Has anyone ever considered making a JGO app?
It would be nice to have a sleek mobile interface to browse the site with, I basically always access the app from my phone. It would also be an easy way to contribute money to the owners of the site (is that Riven? Not really sure).
I’d pay $4.99 for a JGO app no problem.
Riven mentioned a long time ago a that there was a new forum in-dev. If he can work in a Rest API, I’d love to make a JGO and JGO-Lite app with Cordova.
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I’m strongly against TheMeatMan’s suggestion. I think that the web is the platform. I assume that maintaining this forum is already a time consuming task for Riven and I prefer having a single forum available for everyone. I don’t see what a software (“app”) would bring in comparison with a mobile aware website, especially just for a forum. Ecumene’s suggestion is a good compromise to me, it would allow anybody to make an unofficial “app” using a Rest API even though I’m still against the appification of the web.
Its just silly because you can have the same great experience if the website is made with mobile in mind.
Which is less work and less maintenance then making an additional app… let alone TWO which is how it sounds from Ecumeme.
Plus this forum is going away for a new one, so we’ll see then.
“We have an app” is the new “we have a website” apparently…
I didn’t even think of a mobile aware website, I figured it would be impossible with SMF… You can link websites to your phone’s home-page and have it act just like an app with the favicon as an app-icon, too.
[quote]“We have an app” is the new “we have a website” apparently…
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With all these adblockers, who can argue… Mine stopped working when the filters didn’t update during my vacation, and it took me a while to notice. I’m pretty much use to it after I had to live off my phone last week, so I removed it. You can’t really adblock an app, though.
“I’m strongly against TheMeatMan’s suggestion. I think that the web is the platform. I assume that maintaining this forum is already a time consuming task for Riven and I prefer having a single forum available for everyone.”
I think that there should be one forum for everyone too. The app is just a mobile interface, the web would still be the primary platform.
All that I’m saying is that it’s difficult to use the forum on a mobile device. A mobile friendly website would also solve the problem if no one wanted to do an app, but I figured making the website movile compatable would take a lot of time.
With all these adblockers, who can argue… […] You can’t really adblock an app, though.
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Well, but then you are still forcing quite an extra effort onto your user, in most cases adding no functionality at all, just to force-feed an ad to them. Something that does usually not even give you any financial benefit to speak of, because… bad market.
Also mind that the reason adblockers have become this popular in the first place were not the ads that leave the product usable as usual.
Apps aren’t for everyone but if someone wants to do it off their own back then that can never be a bad thing. I for one would be pro an android app, I can think of plenty of reasons why an app can provide more than a mobile version of a website.
Yes, but I’m certain that off-the-shelf modern forums have this already built in.
This comes up pretty often, so you might want to use the search to find similar topics.
I can’t seem to navigate to page 2 of the search (re: @Riven), so here are two just from the first page:
If you want to browse this site sensibly on a mobile phone, you options would be
Thank you ziozio, that’s really what I was trying to get at.