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JamesSFO
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Re: Tapatalk Integration

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Alex Frakt wrote:Tapatalk is a non-starter. Supporting it would directly violate major portions of our privacy policies. We do not collect your information for sale, marketing or promotional purposes. Tapatalk does.

I have also been reviewing the mobile styles. My main problem with them is that the best supported options present an entirely different look and user experience. It's highly confusing if you use both desktop and mobile devices, especially as IMO, the mobile options are confusing on their own terms if you wish to do anything beyond simply reading existing threads.

The ultimate answer is going to be switching to a responsive style. Thanks to the evolution in html standards and web browsers, rather than having to code different pages for different devices, it is now possible to write single web pages that can adjust gracefully to any device. Pages that are coded in such a way are known as responsive pages. Unfortunately, the current version of the forum software we use does not include a standard responsive style, although they are working on one to be incorporated into a future release. There are third-party responsive styles for our software, but we have to do further research on how much of an ongoing administrative burden it would be to install and maintain such a style. It's especially important that any style be compatible with the modifications we have already incorporated into our existing style (primarily to keep spammers out).
Thanks for the update Alex.
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