Be Excellent To Each Other

Really, really slowly, though. I didn't know about dragging with two fingers, but I've tried and it's much quicker, if a little more awkward.

Two-finger drag doesn't work for me.

That's because you can't count to two.

Thankyou kindly sir!
*makes token donation to server fund*

See, this is how to get shit done.

Your stuff is updated - let me know if it doesn't work.

I am giving it a go.
It's fucking hateful!

Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk

Ugh, look what it did

I hope it's a shitload better on an iPhone.

Don't tell porkies. You wrote that yourself to show off your fancypants cleverphone

Tapatalk seems to be £1.79 with no demo or lite version now. Hmmmm.

Tapatalk seems much improved over the version I tried ages ago. Spoilers obviously don't work, mind, which is a bit of an arse.

Ah excellent, that's much better!

Quotes work, quoting works..

Do pictures work I wonder?

Superb. I think I actually prefer browsing on this than on the actual forum on a PC. Now it's fixed, it's easier to reply too. Good work!

It's actually quite good now, isn't it. My only real complaint is that refreshing is a bit of a chore, being hidden in a menu.

Hmm, yes, this does appear to be much improved.

Yes! Ideally it needs a quick refresh button, or shake to refresh or something. Still less faff than using the browser though.

Pro-tip: switch on jump to last page and latest message and stuff, in the settings.

Fortunately, everything on Android has a demo version.

I can only imagine it's very different on an iPhone.

Well, I note it doesn't have that offensive signature on iPhone, at least. And it's still less than I spend on lunch on any given day.

The sig is a setting. Maybe in the demo version it defaults on

It's not a proper demo - if you uninstall something on Android within 24 hours of buying it it refunds you the money.

Did the app used to be free, then, or had I actually taken a punt some time ago? I certainly didn't have to pay for it just now.

Although:
1) it doesn't jump to last-unread, it jumps to last-post-in-thread
2) profiles don't work (not important) and neither do PMs (grrr)

Is that everyone or just me?

The Android version was making a lot of noise about the fact it had push notification of PMs, something I might keep it for.

Yeah PMs still not working.

I prefer the "jump to most recent" action, but if you clock on the "forum" view rather than "latest", it will give you last read.

The jumping isn't reliable from my brief tests now. Sometimes it gets it right, but other times will jump to the last post on the page, even if you've read it already and a new page has been started.

But then I've never had the mobile site be particularly accurate in this regard either.

Huh. Maybe it's an iPhone browser thing.
I'd be surprised, though.

Uhh, are you sure? Loading the Ashes thread, which I hadn't previously opened, it scrolled me down to the end.

It often seems to jump to the hashtag anchor before it's figured out the proper page height, then jumps around while things load, and ends up nowhere near where it's supposed to be. Then sometimes it'll do as above, but then snap back to where it should be, which is particularly annoying if you've already started reading and scrolling as the page loads.

Hmm, maybe not. Have you had a play with those settings - "scroll to latest" etc?

If you're one of them.

I one of them! When it turns up.

I bugged the tapatalk folk about PMs not working.



Cough. Sorry!

Yeah, I guess I'll do it at some point.

Try now.

Bug them about the 'go to last unread post' thingy.

Bloody hell, it works!
As do profiles.

Looking good. No preview post option, though. Or italics, etc.

You need to type the BBCode by hand.

I'd love to love Tapatalk, but I just can't get on with jumping to the last post and navigating backward each time. The settings section says this only works on some board software, and I'd imagine phpbb would be one of them, but who knows; maybe the forum plugin doesn't support it. It could, however, just be an app bug.

Aside from that, it's almost perfect, but the above is a major shortcoming.

Yeah your;e right it doesn't work properly does it. I've kind of got used to "jump to the last post and scroll back a bit if needed" though.

However it is being fixed, apparently it already works on Andoid.

Latest from the forum (1st of this month) was:



So, 'yay' I think.

Oh, good. I'll keep an eye out for it, as surely it must be near approval soon.

The jump-to-last-post-then-backtrack approach only works if you're reading the forum a lot. If you take any kind of break, or you dare to visit fast-moving threads, it very much gets in the way.

Interestingly despite the timing, that doesn't appear to be an OS 4.2 thing - it's the same on my HD7, which is a Trident rendering engine, not Webkit/Gecko.

Because this forum has more plug-ins than a Glade air freshener, you "clever"-phone people can now try Forum Runner. The forum to search for is Beex.

And now I've fixed their code, it actually works

This appears to be the best of the three apps we've tried so far. It's £1.19, there's a free demo, and it has an iPad version (as part of the same purchse). Go-to-unread seems to work.

I am using it to reply. Excitement.

Oh good. 3 days after I retire my iPhone, we have an app that works well? Cunts.

Well, I dislike it, if that helps

It seems to be quite different on Android and iPhone. And you can see "ignored" people.

This is, indeed, quite good. The free version seems to be a reader only, but a brief test (last unread post works!) and I bought it immediately.

Tapatalk was crashing too regularly, and they still haven't bothered to answer Kalmar's question on their forum. Bye bye!

/writes "£2 a month" subscription settings into the plugin code

Searching, PMs and possibly some other features don't work, mind. I get the feeling writing an app to parse forums isn't an easy task.