MiataTurbo Mobile Application
 

We are proud to announce our new free app that makes it easy for you to use MiataTurbo on the go!

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Android users click here:

(link)

Apple users click here:

(link)


Some of the great features with the app include:
·Have your favorite forums send you push notifications when you get a new private message or a thread you are subscribed to is posted in!
·Fully customizable home screen with favorite forums and subforums
·Save thread images to your picture gallery
·Full posting options (quote posts, start new reply, new topic)
·Attach unlimited photos from your library (or take photo from your camera and upload to forum)

This reminds me, I probably should update from the beta version I've been running (build 1.3.18)...

It's a heck of a great app, by the way. I've been using it for a couple of months on my old Android phone, and I just absolutely love it.

The only flaw is that it doesn't support the Moderator Control Panel, so if I want to ban someone while I'm sitting on the toilet in the men's room at terminal 3 of JFK airport, I have to fire up Opera Mini and do it the old-fashioned way.

Well, that's a pisser.

Oh but you can :)

Click on avatar and then "Ban User"

No ill will towards FRT, but here is an example

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Are there ads?

Well I'll be damned- I never noticed that before, but you're right! That's a lot more convenient than using the MCP.

My toilet-based productivity just went up! :bigtu:

It's cause I called him out in the kitten and cat thread :fawk:

plz don ban :dealwithit:

I'll have to check this out. I normally hate these kind of apps but I'll give it a go.

It seriously is quite excellent, and I'm not just saying that because of the copious amount of pure, uncut cocaine that Nolan gives me in exchange for being his shill.

Takes a little getting used to, but once you learn the controls, you'll never even consider browsing MT from your phone using any other method.

I've been using this now for a few weeks...I don't even use a browser any more. My only complaints are minor: attached images seem to be doubled/tripled once you click on one to view, and not all of the thumbnails seem to be viewable; and only a few avatars show up for me, how does one enable them?

I'm not seeing any.

I have been using it for a few apps as well and I really like the way it is organized. It really does make using this site from my phone 100% easier.

Now I'm confused Joe. I installed this from the Play store a couple of weeks ago, and I'm not sure if I updated yet but I am definitely on 1.3.18, however Google Play seems to think it is up to date.

So they might have just renamed one of the 'beta' builds as the release.

I haven't used it much, I'll have to give it a shot. Is there a 'new' button? It is the reason I use the desktop site from my phone.

1.3.18 should be the latest version. The beta I gave Joe was an all exclusive link to the version everyone would eventually have access to when they were given the link.

You can view "New" or "Recent" posts on the Current screen and it is broken out for Last 3 Days, Last Visit, and Participated.

Yeah, I noticed that. Who knows... maybe I did update it.


Yeah, it works a bit differently from the desktop version.

At the bottom of the screen is a button marked "Current" which is more or less the same function as the "new posts" button in the desktop version. You can adjust the temporal depth of the display in settings- I believe the default is to show 3 days' worth of threads.



EDIT: Nolan beat me to it.

Cool, I assumed Joe got a release candidate since I had the same version and Google didn't want me to update.

The app is quite nice, I will have to get used to it. I will miss being able to open up 10 threads in new tabs, but I won't miss trying to hit the tiny https://www.miataturbo.net/mt2011/im...s/lastpost.gif button every time.

Tapatalk is better... >_> Cept all the forums I'm in seem to be doing all their own apps. -_-

Yeah I already own tapatalk, sure would be good just to use that. I don't know why forums like m.net and this one develop their own. I can still use tapatalk on m.net though which is very nice.

I honestly didn't much care for tapatalk. I find the IB app to be much more intuitive, coming from a predominantly desktop world.

I used it a little bit and honestly it seems like the same thing just with ads.

I'm still getting double pictures. And I cant click on the pictures to enlarge them.

The double picture issues is an unfortunate side effect of the automatic attachment plugin and the app shows both the original source image and the attachment image.

Are you on Android with the issues enlarging photos?

-Nolan

FWIW, I have the same issue (on Android). Images are always "sized to fit" with no option to zoom in (eg: pinch / stretch).

Given the small size and low resolution of my display, this usually means that I can't actually see anything useful in the image.

Yes, Android - Galaxy S3.

The lack of zoom kills the ability to see pics or read captions.

Are you kidding me? You just disabled the mobile version of the site in order to push us to your app?!?! Come on itb. I was just praising how you have handled this transition and you go and screw it all up.

This just means I have one less popup to click decline to to get to mt.net on my phone. I use the full site in opera classic on my Galaxy Nexus and honestly have never had the need for any sort of mobile app.

Wait people still use mobile versions of sites?

The one issue with the pics I have (besides everything's double) is when clicking an image in a post with multiple pics, it takes me to a gallery of all the pics in that post and starts at the first one instead of directly enlarging the pic I wanted to see. Other than that, the app is pretty solid.

Will there be a props viewing/adding feature or did I just miss that?

I do. It is very convenient when in areas with slow cellular speeds.

I personally hate the trend of applications for every thing on the web. It is redundant and not needed. HTML5 is more than capable of handling and creating very easy to use mobile friendly websites. I want to visit a site and have a functional user friendly platform. That was the case here, and now its not. Yes, I can use the regular site and browse it on my phone and I will continue to do that, but it is inconvenient to do so. It is frustrating when people take away perfectly functional items.

m.miataturbo.net

Mobile theme is also still there at the URL above when on a mobile device, if you get the app pop up then simply answer with "no thanks"

We are changing the cookie length for that prompt to show only once a week instead of every 24 hrs so it is less annoying to those who prefer the mobile theme.

-Nolan

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Thanks! m.m.net was forwarding to full site before.

I'm getting used to using the mobile app when it is inconvenient to use a computer and I have noticed several problems.

1. Many pictures will never load. Good connection or bad, refresh or wait, they won't load.

2. All pictures are small when they do load. They cannot be zoomed or resized.

3. The application crashes often when I am uploading pictures. This supposedly sends a crash report every time. You must have over two dozen from me alone.

4. When pictures are uploaded and "inserted inline" they appear as thumbnails on the regular site and must be clicked to be viewed.

5. Some of the moderation tools, such as merge posts, are not readily available (or I haven't found it).

I find it to be a very handy and useful application. I'm just letting you know what I'm seeing form the field.

We are currently active at fixing the crash report bugs and some of the strange issues with picture uploading. On the whole we were'nt completely happy with how well the application works at all so we are working on a completely new one (easier than continuing to throw bandaids on the current one for major changes). The new one is in early development but should be available in 2014. It seems awesome in early tests and should fix and improve upon all current features in the app.

Mock-up photos for the new app:
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More recently we are testing a usable mobile template on a few sites. Scionlife.com has it live now for those curious enough to test it, select "New Mobile" as the style.

If without problems it will be rolled out in a month or so to MT. Here's a pic of that theme FWIW:

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I'll beta test if needed.

Any update on this? I don't mind the app for the most part but the constant crashing, photos not loading, unable to zoom on photos, lag on the keyboard definitely gets irritating from time to time.

And if I try to edit a post it doesn't give the option to add more pictures as attachments. You can only post pics in a new post.

This mobile app is awesome!!

It needs work.

Agreed. It makes my eyes bleed. I stopped using it long ago.

I don't care so much about the look, just the core functionality of it.

-images load rarely
-no zooming of said images
-crashes often
-no multi quote
-poor app scaling for different phone models
-no built in subscription management, need to use browser.

I'm sure there are several other things I'm overlooking but those are my biggest qualms. Seems like the website owner is being some what stubborn and asinine by creating an app and not updating/supporting said app. Not using Tapatalk, which is a god damn breeze to use in comparison, just seems like reinventing the wheel and using octagons.

I'm really not bugged by it that much, even though it seems I am, I just use my phone for most things these days and appreciate a good app.

I am not a fan as well. Any reason why we cant use Tapatalk?

All of these points plus 1:

On my Nexus 5 - the bottom 3 back/home/tab buttons automatically hide normally in other apps. They don't in this one, and it causes them to overlap the bottom app buttons.

This means I have a super small area to press for the index/recent/subscribed etc buttons

Example:
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Crashes every time I click on a thread now.

Ditto. I really wish Internet Brands™ would just utilize the Tapatalk app instead of trying to develop(lack thereof) their own shitty app.

Oh you want to view a picture in the thread? OK. But half won't load and then it is a 100x100 sized picture if you do!

I mean really last update was 2 years ago....

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Yes, makes you wonder why we're Proud Supporters... I use Tapatalk for literally every other forum based site.

They said they are developing a new app coming out in a few weeks. Relax. It'll only suck for a minute.

Still broke here too...


Honestly I tried Tapatalk for a bit.. Couldn't stand it. It didn't seem to work well or smoothly..

I've loved the IB app, til now.. Now I can't use it at all...

The new one will be better.

I use taptalk on many other sites. At least it works.

Tapatalk works. It allows you to easily go low bandwidth when you need to.

I do not have high hopes for the forthcoming IB app. Maybe it will be great. Maybe the Badgers will beat Kentucky by 50. Anything could happen.

Wait, they said. It will be here soon, they said.

Okay, this is ridiculous , can somebody fix this? It worked great for a while.....

Is Garage Talk the new app?

Yes. It works pretty well.

Thanks, I was still using the old one and it was giving me trouble.

I bet it was! I thought I was the last one trying to use that thing. Garage Talk is much better.

Garage Talk app is giving me "Chain validation failure" errors on Android N. Can the IB team please look into it?

Thanks!!!

App doesn't work on Nougat.

An update is coming to add https support to the forum and that will fix the issues with Android N and the mobile app.

My apologies that it has taken so long.

Hooray! A couple months of use before it's broken on O!

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