Yeah I remember getting the G1 weeks before it came out because the local TMobile store was just sick or me asking every fucking day. I remember rooting it, loving it, then moving to the n900 and thinking "I want this forever" only for fucking Microsoft to buy Nokia and tank Meego

Oh I know, but for a long time that was the only reason to visit the site.

Yeah the forums are a treasure for old phone hacking

every time i've tried to decypher something from the XDA forums i feel like i'm looking into a different dimension, i'm guessing it's because most of the people there are non-western and thus it's quite literally true (india has a ton of native english speakers after all, whose version of english is quite different), but boy does it hurt my brain.
Same thing with telegram, the way people write and behave makes me uneasy

Not borderline, they're literally a clickbait farm now. There's an almost daily release of the exact same articles rehashed (e.g. "these are the main Docker containers I run on every server" title changed up a little and it's literally always the same 4-5 containers).

HTC Incredible was my first. XDA was my place shortly thereafter.

The HD2 was a game changer.