Bitcointalk forum mobile app - page 3.

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Quote from: Lordsilvabtc on November 09, 2022, 05:29:03 AM

I do not support the idea of building a mobile App for the Bitcointalk Forum, looking at how things have paved way over the years, you will understand that creating a mobile app would bring more damage to the community than good.

As far as I know, there's no specific target, nor additional features, the processes here are very simple and really lite, no complications of anything, creating a Mobile App will lead to cronning the app, and scammer can easily take advantage of that.

With that being said, Bitcointalk forum is in good hands, good shape and perfect in all of it's activities, as of today there's no resemblance anywhere, It's simple on a mission and standard of its own.

Don't see any damage to be done not unless if they change the UI or other things upgrade which eliminate how easy to use the forum the same what we are using right now. But the same like other user who disagree with this idea I will also join them because there's nothing to be change here nor to have an upgrade since this is not really needed. Forum is accessible on any device you are using so creating an app will just be additional work for them and it will cost a lot of money to build this one.

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I do not support the idea of building a mobile App for the Bitcointalk Forum, looking at how things have paved way over the years, you will understand that creating a mobile app would bring more damage to the community than good.

As far as I know, there's no specific target, nor additional features, the processes here are very simple and really lite, no complications of anything, creating a Mobile App will lead to cronning the app, and scammer can easily take advantage of that.

With that being said, Bitcointalk forum is in good hands, good shape and perfect in all of it's activities, as of today there's no resemblance anywhere, It's simple on a mission and standard of its own.

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If you want, you can make a read-only alternate frontend to Bitcointalk.org, possibly with old/archived data, and then make this a progressive web app so that you don't have to pour hours learning more programming languages for each mobile OS. HTML/CSS/JS will suffice here too (but not the kind that this forum uses).

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Not necessary.

arwin100

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Good to have it since it will give us more convenience while we are away and only using our phone. But this is not necessarily needed because still we can access thus forum by using our web browser and besides this is just another huge work for them if they create and maybe this will also cost a lot of money.

Forum is running good already so I think everything still fine here.

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(⁠☞⁠ ⁠ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ⁠)⁠☞(BTT) Mobile apps are much better and the most beneficial is that all the information will exist in one app if mobile apps.Because within the apps they have their own apps in play store like twitter reddit etc. it is important to have (BTT) apps among the apps. And all kinds of benefits can be obtained from these apps which make BTT these apps the most highly rated among all the apps on play store.

Problem:

1. If all the BTT information is kept in apps then we have to face a little problem. Because if all the information is kept in one app then it is huge amount GB The mobile will not be able to handle it.

2. That mobile is more likely to hang because it will never handle so much space as it is in chrome Browser apps here playing a little saving in mobile.

3. Bringing in BTT apps will face a lot of problems which I think is not desirable at present.

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If something new is to be created, there should be a good reason faulting the existing one.

That said, accessing the platform on the web has posed no issue or challenge. I bet using an app for this purpose, a lot of people will be experiencing slow speed and heavy data consumption considering the size of data the App will need to load. If the App is to work smoothly at a desired speed, the size would have to be huge. Downloading the App to phone will thus take up additional phone space, which is right now avoided. Above all, what about security of data?

Capital NO to this question, no offense!

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Quote from: examplens on September 13, 2022, 05:46:51 PM

Bitcointalk accounts have a certain value not only because of signature or bounty campaigns. I believe, the third-party app for using this forum is not a good idea. Some users even use two accounts, one for regular posting and one from "other" devices. Check LoyceV, he also has a LoyceMobile account just to remove any possibility of compromising the main account.

I wouldn't install an app, even if it was created by the forum. I don't worry much about my mobile account, but I wouldn't risk compromising my phone.

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Quote from: aoluain on September 13, 2022, 04:31:04 PM

Yes something is needed but a third party app is questionable as many have posted.

Bitcointalk accounts have a certain value not only because of signature or bounty campaigns. I believe, the third-party app for using this forum is not a good idea. Some users even use two accounts, one for regular posting and one from "other" devices. Check LoyceV, he also has a LoyceMobile account just to remove any possibility of compromising the main account.

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Quote from: hugeblack on June 07, 2021, 04:55:53 PM

Quote from: King Raymond on June 05, 2021, 05:41:21 PM

A Bitcointalk forum mobile application should be created, what do you think?

You need to make this forum respostive with the mobile interface and not necessarily create an application.
Many people complain that they zoom in and out of the screen several times, so they do not get a good experience when they browse from the phone.
mobile apps need trust and too many things that current forum cant apply for it

I agree that the forum needs to be more mobile responsive, I access the forum predominantly
through my smartphone and have done for years. I wonder how many others do so?

I'm kind of used to it now, constantly zooming in and out.

Yes something is needed but a third party app is questionable as many have posted.

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If you like this idea i can make it for 3 days for Google Play, and 7 days to publish on GP

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I also don't think that need . Because The bitcointalk forum has all the criteria what exactly a forum should be. And I find the forum website to be very light weight, using apps there I think would be heavy for phones, so I don't think it's necessary.

I am agreeing with you that there is no need to these things for forum. I also think it can be less secure from forum . And it's already nicely responsive for phone and And I think it's not good to do all the work here on the phone, basically you need to spend more time on the PC to work well. So I think we shouldn't take headache so much about creating mobile apps.

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This site is already responsive, so there is no need to make an APP. People can access it from their phones with any explorer. And a lot of users want to stay anonymous that's why the forum allows anyone to join from a proxy or from TOR. But if we join from our phones then the anonymity will be gone. That's why isn't a good idea to use the phone for the forum.

And the biggest risk about an App is for the ones who lose their phone and get their accounts compromised that way.

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I spend about 20% of my time on mobile (1 day a week at least just on mobile) and I've almost forgotten what a pain it can be to read and comment on my phone, mainly because I've become such an expert at highlighting and deleting quoted texts ha...

It does take me perhaps 4 or 5 times as much time than it does on a keyboard. Not to mention if you touch a wrong button or go back by accident.

So, yeah, I'd welcome it. As SFR10 already says though, there's Epochtalk. You can join Discord and see more. Bot updates any new GH commits.

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I see a lot of people saying that it is a bad idea, but what device is with people 24/7? ===> Answer : Their Mobile phone... I personally think it is a great idea, if it is well executed. I have used different browsers on my Mobile phone and it is a frustrating experience with all of them.

Also, most young people do not even use computers anymore... but they are seldom more than a few yards from their phones. Why not just hire some good developers and just create something more user-friendly that are targeted at Mobile phones. Huh

When you are away from your home and work ....you still want a good experience visiting Bitcointalk.org... so why not have a App specifically for those instances?

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Quote from: fearfulcalm on June 09, 2021, 10:14:38 PM

I think it's a good idea, cuz it's horrible to use the forum in mobile browser

Depends on the kind of mobile browser. I actually find it abit difficult to use on large mobile browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera etc. Sometimes it is responsive or adjust really well to the browsers. It always works really well on certain kind of lite browser like operamini. If a site doesn't works well on a lite browser for me , I may avoid it completely unless it's unavoidable. Opening multiple tabs of bulky/heavy sites just task my device processor, slows down the device and makes it hot easily.

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I strongly disagree. If this does happen, then we can be sure that a lot of people would be taking advantage in making variations of the app and use it as a medium to steal sensitive information from the user or phishing. This will then result in tarnishing the name of the forum as a whole specially in the eyes of the newcomers. Besides, why shouldnthe forum even bother in making such an app when everything already is good as it is and works fine on desktops and smartphones? I just don't get the idea.

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It is a nice idea to carry out a mobile app for this forum but the nature of this forum is not like other social media. But the fight against spam maybe difficult using mobile apps because a lot of bots will be developed to spoil the serenity of this forum. Just like reddit that have bots that increase upvotes and the rest of other websites with apps. I'm not much of a tech guy but this is my opinion.

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I think it's a good idea, cuz it's horrible to use the forum in mobile browser

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You could check if unofficial open source mobile app can be built... find ways to get it built, test for safety, and get interested members of the forum to use it.
I actually prefer sites that work well on browsers of mobile devices like phones (so that I can open multiple tabs for other uses), Bitcointalk is actually one of such sites. Besides, I hardly use mobile apps that much unless they have multiple uses that include most things I spend much time doing on the internet on daily basis

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