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Jay · Dec 29, 2014

That new software upgrade... talk about hideous.

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

Dave · Dec 29, 2014

I'm sorry.

Shakey · Dec 29, 2014

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.

GasBandit · Dec 29, 2014

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.

PatrThom · Dec 29, 2014

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

GasBandit · Dec 30, 2014

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

It's really more of a smartphone/tablet thing

PatrThom · Dec 30, 2014

GasBandit said:
It's really more of a smartphone/tablet thing

Yes, exactly.
(I'm on a tablet for 7-8hrs/day)

--Patrick

Ravenpoe · Dec 30, 2014

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

Jay · Dec 30, 2014

It's pretty useless now

Dave · Dec 30, 2014

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

Shakey · Dec 30, 2014

Dave said:
Is there a way to roll back to an earlier version?

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.

Shakey · Dec 30, 2014

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

DarkAudit · Dec 30, 2014

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

Almost all one star reviews on iTunes. What the hell are the people at Quoord doing?

GasBandit · Dec 30, 2014

DarkAudit said:
Almost all one star reviews on iTunes. What the hell are the people at Quoord doing?

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.

Bowielee · Dec 30, 2014

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

GasBandit · Dec 30, 2014

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.

I thought Xenmobile was a citrix client... do you have a link to that?

Shakey · Dec 30, 2014

GasBandit said:
I thought Xenmobile was a citrix client... do you have a link to that?

It's one of the forum styles.

GasBandit · Dec 30, 2014

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

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.

Shakey · Dec 30, 2014

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

GasBandit · Dec 30, 2014

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?

Without the above changes, it still detects your browser's resolution as 360x640.

PatrThom · Dec 30, 2014

Dave said:
Is there a way to roll back to an earlier version?

Only if you kept the older version on your computer or something.

--Patrick

klew · Dec 31, 2014

Dave said:
Is there a way to roll back to an earlier version?

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.

grub · Dec 31, 2014

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

DarkAudit · Dec 31, 2014

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

GasBandit · Dec 31, 2014

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

Because water cake moose dimple weather channel little debbie irrumatio.

Ravenpoe · Dec 31, 2014

GasBandit said:
Because water cake moose dimple weather channel little debbie irrumatio.

Ok, someone has left Gas running too long, we'll need to reset him.

GasBandit · Dec 31, 2014

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

jwhouk · Dec 31, 2014

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.

Jay · Jan 3, 2015

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 .

Dave · Jan 3, 2015

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 .

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

Dave · Jan 3, 2015

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

PatrThom · Jan 3, 2015

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

Dave · Jan 3, 2015

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.

jwhouk · Jan 3, 2015

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

Jay · Jan 3, 2015

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....