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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7789578" data-attributes="member: 12731">Things different since the forum upgrade:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">That is, we're talking about EN World's switch from vBulletin forum software to xenForo software. Tapatalk apps are compatible with both vBulletin and xenForo.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">At least in their standard configurations! The En World installation of vBulletin used have been continuously modified and hacked and tweaked and improved over the years, meaning certain aspects of core functionality (as supported by the app) had stopped working, leading to most or all of the below issues. All of which is now resolved thanks to the site using a standard installation. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">spoiler tags now work the same no matter how you access the site. The tag to use is SPOILER. (Previously that tag didn't work on the desktop site, meaning most people only used the tag that did work, SBLOCK, meaning us appusers were spoiled all the time)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Messages and notifications work again. Before the upgrade I could see messages, but could not dismiss them. They stayed in the app forever. Not any more! Notifications did not work in the app - I had to log on to the desktop site to see my mentions, xp, laughs and quotes. Not any more!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the site used extra-strength privacy controls, specifically making a thread started by someone you had blocked/on ignore inaccessible to you. Likewise, if someone blocked/ignored you, whole threads became inaccessible to you (and not just their posts in those threads). The app did not recognize any of that: you could read every post and every thread, no matter who ignored whom. While this meant you could at least read all the threads, it also made it easy (too easy) to accidentally respond to people that have you on ignore. In fact, you didn't even know they had blocked you, since nothing was different in the app. (I am not criticizing forum policy here, I'm just stating the facts of how the app used to work. I have nothing against implementing two-way block privacy, I just wish and trust the site team writes policy that takes app users into account)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Front-page news are now readable in the app. Previously I got an error message with a "this post can't be rendered, visit the site" or some such phrasing. At least I believe this is the case. (I don't get that error message any more). I'm guessing this was yet another customization of the old site (an article add-on thingy?) the app couldn't handle.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">While browser users get a small menu of different likes app users get only the default "thumbs up" like. Previously the site supported "xp" and "laugh with", which the app translated as likes and hearts. (Now the app displays only likes, no hearts)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">However, both sets of reactions were tracked separately. Meaning a like given in the app only showed for app users. An xp given in the browser only showed for browser users. Again, this is fixed now - the desktop site now uses standard functionality that the app can handle.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">And of course, another extension that prevented you from giving out xp more often than every 300(?) seconds worked only in the browser. App users could give out as many likes as they wanted. (They didn't display for browser users anyway)</li> </ul></blockquote>

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