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[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I enabled e-mail notification for this thread when I posted earlier. I got an e-mail about your reply. I did not get an e-mail about the next post after yours.

I don't think you're going to get an e-mail when someone quotes you in a thread to which you are not subscribed. I only know about enabling e-mail in a watched thread. (I'm assuming "watched" is synonymous with "subscribed".)

I'll leave it enabled a little longer, but I hate getting a flock of e-mails. Two site upgrades ago, they only sent one e-mail until the next time you logged in.

The e-mail I got said it was sent because I was watching the thread, with e-mail notification of new replies, and that I would not receive further e-mails about this thread until I read the new messages. I'm not sure I have to patience to test all of that.
[About XDA developers] gaww:
The newest update make it almost unusable - had to restore previous one with tn.
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I enabled e-mail for this thread in the Watched Threads list. In my Preferences, I asked for Alerts when I am quoted or mentioned.

I got an e-mail informing me that someone had posted in this thread. He didn't quote or mention me.

Is that how it is supposed to work?
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
IIRC, normal if you are watching thread even if not mentioned or quoted.
[About XDA developers] andreoide:
Error error error

It is understandable, nothing is perfect, but overall I still long for the looks and feels of the old school forum, as it was before the big change, im sorry to say
[About XDA developers] christantoan:
Yeah, I think Watched Threads means you'll be notified once when someone posted something new in the thread you're watching.

Alert only means the XDA site notification which can also be accessed through the mobile app but, depending on your preferences, does not always trigger Android notification
[About XDA developers] Dante63:
I can't share link to thread sometimes...

Also, when I am inside a thread, I can't go back to the forum of the thread I am in...

I noticed when I change my page, I can show the forum I am in, but if I tap on it and choose a different thread, XDA app force close on me...

PS. I always scroll to the bottom for the latest comments, I take a long stare recently because they're not the latest, then I remembered that you guys put the latest at the top lol...
[About XDA developers] SuperR.:
Hello everyone. The site is feeling fresh, great job :)

Feature request 1:

Download conversations to XML like we had before.

The new site does not seem to be capable of searching all conversations for specific text. We can filter them by user sent and user received, but no content search options that I could find. The old site was not great at this either, which is where the XML export came in very handy.

Feature request 2:

Expose the BB code button again like it was before the latest update.

I always use the BB code, and can handle clicking one button to get there every time I post. Two clicks though? Obviously this is not very important and I am joking around, but seriously, two clicks? ;)

Thank you for listening to my rant. Keep up the amazing work!!
[About XDA developers] deechte:
Since a few days, each thread I open in the XDA app has a white background. But when I switch to a next page in the same thread it goes to a dark theme.

I don't know if it was white or dark theme before this, but at least it was consequently white or dark.
[About XDA developers] Austinredstoner:
Even as of today Tapatalk still doesn't work with XDA forums will it ever be fixed yes or no
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
It's not broken, it wasn't added to the new site. See this post
[About XDA developers] Austinredstoner:
Oh thanks
[About XDA developers] Renate:
The signature of [size=4]Hello[/size] will get bumped down to size 3.

This is actually smaller than normal text.

For those of us with three words in our signature could we have this bumped up a bit, please?
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Hola dear old friends!

Whats is this Trophies about? and this point system?

Cheers amigos!
[About XDA developers] galaxys:
Wow, great to see a blast from the past! One of the original team members on the Spam tread!! I'm still there...

Here's the trophy 🏆 ref:

https://xdaforums.com/help/trophies/

Hope all's well, cheers
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Or in some other words: Completely useless. Just to be sure - I mean the trophies.
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Hahahah! the spam thread i remember so well amigo!

Thanks for the ref!

All is well, hope you guys too!

Prolific poster for only 3000 posts?! I took part of my lifetime to get to 22k posts.... o:

I think the trophies should reflect more accurate the time and energy members put on XDA, also a few fun trophies would be nice! Hola @svetius ! what u think, cheers amigo!
[About XDA developers] Austinredstoner:
I guess u logged into your account for the first time in almost 3 years u missed a lot
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Actually no, I have been checking XDA frequently in the past, just no posting. But Im back!
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
Or a possible indication / gauge that you are spending too much time here! :sneaky:

Is it a coincidence that a mention of an old "spam" thread occurred so close to talk of trophies...

Of Course, this post brings me one step closer to my next trophy ;)
[About XDA developers] PhilipTD:
Hey,

What happened to my 9 stars, btw?
[About XDA developers] oldfox74:
hello to all
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
-Post
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Since today, search seems to be back online. However, haven't tested yet how effective it is.
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
In thread search seems to work fine, if you enter the text and click <ENTER> or the search button.

But if you click on "Search this thread" and enter the text to be searched into the search field, you already get hits while typing. And those hits seem to be from "search everything" I guess, as these hits are from different threads.
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I don't think those are search hits. They look like search suggestions. When I hit ENTER, I only saw results from this thread.
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
Yes, if I hit <ENTER> or click on the Search button, I also receive hits from the current thread.

That's fine.

I was just a bit confused to see suggestions or instant hits leading to other threads, as I just wanted to search "this thread".

And those suggestions or instant hits while typing are the same for "Search everything" ... see my screenshots.
[About XDA developers] Hot-Proton:
How can i ihide on the right side NEW POSTS and OUR APPS? I dont need this. I use the XDA Dark Theme.
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Styles(account/preferences)

XDA App Theme (light)

Community App Dark

Remove Right Sidebar with app-style (click 3 dot menu top right of page)

see my post here
[About XDA developers] nobodyAtall:
Welcome back.
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
I am getting a duplication of "Similar Threads" at the bottom of every page.
[About XDA developers] lpedia:
Same here.
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Thanks mate!
[About XDA developers] alfy.bag:
Hello

I can't see many threads, I get the message "You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action."
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
Long time no see
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
So long that you have now more post count than me
[About XDA developers] zelendel:
Yeah I know but I'm sure you will catch up. Mainly as I am not around as often these days. Spend most of time in support telegram and discord channels. Hope all is well.
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Thats my chance to catch up! Wow XDA has grown so much!, All is well thanks, hope for you too.
[About XDA developers] evildog1:
The forum doesn't support copy paste image directly, It will not show image and show attachment link instead. Other xenforo based forum sites works fine

Edit: it works now, I don't know why the bug occured sometimes
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
I've been copying the image url, then using the link option in add photo.
[About XDA developers] evildog1:
I see but i want to directly paste image when i take screenshot, without having to save to disk, upload then add image
[About XDA developers] blackhawk:
Meh, the spammers need to be TKOed asap.

It's almost always a one day n00bie doing it that has zero interest in this forum.

They aren't being purged fast enough; free advertising for the some of the most repulsive services and products I've ever seen.

They detract from the site.

When I start responding to them in terms they understand... it's bad*.

Even though I wuv cheap thrills XDA needs to do more to limit the exposure to wildlife here.

Spammers are not an endangered species.

*or leave their threads up and allow a 100% uncensored dialog for just those spam threads.

A firewar with a voodoo spammer be a stone cold pleasure... let's see what they got.

A voodoo smackdown in an unrestricted napalm freefire zone for that thread.
[About XDA developers] Austinredstoner:
Most people may not realize this but I noticed general forum has been renamed to general topics
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
It changed after 31 March 2021, because I posted a screenshot here.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
@sd_shadow Your screenshot shows that "General Discussions" had been created. "General Topics" just recently occured due to a different issue that has now been solved.

TL;DR: Renaming occured as follows: the "General" forum in "General Discussion" to "General Topics" in General Discussion.
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Yes, it changed after my screenshot, which was my point.
[About XDA developers] pierro78:
no update on that issue ?? is the loss of the wiki pages definitive ??

(I have also asked the question in a separate topic : https://xdaforums.com/t/has-the-xda-wiki-disappeared.4261259/ )
[About XDA developers] munjeni:
Hi, folowing ting making me crazy, anybody tell me how to get rid of the white thing (see picture) from the botom of the every page? What is a purpose of it when it is all the time empty?
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
Just click the small "x" in the circle at the top right of the white/bright grey area.
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
It's an ad placeholder.
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Hi guys,

What are this points for?
[About XDA developers] Austinredstoner:
I think the points mean trophies don't know why it still exist in the xda app but not website but that's obviously a bug because look how many trophies do u have but the highest before it was removed was like 253
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
So question still on, what are this points for o_O
[About XDA developers] Austinredstoner:
Ok then I have no idea what it means

I still think it means trophies that's the only thing I can think of if it's not that than I have no idea what that is either
[About XDA developers] munjeni:
If I close it it open again on next page! Pretty boring clicking on X all the time.
[About XDA developers] munjeni:
It would be very good having option in setting menu "disable ad placeholder" so we not get forced to have one more window in this jungle of windows and textual things.

One more thing, can we get option "raw text" in text editor? I have found that when I paste some texts into text editor it get into the table without any good reason and it is very hard to edit than, but I didn't wanted table, even when I delete text first row of the table unable to delete
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
Toggle BB Encode to off. Its the [] button in the top right when editing a post.
[About XDA developers] LuK1337:
I think /whats-new/posts should have a different thread name color for *read* threads.

Something like here this makes it bit more obvious IMO:

.structItem-title {
color: #ddd;
}

.is-unread .structItem-title {
color: #fff;
}
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
For me, /whats-new/posts is all threads I am following that have posts I have not read, so there are no *read* threads.
[About XDA developers] LuK1337:
Look at your filters. I personally like having just "Threads in which you've participated" rather than filtering out *read* threads.
[About XDA developers] gaww:
I also use that, but I thought it was eliminated a few updates back, as I reverted to an earlier version because of that.
[About XDA developers] Raiz:
Just to make sure it's out there, the achievement system is kinda broken here and there, early a new user (bossc2) told me in a PM he received the achievement "thread poster level 3" (make 100 posts) while he just wrote 1.

Also, maybe it's so that our inboxes don't get flooded with notifications but every achievements do not show up even though our profile already fits the requirements.

I think this achievement system is fun, but a little exaggerated sometimes

Spoiler content hidden.

Some are also not unlockable:

Spoiler content hidden.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
I have the feeling it could be OK / operational in mid May. See my attachement. Maybe they started to implement it as a 1st step and then will be fine in mid May?
[About XDA developers] pndwal:
I got 21 alerts re. achievements in last 16 hours! ... Is that an achievement in its own right? ... Is every day going to be like this?

Apparently I've 'reacted for the first time'!??? ... not sure what I'm doing now... 😜

Didn't know about 'rewards' till I came here to comment just now... Still don't have a clue what they are... Maybe it'll all be worth it. 🙃 Hope they're good! 😛🎉 PW
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
If you don't want to receive alerts about achievements (like me) you can turn the alerts off in your preferences.
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
BTW interesting names of the preferences "alert_opt_out.adav_achievement_..." ;)

If I disable "Mobile app push" for these achievement notifications, it comes back as enabled again.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
I don't use the app i.e. I've never cared about those ticks and never tried them.
[About XDA developers] eng.stk:
Hope there's more accuracy on the achievements, some just appear after completing things one time when there's plenty more and vice versa.

For instance I'm a member more than 10 years and it only get's 5, level of posting/reactions achievements max levels are way lower than users real stats, stuff like that.
[About XDA developers] alexgubber:
Hey! I'm a new one here!
[About XDA developers] theelderstatesman:
Oh, well, achievements now ...
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
I was being spammed with alerts for achievements, which I am guessing is the new system just catching up with what happened under the old XDA. Its been happening for more than one day, so I went into preferences to turn off the alert.

However, after turning off the alerts and pressing save, the mobile app ones would return to being on! :devilish:

I do not use the mobile app, but it still appears to be a bug, that may affect others.
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Im sure that Admins will let us know to detail soon all about, XPs, level, achievements, etc.

It looks fun!

Fantasizing that i would be able to renew my old device for a new one in exchange my points 🤪
[About XDA developers] S4turno:
So many achievements!

Old vs new XDA users:

(jk)
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I think they insist on at least one of the two boxes being checked. You get to pick which one.

There's a similar situation in choosing notifications for mentions, quotes,... We just have to be grateful that Mobile app push in the absence of a mobile app to be pushed to doesn't result in something exploding.
[About XDA developers] theelderstatesman:
Achievements feel like Kindergarten again ...
[About XDA developers] theelderstatesman:
Achievements: Does this really keep anybody from running off to Telegram?
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
Worth a try?!

I see many young (but also some older) users with recently more activity on topics, for which you will receive XPs and get a new achievement.

Could be just by coincidence. IDK.

BTW ... I recognized that I am watching for those achievements now and feel (at least a little bit) motivated to be more active on xda.

EDIT:

But first the achievement system has to fixed. There seem to be some major bugs 🐞
[About XDA developers] Raiz:
Same here, even though I try in my daily life to not give importance to titles and prices, I admit it feels good when I unlock a trophy

☺️

👉👈
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
Some achievements do not work for me as I would expect.

E.g. there is an achievement for adding a signature. I do not have earned this achievement. But I have a signature. Already tried to change the signature and save it again. No luck.

I have a few more examples (cover photo, about section, etc.)

Maybe this system is still work in progress.
[About XDA developers] Raiz:
Yep it's still in beta

Edit#1: Nevermind, I missread
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
@MikeChannon : I have some issue with the following features on xda. As it works for others, it seems to be an issue on my end / with my xda account.

I can not "Follow" other members and "Start a new conversation".

Please check it ... and fix if possible.

Thanks in advance.

(Sorry to ask via a thread post, but I can not start a conversation with you or another admin.)
[About XDA developers] woodman:
I faced the same issue. It was fixed by itself magically while I was explaining this to svetius and XDARoni.

It is probably related to the new achievement system.

I pointed your post privately to svetius, I hope he will be able to assist you.

Also I invited you to a convo with everyone involved who could assist you.
[About XDA developers] karandpr:
Only overachievers face that issue.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
I can confirm.
[About XDA developers] Wolfcity:
Same thing here (I know it's not new).

But if you at least try to have some fun with the achievements these things should be on the top of the list. For me it says I have no conversations...omg, there were times I wished that to be true.....😉
[About XDA developers] karandpr:
Ok. So here is a hack which might work.

First check if you have 24 achievements in Achievement Hunter.

Then just install XDA app and login and wait for 10-15 minutes, and 4 achievements will be unlocked.

And that should fix the account.

It doesn't apply to @It_ler since he has already unlocked App Installed Achievements.
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
Unfortunately I can confirm, that uninstalling the app and re-installing did not fix anything for me.

But thanks for sharing (y)
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
I just tried again to thank you but your account still seems to be borked. That's absolutely not good for such an active RC like you! @svetius
[About XDA developers] mrjuniork:
Confirmed!
[About XDA developers] karandpr:
You should check your "Message Poster Level 2" achievement.

Once you clock 99 on it, you won't be able to post until admins fix your account. Post sparingly till admins fix it.
[About XDA developers] Raiz:
I hope it's not the same thing with the reaction achievement 😭
[About XDA developers] Raiz:
Stop reacting to my posts @It_ler !! 😆

Edit #1: after the message from woodman below, I am willing to take the risk, go ahead everybody
[About XDA developers] woodman:
When my account was borked I was not able to:

- bookmark threads or posts

- start a conversation

- receive thanks

- post in threads

It happened by steps.

Now it is fixed but I don't think admins did something, they asked me to explain more but it resolved by itself in the meantime.

Admins were surprised I was the only one concerned but now I can see I am not the only one, @It_ler is my bro now 😁

I think more and more people should be affected in the next days until the admins and developers figure it out.
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
Mon frère 🤝

If my issues can help fixing something and prevent other users from having similar issues, than I will be glad.

Ok, I try to reduce my posting. That's why I collect several replies into one post like this one ;)

Sorry ... sometimes I can not resist to show reactions :p
[About XDA developers] woodman:
So now we can't react to your posts anymore. As I said earlier, the same happened to me...
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Another bug that I didn't see mentioned, I cannot view your profile

Edit: This member limits who may view their full profile.

So never mind.

edit2: I can view your profile again.
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
For the last days XDA app shows me as on the screenshot:

- (1) Allert

- You do not have any allerts

- Again as 1 allert at the bottom bar

However, when I open Show all, there is not a single unread item.

(Also, I have no un-read conversation)

Hence, where is that (1) allert?!

Pretty annoying bug
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
You tried

Show all then

Mark as read (top right)
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
Ok, that cleared, but when I was opening Show all and scrolling down, I had also no unread post
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
I should have more achievments by now but same as described here before signature and many others are not available for me.

I did a test deleting my devices and add again and then i got unlocked more...

Im sure Admins will take care of this bugs as well with a description of each new element.

This looks good!

Have a nice weekend all!
[About XDA developers] pnin:
Try as I might, I can't seem to activate the "5 year member" "showcase achievement" to display under my avatar.

The other ones work alright, but not this one.

I have repeatedly selected it and unselected it from my list of earned achievements, clicked the save button, all to no avail.

As a side-note, I think after doing this, the user should be sent back to the thread he came from, not to the profile page.
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
This happened to me as well with different achievement.

Sure will be fixed soon.
[About XDA developers] ipdev:
Question about new profile settings.

I already have my github name set under Account details.

I give links to my github account in threads when relevant.​

Why would I want to add my github account to xda under Connected accounts?

Besides just letting xda have access to sensitive data?

Cheers. :cowboy:
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
Thanks for your reaction.

And BTW ... as the issues were fixed for me, I can receive reactions now. So you should be able to react on one of my post.
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
It's voluntary. And I am sure that xda is not keen on your sensitive data on github. AFAIK it's just to be able to link other external accounts to your xda account automatically ...

You can create a dedicated gihub account for being linked with xda, if you like :cool: ✌️
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Welcome back!
[About XDA developers] woodman:
So the achievements addon seems to be disabled for now, I assume it happened so that they can work on the recent issues.
[About XDA developers] Ultramanoid:
I don't see those options in preferences or any way to tun off the endless stream of "achievement" notifications ?
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
That's currently correct. Please see @woodman 's post above. Achievements seem to be currently disabled i.e. in turn most likely the options in preferences are also gone.

Do you currently still receive achievement notifications?
[About XDA developers] Ultramanoid:
Thank you, I just realized that, reading slower these days than I used to.

I am not sure as I was cleaning notifications since my last visit, have none as of right now. Hopefully there won't be from now on since it is disabled.
[About XDA developers] pnin:
I see achievements are back. Yet my problem still exists. :cry:

EDIT: Seems I can set the one year achievement, but none of the further ones...
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
All I can say is that you are not alone, it's a known bug and it's been working on to fix it permanently.

Hopefully soon 🤞