I spoke with Kiera about this yesterday, we were both digging the feature set a lot but it looks like its not compatible with the version of vB she is working to upgrade to. Perhaps in the future, it is really cool.

Lets not upgrade then.

Would love to see something like this.

This.

then have someone build an app for 2p2 ldo!

yes please

i dunno, i've gotten pretty good at navigating 2+2 on my phone, i don't think we need this...

I'd buy an app made specifically for 2+2, like actually buy it, not "buy" it.

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+1 for no upgrade

do want

make it work zomg

how is it possible that the vB people haven't made a good iphone skin yet?

They don't make skins really, just the vanilla vB default.

Not upgrading also isn't an option. What, you want to end up like we did with the UBB software, stuck in time? No sirs!

When are we upgrading?

And what version are we upgrading to? Can we ask in their forum if they have plans to support the version we're upgrading to?

I would pay cash money for a 2+2 iPhone app.

Please?

I will pay $9.99 at the itunes store for this

QFT.

Although "only" a recently registered but longtime lurker, I would love a 2+2 iPhone app. My employer uses extremely zealous internet filtering software so my iPhone is my main 2+2 browser.

what are the advantages of the upgrade, when will it happen, and exactly how is it incompatible? these may be workable issues. it'd be great if the admins would keep interested users in the loop on this.

This is ALL my personal perspective, not that of 2+2. I'm interested in this purely as a user, so please take this as one user's opinion:

I've done some research on Tapatalk's and vBulletin's forums and I see a pretty major problem - Tapatalk makes money off of people buying the app, but I don't think it brings advertising along with forum content to Tapatalk users. In other words, what incentive do forum owners have to implement this? It could potentially draw users AWAY from visiting the forums via browser, costing them traffic and advertising $, while making somebody else money on the other end. Tapatalk either needs to deliver advertising along with content or somehow cut forum owners in on users they bring to Tapatalk. Because otherwise I can't see how it makes sense.

Again, nobody from 2+2 has stated that opinion to me, it's something I was wondering about and a subject that's been raised on vBulletin's forums.

Yea I thought of that too. I feel like tapatalk should adopt a referral system. 2p2 would get their own referral code that they could advertise to their viewers. That was tapatalk gets advertising and forum owners are compensated proportionately for business they bring to tapatalk. They might have to increase the price for this to work but i would be fine with it.

these are not workable issues unfortunately, as Ryan pointed out the forum software is the priority, we don't want to add any add-ons that could hold us back, it wouldn't be in the best interest of the community.

+1 for LFS, I agree with his analysis. I think 2+2 would be willing to give it a shot though, if its not a conflict with our forum software development and future upgrades, because I hope there would be a residual side effect of driving more traffic to 2+2 via browsers. I am using the Facebook app as the model, Facebook's app is helpful but if I only used the App to access Facebook I would pull my hair out, in reality it encourages me to visit Facebook more often due to the slowness of the iPhone.

If and when we do implement a tool like Tapatalk we would of course have to notify our advertisers, we cannot afford to piss them off, and Tapatalk's lack of banner ad implimentation does mean there is at least some risk that an advertiser might be turned off by this idea, I assume that most if not all advertisers wont mind but you never know.

Well put *TT*.

Ryan, any idea of when the new software will be coming out? What is changing?

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