The new species that fascinates me is the handheld device hybrid human.....

partially in their "real-actual" surroundings

and as much as possible in their "virtual reality"

they cannot commit fully to one world or the other and try to blend the two together

usually with poor (real-world) results

they are most commonly seen drivings cars with mashed-in front ends

I'm not gonna be of that species.

Quote from: ducpainter on November 14, 2012, 10:21:13 AM
How does a like button equate to some/better input than +1 or +11tybillion?

I'm not being argumentative, I just don't see it.

Not being a mobile user I guess I don't get the clutter part.

It's not that a like button is better input than a "+1" post, it's that it's easier and encourages people to have at least that much input, without having a thread full of "+1" posts.  I'm not a mobile user either, but especially when you have long threads, you have to scroll down through all the posts, and that's easier if there are fewer posts that have little content.

This is all small stuff, and doesn't matter much.  I just see some small advantage to the feature, and I like it on the forums that have added it.

PhilB

If they did that with this forum it would have to have a 11ty billion button.

Quote from: Mendo Dave on November 15, 2012, 09:17:57 AM
If they did that with this forum it would have to have a 11ty billion button.

it should also be hard code to automatically be placed into any reply immediately following mine 

Quote from: lethe on November 15, 2012, 09:21:02 AM
it should also be hard code to automatically be placed into any reply immediately following mine 

+1

Yea I was gonna say that.

For those who check in here on mobile (I'm probably half & half here via mobile & computer), are you using the Tapatalk ap? I find it makes keeping up with this & the couple of Moutain Bike forums I follow relatively painless.

Quote from: triangleforge on November 15, 2012, 10:34:46 AM
For those who check in here on mobile (I'm probably half & half here via mobile & computer), are you using the Tapatalk ap? I find it makes keeping up with this & the couple of Moutain Bike forums I follow relatively painless.

perspective....

Quote from: triangleforge on November 15, 2012, 10:34:46 AM
For those who check in here on mobile (I'm probably half & half here via mobile & computer), are you using the Tapatalk ap? I find it makes keeping up with this & the couple of Moutain Bike forums I follow relatively painless.

I would like to know just what Tapatalk does that the regular browser doesn't. Is it worth running on ipad?

Quote from: Mendo Dave on November 15, 2012, 10:43:11 AM
I would like to know just what Tapatalk does that the regular browser doesn't. Is it worth running on ipad?

Try it and find out.

BTW...let us know.

I found out this info about Tapatalk.

They are partners with several companies including....

Mostly it strips out a lot of the graphic content & re-presents navigation in a mobile-friendly format - hitting the right spot on that left-hand nav bar in the regular web browser was pretty hit-or-miss on my phone browser, even when I'd zoom the screen to make it a bigger target. Whenever I wanted to go to Racing & Trackdays, for example, I had a 50-50 chance of ending up in Gear or Stolen Motorcycles.

A couple of pix (apparently, I can't do screenshots on my old Android phone without rooting it - and I can no longer root it...) to show what I mean:

Nav Screen:



In Topic screen:



You don't have to set up the ap for different forums (other than entering in your login info, which it stores) - when I open the ap, it lists the DMF & MTBR and sends me to either in one touch.

It also strips out the ads on the other forum I use it for, MTBR.com.

I am painfully cheap, so didn't want to pay for an ap, but I can say I've more than gotten my money's worth on this one.

I've actually never had my hands on an iPad, so can't say for certain if it would have any benefit - just a rough guess, if you find yourself zooming in and out a lot just to navigate the page on this or another forum, it'd be worth it. If not, probably not.

Quoteif you find yourself zooming in and out a lot just to navigate the page on this or another forum, it'd be worth it. If not, probably not.

That would make me a candidate...

the term 'fat fingered' really hits home, but...

I use an Ipad so rarely...and it's not mine...

I doubt I'd buy it. That may change at some point.

I can see how it would make browsing easier and why we installed support for it.

My phone is my computer..  I hardly go on our laptop..  all things are done on my phone from controlling the TV to viewing the numerous forums I'm on...  I use fb for friends and family to let them know what's going on and despise twitter.   Good thing about using the phone for it all is I can get my internet fix while out n about and then spend time with family while home...

I don't do that much zooming so I don't think I would need it on the full size iPad. But I'm glad you shared that. I zoom a little bit for some buttons and the stuff on the left of this forum, but I don't need to zoom very much.

I have noticed that when peeps use 3pt font I zoom in on that to read it. On the
Laptop I have to hit reply just to see it.