Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg (Post 2515764)

Stop making things difficult for yourself, go to https://tapatalk.com/ , create an account and install it on your forums ... My members love this app and it is very easy to use my Man ... try it out you wont be disappointed ...

Originally Posted by Max Taxable (Post 2515765)

Dunno how it would work with his 3.8.2, he definitely should consider upgrading to 3.8.7 at least if not 3.8.8.

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg (Post 2515767)

He's on 3.8.3 Max...or am I reading wrong? His forum's footer also says 3.8.3 as well ...

Originally Posted by cellarius (Post 2515800)

3.8.2 or 3.8.3 is not much of a difference. Either way, 3.8.8 is the version to run.

Originally Posted by kartik786 (Post 2515718)

Thanks, I've been searching for how I can make the mobile thing possible for 3 days now. I'm not able to get much information on how vbulletin 3.8.3 version can be made mobile ready. There's something called MAPI or mobile styles but since official vbulletin.com has stopped supporting it, all links to it are dead.

I've opened a thread here yesterday : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=314379

Any inputs on it would be much appreciated by people like me :)

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5 (Post 2515936)

What links are dead?

Support is still available for VB 3.x.

In order to get the Mobile API for VB 3.x you must purchase the VB Mobile Suite. That will allow you to create forum apps for iOS and Android, but they don't work great on customized forums- you would be better off downloading the lightweight style by Dartho for 3.x.

Originally Posted by tbworld (Post 2515536)

I previously wrote in this thread about my daughters board, it went from 800 users to 23,000 (this last year) with 1200 active users a day. She does not try to compete against Facebook, instead she embraces the diversity. All of her members use Facebook to chat (in fact they must for registration), they go to her board for real content and the closeness of the private community.

Look at the number of cell phone forums, and most of them are doing pretty well. They shouldn't be as they are quite boring in unique content, but the topic is hot and the need for shared information is great. So for the time being they are thriving ... until the death of the product cycle.

Facebook will be here, until it is not. Create your strategy around that fact. If you are trying to compete against Facebook, why? You are never going to convince users to drop Facebook and come to your board. At best they will do both, each with their own unique strengths.

I liked @BBNZowner comment above, it showed he has a unique strategy. If you are looking at forums as a business, you cannot just stamp-out more metal paper clips without have a unique strategy for distribution of your product and a method to capture market share, or you will just end up having a garage full of paper clips.

Forum software is just a tool, keep in mind what you are trying to accomplish. :)

Originally Posted by kartik786 (Post 2515938)

Thanks for helping BirdOPrey .. I did install this style but it did not look good on my android mobile.

I clicked on the link in a discussion that pointed to MAPI on vbulletin.com and it was dead. Can you please point me in the right direction / purchase page.

Originally Posted by Lionel (Post 2516179)

Is Facebook killing forum? Here is the answer. As of November 1st that will no longer be free.
http://nationalreport.net/facebook-b...-users-2-99mo/

Mass desertions ahead