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2012-11-05, 03:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2012
Tapatalk, RSS, or anything else mobile friendly for the forums
I was about to post a new thread requesting that RSS feeds be enabled (at least they don't work for me, comes up blank), but I saw this recently locked thread on Tapatalk. I would have liked to add to that thread instead, but it was closed.
Looking back, I read the mentioned year old thread HERE,asking about a mobile platform. The main thing I took from that thread was this:
And this:
To The Giants post, with his talking about a “Content Management System” It seems he was addressing the original request for a mobile site (the main site). I don’t think he was really addressing mobile access to the forums. The main site isn’t that much of a concern. It loads fine on any modern smart phone. It’s the forums that are a disaster.
For Rawhide’s later reply about Tapatalk on the forums, I have to ask; considering that I see the following error every single day, wouldn’t a mobile option help alleviate some of the load?Originally Posted by Forum
To the element of cost to the users... shouldn’t that be our concern not yours? Many of us already have the app. Even if we don't and didn’t want to purchase it, we could still use the free version to read and receive update notifications.
From the recently locked thread I first mentioned, Rawhide ended the discussion with this:
I would have to say that the main page is mobile friendly with current smartphones. We don't need a mobile friendly version of the comic pages. It’s the forum that desperately need help. I constantly lose posts I’m working on as I resize the screen (often involuntarily) and accidently hit a random link on the page. I would really like to see Tapatalk enable, or at least RSS support working. Any kind of mobile friendly forum tool would be appreciated. I don’t think you guys really know\appreciate how many people want this and how much it could help with server load. Looking at the Tapatalk page, it's free to GitP and easy to setup. If for some reason it didn't work with the site's customization to the vBulletin code, you could at least say "We tried and it didn't work, sorry".
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2012-11-05, 06:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2005
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Re: Tapatalk, RSS, or anything else mobile friendly for the forums
Sheriff: Please don't restart locked threads. Please do review the Forum Rules.
Also, we're well aware of the current issues with accessing the forum. Rawhide, in particular, is extremely well-informed on our problems, technical options, resource limitations, and policy preferences regarding resource allocation.
As usual, we are not seeking public input on our technical options at this time.
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2012-11-05, 08:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2005
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Re: Tapatalk, RSS, or anything else mobile friendly for the forums
To reiterate, and I will use red text here to make this absolutely clear, we are definitely not going to introduce Tapatalk or anything similar. It has been considered and decided against. And, as Roland said, we are not soliciting advice, especially when a thread has just been locked about it.
And, as I said in the previous thread, a mobile friendly version of the forum is indeed planned, making this thread entirely redundant.
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