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As a forum owner myself, I appreciate the need to fund the site, however adding a sponsored advert between EVERY SINGLE POST within a thread is just ridiculous.
It devalues the forum and makes printing a page very frustrating, as well as simply reading a page!!
Please please reduce it to every 3 posts at maximum?
Thread Moved to About Forum.
Moderators don't have any say over adverts so you'll have to wait for the Site Admin to comment... (I think )
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ashleyhall said:
As a forum owner myself, I appreciate the need to fund the site, however adding a sponsored advert between EVERY SINGLE POST within a thread is just ridiculous.
It devalues the forum and makes printing a page very frustrating, as well as simply reading a page!!
Please please reduce it to every 3 posts at maximum?
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Hmmm, do you also complain about the wallpaper in your friends home when you visit them?
Anyway, if you want it ad-free, use the PDA version of the forum !!!
Junner2003 said:
Hmmm, do you also complain about the wallpaper in your friends home when you visit them?
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If its terrible...yes! But thats irrelevant and a completely different context - this site is designed for its users, and putting adverts between every single post is entirely OTT - I had complaints after sticking an advert at the base of each entire thread, I wouldn't dare stick them between posts as I ultimately don't wish to devalue the quality/visual aesthetics of my forum.
Ok well I'm looking for some good quality authors who can bring some good stuff to my blog.
**Link removed**
It's mostly about Android but I'd like to make it do with everything technology related. From product reviews all the way to interesting graphical work.
I need someone who will be dedicated and who can help get more and more visitors on my blog.
I've had my blog for only a month now and already got over 70000 views, a lot of the visitors on my blog are from this forum but I need visitors to come from all over the internet and from a lot of different forums.
If you think you could help me get my blog out there or would like to become an author email me and let me know.
[email protected]
Am I right in thinking that any link on that site generates revenue for you?
Please confirm.
WB
Nope not any link.
Only the ads.
Thread closed as the soliciting for paid work on the external site and the nature of the site itself constitutes advertising a commercial site/service which breaches XDA rule 11.
WB
Anyone? It is such a great source of knowledge and i believe it has been under utilized for its greatness. I just added Pantech to the list of manufacturers and linked one of the device wiki page I created. If anyone has to add to the Pantech wiki page feel free. Lately, I've been using it to see what devices has custom roms and I have been adding to the device page.
Thanks for your contributions - I think the wiki is a great resource and I wish more people would create pages like yourself.
Actually thank you for creating the wiki. people need to know that we have a wiki and that it is there for people to make changes to it. I would say to post something on the portal that we have a wiki and no one is making any changes to it. Not that many people are subscribed to the youtube channel. Only 96,000 people are subscribed compared to the almost 5 million registered users on XDA.
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Actually thank you for creating the wiki. people need to know that we have a wiki and that it is there for people to make changes to it. I would say to post something on the portal that we have a wiki and no one is making any changes to it. Not that many people are subscribed to the youtube channel. Only 96,000 people are subscribed compared to the almost 5 million registered users on XDA.
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Yeah all people really care about is the forums
The portal is also abandoned..
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I wouldn't call the portal Abandoned - also XDATV has a lot of reach.
Let's me rephrase the question - what do you think would a) get more people to contribute to the wiki, and b) get more people to visit the wiki?
We are working on a few things but I'm curious what everyone thinks.
bitpushr said:
I wouldn't call the portal Abandoned - also XDATV has a lot of reach.
Let's me rephrase the question - what do you think would a) get more people to contribute to the wiki, and b) get more people to visit the wiki?
We are working on a few things but I'm curious what everyone thinks.
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Pay for TV ads for it
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I think what we should do is make it mandatory for all users to visit the wiki at least once to read/post.
bitpushr said:
I wouldn't call the portal Abandoned - also XDATV has a lot of reach.
Let's me rephrase the question - what do you think would a) get more people to contribute to the wiki, and b) get more people to visit the wiki?
We are working on a few things but I'm curious what everyone thinks.
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As has been mentioned, I think that making a story about it on the portal would definitely get more people to visit the wiki. We can't be sure whether it would make them want to contribute to the wiki though.
I only think the portal would be the best place to advertise it is because all the mods/themes/games etc. which get featured gain great exposure and quick popularity.
Proof of that is all around us. Many a time, a thread has been featured on XDA because it's a "hidden gem" and as soon as it reaches the portal, the thread quickly becomes a forum favourite, by gaining more Thanks, downloads, contributors and, most importantly, exposure to the XDA masses.
I would say to get Adam Outler or Jordan in the next video they make for XDA TV to announce that we have a wiki and please contribute to it. Recently the Pantech Burst has been getting a lot of developer support and i created the device wiki in the first as a go to for very useful information instead of going to multiple websites that has been spread out and people have been going to it. I did juice it up with some very useful information such as a bug list of the recent CM10 rom that is so very close to being a fully complete rom, root methods, the specs, even how much the device is going to cost you. I had help with another person but overall its a complete wiki.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Pantech_Burst
Thanks everyone for your input.
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As has been mentioned, I think that making a story about it on the portal would definitely get more people to visit the wiki. We can't be sure whether it would make them want to contribute to the wiki though.
I only think the portal would be the best place to advertise it is because all the mods/themes/games etc. which get featured gain great exposure and quick popularity.
Proof of that is all around us. Many a time, a thread has been featured on XDA because it's a "hidden gem" and as soon as it reaches the portal, the thread quickly becomes a forum favourite, by gaining more Thanks, downloads, contributors and, most importantly, exposure to the XDA masses.
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And this is precisely evidence that the Portal isn't "abandoned." In fact, we are actually receiving record numbers visitors per month. Regarding advertising the wiki on the Portal, that would be a great idea. I'll look into this.
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Thanks everyone for your input.
And this is precisely evidence that the Portal isn't "abandoned." In fact, we are actually receiving record numbers visitors per month. Regarding advertising the wiki on the Portal, that would be a great idea. I'll look into this.
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Also, could you please look into adding the CM10 progress of the Pantech Burst to the Portal? I have tiped you guys about two days ago about the progress http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818618&page=78
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In his featured article he discusses how to find your way around the forums, a bit on the attitudes and philosophy here and just what GPL is. If you are a new member be sure to take a look, hopefully learn something new and leave a comment on his feature. As for long time members be sure to drop by, show your support for your fellow forum member and maybe direct a few new members there when they start their own journey!
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If I post about my problem in a device forum then I'll only get the audience for that device. Some devices only have a few hundred users. This makes xda kinda useless.
But xda is obviously far from useless.
What am i missing? Tags?
Is it that xdadevs tend to stick to very popular devices only?
IMHO, many devices are similar when running the same version of Android. Is it worth having separate forums?
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It really depends on the information you are looking for. Questions can be very device specific, ie "Why doesn't my camera work?" to being generally applicable to Android "How do I do X with Google Camera App", and for each of these there are different forums to post in.
If all else fails, you can always post to the "General" forum, which is anything else: https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/general.256/
Thanks.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/c/xda-community-apps.3092/ is a useful new category I wasn't aware of.
Perhaps the problem could be improved by making it so that when you subscribe to one forum, you are automatically offered some related tags to subscribe to as well.
DontReuseUsernames said:
Thanks.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/c/xda-community-apps.3092/ is a useful new category I wasn't aware of.
Perhaps the problem could be improved by making it so that when you subscribe to one forum, you are automatically offered some related tags to subscribe to as well.
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Hi, there is a thread at the very top of the about: xda-developers.com section that explains how xda works. If you have ANY questions that are Android related, you can post in Questions and Answers or Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting.
But again, everything is here: XDA New User Guide
Oh and, I also say hello to newcomers (originally iPhone newcomers) in this Post: Hello
Thank you. I'm always grateful. But I also need to tell it how it is and be honest about those beginners links.
Wow! What a mess. Broken image links. A link to a flash file. A 9 year old thread. Links to another thread that 'has been cleaned' and has only one reply ( https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/new-members-guide-tour-get-the-most-out-of-xda.1282679/ ) Again, more broken links there.
. Not a single mention of
XDA Community Apps
Download Android apps that come from XDA developers and members
forum.xda-developers.com
at either of the links that I've found so far.
Nothing addressing the issue of device fragmentation. Fragmented forums effect even the popular devices. It's just less obvious.
What needs doing is for us to re-index threads by keyword and make a new site linking through to helpful threads. I may well do this myself, depending on how much time I get off over the next holiday and how much I need the info myself. If I get some time to do it I'll update with a link here.