Heads up: Tapatalk going away on CJ-8.com

jerseyjeeps · Jan 7, 2017

its no Picnic on Verizon either.... :banghead:

bigwalton · Jan 7, 2017

Have another browser to try? I'm using Chrome personally. Hoping to find a newer mobile theme that doesn't have such issues. We only have the default mobile theme this far.

tower210 · Jan 7, 2017

I've tried safari and chrome. No mobile mode option on either. :shrug:

jammer1 · Jan 7, 2017

I have Verizon, using android phone with Firefox browser. Haven't had any problems. Got tapatalk, used a few times than deleted. Not my cup of tea. Easier to read and follow with full browser.

bigwalton · Jan 7, 2017

Someone complained privately about a lack of explanation as to why we have to do this. Here's ONE list from a quick google search on reasons to leave this cancerous app.

NOTE: The simple fact that everyone should know that I, of ANYONE on here, hate the idea of losing ANY photos and yet STILL know this is best for the forum should suffice, but here we go:

1) tapatalk is trying more and more to drive users to other sites and to their own stuff. The way they added "tapatalk messaging" on top of the existing forum PMs, making PMing very confusing was one of the final straws.

2) TT defaults to store attachments on their servers, so that we can never leave them. I quit using it over a year ago, I don't even know if you can tell it to put them on our server anymore.

3) TT tries to show ads to users even though I have repeatedly opted out.

4) TT forces members to login through tapatalk instead of using our login. (by hiding the normal login) This means that TT stores our member data. [This alone is absolutely inexcusable and has gotten much worse over time]

5) The Tapatalk home screen and basic functionality has changed non-stop. The main deal breaker for me AS A LONG TIME USER was a feed tab showing new content from ALL sites a member is member of. This means that its less attractive to browse one particular site and more attractive to browse all at once, it's Tapatalk trying to completely rework the concept of browsing forums.

6) With each update (every few weeks) usergroup permissions are removed and they erode admin control. The absolute worst was REMOVING the EXISTING option to allow admins to control which user groups can use it.

7) TT does not show content from our addons like gallery, blog, wiki, groups, reviews, etc. and has no interest in it.

8) TT policy updates steadily move towards less control for webmasters and more control and benefits (read trying to make money off of our users) for tapatalk.

bigwalton · Jan 8, 2017

And in an almost uncanny coincidence, yet another new reason to add to the list.

I mentioned that I despised what Tapatak did with integrating their own (completely unnecessary) message system with the forum PMs, making it incredibly confusing to send a proper forum PM WHEN ON TAPATALK.

This morning I received the first PM (ON MY LAPTOP in Chrome) that I've ever seen with the highlighted note/URL to try to suck people back into the Tapatalk world from their computers, when not even on mobile:

SMDH, if this isn't the most perfect example of their greed and overreach, I don't know what the hell is.

bigwalton · Jan 8, 2017

OH!

And to tie in another point, just realized that this PM is from a basic, unpaid forum member while we wanted Tapatalk access to be a paid forum member benefit. An admin option that they took away from us.

Belizeit · Jan 8, 2017

Well I think I understand better now with some examples.

bigwalton · Jan 8, 2017

tower210 said:
I've tried safari and chrome. No mobile mode option on either.

Have you simply tried the themes you can see?

Are you on Android? The carrier doesn't mean anything, but the operating platform may.

I have been using the basic slate blue on my iPhone for months since I ditched Tapatalk without any issue. Photo uploads do work from either your phone or camera. The mobile theme is not a necessity.

That said, I am looking for a great mobile theme and have asked our vBulletin support specialist a couple questions.

bigwalton · Jan 8, 2017

AHA! Try using the dropdown now...

Looks like there was a setting that allowed admins to see it vs. everyone else. Hopefully it's available now.

I still think we can do better for a mobile theme, but I have been using this one this week (as I said, I just used slate blue for months) and it's pretty good. Very clean and simple.

Randyzzz · Jan 8, 2017

bigwalton said:
AHA! Try using the dropdown now...

Looks like there was a setting that allowed admins to see it vs. everyone else. Hopefully it's available now.

I still think we can do better for a mobile theme, but I have been using this one this week (as I said, I just used slate blue for months) and it's pretty good. Very clean and simple.

Yes! Thank You, Eric! The mobile theme works now. Much easier to read. A bit bland, but I'm OK with that. Thank You!

Polarfire · Jan 8, 2017

FYI, you must e-mail Tapatalk from your e-mail address you used to sign up for Tapatalk in order to delete your user account if you so wish. Here are the contact e-mails for Tapatalk:

lin@tapatalk.com
privacy@tapatalk.com
support@tapatalk.com

It is difficult to find info on how to delete your account or what steps to take. I emailed all three accounts I listed above with a message to delete my account and included my e-mail address and user name.

tower210 · Jan 8, 2017

Wow!!! Works now! Much better!

bigwalton · Jan 8, 2017

Randyzzz said:
Yes! Thank You, Eric! The mobile theme works now. Much easier to read. A bit bland, but I'm OK with that. Thank You!

That's the point with the mobile themes, they're stripped down and simple to speed things up.

The one that's there is just the default that's installed by vBulletin, I'm waiting on some answers from our vB guy before we pick the new one that we will add.

Polarfire · Jan 9, 2017

Tapatalk is officially out of my life! I got the conformation email tonight that my profile has been deleted. For those of us that grew very dependent on Tapatalk and the ease of picture uploading, cutting it off cold-turkey and not having access at all forces the transition. It's going to happen so might as well drop it now and stop adding content through Tapatalk that very likely will get lost when it's gone.

cdvcj8 · Jan 9, 2017

BTW: It's pretty cool to see your browser working automatically:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY2m-Xdt2Co

Also, I could probably do this a quicker way, but I don't know what protections the site has against bots and I don't want to get my account locked out.

bigwalton · Jan 9, 2017

Please hold off. I am talking to our vBulletin guy and there may be solutions already.

There's also a very good chance that the images will remain available anyway, we'd just be beholden to Tapatalk "cleaning" them out or going away as is the case with any outside photo host.

For the record, the specialist has further confirmed that "many" of his clients have long since abandoned Tapatalk.

cdvcj8 · Jan 9, 2017

Yes I figured there had to be something if I could hack something up this quickly from the client side. It should be much easier from the server-side.

jeepdreamer · Jan 10, 2017

^you guys scare me^^ but I love that your working on fixes. [emoji851]

gr8dain · Jan 10, 2017

bigwalton said:
Please hold off. I am talking to our vBulletin guy and there may be solutions already.

There's also a very good chance that the images will remain available anyway, we'd just be beholden to Tapatalk "cleaning" them out or going away as is the case with any outside photo host.

For the record, the specialist has further confirmed that "many" of his clients have long since abandoned Tapatalk.

That is great. And would help this lazy person immensely.

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