iPhone/iPad/iPod forums app

[t8yman]

not if you're not using the iPhone app, but are instead accessing the same interface with a web browser.

[eFestivals]

yeah you can neil, any app can be returned to the top of the screen by tapping the status bar.

Which part of me saying ""not if you're not using the iPhone app, but are instead accessing the same interface with a web browser" passed you by?

[t8yman]

ah.

[Banana Co]

Can you skip to pages in threads on the app?

[t8yman]

not really, you can access the last page and move back, but thats it afaik.

[windy_miller]

Neil, any news on an android app, or at least tapatalk integration? Just got a shiny new Android phone, but these forums bring the browser to its knees.

[eFestivals]

Neil, any news on an android app, or at least tapatalk integration? Just got a shiny new Android phone, but these forums bring the browser to its knees.

The andriod forums app that was meant to be coming (and which I paid for, even tho a small cost, grrrr) seems to not be happening. While nothing has been said back to my enquiries about what's happening, I suspect that the guy who was doing them has disappearred off the face of the earth &/or is no longer involved with the forum software makers.

As it happens, I had a brief email exchange with someone else last week about getting app sorted via another means. As far as I know that's going to happen, and presumably soon-ish, but at present I know nothing more about that.

However, an app would only really be a direct front end to the mobile skin for these forums - so it's something you can sort for yourself pretty easily....

In theory your phone should default to using the mobile skin when you access these forums, but I'm aware that it might not happen automatically for a few reasons. So you can make it happen yourself by a number of methods:-

1. Scroll to the bottom of any forum page, and click on the 'change theme' link and then select the eFestivals Mobile Skin option.

or

2. click on this link:-

/skinchange.php?id=2">http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/skinchange.php?id=2

... to change the skin to the mobile skin.

(click on /skinchange.php?id=34">this link to change it back to the full skin)

or

3. Go to the mobile version of the full efestivals site - http://www.efestivals.co.uk/m/ - and there's links on there (the same ones as in 2 above) to force the skin into mobile or full skin.

I hope that helps.

[windy_miller]

Thanks Neil. My phone doesn't default to using the mobile skin for some reason, however I think I have worked out how to alter my bookmark to default to the mobile version.

[tolywoly]

Just downloaded the app. Hello 21st century, I don't really like you.

[Stash]

Am I missing something. How do you skip to the last page of a topic?

[metallimuse]

Am I missing something. How do you skip to the last page of a topic?

[eFestivals]

This is an issue for me using my smart phone.As a result I can't really go into an existing topic without having to trawl through sometimes 60 odd pages to get to the most current.

if you're signed in it should only present the new posts to you when you click into the thread.

If you're not signed in then it has no way of knowing what you've already read, and so starts from the first post.

[metallimuse]

if you're signed in it should only present the new posts to you when you click into the thread.

If you're not signed in then it has no way of knowing what you've already read, and so starts from the first post.

[eFestivals]

It does which is cool but say I looked in a thread on page 2 and come back when it's on page 13.I may just want to have a look at the last few posts but instead I have to go through 11 other pages to get to it,there is no skip function.

yup, that is a bit annoying.

[windy_miller]

I've not used it myself, but I've heard that the Tapatalk app is supposed to be good for reading forums on your phone. Do you have any plans to integrate tapatalk into the efestivals forums?

http://www.tapatalk.com/index.php

Edited September 7, 2012 by windy_miller

[eFestivals]

nope.

[windy_miller]

nope.

[eFestivals]

Any reason why not?

it gives no advantage over using the mobile skin, aside from there being an app on your phone.