Mad River Marc said:I use tapatalk, and would love to be able to use it here, but I understand that it's not a priority
Do you recall where you saw the thread. It looks like Tapatalk does support Simple Machines.S Smith said:Mad River Marc said:I use tapatalk, and would love to be able to use it here, but I understand that it's not a priority
Yes... priority is the issue... There is a poll in another thread to see if the number of people that want it warrant the limited time our illustrious volunteer admins have to implement it.
Stewart said:Where is the poll referenced above? I've like to place my vote for support for Tapatalk.
S Smith said:Stewart said:Where is the poll referenced above? I've like to place my vote for support for Tapatalk.
http://forum.cog-online.org/index.php/topic,38122.0.html
The poll/thread expired a few weeks ago. As you can see, the overall response was light and those who expressed interest even lighter. While this would be a nice add-on, the [volunteer] admin does not want to take on the install & maintenance of a feature that there is little interest in. I'm sure Colin would be happy to hear from members who are SMF gurus who would be willing to lend a hand.
S Smith said:Stewart said:Where is the poll referenced above? I've like to place my vote for support for Tapatalk.
http://forum.cog-online.org/index.php/topic,38122.0.html
The poll/thread expired a few weeks ago. As you can see, the overall response was light and those who expressed interest even lighter. While this would be a nice add-on, the [volunteer] admin does not want to take on the install & maintenance of a feature that there is little interest in. I'm sure Colin would be happy to hear from members who are SMF gurus who would be willing to lend a hand.
Stewart said:In a world of mobility and progressiveness I find it hard that only 20 COGers see value in this. I understand that resources are light and are volunteer based, but this can't be that much effort. While I don't manage a forum for hundreds/thousands of users , I do manage my own Wordpress and Gallery website for family content and adding a plugin can't be that much effort. I do understand that maintaining it and future upgrades does add extra work.
S Smith said:Stewart said:In a world of mobility and progressiveness I find it hard that only 20 COGers see value in this. I understand that resources are light and are volunteer based, but this can't be that much effort. While I don't manage a forum for hundreds/thousands of users , I do manage my own Wordpress and Gallery website for family content and adding a plugin can't be that much effort. I do understand that maintaining it and future upgrades does add extra work.
20 members replied to the poll. Only 8 indicated interest. Go figure.
I fully understand why club volunteers need to minimize their workload... it's an incredible task to balance time between volunteering for COG, working at the real job, finding time for family, and riding (not necessarily in that order)
MrBob said:What are we discussing here: A recent poll proved that members aren't interested in adding Tapatalk to the mix, or, volunteers are busy enough as it is and we should leave things as they are?
I get that volunteers are busy and need our support, but I also get that their job is to assist members have the forum they want.
Have we done a good job of determining what that is?
Twenty members out of now many?
S Smith said:MrBob said:Hard to say how many exactly. Last I heard there are over 2000 paid members in the club. Looking at the public forum stats: http://forum.cog-online.org/index.php?action=stats
There are over 6000 forum users registered. There are approximately 3000 with more than 100 forum posts.
But only 20 voted in the poll. Just sayin'
It's kind of hard to figure out how to read this, but, in effect, 8 members decided the question of using Tapatalk. We know that most forum users are lurkers but if 20 responses reflects the level of interest among members, so be it. The only question remaining for me is how many members actually knew of the poll.
Colin said:Hi Let me Chime in a moment
As it's basically my call right now to push the button or not on Adding Tap Talk
MrBob, you make very valid points, and I think you have a good handle on the issue.
How many new of the survey, who knows, probably the same number that have read this thread.
IIRC there was a cost to install the TapTalk plugin (I could be wrong) the vast majority access the forum from their browser and the vast majority would not know Tap Talk from a hole in the head. The fact that only a hand full 8 out of 6,000 have chimed in and only what 4 here in this thread have expressed an interest tells me that that the candle ain't worth the flame for me to spend the time to install and maintain it.
Now if I was a real Forum Ho, and used my iPhone 4 to connect on a regular basis then likely I would install it right (just as you would if you were admin)
As you may have seen from the Concourier I'm looking to transition parts of my workload over to new blood who may well be interested in Tap Talk and many other things. For now I'm paddling hard, working on the 2013 National and figuring out how to consolidate our overly complex online presence.
Cheers
Colin
S Smith said:Stewart said:Where is the poll referenced above? I've like to place my vote for support for Tapatalk.
http://forum.cog-online.org/index.php/topic,38122.0.html
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The poll/thread expired a few weeks ago. As you can see, the overall response was light and those who expressed interest even lighter. While this would be a nice add-on, the [volunteer] admin does not want to take on the install & maintenance of a feature that there is little interest in. I'm sure Colin would be happy to hear from members who are SMF gurus who would be willing to lend a hand.