with the perceived 'benefit' other than resetting the connection. Toggling airplane mode and/or dropping and restarting the app does not yield the same results. Jumping between WiFi and Mobile does. Perhaps a sticky IP association. Weird.]
[Android Apps and Games] shinobisoft:
[MENTION=5706843]Charles7[/MENTION] clearly states at the bottom of his last post "Didn't like all the ads in XDA Labs btw"... That's what [MENTION=5488402]Davey126[/MENTION] and I were referring to.
[Android Apps and Games] :
I was referring to the ads in "XDA Legacy" app. That requires system wide ad blocking. My browser blocks ads fine ?
[Android Apps and Games] Eleo:
That was pretty obvious that it is not XDA Labs as it doesn't have ads. That is why I presumed he meant site. I haven't tried XDA legacy, thus I couldn't think of that.

Clearing cache every time is tiresome. WiFi/mobile is hard if you consider there could be bg apps (e.g. download). I have more issue with website getting stuck (I use website for 2 purposes: reporting a post and checking users profile/other posts on forum before reporting) rather than XDA Labs.

And there was one other XDA forums app (basic one without apps) with some functions that are absent on XDA Labs like viewing profile and posts of users... But I cant find the thread anymore, it seems that thread was removed for some reason. I remember [MENTION=4828250]Ibuprophen[/MENTION] was posting there and I even remember trying the very early build of that app.
[Android Apps and Games] Guido83:
next time i face this issue, i will post a log here
[Android Apps and Games] freak69ize:
How about a way to exclude apps from update page.. like Google Play services
[Android Apps and Games] SecUpwN:
Does anyone know how to find the link to an app on XDA Labs? I'd like to add that to our GitHub repository.
[Android Apps and Games] MSF Jarvis:
Hey [MENTION=2637227]blk_jack[/MENTION], do you mind me creating this : http://msfjarvis.me/irc.html ??
[Android Apps and Games] elocnix:
Hey, people!

Jumped in here to report issues with 'discover' tab within the app.

When I try to open some page the app crashes. Same thing happens after deleting data/reinstalling the app,

even after wiping cash partition/dalvik (for other reasons though :silly:).

Also, I noticed 'unwanted' code tags throughout forum threads, e.g. attached text or links.

EDIT: Sorry, just saw this in post #2: "General Limitations

Various forum tags aren't rendered (code, hidden, etc)"

Finally, here's a log with error report recorded earlier today.

Technical: ZTE Blade 3 running custom port of CM11/KK 4.4.4

FYC I'm using stock browser, Naked (which uses native WebView) and Opera Mini.

---- Feb 9, 2016 11:37:50 AM ----

02-09 11:37:55.324 26372 26386 I Timeline: Timeline: Activity_windows_visible
id: ActivityRecord{426e3538 u0 com.xda.labs/.MainActivity t88} time:215065813

02-09 11:37:58.817 11759 11759 I Timeline: Timeline: Activity_launch_request
id:com.xda.labs time:215069300

02-09 11:37:58.817 26372 26616 I ActivityManager: START u0
{cmp=com.xda.labs/.DiscoverContentActivity (has extras)} from pid 11759

02-09 11:37:58.987 11759 11759 I dalvikvm: Could not find method
android.webkit.WebView.<init>, referenced from method
com.xda.labs.DiscoverWebView.<init>

02-09 11:37:59.337 11759 11759 E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.xda.labs, PID:
11759

02-09 11:37:59.337 11759 11759 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.RuntimeException:
Unable to start activity
ComponentInfo{com.xda.labs/com.xda.labs.DiscoverContentActivity}:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: WebViewClassic does not support
TEXT_AUTOSIZING layout mode

02-09 11:37:59.337 11759 11759 E AndroidRuntime:	at
com.xda.labs.DiscoverContentActivity.setupWebView(Unknown Source)

02-09 11:37:59.337 11759 11759 E AndroidRuntime:	at
com.xda.labs.DiscoverContentActivity.onCreate(Unknown Source)

02-09 11:37:59.347 26372 26679 W ActivityManager: Force finishing activity
com.xda.labs/.DiscoverContentActivity

02-09 11:37:59.357 26372 26679 W ActivityManager: Force finishing activity
com.xda.labs/.MainActivity

02-09 11:37:59.858 26372 26389 W ActivityManager: Activity pause timeout for
ActivityRecord{427b01b8 u0 com.xda.labs/.DiscoverContentActivity t88 f}

02-09 11:38:01.440 26372 26645 I ActivityManager: Process com.xda.labs (pid
11759) has died.

02-09 11:38:01.440 26372 26384 I WindowState: WIN DEATH: Window{4279a248 u0
com.xda.labs/com.xda.labs.MainActivity}

02-09 11:38:01.440 26372 26645 W ActivityManager: Service crashed 2 times,
stopping: ServiceRecord{4297eaa0 u0 com.xda.labs/.services.PushService}

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] MSF Jarvis:
Someone ACTUALLY reporting a bug properly. [MENTION=2637227]blk_jack[/MENTION], please have a look at this.
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
There's kind of a way to do this right now but it's not finalized and there are a few bugs. I'll bring it up w/ the team soon to have it ready or at least somewhat fixed for beta.
[Android Apps and Games] Gizmoe:
I know its in alpha but I think a participated tab in forums left of the subscribed the would be really convenient. Loving the app otherwise. XDA labs doesn't have the "NO Participated threads" bug. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] MSF Jarvis:
There's a separate section, so why bother with a tiny tab
[Android Apps and Games] Gizmoe:
It would be less annoying...
[Android Apps and Games] MSF Jarvis:
It's better this way. And it's not annoying to me. Or anybody else other than you. Nobody complained on IRC too
[Android Apps and Games] Gizmoe:
OK. I just thought it would be easier to swipe back and forth on the same screen as you other forum tabs. I apologize if this suggestion infuriates you. Have a good day.
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
I saw your original [edited] comment and while I understand that you were frustrated, I did want to make clear that the other XDA app on the Play Store is actually by the company Tapatalk. XDA has no control over what went into that app, how it performs, etc. XDA basically licensed a copy of it.

This app isn't like that, as you can see if you scroll through the comments I've tried my best to hear everybody's opinion. Any idea that has value, merit and popularity will likely get added.

Hope that helps clarify.
[Android Apps and Games] coal686:
I actually like the idea. In my humble (but correct) opinion, from a UI perspective, it would make more sense to have the Participated Threads section fall under the XDA Forums blanket along with subscribed threads. Honestly, at one point, I thought, "I wish this app had a participated threads list like that other app. Oh, there it is!"
[Android Apps and Games] Gizmoe:
Double post edit :silly:
[Android Apps and Games] Gizmoe:
Ahh OK. I understand. Thanks for explaining. I know you probably have more than enough to do, and you do it for free. Nobody owes me anything. That's why I erased my second part of that comment. I do like the new app.
[Android Apps and Games] MSF Jarvis:
*sheepishly* Well I've had my Eureka moment too
[Android Apps and Games] XxMikeMasterxX:
Fantastic app, team! The layout is gorgeous and the fluidity is intuitive. Way to go - great design and fucntionality!

Proud to be on XDA.
[Android Apps and Games] shegeloaf:
How do i get irc?

---------- Post added at 01:41 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:35 AM ----------

[MENTION=999952]blkjack[/MENTION] please add the feature to custom select default startup page. That would be awesome!
[Android Apps and Games] NYLimited:
Install an IRC client from the play store - I'm using Holoirc but everyone has a favorite. Most include settings for "freenode". Configure it for the id you want to use and connect.

Or, simply go to freenode using a web browser.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
That's my perception of this as well.
[Android Apps and Games] DB126:
Yes it is (both). Hence the earlier triage comment. Not such a big issue if one is primarily a content consumer in a few threads. Less pleasant for frequent contributors across multiple forums.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
True that, and when done manually, in some cases cache clearing may just be an exercise in being distracted by something else while other factors change. That being said, for those using Tasker (or other utilities which can run pre-prepared terminal commands) to delete the contents of the cache locations, then at the expense of a one-time setup the cache can be cleared without any extra steps (not even an extra tap) as part of each start of the app.

As to the delays in general: Ever since the tweak to the balancing a few weeks ago I've not experienced the super long lags at all, nor have I experienced the XDA Labs specific lag which cache clearing seems to mitigate, but since then the site has been general laggy in Labs and browsers on Android devices and computers, and acutely laggy when viewing attachments in Labs or browsers. I've not tested cache clearing during this interval.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Hello! I just wanted to request for automatic day/night mode and the time it should start and end. Today I learned Substratum can change themes automatically and I have Swift Light and Swift Black.
[Android Apps and Games] yochananmarqos:
If Substratum can change the theme automatically, why would XDA Labs need the feature? Both themes have an XDA Labs overlay.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Because using the default XDA labs light theme with dark or vise versa would make it look funny.
[Android Apps and Games] pendragon666:
I dislike how when opening a photo attached to an article the app doeasnt open the photos but asks for a browser. Totally unusable if there are several of them because the browser doesnt give navigation buttons to switch between photos.
[Android Apps and Games] woodman:
That's why it has been suggested already. See suggestion #87: https://github.com/Wood-Man/XDA-Labs-Issues-and-Suggestions/issues/87

All suggestions already posted may or may not be implemented depending on blk_jack's will, priorities and available time.

;)
[Android Apps and Games] yochananmarqos:
Oh, that's right. Overlays depend on the dark theme of an app of it has one.
[Android Apps and Games] kewinhw:
hey :) im wondering if it is possible to disable push notifications from this app. it is because i never ever get push notifications not even when I'm quoted :/ i only get them via email. so i feel that it is unnecessary for it to be running on my device. or do i need to change some setting(s) to get it to work. i do recall it working a couple of times a pretty long time ago. but now it doesn't.
[Android Apps and Games] DB126:
Did you look under settings (gear icon)? There are two sliders to control notifications - clear as day.
[Android Apps and Games] kewinhw:
gosh hehe yes i did i just never disabled both of them hehe stupid me :cyclops:
[Android Apps and Games] :
Look in the settings, the gear icon next to your user name in the menu. You'll see there's settings for it.
[Android Apps and Games] ALPHAWolf96:
Is the news feed stuck for anyone else as well? I saw Woodman posted that it's fixed but I don't think so cause all of the posts I see on my feed are from yesterday.
[Android Apps and Games] DB126:
I see stuff from 3 hours ago (today).
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
Has something changed in the back end or the systems that deliver the web interface which would cause the following starting yesterday or the day before that?:

- In Firefox with NoScript the drop down carat for "Notifications" disappeared and I had to allow additional scripts from cloudflare.com which were not required before in order to restore it.

- In Firefox there is seemingly different and slower rendering and pagination of page elements (frames?) whenever page is refreshed.

- In Chromium (with no scripts or other blocking) the page also loads differently than before.

[EDIT] - Also chronologically associated with the aforementioned symptoms is this: When selecting a link in a list of in-thread search results, after the page opens showing the top of the page, there is a lag of several seconds before the page scrolls down to the specific post.

FWIW this has been reported from the abomination that Ubuntu has become (16.04), so that may also be a factor or even primary cause. To Linux fanfalks who would push back against that statement, grep this, it has a UI that once worked reliably; if it cannot be made to do so again then it should be described as "terminal only". LOL, yeah I got beef with Ubuntu.

[EDIT2] Buttons to navigate between images attached to same post are missing in FF and Chomium. Also, FWIW, in FF during the lengthy delays opening attached images status bar reports "Performing a TLS Hanshake".

Problems with https?
[Android Apps and Games] coal686:
[MENTION=450224]bitpushr[/MENTION] bringing this to your attention.

There have been some things behind the scenes with Cloudflare. I feel like the site loads faster in Labs and in Chrome on my Windows PC, but there have been a few issues.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
Thanks, and to that point: Something changed in the last few hours and now attached images open fairly quickly and multiple images in a single post can be navigated, and perhaps not coincidentally Cloudflare scripts seems to no longer be present.

[EDIT]...and search links pop to the proper post fairly quickly
[Android Apps and Games] Han-Droid:
What is the magic trick to make xda labs install xposed modules?

I am on oneplus 6 before oneplus 2 - same problem.

xda labs could not download and/or install ANYTHING ?!

I have magisk, systemless xposed and systemless xposed installer

I only was able to install modules with the installer - but NEVER with xda labs?

what am i missing here....thinking about it again kinda drives me nuts.... :)
[Android Apps and Games] pendragon666:
The feed is stuck again for me
[Android Apps and Games] woodman:
Download issues could be related to multiple things:

- A Download Manager issue (it has to be kept enabled),

- A PushService issue (don't freeze PushService!),

- A third-party app: Antirirus, ESET apps, Adguard, DNS66, NetGuard, etc.

- Also here is something which could be helpful: http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/labs-t3241866/post66563644

About installation issues, be sure you have allowed root perms to xda labs to be able to install xposed modules. This root pop-up appears the first time you navigate to the xposed tab.
[Android Apps and Games] woodman:
Here is my news feed currently (1st screenshot). I think it's ok.

FYI, you can manually refresh the feed by swiping down in the navdrawer (2nd screenshot) in case it's not up to date for some reason.
[Android Apps and Games] coal686:
Yours is outdated. Since the "Testing Fortnite..." article that is second in your feed, mine has 11 newer articles above it. Unfortunately, the latest article I have is dated 11 hours ago ("Xiaomi Mi A2 supports 1080p video..."), so even my feed might be stale.
[Android Apps and Games] strongst:
Maybe it's due to timezones? Mine is also different.
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
Mine matches coal686's
[Android Apps and Games] strongst:
Sorry, didn't mention it, but I'm living in the future :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
This may not be at all related to the news feed but but FWIW Labs does do some odd things with time zones when new consecutive post by same member is automatically appended to previous post. I've reported that before but to summarize, in that case Labs seemed to be using the correct time zone for for some function while using different time zone (or defaulting to GMT) for others.
[Android Apps and Games] Eleo:
I believe those are related to "when you last checked XDA Labs". It updates once you open it. If you don't open, it does not auto-update in background. E.g. if news were frozen 11 hours ago, but last time you checked was 22 hours ago, then you will get latest news only for 22 hours ago. If another user checked 11 hours ago right before news were frozen, he/she will get news from 11 hours ago. So it all ends up in when you last checked XDA Labs news.

:o:angel:

I live in "present". It is like a "gift" :p
[Android Apps and Games] strongst:
I guess everyone who posts their news feed here did actually open the labs app and received an update cause there's no other way to update, right :rolleyes:?!
[Android Apps and Games] Eleo:
It depends. When Labs news were actually frozen, the news were stuck "from the last time it was manually updated". So users got different latest news. I don't think that is the case now. I get latest news I suppose even though I never check Labs part of the app... I am always at forum.
[Android Apps and Games] pendragon666:
It works for me now, but it was off and on for the past few days
[Android Apps and Games] woodman:
Since last time I posted here, 12 new articles have been added to my feed. Everything is really OK IMO.

Side note: News feed is updated automatically each time we open/resume XDA labs. Related post by blk_jack: https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/labs-t3241866/post68862628
[Android Apps and Games] coal686:
I'm not sure it works 100% though because I'll leave the app and come back in many times and it doesn't update. After leaving a while though, it seems to. Maybe it has to be removed from memory by Android first?
[Android Apps and Games] ALPHAWolf96:
I'm now 100% sure that the news feed is affected. Been seeing this behavior since 3-4 days. So my feed gets updated only after like an interval of 24-hours when all the post are marked "yesterday". Even clearing app's cache or re-logging or manually refreshing (pulling down in nav drawer) doesn't update it either. Here's a screenshot of my current feed and I just checked the website version and there already more than 10 new articles. It's definitely not an intended behavior cause I never experienced this before and labs used to get updated as soon as I open it up which is clearly not happening now. I'll be glad to provide some logs if that helps. :)
[Android Apps and Games] pendragon666:
Stuck again today
[Android Apps and Games] woodman:
Please read this: https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/labs-t3241866/post73840278

I think what some of you describe is the normal bahaviour, it has been like like since the beginning. :)

It takes time to get articles populated to the XDA labs feed.
[Android Apps and Games] DB126:
Although my normal ax is interactive forum performance there is no doubt the news feed is also effected despite time zone and other deflections. Gotta hit the web site if timeliness is a concern.
[Android Apps and Games] pendragon666:
Not a normal behaviour, started 3-4 days ago
[Android Apps and Games] woodman:
If you are right, I can't help anymore. It's backend related anyway.
[Android Apps and Games] speedbirdengineer:
Correct. My feeds are 15 hrs old. They were always refreshed before.
[Android Apps and Games] pendragon666:
Ok then, thanks for trying.
[Android Apps and Games] Bonito77:
Right, but for me it starts in the first days of last week.

I use it since beginning and sorry so that i can't understand your statements about a error that is definitely not permanent, not only for one user with special mods or something else.

It's a great application, that's clear. But if there is anything wrong, then the user reply should be take seriously and not play down with such arguments.

Sorry but currently it's very frustrating to use xda labs and then on top this kind of discussion, so please don't understand me wrong.

However a nice WE to all.
[Android Apps and Games] woodman:
First off, I take every reply seriously particularly in this thread, but it's the same on XDA as a whole (though funny posts/stories are good to go). If you knew how I can "fight" (without any very good results) in this thread but also and mainly internally in private talk about XDA Labs with admins, other moderators and even XDA owners themselves to make things going forward about Labs, you wouldn't have replied this to me (assuming I don't take replies seriously here). I'm just not the XDA Labs developer, nor the responsible for the backend dev / servers. I have very limited powers in the end about Labs (I just have a nice leaf shield and a quite decent leaf attack).

About the articles which are populated later than before, I really don't know but If you read this post from blk_jack liked below, you can understand that the articles are not added at the same time on the website than on XDA Labs (there's a delay but I don't know the exact time):

https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/labs-t3241866/post73840278

That being said, based on recent posts here, it appears that articles are added on labs backend later than usually and it could definitely be a real issue to fix but as I said, I have no idea what to do. My only idea is to ping [MENTION=450224]bitpushr[/MENTION] and [MENTION=2637227]blk_jack[/MENTION].

One last thing, FYI there is a big list of more important (higher priority) known issues and also a big list of already suggested features to hopefully implement, which is still pending.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Bonito77:
Believe me, my goal wasn't to undermind your support here (that's why i wrote; "don't understand me wrong" in the other post).

You make a great job here as well you are not the Dev. Didn't seen this, sorry my mistake. In the first years on xda I self shared my mods and supported them, also developed and supported in groups things like CHT for WinMobile 6.5.x on xda and other forums. So I really know what a afford your help here is, and people like you hold me here.

Also I forget to say the big problem are not the News-Feed but the Forum things are a lit bit a problem, pages not loading, urls to the forum self not often work and more things which have all to do with loading data from Internet. It feels like a 171kb modem connection or server problems.
[Android Apps and Games] jawz101:
Hello, there is a privacy research app on the play store called ANTMonitormobile which says the XDA Labs app and a handful of others send my GPS coordinates to an Amazon aws instance.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.uci.calit2.anteatermo

I don't have much information other than that to go on except it says it sends it encrypted to ec2-52-202-170-13.compute-1.amazonaws.com. Unfortunately every app I've seen this occur with is closed source so I can't see what could cause it. I also tried reaching out to the developer of that ANTMonitor but haven't heard back.

My only next step is to reach out to you all to see if it's some analytics library or what. My concern is it's like coordinates over my head accurate and the XDA app doesn't have location permissions. Either their monitor app is buggy or location data can be gleaned without location permission and that would affect all of us- I'll mention it again that it's not just the XDA Labs app. I also noticed it with the Netflix app as well, for example.