We have recently installed the Tapatalk plugin which allows you to easily access the forums on your mobile device. If you choose to use Tapatalk, there is a fee for the mobile app. It’s not compulsory but it’s there for those that would like to use it.
Will it work on Wap… ?
It’s an app for smart phones/devices like the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones. How is WAP relevant?
I have an iPod Touch 4G … I find browsing via Safari or Opera Mini quite easy, so I don’t really find a need for this app. My 2c.
I’ve used a number of smartphones, and I appreciate that this app will be useful. Regardless of the technology these phones have the browsing experience is often woeful, hence the sheer number of website applications that exist.
WAP is becoming less relevant now - at the time phones didn’t do images, didn’t do much layout and were very basic black and white… so WAP was created to allow them to show some basic content. Now, with modern smart phones, its not really needed anymore.
Exactly my point. 
I just hope people don’t start thinking that creating a separate iphone version of a site is good practice, because it’s not :s
There isn’t a mobile web and a desktop web, there’s a web and you should be making it look good on all devices
It’s almost as bad as making a WAP version
I completely agree, but what can you do when the quality of the mobile web is still terrible?
Besides, with websites acting like services people want big sites like Twitter, Gmail and Facebook to integrate with their phone and to receive updates as a seemless part of the phone.
Again, I agree, and I am somewhat surprised that vBulletin haven’t invested time in making forums more mobile-friendly, or even releasing an application themselves.
Well there’s media queries which is a step in the right direction 
Besides, with websites acting like services people want big sites like Twitter, Gmail and Facebook to integrate with their phone and to receive updates as a seemless part of the phone.
Oh I agree there totally (after all I have twitter and mail as apps on my iphone, both with push notification) - I’m just a little worried that people might think “Oh well Sitepoint make a mobile app for their website so we must have to as well” - where in most cases they shouldn’t!
Completely agree Clair, but as with any company we have more work than resources. If I could get enough dev time to provide a better solution then I would, but for now we’re providing interim options.
I think that your opinion is valid and welcome this type of discussion, so please don’t feel that I’m making excuses or shooting you down.
Ohhh,Thats really a good news, now I’ll be updated all the time by utilizing Tapatalk.Thanks for the convenient.
Not at all - now you’ve explained the reasons to me I can see where you’re coming from so I know you’re not ignoring me
I can see the merits of the idea, but given the relative costs of other apps then I think they’ve priced this just too high. ($2.99 === £1.79). If it was 99p (£0.99) I’d probably get it - but >£1 breaches a psychological barrier. 
Well WAP was a stop-gap that served a purpose about 10 years ago and yeah, it’s really not necessary now that smartphones are all powerful however… I think that there is definitely a difference between the mobile web and the desktop web and smart developers should at least be thinking about how they are going to provide a more minimalist view to mobile devices.
The content should be the same obviously and in this day of CMS’ there’s no reason why you would duplicate content however the presentation, navigation, layout, AJAX, etc… should be a whole lot slimmer for mobile than the desktop.
Yeah, that’s what I’m trying to say. We shouldn’t be making iPhone apps, instead we should be using CSS techniques to make things look good on devices with narrow screens
Only you said it better
I downloaded it this morning to use on the train up. I thought it was quite good.
Generally speaking I’d rather use an app if it’s available as it makes better use of my specific device’s capabilities (native menu bars, account control across multiple forums, etc, etc).
I know webapps are cool, I like responsive design, I use conditional media queries, but nothing quite beats a native app, and if it’s available, why not
That sounds like an interesting invention. It would make things much more easier for all but i just wanted to know about its response or feedback.
I completely agree, but what can you do when the quality of the mobile web is still terrible?
Well if you’re involved in the industry you can spend some time this year making it better
I’m curious on this one guys. We installed Tapatalk as a result of community demand, but I have had feedback saying that it’s cheeky to prompt people for more information and then take them to a $4 app in the App Store. There doesn’t seem to be a paid version (ie that we pay for so you don’t have to). What are your thoughts?