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Offline sleary

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Tapatalk?
« on: December 12, 2013, 04:29:39 PM »
I just discovered Tapatalk on another forum I'm reading. It makes reading the site a LOT easier on mobile devices, and I'd love to have it for this forum as well.

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Re: Tapatalk?
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2013, 03:33:53 PM »
The extent of my knoledge of the nuts and bolts of the forum is that it is simple machines code, more specifically SMF 2.0

tapatalk appears to have a plugin developed for SMF here

http://tapatalk.com/activate_tapatalk.php?plugin=smf

OTOH, Iago is really buisy, and might not be able to get something like this running.  I'm ignant of what it would take. 

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Re: Tapatalk?
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2013, 05:00:52 PM »
I installed it on my own SMF forum awhile back, and it was easy.

There may be other implications beyond my knowing that make it impractical - like slowing down the server we're on, etc.

I haven't used it for awhile - did they go to an ad-based app?  That might pose problems, as well, if there's no control over the ad content.
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Re: Tapatalk?
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2013, 06:11:45 PM »
By the way, tapatalk has come up here in the suggestions section at least 2 other times, and in one back in 2010, the #2 admin said:

Nope, sorry.  We make a point to install as few mods as possible.

in response to:

Hi there Admins:)

Does the forum support the Tapatalk mobile application?

Kind Regards

Nicodemus
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