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Title: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: njbair on Sat, 04 April 2015, 14:01:16
When I use Tapatalk for Android to view this forum, I tap the Unread tab and it shows a message that there's nothing there. Anyone else have this issue?
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: Novus on Sat, 04 April 2015, 14:12:42
Nope

Are you on 5.1?
Also get an iPhone.   
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: njbair on Sat, 04 April 2015, 14:18:55
Weird. So I tried signing out and back in, no change. Then I went into settings, enabled notifications, then re-disabled them. Now it works fine. Hmm.
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 05 April 2015, 03:24:50
The latest version I get dozens of post notifications every day, but it consistently only shows 10 unread posts in the icon badge.
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: Ngt on Sun, 05 April 2015, 04:25:03
I have the same problem in the unread posts and the chronicle section. I'll try what you did there.
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: Ngt on Sun, 05 April 2015, 11:46:13
Didn't change anything on mine.
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: njbair on Sun, 05 April 2015, 16:01:26
Didn't change anything on mine.

Did you log out as well?
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: heedpantsnow on Sun, 05 April 2015, 16:25:17
My gifs are broken in new version. Anyone else?
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: Ngt on Sun, 05 April 2015, 16:26:12
Didn't change anything on mine.

Did you log out as well?


Na I didn't but I'll try.
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: njbair on Mon, 06 April 2015, 20:06:47
My gifs are broken in new version. Anyone else?
Sometimes. There is a setting to load images or not on slow connections. I enabled it and things seem to work better. Although I'm by no means on a slow connection.
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: Ngt on Tue, 07 April 2015, 02:16:32
Didn't change anything on mine.

Did you log out as well?


I log out but it didn't change anything apparently.
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: njbair on Tue, 07 April 2015, 07:01:04
Didn't change anything on mine.

Did you log out as well?


I log out but it didn't change anything apparently.
Hmm. Maybe try clearing the app cache?
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: heedpantsnow on Tue, 07 April 2015, 18:05:46
I cleared my cache...freed 2.4GB on iPhone. Wow. Wish there was a way to limit its size!
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: njbair on Tue, 07 April 2015, 18:28:52
I cleared my cache...freed 2.4GB on iPhone. Wow. Wish there was a way to limit its size!

I believe stuff stored in the cache is treated like a recycle bin...if other things need more space it's the first to go. So you're not really losing that space.
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: Ngt on Wed, 08 April 2015, 03:42:22
I cleared my cache...freed 2.4GB on iPhone. Wow. Wish there was a way to limit its size!

I believe stuff stored in the cache is treated like a recycle bin...if other things need more space it's the first to go. So you're not really losing that space.
It was not the car on my Nexus 5. I had 4Go cached stuff and I had to remove because I couldn't install more apps.
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: baldgye on Wed, 08 April 2015, 06:27:46
Why do people use this app again? Last time I looked it was over £2 and I only ever hear people complain about it... I use Safari on my phone and while its not great, most of those problems are down to GH rather than the browser... and it's free to use lol
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: njbair on Wed, 08 April 2015, 07:49:47
Why do people use this app again? Last time I looked it was over £2 and I only ever hear people complain about it... I use Safari on my phone and while its not great, most of those problems are down to GH rather than the browser... and it's free to use lol

There are plenty of benefits. It works for all forums, not just GeekHack. It provides optional notifications. It presents the forum content in a mobile-optimized view. No need to pinch zoom anything or trying to tap on tiny text links. The trade-off for that optimization is you're working with a subset of features. For example, polls don't appear on Tapatalk. Posts per page is fewer than the forum default. Post signatures are not displayed. That kind of stuff. And who can complain about 2 bucks?
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: baldgye on Wed, 08 April 2015, 08:03:39
Why do people use this app again? Last time I looked it was over �2 and I only ever hear people complain about it... I use Safari on my phone and while its not great, most of those problems are down to GH rather than the browser... and it's free to use lol

There are plenty of benefits. It works for all forums, not just GeekHack. It provides optional notifications. It presents the forum content in a mobile-optimized view. No need to pinch zoom anything or trying to tap on tiny text links. The trade-off for that optimization is you're working with a subset of features. For example, polls don't appear on Tapatalk. Posts per page is fewer than the forum default. Post signatures are not displayed. That kind of stuff. And who can complain about 2 bucks?

Fair enough, and yeah £2 is more than $2 haha but still any price over 99p is pretty much a 'premium' app on the app store these days and for that you kinda expect a lot (rightly or wrongly)...

but yeah as a big forum user, even on mobile, it just never appealed...
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: Ngt on Wed, 08 April 2015, 11:30:02
I've never had to pay it. It was free when I downloaded it.
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: baldgye on Wed, 08 April 2015, 13:26:14
Maybe it changed? Idk it was when I was pretty new to GH that I first looked at what it was on the App Store and I remember thinking it was a little pricey for something to just browse forums on...
Title: Re: Tapatalk app not showing unread posts?
Post by: Ngt on Wed, 08 April 2015, 13:36:46
I used to browse GH on my browser as well but there was a banner saying I could use TapTalk and once I decided to give it a try. It was before the new version came out.