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NOTE: This poll is to show bitcointalk forum what we think about having forum app. I am not a developer, and I do not represent bitcointalk.org. I am a concerned user.  ;D
 
I was thinking that there is a need for official mobile app for this forum or atleast mobile version. This will increase activity on this forum as people are not carrying PCs with them everywhere. It will be convenient to have a mobile app for this forum. So feel free to vote and express your opinion and i am sure soon bitcointalk will introduce mobile app for this forum.

I voted for yes. However, I dont wish to see mobile application for Bitcointalk.org. I want to see a mobile-friendly bitcointalk.org. There's lot of application in Google Play Store that allow us to browser the forums with mobile-friendly interface. However, I wont be trusting them with my account information. Even if it's a official application, I dont want to download another application to my limited space phone.

I edited the question and included the mobile version. Thanks for the feedback. I hope BTCtalk admins will think about it.

The New Forum Software (Epochtalk) will have a responsive design and the devs also have mobile app in their roadmap.

voted for yes


glad to hear it, since im frequently use my mobile phone to access this forum, it will great.
so i will wait it launched. hope it come very soon.

This is encouraging. I am unable to understand that a community of BTC (Currency of future ) haven't yet developed anything for mobile users.  ;D

I'm not sure, and my reason is the variety of phones.  Were talking massive differences as far as reading the forum on the size of screen.  So I see a lot of challanges.

But having it were I could get a alert if a thread of mine was commented on, or I got a PM.  That would be pretty nice.

So I can see both ways.

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I just voted for yes although notlist3d is right about different types of phones and the compatibility.


That's a sweet update to look forward to!

I think an app is a waste of time. We only need a mobile friendly website.

Having to install an app just for bitcointalk.org and having to keep it regularly updated is a huge waste of time. What can a forum app do that we couldn't do in the browser? seems like a huge waste of everyones time to me, and would likely introduce security issues too. There are still thousands of apps using SSL implementations that are vulnerable to heartbleed and the other recent SSL-related exploits. It is probably more expensive to build an app then it is to build a mobile site, I just don't get it.

Is the app going to have proxy support? what about people who live in China and have to use Tor to evade the GFW? is it going to be tested with Tor to make sure it doesn't have any obvious leaks? what happens when you click a link to bitcointalk.org somewhere else, will the app open the thread? will bitcointalk.org still be usable in a browser on a phone? will it work on Android devices that do not have a Google API license etc etc?

I can't believe they plan to build in app, IMO that is a very dumb idea and waste of money and will most likely cause a lot of problems.

The forum is already mobile friendly, i personally use it a lot on my mobile and i have absolutely no problems with it, everything works fine, you can tap on anything without problems, so this is indeed a waste of time.

In my Opinion the Forum will never think of Developing an app for it , Because the forum is mobile friendly.
Anyways thank you for your consideration !

Mobile apps always beat mobile version of a site any time. Sometimes, mobile version of sites always give me headache when some weird shit appears.

whataver help us to made more accesible this forum to everyone should be welcome.

so my vote is yes, btw if the admins didnt do it yet is because maybe they are planning to do it in the future, dunno.

I voted I don't care. I spent almost 6 days in a week through mobile phone to browse this forum. Only need some improvements due to slow loading after latest down time.

I don't think so.  Its not mobile friendly when you need to zoom in and zoom ou. When you need to slide things to just write a single reply. If you are using tablets then it's acceptabl.

Not necessary..( even though i mistakely voted Yes :P ) . The forum runs good on phone too and there is no need for an app unless you are too lazy to open your browser and type "bitcointalk.org" :)

That might be true with some sites but have you tried using the forum on mobile? Everything works perfectly fine, no weird shit appears and you can just zoom in when you have problems touching something. There is no need for a mobile app.

This zoom in and out is the problem here. It might be comfortable with tabs but not with mobile phones having relatively smaller displays.
Thing about being mobile friendly is to be able to read and write without any need of zooming.

of course not..we are (still) in transformation phase and waiting for new board now (https://github.com/epochtalk/epochtalk)

developing anything new related to current board (except some security fixes maybe), would be just waste of time and energy.

I like the idea of having mobile app of this forum but how the users privacy are protected here. Forum account here in bitcointalk is very important to anyone so I voted No. I browsing the forum thru mobile phone sometime and I see no problem. My phone is an old class Android phone which only has 350mb of RAM and I have no problem browsing the site. The bottom line here is , the site is mobile friendly so mobile app version of this forum is not required.

There is one already. Its on my phone right now.

I voted yes. I mostly use my smartphone and I barely go online on my pc so a mobile app would be helpful. + some features in this forum is too big for screen so it's not that mobile friendly but it can work fine.

I don't care, but honestly I don't think it's worth it at this point in time. Just wait for epochtalk, any extra coding or additions to Bitcointalk right now are kind of useless as they'll most likely be in epochtalk anyway. And in my opinion, the site is fine to use on mobile even without a mobile app ;)

I didn't know about epochtalk. When it will be released. Will it replace this forum or it will be a separate forum, and what will be its scope. Another BTC forum?

To replace this forum. It should be an open source competitor to current forum software like SMF, vbulletin, etc.

We don't have an official app yet, i don't think there'll be one before the new forum.

It is great if this forum have mobile app on google play.. Because most of my time in this forum was on mobile... That why i voted YES  :D

Yes, a mobile app for bitcointalk.org is good and a great idea but I think a mobile site of this forum is enough , still I support a mobile app of this forum
It would be a great help for mobile users like me

And the problem there is you seem to be implying that Bitcointalk should have a custom Android app made for it. I don't think there's any point in doing anywhere near that much effort for something that'll essentially come with epochtalk (not an app, but a mobile site I assume) - and I don't think anyone on the admin team (strictly speaking probably just theymos) has time to code something like that anyway, even if they can.