[XDA Forum] New Custom Made Lay-out

[Intensity007]

A glimpse of a new Forum Era!

View Full Sized Images
Main Index Page
General + News Sub-forum
Renewed Android Development Section

 

[Intensity007]

THREAD CONTENT

• My motive
• My goals
• Introduction child-boards
• Child boards under my recommendation

• My Motive
  
  However XDA is a wonderful community there is still some room for improvement. XDA is great, as so are 'most' of the people around here, but however it's greatness there is still
  one thing that does sometimes annoy me, is its organisation..
  
  Let's be honest some people don't know where they should start their thread of where to find stuff, on the other hand most people who do have those problems are mostly plain stupid or are to lazy to search.
  Yet I believe, that a little re-organisation will be able to address this matter and makes our lives, as the lives of users, mods or developers a little easier.
  
  Lucky for you guys, I am not the guy that just complains, without constructing or achieving a potential solution.
  
  I already put some hard work in it and I am fully prepared to do even more if necessarily , but before you judge me, please read and see see what I had in mind.
  
  
  
• My Goals
  
  
  • Optimizing your User Experience
  • Creating new Levels of User Potential
  • Simplifying current structures and its organisations
  • Smoother, Faster, Clearer and Better
  
  
• Introducing child-boards
  
  I know it looks plain simple and you can believe I barely made any changes. BUT THAT IS THE KEY! That is my GOAL, keeping things as slim as possible. Still a child board can achieve an immense difference just only in your experience.
  
  Imagine this simple user interface: Where you'll be able find to find a sub-board with ONLY ROM Releases or just everything related to it, so as for kernels.
  Still I am perfectly aware that the ANDROID development goes beyond, ROM's and Kernels, YET these 2 elements in my opinion the main reason why people go to XDA, or they create kernels and ROM's or they want to flash them.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ~~~ Organisational Problems ~~~​
  
  
  

  
  No offense but isn't this a little weird, that so many people voted, where they'd best place their own thread?
  
  

  

  
  Or is still someone able to tell, where I should fit this topic? ​
  
  
• Child boards under my recommendation:
  
  
  • Separated Product Model Boards:
    
    
    
    
    Even though people might find it lame, just know flashing the wrong firmware onto your phone, can brick your device,
    accidents easily occur and even I noticed I accidently clicked onto the G development without even noticing it after 5 min and however the difference might look minor to some of you.
    
    Why would you put 2 devices in the same area, knowing they require different systems, firmware and work on different hardware, meaning even though they are in the same range, THEY STILL DEFER
    
    
    
  • General Talk:
  • News​
    This community has a lot of potential users, that are motivated and willing to uncover the latest and hottest news for their phone or their device and I am fully aware that we do have XDA Tv.
    But still I strongly believe this could be a very very useful sub-forum. Moderators or Forum Staff can sticky their posts to announce new rules or competitions
    and only selected members will be able to post news concerning their galaxy s2 or their device, to decrease chances of any spam topics.
    
    So why would we miss out on this potential, why wouldn't we publish a story that for example, AGPS, allows you to get a faster GPS lock or people invented a new script to conserve 50% more battery than usual,
    does it really harm anyone, that one story wouldn't be that interesting, as this place could offer you, a pool of different stories that might catch your interest.
    Nobody is forced to publish something, neither are you to read, you'll only have the Galaxy S2 knowledge library right at your disposal.
    
    
  • Android Developent:
  • Seperated ROM & Kernel Board​
    Wouldn't it be way easier to find all your ROM releases in one place and ONLY them?
    Would we even need updated indexes anymore, when this would all be clear and accessible in one single location,
    would we even be bothered to posts polls as where should I put this thread as you might have already seen above?
    Wouldn't this make your user experience more simpler finding in two clicks whatever you'd like?
    
    I'd certainly vow for this!
    
    ROM & Kernels Separated, everything else, in the android development thread (Applications, scripts, Tweaks, ...
  
  
• Interactive Search Functions
  
  
  

MORE QUESTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS? FEEL FREE TO COMMENT OR ASK RIGHT AWAY

 

[bitpushr]

Wow - thank you for your well thought out and detailed posts. We actually do have some of the changes you are recommending in the pipeline and will certainly take your other recommendations into consideration in the future.

 

[Intensity007]

Wow - thank you for your well thought out and detailed posts. We actually do have some of the changes you are recommending in the pipeline and will certainly take your other recommendations into consideration in the future.

You shouldn't' be thanking me, it's my privilege I can be part of this community.
I saw a lot of potential around here and I am not much of a scripter, neither am I able to cook mods or roms
But I just wanted to give something back in return

I am just a simple student from Belgium with some crazy ideas

Still I feel honored my contribution will be taken in consideration and if you just require my help
Or you want me to do something, don't even hesitate to ask

Yours sincerely, Intensity

 

[The Archangel]

I for one, love this new idea. The separated rom and kernel sections are superb, it would be so much easier for users to find what they want. I could spend time writing every little thing down, but im on a short schedule. All in all, I want this

 

[Intensity007]

I for one, love this new idea. The separated rom and kernel sections are superb, it would be so much easier for users to find what they want. I could spend time writing every little thing down, but im on a short schedule. All in all, I want this

Even if you're time is short, you should be ashamed for not clicking the thank button

Haha just kidding, much appreciated