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[LAnt]

Is anyone else having problems with tapatalk, the mobile forum app? It says I can't connect to the forum. I'm using my android phone.
Thanks and merry christmas.

Edited by LAnt, December 24 2014 - 9:07 PM.

[Gregory2455]

Same here- but the forum has a mobile version, but you need to use the browser thingy.

[dspdrew]

Yeah. Don't use Tapatalk; it's junk. The forum has its own mobile version that is much better.

[Mathiacus]

Yeah. It stopped working a few days ago. Tapatalk was the only way i could upload images 😯 it also had a wicked timeline feature so you could see any and all new posts in chronological order, all in one place.
The mobile version of this site is ok. I use it for chat on the go (made more difficult by the chat clearing on entry. Now you can't multitask on your phone and jump in and out without missing anything). It has no functionality for uploading pictures.

I had it sweet for a while, my phone is my main ant camera and i could upload all in one go. Now i have to put the pics from my phone onto my pc.. then onto imgur.. then into a post which i don't know how to do.. then drew will have to edit my post to make the pictures appear. Yep, tapatalk is junk.

[dspdrew]

The reviews speek for themselves (https://play.google.....activity&hl=en). It has a four star rating because it apparently used to be a good app, but if you actually scroll through the most recent reviews, you'll see there's hardly anything over two stars, with the vast majority being one star reviews. Unfortunately I don't have any control over Tapatalk either way. I hate phones and I don't do much with them except answer phone calls, so I will have to take some time and look into this problem in more detail. Good point about the chat, I never thought about that--probably because of my disdain for phones. The main problem with the chat is that it is missing all sorts of obviously needed features, and Invision Power (who develops it and hosts it) simply doesn't care. We are looking into some other chat integration, but some of the prices are insane.

[LAnt]

Ill survive without it

[Trailandstreet]

Is there a version for iPhone available too? Google play is only for android systems.

[dspdrew]

I don't know, I would have to check. I hardly do anything with cell phones, and I never use Apple products.

[AntTeen804]

I troed tapatalk it has the slowest loading time.

[dspdrew]

The stock mobile version this forum has is actually pretty nice. Tapatalk is terrible now days; just check the reviews.

[drtrmiller]

 

The stock mobile version this forum has is actually pretty nice. Tapatalk is terrible now days; just check the reviews.

 

Members have expressed a desire to reactivate Tapatalk, or otherwise improve the site functionality for mobile devices.

 

Was there a reason for disabling member access to it?  

 

The Android app has over 5 million users and a 4.1 star rating, without about 80% of reviews being 4 or 5 stars—comparable to the byFormica Formula Ant Diet reviews on Amazon.com.  Are you saying that Formula is as "terrible" as Tapatalk, or that Tapatalk is as good as Formula—because I'm proud of the Formula reviews?

 

https://tapatalk.com....php?plugin=ipb

Edited by drtrmiller, May 15 2015 - 6:11 PM.

[Ants4fun]

He is saying that it used to be good, however now it is trash.

[Mathiacus]

May i have it back? Please.

[dspdrew]

 

 

The stock mobile version this forum has is actually pretty nice. Tapatalk is terrible now days; just check the reviews.

 

Members have expressed a desire to reactivate Tapatalk, or otherwise improve the site functionality for mobile devices.

 

Was there a reason for disabling member access to it?  

 

The Android app has over 5 million users and a 4.1 star rating, without about 80% of reviews being 4 or 5 stars—comparable to the byFormica Formula Ant Diet reviews on Amazon.com.  Are you saying that Formula is as "terrible" as Tapatalk, or that Tapatalk is as good as Formula—because I'm proud of the Formula reviews?

 

https://tapatalk.com....php?plugin=ipb

 

 

Ratings alone don't tell you everything you need to know about a product. If you shop on Amazon a lot, you will learn this. When a product has been around a very long time and has accumulated a lot of ratings, you need to check the latest reviews, especially on something like an application that is constantly changing. Yes it has a 4.1 star rating, because in the beginning it was VERY popular and had very good reviews for a long time. When the application stopped working correctly after another one of their awesome updates, I checked the reviews to find out what happened, and almost every review for the last few months was 2 stars or less. I just checked them again now, and it looks like they are averaging about 4.1 again now. It's a lot of very high and some very low reviews, so I'm not really sure what to make of that; I'm not gonna sit and read through them all. Either way, since it looks like it has improved, I'll see if I can get it fixed.

 

 

May i have it back? Please.

 

I never took it away, it just stopped working, and at the time I saw no reason to try to fix it.

[Mathiacus]

Ah. Thankyou.

[PTAntFan]

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I never took it away, it just stopped working, and at the time I saw no reason to try to fix it.[/quote]

Hey Drew, resurrecting this thread. Had an exchange with Tapatalk the other day. They’re willing to help, can I take on getting it working again? Don’t want to create work for you but understand wanting to be careful with permissions.