Welcome to the improved XDA-developers forum

[Peter Poelman]

First of all: don't worry. Everything you are used to is still here. Your username still exists, all the messages are still here, and we're all still here.

There are a few changes though:


You can set a country flag, as well as which device(s) you have and a home GSM-provider. These will be displayed in icon form with your messages. It's completely uncomplicated and much more fun if everyone participates. So please use the 'Profile' button in the menu above to set these things for you. They help others help you by knowing what device you have and what provider you are using.

Topics now have an extra property, which defines whether they are relevant for the original XDA, for the XDA II or for both. A small icon shows with each message. You can set this property when you start a new topic.

The separate XDAII board is gone. All messages there have been moved to the forum where they are most appropriate (see below). The fact that the messages were originally posted in XDAII now shows with an icon.

We now allow attachments, both in forum postings and in Private Messages, sized up to 50MB (!).

The boards have new names, and are slightly re-organized:

[list:42f131921e]
General
Current events, news, etc.
Using it
messages formerly in 'PocketPC' go here.
Not too technical, about use and peculiarities. Unlocking it
formerly called 'Unlocking'
Networking it
formerly called 'GPRS/WAP settings'
Stocking up for it
formerly called 'Accessories'
Upgrading and modifying it
formerly 'ROM updates'
Hacking it
formerly 'Programmers corner' and 'Other techie stuff' Anything but it
formerly called 'Off-topic'

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We currently use the plain-vanilla 'subSilver' phpBB style. Expect further changes to the way things look over the next few days. Please let me know by clicking 'PM' under this message if anything that used to work for you all of a sudden isn't working anymore.

Hope you like it...

[Bully]

Sexy!

[tenzin]

Wow ! well done ! :wink: certainly a lot of work ...thanks :D

[Qman]

Sure does and it looks good too! 8)

But found the following to be missing:
no USA T-Mobile listed under GSM Provider
no AT&T radio stacks listed under Radio Version.

[Peter Poelman]

no USA T-Mobile listed under GSM Provider
Whoops. Fixed.

no AT&T radio stacks listed under Radio Version.
We're still confused about all these Radio Stack Upgrade numbers. And if we are confused, imagine what that means for the poor folks out there. But I will include some more numbers tomorrow...

[pdhenry]

A couple of suggestions:

In the ROM Version setting of the profile, there should be a "kitchen" option for 4.00.16, since this is on at least one kitchen (perhaps "kitchen" ought to be a check box?)

I don't know that I would have chosen to have a merged 'update it' forum for XDAI and XDAII. Most readers are interested in info for one device and dont care about the other.

[Peter Poelman]

A couple of suggestions:

In the ROM Version setting of the profile, there should be a "kitchen" option for 4.00.16, since this is on at least one kitchen (perhaps "kitchen" ought to be a check box?)
Done. I might make it a checkbox later on.

I don't know that I would have chosen to have a merged 'update it' forum for XDAI and XDAII. Most readers are interested in info for one device and dont care about the other.
I was planning to create a one-click filter option for 'viewforum.php'.

[Peter Poelman]

As you may have seen the forum now has it's own hostname: forum.xda-developers.com. All existing links (/forum and /phpBB) will redirect to the correct thread or post on the new hostname (using a rewrite rule and sending HTTP 'Moved Permanently').

The uncompressed database for the forum is now 40 MB, the entire site is sending and receiving a few GigaBytes per day, to and from over 2500 unique IP-numbers each day.

[othman]

Hello

Well done and great work, keep it up.

thanks with best regards.


Othman :D

[gazzaman2k]

looks alrite :) but i miss the yellowy colour scheme :( now looks like every other forum on the web lol :roll:

[mgolanlan]

the DB is only 40Mb ... this fits on 10% of my stamp size SD card ...
and yet, with just 2500 db-access (and how many posts? probably 100kb)
we get Giga bytes of traffic....

Just think how wasteful we're with current technology....

This goes double for a Pocket PC with two wireless communications,
100's of Mb of data, 400Mhz cpu ... and all that it does is displaying
who is calling your phone :-)

Hmmm ....

[this is not a flame of the site or the PPC.... just a note on the status of the information/software age of the 21st century in general]

[Peter Poelman]

looks alrite :) but i miss the yellowy colour scheme :( now looks like every other forum on the web lol :roll:

No worries: this is temporary. There will be some proper design-work done on the entire site.

This is a good opportunity to say "Thank you" to Mario Giambanco, whose ideas and kind offer to work on the site prompted me to do some cleanup first, which resulted in the changes you see. Between him, myself, and hopefully some other volunteers we can now start to do a major overhaul concerning the looks and stale content of the main site.

The new 'main site' is going to be database-generated (from the phpBB database), and will have at least 'News' and 'FAQ' pages, pointing to topics on the forum. This will mean the 'main site' will be much more of an up-to-date tribute to the collective work of all of you on the forum, instead of a somewhat stale collection of some cool stuff we did way back. Creating layout in the way we did it before is just too much work.

[van]

It looks very nice :P :lol: :D

But maybe we need added section: download & upgrade hardware ???

:wink:

[stryker]

very nice

[alsarrag]

:D Simply An excellent job

[mrg2003]

I preferred the old one. bah humbug

[jimVmax]

Thanks! :D For all the hard work it is much appreciated :wink:
Keep burning the midnight oil, it can only get better! ( like the XDA II )

Kind Regards, StayLucky Jim.

[vangelderp]

I written quite a few custom applications for the XDA and your site has some interesting infomation that has helped me.

I have replied a couple of times too with some code snipits.

All was very professional.

Now the Programmers Corner is under Hacking it, so I must of now become a Hacker. An interesting term, that I will have to add to my CV and see if it effects my future software appointments.

[AE]

At last! Your decision to migrate to 2.0.6 is very welcome :)

If you interested - I can suggest two mobile adaptations for phpbb:
- read only version optimized for using as Mobile Favorites/Avantgo channels
and
- fully functional version for using from mobile devices.

These versions were developed and tested for one of the mostly visited (264,100 messages currently) PDA-related site in Russia http://www.handy.ru/board Unfortunately, all of the site is on Russian, but you may look though the following links just to smell it:

Mobile Favorites/AvantGo version:


Setup channels (http://www.handy.ru/board/mobilesetup.php?f=4) (Controls translation: forum name; timeframe; pictures (all/smiles only/none); link conversion mode; signatures on/off)

Ready-to-synchronize channel link (http://www.handy.ru/board/mobileforum.php?f=4&dt=2a&img=s&lnk=l&sig=n&usr=AE) (two days plus vacations, smiles only, links converted to text, without signatures).

Online mobile version: (banners should be visible from desktop PC only)

Forum index (http://www.handy.ru/board/mob_index.php)
Forum page (http://www.handy.ru/board/mob_forum.php?f=4)
Topic discussion (http://www.handy.ru/board/mob_topic.php?t=22164)

All security is the same as in desktop phpbb version. Almost all functionality is implemented except site administration, advanced moderation panel (topic joining/splitting/mass deletes) and profile changing/private messaging.

These forum versions not include support for skins or language resources (sorry, but I develop them as fast as I can). So translation to English and slight adaptation to your mods (if any) needed. But I'm ready for this job.

The only main forum changes needed are:
- adding 4 lines to template variables array initialization;
- modifying 4 template files to add links to mobile versions;

[Peter Poelman]

Now the Programmers Corner is under Hacking it, so I must of now become a Hacker. An interesting term, that I will have to add to my CV and see if it effects my future software appointments.
It seemed like a logical term to combine 'Programmers corner' and the little used 'Other techie stuff'. We think of the term 'hacker' as meaning a benign and very advanced programmer or techie, and not in any negative media-sensationalist terms. (Even though some of us do smile when we take the SIMlock off.)

Ofcourse if you think the rest of the world would see this differently, you're welcome to say 'Programmers corner' in future job applications.

I sincerely hope this linguistic issue will not keep you from continuing to benefit and contribute in the future.

[remlap]

alot of work you have done to add all those providers, I LOVE them little drawings of XDA 1 and 2 they are tidy

Well done

[Peter Poelman]

alot of work you have done to add all those providers, I LOVE them little drawings of XDA 1 and 2 they are tidy

Well done
Thank you.

(But honesty does force me to say I found a large collection of provider logos somewhere, and just added a few.)

[Griso]

Great job,
I like these forum and you have made an optimal job.
Now it does not remain to us that to use it and to use it.

Mine compliments!

[2GMario]

:)

Thanks for the thank you XDA developer Peter Poelman . thats nice to see / hear

I have alot of experience in running sites like this, so i offered my help.

the forums are just the beginging. i havent spoken to the owners of the site in a few days, as im sure thier busy, and iv had the flu, but this will take some time to get everything to match

as with any group of people working twords a common set of goals, the best thing you can do when they ask for your opinion, is to comment.

we can only change things based on what we think it should look like. after that, its your (the members) comments that can help us refine things more.

It was one of my ideas to have a version of the website and possibly the forums, designed to look good and be fast and function on the xda / xda 2. Thats what we use, so why not be able to browse the site from it.

anyways, we have alot of plans, everything just has to be organized, delegated to the right people, and finished.

Enjoy
-Mario

[Biso007]

Very good job that's well done :)

I have a request hope it will not sound crazy :oops:

I see it a bit out of logic that we all use XDAs (either I or II) and yet our wonderful forum doesn't have a PPC layout!!. I know it's a new project that will require lots of effort but I see it feasible since it's database based s/w. So, I expect it to be just a separate web page designed for WM.

I usually access this forum even away of my PC and find it very hard to read it on my XDA. I hope we will see this acheivement very soon :)

[orb3000]

I will make my donation at the end of the month (Is that possible to donate less than 10Euro?, if so I may do this today!)

Can you include:
Telcel listed under GSM Provider please?

Cheers