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[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Thanks for those tips. I'm curious to know if those tweaks were done in the back end or if they require newer versions of the native webview. The reason I ask this is that Google has made some significant changes to webview and other Google items; consequently now even on unrooted stock devices any version of webview after 89 presents fonts in variable and incorrect sizes. That issue of different sizes affected the XDA app as well as browsers which use webview.

So, I'm wondering if I would notice the improvements that you mentioned if I'm using a slightly older version of webview.
[About XDA developers] svetius:
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[About XDA developers] svetius:
Testing big quote.
[About XDA developers] IamTheBRAVE:
Yeah' i think you're right. I'm updated to latest webview and only noticed after moving to another (samsung stock based ) custom rom and reinstalling XDA app from playstore.
[About XDA developers] fonzacus:
id like to humbly request an 'easier to use' advanced search. IIRC the old forum had a 'filter titles' only and we could hope authors use generic labelled titles.

id like an advanced search where we could look for specific thread|post keyword|tags within many levels of subforums. IDK which modern forum is currently in use, but many old school PHP boards have it. id also like to request a handy shortcut on top that opens up an advanced search with the current subforum as an active target.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
At the risk of sliding a bit off topic, I've been exploring this general webview thing for weeks. I did not test specifically in the XDA app but it experienced similar symptoms, which are induced like so in a browser;

Open browser (Naked Browser Pro) to default bookmarks page with no other tabs open > search for something from URL bar (whiche uses Google) = the font used by the the search results page is much smaller than it should be.

To restore expected font size: leave that browser tab open > minimize browser > swipe from recents > open browser = proper font size is used. To repeat the test close the tab and exit the browser.

Control testing was done to eliminate OS and Browser font settings as sole cause and likely eliminaye as any cause. Does not occur with webview 8.9 or prior; occurs with every version after that.

Similar symptoms occurred in the XDA app but could not be reliably reproduced, possibly because the app was only sometimes in a state where it would be affected, unlike the browser. Those experiencing font size or layout changes that are not fixed by the recent XDA tweaks could try an older version of webview.
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
On my side, using XDA app and Chrome browser on the phone.

All the latest versions as of today (Chrome 92.0.4515.115-451511533, Webview 92.0.4515.115-451511534, Trichrome lib 92.0.4515.115-451511534)

Sorry but I have no intensions to install any special ROM, browser or anything to obtain the XDA Forum functionalities fully working

Also, it's already passed 7 or 8 months since we switched to this new Forum - for particular things like badges (to properly work with up-to-date numbers), I frankly don't count on them anymore
[About XDA developers] svetius:
We have a fix for this that allows you "click to expand" then "click to collapse" that will be live within the next day or two.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
This is absolutely great, that will help us a lot! Thanks!

And Thanks to @DiamondJohn who brought this topic here 👍
[About XDA developers] x2k13:
So I assume the achievements have been disabled for everyone for the time being?
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
no need to recognize my *****in... ;)
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
This should be working now... some posts ,ay take a bit to update.

Mike
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Thank you very much for letting us know!

I can confirm 👍👍

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[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Click to collapse, isn't showing up in dark theme.

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[About XDA developers] woodman:
Oh I missed this test after MikeChannon's post. I can confirm it's missing. Should be available for all themes indeed.

It's missing for XDA Classic theme too, in addition to Dark Theme.

@MikeChannon
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
I checked dark theme on Desktop Brave, Mobile brave, and XDA App

Same on all
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Some people are never satisfied lol.......... ok, I'll report it through.

Mike
[About XDA developers] KirkH420:
I understand the need to put some ads on the page. However,

the advertisements are all over the login page and pretty sloppy

Also, I bet you didn't notice this (wink).......... The ads cause "Focus" to be drawn off of the Password Textbox. LOLOLOLOL! While I'm trying to type in my password, when your ad "refreshes", it's almost like.... the ad is trying to Click It's Self!

For example: I press SHIFT because I plan to make an upper case character. When the focus is lost from the password textbox, the SHIFT (that i previously pressed) will un-press it's self. Or another example: if I need to put an Underscore into my password, I'm going to have to navigate to it with my Gboard. However, attempting to navigate to Gboard's Special Characters, the Textbox will Lose Focus and Gboard goes back to the default keypad (i wasn't fast enough at pressing the underscore key).

I'm just going to flat out say what this feels like. Don't get mad at me, I'm not the one who didn't code this correctly and now it's public for everybody to see. But what seems to be happening is that these ads are to clicking themselves, otherwise I can't think of a reason that when the ad refreshes to a new one, cursor focus is drawn off the password textbox.

I assume that however this web behavior became coded into your website.... was 100% unintentional and an accident.

Now honestly I don't care if that is going on, it doesn't affect me besides the difficulty logging in. And maybe you should build a Feedback system for people to report this type of thing without needing to make a forum post about it
[About XDA developers] svetius:
Yah, it's not working on default XDA theme. I'll get that fixed
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Personally, I don't think the Collapse option is necessary.

I'm happy with long quotes auto collapsed by default,

with the expand option available.
[About XDA developers] svetius:
It's fixed on XDA-Dark (default theme) and will be good once caches clear
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Yay, I can now see the collapse button with the dark theme and the xda classic theme as well. I cleared the cache of my browser to be able to see the fix.

Thanks again svetius.
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
But, if the "collapse" button is at the end, you have to scroll through the whole, horrible, quote to re-collapse it.

The "Spoiler" button sits ahead/above the content, and toggles between "show" and "hide". I thought the intent was to provide the same control over the display of a quote.

Can you make the entire quote sensitive to a tap so I don't have to scroll to the beginning or end to find the "collapse" button?

(Of course then I'll complain about not being able to mark text to copy/paste elsewhere.)
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Makes sense 😁

Semi-joke, workaround: search for "collapse" or "click to collapse" words on the current page and you will quickly find the right location: "click to collapse" button 😜
[About XDA developers] rsngfrce:
I just recently asked the same here and the assumption is yes, though I don't believe there has been an official comment (not to downplay the mod's response).
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
I haven't tested this in anger (ie real life situation, although anger for people quoting the OP isnt that far off....)

However, It is the case where people "catch me off guard" and I go to check their quote in case it has some extra info that makes their question clearer, and its usually before scrolling I can tell its the OP / irrelevant, so would wish to collapse it before I scroll.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Howzabout a "Til I Collapse" button which when tapped plays audio of the so named Eminem song, modified for XDA of course.

"I got a list. Here's the order of my list that it's in

It goes",

- Don't quote the OP.

- Other stuff.

:D
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
I watch 20+ threads. For 90% of them I have INTENTIONALLY turned mail notifications to off (leaving them only for few threads that I opened myself or where I havily participated, like some guides and so)

But today evening I started to receive mails that somebody quoted me or reacted here or there.

What is going on, why XDA settings suddenly changed by themselves?!

This is ridiculously ANNOYING - I have XDA app and I already receive ten notifications there, plus now, as of this evening, ten more e-mail notifications for the same quotes and reactions?!

I just gave up on opening all those e-mails and taking the stop e-mail notifications options for this and that thread again. Instead I congigured my mail client to sort ALL XDA MAILS to TRASH - bad move but better then being bombarded and spammed by day and night
[About XDA developers] woodman:
zgfg,

This is happening because 2 new configurable options have been added today, emails for quotes and mentions.

https://xdaforums.com/account/account-details

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It's ON by default, so if that annoys you, you can disable them in your settings.
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
Hmm, ok, I see. Thanks for explaining
[About XDA developers] woodman:
You're welcome 😊

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[About XDA developers] rsngfrce:
I'm here right now because I just got an email out of the blue that someone had quoted me. Off to adjust the settings.
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
Problem in parallel is that XDA app is very unrelible. I received notifications but it spinned forever when I wanted to open Allerts, or when I clicked on an Allert upon it they were finally listed.

Also, I had no luck when I tried to go to my Settings from XDA app, to disable those new notifications

However, I can immediately open the XDA threads and my settings from browser (on the same phone). Hence it cannot be due to my connection (which I know is good), or wven due to an overload on the server (how come that browser can immediately open, show the notifications, ooen them when clicked on, etc)

And/or, XDA app fails to post (once I finally open the thread), but then I can post with no problem from browser

It happens several times a day
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
I think it should default to OFF. Although, I guess the milk has been spilt. Maybe set to off for anyone who hasn't explicitly saved their settings since the change.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Well it's on svetius to decide but I think it's not a big deal, ON or OFF, honestly, it's just a matter of adjusting the settings once.

The pro of it being ON by default is that people know well the plugin has been enabled! See the reaction here? 😁
[About XDA developers] IamTheBRAVE:
We always need someone to take one for the team and experience the bugs firsthand 😀
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Also if I remember correctly, the emails for quotes and mentions were set to ON by default at the time of vBulletin. Anyone remembers? And I am not sure if it was even possible to configure it?
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
What is the relation between the new options in account preferences and the per thread preferences?

I thought the account preferences determined the thread preferences at the time of first interaction. I thought if I was receiving an e-mail every time anyone posted in a thread, it would do no good to change my account preference, because that thread had been set already. Instead, I had to view the list of watched threads, select that thread, and assert "disable e-mail notification" for selected threads.

Now, account preferences has separate e-mail notification options for quoted and mentioned, no option for post. The Watched threads list has only "enable email" and "disable email", no mention of quote, mention, or post.

Is it possible to get e-mail for any post in one thread, quote in a second thread, and mention in a third thread?
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Account preference is for general behaviour and per thread is preference per thread. Sorry it's obvious but I had to sayt it :p

Receiving emails for quotes and mentions is supposed to be a general functioning, this is why it has been implemented there I guess.

Not sure if I understand well but Yes.

But about the first item ^, it's not any post in one thread, an email is sent only if a new post has been posted since your last visit on XDA:

- if you don't visit xda in the meantime, no new email will be sent for this thread,

- if you visit xda in the meantime, a second email will be sent for the same thread.
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
Do you think it is possible for me to get an e-mail when I am quoted in this thread, without getting an e-mail when I am quoted in any other thread?
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Sorry I don't know yet, I'm testing things with other mods since yesterday. Daily use of this new plugin will tell us anyway.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Hi J.Michael,

I think the answer to your question is no (see the flowchart here below at the end of my post). I assume you should receive emails for quotes and mention even if you decided to not receive emails for a particular thread.

The new options for quotes and mentions in your account preferences:

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...are not linked with the option of email settings per thread:

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Here are my observations so far in a flowchart. It's not an official algo, it's been done by me from my understandings, so please don't take this as necesarily correct. If you see issues in here, please tell me:

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What I have rounded in orange-dotted is something that was triggering emails at the time of vBulletin and that bothers me. I will see if I send a request about this to svetius. but I guess we should.
[About XDA developers] tiho5:
That definitely bothers me too. You are correct to request it.

And thanks for the perfect explanation.
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I became concerned when I saw no sign of new posts since Monday, 2 August, and decided to post here.
[About XDA developers] IamTheBRAVE:
Yes same here. For me it was from saturday afternoon to monday morning. No articles and no alerts. But on sunday night decided to check watching tab and there were a couple of threads showing new posts. The forum tab was showing new threads correctly.
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Bug Report: Mention in Conversation not showing in Alerts​

Not sure if this never worked, was not activated, or just a one-time glitch.

I thought it was working.

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[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Spoiler content hidden.

As far as I see you can only set alert notifications for reactions in a conversation but not for mentions:

Spoiler content hidden.

But maybe I'm missing something.
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
Sorry, see the post #468
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Thanks, I meant to add that too.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
I'm really sorry for that, and I wasn't aware as I'm not using the app at all. But in this case, I'd call it then a bug of the app.
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
On PC the image is blurred in the post, looks fine when you click the image to see the full resolution.
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
Actually, I see now - it was my fault. If I first click to your spoiler/screenshot, and then enlarge, then it properly renders the screenshot

This must be about the thumbnail vs the real-size screenshot, both being included in your post
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
@woodman: Spoiler title (what displays before clicking to expand spoiler) not completely visible.

This is in a browser, on a tablet. The title (label?) runs off the right edge of the screen. I get another quarter inch by trying to scroll left, but I still can't read it all.

Switching from portrait to landscape makes it worse.

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[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Same for me in dark mode

Edit: In the app
[About XDA developers] IamTheBRAVE:
In the app too.
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
Does anyone know whether the app uses the web site's HTML, CSS, Javascript?
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Maybe we should limit the number of allowed characters for the spoiler title?

Maybe 30 or 32? That would avoid such a bad rendering?

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I'm not responsible for this so I can't say much. I don't think we should allow more than 1 line for a spoiler whatever happens and I don't know if that's even possible and/or a good idea.
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I expect a long line to wrap. Or to be allowed to scroll sideways to see the rest of the line. I assume something about the CSS is blocking either behavior.

I wouldn't worry about a spoiler title being too long. Why would a malicious person bother to use a "Spoiler" tag?
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Well I thought about this over night and realized that limiting the number of characters for the spoiler label wouldn't be ideal, considering that the width/number of char of the spoiler changes depending on the font size in account preferences and also depending on the device/screen size/used browser.

So I don't know what would be OK and possible.

Remember that xda's owners would like to keep the platform as standard as possible, no custom dev, and less add-on as possible. The reason is xda would like to follow the updates of XenForo without any issues. That will avoid to face again what happened with vbulletin which was custom modified as hell and we were stuck with an old version of it for eternity.

I guess a solution would be to convince XenForo owner to modify the stock platform for this spoiler title matter?

Any other idea @MikeChannon, @svetius ?
[About XDA developers] IamTheBRAVE:
Anyone having log in problems? Had to reflash my rom backup and now xda app won't authorize it. Hitting the button does nothing, logging out, same. I'm using the browser which logged in on the first try.

Gotta get used to it, i guess... :)
[About XDA developers] woodman:
No login issue here but I didn't have to reflash anything on my side.

Will let you know if I face this.
[About XDA developers] IamTheBRAVE:
Turns out the problem is kiwi browser's new chromium update. I always use it to authenticate and didn't think to change browsers until now o_O vivaldi did the job instantly.

I feel like i'm becoming newbier the longer i use android :p
[About XDA developers] VD171:
I am receiving two emails for the SAME reply:

"New message in watched forum"

and

"quoted you"
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Everything is ok then, it works as expected if you opted-in to receive emails for quotes in your account preferences 👍

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Edit: please ignore the orange rounded part as it's not about my point above.
[About XDA developers] VD171:
YES. But I don't want multiple emails for the same post.

If there are more than one email to be sent, so, it would choose only and sent it.

I don't want to disable emails for quotes or emails for reply on watched forums, but I don't want to receive multiple emails for the same reply.

I mean, if I was quoted on an watched forum, I will receive two emails, but I don't want it and I don't want to disable email alerts.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
You will receive those 2 emails for the same post if you follow the thread. This is by design (not a bug) and it was working this way too under vBulletin in the past for your info.
[About XDA developers] VD171:
This is a waste of resources.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Probably but not a big deal IMO compared to other stuff/topics.

Also changing this would imply to do custom dev which is not wanted that much by xda owners since we moved to XF platform.
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Like animated .gif(s)...
[About XDA developers] tiho5:
I want to remind about something.

I can't tell apart read and unread threads well enough. The difference is very subtle. It needs to be tweaked. Others have been complaining about the same.

Using dark theme on Chrome on a Note phone and especially when under the sun it is a pain distinguishing them.
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I searched for gt-p5210 Everywhere. I've only looked at the first two hits, but neither has any occurrence of the string "gt-p5210". E.g., this device.
[About XDA developers] Homeboy76:
This happens with the XDA app: When using the XDA app to reply/edit post and I tap the

three dot menu that displays the emojis icon

the emoji icon appears but it is

greyed out

. If I tap the emoji icon

no emojis are displayed

. Who can fix this problem?
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
For me it does work ... second edit: There seems to be an issue. Now I see a second answer/reply text when clicking on the Emoji icon (but no Emojis).
[About XDA developers] Homeboy76:
(y)
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
What is this new 'Menu' - screenshot attached?!

The whole line looks ugly, takes precious space, I don't see what I'm writing (it stays over the bottom of Edit box) and tapping to Menu does absolutely nothing

Please how to remove?
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
I see a similar menu bar in the app at Forums > Manage Devices and when navigating through the main menu any forums or account link and while viewing the thread which is horrible. That menu bar and the space below it are a waste of about 20% of available display space. Even if that bar did anything it is very intrusive. There is already a top bar with overflow menu. Additionally, after the new menu bar is tapped the window above can no longer be scrolled.

Apologies for a partial loss of composure but even if that menu bar has a purpose, to use that much screen space while navigating and reading and replying to individual posts in threads this is (bites tongue). As it is, forum navigation is made challenging enough by the absence of navigation buttons at the top and at the bottom and without being able to return to a thread or post you were just viewing, and with an edit box that is unkind with many keyboards; but to have to do all that in such a tiny footprint on the display is not good (to understate).
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
Unfortunately I see now that it's not about the XDA app update from Nov 2.15.40 (I have reverted to 2.15.38 from April but no avail) but this waster of space bar that literally jumps into the eyes was implemented on the server side

However, in browser tapping to the Menu opens the menu but apparently they did not test/debug with XDA app to find that it doesn't work with the Google official WebView thus introducing even more troubles to the XDA app

(anybody - please don't suggest to use some custom WebView solutions)
[About XDA developers] steadfasterX:
Yes this useless menu bar is incredible annoying!!!
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Indeed the timing does not line up with the app update. Also at the same time as that change in the app there have been changes to the web interface in a desktop browser, some of which seem like nice improvements but to your point not tested thoroughly for the effect in the app.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Pinging @svetius

Hi, any ideas what's going on with this new weird menu bar ^^ ? Possibly a mistake?