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Question regarding six image limit in forum posts

... So, what gives? I'm quite an emoticonny person, I don't spam them all over the place but I tend to use five or six if I'm writing a long reply, maybe a few more if I'm in a very good/exciteable mood (I feel it helps convey the context better, because text is such a stale, unforgiving medium when it comes to misunderstandings and misinterpretations).
Also, there's been threads in the past where I've posted big long replies including multiple (offsite) linked images, which, were I to attempt this again, would be impossible. I understand about the feature cobbled on which allows you to upload large images to the post or repy and then reference them with square brackets, but I have this "thing" about not using that feature, as you can never tell if they're going to disappear or the forum's going to be upgraded or modified and all the pictures lost - when I host my pictures on my web host on my little corner of the Internet, I can guarantee that they'll be available there for pretty much as long as I'm still alive and paying the hosting bills. Plus they're my pictures, I'll host them - that's why I don't use flickr for storage of my thousands of photos, I'd rather do it myself so I have total control.
Ideally, I'd like to see this limit removed, deactivated or at least raised to a higher number (10 or 15), or maybe removing the restriction just for people who've donated, because I can see it causing problems in the future for people like me who might need to illustrate a long reply or guide to setting something up / tweaking some system settings with multiple screengrabs to highlight every major step.
I don't know what other people think, but I can't really see any reason for an imagel imit - if someone goes and spams a forum thread with three hundred pictures, they can be given a warning or banned from posting new replies for x amount of time, just imposing a blanket limit on every user seems a bit pointless to me.
However, in the scope of XDADevs I'm naught more than an 'orrible little luser - anybody else have any of their own opinions they'd like to add to this?

How do you upload images to wiki?
RESOLVED Answer in new wiki http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Help:Images
Rather than starting a new thread, can I ask how does one upload images to wiki apart from storing them on a third party site? I have written a wiki:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Xtask
I would like to add some screen shots but the only way I could do it was to link to one on tinypic.com:
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First I tried uploading the jpg to an album of mine in xda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/album.php?albumid=1247
but I could not get these to display in posts or wiki as the extension is not "jpg".
I then tried to ftp and put them in a directory I created here:
ftp://xdaupload:[email protected]/Software/XTask/Screenshots/
I also put in a ReadMe.txt but cannot link to these as they are in ftp.
For wiki I have seen them loaded in "images" folder
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/images/ARTE200.jpg
For the forum, I could load them as "Attached Thumbnails" as I have done below but this does not display in wiki as the extension is not "jpg".
It makes sense to store the images on xda-developers so anyone can use them and update them as necessary.
Can anyone kindly guide me in the right direction as to how to use xda-developers to store and show images in a wiki?
Cheers
Tom

Wiki Vandalism

Hi All,
There has recently been a "session" of vandalism on the wiki, here is a short guide on what you can do to help:
1. Tell someone who cares
a.Mention on my talk page on the wiki, or contact a wiki admin (I'm the only one whose really active at the moment.)
b.Reply to this thread and post the details (I am subscribed to it) but if I'm unavailable then you can click the Report Post button (
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) to notify all forum moderators / administrators immediately to the problem.
2. It's a wiki, you can help out too
By clicking on Recent Changes in the wiki you can see all the changes that have occured over the past few days.
Click on Diff next to the Edit that caused the vandalism.
Ensure the changes you want to revert are shown in the diff and that no valid information will be lost.
If so, click on Undo (found above the right hand pane of the "diff" view).
Again, confirm the Undo will not remove anything bad.
Click save page.
If a page needs deleting, put a Delete Tag on it.
Any problems please feel free to ask me, here, via PM or on the wiki.
Thanks
Dave

Thanks Dave. I've encountered such "vandalism" on this page:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Developing a graphics driver for Windows Mobile
As you can see from the history, a user called "ramair" completely erased the contents of the page, on November 3rd, 2009.
I've restored the page to it's original glory.

Thanks for the tip.
I cannot see any malicious intent in the user doing this, so I think it's best to let it slide. Accidents can happen, I know someone binned the HomePage the other day by mistake .
Dave

DaveShaw said:
Thanks for the tip.
I cannot see any malicious intent in the user doing this, so I think it's best to let it slide. Accidents can happen, I know someone binned the HomePage the other day by mistake .
Dave
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I just found the same thing again on the Raphael page...

Perhaps the option of everybody can edit should be controlled, just as to post in marketplace member will need certain number of posts or time being an active member to edit Wiki

orb3000 said:
Perhaps the option of everybody can edit should be controlled, just as to post in marketplace member will need certain number of posts or time being an active member to edit Wiki
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Wiki's are meant for everyone, anyone can help, even if it's just changing a spelling or fixing a link. And just as anyone can break then, anyone can fix them.
Dave

Wasn't sure whether or not to just delete the page (I have no idea who, or what, Monban is) so I thought I would post it here. Linky

ben_duder said:
Wasn't sure whether or not to just delete the page (I have no idea who, or what, Monban is) so I thought I would post it here. Linky
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Looks to be a Userpage for Monban
See Me

DaveShaw said:
Looks to be a Userpage for Monban
See Me
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Oh, never seen that before. Thanks

[APP][BETA] The Parking Network - Testers required

Hi all,
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My app, The Parking Network is close to its code completion milestone, but before I release it to the public as an ad-supported app, I would like to ask you guys for help to test it out.
The idea is big, basicly, I would like to log every single available street parking spot in the world by using my parking spot app. The app, as of this stage, is simply a parking spot app, nothing more, but in the future, as enough parking spot information is gathered, I would like to enable the parking spot finding feature, where the app will show, in real time, which The Parking Network user's parking spot will expire soon and the parking enforcements (i.e. price, time allow to park) of spots on street.
The app is 100% done, and I was just about to submit it to the marketplace, but I totally forget to generate a list of private testers.
Please let me know what you think about it!
The xap file has been attached
Here are some pics to get you guys interested:
Facebook link here, please like
http://www.facebook.com/TheParkingNetwork
----=====Download here=====----
QR code:
Video here
Please let me know if you can help out, your name will be included in the credits

Cool idea, but it's rather grandiose -- and some UI comments:
create better looking loopingselector pages.
Use a background for your panorama (and please don't make it use bing images...) or use a pivot.
Don't TitleCase panorama headers.
Don't put a map in a pivot/panorama.
Don't use a loadmore button, but instead just have infinite scrolling.
I develop WP7 apps professionally and have put literally thousands of hours into development and UI design. I'm happy to provide feedback and some sample code if you want it. PM me and i'll run through your app and provide some feedback.
I've actually developed a parking app that I never had time to finish specifically for a particular city (San Francisco), and I'm more than happy to share it with you.

Thanks for your comments. I will PM you, thanks for your help

2hdass said:
The idea is big, basicly, I would like to log every single available street parking spot in the world by using my parking spot app.
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Hmm...

I cann test,
i'm always on the road, park my car 10x a day,
I install idtv and internet access.
so i can test it a lot
pm me if i can help

Thanks, I will include you in the list.
daddyrazzy said:
I cann test,
i'm always on the road, park my car 10x a day,
I install idtv and internet access.
so i can test it a lot
pm me if i can help
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Hey all, the beta is up
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-CA/apps/522bb9bc-5784-42f4-8651-3bc8a226cfa9

Virus install attempt when entering the site..

So I thought it may just be me but after getting a fee people to test it seems this site is trying to install malicious software when you visit and are not logged in (mobile device) I've included some screen shots as I think this is quite a big security breach with the amount of users here..
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Isn't the while point if the forums to stop things like this? I sure as hell don't expect XDA DEVS to need to install this app on my own phone. I was under the assumption that developers could be trusted on here so why the need for this? Also a simple search on Google flags it as malware

bonesy said:
So I thought it may just be me but after getting a fee people to test it seems this site is trying to install malicious software when you visit and are not logged in (mobile device) I've included some screen shots as I think this is quite a big security breach with the amount of users here..
Isn't the while point if the forums to stop things like this? I sure as hell don't expect XDA DEVS to need to install this app on my own phone. I was under the assumption that developers could be trusted on here so why the need for this? Also a simple search on Google flags it as malware
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Thank you for reporting this - this isn't something XDA itself is promoting but it is coming through one of our ad networks and we have been unable to track it down. Did it take you to the play store to install that App? Or did it download the APK directly?

Thanks for responding.First time was just for the apk second time it was play store

bonesy said:
Thanks for responding.First time was just for the apk second time it was play store
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Was it for the same app?

I'll try to replicate it to get the non market one again as I denied the dload when it asked. Will report back

bonesy said:
I'll try to replicate it to get the non market one again as I denied the dload when it asked. Will report back
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I go that on a different site yesterday. Bad popup ad with no ability to click out of it. What happens when a site doesn't screen their advertisers, they get to look like idiots.
As a note, my bet is it's "Clean Master" as I'm seeing that same general popup without the virus warnings today.

I applied xda reconized contributer form last month . I got a reply including a link containing comments of my application reviewer . I just follow that link , but I get Notification from my antivirus about bug contents .
Sent from my GT-S7562 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Time to install an ad blocker.
Sorry guys, but safety first.

I always thought that those were fake. They trick you into thinking that you have a virus , then the app you install to remove the virus is the actual virus. I just click those off

smurfix said:
Time to install an ad blocker.
Sorry guys, but safety first.
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This thread is 2 years old.

[Q] College App

I am thinking of starting an app for my college. Pretty much I want the app for it to have users or students in this case register make a username and password and then just for it to be forum kind of style where users can create threads and also for it to have a messaging system incase someone is selling a book both users can communicate with each other. the thing is i have no idea where to begin if anyone can show me a step by step or just a summuray on what to do to make this.

pandazourex said:
I am thinking of starting an app for my college. Pretty much I want the app for it to have users or students in this case register make a username and password and then just for it to be forum kind of style where users can create threads and also for it to have a messaging system incase someone is selling a book both users can communicate with each other. the thing is i have no idea where to begin if anyone can show me a step by step or just a summuray on what to do to make this.
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Buy domain from namecheap, hosting from dreamhost. Use phpbb as forum software (completely FREE) or vBulletin. Start a web forum, install Tapatalk plugin. Share link.
Tada! No programming at all.

Ankush menat said:
Buy domain from namecheap, hosting from dreamhost. Use phpbb as forum software (completely FREE) or vBulletin. Start a web forum, install Tapatalk plugin. Share link.
Tada! No programming at all.
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This may sound like a good solution but it becomes complex for the user when they have to use forum software. I am not sure you have can limit functionality with Tapatalk. OP is trying to create an application that is simple and includes his/colleges branding. Another problem is using Tapatalk since it's a generic application and you can't rebrand it for his college or niche group. I know it looks like OP is trying to redesign the wheel but I think he's trying to do it in a way that makes it more efficient and, in a way, more useful for users.
@OP
I am quite new to Android dev and I learning by using "Google: Android developer basics" (I can't post links since I have < 10 posts) I am not sure if it's the best way but I think it would be a good place to start.

Quick one please. Which hosting provider did you choose here if I may ask?
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