another new forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=5054
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Shorty after itsme started posting stuff to the special "Itsme's research corner" forum, we installed the wiki, and it turned out to be a much better channel for posting ongoing research documents.
I will try to work the wiki information into the main xda-developers front page. Until then, make sure you visit the wiki every now and then and click 'Recent Changes'.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com
Cool m8!
Will keep checking the wiki site.
Cheers
Panja
The way the 'news service' forum now works, the messages that are displayed on the xda-developers front page are 'sticky', and thus sorted to the top of the page in forum view. I just never made it part of my dialt routine to check for new news messages that weren't made sticky yet. I will from now on, so please post anything newsworthy there, and I'll put it up.
Guys and gals, sorry for cross-posting this to several device-specific subforum, but, given that there are so few people reading the General forum (http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=256 ), I thought I have to let you know about the brand new MIDlet Bible I’ve just published, particularly because device-specific subforums are always full of MIDlet-related questions that are almost all answered in the new Bible.
You can find it at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=339579 .
And, yes, please DO follow the General forum, there is an immense wealth of information there ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=256 ). If this is the first time you’ve been pointed to there, make sure you read back in time and check out all my articles posted in there.
Would it be at all possible and easy to add the breadcrumb trail (xda-developers > General discussion > About xda-developers.com for example) to the bottom area of the page when an individual thread is viewed? This would provide an easily clicked link to get back to the main page. I've been on a few boards that do this and I find it really quick to click through and only read the threads that I'm interested in reading. Thanks!
Whats wrong with the one near the top of the page
Well, lol, it's at the top of the page! I'm a bit of a power-reader when I'm running through the latest topics in the forums and it takes that extra action to scroll back up. It's not nearly as bad on xda since there's only ten posts per page, as opposed to some sites with 50, but it's still an extra half second per thread. No biggie if you'd rather not clutter up the bottom of the page any further, of course.
I agree it would be a nice feature. Not mandatory of course.
ill mention it to admin
Hopefully this is the right way to report this problem with the forums.
I'm used to navigating the site by reading a thread, clicking on the "View First Unread" button to see new posts, then using the "Previous Thread" link at the bottom to read the next older post.
For the last couple of weeks, clicking on "Previous Thread" changes the title displayed to the proper target, but what you get displayed for thread content is the beginning of the thread you just read. This means that the only way to read a forum is to keep going back to the table of contents for that forum and click a thread with new posts. This gets to be a major pain once you're off the first page of threads.
"Next Thread" is equally broken.
I can't see any value to this behavior. It would be nice to have it working as it used to.
Thanks.
k1mu said:
Hopefully this is the right way to report this problem with the forums.
I'm used to navigating the site by reading a thread, clicking on the "View First Unread" button to see new posts, then using the "Previous Thread" link at the bottom to read the next older post.
For the last couple of weeks, clicking on "Previous Thread" changes the title displayed to the proper target, but what you get displayed for thread content is the beginning of the thread you just read. This means that the only way to read a forum is to keep going back to the table of contents for that forum and click a thread with new posts. This gets to be a major pain once you're off the first page of threads.
"Next Thread" is equally broken.
I can't see any value to this behavior. It would be nice to have it working as it used to.
Thanks.
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You are right - this is the place to report. I don't think anything has changed with this functionality but I have definitely recreated this error. We'll take a look and figure out a fix.
Found and fixed this bug, will take a few minutes to show up on all the servers.
Thanks again for reporting it!
bitpushr said:
Found and fixed this bug, will take a few minutes to show up on all the servers.
Thanks again for reporting it!
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Thanks for fixing it!