What's wrong with Tapatalk?

[Shawn Gossman]

How do you feel about Tapatalk?

Tapatalk is a service that allows you to create your own online community, bring it to a modernized mobile format, and even migrate your existing community over to it.

In the old days, Tapatalk was more of a plugin the give your forum mobile features. Then it changed over time and with that change, came some controversy.

I'm curious what you all think of Tapatalk and if you would ever use it? Why or why not?

 

[Cpvr]

I used it for vBulletin years ago, but just the app.

I wouldn’t use it again as my users didn’t like it.

 

[Tracy]

The original philosophy of TapaTalk (and ForumRunner) was great for sites that were primarily discussion based. A centralized application that would allow you to access and interact with sites across the internet from one interface.
The issue came into play for sites that offered more than just discussion areas. Users of those apps were never exposed to those other site features (think gallery, articles, resources, directory listings, etc). And as time went on, those type of features were becoming more common on sites and used.

Then you had ForumRunner get scarfed up by vB for use only with vB. Which was a pity as I really liked ForumRunner better than Tapatalk for its interface.
The final straw for me with Tapatalk was when they started forcing any images uploaded via their app to be hosted on THEIR servers and not the sites servers. The end result of this was if you ever took TapaTalk off your site, you threatened those images in threads no longer being viewable.

As for using it again... no thanks, due to the reasons I mentioned above. Now, if someone could come out with an app with a centralized log-on that could use 3rd party major features then I would seriously consider it. But now with PWA, the "ugly looks" of using a web browser on a phone is not so significant. The biggest issue remains individual logons and site bookmarks needed.