Tapatalk RIP for RFF Deactivated

Keith said:
Fortunately in OZ if you can't get broadband through the normal providers there's a government subsidy that covers the cost of the rather expensive satelite receiving gear that goes on your roof which if you had to pay for it would cost you $3000.00 + :eek:

It's not all that fast though and the monthly gigabyte allowance is pretty pitiful ... even on an eighty dollar per month plan!
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The NBN will solve all your problems :p

<National Broadband Network for those o/s... a 40-billion $ white elephant)
 
And here on my flaky cellular laptop connection (sometimes lightning, sometimes dial-up), RFF is no different than before and always loads ok.
 
Stephen - it was definitely much slower yesterday several times when I logged on. Sometimes so slow that it timed out.
Fine today
 
RFF has been slow all week. Excruciatingly, mind numbingly, watching paint dry between page updates s l o w.
And that was on the one or two occasions when it was a bit faster than all of the other times when RFF was unuseably slow.
 
I'll look forward to your conclusions.

Since I installed TapaTalk, I've become a frequent visitor to the site and come across hundreds of interesting threads that I wouldn't have spotted using laptop access.

Previously, I was an occasional (twice a week maybe) visitor and mainly focussed on one section of the Forum. Now it's everyday and the Forum is much more rewarding.

Does RFF have the facility to recognise where I finished reading any particular thread ? That's a big advantage with TapaTalk, IMO.
 
rolo said:
Does RFF have the facility to recognise where I finished reading any particular thread ? That's a big advantage with TapaTalk, IMO.
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Yes, of course. Prior to the title to any thread which has new posts you will see an arrow. Click that and you will be taken to where you left off in a thread. Do this instead of clicking the thread's title.
 
rover said:
Yes, of course. Prior to the title to any thread which has new posts you will see an arrow. Click that and you will be taken to where you left off in a thread. Do this instead of clicking the thread's title.
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Rover, I find that this facility is not as reliable at RFF as it is at other vBulletin sites I visit. It seems that as long as I do not visit RFF, the pointers are intact, but when I visit, sometime between five minutes and an hour later, all the pointers reset to "read" whether I have looked at the topic or not.

It has been this way since I joined.
 
I found RFF to be agonizingly slow as recently as last night. It took forever for the page to complete after posting.*

Tapatalk? I had not heard of this, and don't have it. All my posts are done with the "hunt and peck" app.

*Update: when I finished posting the above, it needed over a minute to fill in all the bells and whistles on the page, such as all the avatars.
 
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Chris101 said:
Rover, I find that this facility is not as reliable at RFF as it is at other vBulletin sites I visit. It seems that as long as I do not visit RFF, the pointers are intact, but when I visit, sometime between five minutes and an hour later, all the pointers reset to "read" whether I have looked at the topic or not.

It has been this way since I joined.
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I've found it like that here too. If I open the site and then get distracted before I look at any threads, when I come back they're all marked as read.

Ronnie
 
Tapatalk RIP

Tapatalk RIP

the results are in.

despite its advantages for some,
real world RFF just works a LOT faster without tapatalk

tapatalk will not be reinstalled.

anyone know of good alternatives to check out?

Stephen
 
if its not installed now its still very slow.

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maybe I spoke too soon. Things have got a bit quicker.
 
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I can still access RFF with Tapatalk. This might mean that the deinstallation has failed, or that part of Tapatalk does not require site-side code installed and works like any generic client. In the latter case, we'll have to see whether the functionality holds up over time - and we have to face the fact that any present or future slowdown has some other reason apart from Tapatalk.
 
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