Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks


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Post Thursday, 15th June 2017, 17:46

Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

I'm a lonely old Laotian woman, and all I want to do is lurk and thank. I just want to read posts and watch the tiny tavern dramas unfold like a beautiful fractal of wonder over things such as:

-paralysis
-airstrike
-food
-remove
-elves
-necromutation
-vehumet

And occasionally chime in, maybe, from time to time. Like .03 posts per day or something. Also it's a convenient outlet to read about other people's dreams.

But Tapatalk is the fly in the ointment.

I won, so luckily, praise laotian jesus, a beautiful SM-N920T to use Tapatalk on, and also wifi connectivity to my whole village, somehow, in like, a nationwide raffle? I think they have those in Laos. With amazing rewards like that. So naturally I think to myself, surely using the PREMIERE forum app for Android is the best choice? And yet

How wrong I was.

For you see, the juciest of forum discussions are largely closed to me, because Tapatalk tells me I am banned from the forums when I click on a topic that someone who has been banned from the forums has posted in. When this happens, I am completely unable to read the posts.

Sometimes, it is specific pages of a topic that are closed, others the entire topic. These topics are often goddamn goldmines.

Expected counterpoints:

1. But zip, the people running this forum have nothing to do with tapatalk?
Rebuttal: shut the hell up

2. Just look at the forums in your phone browser!
Rebuttal: what is this. The dark ages?

3. -rolls eyes- first world problens
Rebuttal: I already told you and in other posts too, check my history, I'm from goddamn LAOS and I'm 34 years old

4. There's no way you're Laotian, and the people from Laos refer to themselves as the Lao people
Rebuttal: shut the hell up

Airtight case made, I expect only the finest of rerebuttbuttals.

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Post Thursday, 15th June 2017, 18:26

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

ZipZipskins wrote:I'm a lonely old Laotian woman, and all I want to do is lurk and thank. I just want to read posts and watch the tiny tavern dramas unfold like a beautiful fractal of wonder over things such as:

-paralysis
-airstrike
-food
-remove
-elves
-necromutation
-vehumet

And occasionally chime in, maybe, from time to time. Like .03 posts per day or something. Also it's a convenient outlet to read about other people's dreams.

But Tapatalk is the fly in the ointment.

I won, so luckily, praise laotian jesus, a beautiful SM-N920T to use Tapatalk on, and also wifi connectivity to my whole village, somehow, in like, a nationwide raffle? I think they have those in Laos. With amazing rewards like that. So naturally I think to myself, surely using the PREMIERE forum app for Android is the best choice? And yet

How wrong I was.

For you see, the juciest of forum discussions are largely closed to me, because Tapatalk tells me I am banned from the forums when I click on a topic that someone who has been banned from the forums has posted in. When this happens, I am completely unable to read the posts.

Sometimes, it is specific pages of a topic that are closed, others the entire topic. These topics are often goddamn goldmines.

Expected counterpoints:

1. But zip, the people running this forum have nothing to do with tapatalk?
Rebuttal: shut the hell up

2. Just look at the forums in your phone browser!
Rebuttal: what is this. The dark ages?

3. -rolls eyes- first world problens
Rebuttal: I already told you and in other posts too, check my history, I'm from goddamn LAOS and I'm 34 years old

4. There's no way you're Laotian, and the people from Laos refer to themselves as the Lao people
Rebuttal: shut the hell up

Airtight case made, I expect only the finest of rerebuttbuttals.

(I've been lurking and thanking for years and I love this place. Keep being tavern, tavern)

Sent from my SM-N920T using Tapatalk

Yeah, it is a bug in tapatalk, and possibly its relationship to this particular old crufty forum software.
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Post Thursday, 15th June 2017, 18:27

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

so afaict there are four possibilities:

(1) you also have a regular computer
(2) you don't have a regular computer, and only play Crawl on your Android smartphone
(3) you don't actually play Crawl at all
(4) you're lying

BUT:

--) if (1): either you can just use your computer, or you are some kind of mad person who needs to look at the forums all the time. in the first case, why are you even posting this?? in the second, clearly you are a horrible person and your needs and desires are irrelevant.

--) if (2): so, I've never tried playing Crawl on a touchscreen device myself but I imagine the UI is super annoying, which means you must have a very high tolerance for super annoying UI. if you are complaining about having to look at the forums on your phone browser despite having a very high tolerance for super annoying UI, then clearly you are a horrible person and your needs and desires are irrelevant.

--) if (3): admittedly I can sort of relate, since I haven't played Crawl in months but still post on the forums regularly (it's like a nicotine patch). still, if you desire to participate on the forums of a game you don't even play even to the extent of lurking and thanking, then clearly you are a horrible person and your needs and desires are irrelevant.

--) if (4): clearly, you are a horrible person and your needs and desires are irrelevant.
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Post Thursday, 15th June 2017, 18:30

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

It is also possible that the op has a computer with no internet on which they can play crawl (presumably by downloading it elsewhere and copying it) and only has internet access on the phone.

Not highly likely but possible.

Fwiw i mostly read the forums on the phone, but find it highly annoying when i need to go over to the computer to look at something breaking me out of what i was doing.
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Post Thursday, 15th June 2017, 18:56

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

Tapatalk sucks amazingly, and I don't have much more to add. It's also meant to be used as a hub for different forums, which is useless when you want to visit just one.
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Post Thursday, 15th June 2017, 19:02

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

I think you're missing 5) I like to look at the forums on my lunch break at work and when waiting in line for things when I don't have access to my computer and 6) I'm fucking around

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Post Thursday, 15th June 2017, 19:14

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

ZipZipskins wrote:I think you're missing 5) I like to look at the forums on my lunch break at work and when waiting in line for things when I don't have access to my computer and 6) I'm fucking around

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Post Thursday, 15th June 2017, 20:01

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

ZipZipskins wrote:I'm a lonely old Laotian woman
...
and I'm 34 years old

I'm 34 too and screw you for calling me old :P

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Post Thursday, 15th June 2017, 20:21

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

tasonir wrote:
ZipZipskins wrote:I'm a lonely old Laotian woman
...
and I'm 34 years old

I'm 34 too and screw you for calling me old :P

In my country my life is already more than half over my friend.

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Post Thursday, 15th June 2017, 20:40

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

So that just makes you middle aged, then! Not old! You've got to look on the bright side of life, my friend! If life seems jolly rotten, there's something you've forgotten! Or put another way, you came from nothing, so when you return to nothing, what have you lost? Nothing!

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Post Thursday, 15th June 2017, 22:46

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

my friend

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Post Thursday, 15th June 2017, 23:51

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

OH NO it was actually 0.51 posts per day, but I'm sure it's gone up. I vastly underestimated how many posts I make a day. I'm so sorry for misleading you all.

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Post Friday, 16th June 2017, 01:50

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

Just wait until you have such a long backlog of posts that you can't really move your daily post count significantly anymore. I'm around 2.3 a day, forever. Kind of like the winrate on my account, which actually has been very slowly creeping up, but only from around 1 to around 2.4%. I'm currently at exactly 3600 games, because I like to zerg the dungeon over and over.

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Post Friday, 16th June 2017, 06:35

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

Actually I think I have the reverse problem, which is that I have such a long backlog of no posts that I can't budge my post count.

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Post Friday, 16th June 2017, 06:45

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

It is inconsistent for me, I got the "banned" message a couple of time for one specific thread, then it worked when I tried it thrid time. Just be insistent I guess :)

It got me thinking, is "inconsistent" related to "insistent" in English? :)
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Post Friday, 16th June 2017, 16:36

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

Almost always I think that if the app tries to load a page that maybe starts? ends? has somewhere in the middle? with a post by a banned person, I get the message.

I don't think they are related, but it seems like they ought to be

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Post Friday, 16th June 2017, 18:14

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

ZipZipskins wrote:Almost always I think that if the app tries to load a page that maybe starts? ends? has somewhere in the middle? with a post by a banned person, I get the message.

I don't think they are related, but it seems like they ought to be

I had guessed at one point it happened when the last *unread* post was by someone who was banned, but i gave up trying to figure out why and when it happens
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Post Friday, 16th June 2017, 18:23

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

What is this whole banned shit? How can banned people write to the forum at all?

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Post Friday, 16th June 2017, 18:33

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Magipi wrote:What is this whole banned shit? How can banned people write to the forum at all?

They write things before they get banned....
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Post Friday, 16th June 2017, 23:14

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

yeah like for example USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST

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Post Monday, 19th June 2017, 17:39

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

It's pretty hard to get banned from this forum without writing on this forum.

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Post Monday, 19th June 2017, 23:40

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Sounds like a challenge!

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Post Tuesday, 20th June 2017, 21:05

Re: Hey guys, Tapatalk sucks

It'd be good if tapatalk support would be removed from the forums so that 1. I don't have to see annoying popup advertisements for tapatalk, and 2. No one else is conned into giving them money. They should be paying the forums staff for the free advertising, if they aren't, cut them loose.

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