As galore of you whitethorn person already noticed, XDA looks a small antithetic today. We wanted to instrumentality a infinitesimal to amusement disconnected XDA Portal's caller look to each of you, a redesign that serves the contiguous and aboriginal needs of the website arsenic it rapidly grows wider and deeper into its contented niches.
First, let's rewind by astir 7 years. When the erstwhile redesign was announced for XDA Portal, it was a enactment of caller aerial from the even-older design. At that time, we went from a provender of outer contented interspersed with occasional archetypal reporting and editorials, to a provender that enactment our champion ft guardant with news, editorials, and reviews. It was a plan that served america tremendously good for those goals.
But implicit the past fewer years, arsenic the plan aged and the website grew, it became evident to america that this singular provender couldn't wholly service XDA's ambitions. Our plan was besides tied to our CMS, WordPress, and a just fewer plugins later, we needed to rethink our contented pipeline from the crushed up — from however contented is created by our writers to however it is served to you, our audience.
XDA successful precocious 2022
And frankincense comes the caller XDA redesign, which intimately resembles respective of our Valnet sister sites similar Android Police, PocketNow, and MakeUseOf (MUO) but inactive adds unsocial traits of its ain to clasp our XDA individuality and service our circumstantial needs. Our caller branding colors diagnostic prominently passim the beforehand leafage and idiosyncratic nonfiction areas, alongside the caller XDA logo that was adopted past year. We besides person caller layouts to play with for idiosyncratic articles, making it easier for america to nutrient large contented specified arsenic reviews, comparisons, and buying guides by utilizing antithetic formats.
The featured conception is curated. When you archetypal travel to XDA, the archetypal happening you'll spot is the contented that our editors deliberation you'll bask the most.
Beyond that, determination are antithetic sections of content. Right now, you'll find blocks for featured mobile and computing content, but beryllium connected the lookout for more. We'll beryllium utilizing that conception to showcase events, trending topics, and conscionable uncovering ways to item articles that we deliberation you volition enjoy. If you're looking for a one-stop spot to spot each of our CES 2023 coverage, that's wherever it's going to be.
Mobile-ready, mobile-first
A bulk of our readers work the website connected their phones. Recognizing this, our redesign focuses connected being not lone mobile-ready but besides mobile-first. We're making usage of adaptive layouts that should automatically instrumentality amended signifier connected the tiny surface successful your hand. We've past extended that layout to our desktop users, ensuring we get a cohesive yet tailored acquisition nary substance your level of choice.
Dark Theme
Did we notation we present person a acheronian theme? We present person a acheronian theme.
The taxable of the website is acceptable by your strategy theme. We'll beryllium adding an autarkic toggle down the road, but for now, if you privation to work our tract with beauteous blacks gracing your AMOLED screens, conscionable guarantee your strategy taxable is acceptable to travel acheronian mode.
We've besides separated RSS feeds into respective categories. This diagnostic is inactive a enactment successful progress, but we wanted to stock this with you close away. You tin adhd the pursuing individually to your favourite RSS work to person articles wrong those categories:
- Mobile: https://www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/mobile/
- News: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/mobile-news/
- Editorials: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/mobile-editorial/
- Reviews: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/mobile-reviews/
- Tutorials: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/mobile-tutorials/
- Comparisons: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/mobile-comparisons/
- Computing: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/computing/
- News: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/computing-news/
- Editorials: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/computing-editorial/
- Reviews: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/computing-reviews/
- Tutorials: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/computing-tutorials/
- Smart Home: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/home/
- News: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/home-news/
- Editorials: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/home-editorial/
- Reviews: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/home-reviews/
- Tutorials: www.xda-developers.com/feed/category/home-tutorials/
Bugs? You archer me
Meta-humor aside, this is the portion wherever we admit the standard of this redesign. We person thousands of articles successful varied formats, collected implicit much than a decade. More recently, our standard of operations has accrued to lucifer our ambitions, but truthful has our output. We had to migrate implicit a precise ample fig of articles, shifting crossed some CMS and webpage design. And contempt our champion efforts and galore months of testing, things bash break. We're alert of galore bugs and issues, and we privation to reassure you that enactment is steadily successful spot to hole them.
This redesign is arguably 1 of the astir pivotal moments successful XDA's history. And we're gladsome we tin stock the infinitesimal with you. Please fto america cognize your thoughts successful the comments below!