u/OtherwiseManner6946

X-Dome feedback

I’ve been using the X-dome now for the summer and have had several trips in it and I have two small pieces of feedback about the tent.

First point - I wish there was a small orange night light pocket like on the NEMO tents. My base weight is about 5.5kg so I don’t bring a separate lantern. I’ve used my head torch as a night light in the X-Dome and it’s just ok and not *great.* Even if there was just a see through mesh pocket somewhere on the roof it would be welcome

Second point - I’d love the solid inner version to have one door that fully opens to allow mesh only. This would add a tonne of versatility to the solid version and would allow you to keep the bugs out on hot nights. The current version only covers about 1/3 of one half of the door. I’d love to see it go the whole way down on the 1+ (and even just one of the two doors on the 2 would be good). It would be great for views also when shut in

I know these two changes add material to the tent so they’d make a tiny bit heavier, but it think they’d both be awesome.

In terms of the rest of my experience the tent has been excellent. It’s been a joy to use.

Ok so these are a few pictures. Sharing so people have another point of reference. I’m 8 months in

I started with an ok baseline and started taking oral minoxidil (2.5mg and recently 5mg daily) around January 1st 2026.

The picture from a year ago was my weak side & im aware that I look much less trampy in the new pictures (wedding) but showing so you can compare.

The oral did seem to grow lots of small fussy hairs but they didn’t really shift to dark (terminal) hairs until recently.

I actually started using minoxidil foam about a month ago and have done that pretty much daily. I don’t know if the oral just took a while but the majority of my growth happened when I switched to foam.

I think there’s legitimate change with my beard density and colour. Before minoxidil I’d have to shave my beard at an about 5mm to see decent stubble. Now I shave it at 3mm and have more visible stubble than I did at 5mm.

Overall I think it’s been totally worth it. All I’d say is be patient, it’s taken me 8 months to get these results (some may not say it’s much but I’m very happy). I’m going to keep going for another year and probably ditch the meds as soon as I can. The foam might stay a bit longer just to taper more slowly.

Also you can see from the pictures there more light fussy hair there, so I think it will fill out more by the 12 month mark

Feel free to ask questions. I’m 35

Ok so these are a few pictures. Sharing so people have another point of reference.

I started with an ok baseline and started taking oral minoxidil (2.5mg and recently 5mg daily) around January 1st 2026.

The picture from a year ago was my weak side & im aware that I look much less trampy in the new pictures (wedding) but showing so you can compare.

The oral did seem to grow lots of small fussy hairs but they didn’t really shift to dark (terminal) hairs until recently.

I actually started using minoxidil foam about a month ago and have done that pretty much daily. I don’t know if the oral just took a while but the majority of my growth happened when I switched to foam.

I think there’s legitimate change with my beard density and colour. Before minoxidil I’d have to shave my beard at an about 5mm to see decent stubble. Now I shave it at 3mm and have more visible stubble than I did at 5mm.

Overall I think it’s been totally worth it. All I’d say is be patient, it’s taken me 8 months to get these results (some may not say it’s much but I’m very happy). I’m going to keep going for another year and probably ditch the meds as soon as I can. The foam might stay a bit longer just to taper more slowly.

Feel free to ask questions. I’m 35

I always had a feeling we were being screwed every tournament (Saka choke slam, hand of “god”, the penalty for Ghana etc).

Do you think FIFA has actively being targeting England (the guys that keep winning the best sportsmanship awards)

Edit: I’m not suggesting this is the case, I’m just opening a dialogue. Like others have mentioned I think it’s probably just the “Eurovision effect” where other nations don’t really like us but aren’t overtly trying to sabotage us. That said, another person here made the point that African teams get treated the worst, which I agree with. And I do think Messi/Argentina gets special treatment, it’s pretty obvious imo.

I do not think France for example gets special treatment