After the flood of posts after whole fiasco with bricked phones, the forums are now flooded with spam.
Although I’m able to use the Chinese MIUI forum, it is not really that useful for global rom users.
I’m not sure if this is normal behaviour for a Chinese company trying to go global, but communication is really not their strong suite.
Unless you were being sarcastic, ‘this’ also ranks as a pretty unhelpful comment. The up vote button exists for a reason.
I’d rather have no forum than the utterly bad forum they have now..
Most companies do have official forums.
I know – it’s stupid
I posted about this already but I’ll post it again because fuck them. One day, not sure why, I felt like I’d try to up the quality of the forum a bit by posting an in depth review of two cases for my old Redmi Note 4. I wrote a review (in one thread) for both, along side pictures. I made sure everything was typed correctly and that the presentation was good. Little problem, I didn’t know about the rule stating no link to buy stuff. See, I put both AliExpress links even stating I was not affiliated. The whole thread was taken down, no warning, no PM. I asked the mod why couldn’t he just remove the links or PM me, just incompetent. Refused to put the thread back up. Ugh..
you bought shares at IPO? lol
Well the bad thing is that such MIUI-behaviour is invading xda. High quality in the past, now it’s mostly useless spam with repeating, duplicate and annoying postings.
no… not at IPO
Thanks OP!
Forum medals/achievements, spammy posts (e.g. requiring a reply to unlock content) and all sorts of gamifications have always been present in Asian forum culture since the 2000s, and will likely continue to persist unless Xiaomi themself decides to dump their existing forum software along with all of their forum users already used to this culture.
Thanks!
It’s rare and very rare times when you can find something useful there. Otherwise, it’s a frustrating experience to visit the forums. Plus, they fuck up the search results with questions but no answers.
Which company has good forums though? Microsoft guarantees someone with some kind of title will answer your question in a way that shows they skipped every other word. Apple forums just tell you you’re doing it wrong. Never seen a Samsung forum.
I thought the whole reason we use Reddit and xda is because official forums always suck.
The MIUI forum is a joke and was designed for spamming. A few years back, you’ll need to post in order to view/download an attachment. A thread with 80+ pages full of spam with 0 useful information are all over the place without any kind of moderation. It was frustrating to find useful information if there is any at all.
Lol. I’m betting at least 60% of the people here are also indian.
385 billion renminbi actually
>the forums are now flooded with spam
It’s been like this ever since they introduced medals I. E. Since the beginning, but no offense, when Xiaomi expanded to India everything went to shit, most posts are just spam or lazy copy-paste from Google translated blog websites
The bosses want to see engagement metrics!
Yeah, this “post to access attachments” is stupid.
Sir does volte work thanks
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You forgot gcam on nokia 3310.
They all suck, but oh well, if people actually have the patience to spend their spare time and deal with idiots for free, power to them…
You know what else is ruining the forums?
***Thanks***
Sir VoLTE work? Thanks
VOLTE when? How root iphone 5? I need Microsoft Android 10 on my i-phone
Yes sir volte is working epic 😎
The worst part is that the population that makes the MIUI forums so bad is making their way to XDA.
‘Official’ forums doesn’t mean that any Xiaomi employees actively post there. The level of support can be quite bad with spammy nonsense answers or bad advice.
In contrast, I had a Lenovo engineer follow up on an issue which I had and wanted some log files.
The forum is bad, but it’s 350 billion Hong Kong Dollar which is nowhere near 350 billion USD!
they had a lot of different kind of moderator, with a lot of badge
Have you ever seen the Asus mobile phone forums?
i saw a comment about how this guy is disappointed that his mi a2 doesn’t have miui. i mean no shit genius why tf did you bought it in the first place anyway.
I don’t know what support forums were you using before, but they are better and more informative than Apple forums , IMHO. That’s just from 1 month of using it.
Did someone actually ask that?!!
385 Bln ? Where is that from. It’s 50bln right now
Never got anything useful out of this big pile of.. (reply to read my valuable content)
And [Samsung](https://us.community.samsung.com/). And [LG](https://lgcommunity.us.com/). And [Apple](https://discussions.apple.com/welcome). And [Huawei](http://support.huawei.com/community/?l=en). [Lenovo](https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/English-Community/ct-p/Community-EN), [ZTE](https://community.zteusa.com/), [Alcatel](http://forum.alcatelonetouch.com/) are all there too.
These aren’t cherry picked, these are literally just the first phone makers I thought of. It’s way harder to find a tech company that *doesn’t* have their own forums. It’s free outsourced customer service.
yes /s
Thanks u
Yeah, never looked anywhere else beyond this sub.
[dont know](https://i.imgur.com/c3CXtM5.png)
Medal 1
Medal 2
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Medal 4
Thanks
That’s still impressive.
oh god have mercy for that poor bastard
Yes!
That’s because you need to respond to see links. What else would you say if you have nothing to say right? I wish MIUI forum is a lot more useful, like XDA for Xiaomi phones.
Thanks
and less day by day!!
\- a concerned shareholder
It’s so weird.
Like they encourage it.
Is that just how things roll in China? I seem to remember once I had to spam something in a thread just to be able to access a download.
They quality of posts and responses, how things are stickied and organised is all just terrible. It’s astonishing.
I never look at anything Xiaomi on the internet because there’s indians everywhere and I find them annoying with the broken english and everything else.
This subreddit is sort of a safe haven.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
yeah i scroll through comments and all i see is
thanks, wow, cool, awesome, great, gorgeous, ‘other generic diplomatic short answer’
and a huge blank white space with the left hand side full of virtual medals and zero information.
in a place like reddit i mostly solve 90% of issues just by reading comments.
5 credits needed for next achievement, but only with daily sign in.
Exactly the same as official Meizu forums, down to the medals, inept mods, poorly written and translated posts and replies. A mess.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a2/how-to/miui-10-install-guide-t3844729
Yup, the project Treble forums are absolutely terrible right now. God knows how many posts I’ve seen with Indian spammers quoting the entire OP while asking about VoLTE
Asus too
Most do
OnePlus, Google are the only two I can think of