Are there any tapatalk alternatives?

[suicidal_monkey]

Are there any alternatives to tapatalk? Lighter-weight and open-source maybe? With each update the interface has to me felt more cluttered, slower and has more ads, unsolicited posts on its main page and spam-style "notifications" that do not seem to stop despite setting available preferences. It also seems to lose my forum details on a regular basis, doesn't navigate dmw forums properly, and the list of android permssions it wants for the next update is not a good sign.

[smilodon]

Tapatalk is a bit of a mess. To it's credit it used to be so bad it was unusable but has improved. That being said it's still a pretty dreadful app and far from what it once was. I've looked around and there doesn't seem to be much else out there. I could see about setting up an RSS feed but that would obviously be a read only solution. Personally I just use the website as is on my mobile and tablet. VBulletin are far from being at the cutting edge of web technology :eyebrow: but the forum is reasonably mobile friendly. The text is very small unless you zoom in, which is probably killing out Google Pageranks, but I find it easy enough to use and is a better option that Tapatalk for me.

There is Forum Runner but it gets pretty poor reviews, and it's not free. We'd have to install a plugin to get it to work and I'm not sure it's worth the effort is it's no better than Tapatalk.

[suicidal_monkey]

I've been using the phones browser too. Strange there's not more out there for this sort of thing really. I'd be very wary about another plugin with another pay-for app that has bad reviews :unsure:

Anyone have a link to the forum software (VBulletin?) api spec? :-)

[TeaLeaf]

https://members.vbulletin.com/api/

..but I can't see much change on it since 2010, so I'm not sure that it's of any help!

[suicidal_monkey]

Was looking for the version tag and just noticed that there's a drop-down at the bottom right of the page that includes a "default mobile style". Looks pretty reasonable, will try that before jumping into the api just yet ;-)

[suicidal_monkey]

went looking for the version tag and just noticed that there was a drop-down on the bottom left of the page where you could select a "default mobile view". It's not perfect but I'll try that before jumping into the API

NB I already posted this but when I tried to edit it on the phone it managed to delete itself. I guess the lesson is to get it right the first time


edit:
Had a very quick look, I think the api is disabled on our forum navigating to www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/api.php?api_m=api_init results in
{"response":{"errormessage":["api_disabled","API is disabled"]}}

I guess there may be security issues with the API if it's not been updated in a while?