• Thread of The Week, Round 194



    It's time for a new thread of the week, our way of recognizing forum members for promoting valuable discussion here.

    Every weekday yours truly posts a morning briefing, including the most popular forum threads—that is, the posts with the most replies—for the previous 24 hour period. For reference, here are the briefings for the past seven days:

    Your Morning Briefing for Monday, October 30th, 2023
    Your Morning Briefing for Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
    Your Morning Briefing for Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
    Your Morning Briefing for Thursday, November 2nd, 2023
    Your Morning Briefing for Friday, November 3rd, 2023

    Remember that the Monday briefing includes forum posts from the prior Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so all weekend posts are similarly eligible.

    In each briefing, forum posts are ranked by the number of replies (from highest to lowest). That's subject to change, of course, so I did a quick recount of replies for all forum posts in the briefings above. With 22 replies as of this posting the most popular thread started last week is:

    Sim Swapping

    Congrats to kaZZoo for starting our one hundred and ninety-fourth thread of the week! As a small token of our appreciation, please enjoy a monthlong Premium Membership on us. Benefits include ad-free browsing, increased private message count, access to a subscriber-only forum, extra attachment space, a referral/affiliate signature link, the ability to post referrals, and a custom avatar and user title!

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    Andrew Currie has been blogging about mobile phones since 2001, smartphones (depending on how you define them) since 2002 and smartwatches since 2014.
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    This article was originally published in forum thread: Announcement: Thread of The Week started by acurrie View original post
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