Tapatalk Warning

Frutos

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Helpful Moderator

NSC Patron

May 3, 2006

35,549

Northumberland

• Dec 18, 2014

• #1

If you haven't downloaded the most recent Tapatalk update, for God's sake please don't.

I'm stuck with it as I had to download it from scratch onto my new phone and it is borderline unusable compared to how it was before, as evidenced by the universally crap recent reviews on the Google Play store.

You have been warned.

 

vegster

Sanity Clause

May 5, 2008

27,892

• Dec 18, 2014

• #2

Thanks for the warning Frutos, will make sure I don't sleepily press update when it flashes up next.

 

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Richy_Seagull

Well-known member

Oct 7, 2003

2,416

Brighton

• Dec 18, 2014

• #3

Yup, truly awful.

 

Tony Le Mesmer

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Jul 5, 2003

1,349

South Wales

• Dec 18, 2014

• #4

Have to agree. Totally spoilt my whole NSC experience

 

Titanic

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Jul 5, 2003

39,069

West Sussex

• Dec 18, 2014

• #5

I've given up and gone back to Chrome browser for NSC. Awful.

 

Frutos

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Helpful Moderator

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May 3, 2006

35,549

Northumberland

• Dec 18, 2014

• Thread starter
• #6

If you're on Android and uninstall the new version, then visit

http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/tapatalk-inc/

You can download Version 4.9.5 and get back to how it used to be, which is what I have now done.

 

AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit

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Dec 15, 2014

1,979

Here

• Dec 19, 2014

• #7

I never appreciated tapatalk.

 

Gullflyinghigh

Registered User

Apr 23, 2012

4,279

• Dec 19, 2014

• #8

I'm still using the new version as I'm too lazy to roll it back but I do have to agree, it's absolutely changed for the worse.

Thinking about it, this isn't the fitst time it's happened either...they seem to dislike just sticking with one look/theme.

 

fire&skill

Killer-Diller

Jan 17, 2009

4,296

Shoreham-by-Sea

• Dec 19, 2014

• #9

Apart from having to hit FOUR buttons (21st problem), I'm extremely irked at having ads appear on something I paid for. I've put it in their reviews/feedback but I think it's been lost amongst the huge amount of complaints. Still better than trying to view the actual website though.

 

wellquickwoody

Many More Voting Years

NSC Patron

Aug 10, 2007

13,622

Melbourne

• Dec 19, 2014

• #10

Agreed, a very backwards step.

 

Sergei's Celebration

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Jan 3, 2010

3,610

I've come back home.

• Dec 19, 2014

• #11

The new version is utter utter tonk. Agree with all of you on this one. The user experience has hit zero for me, thread pictures, thread titles on the right, poor topic review, always starts at the front page not NSC and many more irksome issues.

Garbage, utter utter garbage.

 

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virtual22

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Nov 30, 2010

421

• Dec 19, 2014

• #12

I have no idea why companies keep doing this, pushing these updates on us that are a completely backwards step, Flipboard's last refresh was just awful, facebook app is a constant sham of updates, now tapatalk. It's like they do zero user testing at all. They have an excellent product but seem to want to justify their existence by constantly tweaking with them.

 

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paul-brighton

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Jun 12, 2011

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Sompting

• Dec 19, 2014

• #13

Thanks to Frutos for the download link. Anyone know how to stop it automatically updating to the new, crap, version again? Thanks

 

Frutos

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May 3, 2006

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Northumberland

• Dec 19, 2014

• Thread starter
• #14

paul-brighton said:

Thanks to Frutos for the download link. Anyone know how to stop it automatically updating to the new, crap, version again? Thanks

Click to expand...

Go into the Google Play store and find the My Apps list.

Click into the Tapatalk one and there should be an option in the top right-hand corner that you can uncheck to stop it auto-updating.

Hope that helps.

 

Bozza

You can change this

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Jul 4, 2003

55,721

Back in Sussex

• Dec 19, 2014

• #15

Seems ok for me on iPhone still - I use it all the time. I'm not sure when it last updated as my phone does it automatically.

On the ads - I've enabled them as NSC gets a share of the income. It's not much relative to the Google ads we have, but it all helps.

 

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paul-brighton

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Jun 12, 2011

77

Sompting

• Dec 19, 2014

• #16

Auto update OFF. Thanks again Frutos. I thought it was in apps settings on my tablet for some reason

 

Frutos

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May 3, 2006

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Northumberland

• Dec 19, 2014

• Thread starter
• #17

paul-brighton said:

Auto update OFF. Thanks again Frutos. I thought it was in apps settings on my tablet for some reason

Click to expand...

No worries.

 

Ninja Elephant

Doctor Elephant

Feb 16, 2009

18,855

• Dec 19, 2014

• #18

I could have done this warning a week previously, Mr Frutos! But I am using it as a means to stop browsing NSC on my phone. It's now a rubbish and poorly presented app. They've done very well to go so wrong, so quickly. Poor effort.