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Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« on: July 17, 2012, 12:34:02 am »
If you browse Omnimaga from a mobile device, you may have noticed a popup telling you about our newest site feature. The Omnimaga forums now support Tapatalk, a system for mobile users to easily navigate and browse web forums with a native app available for iOS, Android, Blackberry, and others. Here are the official Tapatalk apps:


Unfortunately, the Tapatalk app is not free; it's $2.99 on the App Store, Google Play, and BlackBerry App World. But if you're a big browser of Omnimaga and other Tapatalk-enabled forums, it may well be worth the cost. Plus, there are some free apps and extensions out there that let you use the features provided by Tapatalk for free:

  • Google Chrome (desktop) users can use the Tapatalk Notifier to get notified of new replies and PMs
  • Forums is a free app for WebOS that does what Tapatalk does on other smartphones
  • Board Express for Windows Phone also handles Tapatalk forums, with a free edition

Hope this will be a useful feature to make the forums more convenient to browse.
« Last Edit: July 17, 2012, 12:34:12 am by Deep Thought »




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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2012, 12:38:58 am »
I would be fine with browsing Omni normally on my iPod if Omnom didn't keep growing in size o.O

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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2012, 12:40:42 am »
^ That, and if it didn't crash every few pages :/

I just disable OmnomIRC before I close my comp browser, so it doesn't glitch up the page on mobile.




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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2012, 12:47:32 am »
That's a pretty useful feature that got added here, it's a shame Google Play only accept credit cards as means of payment.

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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2012, 02:07:23 am »
This is awesome. It shall be useful to me on my phone, as Omni lags and eventually crashes my android browser (even with Omnom disabled).

I guess the next step could be to have a free alternative, or something like the TI-Planet app :D
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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2012, 04:39:31 am »
Free alternative would be cool!
And then all the android/iphone/ipod programmers here had work XD

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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2012, 06:03:51 am »
I actually don't have any problems browsing omni on my phone. A few features don't work, but i can read and post just fine )(even if it can be a bit slow) I just use Opera mini. ;) I guess Tapatalk is nice for those that have issues though.

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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2012, 07:36:54 am »
I guess the next step could be to have a free alternative, or something like the TI-Planet app :D
Hmm, as far as I know you have to pay like 100 dollar a year to apple to be able to have your app on their store.


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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2012, 08:07:42 am »
I guess the next step could be to have a free alternative, or something like the TI-Planet app :D
Hmm, as far as I know you have to pay like 100 dollar a year to apple to be able to have your app on their store.
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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2012, 09:50:52 am »
last time I checked, tapatalk is *legally* free on a site called getjar.com for android devices
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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2012, 11:03:37 am »
I can't find it? I found Convo (that free tapatalk client) but not Tapatalk itself.

And oh yeah that site, I was using it back in the time phones were using WAP and J2ME.

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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2012, 11:09:04 am »
Hmm yeah I couldnt find it either. If your running ics i read it wont show up. If it still wont show up it probably expired :(
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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2012, 12:57:44 pm »
Just got it - this thing is pretty handy! Just wish it had IRC support though :P
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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #13 on: July 17, 2012, 06:11:49 pm »
I guess the next step could be to have a free alternative, or something like the TI-Planet app :D
Hmm, as far as I know you have to pay like 100 dollar a year to apple to be able to have your app on their store.
Oh I meant for Android. It's ok if there isn't one for Apple. An alternative could be that the one who did the TI-Planet app makes the Omni one, since he already paid the money to keep apps there (unless it's $100 per app?).

The other alternative is having mobile users default to a different forum theme with fewer pictures or have the mobile mode (maybe WAP2) modified to be more complex and support img tags.

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Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2012, 06:15:01 pm »
I saw this, but it doesn't support lower than iOS4...
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