Forum on New Server

[Zoot]

Must say that I'm finding lack of Tapatalk a complete arse.

I know that security has to be the primary concern, but would appreciate you re-considering when you have time to do whatever is necessary.

[RiK]

Must say that I'm finding lack of Tapatalk a complete arse.

I know that security has to be the primary concern, but would appreciate you re-considering when you have time to do whatever is necessary.

There's nothing can be done this end. The problem is with Tapatalk.

[gravy]

Yeah I had a good look into it.

The issue I had is we were getting spammed with bogus tapatalk requests which in turn was stressing out the server's memory usage and then causing it to crash.

That said I hadn't configured the web server to be a bit more conservative about the memory it uses and how it deals with the shit load of requests that were coming in. I've done that now and it -may- be okay with tapatalk enabled.

Or it may not. To find out means re-enabling the plug in and basically keeping an eye on it. To be honest I'm not all that keen on spending the time to do that. There's frequent releases (7 this year) and in the release notes there's usually some security vulnerability fixed.

The thing that swung it for me is that despite being a vector for hacking tapatalk will not submit their plugin for security review to the phpbb3 mod database.

Because it's a lot of effort and there'd an unpredictable turn around time for approval.

Sorry but just stinks of bollocks. Takes a long time to approve? That's fine, at least I'd then have a choice between code that's certified secure or wanting to use the latest version. Right now I don't which kind of sucks.

So. NO DICE

Btw did you email tapatalk? I got a mail from one of the guys that run the company saying he'd heard we'd had issues with the plugin and how could he help?

[Misfit]

So. NO DICE

Is there some kind of mobile skin that can be applied to the forum then? I've seen stuff on others but not sure if they were phpBB or compatible with whatever we are running.

Normally I'm against mobile versions, but after having TT trying to navigate this forum in the iPhone browser is a bit of a pain.

[RiK]

So. NO DICE

Is there some kind of mobile skin that can be applied to the forum then? I've seen stuff on others but not sure if they were phpBB or compatible with whatever we are running.

Normally I'm against mobile versions, but after having TT trying to navigate this forum in the iPhone browser is a bit of a pain.

I do have a responsive theme running on phpbb on my photography and martial arts forums. Works quite well, see:
http://forum.richardolpinphotography.co.uk

[Misfit]

I do have a responsive theme running on phpbb on my photography and martial arts forums. Works quite well, see:
http://forum.richardolpinphotography.co.uk

That's really nice RiK. Could we have that please Mr Gravy, sir?

Without registering it's hard to tell, does it have things like 'view new posts' and a way to get to the first unread message in each topic?

[Dio]

An order of magnitude less 1990s than this old donkey too.

[Misfit]

An order of magnitude less 1990s than this old donkey too.

For sure. Wouldn't hurt to get a new skin for the main site too. But less important.

[gumboot]

What's so wrong with the 1990s?

[RiK]

That's really nice RiK. Could we have that please Mr Gravy, sir?

It's a commercial theme that I paid for so I'm not able to simply give it to YY but I guess we could purchase a license for it.

[gravy]

An order of magnitude less 1990s than this old donkey too.

For sure. Wouldn't hurt to get a new skin for the main site too. But less important.

I suspect you guys are running the old legacy skin and haven't switched to the one that came with phpbb3?

[Misfit]

Ahh, you'd be correct. Had no idea it was an option.

[Misfit goes and finds how to change skin...]

Hmm, I'm not sure it's an improvement! Maybe it will take some getting used to, but it doesn't solve the mobile issue.

Could you add Rik's skin or similar?

[Misfit]

For now I'm going back to the 90s.The animate icons on the left of topics are hurting my head!

[Barney]

An order of magnitude less 1990s than this old donkey too.

For sure. Wouldn't hurt to get a new skin for the main site too. But less important.

I suspect you guys are running the old legacy skin and haven't switched to the one that came with phpbb3?

I've just given the updated skin a try. It's awful. Way too busy and the list of topics appears to take up a lot more vertical space. It's just awful. I'm going back to the 1990s

[gravy]

Well this is the thing. People don't like the same thing. And they don't like change either

I'll have a look at the mobile skin this w/e and see what can be done though.