Rod. Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I greatly dislike the fact that I have to keep updating my forum with the latest tapatalk code. I would much rather my members use the IPB app, however tapatalk unfortunately does a better job -- what I'm being told by my members. Are there any plans to create a better IPB app that is more comparable to tapatalk? If so, once it's available I'll gladly remove all tapatalk code. Until then, I'm stuck with them. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoo2000 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Did you have a particular platform in mind ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiwa Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Personally, I hate tapatalk... There are some tweaks I'd like seen done to the IPB iPhone app, but i like it over tapatalk... Tapatalk has horrid support and has FUBAR'd my forums more than once... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfa1 Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 One of the things I am looking forward to if I migrate my big board to IPS, is to dump tapatalk. I had nothing than trouble with it. Their functionality is very good though. I hope that IPS apps will have similar functionality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod. Posted October 13, 2012 Author Share Posted October 13, 2012 Did you have a particular platform in mind ? iOS & Android of course. I'd rather my members support IPB over tapatalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenLinks Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Tapatalk and Forum runner are problematic scripts. Especially after IB gathering Forum Runner , forum runner is loosing their touch. However IPB needs to offer branded version of their app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob van Leeuwen Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 IPS shut develop a Andriod app, not only iOs, but also for other platforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Tapatalk and Forum runner are problematic scripts. Especially after IB gathering Forum Runner , forum runner is loosing their touch. However IPB needs to offer branded version of their app. This is what I said. I disabled support for the app entirely on my board and was actually rather irritated when I found out it was automatically trying to sell my members their paid app without my knowing or consent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexsplosions Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Do you know you can use Tapatalk without any file edits or hooks? Just upload the 'mobiquo' to your forum root and then register it on Tapatalk. There is no reason Tapatalk should ever bugger up your forums. My forum, in my signature, uses Tapatalk in exactly this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiwa Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Use the tapatalk iPad 'timeline'. It FUBAR'd the topic marking table for ALL of my users. You may not have hit a glitch with it yet, but odds are you will. And when you do, tapatalk support won't care and won't help. They'll leave you with the mess to clean up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexsplosions Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 I have used Tapatalk for years on 3 different forums. Never once have I had an issue with it, and I've used it from a variety of media - iPad, iPhone and Android. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Your mileage may vary I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 how can the mobile app mess up the board? used it on smf, phpbb, IPB w/o issues, but confused as to how that could even happen. does it happen when ipad user (like admin or mod) edits something? what action drives the error? I want to make sure I avoid it if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiwa Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 The app does have to interact with topic marking. How else could it mark a topic read or know what is unread? I used the iPad 'timeline' mode. All of my users reported topic marking issues after using timeline when logged in with an admin account. They marked the board read, I went back into timeline and their marking was FUBAR again. Said they had dozens of unread posts when they marked the board read moments before. I haven't used timeline again and no further issues have been reported. Tapatalk support was less than helpful and I didn't want to deal with it anymore, so just got rid of it and didn't worry about any logs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 have a few that use that with no issues, but none admin. way it read I thought you meant board was unusable but I see what you are talking about now. I'll keep eye out for it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 you know what, this may explain some intermittent oddities I have seen. I don't have ipad so never made the connection. getting info now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexsplosions Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Your mileage may vary I guess. I had a very busy board before it died (it had a finite life) so I can assure you, there's enough mileage for an informed comment. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiwa Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 I had a very busy board before it died (it had a finite life) so I can assure you, there's enough mileage for an informed comment. To each his own. I can assure you, though, my issues were due to Tapatalk. I'm glad you haven't had any issues with it. I hope it stays that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 of course forum runnner users on IOS 6 (friggin tired of trying to make faeces work with ios 6 ) cannot reply they have to quote until the update pushed out. supposed to be done a week ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfa1 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I have just removed Tapatalk from my big board, because it was showing spammy popups to Google Chrome users telling them to download the chrome notifier from the Google webstore. Tapatalk does not have a setting to disable this, nor have they asked permission to advertise their products/services on my website. Mind that the notifier will bring your website down if you have a lot of users. Its similar to a DoS attack because of the massive number of requests every user makes. I really hope that IPS will provide a responsive design in IPS 4 so that no mobile apps are needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiwa Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 You can inhibit some of these side effects with tapatalk by digging into the hook XML file and taking out all of their script popup junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfa1 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Thanks. That may work. Though there already are various file edits to do with every monthly update of their software. I think i will just go back to a mobile skin. There is too much hassle with tapatalk breaking frequently with new updates and paying members rightfully complaining over issues I have no control over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 You can inhibit some of these side effects with tapatalk by digging into the hook XML file and taking out all of their script popup junk. I think any app that tries to force your members to download third party software like that should never be used or trusted to begin with. I'd support your decision not to use it, Alfa1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 it only prompts if the option to use it is checked in ACP. if you enable the tapatalk notifier for chrome it need chrome extension to work, but it should be set to not prompt users. anyone make suggestion to tapatalk about this? was update 2 days ago or so, not sure if it addressed that or not. also renaming tapatalkdetect-nochrome.js worked for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfa1 Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I asked if I could disable the notifier and they told me no. I am not aware of any ACP settings in the tapatalk ACP. Tapatalk by default notifes all chrome users and all mobile and tablet users to buy their apps. Even if you only allow specific usergroups to use tapatalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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