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4 Million Members - We ARE huge.

Hi all,
18 Months ago (16th Decemeber 2009) we had 2 million members, today (18th August 2011) we've just topped 4 million registered members.
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Dave

Yeah, that's thanks to the HD2 lol

Well deserved as well. Best site for technical advice on HTC & Winmo and progressing greatly on Android front to
Would be nice to get the active count up though

This is one of the best online communities I've been to

hats off to us all i say

Couple of Questions
This is very good news but I have some questions:
- How are the XDA servers bearing up under the weight of all these members? Getting error 502-bad gateway is a routine occurrence when I log on at night in Europe (daytime in the US) and find all our American cousins logged on, hogging our servers. How dare they (lol)
- Given that this site is probably singularly responsible for a whole load of people sticking with the HTC brand, has anyone from XDA actually approached HTC for financial support and/or technical collaboration? We seem to be solving all their problems for them and keeping them in business without so much as a Corporate thank you in sight
- Moderation, with this number of members, must be an absolute nightmare. How does one nominate oneself to carry on this good work (hint hint)?
WB

wacky.banana said:
This is very good news but I have some questions:
- How are the XDA servers bearing up under the weight of all these members? Getting error 502-bad gateway is a routine occurrence when I log on at night in Europe (daytime in the US) and find all our American cousins logged on, hogging our servers. How dare they (lol)
- Given that this site is probably singularly responsible for a whole load of people sticking with the HTC brand, has anyone from XDA actually approached HTC for financial support and/or technical collaboration? We seem to be solving all their problems for them and keeping them in business without so much as a Corporate thank you in sight
- Moderation, with this number of members, must be an absolute nightmare. How does one nominate oneself to carry on this good work (hint hint)?
WB
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1 & 2: the 502 errors are software errors, the only system level workaround is to build an entire resilient failover system, and this will be more that just new hardware .
We (well the admins) are still working on the software issues that are causing the problems.
As for moderators, we are 60 strong, but not all active at once, some of the others have real lives to live.
Dave

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....As for moderators, we are 60 strong, but not all active at once, some of the others have real lives to live.
Dave
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Dave,
Thanks for the answers to my questions.
As for moderators leading real lives, are you telling me XDA is not the REAL world? I feel like Truman off the Truman Show. Has it all been an illusion, a figment of someone else's turgid imagination (gets his coat)?
WB

Wow!!
Yes we are huge!
I think the real interesting number is the active users one as the 2 mill sure includes a lot of one time only enter members, spammers, etc.

Very funny Mike (ROFL).
WB

Somehow we need to get a "number of images posted by Mike" count. It must be near the 10,000 mark by now!

3 members moderating 2,206 users??? wow!
first time ive been on a site thats even gone pass 100k
good job

that IS huge.

Perfect time to drop the HTC-only restriction, I would say!

Chainfire said:
Perfect time to drop the HTC-only restriction, I would say!
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whats a HTC? can i have one, is it freeware? do i need hspl befor i get it?

This is great news! I agree that this is one of the best online communities for me.
I wonder if it's possible to organize a date to break our record of "most ever online" with a thread to check-in. Certainly would be interesting to me.

Chainfire said:
Perfect time to drop the HTC-only restriction, I would say!
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Super Agree!
-PiLoT- said:
whats a HTC? can i have one, is it freeware? do i need hspl befor i get it?
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Lol
Please post this questions in the right section

Chainfire said:
Perfect time to drop the HTC-only restriction, I would say!
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Surely the opposite is true?
If we can get so many members with the restriction, why drop it?

orb3000 said:
Lol
Please post this questions in the right section
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Please dont reply to unreasonable members in the thread please use the report thread button at the top right hand of the post

l3v5y said:
Surely the opposite is true?
If we can get so many members with the restriction, why drop it?
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Cause it's utter nonsense would be my primary reason, but I got a bag of good reasons too

Non-signature Signatures

Such as those applied by tap-a-talk are extremely annoying and many of them are multi-line. I have signatures disabled so I don't have to see the same user signatures over and over, but there are so many users using tap-a-talk signatures that it's futile. It makes reading posts on the forum much more difficult.
Is there any chance we could have the tap-a-talk signatures banned or is there a setting in the tap-a-talk/xda-developers code that would allow their tap-a-talk signature to not make it into the post?

fldash said:
Such as those applied by tap-a-talk are extremely annoying and many of them are multi-line. I have signatures disabled so I don't have to see the same user signatures over and over, but there are so many users using tap-a-talk signatures that it's futile. It makes reading posts on the forum much more difficult.
Is there any chance we could have the tap-a-talk signatures banned or is there a setting in the tap-a-talk/xda-developers code that would allow their tap-a-talk signature to not make it into the post?
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The mobile app signature is nothing more than a line of text that is automatically inserted into the post when it is made. Therefore it is not possible to filter these out and I'm afraid you will just have to put up with them.
It's also entirely impossible for us to "ban" them as we cannot possibly enforce a rule like that across a site with 2 million+ active members....
Sorry

conantroutman said:
The mobile app signature is nothing more than a line of text that is automatically inserted into the post when it is made. Therefore it is not possible to filter these out and I'm afraid you will just have to put up with them.
It's also entirely impossible for us to "ban" them as we cannot possibly enforce a rule like that across a site with 2 million+ active members....
Sorry
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I hate it when thing come to a bad, unresolvable end.
Although everything can be fixed! You just go to try and have hope.
Makes me think of customer service reading out of a manual; whether you like it or not, it always ends up as "Oh sorry sir, but I'm afraid you can't have your broadband increased even though you're paying 200x more for it."
Urghh!

Bad-Wolf said:
I hate it when thing come to a bad, unresolvable end.
Although everything can be fixed! You just go to try and have hope.
Makes me think of customer service reading out of a manual; whether you like it or not, it always ends up as "Oh sorry sir, but I'm afraid you can't have your broadband increased even though you're paying 200x more for it."
Urghh!
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??
Not entirely sure what you mean by that?

How does my tapatalk signature can annoy? It's just 1/5 of a line. And 90 per cent of user use what I use or less.
Sent using Mini CM7 Pro by Paul

Why would you want to get rid of the siggys?
Not sure if you knew this or not but, Forums cost money to keep up and running. It cost endless hours of management, reading, organizing. Those who buy the XDA-Developers Premium app are showing that they support all the hard work of those who put countless hours into making our phones run smoother and faster then we thought possible. I would love to see MORE users using the XDA Premium app.
Thanks to everyone who uses the app as a sign to support the DEV's! Without them we would be stuck with
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uncalled for?..

if you use chrome there is a plug in made by an XDA member to disable signatures, check the story on the Portal

General Reminder if you want to opt-out of arbitration (within 30 days of activation)

At Reddit (be sure to upvote the author's post there) I saw this and thought it would be a good idea to share here:
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For those who do not want to be bound to Google's arbitration process to settle disputes nor want to lose their right to any class action lawsuits regarding your new devices, don't forget to opt out. You have 30 days from the date of activation of device.
Here is the information on their arbitration policy. Opt out information is listed in number 9: https://support.google.com/store/answer/9427031?hl=en
Here is the direct opt out link from the above policy(you need your device name and serial number): g.co/devicearbitration/optout
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Google sucks... the whole corporation looks like it's going into a flat spin now
The writing's on the wall...
I have zero confidence in Google at this point.
"With Google you're not the customer, you're the product."

Eh, that's nonsense. Arbitration is an opt-IN alternative to litigation, which is only available if both the claimant (you) and the defendant (vendor) agree to use that process.

96carboard said:
Eh, that's nonsense. Arbitration is an opt-IN alternative to litigation, which is only available if both the claimant (you) and the defendant (vendor) agree to use that process.
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I doubt it's binding. Next Google will want a nondisclosure agreement to use their products.

blackhawk said:
I doubt it's binding. Next Google will want a nondisclosure agreement to use their products.
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All large big brother corporations want way too many agreements!

galaxys said:
All large big brother corporations want way too many agreements!
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All fine and good until you mess with the wrong bad ass...
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blackhawk said:
All fine and good until you mess with the wrong bad ass...View attachment 5438191
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Yeh, wild cat's can do the trick...

should I do this?

dimm0k said:
should I do this?
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Yes.

I'm all for clawing back what is fair. Heck even video influencers are getting tired of their shenanigans.

TiltedAz said:
I'm all for clawing back what is fair. Heck even video influencers are getting tired of their shenanigans.
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Boycott them. I am. I never will buy their devices and now anything running on Android 11 or 12.
Google invariably screws up everything they keep "improving".
Now they want to stick you with their failure$ legally. Hell no.
At this point I think a pre 2021 device/OS is a better choice for reliability and functionality.
2020 was the zenith... so far. Any improvements after that came a high cost of lose of functionality, reliability and battery life.
And do send Google feedback and share the wuv...

Remember that this applies only to 'Murica (US)

General A popular multi-national warehouse club now gives "20% off or more" at OEM's sites such as a highly reputable charger manufacturer

You can find the article on the web with a search, such as this general Google search which is simply for the phrase:
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warehouse club now gives 20% off or more
Or, try this Google search.
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is offering a new perk to club members
Pertinent excerpts of the article:
So it's expanding an online perk available only to club members: Buy stuff from around 35 brands' websites and save 20% or more.
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The program, called "(warehouse club name) Next", first launched in 2017 with just a few brands. But they have recently ramped it up, offering an array of products such as Anker phone chargers, (and more listed at the article). They are now advertising the program prominently on its website, and plans to add more brands and products in the coming year.
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Members can buy products directly from the brands' sites and use their membership number — without coupons or promotions— to save on their purchases.
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Title and OP edited to greatly reduce how commercial sounding it was. I mainly just want to let XDA users who happen to be already members of the specific warehouse club to be able to use their benefits when buying reputable chargers and cables.
Thank you to @Oswald Boelcke , who went above and beyond reinstating the thread and allowing me to adjust it. I have no affiliation with any of the companies involved and definitely receive no benefit from anyone's business with them.

Fun fact, Google now returns your thread as the first result for the term you're linking to
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fonix232 said:
Fun fact, Google now returns your thread as the first result for the term you're linking to
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LOL! Okay, try this Google search.
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is offering a new perk to club members

roirraW edor ehT said:
LOL! Okay, try this Google search.
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is offering a new perk to club members
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Ah well, I'm not from/in the US, so this won't work for me.

This does kinda seem like advertising. That being said, I'm a Costco member, and this is good to know! Thanks!

fonix232 said:
Ah well, I'm not from/in the US, so this won't work for me.
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While the company is American-originated, I just looked them up and confirmed they are multi-national. Now whether they're spread out enough to help anyone here, that's something else.
As of March 2021, (the warhouse club) has 804 warehouses worldwide:[1] 558 in the United States (including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico), 103 in Canada, 39 in Mexico, 29 in the United Kingdom, 27 in Japan, 16 in South Korea, 14 in Taiwan, 13 in Australia, 4 in Spain, 2 in France, 1 in Iceland and 1 in mainland China. Costco regularly opens new locations.[13] The company plans to open warehouses in 2022 for the first time in New Zealand,[14] and Sweden.[15]
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V0latyle said:
This does kinda seem like advertising. That being said, I'm a (warehouse club) member, and this is good to know! Thanks!
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You said the C-word, not me (after editing)! You're welcome!

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1st April...love it

Im'a get the most expensive pack and racially insult many peeps

Well done! I think some people really need it. And they will be soon very poor.

Is this true? If it true i will LEAVE IMMEDITELY.
Update at 16:12:
Thank god it is a joke.

318cyz said:
Is this true? If it true i will LEAVE IMMEDITELY.
Update at 16:12:
Thank god it is a joke.
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personally I believe there needs to be a package where we can ban any member

Long have i waited. Give me.

thanks to xda i found away to get the unlimited package for only 1.99 without root!!!!

Just bought the HOTHEAD pass, this is great! Thank you.
That being said, my [FVP] prefix is now showing OK in front of my title but it's not hot pink! Please fix...

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April Fool's to you too!

This will pay for itself in no time once I'm free to ask everyone how to change IMEIs on a commercial scale

NullCode said:
personally I believe there needs to be a package where we can ban any member
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It's called "senior moderator". It's an unreleased package, you have to bribe a LOT of people to get it, but once you get it, the fun begins !

Pfft, I can undercut this... I'll do it for half price

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We're still working out the kinks, of course. But err.. We didn't really foresee Senior Moderators buying these deals so we might regret this deeply

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Mods are also regular members!
Honestly, I am a bit tired to follow the rules... I mean Mods are the ones who should show the example and it's sometimes frustrating, we need to be careful anytime... This is why I've bought the HOTHEAD pass.
Well that means I won't have the hot pink... Hmm... not a big deal, this is a minor issue. Thanks anyway man!
Now I can profit!! After 5 years being a mod, all those constraints are gone!

Well, there's market for everyone...

Well, April Fool !

Ugh I had to shell out for Hothead version. Pls don't ban me!