PaulD Posted 20, August 2017 Report Share Posted 20, August 2017 Morning all - we continue to try to debug Tapatalk, and for the time being, we have uninstalled it from the site ACP again. Tapatalk have no telephone numbers, and their community forum for posting has crashed last week. I dont believe they are going through a good time right now. We continue to wait for them to reply to our emails, but as they are a free service for community forums like ours, they have little motivation to resolve issues in quick time. Thanks for the patience.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tension Posted 22, August 2017 Report Share Posted 22, August 2017 Seems like the latest posts are working again as far as I can see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS-two-timer Posted 22, August 2017 Report Share Posted 22, August 2017 Forum is now showing new content but now I cant edit any of my posts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS-two-timer Posted 22, August 2017 Report Share Posted 22, August 2017 except this one ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Posted 22, August 2017 Author Report Share Posted 22, August 2017 A quick update. We've removed tapatalk entirely again which seems to have stopped the issues with new content and unsuccessful posts resulting duplicate posts (happened to me also over the weekend). Tech support have another ticket in with tapatalk and we are awaiting a reply. Support are also working on debugging the tapatalk plugin but this doesn't look all that hopeful. We're definitely not the only forum with serious tapatalk issues but we're continuing to work on it. If you're noticing issues with the forum not related to tapatalk please let us know so we can work on these in the interim. Also, if you have the skills to help out, we'd love to hear from you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace Posted 22, August 2017 Report Share Posted 22, August 2017 Thanks for the update Deb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttimbo Posted 22, August 2017 Report Share Posted 22, August 2017 Thanks for the update...I didn't realize how much I used Tapatalk until I couldn't ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R182 Posted 24, August 2017 Report Share Posted 24, August 2017 Haven't logged in for about 10 days. There was a reference above about a call out for admins and no response... I don't recall seeing that and I was pretty active. I've commented before that I'm surprised there is no TT alternative. I feel for you admins, I do hope it comes good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckovski Posted 24, August 2017 Report Share Posted 24, August 2017 Appreciate all the hard work. unfortunately I have no skills whatsoever to help out, sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Posted 24, August 2017 Author Report Share Posted 24, August 2017 Not much to update but I'll fill you in where I can. We're trying the Facebook route to get assistance from tapatalk as they are no longer responding to emails from our IT support. With tapatalk removed it seems that the forum is functioning properly and free from weird database issues, so that's something. It might be time to look at alternatives - either alternatives to tapatalk (anyone know any?) or an alternative hosting option to see if it'll work then. We will keep you updated as best we can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulD Posted 24, August 2017 Report Share Posted 24, August 2017 Thanks Deb - yes, to re-iterate, I tried to contact Tapatalk through FB yesterday, and they are yet to even read my message. We have updated a rolling banner overnight, with some excellent images from @Dish. Scaling seems to work well on my PC, but on mobile, it does crop out a lot of the image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treza360 Posted 25, August 2017 Report Share Posted 25, August 2017 I think the key thing here is everybody get onto the app store/play store, give the app a 1 star rating and leave a very nasty comment for the Tapatalk app. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apple3337 Posted 29, August 2017 Report Share Posted 29, August 2017 (edited) The sign in page wallpaper looks great! Just noticed it changes with every new sign in. Nice. A gallery of photos would be good on the forum. Edited 29, August 2017 by apple3337 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tension Posted 30, August 2017 Report Share Posted 30, August 2017 Just out of curiosity is there any work being done to speed up the desktop version of the site? I've noticed it is quite a bit slower than the old version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treza360 Posted 31, August 2017 Report Share Posted 31, August 2017 So I saw on clio197.net that they had a script which went through downloading broken photobucket links and rehosting the pics and fixing the links etc. Any chance this could be done on here? Not sure if there's code freely available out there for this or it's completely custom and up to someone to develop. It would be a nice fu to photobucket as well as fixingall the broken pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC90 Posted 31, August 2017 Report Share Posted 31, August 2017 Speaking of pics, I'm liking the rolling ribbon of pictures up the top, nice touch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudy Posted 31, August 2017 Report Share Posted 31, August 2017 4 hours ago, Treza360 said: So I saw on clio197.net that they had a script which went through downloading broken photobucket links and rehosting the pics and fixing the links etc. Any chance this could be done on here? Not sure if there's code freely available out there for this or it's completely custom and up to someone to develop. It would be a nice fu to photobucket as well as fixingall the broken pics. From putting together a quick script on my laptop just now, I reckon it wouldn't be particularly hard to write something like that but would require someone with direct read/write database access to scrape it for all photobucket links and whether our database host would permit direct access or not is a different matter. A Rails or Python script can easily pull the direct photo link out of the photobucket hosting page, upload it to imgur and update the database record with said imgur link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosey Posted 31, August 2017 Report Share Posted 31, August 2017 Sounds like a good idea, gents. We'll add that to the list, and any help with scripts and/or pointing us towards a solution would be appreciated. Some possible good news just in. Tapatalk have sent us a very apologetic email with a promise of an updated plugin to be released in the next few days to address the IPB issue. Fingers crossed that we get a positive result when the fix is released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chison007 Posted 31, August 2017 Report Share Posted 31, August 2017 Loving the photos at the top banner, thanks guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudy Posted 31, August 2017 Report Share Posted 31, August 2017 2 hours ago, Moosey said: Sounds like a good idea, gents. We'll add that to the list, and any help with scripts and/or pointing us towards a solution would be appreciated. Some possible good news just in. Tapatalk have sent us a very apologetic email with a promise of an updated plugin to be released in the next few days to address the IPB issue. Fingers crossed that we get a positive result when the fix is released. I found this script that has been made specifically for rehosting photobucket images on imgur, and updating forum posts in the db: https://github.com/pastudan/photobucket-imgur I've looked into the code and it looks like a pretty elegant bit of coding and nothing malicious to worry about. Essentially : run a db query to scrape all posts with photobucket links and output to a file posts.txt run convert.js to do all the rehosting and generate a mapping file run replace.js to update db as per mapping file Obviously need a linux machine to run the script and a backup db to test replace.js on before running on prod db. Hope that helps! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R182 Posted 31, August 2017 Report Share Posted 31, August 2017 9 hours ago, Moosey said: Some possible good news just in. Tapatalk have sent us a very apologetic email with a promise of an updated plugin to be released in the next few days to address the IPB issue. Fingers crossed that we get a positive result when the fix is released. Fingers and toes crossed! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosey Posted 1, September 2017 Report Share Posted 1, September 2017 Thanks cloudy. Much appreciated. Will pass this on and see what can be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulD Posted 4, September 2017 Report Share Posted 4, September 2017 On 9/1/2017 at 0:57 AM, cloudy said: I found this script that has been made specifically for rehosting photobucket images on imgur, and updating forum posts in the db: https://github.com/pastudan/photobucket-imgur I've looked into the code and it looks like a pretty elegant bit of coding and nothing malicious to worry about. Essentially : run a db query to scrape all posts with photobucket links and output to a file posts.txt run convert.js to do all the rehosting and generate a mapping file run replace.js to update db as per mapping file Obviously need a linux machine to run the script and a backup db to test replace.js on before running on prod db. Hope that helps! Hi Cloudy, our IT support freelancer is asking for some threads which have the broken photobucket links? Any you know of you can share? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudy Posted 5, September 2017 Report Share Posted 5, September 2017 41 minutes ago, PaulD said: Hi Cloudy, our IT support freelancer is asking for some threads which have the broken photobucket links? Any you know of you can share? Did a quick browse of the forums: Keepitlow's thread is pretty photobucket heavy: http://www.ozrenaultsport.com/index.php?/topic/27786-keepitlows-15-rs265-cup-premium-pic-heavy/ This one as well: http://www.ozrenaultsport.com/index.php?/topic/23017-uk-200t-owner-saying-hi/&tab=comments#comment-471366 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R182 Posted 11, September 2017 Report Share Posted 11, September 2017 Did Tapatalk come through with any progress after the update a few weeks ago? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulD Posted 12, September 2017 Report Share Posted 12, September 2017 2 hours ago, R182 said: Did Tapatalk come through with any progress after the update a few weeks ago? I just chased them with a rather blunt email. Lets see. They did send us notification that they were sorry, but nothing has actually changed. Still 1.4.4 app on their website. I will update if i get any response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treza360 Posted 12, September 2017 Report Share Posted 12, September 2017 I got a Tapatalk app update yesterday. Login issue fix was in the release notes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulD Posted 12, September 2017 Report Share Posted 12, September 2017 4 minutes ago, Treza360 said: I got a Tapatalk app update yesterday. Login issue fix was in the release notes. The issue seems to be with the extension of this 'mobiquo' file its looking for in the app, and the site owner dashboard. I tried installing 1.4.4. this morning again, but the tapatalk web dashboard still says it cant see this file, and hence publish the site. I did get a reply from Tapatalk within 1hr of my abusive email, and I have replied - yet to hear another reply back from them. So things are moving (slowly) again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treza360 Posted 12, September 2017 Report Share Posted 12, September 2017 Cheers Paul. Something else which is weird is posting links in a thread to other threads. These are just straight copies from the address bar and it seems to do some weird auto formatting and convert it into an embedded link like it does an image or video. Obviously (to us at least) it's not one of these and it does give you an option just to display a link eventually but it's annoying that it does it none the less. Is there any way to see if we can avoid this but keep the automatic embedding of actual content. I also put up a screenshot of this so you can see what I mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulD Posted 19, September 2017 Report Share Posted 19, September 2017 On 9/13/2017 at 8:43 AM, Treza360 said: Cheers Paul. Something else which is weird is posting links in a thread to other threads. These are just straight copies from the address bar and it seems to do some weird auto formatting and convert it into an embedded link like it does an image or video. Obviously (to us at least) it's not one of these and it does give you an option just to display a link eventually but it's annoying that it does it none the less. Is there any way to see if we can avoid this but keep the automatic embedding of actual content. I also put up a screenshot of this so you can see what I mean. Hi Treza - we are trying to look into this and have trouble replicating the issue. Is this only when you quote another post to reply to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treza360 Posted 19, September 2017 Report Share Posted 19, September 2017 (edited) Interesting, I just tried this again on this page and got the above embedded link. Obviously from my screenshot before this didn't used to happen so not sure what's changed. Don't think Chrome has done any updates recently (not that I've seen). Edited 19, September 2017 by Treza360 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamR Posted 19, September 2017 Report Share Posted 19, September 2017 I'm liking seeing pics of my 182 in the banner at the top of the site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielG Posted 19, September 2017 Report Share Posted 19, September 2017 2 hours ago, Treza360 said: Interesting, I just tried this again on this page and got the above embedded link. Obviously from my screenshot before this didn't used to happen so not sure what's changed. Don't think Chrome has done any updates recently (not that I've seen). I think you shall find the below will help you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treza360 Posted 19, September 2017 Report Share Posted 19, September 2017 Yeah mentioned that in my initial post on this. Having to click that every time you link something is a pain. However it appears now the embedding creates a little thumbnail where it previously didn't do that's neat. I miss Tapatalk. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace Posted 19, September 2017 Report Share Posted 19, September 2017 1 hour ago, Treza360 said: I miss Tapatalk. So say we all 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulD Posted 19, September 2017 Report Share Posted 19, September 2017 11 hours ago, ace said: So say we all This reply from Tapatalk last night (as I have been chasing them): Jagoba replied: Hi Duncan, We are still awaiting IPB team on do required changes to make app work. We will notify you as soon as we have news from them. SEP 19, 2017 | 05:40AM UTC pmmduncan replied: Hi Summer Any updates? How long do we have to wait for this app to actually work with an IPB forum? Regards Paul Will keep this thread updated once I hear news. At least they are replying in the last week, before was absolute silence in response to our tickets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63x1092 Posted 19, September 2017 Report Share Posted 19, September 2017 Aussiefrogs dropped off the net totally for four days this last week and guess why, tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treza360 Posted 20, September 2017 Report Share Posted 20, September 2017 Grrr. I hate Tapatalk for what they've done to their app and how they've treated forum users over the many years but at the end of the day they're basic system interface is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulD Posted 21, September 2017 Report Share Posted 21, September 2017 Hi all. I asked IPB yesterday if they were communicating with Tapatalk, and they replied immediately to confirm that they are working directly with Tapatalk team on a fix for the plugin. Hopefully we are nearing the end of the road for this sorry saga. Thanks for your patience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulD Posted 5, October 2017 Report Share Posted 5, October 2017 Hi All - Tapatalk is online! Thanks for all your patience.. It seems a change to the cloud setup for IPB and the current Tapatalk app for IPB are at last compatible, and we are online!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R182 Posted 5, October 2017 Report Share Posted 5, October 2017 We are back! [emoji1] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eire Posted 5, October 2017 Report Share Posted 5, October 2017 Ozrs has been made great again!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttimbo Posted 6, October 2017 Report Share Posted 6, October 2017 Great! [emoji106]Am I the only person who can’t seem to get an “unread posts since last visit” feed working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Posted 6, October 2017 Author Report Share Posted 6, October 2017 So happy to be back [emoji16]Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nassy Posted 6, October 2017 Report Share Posted 6, October 2017 Woohoo! Great work to those behind the scenes to get this back up Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojo Posted 6, October 2017 Report Share Posted 6, October 2017 Awesome work OzRS team !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chison007 Posted 6, October 2017 Report Share Posted 6, October 2017 9 hours ago, PaulD said: Hi All - Tapatalk is online! Thanks for all your patience.. It seems a change to the cloud setup for IPB and the current Tapatalk app for IPB are at last compatible, and we are online!! Hi Paul, Great to meet you at the French car festival. Sorry to be the fun police, but I'm having issues logging in 😭 Thanks for everything you and the team have done so far. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielG Posted 6, October 2017 Report Share Posted 6, October 2017 5 minutes ago, Chison007 said: Hi Paul, Great to meet you at the French car festival. Sorry to be the fun police, but I'm having issues logging in 😭 Thanks for everything you and the team have done so far. Cheers. What's the issue exactly? Any error messages etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chison007 Posted 6, October 2017 Report Share Posted 6, October 2017 32 minutes ago, DanielG said: What's the issue exactly? Any error messages etc? Hi Daniel, here's a screenshot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttimbo Posted 6, October 2017 Report Share Posted 6, October 2017 Great! [emoji106]Am I the only person who can’t seem to get an “unread posts since last visit” feed working?I figured it out — Tapatalk upgrade move stuff about, but basically it was an operator error [emoji15] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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