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smark · 12-31-2011, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by timckelley

I've never used tapatalk. Out of curiosity, do people think it does a better job than forumrunner?

I think so personally. I've found it very intuitive.

vertigo235 · 12-31-2011, 12:44 AM

I think it does now. But not when forum runner was chosen for this site.

morac · 02-01-2012, 07:41 AM

Has anyone gotten push notfications from the app recently? I'm using the iOS version and stopped getting them about a week or two ago.

Edit:

Forum Runner author has confirmed there's problems with push on Apple devices. I actually just got some about 10 minutes ago, which is the first time I've seen them in a while.

timckelley · 06-24-2012, 07:06 PM

Say, is it true that there's no way from forumrunner to jump to a post from another post that's quoting it?

Drewster · 06-25-2012, 09:57 AM

Anyone know how to contact the ForumRunner developers? I have a bunch of iOS crash logs to send them.

mbklein · 06-25-2012, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Drewster

Anyone know how to contact the ForumRunner developers? I have a bunch of iOS crash logs to send them.

http://www.forumrunner.net/forum/

Drewster · 06-25-2012, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by mbklein

http://www.forumrunner.net/forum/

I was hoping to find a usable email address, is I have a few MB of crashlogs to send them. Ah well. I posted in the iOS support area...

brianp6621 · 06-26-2012, 06:44 PM

Yep

mbklein · 06-26-2012, 07:30 PM

I'm in total agreement.

morac · 07-27-2012, 02:11 AM

I haven't been getting push notifications again the past few days. Anyone else having this problem?

timckelley · 07-27-2012, 08:46 PM

Something's been consistently happening lately with forumrunner, which is annoying:

When I'm several pages behind on a thread, and catching up, just as I arrive to the last page, forumrunner bombs / aborts before I have a chance to read a word of it, and to add insult to injury, it marks the whole thread as read.

morac · 08-16-2012, 12:09 AM

Forum Runner's push servers are broken again. This is happening more and more often and the app author takes his sweet time getting around to fixing it (which doesn't take long once he decides to do it). The app author is a lot less responsive than he originally was (namely he takes days or weeks to respond, if ever). Work on the app itself seems to have halted as he isn't putting out updates anymore (new features or bug fixes). He said he'd add a fix to something that broke over a year ago, "in the next release.". That was like 6 releases ago.

Anyone know if Tapatalk works with this forum? That app appears to have better support, is being updated and supports instant push notifications (instead of 15 Forum Runner's minute delayed ones, when Forum Runner is working).

eddyj · 08-16-2012, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by morac

Forum Runner's push servers are broken again. This is happening more and more often and the app author takes his sweet time getting around to fixing it (which doesn't take long once he decides to do it). The app author is a lot less responsive than he originally was (namely he takes days or weeks to respond, if ever). Work on the app itself seems to have halted as he isn't putting out updates anymore (new features or bug fixes). He said he'd add a fix to something that broke over a year ago, "in the next release.". That was like 6 releases ago.

Anyone know if Tapatalk works with this forum? That app appears to have better support, is being updated and supports instant push notifications (instead of 15 Forum Runner's minute delayed ones, when Forum Runner is working).

I read a complaint about the lack of updates that said the company had been sold and that's when development crawled to a halt. Maybe it is time to check out Tapatalk indeed.

Fofer · 08-16-2012, 08:25 AM

The company was sold alright... to vBulletin.

And it's not entirely up to us to "check out Tapatalk." The PTB here would have to install the Tapatalk plugin on the server for it to even work, and they've decided not to, for whatever reason.

SullyND · 08-16-2012, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Fofer

The PTB here would have to install the Tapatalk plugin on the server for it to even work, and they've decided not to, for whatever reason.

Didn't they start out with Tapatalk and have issues with it before switching to Forumrunner?

morac · 08-16-2012, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by SullyND

Didn't they start out with Tapatalk and have issues with it before switching to Forumrunner?

Yes, but since that time Tapatalk had vastly improved, while ForumRunner is stagnating almost to the point of being abandoned.

morac · 08-16-2012, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Fofer

The company was sold alright... to vBulletin.

That actually explains a lot. With the Forum Runner plugin included as part of vBulletin, there's no need to work to attract forum owners since they'll likely just use what they already have. Also I think Forum Runner is run by a handful of people, at most. I think one guy does all the coding. He's probably overwhelmed.

eddyj · 08-16-2012, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Fofer

The company was sold alright... to vBulletin.

And it's not entirely up to us to "check out Tapatalk." The PTB here would have to install the Tapatalk plugin on the server for it to even work, and they've decided not to, for whatever reason.

Well, I can check it out with other forums that use it, and if it turns out to be worth it, we can ask the PTB for it.

Mike, if you are reading this, do you get any better support on DBSTalk with the "branded" ForumRunner?

timckelley · 08-16-2012, 11:25 AM

I did install tapatalk a couple of months ago, as there's another forum I wanted to be able to read on my iPod, and that forum is on tapatalk, but not on forumrunner.

Mike Lang · 08-16-2012, 03:15 PM

We switched from FR to Tapatalk on AVS while we finish development on a new HTML5 mobile version. FR didn't work at all on the new AVS platform & Tapatalk is a bit handicapped. Folks prefer the old FR over Tapatalk based on feedback.

morac · 08-16-2012, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike Lang

We switched from FR to Tapatalk on AVS while we finish development on a new HTML5 mobile version. FR didn't work at all on the new AVS platform & Tapatalk is a bit handicapped. Folks prefer the old FR over Tapatalk based on feedback.

I have nothing against FR other than it really doesn't appear to be being supported anymore. At least not for the users. The company seems to be one guy, Rob. He is the developer and support person. My guess is that he is overwhelmed or something, but he doesn't even log into to his own support forum daily.

A few examples:

1. Push notifications problems:
a) Push notifications stop working if I read this forum via the web site. I've complained about this in the past and never really got a response as to why this happens. Also push will only be sent to the last device to read a forum, it's not sent to all devices. The author claims that's not possible, but other apps have no problem with this.
b) Push notifications break periodically. They broke around July 25th and I posted on July 27th that they were broken in the FR support forums. This was followed by a number of other posts complaining about the same thing. A little over a week later the FR author posted that he found and fixed the problem. Push then broke again on Aug 14th at which time I posted again to the forums. Push is still currently broken.

2. Menu reordering on iPad - This was accidentally removed in May 2011. In July 2011, the app author said it would be added back in the 2nd upcoming release. In Septemeber 2011 it was stated it was still on the to do list, but there was no ETA. Further queries as to the status were ignored.

3. Crashes. I've experienced a number of crashes in the private message area, especially when deleting messages. I've reported these over a year ago.

Fofer · 08-16-2012, 03:51 PM

Maybe he's not overwhelmed so much as he's no longer interested. Feels like he's "cashed out."

eddyj · 08-16-2012, 04:43 PM

I have not even reported or given up on various bugs, like how it handles threads where the last post or the next unread post is from an ignored user. I am lucky my menu was ordered before that went away. Various other things. But with nothing ever getting fixed, and no upgrades in forever (he added some new platforms, but the old stuff did not get fixed) why bother to even report them.

Fofer · 08-16-2012, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by eddyj

I am lucky my menu was ordered before that went away.

Right but if you ever need to set up a new iOS device, without a previous backup, or troubleshoot by deleting FR and re-installing it... you'll lose that order.

eddyj · 08-16-2012, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Fofer

Right but if you ever need to set up a new iOS device, without a previous backup, or troubleshoot by deleting FR and re-installing it... you'll lose that order.

Hence the lucky part.

vertigo235 · 08-16-2012, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike Lang

We switched from FR to Tapatalk on AVS while we finish development on a new HTML5 mobile version. FR didn't work at all on the new AVS platform & Tapatalk is a bit handicapped. Folks prefer the old FR over Tapatalk based on feedback.

The new html5 over there looks Pretty good.

Not a fan of the new desktop forum though.

Inundated · 08-16-2012, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by vertigo235

The new html5 over there looks Pretty good.

Not a fan of the new desktop forum though.

Don't have the HTML5 over at AVS yet, unless they opened it to everyone.

Drewster · 08-16-2012, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike Lang

We switched from FR to Tapatalk on AVS while we finish development on a new HTML5 mobile version. FR didn't work at all on the new AVS platform & Tapatalk is a bit handicapped. Folks prefer the old FR over Tapatalk based on feedback.

Is that why my (paid) AVS/ForumRunner app doesn't work any more?

Will the generic Tapatalk app work?

Mike Lang · 08-16-2012, 10:46 PM

Tapatalk works on the new platform. But like I said, it's a bit handicapped.

For one thing, it doesn't seems to be able to handle the new threaded PM format.

morac · 08-17-2012, 01:11 AM

I found/remembered another problem. FR let's users delete posts, but that doesn't work here for some reason. Deleting via the app does nothing. I reported that awhile ago as well.