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April 03, 2013, 10:12:59 AM
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   My aim is to make browsing the forums on a mobile or tablet much easier than it is now. It works by screen-scraping data from the forums, and has the blessing of theymos (the forum administrator). The working name is "Bitcoin Talk Mobile" and I'm still actively developing it, so please if you have any feedback or a feature request just give me a shout out in this thread here! - Logik |
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Logik (OP)
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April 03, 2013, 10:18:05 AM |
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Oh, and, you can't currently reply to threads or anything; just read them. But I'm working on that!
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addi
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April 03, 2013, 10:52:27 AM |
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Looks pretty slick, will give it a try
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phatsphere
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April 03, 2013, 12:29:11 PM |
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Interesting! How did you do that? Scraping and re-formatting?
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Logik (OP)
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April 04, 2013, 01:56:39 AM |
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Interesting! How did you do that? Scraping and re-formatting?
Basically, yeah. One program scrapes the data and publishes it in a standard format (aka. json api) and then the actual mobile web app uses Ajax to talk to the json api to display the data. |
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April 04, 2013, 04:39:05 AM |
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Very neat! Through, I still don't understand why people like mobile versions through. I prefer full versions of site over condensed mobile versions having tons of whitespace (for a small screen) and lack of functionality (which I understand is because you're scrapping the content)
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Logik (OP)
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April 04, 2013, 11:52:53 AM |
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A well done mobile version is a lot nicer to use really frequently. If you only use something occasionally you might not really notice. Have you opened the 'Wall Observer' thread on a phone before? The entire phone screen is taken up by the pagination links  That's just one example.. A poorly done mobile site is worse than a desktop version though. They are very hard to get right - they should be simple but powerful. Mine isn't quite there yet; it still needs more work. I like Slashdot's mobile interface a lot. I hope to make Bitcoin Talk Mobile just as powerful but easy to use on a phone. |
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April 08, 2013, 04:49:18 AM |
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Interesting! How did you do that? Scraping and re-formatting?
Basically, yeah. One program scrapes the data and publishes it in a standard format (aka. json api) and then the actual mobile web app uses Ajax to talk to the json api to display the data. Oh, PLEASE give me a copy of that scraper program!! Is this open source? You should make it open source. |
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Logik (OP)
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April 08, 2013, 10:37:49 AM |
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https://github.com/L0g1k/BitcoinTalkScraperIt's an Eclipse project, you should be able to checkout & import and run the tests, but I haven't actually tried that out myself, yet. Let me know if you have any problems setting up and I'd be happy to help (I'm on Australian time FYI)
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April 08, 2013, 10:55:12 AM |
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Thanks (I'll just use the API) I've sent 0.01 BTC as described in the other thread  |
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April 14, 2013, 05:12:09 PM
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Great work. Makes Bitcointalk a lot better readable on a mobile.
If Login would somehow be possible, so I have my watchlist, would be awesome.
Also local Boards seem somehow off. When I try to access the German section for example I always get to politics & Society.
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April 14, 2013, 05:19:54 PM |
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This is pretty neat. Cannot wait for full functionability  Thanks for working on this |
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Logik (OP)
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April 15, 2013, 09:19:04 AM |
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Great work. Makes Bitcointalk a lot better readable on a mobile.
If Login would somehow be possible, so I have my watchlist, would be awesome.
Also local Boards seem somehow off. When I try to access the German section for example I always get to politics & Society.
Thanks for letting me know about that - it was indeed wrong. It should be better now. I'm curious about your comment about your watchlist. Personally I seldom use that feature - it sounds like you use it a lot? |
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April 15, 2013, 09:32:33 AM |
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Great work. Makes Bitcointalk a lot better readable on a mobile.
If Login would somehow be possible, so I have my watchlist, would be awesome.
Also local Boards seem somehow off. When I try to access the German section for example I always get to politics & Society.
Thanks for letting me know about that - it was indeed wrong. It should be better now. I'm curious about your comment about your watchlist. Personally I seldom use that feature - it sounds like you use it a lot? Yes, it's working now. Thanks for fixing this. Yes I use the Watchlist a lot, whenever I see a Topic that interests me, but I don't have something to contribute/say, I add it to my Watchlist, so I see it there when something new has been posted. Also have "add threads I posted in automatically to my Watchlist" enabled lets me follow threads I posted in a lot better than "new replies to your posts", as I can simply remove topics that don't interest me anymore from my Watchlist. |
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April 15, 2013, 09:52:41 AM |
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wow !!! look like iphone layout.
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April 16, 2013, 11:45:36 PM |
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i seldom visit this page and happened to drop by and saw this thread...juz exactly what i've been looking for...can't wait to try it! thanks man!...
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June 06, 2013, 06:54:04 PM |
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Nice! Also, 'Login' is not spelled 'Logik' Also, are you still working on this? |
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June 06, 2013, 07:40:47 PM |
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I'll use this, but it's going to annoy the hell out of me...seeing something which I would like to reply to and can't. As soon as you do that, it would be awesome.
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June 09, 2013, 03:49:34 PM |
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Seems pretty nice but the full site is pretty much enough for me unless you manage to make your version as powerful but much much simplier to use than the full one then I might switch.
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June 09, 2013, 09:35:34 PM |
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Seems pretty nice but the full site is pretty much enough for me unless you manage to make your version as powerful but much much simplier to use than the full one then I might switch.
I would never switch, but it's handy if you can't get to you're computer for any reasons. Plus my internet browser on my phone is normally messed. |
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