Making the forum mobile ready.

[StlGreaser]

Have any of the admins thought about making the forum mobile ready with Tapatalk? It is free to sign up at http://www.tapatalk.com/!
It would be really cool. I use this app on my iPhone to read and reply to other forums I am members at.

 

[Claudiusx]

Luckily, this forum isn't too bad on the iphone, like how some other forums are. Tapatalk would help but I'm doing fine without it at the moment.

It would be like a luxury imo

-Brandon

 

[LeePerryAR]

I also think that this would be a nice feature to have. My Nexus One doesn't typically have any issues with the board, but having mobile formatting is nice on the phone. I do have issues with image resizing during text reflowing, but I can overcome that by zooming out some and the full image returns. Tapatalk formats the images nicely.

 

[william212]

I run a forum and I made it Tapatalk compatible. It was pretty straightforward - you created a directory to host the tapatalk code and made a small change to the phpbb code.

 

[fallfromatree]

I was actually coming here to post about Tapatalk if it hadn't been already, so I was happy to see it brought up. I've been doing a little bit of reading about it and it seems like a win-win product to try, especially since it's no-cost for the forum owners. I'd love to see this implemented if we could!

Here's a direct link to their plugin information for forum owners: http://www.tapatalk.com/plugin.php

 

[Claudiusx]

This is being discussed on another forum I visit and the admins are iffy about it because I suppose there is a security flaw in it or something.

-Brandon

 

[alohareptiles]

I would LOVE if this was on Tapatalk...It make forum use soooo much easier...

 

[fallfromatree]

This is being discussed on another forum I visit and the admins are iffy about it because I suppose there is a security flaw in it or something.

-Brandon

Would it be possible to post a link to that discussion? I'd like to find out what the issue is and see if there are workarounds (I've never worked with it before so I can't say).

 

[Claudiusx]

I will try to dig it up.

-Brandon

 

[Claudiusx]

Ah, it wasn't really a discussion, just one of the admins saying it has security issues. Doesn't go into detail either.
http://www.ironaddicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29848&highlight=tapatalk

I'm sure a google search would reveal what the security flaw is but too lazy atm and crunched for time :study:

-Brandon

 

[StlGreaser]

I post on a bunch of other forums with Tapatalk and nobody, not even the admis have ever mentioned a security problem.

It does how ever make it somewhere in the vacinity of a 100,000% easier to browse and post to the forums on the go! I work 12 hours a day and the boring times I can spend seamlessly flowing from one topic to the next on my iPhone! Plus now you can post pictures right from your phones camera or memory!

 

[alohareptiles]

I post on a bunch of other forums with Tapatalk and nobody, not even the admis have ever mentioned a security problem.

It does how ever make it somewhere in the vacinity of a 100,000% easier to browse and post to the forums on the go! I work 12 hours a day and the boring times I can spend seamlessly flowing from one topic to the next on my iPhone! Plus now you can post pictures right from your phones camera or memory!

x2....

 

[fallfromatree]

Ah, it wasn't really a discussion, just one of the admins saying it has security issues. Doesn't go into detail either.
http://www.ironaddicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29848&highlight=tapatalk

I'm sure a google search would reveal what the security flaw is but too lazy atm and crunched for time :study:

-Brandon

Thanks for the link, Brandon. I did some searching and the only security issue I found was back over the summer and was fixed in short order. Aside from that, it doesn't sound like there's been anything else that's come up, which is pretty impressive to be honest!

Hope that helped!

 

[beardie]

The security issues are largely due to it being relatively young code. In addition, it creates an entirely separate set of interfaces to interact with the site and database. This is a huge security concern. I actually work for information security (specifically application security analysis). Adding this software creates a very large surface area for attack, with a lot of ways to possibly find a hole. ALL software has holes/bugs. Complex web-based applications are the biggest risk.

In general, I simply don't see the demand being high enough to outweigh the risks. While it might be a great idea and convenient for some, it's not necessary. It creates another complex piece of code that I will have to regularly maintain. And it adds risk to the site and server. I keep the server extremely secure (as you can expect from a security professional) and have actually had a couple people even perform penetration testing on it to verify.

 

[Claudiusx]

The security issues are largely due to it being relatively young code. In addition, it creates an entirely separate set of interfaces to interact with the site and database. This is a huge security concern. I actually work for information security (specifically application security analysis). Adding this software creates a very large surface area for attack, with a lot of ways to possibly find a hole. ALL software has holes/bugs. Complex web-based applications are the biggest risk.

Yes, this is what one of the admins said when I pm'd him about the security risks. I figured it had something to do with the new interactions that are caused from it anyways, but you make it easier to understand lol :mrgreen:

-Brandon