this is the blog were ya more then likely to hear about froyo update just forget main article and read comments at the bottom of the article
http://blog.three.co.uk/2010/05/24/htc-desire-tips-to-boost-battery-life/
The XDA Portal (also known as the front page or blog of the site) is hiring experienced writers who can write several posts per day about development activity in the XDA forums.
To apply, send two sample articles to willverduzco(a)xda-developers.com. Articles should be approx 200-300 words each, and should prove that you can dive deep into the forums to find newsworthy content. Also, make sure we haven't posted about it before.
Some of you guys might familiar with all the review work I do in XDA, and maybe have seen index with all my reviews here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192333
Just recently I wrote a detailed review about my experience with MetaWatch Strata in content of setting it up and using with Note 2, which is applicable to any smart phone anyway. I don't want to duplicate the review here since the thread has already grown to 4 pages of replies and a few thousand views. Here is a link to that post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2332764
If you want you can post your comments in that original thread, or in here. I just can't promise I will be checking all the posts outside of Note 2 section, getting a bit hard to keep up with close to 100 reviews I have posted on XDA in the last 4-5 months
Hey,
First time in a while i used the XDA Homepage and not Tapatalk on my phone to browse the forums.
On the right side a saw this "Real life review" between General and custom roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/review
Seems to be knew on XDA?
You can rate the threads which will result in an overall rating. You can even comment the specific topics with a short review
As the most viewed topic had about 140 views i guessed that this feature is not really well known. Most other are about 25-40 views.
The front page is completely unhinged. Many articles come off extremely sponsored or the very least are pointless and filler. Sponsored posts are fine but mark them sponsored. The front page is the first thing people see and tells you what kind of site you are visiting. It feels less like a developer site and more like a general tech site as of late.
The disqus section is littered with bots. Do what other sites do, limit new commentors first few post to moderator review before they can be seen. Don't have anyone to moderate the front page comments? I'll do it.
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The front page is completely unhinged. Many articles come off extremely sponsored or the very least are pointless and filler. Sponsored posts are fine but mark them sponsored. The front page is the first thing people see and tells you what kind of site you are visiting. It feels less like a developer site and more like a general tech site as of late.
The disqus section is littered with bots. Do what other sites do, limit new commentors first few post to moderator review before they can be seen. Don't have anyone to moderate the front page comments? I'll do it.
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@a.cid Sir, above might be of interest to you.
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The front page is completely unhinged. Many articles come off extremely sponsored or the very least are pointless and filler. Sponsored posts are fine but mark them sponsored. The front page is the first thing people see and tells you what kind of site you are visiting. It feels less like a developer site and more like a general tech site as of late.
The disqus section is littered with bots. Do what other sites do, limit new commentors first few post to moderator review before they can be seen. Don't have anyone to moderate the front page comments? I'll do it.
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All sponsored posts are posted under the Author "A word from our sponsors", and the social media posts around them are marked as [ad] too.
The others are not sponsored.
Filler -- feedback noted. We have changes upcoming to the front page that will give less visibility to filler content. The unfortunate situation that we are in is that filler content is needed if we are to have a fighting chance with Google and how SEO works. It may appear as filler to you, but it serves a purpose. Our authority content (stuff like regular news, forum content, apk teardowns, reviews etc) will not have a chance at performance if such "filler" content did not exist.
Re: disqus, this is a fresh spam wave that happened this weekend. I've cleaned up the section, banning multiple hundreds (yes, hundreds) of spam accounts. The wave has been rather relentless, and what you see is after me cleaning the sections up thrice over the weekend. To outsiders, it may appear that we aren't doing enough.
Re: limiting comments -- these accounts are actually 230+ days old in case of the sock puppet comments and 30+ days old on the main comments. They also have a bunch of comment activity. So unfortunately, our existing spam filters (we already have a fair few in place) are unable to catch it. We're exploring more means to get it under control. This happened over the weekend, so give us some time to assess solutions.
-- Aamir Siddiqui, Editor in Chief, XDA Portal
@a.cid
Thank you for the indepth response. Again if assistance is needed let me know.
Sorry I didn't tag you initially, I misread your title as retired for the Portal Team, not moderator
The spam comments issue should now be under control, fingers crossed!