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[About XDA developers] Wolfcity:
I agree, 5 years is not enough. I'm here since 2013 so I will have to wait a bit for my 10th anniversary but 8 years is a long time too.😁

And for me it would be enough to be a green RC again, no need for an extra achievement, just colour it!
[About XDA developers] BillGoss:
Don't hold your breath on the 10 yr achievement. I've been on XDA since 2010 and I only have the 5yr badge.
[About XDA developers] Wolfcity:
Like we all. I think there are a lot of achievements missing. But it's WIP, so maybe these missing ones will join in sooner or later. It's kind of funny to receive a badge for 20 posts when you have more than 4000 in reality.
[About XDA developers] osm0sis:
Well that's why I'm requesting it. 😉
[About XDA developers] woodman:
I think no one earned it yet, same applies to the moderator achievement, we Mods don't have it yet as well. Still WIP is the reason IMO. We need to wait.
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
All achievements say how many have received them, if they say "Earned by 0 (0%)", it's a good chance that it hasn't been activated yet.

https://xdaforums.com/help/adav-achievements

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[About XDA developers] orb3000:
+ 1 to get proper badge for our 5yrs+ members

I hope its been considered.

I want my 14yrs badge please!!!
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
Should be called "Dinosaur" badge :ROFLMAO:
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
Hahahaa yes! And a special one for founders, if any still around!
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I got an alert saying I was quoted, but I don't see myself quoted. The post does not seem to have been edited. Why was I alerted?

cc: @IronTechmonkey

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[About XDA developers] osm0sis:
I think if a post is edited in the first 5 minutes it doesn't show "Edited"

Edit: Confirmed?

Edit 2: Yup!
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Ahhh... I had started a post then abandoned it, then hours later when responding to a different post that text was included, but then I immediately edited the post deleted that part.

LOL So at least we know the notification system is working quickly. Sorry about the false alarm. :)
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
So, where's my Achievement for being unquoted? (disquoted? exquoted?)
[About XDA developers] IamTheBRAVE:
This happened to me too earlier with an unused quote that was leftover from an earlier post and got inserted in the next one
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
Request: @osm0sis

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[About XDA developers] IamTheBRAVE:
Rather than turning off automatic draft saving (i like this feature) maybe have a "cancel/delete post" button appearing when you start writing a message that will flush all post content including quotes when pressed,
[About XDA developers] martin.armstrong:
I can still not get it to work!!
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
Seems to work for me now.
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
What do you do when I click "Attach files"?

On my tablet, when I use Chrome, clicking "Attach files" produces a pop-up letting me choose among Camera, Camcorder, and Files. Files is some file manager, and I get to choose a file to attach.

Using Naked Browser, I get a toast that says "cannot open file chooser". I don't know who says it.

I can't be sure, but I thought I successfully attached files to posts using Naked Browser on the old web site.

I *am* able to insert an image file. What is different between the two launchers?
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
Now, in Chrome, there's a Walmort ad with the "x" to close the ad maliciously close to the squiggle that hijacks me to a Walmort page.
[About XDA developers] Zackptg5:
Any possibility of adding back the ability for the devdb feature of having contributors to a thread? There were several devdb threads where I was the main one updating the OP and now I can't since devdb is gone
[About XDA developers] theelderstatesman:
I'm sorry, if that has been mentioned before, but why does the information in the device inventory of Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro say "Manufacturer: Unknown"?
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
I think that falls under #16 in the bug list.

There were a few bugs with the Device Inventory, I guess just report them as you find them.

I've listed a few of them here.

Edit: #16
[About XDA developers] osm0sis:
#16 in this thread's updated list actually 😛
[About XDA developers] voidxor:
For me, my 1 Year Member achievement shows up, but my 2, 3, 4, and 5 Year Member ones do not. This has been a consistent issue for me for at least a month. In the meantime, I see other members (even throughout this thread) proudly displaying their 5 Year Member achievement badge. @osm0sis Maybe this issue with displaying achievements in posts should be added to the bug list.
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
It's known they are not working

and we would need a whole new list for all the Achievement bugs.
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
I assume you selected the 5 year one in options? Maybe try unticking all of them, then go back and choose the 5 year one?
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
I think that's more about when they appear in your list of selectable ones?
[About XDA developers] voidxor:
Yes, obviously. I've played with any combination of ticking and unticking to no avail. I forgot to say that explicitly.

@sd_shadow I saw that thread about early December's change but apparently didn't read far enough into it to see that it was still active two weeks ago with complaints about the forum change and ongoing achievement woes.

Absolutely not. Posts #3,201 and #3,202 exactly mirror my issue. Just because you have the 5 Year badge showing up doesn't mean the rest of us can.
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
I wasn't saying that, I was just suggesting/asking things, given your post had little info...no need to be like that.
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
It is the same for me and many user ATM. Still work in progress. So please be patient.

Yes, we should have a dedicated list or forum for achievement system bugs and feature requests (e.g. like for the new xda app)!

I hope that it will be created as soon as the xenforo admins and devs are "finished" with this work in progress.

I also tried nearly everything, but does not work for me either. Was just a kind of "worth a try" (as @the_scotsman tried to explain already in his post above).

In the past, some strange actions in special sequence could solve a few issues. Just to name one: "Achievement Hunter" blocking some users (like me) from using different features (posting, searching, giving and receiving reactions, etc.) of the xda forum!

Yes, some users can select/show thosse achievements, and others not. I assume that this "weird" behavior is the cause that those issues could not be solved yet.

My summary:

Achievement system is still work in progress and a kind of "Beta" version.

As I think that is might have a positive effect on many user's activity in xda forums, it is worth to be fixed. But we have to wait for it to be done.
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I want to thank whoever eliminated the ad space that used to be reserved at the bottom of my screen.

(I still hold my breath when I open a new page but, so far, so good.)
[About XDA developers] osm0sis:
👆

Truncated special titles appear to be getting fixed today! 🙌

Maybe truncated long forum names are next? 😁🤞
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Yay, not that I want to send me flowers but I send flowers to myself still 😜, there were 66 accounts to manually edit and then inform members about this change. Yea there were not other solutions than doing it manually.... 😭

I'm happy to have contributed to this and make disappear the truncated tiles. We have 50 char maximum allowed for it so it was not easy to find a good and consistent compromise for everyone and every case.

BTW, no one forced me, I was fine to volunteer for this task.
[About XDA developers] It_ler:
Thanks. We are happy to have you as moderator on this forum (y)
[About XDA developers] Raphos:
Hi forum Devs,

Do you think it's possible to add a "top button" at the end of threads ?

It's really annoying to scroll to the top...

At https://forums.fedora-fr.org/ you have this button at each answers, that's appreciable ("haut" means top).

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That's just an idea, but at least at the bottom of the page.
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Thank you very much 👍👍👍

It's a real pleasure for me to give back to xda this way.
[About XDA developers] Sigster:
Would it be possible to add more information to the notification emails?

E.g the one I received today was for the thread '[ROM][OFFICIAL] LineageOS 17.1'. No other info.

When I click on the link I can then see the latest post. If that post is not at the top I have to scroll up to see which product or area the thread is under.

Would it be possible to include the 'thread-tree' somewhere in the email?

Instead of only

'[ROM][OFFICIAL] LineageOS 17.1'

it could additionally show

'Forums>Motorola>Moto Z3 Play>Moto Z3 Play ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other De'
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
Not sure about the emails, but in the notifications, it previously included a link of the thread, and maybe the reported post, which if it was deleted, it would siimply take you to the new last post, or the one before. Now I have to take the extra manual step of finding the thread in my subscriptions (IF I am even subscribed to the thread).

Sorry if I have confused or diverted from your point
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
Being on XDA for years, and during that time I've changed several phones and participated in a number of threads - I still watch most of them and I watch Q&A and Guides for the couple of phones (some I have/had, some similar ones since you can learn something interesting there too, etc)

Thread titles usually don't contain the phone model because too long titles would be counter-productive (!) and that kind of info is (should be) fully redundant.

Indeed, if somebody is opening a theead under Xiaomi Mi 9T / Questions and Answers (asking for e.g. help with fingerprint) why would (s)he need to name it "Fingerprint not working on Xiaomi Mi 9T" or "[Xiaomi Mi 9T] Fingerprint not working", while the phone model is 'obvious' from the subforum where he just opened the thread

Usually (s)he would describe what's his phone and firmware in the post but sometimes people omit even there, or that info gets 'lost' after a number of follow-up posts

Now, problem is that this new XDA app is ignorant about. The app probably 'thinks' that each user is interested only to the single phone, hence not watching threads/forums for various phones and that there would be no ambiguity and no need to provide the full name of the subforum (phone maker and model) - through notifications, in the Alert list, and most annoying, even when you click to the alert and open the thread, and you scroll to the top, only the thread title is shown but the subforum name (phone model) is missing again (at least for me, see the screenshot no. 2).

Btw, there was no problem with the old XDA app seven months ago

Hence when I receive a notification, when I open the app, open the post from the alert, if I still cannot recognize to which phone is it about, I have to click to the username of that last poster, to open his Messages list - only there I can see that he recently posted to e.g. Xiaomi Mi 9T (not to Hawei Mate 9, or any other phone I'm also watching) about the fingerprint not working there.

Too complicated for something that should be simply provided in the Alert list and thread pages
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
@zgfg to be clear I only use the web interface. One of the old features I really miss is that I could group my watched threads, so I ciuld have a group for each of my previous old redundant phones, that would not "interfere" with the threads I am currently subscribed to for my latest device. This made a difference as I use to distribute ROMs for my old devices, and I had Spoiler content hidden. 3 different devices at one point; but those threads have slowly quietened down. I would still like to separate my Apps from ROMs, [/end_rant]
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
Spoiler content hidden.

Change "our" to "out".

Don't keep flipping between two almost identical nag panels.
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
For the past week or so, I have been randomly getting the following when browsing XDA.

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Ironically, it was when I went to find this thread, it gave me the opportunity to take the above screenshot.

For now, I just need to wait a few minutes and refresh the page and it sorts itself out. The first time it occured, I smply believed what It was telling me, and thought XDA was undergoing maintenance. But it is happening one or two times a day, for only very short periods, before a refresh succeeds, which makes me think it is not maintenance.
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
Similar to me (but I use XDA app, not browser). First time in the night and I thought ok, a maintenance really.

But few more times I tried few minutes later and XDA worked fine again - hence strange to always be a 'maintenance' for a minute or two
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
+1

After a period of forced logoutwhich do typically occur during maintenance, during a period when access seem normal, the maintenance error would appear at times where in the old system the message about too many hits in a short time would it . Ie, when many links are opened at once.

... and just now in the labs app, when I started writing this post the forums were fine and then when I try to save it it said the matrix was broken. Might I then suggest not using the Matrix.
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
What do you mean by not using Matrix?

Isn't that "Broken Matrix" just an allusion to the Matrix movie
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
I guess @IronTechmonkey means this error notification.

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[About XDA developers] karandpr:
It's a special spam protection technique for people who abuse the forums.
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
Should I come out feeling "special" or "abused"...

I dont remember that it occurs when I have hit the servers rapidly, so is the trigger allowed to be told? But, maybe it was when I opened a number of new windows in rapid succession. or was it a dig directed at me...
[About XDA developers] karandpr:
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[About XDA developers] woodman:
Labs, the good ol' days 😏😀
[About XDA developers] strongst:
...I'm still waiting for a fix for XDA labs💀
[About XDA developers] karandpr:
XDA labs volte fix wen
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Just blame @karandpr , he didn't know it but he was responsible for it!!!!!!

NO

BTW VoLTE is much easier to fix than XDA Labs/App !!!1!1!1!
[About XDA developers] woodman:
@karandpr, can I add "Retired XDA Labs Contributor" to my titles???
[About XDA developers] Badger50:
Hell yeah Flo! I freaking loved labs! Fast, easy, battery friendly, and usually worked just fine! 👍👍😁
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Great, "Retired XDA Labs Contributor" added to my signature coz' you know 50 char limit for user title... :D

BTW everyone misses XDA Labs but it was full of issues, remember the wall of issues? And lots of people complained about annoying bugs or limitations at that time :D

It was a great app though and I was soooo proud of being an active and official contributor there!
[About XDA developers] karandpr:
* Retired Recognized Senior Elite XDA Labs Contributor
[About XDA developers] woodman:
Love it!
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
I was being sarcastic as well as techno-philosophically circular; blaming the coding of the universe (in this case, the matrix) for issues with the app or back end.

Goodness gracious, even as I try to save this post after some successfully forum access the matrix error appears. What goes on?
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
LOL, that was a typo, I was not intending to be nostalgic, I meant "xda android app"
[About XDA developers] woodman:
You were unconsciously nostalgic 😀
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Yes that.

Can anyone speak to why that is occurring in web browser and then followed by XDA's "twitter" message message in web browser stating that forums are being maintained?

The timing could be coincidental but it seems to be occurring when I open 3 or 4 bookmarks or alert links to XDA posts. This has never been a problem before in the old or the new infrastructure. In the old infrastructure if many links were simultaneously open (eg by accidentally middle click on bookmark folder) something like 15 or 20, then the server would report through the web browser "too many attempts try again later". That made sense.

What is occurring now does not seem to be the same so, this questions.

Are the forums being maintained or are those just the new version of the ""too many attempts message (in which case it's the wrong message for the situation)?
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
@IronTechmonkey

As far as I know there're currently some issues that cause these effects but "the web gurus" are heavily working on it. And I'm convinced they do as I'm mainly experience them in my morning/noon hours i.e. when the USA are still sleeping.
[About XDA developers] karandpr:
We are merging with twitter. All recognized members get verified titles.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Thanks for the explanation/confirmation. Those errors started at about the same time as I was testing some VPN and mobile data versus Wi-Fi comparisons. Although I certainly don't wish for such system-wide problems I am personally relieved that the issues are not in my gear which I can now stop troubleshooting. :)
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Nicely played. Whether a joke or true that is wicked. Now I'll have to change my name to TwitMonkey or MonkeyTwit (some bystanders roar in approval).
[About XDA developers] woodman:
You could try IronTechbird too. 😀
[About XDA developers] karandpr:
or mostwantedbot
[About XDA developers] Badger50:
Far better than "Bottweeter" 🤣
[About XDA developers] woodman:
This username is dope. The one who found it is a real genius 😜😜
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I retract my thanks, as the bottom-stuck ads are back.
[About XDA developers] IronTechmonkey:
Or this one which seems so obvious I'm wondering if others were just afraid to say it. IronTwit
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
The ad pinned to the bottom of the screen hides controls that also want to pop up at the bottom of the screen.

I was trying to delete a conversation (or at least remove it from my list). I selected by filling a checkbox. I was eventually inspired to click on the button counting number selected. I still didn't see an option to remove myself from the conversation. Then I deleted the pinned-to-the-bottom ad -- not easy to do without triggering another link.

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[About XDA developers] zgfg:
TG, using AdAway and not seeing your ads
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
...and we're back to no dialog to choose "This thread" if I'm holding the tablet in portrait orientation.

It behaves pretty much as expected in landscape orientation.

Yes, I saw the dedicated "Search this thread" button at the top of the page. It works. It is not as convenient as the search field that is already in the section that has been reserved at the top of my screen.

I can't help but wonder if this new failure/regression is related to someone "fixing" the miserable pinned-to-bottom-of-screen ads, whose absence pleased me every day they were not there.
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
Feature Request: As screens are gettuing more andmore resolution, people are posting images, and insertiung the image into the post at FULL resolution. When I have asked people to instead insert a thumbnail, that post would be hit with a ton of likes from others; so obviously I am not the only one. It gets really bad when someone inserts a trail of screenshots to try and show the steps to get to some state. This really stuffs up thethread andmakesnot only their post hard to read, but a others as well.

In a perfect world, I would request that people cannot insert full sized images above certain dimensions. I understand that would probably be too complex to spend time on.

As a better alternative, I think the insert full size image should be completely removed, and only thumbnails allowed. As someone who goes to the trouble of resizing images or cutting out the important part (i know I would be more likly to help someone with a more readable post) , and I dont think that it would be detrimental if only a thumbnail of my cut down images were displayed (ie if anyone should care about the restriction, then I would be one of them). If someone was really going to pay attenhtion to the image contents, then they would simply click on it, but if they are not interested, now they and everyone else may need top scroll past multiple pages. What makes it even worse, a lot pf these posters dont put carriage returns before/after the image, so they end up with text abutting the base of the image. Here is a post for an example of what I mean. Luckily this guy only posted a single screenshot; but I am suspicious he may of joined more than one, as thats a pretty strange aspect ratio.
[About XDA developers] BillGoss:
@DiamondJohn, I had a look at the post you mentioned. And I don't have any issues with it. I can see that the user took a scrolling screenshot to show all the apps that used the battery.

I guess we have differing views of how images should be inserted into a post. I prefer to see the full image.

FYI, I mainly use the browser on my phone (OnePlus 8T) to access XDA.
[About XDA developers] zgfg:
Sorry but at the end I don't understand what do you really propose?

That XDA creates thumbnails for the inserted pictures, that XDA downsize the inserted pictures, to disable inserting pictures and allowing only the attached pictures or what

What could bother me is not the resolution but the file size (screenshots are usually well compressed JPEGs) but then XDA could propose to user to downsize similarly as mail does

Regarding to 'strange' aspect ratio - the guy inserted a scrollshot, hence the length is arbitrary - like 7907 (click to open) in the one I attached (but did not insert) below
[About XDA developers] J.Michael:
I want to do what @zgfg did. I think I did, on the old web site. On the new site, in my preferred browser (Naked Browser), I can't "Attach files" -- it says "Cannot open file chooser." (I'm not sure who's talking.) (In Chrome, it gives me a "Open with" dialog.) So I fall back on "insert image", which somehow has no problem getting me a file chooser.

So I vote Yes, restrict the display size of embedded images, but please fix whatever not-quite-standard code is currently used for "Attach files". Some day I may want to attach a file.
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
I browse on my desktop, and his scrolling screenshot means pag9ng down to getto theactual question. In some cases, people post multiple images so the post goes on and on. And, some of the screenshots do not actual help.

File size does not bother me personally. Please don't confuse the issue I am speaking to, I made no mention of data size, iuts purely screen real-estate that bugs me.

As for resizing, NO, I am proposing that every image be inserted as a thumbnail; a feature already present. ANYONE who reads the post and wishes to see the full image, can click on the thumbnail and get it. They loose nothing. Meanwhile the rest of use have a harder time reading the thread.

I dont think I understand what you are talking about. To insert an image hosted by XDA, you first have to attach it. For an image linked to and hosted elsewhere, then thats something else. I am speaking of images attached to a post.

While typing the response to @zgzf, it occurred to me, that maybe a user set option to display ALL images as thumbnails instead of full images, would make every one happy. I know I am not the only one who is being annoyed by these large images.