Tapatalk 2 with TPF & iPhone

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 19:56 Fri 05 Dec 2014

I get no ads either.

Post by **DRT** » 00:41 Sun 14 Dec 2014

Server now upgraded to TapaTalk version 4.7.0.

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

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:42 Sun 14 Dec 2014

I much hapiness having.

Post by **DRT** » 00:46 Sun 14 Dec 2014

Well did it go seems it, young Padawan.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 06:59 Sun 14 Dec 2014

I 2 haz the Tapatalk 4 goodnessez

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 01:25 Sun 21 Dec 2014

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.

Post by **DRT** » 01:28 Sun 21 Dec 2014

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?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 01:30 Sun 21 Dec 2014

iPhone 5, Tapatalk latest version.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 01:31 Sun 21 Dec 2014

Thus.

Post by **DRT** » 01:41 Sun 21 Dec 2014

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

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 04:36 Sun 21 Dec 2014

It's nesting correctly for me.

Post by **DRT** » 08:04 Tue 30 Dec 2014

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.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 08:49 Tue 30 Dec 2014

Told you.

RAYC · Post by **RAYC** » 10:42 Tue 30 Dec 2014

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?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 10:47 Tue 30 Dec 2014

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?

Post by **DRT** » 11:02 Tue 30 Dec 2014

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

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 18:36 Tue 30 Dec 2014

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

Post by **DRT** » 21:40 Tue 30 Dec 2014

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

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:41 Tue 30 Dec 2014

Please see your PMs. Who is Regina?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 00:40 Wed 31 Dec 2014

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).

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 04:38 Wed 31 Dec 2014

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

The iSheep are getting their comeuppance.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 09:22 Wed 31 Dec 2014

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!!

Post by **PhilW** » 10:14 Wed 31 Dec 2014

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

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 10:28 Wed 31 Dec 2014

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.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 10:30 Wed 31 Dec 2014

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

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 10:32 Wed 31 Dec 2014

And then click on the thumbnail icon, which in this image is the grid of small squares:

Post by **PhilW** » 11:09 Wed 31 Dec 2014

djewesbury wrote:And then click on the thumbnail icon, which in this image is the grid of small squares:

Interestingly, that thumbnail is greyed out for me and does nothing; which explains why I don't see the problem.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 11:12 Wed 31 Dec 2014

Did you follow all the preceding steps? Curious.

EDIT: it's also greyed out for me now that I've disabled the options in the Feed (detailed in my previous message). Unless you set the options up properly you won't see it.

(Honestly, you have to lead some people by the hand…

)

Post by **DRT** » 13:51 Wed 31 Dec 2014

I am now also getting the porn pictures. I can understand why some here would prefer to keep Tapatalk but unless we can find a solution to this we might have to remove it.

I am currently away from home but will investigate when I get back.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:24 Wed 31 Dec 2014

This is NOT a platform-specific problem, I'm sure of it. Could someone with a non-Apple device please desist from their smug crowing (

) for long enough to follow the instructions above - to the letter (!) - and tell us whether you're seeing the same thing.

Post by **jdaw1** » 15:04 Wed 31 Dec 2014

My Android device has different options, but rummaging in all the drawers hasn't found anything of that nature.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 17:27 Wed 31 Dec 2014

djewesbury wrote:The thumbnail view in the feed

There's your problem.

I don't use the feed. I use Tapatalk for both TPF and FTLOP and want to read one site at a time, so I use the Profile tab instead.

I do not sign into Tapatalk, so any problems they've had due to hacking do not affect me as I do not use a Tapatalk ID. Tapatalk merely serves as a conduit for the data provided by TPF and FTLOP.

Post by **jdaw1** » 17:32 Wed 31 Dec 2014

Glenn E. wrote:I don't use the feed. I use Tapatalk for both TPF and FTLOP and want to read one site at a time, so I use the Profile tab instead.

Well, I’ve just learnt what the feed is for.

Glenn E. wrote:I do not sign into Tapatalk

Me neither.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 17:39 Wed 31 Dec 2014

DRT wrote:I am now also getting the porn pictures. I can understand why some here would prefer to keep Tapatalk but unless we can find a solution to this we might have to remove it.

I am currently away from home but will investigate when I get back.

<Speculation>
The Feed is Tapatalk's way of providing you with content it thinks you might like, while simultaneously providing you with information you've asked it to provide. I come to this conclusion based on my brief experience with the Feed when I upgraded to Tapatalk 4 and it was turned on by default. I don't care what Tapatalk thinks I might want to see, so spent several minutes figuring out how to turn it off. (You can't as near as I can tell, at least not entirely.) But what you can do is ignore it, which is what I do by using the Profile tab (the little head-and-shoulders icon vs the house icon) to do my reading.

Since the feed is generated by Tapatalk, it poses no security issues for TPF or FTLOP. TPF data is presented by Tapatalk in the Feed, but that's it.
</Speculation>

Using Profile by default is easy (at least on Android; I assume it works the same on iOS) - open Settings, and in the first section (Look & Feel) there's a selection for Tab Behavoir. Set that to Profile. From then on the app will open to the Profile tab instead of the Feed tab and you won't have to worry about it again.

The Profile tab lists each of the forums to which you subscribe. Select one to be taken to a list of the unread posts in that forum. Easy peasy.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:41 Wed 31 Dec 2014

Interesting. You don't sign in to Tapatalk. I thought you had to sign in. I will try not signing in. But this is irrelevant. There is no way not to get the Feed on an iDevice, even if you switch all its functionality off so the screen is empty it is still the default opening page (even when it's not set to be so).

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:42 Wed 31 Dec 2014

Glenn, thanks for that. We cross-posted. I'll try your workaround.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 17:58 Wed 31 Dec 2014

These screenshots are from Tapatalk 4.10.2. I believe that I have the Pro version as I don't recall seeing any ads, but my subconscious is pretty good at screening out ads anyway so it might be that I just never notice them.

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Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 18:03 Wed 31 Dec 2014

Amusingly, those are 1/16th size screenshots. My phone has significantly higher resolution at 5.2" diagonal (1440 x 2560) than my desktop at 24" diagonal (1920 x 1200).

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:12 Wed 31 Dec 2014

I tried signing out of Tapatalk; it wouldn't let me continue. Confused.

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 20:32 Wed 31 Dec 2014

This is like in the song "Hotel California": 'You can check out any time you want, but you cannot leave'

Post by **DRT** » 18:33 Thu 01 Jan 2015

djewesbury wrote:I tried signing out of Tapatalk; it wouldn't let me continue. Confused.

I can't see any way of using Tapatalk on iOS without logging in.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 18:47 Thu 01 Jan 2015

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:I tried signing out of Tapatalk; it wouldn't let me continue. Confused.
I can't see any way of using Tapatalk on iOS without logging in.

+1

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 18:58 Thu 01 Jan 2015

I'm sick and tired of that sofa too.

benread · Post by **benread** » 19:05 Thu 01 Jan 2015

Its taken me a while to work it out but I am starting to like the new version. My only wish is for access to a 'home' style link as the TPF logo performs.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 23:40 Thu 01 Jan 2015

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:I tried signing out of Tapatalk; it wouldn't let me continue. Confused.
I can't see any way of using Tapatalk on iOS without logging in.
+1

Hmm... I wonder if it now knows that you have created an account, so no longer gives you the option to simply login to each website separately?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:45 Thu 01 Jan 2015

Should I delete my whole Tapatalk profile..?

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 03:25 Fri 02 Jan 2015

That might work, but odds are that your account is linked in some way to your iTunes account so Tapatalk would likely still know once reinstalled.

Post by **DRT** » 09:22 Fri 02 Jan 2015

I have set the tab behaviour to "Profile" so am now able to ignore the problem. However, that doesn't mean the problem has been resolved.

Happiness has not yet been achieved.

Post by **DRT** » 09:48 Fri 02 Jan 2015

It seems those of us who hate the new version are not alone: https://support.tapatalk.com/threads/do ... ate.27687/

Post by **DRT** » 10:27 Fri 02 Jan 2015

I have now discovered how to disable advertising.