Register NICO on Tapatalk for Android?

[czonin]

Tapatalk is a forum client for android phones. Was wondering if we could get the forums registered for it?

[RobPaulson]

o.0

[poems2beats]

Yeah, that would be great!

[Encryptshun]

So how would this improve my access experience versus using my phone's browser? (Honest question)

[RobPaulson]

So how would this improve my access experience versus using my phone's browser? (Honest question)

i honestly dont use it but have heard about it... not too sure how it even works... might be worth some look'n into i s'pose

[czonin]

I've been using it for awhile with other forums and it works great. It makes it a lot easier than having to load the whole webpage.

[poems2beats]

So how would this improve my access experience versus using my phone's browser? (Honest question)

It's like the facebook app vs. the facebook website. Or like a mobile version of a website. Taptalk has less crap so its easier and faster to view threads.... I'm not a techie so sorry if my explanation isn't all that great...

[czonin]

Yah that's right. Just check how to register us and we need the forum owner to do it so hopefully it can get done soon.

[poems2beats]

Greg, get Nico on taptalk please. That widget would be on my home screen!

[czonin]

Any update on getting us registered?

[ADDirishboy]

Huh. Never heard of it.

[poems2beats]

It's available on the android market and itunes store. I paid a couple of bucks for it thinking Nico was on it.....

[PoorManQ45]

Can a mod get greg's attention please.

[krash]

I'll let him know.

[PoorManQ45]

Here is some basic information greg:

http://tapatalk.com/plugin.php

[AZhitman]

...and therein lies the danger of believing everything you read. Just because something new comes out doesn't mean it's a good idea, well-designed, or functional across the board. Here's why:

Android and iPhone users comprise 5% of our visits right now. And the forums load nicely (and fast) on both.

I'm not really convinced that it's all that secure or safe...or streamlined to not blow up. Remember, we have a lot of add-ons and tweaks to the generic phpBB setup, and some don't "play nice" with others.

Whenever we consider something like this, the decision comes down to the fact that an app like that is built for a typical forum...ours is not a typical forum. Size-wise, we're in the upper 10%, and like I said before, we're running a lot of upgrades and modifications. According to the other forum owners on BigBoards.com, it's slow and clunky when activated on a large forum, and the features are too limited to be of any use to most people.

If their way of running queries isn't very well streamlined, we'll blow the whole site up by running it. Not something I'm willing to chance, just to please 2.5% (or less) of our visitors.

Hell...even android forums deactivated it - http://androidforums.com/support-troubl ... vated.html - If it was so wonderful, you'd think they'd keep it.

From what I'm reading on my other forums for forum owners, seems like the consensus is that most aren't all that fond of it... There are also lots of potential (and very real) security issues. See, they use a 3rd party for authentication, which means if I or a moderator decides to use it and that 3rd party isn't 100% secure, we've compromised the whole place. 10 years of work down the tubes.

Again, we have to look at potential costs vs. benefits, and the benefits don't really stack up.

It also doesn't support Analytics, which is a big issue for me.

[PoorManQ45]

*snip snip snip* Not secure enough

I completely understand. It was worth a shot. Nico loads just fine on Android anyways.

Thanks for responding boss man!

[Kompresshun]

I looked at it myself and aside from the potential issues mentioned, I really didn't see the point. Nico along with many other forums loads just fine on opera mini and navigates almost as well as it would on my laptop. Yeah its a cool idea I'm sure but I visit Nico at least 6-10 times a day via my phone and have no complaints.

[PoorManQ45]

I looked at it myself and aside from the potential issues mentioned, I really didn't see the point. Nico along with many other forums loads just fine on opera mini and navigates almost as well as it would on my laptop. Yeah its a cool idea I'm sure but I visit Nico at least 6-10 times a day via my phone and have no complaints.

I agree. It's just one of those things that can speed things up for some people.

I use Opera Mini also. With Images set to low quality the compression on their side makes everything fly!

[krash]

The only upside I saw was ease of navigation, but like Greg said, seems like its too unsecure and too much of a hassle.

[Kompresshun]

I agree. It's just one of those things that can speed things up for some people.

I use Opera Mini also. With Images set to low quality the compression on their side makes everything fly!

I don't even set mine to low image quality and it's amazingly fast. Since I switched to Android, I hardly ever even pull out the laptop anymore unless it's for work

[PoorManQ45]

I'll pull out the laptop if I want faster speeds.

It's weird, when speed testing my phone I'll get maybe 600Kbps, but when tethered on the laptop I will get >2Mbps in the same place. I guess these little devices can't handle the bandwidth yet.

[dre1507]

i've always been a big fan of opera mini. awesome fast browser. i'm too used to the multi-touch to use opera mini though. i like the default browser just fine. not a fan of how crappy dolphin is on 1.5 and with the way things are going, it doesn't seem my phone (cliqXT) will be getting 2.1 ever. oh well, the phone was free so that's all that matters.

[PoorManQ45]

Check out the modmymoto forums. They pretty much have 2.1 up and running. There was a leak from motorola a couple months ago that they're building off of.


Also, if you tether you should try Opera Turbo. It's the computer version of Opera Mini. Works wonders on a high latency connection.

[Alfador]

A while ago I mentioned it when Nico rolled over to the new design. Greg said make a thread on it, and I, as I characteristically do, got instantly lazy. Since then I've decided I'm not a huge fan of the idea anyway. I use tapatalk and love it for most of the forums I view, but most of them are smaller ones I don't visit as often.

[AZhitman]

In this day and age, something seemingly innocuous can easily be a well-engineered malicious exploit.

Sounds like some conspiracy nonsense, but it's happened before. The cool thing is that people have realistic expectations and understand what these apps can and cannot do.

With that said, maybe I'll switch browsers on my HTC Incredible... Which one should I use?

[Poyzinous]

I just use the web browser on my andriod phone and it looks exactly like nico on my computer. Just mini though. I have no problem with it. I might be writing this post from my phone now actually. I can even insert pics straight from my album, since its all google featured out. I might even order a pizza.

[GrilledCheese33]

Nico honestly loads really well on my blackberry's browser... Just sayin'

[Dittoz7]

Does everyone viewing nico from a phone see the view with that Grey user box taking up half the screen?

[Crazyirish]

Looks just like it does on chrome on my desktop.