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Tapatalk has been disabled and will remain so until there is a programing change. Tapatalk recently added a "chat room" to every member forum that the Tapatalk staff controls and doesn't not allow the forum owner to have a say in what is discussed nor have moderator control over the discussions. In addition, through programming, they will add you the user to different chat rooms as the code suggests and you have no say in whether your profile information is available or not to other Tapatalk users. This is an extreme breach of security and trust.

Given the subject of my forums, I'm held responsible for the content. As an example, if insurrection becomes a topic and the subject theme of that topic is supporting it, whether I support it or not, I am held equally responsible. A case could be made for subjects not appropriate for minors or any number of things.

"Chat" also operates outside of the forum so it takes information away from the forum. A great example is my Lee Loader forum. I has +/- 500 members but 700 other followers. In a nutshell, "Chat" is robbing the knowledge base of what 700 additional members could provide. Any useful information these followers could add along the forum's subject line is not recorded for future use. Of course, most of the "chat" traffic is nonsense.

This, "Chat", rings the death knell for Tapatalk. Whether they code a forum owner control or not, the app is on the way out. There have been too many security issues over the years that the forum owner has had to worry and deal with. Prior to the first of the year, I was working on mobile stylesheets the would make the forum device friendly. You would select the "skin" through your User Control Panel. I will get back to the coding as Tapatalk has never been very responsive to the owners of the forums that they rape and pillage.
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fine with me I never liked it anyway.
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Get rid of it!!! Total B/S!!
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Never understood why some people love tapatalk anyways. Tried it and couldn't uninstall it fast enough.
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I wondered why I was getting notification of comments I had no idea about. It was the chat room stuff I don't participate in from several of my forums. I will say I did like the ability view and respond to threads on my mobile device since I am not able to check in on the forums the majority of the day. I do agree this is a big security issue with outside entities having control over settings.

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Well, I will miss the Tapatalk feature. I read and participate in about a dozen forums, and Tapatalk makes it very easy to follow all of them on my tablet and smartphone. It reduced traffic tremendously compared to the web interfaces.

Sorry to hear that.
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Fyodor wrote:Well, I will miss the Tapatalk feature. I read and participate in about a dozen forums, and Tapatalk makes it very easy to follow all of them on my tablet and smartphone. It reduced traffic tremendously compared to the web interfaces.

Sorry to hear that.
I thought about you in my decision as I know that you are very pro-Tapatalk but everything they manage to do rubs me the wrong way. This outfit really believes that dependency on technology should require you to surrender your privacy. Of course, they are nothing but a marketing firm that mines and sells everything that a user does with their device. I pretty much look at them as the anti-Christ.

I wanted to reload & shoot today but these %@*&$ robbed me of my entire day.

You might look at Mobile/Device Friendly "Air" To Replace Tapatalk.
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I used it a lot for Rossi-Rifleman and one other automotive site, not much else. Most of the forums I'm on are not on Tapatalk anyway. It was a good app for me when it started but this last straw couldn't be tolerated.
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For what it worth I had Tat for all of about 15 min..... all of my devices run just fine in desktop mode .
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It was a convenience thing for me. There are other ways to access L-L using my phone. None of us really need to help a business that is pulling this kind of crap!
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