Be Excellent To Each Other

We now have this thing installed:


Want to give it a try?

Yes! I hate the current mobile skin.

Yes.

Ooh yes pls. Request that we keep the current mobile skin too though.

Have you checked "touchBB" as well? That came up when I searched tapatalk - it's cheaper and there's a free read-only evaluation version.

Eh? That took fucking ages and we had a load of feedback about it - why didn't you mention that then?


What, much like this one?

I'd imagine that spoilers don't work right on tatapapapapatalk, right?
Ak, there's no search

Cool, this seems to work quite well. I like it!

Quotes don't work properly, either.

It's a bit, erm, limited on the Android.

It now tells me the forum is temporarily closed.

I like it. Very much so. It's *vastly* better than using the phone browser, I'm on GPRS here and it's perfectly usable (the normal forum / phone browser is too slow to bother with)

We seem to be in the index too, scary!

My point about touchBB was just that it's 59p as opposed to 1.79. Perhaps it's a bit more basic.

If we're sticking with this one I'll buy it right now though. The missing features can only get better, right?

Er, no. Spoilers and quotes will never work, nor will other 'Beex-specific' stuff, like the smilies and shit.

We're keeping it though, because it won't effect anything else and removing it involves me doing work

I meant like search.

OK, buying now

It's meant to have a search - maybe that's in the paid version.

I didn't have an iPhone when it was launched. I've moaned plenty (politely) since!

So, where is this new version? on the beex.co.uk/m link?

Install the app. Run it. Click the "BEEX" icon!


Meh, I seem to be having trouble getting the paid version, keeps timing out...

I need to learn to read.

Posting from!

Hmm, uploading an image didn't work. That's a nice to have though, the interface is excellent anyway.

Ta grim... !

Good stuff, this. Cheers, Grim....

Announce it to the masses!

I think I like this. Testing posting.

Aw, quotes don't work. Do we do something clever with quotes?

The interface is a little odd to work out, but I think I'll get used to it. It doesn't like doing some things, like listing online users, but most stuff is fine.

It'll be interesting to see if this gets us more visitors too, being well placed on the 'New' page.

It would appear that your version doesn't let you read seven posts

But yeah, announce away. Mention that spoilers don't work though, or people will get sad.

Also, that mobile phone site was written for an iPhone. You and me are going to discuss this on Wednesday.

Heh. Yes Sir, Mr Grim...othy, Sir.

We could just move this topic into the general forum?

Fine with me.

Delete the stuff about Kissyfur, though.

Genius app idea though - a substantial proportion of forums are going to have this, and at least a handful of users on each will want to buy the app. Coinage!

But this app isn't on Nokia yet meaning I can no longer view the forum. That makes me a sad panda.

Nothing's been turned off....

I saw this the other day (Tapatalk, not this previously top secret thread), but it meant very little to me. I shall now revisit and see (although I don't mind the mobile site that much, except when it decides to log me out at random).

Strange interface, but quite nice. No landscape mode?

No. I am glad of that.

Why? It supports it for entering text, but not viewing the forum. I hate reading in portrait.

You can reply in landscape mode if you want the bigger keyboard. I don't want to personally.

Because the one thing that annoys me the most about the mobile site is that Safari is massively oversensitive to tilt, so it's switching all the time, which utterly fucks up the rendering.

I think limitations in it are probably because it was designed to be an interface for vBulletin and phpBB support is relatively new for them. It relies on having a plugin installed server side (because phpBB3 has no API, the useless bastards) and I don't think the phpBB version of that plugin has complete support for all features.

I imagine this will change over time. We should probably be filing bug reports.

I came up with this business model about six months ago, but because you need to write a forum-side plugin to expose an API I decided it was too much work. I was going to try and write a native iPhone Beex client though, and just use the web interface for stuff. I probably won't bother now.

Hmm, I don't usually use the latest posts section, so I'm going to miss the unread posts icon. Looks ok though.

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An option to lock it to your choice is hardly difficult.

Also: the mobile site only fucks the rendering if you tilt it mid-load. I agree that it's annoying, but not really a reason to omit landscape from an application.

I always type in landscape; switching back and forth is pretty annoying. That said, it has potential.

I'm pestering Grim... to also install the server side script for touchBB. Looking at the screenies, it might be slightly superior, and it allows posting from the free version of the client side app. It's iPhone only though. There's no reason we can't support all of these apps though.

Turn that sig off, for a start.

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I use it while I walk. That happens a lot.

Stop waddling then, big man.

This has "shake to reply" amusingly.

Are you sure?

Heh. Browsing while walking is a large proportion of browsing. That says nothing about how much walking there is

One letter off, twice.

I dread to think what that would do to the mobile site rendering.