ForumRunner

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#1

During the Forum/FB discussion, many people mentioned the issue with Forums (such as PHPBB) not being natively being designed for smartphones in the same way as FB is.

When I ran the fourms for several games that I admin’ed, I came across an app called ForumRunner, which can be used to access forums on mobiles. All it needs is a PHPBB mod attached to the forums, and then anyone with the app can access the forums via their phones in an easier-to-access-than-native-browser fashion.

I thought that I would just mention this, in case PD might be interested in allowing that to happen…

#2

I’ll take a look at the weekend, but no promises.

Mod support in PHPbb 3 is abysmal. There isn’t any, at all. Every “mod” is a set of instructions for changing the source code of the site, which means installing security updates (which PHPbb is justly famous for requiring) becomes about 30% more difficult for every mod installed. I’d rather have fewer features on the forum than not keep up with security updates, because PHPbb tends to become a spam-magnet ten minutes after an exploit is announced…

#3

the other app I have used is tapatalk which works OK with the boards I have used in the past

#4

There’s lots of apps that work just fine with phpbb, without needing mods to the forums. :slight_smile:

#5

I’ve only been able to find 5 forum apps on Android, and the 4 of them that don’t require mods either can’t read the PD forums, or don’t show any threads in it.

I was only mentioning Forum Runner, as I know it works from past experience.

#6

I’ve just added Forumrunner support. You’ll need to search for “Profound Decsisions”, we’re not in the category browser :slight_smile:

#7

Any chance of Tapatalk support? So I can roll all my forums into one app?

#8

I’ve added support for Tapatalk too, I think. Let me know if it doesn’t work :slight_smile:

#9

Not finding you in the teapatalk serach yet will wait a while for it to possibly update.

#10

Forum Runner is working (as I’m using it to post this reply now).

thanks muchly

#11

I’m not putting the forum in the public directory, so you may need to visit the forum on your phone and click the link that should appear.

I’m not a Tapatalk user, though.

#12

Forum Runner was working until this morning when I couldn’t find this forum any more. Any idea if there is a serious problem or is it just a temporary glitch / screw up on my side of things?

#13

Looks like it’s working again.

#14

I love things that just magically fix themselves.