Sticky Threads are discussions that are marked "sticky" and are always listed at the top of the list of discussions. This is already working just fine.
I think it might be of some value to be able to make Sticky Posts. These are posts within a discussion that are always displayed (mirrored or cloned) at the top of every page.
There are several discussions that are hundreds and even thousands of pages long. You can't expect a normal person to read every page, but putting important information relevant to the discussion (links to FAQs, announcements, rules, etc) might help reduce the number of redundant posts. Of course, there are some people that won't even read the whole page, but if it's right at the top then they'll have no choice while they are waiting for the page to load.
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I have started a relatively ambitious project to re-work the wiki pages as well as create a central place for site management projects including the webpages, forum and wiki. Obviously since I am just one person and not even a moderator or admin I will be needing a lot of help from everyone.
The forum is still the ONLY place to make normal requests. These wiki pages will be edited as issues are posed in the fora, especially the "About xda-developers.com" forum for site, forum and wiki queries.
The SiteManagement wiki pages will be for admins, mods and active contributers to collect and identify work that needs to be done.
I have created these pages because there is a lot of disparate, yet excellent, work being done on the site. And at the same time there is an obvious lack of response in the forums to certain issues which need to be addressed. Coupled to this there is a underlying disconuity in the wiki pages making simple browsing tedious.
Enter the SiteManagement Wiki Pages!
Please all interested in helping the xda-developers.com project continue being the success it is take a look at this wiki entry and see where they can help. We also need people to scan through the About forum and collate all requests yet to be completed.
Lets get the pages act together, so we can better server others and ourselves and make this devmod site something to be proud of!
Marc
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Todo:
Flesh out the rest of the pages referenced.
Collect all requests outstanding.
Initiate Logo and Theme submissions/competition.
Get admin and influential user interest/buy-in.
Initiate Template discussion to get the best device template.
Initiate topic based sorting system for wiki.
Begin rewriting current pages in the wiki.
Get list of admins and maintainers together.
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Hi,
I've recently got a Touch Diamond and have found certain aspects of this forum helpful however I can't help but feel that this place has an appauling forum layout.
Are you afraid of creating some sub-sections or something? I mean seriously, what's the point of all the square bracket tags on the start of topic titles?
They don't make it easier to find because the topics are still jumbled up with all the others anyway and a good topic title should let you know what it is related to in the first place. I thought that maybe at least a search for a certain tag would reveal all of those topics but alas no, the search gave me no results at all even though I can see them on the screen in the forum listing it still doesn't find them.
Take the Diamond themes, apps & s/w section for example...
Why not simply create a sub-section for related topics such as Themes and hence have all theme topics together and do away with the need for tagging the titles.
Sorry to criticise your forum but I just don't see the logic in the current system as it makes things very difficult to find, especially when the search tells me there are no results containing [THM] or 1.93 etc. :lol:
Thanks for the reply regarding the search, hopefully I'll be able to find a little more of what I'm looking for now.
I've come across plenty of forums that don't allow searches for less than 4 characters but surely [THM] is 5 characters
Anyway, that's not my main point, I just think that the forum ingeneral would be friendlier to browse and need less searching if it was better organised to begin with.
Thanks again for the reply and nice little site overview
I agree that a good forum is run in a manner that keeps the members happy though it should also be as user friendly as possible. There are always people who prefer to avoid change but they will quickly get used to changes if they are for the better.
I'm a forum SuperModerator myself and my advise is that a clear layout helps a lot with finding info, where to post questions and also getting replies for those questions as topics don't get swapmed like they do in one large general section.
As for mods being unloved I would say that depends on how much of a presence they have in the forum, invisible mods are unloved because they are unknown with no personality but if your mods are active forum members they will be known and more respected as well as being someone people can go to if problems arise.
lol, sorry I didn't meant to launch into a forum moderation tutorial there
As was announced last week, Operation:Iron Fist is in full effect. Read about it here.
With that being said, the following will begin to happen:
1. All non-development threads started in the Development section will be moved to the appropriate section and/or closed and the "responsible" poster (in quotes because the fact they posted in the wrong section clearly brings into question whether or not they are responsible) will be infracted.
2. Any abusive posts directed at any user will be deleted and the abuser will be infracted and/or given a temporary vacation. Multiple instances will result in a longer leave-of-absence, and if it continues you will be removed from XDA. You, and your behavior, are not welcome at XDA.
3. Any off-topic posts in the Development section threads will be deleted. These are non-helpful, and certainly not development posts. This includes the following:
"OMG THIS IS SO GREAT!"
"WOW! YOU ROCK AND I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES!"
"THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!"
"THANKS FOR THIS!"
If you want to thank someone for their work, do so by clicking the "THANKS" button on their post.
4. Any post, in any section, that is done to further post count will be deleted and you will face possible infraction.
5. Anything else that goes against the XDA Forum Rules and XDA Mantra will be dealt with firmly, but fairly.
I would like to suggest a way to filter out off-topic posts. When I am browsing a thread in a Development forum, I have wasted a lot of time reading entries that have nothing to do with the topic. I know that the moderators are responsible for keeping the original thread on-topic, but some threads get hundreds of posts that have nothing to do with XDA whatsoever.
I would like a way to flag posts as off-topic, allowing others to filter away these messages if they choose.
Hi,
Got an improvement suggestion for the desktop site under Participated threads section:
This section shows 15 threads I participated in. It could have been OK, if not for the following:
1. Threads are sorted by their creation date. This means that if there are new posts in "veteran threads" (and there are lots of mega threads like these), they will soon be out of the list.
2. There's no way to see the next threads in the list (next 15 or so).
This means that if there are new posts in such threads in which I participated, I will not see them at all. Of course I can subscribe to all these threads, but why do so if there's a section for it?
Just to compare, if I browse the forum via the Tapatalk app, I'm able to see new posts in this section sorted by the date of the last post. I believe this should be the right way to go.
I think this is a small and necessary change that should be quite easy to implement.
Cheers.
Anybody home? Maybe this is not the right forum to raise such a suggestion?
Thanks for the suggestion, but we recommend subscribing to a thread if you want to be kept up to date on progress. The "Participated Threads" tab sorts in order of last update.
bitpushr said:
Thanks for the suggestion, but we recommend subscribing to a thread if you want to be kept up to date on progress. The "Participated Threads" tab sorts in order of last update.
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Thanks for your answer. However, it seems that at least on the desktop site, the "participated threads" section is not sorted by last update (as it should), but by thread creation order.
Kindly would like to bump this:
The participated section should have the exact effect as performing an advanced search with myself as the posting user. In this case, I'll get a list of the threads I have posted in, ordered by post date (threads with newer posts are shown first). If number of threads exceeds a page, then I can select the page for previous posts.
However, the participated section button shows only one page, where this page holds threads ordered by thread creation date.
What I think that should be done is that the participated button will simply imitate the search action described above. This is exactly what Tapatalk does, but unfortunately not what happens here. Of course I can always perform this advanced search to see what happens in the threads I participate in, but this is very cumbersome.