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Suggestion, Features

Well as usual, xda has made the perfect app although I have some recommendations.
Better comment system with title and a xda app built in account settings manager like password changer etc. Why not add more apps to the xdapp store, all the ones hosted here by developers, discontinued ones as well. Is this app built in xamarin? Well I dont know but this app counts storage of 115mb in my device!!! Could do with a built in feedback system and better wallpapers, personally I love all the ones uploaded right now :D .
Lastly can we have a autoscroll for comments, because personally I dont fancy turning 46 pages to view a particular comment. :good:
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Has it been mentioned that if a thread is less than 10 posts long (1 page) that the reply button doesn't appear at the bottom?

Long thread -

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Short thread -

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Has it been mentioned that if a thread is less than 10 posts long (1 page) that the reply button doesn't appear at the bottom?

Long thread -

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Short thread -

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Yes, already mentionned in previous page here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=65040295

It's fixed in next version by @blk_jack :)

Test:

  1. You can add your custom size in /data/.imgsize or /cache/.imgsize in MB. You can create and edit the file or do this command in TWRP's Terminal or ADB Shell.
    Code:
    echo '87' > /data/.imgsize
  2. Flash Magisk IMG Resizer zip
 
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That would explain why I can't reply to my own thread from XDA Labs.

---------- Post added at 09:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:41 PM ----------

Ant to the others:

Did you try posting on the website? Maybe it's an XDA issue, not a Labs issue.

I did not have the chance yet, but it seems irellevent now.
Thank you in any case.

this app counts storage of 115mb in my device!!!

Only about 20MB here, try clearing cache.
 

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Is it already time to use Github issues and, among other benefits, avoid duplication?

We'll use github once we go beta (public). We're in alpha right now, almost every issue that gets posted here I've come across myself or heard about already from my testers on IRC.

I hate it to sound like most bug report type posts here are useless or redundant, but without logs they pretty much are.

Also (I've updated OP to reflect this), but we won't have "endless scrolling" for posts any time in the near future. Over & above the substantial changes that would have to happen in the app, it requires a whole bunch of API changes. We're working on a version 2 of the API with some much needed features and additions and that feature wouldn't come until well after that was finalized and released so you guys can stop asking for it.

EDIT: Sorry, thems the breaks for now! :angel:
 
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We'll use github once we go beta (public). We're in alpha right now, almost every issue that gets posted here I've come across myself or heard about already from my testers on IRC.

I hate it to sound like most bug report type posts here are useless or redundant, but without logs they pretty much are.

Also (I've updated OP to reflect this), but we won't have "endless scrolling" for posts any time in the near future. Over & above the substantial changes that would have to happen in the app, it requires a whole bunch of API changes. We're working on a version 2 of the API with some much needed features and additions and that feature wouldn't come until well after that was finalized and released so you guys can stop asking for it.

EDIT: Sorry, thems the breaks for now! :angel:

Many Thanks for this very clear answer!
 

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Wow let me tell you how nice it is to actually get an "app notification" from XDA.

This was always a hit or miss (mostly miss) thing with the XDA Premium app.

I'm liking everything about the new app so far & the direction it's going. I'm a long time user of the XDA Android apps BTW & this is leaps & bounds above.
 
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... we won't have "endless scrolling" for posts any time in the near future. Over & above the substantial changes that would have to happen in the app, it requires a whole bunch of API changes. :angel:

Certainty sounds like a very BIG job!

I'd be more than happy with just a tiny UI tweak:
to flip pages by using a vertical swipe, instead of, or in addition to, the current horizontal swipe.
Just that will make it so much easier. :)

Keep on the good work!
 

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Well as usual, xda has made the perfect app although I have some recommendations.
Better comment system with title and a xda app built in account settings manager like password changer etc. Why not add more apps to the xdapp store, all the ones hosted here by developers, discontinued ones as well. Is this app built in xamarin? Well I dont know but this app counts storage of 115mb in my device!!! Could do with a built in feedback system and better wallpapers, personally I love all the ones uploaded right now :D .
Lastly can we have a autoscroll for comments, because personally I dont fancy turning 46 pages to view a particular comment. :good:
Thanks.

Thanks for the kind words! To answer your questions:
  • Tweaks to posts/replies/edits are coming very soon w/ attachments
  • That 115mb of storage is likely from APKs of old downloaded apps/xposed mods/forum cache/etc. It cleans itself up within a few hours/days (it depends).
  • As stated in this thread, we haven't made a large-scale effort to get devs on board yet. There are two types of apps in the store. 1) Apps put up by devs here at XDA who happened upon or heard about Labs 2) GroovyApks and GoogleApks (APK uploads manually uploaded from a curated selection of pre-release or early staged rollout apps, similar to APK mirror). Once we go beta we'll be making a much larger push and hopefully get a lot of those apps on! :)
  • Feedback system is this thread, baby! Though I wouldn't mind linking this thread from within the app itself, maybe in the About Labs page. Issues will be on github once the source is released publicly (beta).
  • Wallpapers are a thing we'd love to expand on, prioritized by demand.
  • You can jump to any page by selecting the page # at the top of the viewpager and in-thread search is a rather large and complex task that involves completely revamping our search engine and it's happening site-wide right now. I'm not involved in the backend part of that so I can't give an ETA or anything, but I've seen the branches being worked on by the other guys.
 

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@blk_jack:
is there an option to report a post from within the app itself? I haven't found any option until now, long pressing a post will just give the option to copy or cite the post.
Why would you need to report a post on this website? Everyone here is so well behaved and posts everything where it's supposed to go. In fact, I don't even know why this site has moderators.

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I'd be more than happy with just a tiny UI tweak:
to flip pages by using a vertical swipe, instead of, or in addition to, the current horizontal swipe.
Just that will make it so much easier. :)

Indirectly I also suggested vertical swipes for pages. That would free up horizontal swipes which could go to the next and previous threads so if you were originally looking at, say, subscribed threads, you swipe left to switch to next thread instead of backing up and going forward.

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Why would you need to report a post on this website? Everyone here is so well behaved and posts everything where it's supposed to go. In fact, I don't even know why this site has moderators.

...said no one ever.
53647478.jpg

Moderators are a need of this community, most people ARE well behaved, but there's always a rotten fish around everywhere. People using sexually explicit titles for stuff, spamming the board because their own site/forum isn't getting popular, and in general breaking any of the rules laid out for users do exist at XDA, and it's the moderators job to ensure they don't become a source of tension to the other 99.98% of the community that's well behaved. So yes, the ability to report a post or thread is requested for humbly. @blk_jack, please consider implementing this feature if it doesn't require tons of backend changes (Which I suspect it will).

Peace

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Moderators are a need of this community, most people ARE well behaved, but there's always a rotten fish around everywhere. People using sexually explicit titles for stuff, spamming the board because their own site/forum isn't getting popular, and in general breaking any of the rules laid out for users do exist at XDA, and it's the moderators job to ensure they don't become a source of tension to the other 99.98% of the community that's well behaved. So yes, the ability to report a post or thread is requested for humbly. @blk_jack, please consider implementing this feature if it doesn't require tons of backend changes (Which I suspect it will).

Peace

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I agree with you but...
1. You just replied to a moderator lol, I think he knows how important reports are.
2. It was a joke, he had an image behind a [hide] tag that said "said no one ever...", which agrees with the need for that feature.
 

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I agree with you but...
1. You just replied to a moderator lol, I think he knows how important reports are.
2. It was a joke, he had an image behind a [hide] tag that said "said no one ever...", which agrees with the need for that feature.
Dang!! Never checked, that was too human for a moderator. Maybe I didn't I think I need to move over Tapatalk and start using that metal box called a computer.

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Dang!! Never checked, that was too human for a moderator. Maybe I didn't I think I need to move over Tapatalk and start using that metal box called a computer.

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This actually brings up a good point, one of the downsides to tapatalk which could be rectified in XDA labs is the showing of badges, especially moderator.
 
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    Hi folks, a quick update on some recent changes.

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