Major Additions - iPhone / Android / webOS / WP7 / BlackBerry for vB - Tapatalk

** Over 23000 forums installed!!**


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What is Tapatalk?

Tapatalk is a vBulletin mod that allows your users to browse your forum using a native mobile application. Tapatalk supports iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, webOS and Windows Phone 7. It provides super-fast access to your forum and allows your members to participate more in your forum while on the go.

Why Tapatalk?

• Only one MOD installation to support all mobile devices including iPhone, Android, WebOS, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry.
• Forum API - build your own app or server-side integration with well-documented Tapatalk API, enjoy quality forum app from third-party developers, beyond what Tapatalk internal team can offer.
• Well-tested. This MOD has been installed in over 23000 forums, including some of the very large forums with 2 million members with over 10,000 online users. This app is designed to scale
• Tapatalk allows you to put your sponsored banner into the app so you don't lose potential revenue **NEW**
• Analytics support - you get too see how many users are accessing your forum from the Tapatalk app

Installation Instruction:

Installation is easy. It does not change any of your forum settings or overwrite any
of your existing forum code and configuration. Simply follow the procedure below:

Step 1

Create yourself an account at http://www.tapatalk.com/plugin.php. Once you have logged in
to the website, you can download the largest version. If you are not sure you are
using the latest version. Download a new one from
http://www.tapatalk.com/download.php. You can follow the rest of the instruction
from tapatalk.com onward if you want. Otherwise read on:

Step 2

Upload the zip package at the root of your forum system.
Unzip the package. You should see a directory called "mobiquo" inside your forum
system root directory. For example, if your forum URL is http://www.mysite.com/forum,
it should be placed at http://www.mysite.com/forum/mobiquo/.


Step 3

Login to Administration Control Panel (admincp) in your server.
Choose "Style Manager" under "Styles and Templates".
Choose "Edit Template" in your current template.
Click "Edit" in your current template
Choose "headinclude" in the list, click "Edit"
At the bottom of the editor, insert the following line:
<script type="text/javascript" src="mobiquo/tapatalkdetect.js"></script>
Click "Save".


Step 4

Visit http://www.tapatalk.com/addforum.php to enter your forum URL and upload you forum
logo there. It will allow end-user to find his way to your forum using the Tapatalk
app.

Step 5

Visit http://www.tapatalk.com/manageforum.php to confirm the setup so you can select
whether you want to publish your site to the public listing or you want to set it up
so it is complete private to other end users.

Screenshots:

Showing New and Unread Thread with Avatar and Number of reply:


Facebook Integration: Gather more members from Facebook by letting users publish topics to their Facebook feed.


Images are thread are converted to thumbnail and allow full-screen viewing


Ability to see Who's Online and what they are doing:


Ability to search by topics and posts:


Ability to place banners within the app:


Ability to upload images directly from Android and iPhone!:


Ability to view how Tapatalk is used via our Analytics console

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by Rich S

I've just uploaded the contents of the zip file to my forum directory and went to your website to set it up and your database is failing. I even tried registering in your forums to no avail.

The server was down for few hours yesterday, please try again and it is all good now.

[yellowpeter]

Yesterday we have sent out a newer Beta version to all forum owners with the following update:

- Quote Reply supported!
- UI Refinement in Private Message
- A new tab for Who's Online
- A new tab for Board Statistic
- Tabs are now configurable (drag and drop)
- Usability fixes in Message / Thread Editor (now can auto scroll)
- Multi-lingual Support (Spanish, Swedish, Farsi, Portuguese, German, Greek, Simplified Chinese are added)
- And more more minor UI fixes!

Attached are some of the screenshot for new features:

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[Wonksta]

Why is this only available in America? Why not release it worldwide? I am in Australia... and very disappointed.

[enry]

There are 2 problems with your licensing / business model model:

1) You own the customer. I own my users and don't want them to launch your client and have my forum appear right next to my competitor's, with god knows what advertising appearing in between. Maybe there isn't any advertising (now), but that's not the point. My issue is I have no control as to what appears until my forum's content is accessed.

2) Charging for the client. Virtually none of my 75K users will pay to install this app. If it were free, you have a snowball chance in hell of people installing, provided I were to sign up on my end. Earlier in this thread, you said, charge forum owners. Good idea, right ? Of course, when considering how you've positioned the product, it doesn't make sense to put any obstacle in the signing up new content since you are looking to create a portal application. So it's in your interest to have as many forums as possible so as to make it more attractive (install our app, your portal to 1 zillion forums, etc...).

The app looks interesting and well done, kudos for that, but business wise, I just can't be motivated to help Tapatalk acquire new customers at the expense of my users.

One hint - if you want to have any chanceof attracting serious forum owners, make sure you integrate some means in your solution of preserving third party content placement in the site (advertising), else my supporters may feel they have no reason to keep paying for the service that keeps my forum alive.

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by enry

1) I own my users

No you don't. You just have the illusion of 'owning' your users. If you're THAT paranoid about your users leaving you, then you might want to consider packing it in. Google puts your forum right next to every other forum, as does every search engine.

Originally Posted by enry

2) Charging for the client.

This is the best model, and the one that makes the most sense. The developer has to make money from the app, and there's no question that this app was definitely needed. With the licensing model of Apple, the dev had to front money to take care of this before it was even out the door.

Originally Posted by enry

One hint - if you want to have any chanceof attracting serious forum owners, make sure you integrate some means in your solution of preserving third party content placement in the site (advertising), else my supporters may feel they have no reason to keep paying for the service that keeps my forum alive.

Do you even get what this is? This is a 'mobile' client, not a full client. Of COURSE people aren't going to switch to this directly. This is an alternative to using a real client. The features of this client are dumbed down so much that you don't want to use it constantly, but it provides enough functionality that you CAN keep in touch with the forum. At last check, they WERE planning an alternative advertisement structure, but you can NOT put regular full sized ads on a mobile platform, it'll screw it ALL up.

Get over yourself, stop complaining, and start treating people with respect man, your post was comical at best. This app is very well needed, and whiners like yourself should either develop their own app (yeah right) or just take their whining somewhere else.

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by SighK

Why is this only available in America? Why not release it worldwide? I am in Australia... and very disappointed.

Well, not anymore!! The Tapatalk world-wide release is just approved by Apple and is ready to all countries!

Try it at http://itunes.com/app/tapatalk

[wolfstream]

Which release? The beta, or the real release ?

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

Which release? The beta, or the real release ?

Certainly the real one now available on app store!

[AndyCooper]

Working in the UK Great app for a quick checks of my forum!

[Tom Finley]

I wish I could post my questions at the TapaTalk forum but I can't seem to get on. Server trouble again?

1. I've verified the installation for my forum (CLAMtalk.org).

2. I've purchased and installed the app. It works, I can get onto other member sites fine (very cool, btw)

3. CLAMtalk logo and info shows up under the "Education" category as expected. Tap it and the message is "This function is currently unavailable..." If I click the "View in Safari" button, the site comes up (un-Tapafied). The Login and Register buttons next to the View button do nothing.

Bear in mind I'm new to iPhones and apps. I guess my questions for TapaTalk are--does this take awhile to start working? Is the forum down? If not, why can't I log in or get a new password (that doesn't work either)? Or are registrations moderated? (If so, you should say so.) And of course my BIG Q:

How do I make it work?

I've been around long enough to know that this will all be worked out and I'll be one happy customer, so thanks very much, in advance.

Tom

FIXED! The problem is a conflict with vBadvanced, I think. The solution is to replace "index" in define ('THIS_ SCRIPT', 'index') with "mobiquo" in three php files: get_forums, get_online_users, and get_board_stat.