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    Default Activating Tapatalk for the Forum

    Hey i know alot of us have iphones, driods, whatever the hot new mobile device is. And most of us are on here using our phones.

    Tapatalk is an app that you can use to access all the message boards you frequent and still have all the capabilities of using the web (private messages etc...)

    http://www.tapatalk.com/

    I personally think it would be great if we could get this activated for the site.

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    Default Re: Activating Tapatalk for the Forum

    Love this idea, I'll discuss this with Dan.

    This isn't the first time a request for mobile device support of PAFOA has been made, but in the past it's been denied because, quite frankly, we didn't have the time to make the changes necessary to roll it out. If this is literally a turnkey, "drop in and go" solution, that might change the situation.
    "Political Correctness is just tyranny with manners"
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    "[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
    -James Madison, Federalist Papers, No. 46.

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    Default Re: Activating Tapatalk for the Forum

    AFAIK Tapatalk is just a forum plug in. I could probably get you in touch with the admin for a forum that uses it if you need to talk to someone that knows all about it.
    Adams County Sport Handgunners Association - President

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    Default Re: Activating Tapatalk for the Forum

    This has been discussed twice in the past:

    http://forum.pafoa.org/support-sugge...iewer-app.html
    http://forum.pafoa.org/support-sugge...-tapatalk.html

    PAFOA is currently in a code freeze and we are not installing any plugins. Even outside of that I am very wary of installing plugins due to their generally unstable nature and the complications they bring into running and upgrading large forums.

    We can reevaluate in a few months but at this point in time mobile browsing is unfortunately not high on the priority list.
    Dan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
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    Default Re: Activating Tapatalk for the Forum

    It's actually pretty great.. all you do is drop the tapatalk folder into your forum root and go. There is no plugin to install so it won't modify your database or existing files.

    I have it 'installed' on a number of sites - since there aren't many gun sites on there yet it certainly helps get the word out also..

    I hear ya though dan about plugins..

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    Default Re: Activating Tapatalk for the Forum

    Quote Originally Posted by kprojects View Post
    It's actually pretty great.. all you do is drop the tapatalk folder into your forum root and go. There is no plugin to install so it won't modify your database or existing files.

    I have it 'installed' on a number of sites - since there aren't many gun sites on there yet it certainly helps get the word out also..

    I hear ya though dan about plugins..
    A few questions:

    1. It doesn't actually require you to install a plugin into vBulletin?
    2. If so, I assume then you must provide it with credentials for direct access to the vBulletin database? (Might be a good thing, could give it read-only credentials)
    3. What's it's security track record?
    4. Can it run in a distributed environment, eg. if we have multiple web-servers?
    Dan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
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    Default Re: Activating Tapatalk for the Forum

    I have an iPhone 4 and access this forum in the safari browser, which works great. I don't see the need for anything else, imo.

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    Default Re: Activating Tapatalk for the Forum

    Don't mean to grave dig this thread but I just got Tapatalk on my EVO and am liking it alot. I'd love for PAFOA to support it. The only other forum I use it for is a gaming community with over 30k members. Granted they don't all use tapatalk, they haven't had any trouble with it at all.
    F*#K THE ATF

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    Default Re: Activating Tapatalk for the Forum

    Quote Originally Posted by danp View Post
    A few questions:

    1. It doesn't actually require you to install a plugin into vBulletin?
    2. If so, I assume then you must provide it with credentials for direct access to the vBulletin database? (Might be a good thing, could give it read-only credentials)
    3. What's it's security track record?
    4. Can it run in a distributed environment, eg. if we have multiple web-servers?
    1 - No plugins - upload the files into a seperate folder
    2. It probably reads them from includes/config.php - but you don't fill out or config anything..
    3. Could not tell you - but I have not heard of anyone having security issues
    4. not sure about multiple servers..

    more info: http://www.tapatalk.com

    there's a forum where you can probably get better answers than mine

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    Default Re: Activating Tapatalk for the Forum

    Any more thought or discussion on this topic? I've been using Tapatalk everywhere I can, and it is an improvement over mobile browsers.
    Selling off a a sizeable Spyderco collection here

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