Develop Bugs

I have been bad...

The way the 'news service' forum now works, the messages that are displayed on the xda-developers front page are 'sticky', and thus sorted to the top of the page in forum view. I just never made it part of my dialt routine to check for new news messages that weren't made sticky yet. I will from now on, so please post anything newsworthy there, and I'll put it up.

Forum Display Modes don't work

I was in the Universal Forum reading Linux thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=251584&page=124) and I noticed this nice little drop down menu on the top right that allowed me to change the display mode to Hybrid or Threaded (from the default Linear). Unfortunately both options result in a server 500 error.
Seems to work for other posts though. I am not sure if the problem is the thread size or something else.

noted in the "To Do" list in the moderators section.

Thanx pof

Wizard Forum

Why is it that when ever i open this forum it always sorts it by thread title?!

Never seen this, can you post a print screen ??

Okay, when i open the wizard forum it defaults like this...
http://www.tleask.plus.com/xda.png
When i came in here, the order was by last post (which is good)
Thanks

Ok what I see is that you have 3XX pages at the top of the screen, I have 2
Please check the sort order, end of page, bottom left. should be my date.

Ps for that you need to go back into the wizard section (not like now when you are in a thread)

I have the same problem. When I change the sort order through the drop down list, it only stays in effect until I leave the Wizard sub-forum.
The easiest workaround I've found is to click on the "Last Post" link which causes it to re-sort, but the underlying problem still exists. I have to do this every time I re-enter that sub-forum.
Any help with this would be appreciated!

OK, I just rechecked. None of those drop down menus under "Display Options" stick after leaving the page. And neither does clicking on "Last Post."
Under "Display Options," the selections that are stuck are:
Sorted By: Thread Title
(Never selected before this problem)
Sort Order: Ascending
(Never selected before this problem)
From The: Beginning
(The only one of these options that I had ever selected before this problem occurred. The one that changed the number of pages in the forum to over 300)
All of my other sub-forum views are set to:
Sorted By: Last Post Time
Sort Order: Descending
From The: Beginning
(Without any display problems)
This works fine, even with the General sub-forum. the only distinction I see that might effect this is the sheer number of posts in the sub-forum.
General only has just under 5,000 posts, at second most. But the Wizard sub-forum has well in excess of 7,500 posts.
I hope this helps narrow down this annoying problem!

Ok, I read what you are saying but I cant fix it.
I will post this thread in the mod section and one of the site admins needs to look at it, its a setup issue and out of my hands.

Thanks! That's all we ask!

Can you confirm if you have the same patten or a new one
(settings have been changed)

Works a treat! (To borrow a phrase from our friends across the pond...)

Nice to have a happy Bunny !!!
Ta for pointing it out.

Cheers guys! All sorted!

"Top"-Button next to each post?

Hey!
So, I have my options here set to show 50 posts per page, but one thing I really miss for this is a button next to each post which brings me back to the top.
Sometimes I don't have to get all the way to the bottom in a thread and when I want to get back to the top, this means a lot of scrolling.
This gets even worse on my HD2...
If I'm at 3/4 of a page and want to get back to the top I have to zoom out and scroll ALL the way back to the top or to the bottom.
I've seen this feature in many fora, but I really miss that here
Would it be hard to implement here?
Regards,
Lukas

No answer to this request?
At least say "No"
Regards,
Lukas

Lukas, the one person who knows this is the user named: svetius -- the site's User Exeperience Designer:
his user page is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=2235607
you can PM him and ask him if you don't get a reply here.

quicksite said:
Lukas, the one person who knows this is the user named: svetius -- the site's User Exeperience Designer:
his user page is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=2235607
you can PM him and ask him if you don't get a reply here.
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Hey-- this is an entirely reasonable request, and I will put it on my list. We've been a bit behind recently in fixing vBulletin bugs (and adding new features) because we lost the developer who was helping out with that stuff. We're currently trying to find someone who knows vBulletin inside and out. If you guys know anyone, send me a PM.

[Q] How do I unsubscribe from a *forum* (not a thread)?

As I've progressed through devices, I've added subscriptions to device forums. Some of these I'd like to remove from my list of subscriptions, but I can't find any way to do this.
When clicking Forum Tools in said forums, I am only given the option to subscribe (again?).
Looking forward to any hints you may give.
Cheers, and thanks for a fantastic community!

ugumba said:
As I've progressed through devices, I've added subscriptions to device forums. Some of these I'd like to remove from my list of subscriptions, but I can't find any way to do this.
When clicking Forum Tools in said forums, I am only given the option to subscribe (again?).
Looking forward to any hints you may give.
Cheers, and thanks for a fantastic community!
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Looks like the link is missing, it's a bug in the new theme
You can either hand craft the URL like so http://forum.xda-developers.com/subscription.php?do=addsubscription&f=263
or
use the XDA Classic theme (theme selector is bottom left) - this has the Unsubscribe menu option.
Dave

Now fixed (by the admins )