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Juice · Apr 5, 2008

Some of you may have followed this thread, where I first showed that I was working on a sort of "GAF Reader" for the iPhone/iPod Touch

It looks something like this:

I'm exposing it publicly for the first time right now to give you a flavor of what the site looks like. I really don't expect it to take long at all for GAF to effectively knock my home router out of existence, but until that happens, feel free to have at it!

The url to point your iPhones to is: http://searlivans.com/gaf

Be sure to send me feedback. Either in the thread or by PM

maynerd · Apr 5, 2008

Juice said:
Some of you may have followed this thread, where I first showed that I was working on a sort of "GAF Reader" for the iPhone/iPod Touch

It looks something like this:

I'm exposing it publicly for the first time right now to give you a flavor of what the site looks like. I really don't expect it to take long at all for GAF to effectively knock my home router out of existence, but until that happens, feel free to have at it!

The url to point your iPhones to is: http://searlivans.com/gaf

Be sure to send me feedback. Either in the thread or by PM

Awesome! Nice work man!

DopeyFish · Apr 5, 2008

one thing that you wouldn't be able to do (maybe?) is force scaling the images to the approximate size of the ipod screen, since your webapp won't allow for image scrolling

also, having Gaming / OT / Online buttons at the top would be pretty hot. just scrap the thread title text and force the html description change so it says it at the top (just under the time)

but pretty cool

if webapps allow overlays (hopefully?) maybe having a view next post type of option so you can quickly go through a thread without the annoying scrolling

Juice · Apr 5, 2008

DopeyFish said:
one thing that you wouldn't be able to do (maybe?) is force scaling the images to the approximate size of the ipod screen, since your webapp won't allow for image scrolling

I might not understand your question, but you actually can scroll the images within the posts from left to right to see the entire image. You just have to use a two-finger scroll

Juice · Apr 5, 2008

DopeyFish said:
if webapps allow overlays (hopefully?) maybe having a view next post type of option so you can quickly go through a thread without the annoying scrolling

Actually, that's how I originally had it, but people seemed pretty content with the idea of roughly ~5 posts per page. It's actually configurable in the Javascript, so there's no reason I couldn't add a setting on the front to specify 1-N posts per page.

thegreyfox · Apr 5, 2008

hmm this is yummy.

request: Reload page button that jumps to the bottom of the page. Or reload page button that flips newer post to the top. (i feel silly having to scroll down to the bottom just to read one post)

Costanza · Apr 5, 2008

nice

DopeyFish · Apr 5, 2008

Juice said:
Actually, that's how I originally had it, but people seemed pretty content with the idea of roughly ~5 posts per page. It's actually configurable in the Javascript, so there's no reason I couldn't add a setting on the front to specify 1-N posts per page.

oh no no no, i mean

you can scroll, buuuut with "next post" overlay it will just bump you to the next post, have a "continued" button to autoscroll down after the current shown text in the post (this is if it's a rather long post)

obviously in future revisions the overlay would also have reply, quote (or if it's your own post, it will be edit instead of reply)

the imaging thing i meant if your webapp detects an image to be oversized, it will autoscale the image to the viewable width to keep it contained into the post bubbles

layzie1989 · Apr 5, 2008

I'm using this in another window in mobile safari and I'm liking it a lot. The only advice I can give is to spruce up the visual style in the posts, maybe distinguishing more between posts and quotes. Very good job. I have it in my spring board on the bottom right next to Apollo

rampur · Apr 5, 2008

i love it!

TheQueen'sOwn · Apr 5, 2008

Smilies please

and Refresh button (so I don't get kicked back to the main page).
This is so awesome though! Thanks!

Burger · Apr 5, 2008

Amazing and awesome. Thanks alot!

Surely the NeoGAF owner is willing to host this on the forums server ? With a little redirect code for iphone safari users ?

Juice · Apr 5, 2008

TheQueen'sOwn said:
Smilies please and Refresh button (so I don't get kicked back to the main page).
This is so awesome though! Thanks!

I knew I would have some good criticism once I posted the link, but I'm actually using it for reading the forum myself for the first time too and I've come up with a dozen more to-do's. I don't want to be tied down by the project too much, but it already feels like an improvement just because Safari isn't crashing.

kaching · Apr 5, 2008

Hmmm... Takes some getting used to, to navigate this way but really solid overall

Doc Holliday · Apr 5, 2008

Nice Job! thx

Sean · Apr 5, 2008

Great job.

One thing I would like is for stickied posts to be more clearly differentiated. add "Sticky:" in front of it, or make the text green, put a separator between the stickies and normal posts, or something...

Would like if the back button works too, it's not a huge deal but I'm pretty sure this is possible (see digg.com/iphone for a working example).

Also BB code (bold etc) seems to be stripped out, not sure if that's by design though. Bullet points too show up as question marks.

Bboy AJ · Apr 5, 2008

Posting from it now. Nice. One concern is that when you hit next to read more posts, it doesn't go back to the top. I have to scroll back pain which is a bit annoying.

Anyway, great work Juice!

Bboy AJ · Apr 8, 2008

Uh, I think this ruined part of my ability to browse from GAF on my iPhone. I tried to access GAF via regular Safari and /forum/forum/forumwhatever was the extension of the neogaf.com url, ultimately leading to a 404 error.

I cleared my cache/history/cookies and it worked fine again. I'm not sure if this is because of your application or what Juice, but here's a head's up.

Costanza · Apr 8, 2008

Bboy AJ said:
Uh, I think this ruined part of my ability to browse from GAF on my iPhone. I tried to access GAF via regular Safari and /forum/forum/forumwhatever was the extension of the neogaf.com url, ultimately leading to a 404 error.

I cleared my cache/history/cookies and it worked fine again. I'm not sure if this is because of your application or what Juice, but here's a head's up.

That's always happened to me.

Bboy AJ · Apr 8, 2008

Even browsing GAF from a desktop? Never happened to me before in my years here. Huh.

Costanza · Apr 8, 2008

Bboy AJ said:
Even browsing GAF from a desktop? Never happened to me before in my years here. Huh.

No, only on the iPhone if I typed in www.neogaf.com/forum.. it would say /forum/forum and give me a 404.

sorryaboutdresden · Apr 8, 2008

It's not working for me right now..

itxaka · Apr 8, 2008

Costanza said:
No, only on the iPhone if I typed in www.neogaf.com/forum.. it would say /forum/forum and give me a 404.

That happens to me normally.

Lyte Edge · Apr 8, 2008

So NeoGAF crashes Safari for you iPhone users? I've never had a problem with my iPod Touch.

Costanza said:
No, only on the iPhone if I typed in www.neogaf.com/forum.. it would say /forum/forum and give me a 404.

I have gotten this error on a work laptop before.

Big Chief Crazy Cone · Apr 8, 2008

For some reason that error happens to me in Safari too... never in Firefox though. This is on a MacBook Pro.

Zeed · Apr 8, 2008

Big Chief Crazy Cone said:
For some reason that error happens to me in Safari too... never in Firefox though. This is on a MacBook Pro.

I get it in Firefox all the time.

Tobor · Apr 8, 2008

Is it down already? Is your router smoking?

Juice · Apr 8, 2008

Tobor said:
Is it down already? Is your router smoking?

I knew someone would bump the thread to say this. Should be back up now.

Because I'm capping Tomcat at 64MB right now and the scraper caches most of the pages viewed, it'll run out of memory about once a day and I have to manually restart it. The router itself isn't smoking yet.

gprime · Apr 9, 2008

Yeah I have that problem if i forget the www.

http://neogaf.com/forum

redirects to

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/forum/

cubanb · Apr 9, 2008

Bboy AJ said:
Posting from it now. Nice. One concern is that when you hit next to read more posts, it doesn't go back to the top. I have to scroll back pain which is a bit annoying.

Anyway, great work Juice!

I came here to post this suggestion, but it looks like I was beat to it. Otherwise I love it. What are your plans with this?

Juice · Apr 9, 2008

cubanb said:
I came here to post this suggestion, but it looks like I was beat to it. Otherwise I love it. What are your plans with this?

Between work and my parents coming to town this weekend, it'll be a while until I can get that in there, but I think the two most critical things to do right now are:

1. Page refresh sets focus to the top (might be a little tricky inside DashCode)
2. A refresh button to force a refresh of the post/thread/discussion you're in. Currently, it'll only break to the server to get an update if you switch thread/discussion and re-enter the post/thread.

Tobor · Apr 9, 2008

Once it's finished, can't it get integrated into GAF's servers, like Facebook and Fandango?

sorryaboutdresden · Apr 9, 2008

Works for me, I officially love you

Juice · May 20, 2008

In case anyone is curious about it, I wanted to give a brief status update:

I intentionally did not update to the latest iPhone beta SDK because version 4 seriously borked the DashCode project up. I do have a backup, but I may need to restart unless they fix backwards compatibility of older project files. (Oops.)

But the real reason I haven't rolled this out yet is that it's been really damn hard finding free (or nearly free) hosting for a deployed Java EE app (that's the web service part that does all the GAF scraping and persisting).

What I'm waiting on is to get into the Google App Engine beta and try to use that as a proving ground for the web service. I've got high hopes that it'll work. If it doesn't, I may have to fall back on Amazon and S3.

If you're interested, Google App Engine (http://code.google.com/appengine/) GoogleAppEngineLauncher (http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2008/05/app-engine-launcher-for-mac-os-x.html)

Blast Processing · Feb 24, 2009

Any news on this or any other good app to read gaf on iphone?

Desperado · Feb 24, 2009

Blast Processing said:
Any news on this or any other good app to read gaf on iphone?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=329737

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