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Dear Phil, thanks for your help. It didn't work though
But since it is Lent, not using Tapatalk might be my type of fasting. I wouldn't like to give up on wine

AW77 wrote:Dear Phil, thanks for your help. It didn't work though
But since it is Lent, not using Tapatalk might be my type of fasting. I wouldn't like to give up on wine

Several posts below moved by jdaw1 from Advice on uploading photos when selling Port. As that thread is intended for newcomers, I have not added a link from there to here.


What apps do you use to crop and compress pictures before posting? I can't seem to find a simple one that does both easily.

On a Mac, Preview does this admirably. If I'm on a mobile device I don't usually use any other app but Tapatalk seems to take care of things and allows me to crop..

Tapatalk seems to work only on Mac/Iphone, but not on Android. I still get the error message that the account does not exists when I try to log in with my TPF details (but as a compensation, if I try to register anew, I'm always told that this profile is already in use). Yours sincerely, Josef K.

I prefer the uncropped one.

LGTrotter wrote:I prefer the uncropped one.

Well of course.

AW77 wrote:Tapatalk seems to work only on Mac/Iphone, but not on Android. I still get the error message that the account does not exists when I try to log in with my TPF details (but as a compensation, if I try to register anew, I'm always told that this profile is already in use). Yours sincerely, Josef K.

Dear K
Yes it is very temperamental. Have you tried deleting all your data, changing your name, going to live in a new city and reinstalling? Sometimes this works.
Yours,
A bureaucrat.

I deleted Tapatalk, rebooted, installed Tapatalk again. Still it doesn't work.
To keep the metaphor: Someone must have slandered me. I fear that the port police will arrest me tomorrow morning. (I guess for drinking my port too young.)

When you see that your account here has been deleted, that will be your warning. From then you will have approximately 27 minutes.

Please may I move the preceding posts to the TapaTalk thread to avoid potential sellers thinking we are a bit weird?

Sure, go ahead. We wouldn't want to scare away any port sellers.

FWIW, I'm also using Tapatalk these days - though from an Android device, as I didn't want to pay 5x the price for an Apple product a device that wouldn't allow me to put whatever files I wanted onto it

Does anyone know how to switch off completely the 'Feed' in the current version of Tapatalk? I want the app to open on the timeline, not the useless feed. I have emptied it but still can't switch it off.

Tapatalk did a new version about a month ago, adding a click to the sequence to get to TPF. Is that what you mean? Because I also hate it.

Precisely. I found an options menu to remove content from the Feed but no way of disabling it.

I hate it too. And I also hate that I now get adverts.

The perils of free software.

Settings (gear in the upper right corner) -> Tab Behaviour -> Profile

Not perfect, but at least it makes it easier to ignore the feed.

DRT wrote:The perils of free software.

The placemat software is free, but has never had adverts. And it gets better and better over time.

jdaw1 wrote:

DRT wrote:The perils of free software.

The placemat software is free, but has never had adverts. And it gets better and better over time.

True. But freeware on the scale of TapaTalk is seldom (as in never) quite so philanthropic.

DRT wrote:on the scale of

Don’t attempt to out-scale me. Twelve thousand lines of hand-coded PostScript is appalling scale.

(I’ll stop here, for fear of going off-topic.)

Thanks Glenn.
I get no adverts. I think I bought the Pro version.

I followed Glenn's advice and yet the damned Feed still opens when I re-open Tapatalk after it's timed out.

djewesbury wrote:I followed Glenn's advice and yet the damned Feed still opens when I re-open Tapatalk after it's timed out.

I get no ads, so it's possible I have the Pro version and that the ability to open directly to the forum choice screen is restricted to Pro users.

I get no ads either.

Server now upgraded to TapaTalk version 4.7.0.

Please test on your device and report any issues or hapiness in this thread.

I much hapiness having.

Well did it go seems it, young Padawan.

I 2 haz the Tapatalk 4 goodnessez

Tapatalk now displays nested quotes even worse than it used to; the second 'unquote' tag simply doesn't get read and is printed as part of the message. Rubbish.

djewesbury wrote:Tapatalk now displays nested quotes even worse than it used to; the second 'unquote' tag simply doesn't get read and is printed as part of the message. Rubbish.

Works fine for me on iPhone 5.

What device are you using?

iPhone 5, Tapatalk latest version.

Thus.

Mine looks the same as yours. Hadn't noticed that before.

It's nesting correctly for me.

Tapatalk just updated itself to the new version on my iPhone. This latest incarnation is a fine example of how to take something useful, simple and intuitive and ruin it.

Told you.

I've always preferred viewing the full site on mobile browser rather than using tapatalk.

However, I do find it frustrating that I frequently receive the pop-up message suggesting that I visit apple store for the tapatalk app. Anyone know how to turn that off?

The only reason I started using Tapatalk was that the buttons on the full site are just too small on a mobile screen. On my iPad, I can use the full site without a problem. And now that Tapatalk has just updated itself on that to an even worse new version, I will stop using it there.
Not sure how you can get rid of the Tapatalk splash Rob - I suspect that the server-side Tapatalk driver is pushing that to you whenever you look at the full site on a mobile device. Admins, do you have an option to disable that feature?

Will have a look but can't recall seeing much in the way of configuration tools.

Oh good lord. Now the new update has arrived on my phone and iPad. Awful. Awful. Awful.

We need a poll to decide wether or not to disable this app on TPF. It is awful.

Please see your PMs. Who is Regina?

Tapatalk works fine now on Android. It didn't work from around February to November this year (I had given up all hope it would ever work again but then Android users got an early gift from Santa). So I would be very much in in favour of continuing with Tapatalk (at least on Android).

Do not disable. It works perfectly on Android and is how I most frequently browse TPF.

The iSheep are getting their comeuppance.

Unhelpful comments reinforcing the existential conflict between different brands of gimmick fail to address the fact that Tapatalk security seems to have been broached and may compromise the site itself. When I click on the thumbnail view on the Feed page (having set up the Settings accordingly) I get a lot of pictures of port but prior to them I get a lot of pictures of porn. This may be an alphabetising / indexing problem with Tapatalk but it is hardly what we want to encourage!!

I'm using the Tapatalk application on Android with no problems (and have not seen Andre's issues for the last year either); I admit I do not like the new interface much following the last update though. I'm also using the paid-for version, rather than the ad-based, if that makes a difference.

Is the problem more to do with adverts? If so, then either de-install tapatalk and use the web version (I use the web version instead sometimes for browsing now that the interface has changed), or buy the pro version (not expensive). If it is an Apple-only problem, and/or affects tapatalk across all sites, then no need to remove ability from TPF, assuming it does not affect TPF security itself (which I would assume should be read-only, unless it is has potential to leak logins).

Besides, the adverts you see are probably targeted, based on your inferred device use and browsing history

These are not adverts. I am also using the paid-for version. The thumbnail view in the feed is meant to show pictures that have been extracted from the forum. Instead it shows about five or so thumbnails of porn sites followed by pages from the forum. Those five or so thumbnails then take one (if clicked) to normal pages within the forum. But at the bottom of each thumb is the text 'regina - the port forum'. We do not have a user by that name.

Do a test. In the settings available on the Feed page (by clicking the icon top right of screen) tell it to show 10 Unread stories and then tick the port forum in the list at the bottom to ensure that the Feed page is active. Then click on the thumbnails icon and tell us what you see. I see the same extraneous pages on my iPad and iPhone. This, I can assure you, has nothing to do with my browsing history; and Tapatalk can't access that anyway.

A picture tells a thousand words. Set up your Feed settings thus: