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[Ketjak]

Tapatalk is stealing your attention

Some screenshots of me using it to read EN World.

1. Tapatalk does not display your ads, or your community supporter links, or anything else that actually makes the site money. If a user only uses Tapatalk he will never again see one of your ads, nor will he be able to subscribe to a thread or use any of the thread tools of the forum.

Tapatalk controls your users at that point, and can serve the ads they want. I viewed the site on an iPhone via Safari and never, ever had a problem viewing it.

2. The pop-ups are incredibly annoying. I installed Tapatalk to stop the frigging pop-ups. I think it worked.

3. Tapatalk always wants to show me the last page of a thread, even one I have viewed or have partially viewed. This is not your problem, Morrus, but it does become yours because I will stop participating in/reading threads I cannot entirely read in one sitting.

Tapatalk compatibility is the worst thing to happen to this site, ever, in part because it erodes your business. Even worse than the stupid stone-like buttons above the threads themselves.

- Ket

 

[Morrus]

2. The pop-ups are incredibly annoying. I installed Tapatalk to stop the frigging pop-ups. I think it worked.

We have no pop-ups.

 

[Plane Sailing]

We have no pop-ups.

Uh, yes we do - it is the pop up message that says "Do you want to install tapatalk?". In the context of Ketjak's other complaints/issues that is probably what he is thinking of.

Are you going to comment on the other issues - particularly losing advertising revenue\advertising control?

Personally I tried both tapatalk and forumrunner and quickly ditched them and went back to iPhone safari, which gives me the whole site just as quickly and with less annoyance (e.g. on where to get to in a thread, using thread tools etc). Now, if we could only get a working black-on-white theme going again

 

[darjr]

Of the two I like forumrunner. First it takes you to the last read post, which is kinda a deal killer for me in tapatalk.

 

[Morrus]

Are you going to comment on the other issues - particularly losing advertising revenueadvertising control?

Nope; I don't discuss ad revenue publically. Suffice it to say that I'm fine with the situation. I can fill you in a little more with some figures in the Admin forum if you're interested.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Nope; I don't discuss ad revenue publically. Suffice it to say that I'm fine with the situation. I can fill you in a little more with some figures in the Admin forum if you're interested.

Oh, I wasn't thinking of detailed revelations here just something along the lines of what you just said - one would presume that the number of visitors using a forum browser of that kind would be a teeny tiny fraction of the total visitors anyway!

 

[Plane Sailing]

By the way - something really weird happened just now. On the iPhone Safari, when I clicked from the main forum listing into meta, I had a page formatted more for the iPhone and with a mac.com URL in the address bar! I've not been able to duplicate the situation, and I didn't take a screengrab when I had the chance.

Anyone else seen anything like that?

 

[stonegod]

Likely pressed one of the RSS feeds (there are a few); that forwards to the Mac Reader interface on the iDevices.

 

[vic20]

"forum runner" pop-up

I read this post earlier on my laptop, and just fired up safari on iPhone. As soon as I hit enworld, a popup for "ForumRunner" appeared. I assumed it must be the software that Morrus was talking about. I installed it ($1.99?), started it, and sure enough,there was an enworld link in "popular forums". Clicking in this generated an error. If the text were selectable,I'd post it here, but it's not so I won't.

I realize now I downloaded the wrong software, but please be aware that iPhone users that land on your main page are getting a popup to an app with "problems".

I'll likely install the correct app later, but the day is too sunny too avoid any longer...

 

[Pseudonym]

I installed Tapatalk on my Blackberry Curve 8900, understanding that it is a beta release, but I couldn't get it to work. It generated a series of error messages and never connected.

I read EN World on my BB using Opera and have no issues, FWIW.

Are any other BB users having issues with this?