Reply by Email?

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Would you use it?

For anyone who gets notified of a post or whatever on here would you use the option to reply that email to have your response posted or would you never bother using such a feature? I guess it’s primarily driven at making it easier to respond to something from your mobile if you got notified of a mention or whatever.

  • Yep, I’d use that
  • No, I’d always just reply from the site itself

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Why not just get an app with notifications? That tappatalk app is a master yoke for the notifications. Email notifications is a cumbersome workaround. I mean who the fuck wants their inbox cluttered with forum notifications?
I mean can you imagine the carnage that would cause to a power user such as @bandage or @myboyblues work inbox.

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What’s the fascination with having an app when the site is fully mobile responsive?

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  • Apps are extremely expensive.
  • Tapatalk has had some serious security breaches.
  • Tapatalk are always trying to impose ads and other revenue streams (for themselves) into the app
  • Taptalk doesn’t engage well/ at all with new forum software.

You can get notifications without a forum app by using pushbullet or an equivalent service. I’d guess that might be something possible for TFK in a few months. But there are some complications about getting stuff to work across all devices. In particular, The software can already push desktop notifications to Chrome users for example.

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Are you an iphone or Android user out of interest?

I believe the site is a fair bit quicker on an iphone. I wonder if that changes perceptions for people.

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Android

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Well there goes that theory so.

The two advantages of an app are:

  1. Add to homescreen - but you can already do that with a bookmark for Apple or Android
  2. Notifications - that depends on either integrating the forum with a provider like Pushbullet or waiting until mobile operating systems are upgraded so their browsers take notifications like their desktop equivalents.

Neither is a compelling case to spend a few thousand Euros on an app.

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I’m an iPhone user is this push bullet an option for me?

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Not yet. Well it is, but it won’t work with TFK yet. But you may use it for other non-TFK related alerts from compliant web apps if you wish.

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Apps are extremely expensive. - Tappatalk is free
Tapatalk has had some serious security breaches. - when and how serious. Should we all be concerned about our info.
Tapatalk are always trying to impose ads and other revenue streams (for themselves) into the app - it’s a free app a couple of harmless adds are a small price to pay for a free service
Taptalk doesn’t engage well/ at all with new forum software. - this would appear to be the real issue. Hopefully at some point in the future before the next upgrade tappatalk will extend their support to whatever this software is.

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Tapatalk isn’t free for everyone. And even if it was free for all end users that doesn’t make it free for developers.

I wouldn’t be overly concerned about info I gave to Tapatalk. But I wouldn’t be prepared to ask users to give passwords to a place with a dodgy record of being forthcoming about security breaches.