• Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

    =====================
    Posted 08/15/2025
    =====================


    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

    =====================
    Addendum: 01/10/2026
    =====================


    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Tapatalk? Its free to enable on forums/install

Mooing Tricycle

Mooing Tricycle

Misanthrope / Childfree
Joined
Jun 21, 2005
Messages
6,156
Reaction score
140
Points
0
Age
40
Location
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Has anybody considered tapatalk for the forum? Rich? Im using it with Karas forum ( bloodpythons) and HECK its nice to use versus the mobil browser. If participation would increase for those who use the app on forums. Heck, id personally love it because it makes everything speedy!!

works with vbulletin too, and many other formats.

Just a thought ;)

http://tapatalk.com/faq.php
 
Actually some people solicited this idea on my CornSnakes.com forum a while back so I ran it past my programmer.

He advised me against it. He felt that my sites were fairly stable and secure right now, so adding in any sort of complex and convoluted third party coding could open the sites up to exploits by hackers. He also mentioned that he does not use mobile devices to access the internet, so he would not be able to support the code if problems developed. Honestly, I don't use mobile devices neither, so I could not even respond to problems someone might have. And quite honestly, I likely never will. I am using a 27 inch screen right now, and there are times when I wish I had a larger screen. To try to do this stuff on a dinky little screen using a dinky little keyboard would drive me insane. And probably blind me. Seriously have you seen all the people holding their mobile devices up to their eyes and squinting at the screens? In years to come, THIS will become known as the "squinty generation". My advice for the younger generation is to get into a career in ophthmology and optometry. I predict that this will be a booming business in 20 years or so as people's eyes begin failing prematurely from the strain. Not to mention having a radio frequency transmitter source constantly up near your head certainly can't be all that good for you.

Sorry, but I just haven't seen any overwhelming reason to move my sites in that direction. Maybe so in the future, as I become more and more a member of the dinosaur generation, but certainly not now.

Of course, I see that tablet screens and cell phone displays keep on getting bigger and bigger, so when the standard for them is a screen 24 inches or better, and a cell phone requires a backpack to carry it in, I guess this will cease to being an issue... :)
 
Given the number of forums that use Tapatalk, I doubt it poses any serious security risk. But I could be wrong.

As far as the ability to provide support couldn't you just provide it "as is" like you are doing with auctions? If there are problems, its not YOUR problem to fix. Though I doubt there would be much for maintenance as I'm pretty sure its just a 'set it and forget it' type of deal

I know I for one would greatly appreciate this forum being more mobile friendly. I hardly use my laptop anymore and do just about everything on my iPhone. Even if not via Tapatalk, any type of mobile version of the site would be appreciated.

If you think it over again and still feel it is not something you would like to do at this point, I understand. I just figured I would provide my opinion on the subject....

Thanks for reading!
 
I brought this topic up again with my programmer, and come to find out that it was darn lucky that we didn't enable Tapatalk earlier. Evidently one or more exploits in the Tapatalk code got quite a few message board sites compromised and caused them some messy problems from hackers. But from what my programmer tells me, these appear to have been resolved now.

So with that in mind, I asked him to install the Tapatalk interface code here, and it should be working now. But in the admin section, the switch to enable the Tapatalk code says this:

Tapatalk for Mobile Web is our new offering of fast, efficient, cross platform mobile web experience for forums. Currently supports only basic Read-Only feature, with option to open discussion using Desktop version. Enable Mobile Web version of Tapatalk?
Click to expand...

Not sure exactly what that means. To me, it infers that the site will be READ ONLY using Tapatalk from a mobile device. But someone else will have to test this. If so, seems kind of silly to me to have even gone through the trouble of installing the code if no one can actually participate via the mobile devices. But maybe I'm just reading that wrong. I can't understand why anyone would even need a "desktop version" of Tapatalk since on a desktop computer I would think most people would just use their regular browser.

Someone let me know, please.
 
Well, so far the only problem I see is that apparently someone registered through Tapatalk on my CornSnakes.com site and it appears to have completely bypassed the required field entries in that process. I've asked my programmer to look into it, and I've got that new registration held in limbo till I understand if this is a drawback or just some option that needs to be set correctly.

If this is a flaw in Tapatalk, I'm afraid that it will not be able to be used on this site because of the stringent registration requirements here.
 
I've never used Tapatalk; and was surprised when I got the prompts for it here. In reading the blurb, the offering that caught my eye was that search options would be enabled. That would be helpful. When I clicked to download the app, though, it wasn't a free option. It wasn't expensive, and I may still do it, but I'll want to see what the benefits are before deciding.
 
Well, there is one little wrinkle with this. I can't allow registrations via Tapatalk. Apparently registering that way bypasses the required profile fields (name and location) that are a requirement of registering on this site. So all registrations will have to be via more regular methods.
 
Weird that its not free for you Harald, what cell provider do you use? its nice for me because then all my forums are available in one app

Sent from my KFSOWI using Tapatalk
 
So, now that you have tapatalk installed, are you able to change the way forums are shown on the site IN tapatalk itself? Do you WANT the BOI more prominently displayed? Its hidden behind misc. at the moment, but folks using the app may find it easier to access if it were not in a sub section. Just a question/thought. I know its here, so I dont entirely mind either way.

Sent from my KFSOWI using Tapatalk
 

Attachments

  • uploadfromtaptalk1388963719088.jpg
    uploadfromtaptalk1388963719088.jpg
    99.1 KB · Views: 74
  • uploadfromtaptalk1388963735371.jpg
    uploadfromtaptalk1388963735371.jpg
    93.1 KB · Views: 72
  • uploadfromtaptalk1388963747236.jpg
    uploadfromtaptalk1388963747236.jpg
    43.9 KB · Views: 74
It's going to have to be pretty much "as is" for mobile devices. I don't access the internet myself on anything like that, so I am likely NEVER going to see what the site looks like to someone using it, much less worry about making changes.

Heck, I'm actually considering getting one of those really HD monitors for my desktop sometime. Something with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels should be awesome!
 
WebSlave said:
It's going to have to be pretty much "as is" for mobile devices. I don't access the internet myself on anything like that, so I am likely NEVER going to see what the site looks like to someone using it, much less worry about making changes.

Heck, I'm actually considering getting one of those really HD monitors for my desktop sometime. Something with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels should be awesome!
Click to expand...

Its really great to have the app to use, so so so much easier to access the site and respond to folks. Thanks for considering and implementing it Rich. Im not always on a computer these days.

Sent from my KFSOWI using Tapatalk
 
Yeah, I expect I'm a dinosaur still sticking to my desktop and laptop computers. I don't think my eyes could handle staring at a small mobile device screen for hours on end without me coming completely blind. Not to mention doing the keyboard stuff with as much as I type every day.

But if others want to interface with the internet this way, then so be it. I sure don't want to chase away viewers simply because they choose a different path than I am comfortable with.
 
Mooing Tricycle said:
Weird that its not free for you Harald, what cell provider do you use? its nice for me because then all my forums are available in one app

Sent from my KFSOWI using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

Yeah, from what I saw today, it is supposed to be free now. It is on my phone...I was on a Kindle Fire HD when I got the message that it was $4.99
 
hhmoore said:
Yeah, from what I saw today, it is supposed to be free now. It is on my phone...I was on a Kindle Fire HD when I got the message that it was $4.99
Click to expand...

Yeah, its free, was on mine. Thats what ive been using lately. Odd that they would try charging for a free product elsewhere!!

Sent from my KFSOWI using Tapatalk
 
I put it on my phone. I don't think it made it 10 minutes before I uninstalled it. I probably didn't give it a fair shake; but I have no desire to have to re-learn how to navigate and use this site.
 
hhmoore said:
I put it on my phone. I don't think it made it 10 minutes before I uninstalled it. I probably didn't give it a fair shake; but I have no desire to have to re-learn how to navigate and use this site.
Click to expand...

I take it that this means that the site is viewed substantially differently via that method of viewing?
 
The breakdown of the forums/subforums was simple enough for somebody that is already familiar with the layout... but I rarely navigate the site that way. I use New Posts a lot; Tapatalk has Unread, which isn't quite the same. I also don't remember seeing a way to access the various control panels. I'll probably revisit it sometime; but I'm quick to remove apps I don't like.
 
Hmmm - it seems Tapatalk is a bit of an attention whore. Even if I liked it, I probably wouldn't use it because of the Sent from my______ using Tapatalk message.
 
Back
Top