During the last several days on occations, when I try to enter this site, I get the following error message:
502 Bad Gateway
nginx/0.7.63
It happens on occations for a period of time, every few hours,
and then everything gets back to normal.
Anyone else experience this ?
We are working on that.
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We are working on that.
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Mostly, it happens on clicking a link.
The issue is compounded by SPAM Auto-Bots doing flood posts to the forum ... effectively placing unwanted load on the gateway(s) - similar to a DoS attack.
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The issue is compounded by SPAM Auto-Bots doing flood posts to the forum ... effectively placing unwanted load on the gateway(s) - similar to a DoS attack.
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Would it not be useful to put some kinda Captcha in place for posting on the forums? maybe a system where you have to enter one every few posts, that would ensure the post are automated
Most spam subjects are known from prior floods...these should be continuely filtered before they can create a thread!
Chaps,
You have my sympathy. Do hope you can find a solution to this soon as the user experience is pretty bad at the moment.
Speed of access to forums on XDA has been dreadfully slow over the last month, usually ending in the dreaded error 502 message which effectively means game over until the network traffic reduces.
I assume you have "blockers" e.g. not allowing multiple searches within n seconds of a previous request, and other denial of service prevention techniques in place?
All I can say is that, at the moment, using XDA is very frustrating to use, that is if one is lucky to get onto the site in the first place. Hope you get it sorted soon.
Good luck.
Thanks
WB
Yeah, it seems that there has been a downtime over the last hour (beginning from about GMT 03:15 PM) as well.
The site loading time has been very slow as well... but, don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, I'm just noticing .
Dunno what yall are using to combat the spambots but I have been using fail2ban and having it scan the user agent strings and ban them with a firewall level ban. Works pretty well as after the initial contact they get blocked and cause less load.
I am guess it is google. They are pretty evil, keep fighting the good fight XDA
I sufered...
Wow!
I think this is the most big time with XDA down!
More than 5 hrs went down on here.
You do not value something till you lost it!!
Come on guys!!
Lets give a donation to XDA.
Long live to dear XDA
Hopefully the 5 hrs down was to replace and add many more servers...
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Hopefully the 5 hrs down was to replace and add many more servers...
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AMEN to that!
MODs if possible please share the details of what went wrong, some of us here are security/network specialists, and can donate help.
i always get that problem,even i don't post/
Hmmm sounds like XDA's new site is 502.Bad.gateway.com
I have never run a site with more than 100 active users at the same time, let alone 6000+ users at once. The admins here have my respect for keeping this site running as well as they have. My guess is lots of people picked up new phones during this holiday & Black Friday week. Is the site seeing a surge in new visitors?
From the front page:
Currently Active Users: 6323 (2781 members and 3542 guests)
finally i got in!!!!!!
after 5hrs down!!
wow... this sucks! This 502 gate way error happens to me very often... i hope they're working on this issue asap!
rlee
Wow, that was some heavy down time...so much for new servers
And like mike said, the stars have been ripped off...what next
Related
It is a sad day for this community.
In a series of mishaps and mistakes, best characterized as the sysadmin equivalent of a perfect storm, we lost more than 3 weeks of our database.
It all started when we decided to move posts to a whole new system of forums. In that process we screwed up. But we had made a backup just before, so we decided to go back to that, dropping the screwed-up database. Then it turned out that the most recent backup we made was truncated bacause of a memory limit, so it was unuseable.
This dropped us back to an older backup, which in this case was Over three weeks old!!!
This means that we lost:
All forum postings since October 4th
All new member registrations since October 4th
Records of donations since October 4th (this is recoverable...)
All News items (recoverable too)
If you have any important postings still on disk, in browser cache, or anywhere else, we'd like you to repost them.
Re-working the forum structure will still hapen, sometime later today, and without any further dramatic losses.
I apologize for this event, and we'll work even harder to make sure something like this will never happen again.
index.php was renamed to index-f***.php ?
thus when i go to forum.xda-developers.com i see a directory structure ?
Unlucky for some
ahhh **** if lost all my previous post thing on the left hand side tooo
am i the only one who in the process lost all memory of what happend since oct 4 ?
That are really bad news.
I realized, that also the PM-Part have been gone. :-(
This was really a great bull****.
Also not nice to here, that you have so much work....
I think there are some more important things to do....
If I or anyone else could help you, just inform us....
Stefan
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am i the only one who in the process lost all memory of what happend since oct 4 ?
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If that's true, than i still have a girlfriend.... ;-)
What a wonderful day....
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If I or anyone else could help you, just inform us....
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That's sweet of you. Right now if all of us just keep posting good stuff and being positive then like any strong community, we'll use this setback to become stronger and better than ever before.
Hard work ahead, expect more (and this time positive) changes.
Maybe the forgot to swap the spectrums tape over
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That's sweet of you. Right now if all of us just keep posting good stuff and being positive then like any strong community, we'll use this setback to become stronger and better than ever before.
Hard work ahead, expect more (and this time positive) changes.
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Time to start a new slate
By chance, ...
...yesterday night I launched a full synchronization of the home page, with a 3-level links deep detail, to check the forum during a flight this morning.
Would that help? :roll:
OH MY GOD !!!
More Power..... !!!
Sorry to hear that, I was really surprised when I was checking up the forum, all threads are old. I was looking for the screen rotation thread to install it in my xda.
Isn't there any way to recover the last 3 weeks data?
Let us know if we can do any thing, you have all our support.
You have all my support
It's sad... but we would go other this...
Let us know what we can do!
Chris
Good news
Some threads will be partially reappearing: itsme is working on a script that will use the Google-cache as our backup. Not all will be well, but stay tuned for news...
@ abc
Please restart SRS thread!!!
Arrrgh I've lost over 130 posts
Oh well, that's life I guess - chin up and all that!
Hi all ... i'm so sorry to hear this ... it's the live...
Anyway i just save a page "PDA2K Rom Update from clubimate_recovered" all msg rom first page ... i hope this will help a little 0.0001%
DenisJ
It's true ... :-( i was olso at 60 posts about ...
... now i'll repost a lot
DenisJ
Just noticed that if I attempt to access www.xda-developers.com I get your message about data being lost and to try again later, however if I use the link to the front page which I have saved in favorites, I am able to access the board. Will this stop people accessing the board from a results list in Google or similar??
If I click on the link in this text I get this......
Oh ****....
We're having problems, and we may have lost some data. Please check back later.. :shock:
I am new to this community (this may even be one of my first posts, i cant remeber) but ive read alot of what is going on.
this is no matter what people say a good site....but recently its unbearably slow which is really killing the community sharing help etc, the ftp got wiped out, im sure alot of the members who put worki into that are extremely annoyed, and finally there are so many people on the forum posing the same old 'help i did this' stuff...which leads to the conclusion that the faqs need an update.
well i am unsure of who the admin(s) are but it looks like you guys are struggling or do not have the time to solve these issues on your own.... which i can appreciate.
so i for one would like to offer some help...and im sure the older more experienced members would lend a hand too.
my initial thoughts would be to get some of you veterans to update the faqs try to incorporate the whole upgrading and downgrading as simply as possible... far too many ppl are trying 2005. o and a nice clear sign about the mda3 unlocking.
the other thing i feel is a necessary step is to make the ftp readonly to normal users and have a set of superusers with write access...these would be the people that use it the most or are well respected members...if someone other than them have something worth uploading then they need to send it to a superuser to check and do... its a minor point but it would provide some security without hindering those superusers that need to upload regularly.
finally the slowness.. i dont know whats causing it but theres a solution to every problem...if the server has a low throughput im sure i read somewhere someones company was willing to donate a dedicated server to our cause...wouldnt evev need donations with that.
well theres my 2 pence what do you guys think? i want this community to keep going..the only way thats gonna happen is by putting some effort in!
Tim
I wholeheartedly agree.
In recent months there has been a real decline in the quality of this forum, and though it's not particularly anyone's fault, there is SO much repetition and laziness by so many people who post the same questions AGAIN and AGAIN without taking the time to search first. There's fresh examples of this within the past day!
I don't know how others feel, but as far as I'm concerned there are certain rules that should be followed if a forum is to keep it's usefulness and keep to a structured order. I used to run one many moons ago so I know what I'm talking about. Firstly, people seem to post wherever they want, regardless of content. I can't count the number of times I've seen "help crashed my XDA2 going up to WM2003SE" in General or Development/Hacking. 99 times out of 100 it will be the Country ID error, something I've read about so many times I could now fix in my sleep. I can understand people's panic when this happens as it happened to me as well, but what I did was calm down, get on here and search for Country ID errors. Low and behold, DCS and edSub to the rescue and within half an hour I was back on the road to Upgradeville.
Secondly, there's been a general increase in the rudeness of people posting; from new members and old. Some think that it's OK to post half their question in the Subject, then go "anyone got any ideas?". Then when there's no response within a few hours, the same poster is back saying "no one seen this?" or with some insult about people not helping. Even I've had an odd dig the odd time, so I know how easily it happens.
Thirdly, the WM2005 interest is hacking me off. I can appreciate it if it solves the problems of those using it over 2003SE, but (and I can't believe I'M saying this) just cos it's out there doesn't mean we have to have it - especially considering the risks of such a topic. I'm no legal expert on this but I know MS have been coming down HARD on ANYONE hosting or posting screenshots / divulging information about an alpha product (AFAIK). I wish the moderators would remove this, and then emphasise, as they have done on tekguru, that they will not comment / tolerate any hosting or screenshots etc. I don't want to see this site shut down, and I've posted about it before, only to find a few days later some idiot HAS uploaded the files to the FTP. I bet it hasn't helped the recent slowness, quite aside from its illegality!!
http://www.tekguru.co.uk/phpBB2/index.php?article=5813
I agree Tim, I too would love to lend a hand where needed. I would be happy to help with constructing more up to date FAQs like on tekguru, and I completely agree that FTP needs to be readonly to all new users and most regular members also (prob inc me :shock: ). This site needs to get back on track, as it's still by far the most useful and helpsite resource for XDA/MDA/whatever and I would hate to see it go down the pan.
Ant
glad to see i'm not the only one willing to lend a hand
if we can get a few more people willing to help then it wont take very long at all to get this place going well again
I think Admins have abandoned XDA-Developers site time ago,but in some topics I read that they were busy with the Xanadux Project(Linux port),try to ask more to Peter Poelman e Lumpistefan about admins. 8)
So,I agree partially,there is no return from hold Win2k5,we need to keep it, we are a community,we will not share it in the FTP for security but need to know more about it,reverse it. You can't stop the knowoledge! Also Win2k3SE for XDA2,it is not officially announced,but you can read plenty of posts.
Some minor things to Upgrade,Improve in this site are:
-Create a CHAT in the site: Many users will benefit to this live communication,not only posts.
-NEW Profiles: add XDA3,Magician,etc..options
-Avatars disappeared, admin told it is for couple of weeks,some months ago.
-Improve the Search engine: Did you try to search something? it will return too many post,unrelated.
-Find and fix why XDA-Developers is so slow.
heh you just reminded me...the chat thing
i thought it would be nice to do an irc channel
and thanks for the info i will email peter... if the admins are busy with xanadux thats fine (im quite interested in the project) but we could do with someone to step in and keep this place running (peter?) and to organise a team to do what we all see as the issues.
as to the legality of win mob 2005...ive never cared about legal issues personally...but from the point of view of admin it must be removed off of xda dev...if someone hosts it somewhere and links it in a foum be it on their head... but xda dev cannot host it for their own safety
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as to the legality of win mob 2005...ive never cared about legal issues personally...but from the point of view of admin it must be removed off of xda dev...if someone hosts it somewhere and links it in a foum be it on their head... but xda dev cannot host it for their own safety
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Exactly, MS have shut down sites for simply having posted screenshots, or at least told them in no uncertain terms, to remove them. To find we have uploaded installation files to this site is a big concern to me and MUST be sorted.
Count me in!
Hi all,
I've been scrounging through these forums for a while now and have learnt a lot - cheers to all with the knowledge who are willing to share. I've managed to unlock XDA 1, 2 and 2s (ok, had to pay to sim unlock MDA3 - but found the link here! ;-) ) recently as mentioned we have a painfully slow site, a simple search provides 50 pages of mostly unrelated threads, 10 pages of which are all about the same thing! I'm more than happy to help sort out some proper FAQ pages; I've cocked up on ROM flashing due to country ID too! It's a panicky situation - none of us wants a 200-400 pound paperweight! In short - count me in for hands on help, I'd love to learn more but also help the others out a bit.
Mike
well i sent a pm to peter and no reply as yet (its only been a day so im not giving up yet) but i just read another post of someone tring to get in contact and he seemed to have very little luck... im running out of ideas here i want to help but if the main ppl are not around then we cant really do much... it looks like the admin team have gone completely awol ... im almost tempted to say we should find someon willing to do free hosting (someone mentioned it in one of th forums) and mirror the site...but that defeats the idea of having one nice place... id raher fix than replace....anyone got any ideas?
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try to ask more to Peter Poelman e Lumpistefan about admins. 8)
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I'm far away being an admin or anything else here. :roll: I'm just a normal user as you are...
But I've talked to a few of the xda-deveolpers team at the fair cebit in the middle of march. They have lot of work, so this maybe the point why they aren't so often in the forum. And i think for 99% the community just works well without any of those "admins"...
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-NEW Profiles: add XDA3,Magician,etc..options
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The profiles (XDA and XDA II) are a special patch for the phpBB-Software. Sadly this patch do not allow more than two profiles. This is the case why only those 2 profiles exists and why the forum is splitted in seperate sections (XDA, XDA II, MAgician, Blueangel, ...)
Regards
Stefan
hey thanks for the info lumpistefan
tis a bit of a shame we cant get hold of someone able to solve the slowness and ftp issue!
with regards to the faq's im gonna try and make an introduction to the himalaya cover sim lock flashing and a few other important things in my spare time if anyone feels like working on the other hansets feel free.. my plan is to do it over next couple of weeks and post it for review make sure i cover everything.
Looks like the site is starting to get quicker again.
Well done to who ever fixed this.
Much more enjoyable browsing through the posts.
Keep up the good work.
Amphetamine dust on the cpu did the trick.
Thank you tim_programmer for starting this topic.
I am coming towards the end of a project that's been keeping me busy. Once finished, I would be happy to lend a hand also.
Whilst lumpistefan has a point about admins, I believe they are needed. Human nature dictates that while the cat's away the mice will play. Trouble is, some of the mice (the 1%) are turning into rats
As regards WM2005, although I don't agree in censorship in that we should be able to discuss it, etc., it is obvious that Microsoft are not going to tolerate very much and we (the site) are on very thin ice by allowing hosting of content and links, etc. Again, it is the admins duty to sort this out. We have pushed the envelope with stuff before, but that involved already released products.
Some of us reverse, some of us hack. We can still do that when WM2005 is released officially (in whatever language )
i agree server has got quicker...tis nice
with regards to wm2005 its only the hosting im concerned with everything else like discussing hacking reverse engineering go for it!
Ummm.... (I'm feeling like I might regret this...) it wouldn't be that hard to start an alternative website for these machines. Not that I wish to minimise the huge contribution made by xda-developers.com to the understanding and improving of these HTC devices, but if the admins on this site don't have the time to moderate it and manage it and don't respond to offers of help or support then perhaps we should form an alternative?
I'm a web developer and have worked in the past with the Minerva forum/website package ( www.project-minerva.org ) and it's very very good when you're looking for a website-in-a-box. It wouldn't be so hard to set it up and try to take some of the load off xda-developers.com while acknowledging the work that's been done here so far.
Edit - as for the site getting quicker, well it isn't for me. Just took 5 minutes to submit this post...
I don't often look at this site these days because the speed is so bad. It'll be losing regulars already I'm sure.
wow. this hasn't been posted in in forever. Sorry to revive this but there is some good info here. I want to help get this site back on track as well. I have tons of free time to dedicate as well.
Yep, got to agree. The main problem is lazyness by posters. No one reads http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=4534.
There are so many infringements of 1,2,and 5.
But what can you do ? You can't just ban people, because its normally just done once or twice by somebody when they are desperate for a solution.
The problem here is, as was said higher up, the number of threads on the same subject almost makes the search useless because it is hard to find the one with the definitive answer. I try to help people but when you see a question that has been asked numerous times before you think "why should I bother, I'll have to search to point hime in the correct direction, so why can't he"
What I did suggest was that duplicated posts/repeated topics were moved to a repetition bin, and deleted after a week. But at the moment the amount of work for the mods each day would be huge.
I agree with everythig that has been said in this post, I have been browsing xda-developers for about 3 years now, altho i have only been registered about a year, as my contribution has been very little.
However i feel that my knowledge has increase greatly, mainly due to this site, and i would love to help with FAQ's, Admin, Reviews, and anything else you guys want help with. I dont have a lot of free time, but any that i do have i will gladly donate to xda-developers in the hope that we can make this site what it used to be.
I think it is obvious that something needs to be done, but at the moment we only have suggestions and unless someone steps forward with a solution that is all this post is going to be. (this sounds a bit harsh, sorry).
So here's to keeping the community alive.
Dahquim
kevino said:
Yep, got to agree. The main problem is lazyness by posters. No one reads http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=4534.
What I did suggest was that duplicated posts/repeated topics were moved to a repetition bin, and deleted after a week. But at the moment the amount of work for the mods each day would be huge.
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This would be a massive task, sure, but a site this big could do with more moderators to move and delete duplicate posts. There are a lot of people who have been a member of this site for quite some time who I am sure wouldn't mind chipping in to help if they were asked, I know I would like the chance to give more back to this site after the help, support and knowledge I have gained. How many moderators do we have at the moment? Just my thoughts, I love this forum and would love to help improve it.
domain expires this year!
kevino said:
Yep, got to agree. The main problem is lazyness by posters. No one reads http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=4534.
There are so many infringements of 1,2,and 5.
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Yes but that's your standard problem on all forums. The underlying problem is that the administrators have abandoned us. We need a few full time mods to make everything runs smoother. A LOT needs to be updated.
One of the biggest problems i noticed with the site immediately was it's speed. The one place we can improove the sites speed almost instantly is the search. There is NO search flood control in place. There is also no limit on the minimum size of a search string. So it's capturing at the at, or, it, to, etc. searches. Id needs to have wildcards enabled. and filter out two letter searches. (maybe even three, but with the phone names the filtering might just be a pain)
Also i don't know if anyone realizes but www.xda-developers.com will expire on 12/12 of 2006. I have emailed the person that is registered under the domain name and haven't received a reply yet. If i don't soon I may just go to a third party and reserve the domain when it expires. Although there's also the problem of getting all the infinite information off this guys server which is probably sitting in his basement in the netherlands.
It would be ideal to get another server and mirror this site on it as .net or something. But i don't know if we currently have enough traffic to generate the kind of revenue needed to keep the thing paid for.
And as a side note. Does anyone know how i can download from the ftp? It just disconnects me instantly with flashfxp, firefox, or ie.
[edit] also the search needs to have more options and a "titles only" search would greatly help narrow things down. There needs to be a "README: How to search" sticky detailing boolean searches.
As many of you may have heard, we underwent routine maintenance on our Database Server last night (9/25). Upon rebooting the Database Server, it refused to boot and all indications are that the RAID 10 (what is RAID? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID) array failed.
We have restored the Forums from a 24 hour old backup. We know this is not ideal, but at this point, the chances of recovering the failed array are slim.
We sincerely apologize for this.
Technical Info:
This maintenance was intended to boost the redundancy of our database setup and "lightening struck".
The maintenance was to update the OS and make a configuration change to allow us to introduce a slave DB server which would replicate all data on the primary DB server. We are currently running off this intended "slave server" as a master.
ouch how does Raid 10 fail!? hope all is well!
At least your back!
Hoorah for back ups!
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
hurray for raid!!!
Now up but strange...
svetius said:
We have restored the Forums from a 24 hour old backup.
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is there any chance to restore newer entries too?
snq- said:
is there any chance to restore newer entries too?
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Most likely not, except for Google's cache that stores some of the sites stuff
Could I please request that this information is posted across all the forums ? It certainly confused me as to where my recent posts etc had gone.
God damn!!!
I had some brilliant posts about statistics on overclocking HD2 and now those posts all gone
Thanks svetius, I was about to post an annoucement on hero and desire, but you beat me...
Sorry to hear about this. Time to action the RPs again, cap'ntrek
Now this isn't the greatest way to start a day
I did notice the downtime messages, which you guys kept refreshing with status updates, and noticed the forums return. It's a shame you guys had to use a 24 hrs old backup but hey things are up and running again.
I wouldn't know what to do without my favourite forum.
Besides the set back on posts i want to say GREAT JOB guys for getting things up again, and a very big THANK YOU for keeping us posted during the process.
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Thanks svetius, I was about to post an annoucement on hero and desire, but you beat me...
Sorry to hear about this. Time to action the RPs again, cap'ntrek
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Yes boss
Captainkrtek said:
Yes boss
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Hehe. To the mod-mobile This means bans and warnings will need issued again...
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Hehe. To the mod-mobile This means bans and warnings will need issued again...
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Oh great haha its 2 am where iam
So things I posted yesterday day are gone
I now understand what's going on. Thought I had lost my mind for a minute.
Not sure how we raise awareness of this issue across the site as there are a lot of confused people out there. I am beginning to get pms on it.
WB
wacky.banana said:
I now understand what's going on. Thought I had lost my mind for a minute.
Not sure how we raise awareness of this issue across the site as there are a lot of confused people out there. I am beginning to get pms on it.
WB
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Hi mate, there's a global announcement above every forum, but perhaps mike or svetius could add a new notice in place of the announcement, as it might be easier to see (since there are no notices in normal circumstances)
wacky.banana said:
I now understand what's going on. Thought I had lost my mind for a minute.
Not sure how we raise awareness of this issue across the site as there are a lot of confused people out there. I am beginning to get pms on it.
WB
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Sorry My friend fore the PM I send you!? But I was lost.
I thought that fore some reason 25/September/2010 was band? It was like a dream to see lot of thing we thought to have solved/see/replay/posted and now there isn't anymore!?
But NP we will have patience/understanding fore this issue.
For the size XDA is its pretty sad that you're not replicating your DB.
Glad the forum is back.
I have been an unregistered browser of these forums for about a month, but a few days ago I decided to go ahead and sign up. Not sure how much I will be able to contribute, but I have (and am still) learned so much. Its amazing, that little search box up top has answered every single question I had about my android phones. To all the fine folks who run/develope/contribute/post here, THANK YOU!
Thanks kentu,
our main goal is to have satisfied user that enjoy their stay here at XDA and when an user is happy, we are happy.
cheers.
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I have been an unregistered browser of these forums for about a month, but a few days ago I decided to go ahead and sign up. Not sure how much I will be able to contribute, but I have (and am still) learned so much. Its amazing, that little search box up top has answered every single question I had about my android phones. To all the fine folks who run/develope/contribute/post here, THANK YOU!
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af974 said:
Thanks kentu,
our main goal is to have satisfied user that enjoy their stay here at XDA and when an user is happy, we are happy.
cheers.
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Well I just joined and can not contribute to any of the conversations I would like to contribute to because I do not have 10 posts yet so I guess you can count me as unsatisfied at the moment.. I can't even comment on stuff in the marketplace? So I'm forced to contribute BS to conversations I don't care about to get 10 posts so I can join the discussions I want to join. There seems like there has to be a better way.
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Well I just joined and can not contribute to any of the conversations I would like to contribute to because I do not have 10 posts yet so I guess you can count me as unsatisfied at the moment.. I can't even comment on stuff in the marketplace? So I'm forced to contribute BS to conversations I don't care about to get 10 posts so I can join the discussions I want to join. There seems like there has to be a better way.
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Have a look at the following thread as it may help you with your first 10 posts...
Postcount limit in developmental fora
guys,please block the userz that are not replyng to the post,because otherz are waitng for their answerz,why cant this be strict at all?please be considerate to otherz.just a sugestiOn.are they too intelgnt to ignre a newbie like us?,why dnt you try to change your policy..thanks for the concern.
Sent from my GT-S5360 using xda premium
Give it time and you'll be able to contribute knowledge that the devs don't get to. While they're making sweet roms for us to use the rest of is are here to help others get to know how they work and contribute fixes for people who get unlucky and brick there phones. It took me a couple of weeks to get enough understanding to be able to help and soon enough you'll be there as well.
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Arar31 said:
guys,please block the userz that are not replyng to the post,because otherz are waitng for their answerz,why cant this be strict at all?please be considerate to otherz.just a sugestiOn.are they too intelgnt to ignre a newbie like us?,why dnt you try to change your policy..thanks for the concern.
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I dont have a problem with the 10 post rule. Just take the time go be constructive with your posts, and when you reply to someone post try to add something helpful. As you can see I'm not at 10, but i'll be there soon, no worries.
I'm really enjoying the site
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Thank you for the attitude you have about the 10 post rule.
kentu3 said:
I dont have a problem with the 10 post rule. Just take the time go be constructive with your posts, and when you reply to someone post try to add something helpful. As you can see I'm not at 10, but i'll be there soon, no worries.
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Thank you for searching to find your answers. A rare trait in new members nowadays.
kentu3 said:
I have been an unregistered browser of these forums for about a month, but a few days ago I decided to go ahead and sign up. Not sure how much I will be able to contribute, but I have (and am still) learned so much. Its amazing, that little search box up top has answered every single question I had about my android phones. To all the fine folks who run/develope/contribute/post here, THANK YOU!
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If only more new members were like you two. Welcome to XDA. Hope you enjoy it here.
Much thanks, boborone
I am a member of several different types of forums (Various Video Game, and Electronics), and one thing they all have in common is the Basics.
kentu3 said:
I have been an unregistered browser of these forums for about a month, but a few days ago I decided to go ahead and sign up. Not sure how much I will be able to contribute, but I have (and am still) learned so much. Its amazing, that little search box up top has answered every single question I had about my android phones. To all the fine folks who run/develope/contribute/post here, THANK YOU!
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Would have to agree with you kentu3. MOst of the questions have already been answered if you search.
Another thing that I do before posting a question about ROM "xyz" is to read the whole thread on that rom. You would be or not be suprised as to how many times the same question gets asked.
Thanks again kentu3 for this thread, and a big thanks to the DEV's and MOD's who make this site worth visiting
Hi! New here. I for one like the 10 post rule because it helps keeping it clean and when you surpass the limit you have proven yourself worthy.
Coming from a wide range of other communities, also as admin or moderator, I instantly knew XDA's rule was brilliant. Looking forward to contributing in any way I can.
Now I'm gonna try and find out how to find this Thanks-button in XDA app
/M
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mookan said:
Hi! New here. I for one like the 10 post rule because it helps keeping it clean and when you surpass the limit you have proven yourself worthy.
Coming from a wide range of other communities, also as admin or moderator, I instantly knew XDA's rule was brilliant. Looking forward to contributing in any way I can.
Now I'm gonna try and find out how to find this Thanks-button in XDA app
/M
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You can 'thank' a post in XDA by long-pressing on the post
Welcome to all of you by the way, and enjoy your time here. It's a wonderful resource
Found it Thanks!
Starting to get the hang of this, but XDA is just so big!
Quick tip for new users:
Make sure you follow @xdadevelopers on Twitter
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Afther i saw how cool for me was learn about my phone see how many things i can do to my phone using the developers information i was like wow this people deserve everybody constribution thast why i became premium thansk guys!!
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I'm kind of new here too and I've notice this site takes a long time to load. Does anyone have that problem?
Meyer23 said:
I'm kind of new here too and I've notice this site takes a long time to load. Does anyone have that problem?
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It is quite an ad-heavy site unless you use a blocker of some description. There's also a mammoth amount of content. I've seen a lot of people mention load times as a downfall, but to be honest I don't notice it taking any longer than some of the other tech sites I frequent
Load times are such a subjective thing though, everyone will differ. What browser do you use? Firefox seems to pop up a lot re: slow load times.
Well I typically do most of my surfing at work, which I use IE right now. Don't have much of a choice. I downloaded Firefox a while back but it never worked right. Not sure if it's because of the firewall or whatever here, (I have no idea how that all works) but Firefox was terrible. I tried to get Chrome but it's blocked too.
The slowness to me isn't really a huge deal, just curious why as other forums I frequent load pretty fast. But the more I surf around here, there is a TON of info.
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Well I typically do most of my surfing at work, which I use IE right now. Don't have much of a choice. I downloaded Firefox a while back but it never worked right. Not sure if it's because of the firewall or whatever here, (I have no idea how that all works) but Firefox was terrible. I tried to get Chrome but it's blocked too.
The slowness to me isn't really a huge deal, just curious why as other forums I frequent load pretty fast. But the more I surf around here, there is a TON of info.
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I use IE (6) at work too Ed, and it's noticeably (horribly) slower than Chrome at home. Likewise, all other options are restriced here for me.
For personal use at home, the latest Chrome with Ad Blocker Pro (free) works extremely well at speeding up the genera;l browsing experience here at XDA. It is a resource-heavy forum so it still takes a little longer to load, but that's the price I pay for the wealth of information here, to me personally anyway
Could be worse, I was on 56k at home until last year when they upgraded our RIM (out in woop-woop)
Turn This: nbvzxbnbnbcsdmbbm (Which Is Supposed To Mean "Hello There Fellow")
Into This 5 + 5 = ___
ROFL ????
I AGREE!
Or at least something else that doesn't make me guess 5 times and lock me out of the damn site for 15 minutes!
I agree, captchas are quite complicated for some people.
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"You can overclock as much as you want, your phone will always seem too slow."
99% of them are impossible to read
its discrimination against dyslexic people i for one support the picture solve or the math ones
I agree replace captcha with something else
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Why is this horrible system even needed on a members only forum?
spykedm said:
Why is this horrible system even needed on a members only forum?
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Extra security against spammers, I guess.
Although I can't remember entering a single captcha yet *happy*
Sent fro... wait, I didn't send this.
The captcha is required due to spammers who register manually, then try to post spam to XDA using that new account.
Recaptcha, which is the one we use, is one of the more readable and user friendly captchas, offering an audio equivalent too.
This captcha implemetation simply doesn't work
I tried to post a response to a different thread earlier and tried 5 captchas before I was reasonably sure I was reading one correctly. It took some time to compose the post and, low and behold the captcha somehow changed during that time and I needed to type in a new one. I made the mistake of hitting the preview button and the damn system wanted yet another captcha. I finally gave up because it simply wasn't worth the trouble. Why not simply use one captcha on log in?
The captcha system as implemented may be preventing spam but it is also doing a very good job of discouraging the use of this forum for its intended purpose.
freecity said:
I tried to post a response to a different thread earlier and tried 5 captchas before I was reasonably sure I was reading one correctly. It took some time to compose the post and, low and behold the captcha somehow changed during that time and I needed to type in a new one. I made the mistake of hitting the preview button and the damn system wanted yet another captcha. I finally gave up because it simply wasn't worth the trouble. Why not simply use one captcha on log in?
The captcha system as implemented may be preventing spam but it is also doing a very good job of discouraging the use of this forum for its intended purpose.
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Seems to work ok for the vast majority of users. The captchas should end on your 7th or 8th post.
captchas from hell
mf2112 said:
Seems to work ok for the vast majority of users. The captchas should end on your 7th or 8th post.
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That explains why captcha does "work ok for the vast majority of users." They don't even see it after a few posts. If it were implemented for everyone the same way it is for new users this thread would be dozens of pages long.
Glad that I'll soon be seeing the end of it.
freecity said:
That explains why captcha does "work ok for the vast majority of users." They don't even see it after a few posts. If it were implemented for everyone the same way it is for new users this thread would be dozens of pages long.
Glad that I'll soon be seeing the end of it.
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We get 1500 new users signing up per day. Sorry, I forgot to type the word "new" in that sentence as I was thinking it. (Unfortunately) pattern recognition software is getting better and simple captchas are readable by the spambots. The current system is not necessarily ideal, but it does force real people to do their spam instead of bots, keeping it to a level where we can see it and report it before it becomes a flood.
I can only wish that a bigger percentage of those new users read this guide. And that they actually did the things proposed in it.
agree...im complicated with it:cyclops:
drumerpunked said:
I completely agree i can never figure out what 99% of them say...
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I have too agree on the 99% ... it took me 9 tries too get 1 that I could read just so I could post here about changing it also ..
It will take me a week too get too the point where I dont have that captcha stuff ..
Agree, captcha are 9 times on 10 impossible to read for me as well.
Guess it's the price to pay to keep this place the way it is, wich is fantastic
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I completely agree i can never figure out what 99% of them say...
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I think the idea is some of them are not supposed to be decipherable by man or machine. a person will just hit next while the pattern rec software just chews on it.
Its readable but with the previous post i was trying like 20 captchas. Blurred one after blurred one...
Hope to get rid of it soon
Yes, math randum chalange
is better for the visually chalanged
i have to ask my kid to read it cause the audio one is noisy and evry one knows the blind pirson ears ar verry sencetive to the noise
so i agree.
reguards...