Mobile version of the zone website

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:59 pm

Dear Mods,

I personally think it would be easier to use on the go, nothing fancy like uploading pictures but just viewing and replying to threads on the forum. Is there any plans for this?

PS. Maybe one of the techie mods can design/setup a smartphone app.

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:01 pm

go on your phones web browser and type in e30zone.net and you have the full zone, it works very well on andriod phones, with phones having good internet and wifi use anyway, no one would use a scaled down half fat version

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:05 pm

cant get it to work on my nokia 3210

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:06 pm

polsta wrote:

go on your phones web browser and type in e30zone.net and you have the full zone, it works very well on andriod phones

Not always. I often have problems posting from my Android phone - just get a message saying session has expired or something.

Having said that, its obviously worked this time

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:20 pm

The board could have the Tapatalk mod for phpbb installed, which is free, but phpbb needs to be at least version 3 I think..

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:24 pm

polsta wrote:

go on your phones web browser and type in e30zone.net and you have the full zone, it works very well on andriod phones, with phones having good internet and wifi use anyway, no one would use a scaled down half fat version

Whilst a phone may well scale the site to suit it better, this is by no means a 'fix' most mobile browsers do not scale things correctly so when viewing pages they can go quite odd.

Whenever a client mentions to me mobile browsing I automatically then create a version that is designed for mobiles. It isn't a hard task and makes things much easier.

A forum based on phpBB it is easy enough to install the TapaTalk plugin and for people to use that on their mobiles. This means that all text, links etc. are all displayed properly and the place is very easy to navigate. The down side to this is that the app costs for mobile phones (at least it used to, been a while since I've looked at it).

E:

Jimbob wrote:The board could have the Tapatalk mod for phpbb installed, which is free, but phpbb needs to be at least version 3 I think..

Last I heard it was pay for, but updated the plugin bit above.

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:32 pm

Smartphones are the devil's work.

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:34 pm

mabz wrote:cant get it to work on my nokia 3210

A 3210!!! you elitist swine!

I make do with one of these fine devices

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:49 pm

lucky for some!

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:13 pm

Those are abit fancy eh ! I use this on a daily basis

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:22 pm

Pfffttt

This is my weapon of choice:

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:24 pm

BATTS91 wrote:Those are abit fancy eh ! I use this on a daily basis

flash git with your fancy chrome, use yoghurt pots here still !

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:30 pm

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:01 pm

I find the only thing tricky on the phone is typing anything complicated, other than that i use it all the time, about half of my posts on here are via it.

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:03 pm

FinalD wrote:
Jimbob wrote:The board could have the Tapatalk mod for phpbb installed, which is free, but phpbb needs to be at least version 3 I think..
Last I heard it was pay for, but updated the plugin bit above.

The plugin is free for the forum owner, but the Tapatalk app for the forum user is paid for.

I use it for other forums and it's really nice to use.

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:16 pm

HairyScreech wrote:I find the only thing tricky on the phone is typing anything complicated, other than that i use it all the time, about half of my posts on here are via it.

Yeah a lot of my posts contain full stops after words.like.that because the . is next to the space button. Random other mistakes, Im literate but my phone does not allow it

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:28 pm

That's good then, my phone allows a lot however i'm pretty illiterate so it evens out.

Post Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:58 pm

polsta wrote:
BATTS91 wrote:Those are abit fancy eh ! I use this on a daily basis

flash git with your fancy chrome, use yoghurt pots here still !

We love abit of Autosol in essex

Hahah

I only ever use my iphone4 and im forever makig mistakes not being my fault ! I can spell ok its just the grammer im shite at

Post Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:56 pm

I find the normal site on my iPhone works fine.
The only problem I have is using my sausage fingers to select the topic I want to read!! Usually gotta expand the page right up! Or just keep hitting the screen until the correct item is selected!!

Post Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:36 pm

There will be a mobile version released with the new Zone which I'm working on at the moment.

Post Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:43 pm

Does the new zone have new Emoticons ????

Post Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:00 pm

craigieeb wrote:Does the new zone have new Emoticons ????

If you like

Start a thread, get everyone to post their favorites and I'll add them to the new forum software. ( when I've finished building the new site

)

Post Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:07 pm

@steve, any idea when the new site will go live?
also will there be photo hosting like facebook & r3v? Instead of using a third party?

Post Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:12 pm

It will be sometime in 2013, it's currently in early development.

Post Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:18 pm

Steve wrote:It will be sometime in 2013, it's currently in early development.

looking forward to it

I take it the final spec is all hush hush lol.

Post Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:30 pm

steve_k wrote:also will there be photo hosting like facebook & r3v? Instead of using a third party?

This has been covered a couple of times lately, the costs and logistics of this just isn't worthwhile really.