Tapatalk
 

Hi
Would it be possible to make the forum tapatalk native? If the tapatalk plug in is installed the forum can be entered through the tapatalk app for the Apple Iphone. It is also avaliable for android phones.

Www.tapatalk.com

Best regards
Joel

We'll definately look into it as we must move with the times, thanks for pointing it out to us.

Great! I've tried the app on a couple of other forums and it works fine and makes it easier to read the posts on the small phone screen.

I've never administrated a forum but it arena easy to integrate. From what I could see it's free to download the script and then the user pay an app fee.

Do they provide a time limited demo for the app? The reason I ask is that I often access this and other forums via the iPhone (posting this from one now infact) and I have never thought "oh I wish this was more iPhone friendly". Kind of curious to see what difference it makes, but I couldn't imagine buying an app to solve a problem I never realised existed.

It does when one of the company directors has the nerve to ask me what I've spent all day doing too :)

You are totaly right, of course. There has probably not been one situation when I've REALLY needed to visit a forum from my phone. But for pleassure I tend to do so more and more often.

Using a touch screen to navigate a forum is pretty troublesome as they have a lot of links that you press when trying to scroll.

So, yes it is fair to say it is unnecessary but as these phones are going to be more and more common I can't see the point in NOT optimizing the forum for more ways of access.

Don't misunderstand me, by all means as long as it doesn't cost the Captain anything then I'm all for improving access, my question about the availability of a free trial is purely for me. Just wondered if I'm missing out on anything.

We are looking into it and this will be one of David's (motonacio) to do, but must adhere to a priority list and at the moment is not very urgent as is the forum software upgrade and the implementation of a new anti-spam system that will avoid the 8-10 registration attempts per day of the B.O.A.'s which I am one by one stopping, banning and then deleting once their IP and email addresses are logged into our banned folders. Those are a pain in my RS. :022:

Just a request to look into Capt, I guess there is a lot to do just keeping this place running...

There is a "Tapatalk read only" app Stevie, that would give you a chance to try the features, all but posting that is...
/Joel

A quick look on their site

Q: Which forum system does it currently support?
A: Currently phpBB3 3.0.x, vBulletin 3.7.x/3.8.x/4.0.x, Invision Power Board (IPB) 3.0.x and Simple Machine Forum (SMF) 1.1.x/2.0.x are supported.

We are still on vBulletin 3.6.8 so it will not be possible until the forum has been updated.