• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

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Just an app that allows you to browse forums from your phone without using the browser. But with a horrible UI.
Ah okay. I went to their website and it talked about using forums with but I wasn't sure what made it special when all these smartphones have a browser anyway.

I'm not up or into this big mobile app/smartphone craze. Seems to be a huge thing, but man are those plans expensive. For being a technology geek, I still have a regular phone that I hate texting with and only use for calls. Even that is like $35/mo and there's no way at this point I want to have an $80 phone bill.
 
I use Tapatalk on a couple of forums and it works well. Very cool that it is here now....

Sent from my Gingerbread Incredible.....
 
Advantage of Tapatalk for some is that it loads really fast and goes to the last unread reply in a viewed thread. It's formatted for phone viewing so I don't have to scroll in and out. The best part for me is I can use dark theme which will display the background in black and the text in white. My phone has S-AMOLED screen so it uses zero power to display the black. Color white is the enemy of AMOLED as it uses the most power so anytime I can avoid displaying it, the better for my phone battery life.
 
for whatever reason it isn't showing all of the thread responses on blackberry.

posting from my blackberry using tapatalk
 
ahhhh, ignore my last message, just noticed the page dropdown at the top of the screen.
 
This took some time to get HQ on board with, mostly for reasons Evadman had outlined half a year ago:

But, thanks to a requesting user furnishing us with the names of some vB forums our size (this was key) that had successfully implemented it, we were able to get our code guy, John Campion on board, and then we finally got Anand to sign off on it.

All hail John and Anand!

Enjoy. 😀

seriously...thanks guys
 
I can't speak for iPhone but this app is awful on android. I'll use it though, only because it's slightly less awful than atforums.mobi. But seriously the developer needs some UI training because this is just terrible.

Sent from my HTC Magic using Tapatalk

Most people love it including myself. You haven't exactly mentioned why either...

Sent from my Samsung Epic using Tapatalk
 
Interesting.... it marks all threads you have replied to as favorites. Never noticed that on other forums, but that may have just been me not paying attention. Makes it super easy to see when someone replies.

Sent from my Samsung Epic using Tapatalk
 
Actually my browser loads the forums 3x faster. Tapatalk was slow and difficult to use for me.

Weird, both ways are fast for me. However, the fact Tapatalk goes to last read post makes it easier and faster for me. The fact it allows replies and shows images helps too.

Sent from my Samsung Epic using Tapatalk
 
Awesome!!! Thanks so much. I can now actually visit the forums on my phone. More ad revenue for you 🙂
 
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