If posting here were as easy as posting to twitter, that would be awesome. We need an app!! Forums are soooo 2005 'n' shit.
@londonpinball
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PBrev app
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Monkeybug
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cooke said:
Yes I agree! And as we know...twitter is quality over quantity.... or...Wait? Or is it the other way around?
Monkeybug said:
Oh yeah! And your quality posts are so critically important and never superfluous. We wouldn't want to do anything to change the quality of the content on this or any other forum! Status quo ftw! Progressive change NOOOO THANK YOU!!!
Monkeybug
Active Member
cooke said:
But if more people start posting garbage from their Iphones....then what will I do? My monopoly will crumble. Think of the children!
Luckydogg420
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I have no problem being able to post poor quality posts now. But an app might make it look prettier.
For there is be an app, we would need to use a commercial bulletin board software. phpBB is free, and quite old. It has not been modernized or updated in a long time.
Commercial BB software costs about $400 , for example vBulletin is a very good platform ...
Hopefully this weekend, I will have time to add a paypal contribute campaign, where we can try to raise money to purchase a commercial program to take PBR to the next level. Stay tuned.
Derek
Commercial BB software costs about $400 , for example vBulletin is a very good platform ...
Hopefully this weekend, I will have time to add a paypal contribute campaign, where we can try to raise money to purchase a commercial program to take PBR to the next level. Stay tuned.
Derek
Monkeybug
Active Member
It would be neat if Brock could arrange to get paid sponsors on board for some banner ads by PBL, BAA, PDI and whoever else might be interested in some additional exposure. I know I emailed Terry at PBL a few years ago about getting a banner on maaca and he seemed open to the idea. I sent a PM to Sparky or another admin back when they were asking for donations to help out with the costs of running the forum before an anonymous source came in to help out. I personally don't mind banner ads as long as they are related to pinball.
Derek what about Tapatalk?
Derek what about Tapatalk?
I'll look into tapatalk, problem is the free one is full of ads ... and the paid one is $39/month which is pretty expensive considering the amount of people who would actually use it.
Also the paid version requires the costs involved in publishing an app to the apple store ....
Derek
Also the paid version requires the costs involved in publishing an app to the apple store ....
Derek
REVOLUTION said:A mobile theme would be much easier to check while driving
...and during dinner with the in-laws!
movingpictures
Active Member
If an app is made, it should definitely have the ability to order pizza (pineapple please) :lol:
we need to raise about 400 bucks for vBulletin which will give a free iphone and android app, + the cost to add an app to the iphone store for free.
If I implement tapatalk, it is not free for you iphone users (there is a free android one) but then if we buy vbulletin you lost your money.
I am going to get the paypal campaign to raise money going, if we get enough interest, great, if not, we can put tapatalk on.
Derek
If I implement tapatalk, it is not free for you iphone users (there is a free android one) but then if we buy vbulletin you lost your money.
I am going to get the paypal campaign to raise money going, if we get enough interest, great, if not, we can put tapatalk on.
Derek
Luckydogg420
Member
Deffinatly set up fund raiser. I think $400 is not a hard to see goal.
Could even set up a raffle and sell tix, (like the N.I.B. stern draw) throw together a grab bag of stuff that everyone can use; cup holders, novus, balls ect. Sell tix for $20. Should be able to fund raise enough in a couple months. Have a draw at the end of the year.
Could even set up a raffle and sell tix, (like the N.I.B. stern draw) throw together a grab bag of stuff that everyone can use; cup holders, novus, balls ect. Sell tix for $20. Should be able to fund raise enough in a couple months. Have a draw at the end of the year.
I believe the BB has an app for it. I am still investigating board software alternatives, and which ones come with an app, I would like a proper app that will give push notifications etc. not just a webpage that runs in your iphone.
We also need to consider themes, it takes a lot of work to get the site to look good, including modules like "thanks" etc, some software just does not allow it. Perhaps in the end we can stay with phpBB.
I will probably find the top 3 and we can do a vote on which one people would like to see, then we can set the goal and raise money. vBulletin seems to be the leader in the industry.... more to follow
We also need to consider themes, it takes a lot of work to get the site to look good, including modules like "thanks" etc, some software just does not allow it. Perhaps in the end we can stay with phpBB.
I will probably find the top 3 and we can do a vote on which one people would like to see, then we can set the goal and raise money. vBulletin seems to be the leader in the industry.... more to follow