Awebb wrote:The forum is half awesome half crap... Awesome developers, awesome output... but millions of brainless teenagers spamming every section and every thread. I sometimes wish the board search had extended regex...
Exactly. I go there a lot to monitor projects for updates, but trying to read the threads makes me want to punch myself in the face with brass knuckles. If the users of that forum read at least the last 5 pages of a thread before posting, there would be half as many posts. Instead, you get the same question asked 5 times out of 15 posts, and at least 5 of the remaining 10 are duplicate answers to the duplicate questions. The other 5 are usually random people coming in to thank the developer instead of just using the Thanks button.
I've heard that RootzWiki is better, but we'll see how long that lasts. XDA was awesome until it got popular. When it got popular, everyone from teenage girls to grandparents were going there to root their phones and find cool ROMs, and of course, the teenage girls and grandparents can't be bothered to read anything or search to see if their questions have been answered. Instead, they go through the trouble of creating an account and typing out their question, and then waiting several hours (days, even) for a reply when they could have had an answer in <5 minutes with only the hassle of typing a keyword into a search box. Then, when they're told they should have read one or two pages of the thread instead of making a new post, their reason is that they didn't have time. They didn't have 5 minutes to read so they spent 10 minutes creating an account and posting the question, then waited hours for an answer? The stupidity on that forum amazes me.
Sorry for the rant. I really want to like XDA, but the members of the forum make that difficult.