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andy356 said:
Privacy becomes an issue. Most people don't follow best practices for their online identities, and are easier to track and hack and whatnot. It would be good to mitigate it in whatever small way possible, no? Even if they use their real names elsewhere, XDA becomes one less attack vector.
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Considering people link their personal social media accounts to xda. I don't think 99% of people really care anymore.

Gone are the days of personal privacy for most. Don't get me wrong. I don't agree with this shift but I see it happening.

A perfect example is, the other day I was talking to my bosses daughter. (mid 20's) and it came up about all the traffic cameras being placed all over town and how it invades the privacy of everyday people. She responded with out missing a beat. "you know it has always been that way for me so I never really cared"

Many people have forgotten the dangers of the internet and giving your info away freely.
 
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zelendel said:
Considering people link their personal social media accounts to xda. I don't think 99% of people really care anymore.

Gone are the days of personal privacy for most. Don't get me wrong. I don't agree with this shift but I see it happening.

A perfect example is, the other day I was talking to my bosses daughter. (mid 20's) and it came up about all the traffic cameras being placed all over town and how it invades the privacy of everyday people. She responded with out missing a beat. "you know it has always been that way for me so I never really cared"

Many people have forgotten the dangers of the internet and giving your info away freely.
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That's absolutely right. It's appalling, the lack of concern for privacy. Making themselves susceptible to identity theft, if we talk about that extreme. All the more reason that we do what we can from our side, right? Encouraging websites to use HTTPS, using authentication tokens instead of weak repeated passwords, all done with the user's best interests in mind.

I see discouraging real names in the same vein.
 
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Just thinking out loud, but it would be nice to have a grouping (or rather linking) of sorts, for same mods across devices.

For example, mods such as MultiROM (I'm sure the same applies to efidroid and DualPatcher), tend to be device specific builds, and as such only belong within their own devices' section... that makes perfect sense.

Yet, some / much of the core development is non device specific, it can be done by 1 person on 1 particular device, but at the end applies to all devices, much of that "never comes back home".
The same errors, fixes, code, etc. is currently spread around various device specific forums, and keeping track is very difficult.

It would be nice to have a way, to view similar/same threads in one list.
Unlike the threads in the "XDA Community Apps Forum" which are cross device applications / modifications, this would rather be a "filter / group / sort".

Another example that comes to mind is TWRP, now just imagine someone knows what that elusive error 255 during a restore *could be*, but never actually sees those posts, because he's not looking outside his device (or similar) section.
 
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Here is an idea on how to improve the website. Some of the ads that pop up are ginormous and make the site unusable. If you don't want me using an adblocker then convince the advertisers to make the ads just a bit less disruptive.
 
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Snowby123 said:
Here is an idea on how to improve the website. Some of the ads that pop up are ginormous and make the site unusable. If you don't want me using an adblocker then convince the advertisers to make the ads just a bit less disruptive.
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Please use this thread to report such ads.
 
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I noticed that if JavaScript from disqus.com is blocked, every post simply displays "0 Comments" with no indication that you need to enable JS to see them.
 
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nyuszika7h said:
I noticed that if JavaScript from disqus.com is blocked, every post simply displays "0 Comments" with no indication that you need to enable JS to see them.
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Is this happening to you when using your Android or PC?

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nyuszika7h said:
On my computer.
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Okay... It's a known issue with the Android browser but, I've never had an issue on the PC.

Do you have the latest Shockwave and Flash installed to?

There's 3 things i have to install and keep up to date on my PC... The latest Java, Adobe Shockwave and Adobe Flash.

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An option to autosave forum post drafts would be nice. I've lost a number of long posts that I've tried to draft because I get signed out while drafting and (unlike other sites) going back to the page does not retain the draft. Once I click on the post quick reply if I'm logged out whatever I was writing seems to be lost forever. (I know I should click on the remember me box, but I never seem to remember to)
 
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Ibuprophen said:
Okay... It's a known issue with the Android browser but, I've never had an issue on the PC.

Do you have the latest Shockwave and Flash installed to?

There's 3 things i have to install and keep up to date on my PC... The latest Java, Adobe Shockwave and Adobe Flash.
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I have Flash and Java, but not Shockwave (Who still uses that? Although confusingly Adobe Flash Player is called "Shockwave Flash"...). But that's irrelevant to the issue. Like I said, for a "normal" user it's not an issue because they're going to have JavaScript enabled. I have JavaScript disabled for all sites by default in uBlock Origin. I have no problem with whitelisting Disqus, but the site should display a message telling you that the comments couldn't be loaded, instead of simply pretending there's no comments.
 
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AMP Articles

The AMP articles are always cutting text off on the right side.
Not sure if it makes a difference but I'm using a Pixel running Chrome.
 

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plaseo said:
Hello,
This does not work, I am unable to zoom in or out on the articles. Also alot of the time the comments get cut off at the bottom, in this screenshot this is as far down as the page will let me go. Sometimes even more of the comments get cut off.
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What is your device and screen resolution? I just checked on mine and Xda's AMP article looked just fine.
 
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eagleeyetom said:
What is your device and screen resolution? I just checked on mine and Xda's AMP article looked just fine.
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Hello,
Pixel, 1920x1080
I found out if I enable the force zoom in Chrome's accessibility settings I can zoom out just enough the articles text doesn't cut off. Some of the comments are still getting cut off at the bottom however. It happens on some articles and others are fine. Not sure if it makes a difference but I use Feedly and open the articles I want to read directly in Chrome beta from Feedly. I'll have a shot at Chrome stable to see if maybe that fixes it.
I wish you well,
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    Oswald Boelcke
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    Retrial said:
    Anyone remember from vBulletin times, that you could add "contributers" at OP of your thread so you could maintain a thread together?

    I find this feature very useful to keep alive and updated the threads especially in threads such collections/guides etc. which contain much infos/links etc. and is hard to maintain one person alone.

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    I find this feature very useful to keep alive and updated the threads especially in threads such collections/guides etc. which contain much infos/links etc. and is hard to maintain one person alone.

    There is a possibility for this to come back? @MikeChannon
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    From a technical aspect, that's been covered above.

    However, the 'workaround', if you want to call it that, could simply be that someone who is willing to help gathers some of their info for you and formats it correctly so that you'd simply only need to copy/paste into your OP.
    It's obviously not quite the solution you were looking for but I'm sure, if someone is already actively helping out in your thread, you could always reach out to them via PM and ask that they assist you in this way if they have the ability/time to do so.
    You could then also manually add in a credit to them, for supporting with maintenance, in the OP (which, I vaguely remember that may have been how it worked with those DevDB threads. Ignore this part if I'm mis-remembering, as I very easily could be.).
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    EDIT: I don't remember that any collection/guide/How-to was in the DevDB format; only development threads were.
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    Thank you for the information Oswald.

    Indeed it was only for development threads I was contributor on some of them, but I had the hope if there was a possibility for this feature to come back, to expand it to other threads too cuz I don't find a downside for this to be used globally.

    However, it's sad I learnt there is no chance to be implement under Xenforo 😕
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    However, it's sad I learnt there is no chance to be implement under Xenforo 😕
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    Idk for future but atm I can maintan my threads alone and work with a todo list, but it would by handy if that feature could be back. After Oswald reply I lost my hopes :/
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    Fallen Spartan
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    While I see that time and users have made XDA less about development and more about user support, I think XDA has gone too far in that direction.

    Developers need a place to DISCUSS development.

    The "General" subforums are too overwhelmed with threads like "Post pictures of your phone", "list of threads linked from other places" and other random "general user" stuff.

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    A place where a person might post a "HOW TO" document describing how to modify a stock firmware for a specific device to override carrier controlled lock downs. (For example, editing the CSC for a samsung device.)

    A place for development related DISCUSSION - not just a subform for "I cobbled together mods I copied from other people into a so-called ROM and will now beg you to donate to me and press my "thanks" button."

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    Fallen Spartan
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    Fallen Spartan
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    I don't read this thread for over a day and all hell breaks loose.

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    pulser_g2
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    I think in general we catch spammers faster in OT than elsewhere... So surely that helps, given it keeps OT clean..

    Regards to OT, I think the perceived problem is one of maturity. I know most of those involved claim to be adults, but some of the pointless threads about banana and llama are frankly a waste of space... OT used to be about mature debate and humour, but now it seems dominated by a highly insular group who spend inordinate amounts of time there, which would be more productively spent getting a job, or constructively posting to help people having problems..
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