Post by Domenick Swentosky on Dec 5, 2016 23:25:21 GMT -5
The best thing about Facebook was the immediacy of interaction with each other. Much of that certainly came from the ease of using the platform from our phones.
For interacting with the forum on your phone, Tapatalk is a good app that makes things pretty slick. It's on both Android and iPhone. You can set up Push Notifications in the settings and be notified quickly after new activity takes place on the forum -- just like Facebook. The nice thing about those notifications is that you can dial it in per thread or per board. If you don't want to be bothered with Gear posts, then don't select to be notified about them. Just a little bit of digging in to the setting for Tapatalk makes it a really nice solution for accessing this forum.
Download the app, and use the following URL to find this forum:
troutbitten.freeforums.net
Then insert your username and password.
The downside of Tapatak is that it does have ads. You can remove the ads for $1/ month or $10 a year, and I think that's worth it just for the push notifications. If you previously bought Tapatalk more than a couple years ago, you are grandfathered in without ads via VIP status. Just sign in with your old Tapatalk account.
The Night Mode setting in the Tapatalk options is a lot nicer, in my opinion.
You can upload pics into a post right from the Tapatalk app. It works well.
One quark with Tapatalk: It only displays Usernames, and will not show Display Names for members. There seems to be no way around this yet. I guess you'll get used to recognizing me as Mantis.
Any troubles with Tapatalk, please post here, and one of us that uses it should be able to help you get it set up and working how you like.
For interacting with the forum on your phone, Tapatalk is a good app that makes things pretty slick. It's on both Android and iPhone. You can set up Push Notifications in the settings and be notified quickly after new activity takes place on the forum -- just like Facebook. The nice thing about those notifications is that you can dial it in per thread or per board. If you don't want to be bothered with Gear posts, then don't select to be notified about them. Just a little bit of digging in to the setting for Tapatalk makes it a really nice solution for accessing this forum.
Download the app, and use the following URL to find this forum:
troutbitten.freeforums.net
Then insert your username and password.
The downside of Tapatak is that it does have ads. You can remove the ads for $1/ month or $10 a year, and I think that's worth it just for the push notifications. If you previously bought Tapatalk more than a couple years ago, you are grandfathered in without ads via VIP status. Just sign in with your old Tapatalk account.
The Night Mode setting in the Tapatalk options is a lot nicer, in my opinion.
You can upload pics into a post right from the Tapatalk app. It works well.
One quark with Tapatalk: It only displays Usernames, and will not show Display Names for members. There seems to be no way around this yet. I guess you'll get used to recognizing me as Mantis.
Any troubles with Tapatalk, please post here, and one of us that uses it should be able to help you get it set up and working how you like.