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…

Unless you were being sarcastic, ‘this’ also ranks as a pretty unhelpful comment. The up vote button exists for a reason.

Yes!

385 billion renminbi actually

The worst part is that the population that makes the MIUI forums so bad is making their way to XDA.

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

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.

The bosses want to see engagement metrics!

yes /s

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, this “post to access attachments” is 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..

Never got anything useful out of this big pile of.. (reply to read my valuable content)

385 Bln ? Where is that from. It’s 50bln right now

they had a lot of different kind of moderator, with a lot of badge

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.

Most companies do have official forums.

and less day by day!!

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\- a concerned shareholder

oh god have mercy for that poor bastard

https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a2/how-to/miui-10-install-guide-t3844729

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.

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.

Sir VoLTE work? Thanks

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.

OnePlus, Google are the only two I can think of

I’d rather have no forum than the utterly bad forum they have now..

The forum is bad, but it’s 350 billion Hong Kong Dollar which is nowhere near 350 billion USD!

You know what else is ruining the forums?

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