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#1

Jay

Jay

That new software upgrade... talk about hideous.

Can't even browse anymore, it's such a terrible design.


#2

Dave

Dave

I'm sorry.


#3

Shakey

Shakey

The ads in tapatalk that appear after a couple seconds right where the button for going to the next page was is driving me bonkers.


#4

GasBandit

GasBandit

I don't like the new tapatalk UI either. Even convo wasn't as bad as this. It's a shame, too, because tapatalk used to be pretty passable.


#5

PatrThom

PatrThom

Continuing my streak of not using Tapatalk.

...mainly because I don't have admin rights to install it on any work machine, which is really the only non-desktop situation where I browse the forums. Browser-based for me!

--Patrick


#6

GasBandit

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
Continuing my streak of not using Tapatalk.

...mainly because I don't have admin rights to install it on any work machine, which is really the only non-desktop situation where I browse the forums. Browser-based for me!

--Patrick
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It's really more of a smartphone/tablet thing


#7

PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
It's really more of a smartphone/tablet thing
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Yes, exactly.
(I'm on a tablet for 7-8hrs/day)

--Patrick


#8

Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

I'm glad I've just never updated Tapatalk.


#9

Jay

Jay

It's pretty useless now


#10

Dave

Dave

Is there a way to roll back to an earlier version?


#11

Shakey

Shakey

Dave said:
Is there a way to roll back to an earlier version?
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Xenmobile is actually pretty decent, so I'll probably switch to that anyway. In tapatalk the new twitter/amazon/whatever tags never worked, and didn't even give you a link to follow. Plus half the time gifs didn't load right, and that's just unacceptable.


#12

Shakey

Shakey

All of the tapatalk reviews on Google play are 1 or 2 stars since the update.


#13

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Shakey said:
All of the tapatalk reviews on Google play are 1 or 2 stars since the update.
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Almost all one star reviews on iTunes. What the hell are the people at Quoord doing?


#14

GasBandit

GasBandit

DarkAudit said:
Almost all one star reviews on iTunes. What the hell are the people at Quoord doing?
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They're trying to divorce content from its location . It doesn't want you to use it to browse a specific forum or other content provider, it wants to amalgamate all your content into one service that becomes your "Google Reader of forums." I don't like it.


#15

Bowielee

Bowielee

I've always hated tapatalk and I'm sick of it asking me to use it on my mobile browsers.


#16

GasBandit

GasBandit

Shakey said:
Xenmobile is actually pretty decent, so I'll probably switch to that anyway. In tapatalk the new twitter/amazon/whatever tags never worked, and didn't even give you a link to follow. Plus half the time gifs didn't load right, and that's just unacceptable.
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I thought Xenmobile was a citrix client... do you have a link to that?


#17

Shakey

Shakey

GasBandit said:
I thought Xenmobile was a citrix client... do you have a link to that?
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It's one of the forum styles. :p


#18

GasBandit

GasBandit

Shakey said:
It's one of the forum styles. :p
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Ah.

I'm irritated that my phone has a quad HD screen (1440x2392) but chrome and firefox both refuse to act as if I have anything other than 360x640.


#19

Shakey

Shakey

Can't you force it to display as a desktop?


#20

GasBandit

GasBandit

HA HA! I fixed it. Google Fu is strong today.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/981038

Basically, goes like this.

Get Firefox for android.

open about:config

search for CSS

find layout.css.devPixelsPerPx

It should be something like -1.0

change it to 1.0 (get rid of the minus)

Bang, viewing webpages (like halforums) at full device resolution. Now there's a lot of zooming to do on a 6 inch screen, true, but I find this WAY less irritating.[DOUBLEPOST=1419968305,1419968261][/DOUBLEPOST]
Shakey said:
Can't you force it to display as a desktop?
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Without the above changes, it still detects your browser's resolution as 360x640.


#21

PatrThom

PatrThom

Dave said:
Is there a way to roll back to an earlier version?
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Only if you kept the older version on your computer or something.

--Patrick


#22

klew

klew

Dave said:
Is there a way to roll back to an earlier version?
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If you're talking android app, you can search for the apk of the version you want, someone out there will have it for download.


#23

grub

grub

It won't update anymore on my iPod touch4g. So at least I can use the old app on it.


#24

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Why is Tapatalk's feed replacing images in replies with random unrelated images?


#25

GasBandit

GasBandit

DarkAudit said:
Why is Tapatalk's feed replacing images in replies with random unrelated images?
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Because water cake moose dimple weather channel little debbie irrumatio.


#26

Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

GasBandit said:
Because water cake moose dimple weather channel little debbie irrumatio.
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Ok, someone has left Gas running too long, we'll need to reset him.


#27

GasBandit

GasBandit

Ravenpoe said:
Ok, someone has left Gas running too long, we'll need to reset him.
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#28

jwhouk

jwhouk

I had problems with Tapatalk when they went from a pay app to a free app. Right now, the update is kinda meh. I've had issues with GIFs and pics on here when viewing them on my iPad, but I always knew I'd be able to go on a "real" computer and see what the stuff was about.


#29

Jay

Jay

Ok what other apps are there to replace this shit on iOS ?

Just got a warning from frank he replied to me but clicking it gives me a you don't have permission to view this forum .


#30

Dave

Dave

Jay said:
Ok what other apps are there to replace this shit on iOS ?

Just got a warning from frank he replied to me but clicking it gives me a you don't have permission to view this forum .
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Can you use the mobile style? I'll test it out on mine now. I can't do much else because I'm in Colorado and have limited service.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk


#31

Dave

Dave

I'm using XenMobile right now and it's pretty great.


#32

PatrThom

PatrThom

Safari works pretty well. It's what I always use on iOS.
It used to be a lot more difficult, but now you can do rich text editing in-browser on iOS, no more having to manually enter BBCode.

--Patrick


#33

Dave

Dave

If you use Safari there's a way to save any site as an app. You could do that for here and be fine.

Yeah, there's a lot of TapaTalk hate going around right now.


#34

jwhouk

jwhouk

It wouldn't be so bad if there were some level of customization available in the app.


#35

Jay

Jay

There's fuck all. You can't even access half of the unread and no quick way to swipe it as read.

Who's the fucking monkey who came up with this shit?

There has to be another app....


#36

Shakey

Shakey

Does forum runner work with the forums? The mobile theme works fine for me, but I can see why an app would be better.


#37

Dave

Dave

I could try and load up ForumRunner again.


#38

Dave

Dave

The latest ForumRunner has been installed. I do NOT know how it looks.


#39

Dei

Dei

When I was using it on my old phone it wasn't terrible, but a lot of links to stuff uploaded to the forum didn't work right.


#40

Shakey

Shakey

Dave said:
The latest ForumRunner has been installed. I do NOT know how it looks.
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I'm getting an error. Unknown response, Could be due to an outdated plug-in.


#41

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Another forum running xenforo has decided to just ditch tapatalk completely...
talkbass.com said:
Hello all. I'm writing with some bad news for TalkBass App users: the TalkBass app (rebranded Tapatalk) is going to be deleted from the app stores, and it will no longer work for anyone, because we are going to uninstall the Tapatalk Plugin from our forums on Dec 22nd.

I didn't take this lightly. Every day close to 2,000 TalkBass'ers log in with the app. This is going to hurt our bottom line, and create a huge customer service headache. However, the TalkBass community is our most valuable asset, and the security of your information is our TOP priority....

Ok, so.... WHY TAKE THE APP AWAY?
  1. Security. This is the big one, that my decision is mostly based on. I have good reason to fear that the data of our users may be at high risk of compromise should we continue to run Tapatalk's plugin. Taptalk's own xenforo support forum was hacked last week, with all user data, passwords, and email stolen. The security "culture" at Tapatalk is quite despicable. Security fixes are slow, silent, and misleading. Security issues are ignored, sometimes files are silently fixed and version numbers are not updated, and we forum admins are left in the dark. Lately, multiple XSS vulnerabilities have been discovered in the xenforo tapatalk plugin, and Tapatalk is silently fixing on their site while leaving the xenforo community in the dark.
  2. BUGS. Have been a constant battle. The last straw: The Tapatalk plugin for xenforo throws the software into a loop, sending out duplicate and triplicate alerts to forum watchers. So anyone posting to a highly watched forum (ie, Bass Guitar Classifieds) has to wait sometimes 20+ seconds for their thread to "go through". Result: duplicate threads posted 2x, 3x, even 14x as frustrated users mash the "submit new thread" button. This bug has gone unfixed for over a year.
  3. User Interface Inconsistency. Tapatalk is built to work with stock XenForo. All of our customizations, from Classifieds thumbnails and prices, to Supporting Memberships, to the Media Gallery, to the upcoming Reviews section and Wiki, are all unsupported by the app.
  4. XenForo is 100% responsive. Now with PushBullet push notifications to ALL or ANY of your devices. There's little need for an app whenwww.TalkBass.com automatically formats itself to your mobile device. Simply go to your user menu -> external accounts to turn on PushBullet push notifications (you just need the PushBullet free app, and a free PushBullet account)

I know this decision is going to hurt a lot of folks who love the app. And it will be a 'dealbreaker' for some I'm sure, who will quit TalkBass (please try talkbass in your mobile browser first - you may be surprised!). But I have to act in the best interest of the TalkBass community, and I have no doubt that this decision is doing just that.
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#42

PatrThom

PatrThom

My biggest beef with Tapatalk has always been how it has to jump in my face every time I drop in OH THE FORUM HAS DETECTED YOU ARE ON A MOBILE BROWSER YOU SHOULD GET TAPATALK IT'S DA BOMB DOT COM YAH HERE IS A LINK TO GET IT YOU WANT IT SO BAD DON'T YOU

--Patrick


#43

Jay

Jay

So, no other IOS APP option yet? Tapatalk is quite useless now.

Sometimes I get alerts and I click on it, opens a completely different thread.

Just wow.


#44

Dave

Dave

So would you guys like me to follow suit and ditch it? Doing so would get rid of those annoying notifications.


#45

GasBandit

GasBandit

Sounds like it might be a good idea, from a security standpoint. I've just taken to using the browser the few times I am mobile, anyway, now that I know how to change its resolution.


#46

PatrThom

PatrThom

Dave said:
So would you guys like me to follow suit and ditch it? Doing so would get rid of those annoying notifications.
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An interesting proposition. Perhaps we should run it up the flagpole.

--Patrick


#47

jwhouk

jwhouk

I think the problem is that Tapatalk has geared their app towards iPad users. I suspect it looks like crap on smaller devices.

I can do without if the majority demands it, though.


#48

Dei

Dei

I think it works mostly fine on android.


#49

Jay

Jay

There's literally no way to make threads as read anymore on it. So that filth I don't want to read? Yep, always in my face.


#50

drifter

drifter

If you're on the main page, click on the icon in the upper right hand corner (the three horizontal bars). There's a "Mark as read" option there.

Also, Tapatalk pretty much works fine for me. I've had none of the problems mentioned here.


#51

Jay

Jay

Well, that's for the entire forum... which means I have to check each shitty UI box below if I'm completely done then wipe the state clean with the filth. Dragging the to their deaths one by one was a far better option.


#52

drifter

drifter

I don't have to check any UI boxes to mark everything as read. Are you using Tapatalk on Android?


#53

jwhouk

jwhouk

The older version of Tapatalk allowed you to slide an individual thread notification and mark it as read. The new version doesn't allow you to do that; it's either all or nothing.


#54

Jay

Jay

BULLLSHIIIIIIIIIIT


#55

drifter

drifter

jwhouk said:
The older version of Tapatalk allowed you to slide an individual thread notification and mark it as read. The new version doesn't allow you to do that; it's either all or nothing.
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I totally forgot about that. Well, I guess it doesn't bother me because I just browse via Timeline and when I'm done, I either hit Mark as Read or just close Tapatalk.


#56

Jay

Jay

Let's forget about it then. Drafter isn't bothered by the changes. Everyone go home!


#57

drifter

drifter

Sounds good to me!


#58

jwhouk

jwhouk

I sent Feedback to Tapatalk through the app:

The latest update to Tapatalk has many in our forums @ halforums.com frustrated. A lot of great features (marking individual threads as read, custom views) were dumped. There also seems to be issues with forums not being marked as read once viewed.

It's also still frustrating that users on Tapatalk can't participate in polls - which is how Halforums is deciding whether or not to keep the Tapatalk access to the forums.

Please consider updating and rolling back some features.

Thanks,
Joseph Houk
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#59

jwhouk

jwhouk

And they listened.

"There has been an overwhelming response to our latest release, and we acknowledge that much of it was negative."

See screen cap for rest of statement.

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#60

Dave

Dave

That's a relief. Hope they do it right.


#61

Jay

Jay

We'll see.


#62

jwhouk

jwhouk

I like it so far.


#63

GasBandit

GasBandit

The tapatalk interface seems much improved now.


#64

jwhouk

jwhouk

Still no polls, though.


#65

GasBandit

GasBandit

At least I can selectively browse subscribed topics now which I couldn't under their previous version


#66

Shakey

Shakey

Eh, I'm too used to the mobile theme. Plus this way I actually get the full functionality of the forum.


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