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[Xabora]

Any suggestions for further improvements?

Before you reply, here's some common requests I CAN'T add:
- Direct posting
- Viewing of "Online Gaming" forum
- Native app
- Show "read" status of threads

Show subscribed threads?

 

[TheGreatDave]

Could you allow us to have favourite threads? If not our usercc list than one we can manage through your portal?

 

[krypt0nian]

Show subscribed threads?

Would require you to be logged in.

 

[CiSTM]

This some awesome app.

 

[womp]

Any suggestions for further improvements?

Before you reply, here's some common requests I CAN'T add:
- Direct posting
- Viewing of "Online Gaming" forum
- Native app
- Show "read" status of threads

A "Go to page" function. Or does it exist and I am missing it? I've only just started using it on my brand new Touch, looks great. Thanks again.

 

[drknite]

A "Go to page" function. Or does it exist and I am missing it? I've only just started using it on my brand new Touch, looks great. Thanks again.

Click on the page number at the bottom, a screen will come up to type in a page number.

 

[dkeane]

How about an option to show the newest reply first when clicking on a thread?
Or make threads with new posts in them bold or a different color.

It's a great app as is though.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Thanks again for this-- I use it on my G1 all the time.

 

[subrock]

yes! you rule

 

[Soybean]

I made a forum viewer for the Nintendorks forum that does allow posting, since you can log in. Your password is not saved (just passed to the server), but the resulting cookie IS saved, which allows me to send it with every forum request.

I want to adapt it for NeoGAF, but I've been too lazy. The code is all here if you want to adapt it for whatever forum you like:
http://code.google.com/p/nintendorkschattermobile/source/browse/#svn/trunk

Overall it's not as cool as ckohler's since I focused on handling logins, and I haven't had much time to work on it. Implementing his innovations shouldn't be too tough, though. It's built on Beautiful Soup for parsing and iUI for the interface. It also makes use of Google App Engine, but it would be easy enough to adapt for your setup (if you prefer to use MySQL, for example).

 

[LCfiner]

A couple suggestions after using the app for so long now:

it's not clear that some screen elements are buttons, like the page counter on the bottom, thread titles when inside a thread, or the arrows at the edge of the forum thread lists.

placing those items in a "button" graphic might help out newcomers.

and, would it be possible to add the ability to scroll to the bottom of the thread listing view by tapping the title of the Forum name at the top of the screen? similar to the way we can scroll to the bottom of a thread by tapping the thread title.

thanks again for the great app. I use it every day.

 

[minor effort]

I love the app, and I use it all the time on my iPod Touch and my phone via Opera Mini.

If I had a suggestion, I guess it'd be an option that showed the thread creator alongside the amount of replies and other information on the thread list.

 

[Chû Totoro]

This is awesome !
I don't know how I didn't find this thread before.
Since I have my iPhone I always serched for a good way to read NeoGAF.

Very good work and thanks again. :bravo:

 

[Blackhead]

Any suggestions for further improvements?

Before you reply, here's some common requests I CAN'T add:
- Direct posting
- Viewing of "Online Gaming" forum
- Native app
- Show "read" status of threads

A refresh button at the bottom of the page so I can get new replies without going to the top, refreshing and scrolling down to find what I last read. I currently make do with a refresh bookmarklet but that doesn't worked with all these new safari apps.

 

[Blast Processing]

holy crap this is awesome.

Thanks!

 

[ckohler]

Major Update:
Version 1.5 is now available! Same URL as before:

http://www.secondapps.com/neogaf/

NEW FEATURES:

• Skip To Last Post Setting
  When enabled, clicking an arrow (>) on the forum screen screen will not only take you to the last page of a thread, it will automatically scroll down to the last post
• Small Text Setting
  If you want to conserve space, this setting reduces the font sizes of posts and thread listings to ease scrolling fatigue some.
• Set Your Timezone
  You can now set your local timezone so that posts dates/time are accurate. It defaults to US/Pacific.
• The main screen now shows how many current users are reading.
• Locked threads are more clearly indicated
• You can now click the entire title of a thread or forum (not just the text) to jump to the bottom. An arrow now also appears to make this clear.
• Added "Jump to Top" area to bottom of every screen.
• Added Back button to bottom of every screen.
• Made the Page information in the center bottom of each page a button to better indicate that this opens the "jump to page" feature.
• Standardized Prev Page / Next Page button design.
• Other minor design tweaks.

BUG FIXES:

• Now gracefully handles 500 errors.
• Cookies are properly detected and set.
• Back end code rewritten and cleaned up

 

[dkeane]

Kickass update, thanks so much!

 

[LCfiner]

Major Update:
Version 1.5 is now available! Same URL as before:

http://www.secondapps.com/neogaf/

NEW FEATURES:

• Skip To Last Post Setting
  When enabled, clicking an arrow (>) on the forum screen screen will not only take you to the last page of a thread, it will automatically scroll down to the last post
• Small Text Setting
  If you want to conserve space, this setting reduces the font sizes of posts and thread listings to ease scrolling fatigue some.
• Set Your Timezone
  You can now set your local timezone so that posts dates/time are accurate. It defaults to US/Pacific.
• The main screen now shows how many current users are reading.
• Locked threads are more clearly indicated
• You can now click the entire title of a thread or forum (not just the text) to jump to the bottom. An arrow now also appears to make this clear.
• Added "Jump to Top" area to bottom of every screen.
• Added Back button to bottom of every screen.
• Made the Page information in the center bottom of each page a button to better indicate that this opens the "jump to page" feature.
• Standardized Prev Page / Next Page button design.
• Other minor design tweaks.

BUG FIXES:

• Now gracefully handles 500 errors.
• Cookies are properly detected and set.
• Back end code rewritten and cleaned up

such an awesome update. once again, you are a King amongst men, ckohler!

thank you so much.

(time zone support is awesome)

 

[Tornado Condor]

ckholer, you are awesome

 

[bionic77]

kohler deserves some kind of internet medal.

 

[AndersTheSwede]

awesomeness

Thanks man, much appreciated.

At least give this guy a tag!

 

[LCfiner]

Thanks man, much appreciated.

At least give this guy a tag!

ckohler
The Road Warrior

?

 

[Keylime]

Mmmmmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmmmm!

Loves me some NeoGAF webpage action.

 

[Lazy]

just wanted to say that the NeoGAF iPhone web app is awesome

 

[StriKeVillain]

I'm getting a 404 error now. :/

 

[TheGreatDave]

A lot of neat little additions. Thanks a lot. You get me through...well, basically life.

 

[Odious Tea]

I too make use of this on a pretty daily basis. You are a king among men, Kohler.

 

[krypt0nian]

Sexy changes!

 

[CrunchinJelly]

I'd like a button to open a thread on the main NeoGAF site.

I always have images off, and rather than going back to enable images, then finding the topic, loading it back up again; if there was just a button on every page to 'View On NeoGAF.com' or something, then I could see actual forum, complete with images.

EDIT: Actually, even just making the grey IMAGE boxes clickable to open the image would work.

 

[NYR]

Like the changes!! Thanks.

Any chance you can change the go to page option to a wheel rather then typing the page and then hitting okay?

 

[adamsappel]

This is so cool! Nice updates to a great app.

 

[civilstrife]

Seriously man, this is my most used application of any kind for my iphone.
You rock. The update is solid too.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Love the update.

 

[Omar Ismail]

EDIT: Actually, even just making the grey IMAGE boxes clickable to open the image would work.

Great suggestion. And ideally the image would load up inline instead of in a new window - the image itself then being clickable to open up in a new window if you want to see full size.

So essentially on-demand image loading. Oh, and with the gray image-off box give information on image size if that's possible. So I know not to load images that are greater than 50KB.

Which actually leads to another suggestion, if possible. Set image loading limits. So automatically download images if they're under 50KB, but don't download anymore once a certain max has been reached, so the super KZ2 threads don't crash the phone.

 

[DMeisterJ]

Could we always post on this app? Anyway, thank you for the awesome app!

 

[aidan]

Oh god. It's even better than it used to be.

ckholer, you are a god.

 

[SuperPac]

Awesome update. Seriously.

 

[mibm]

Great update, I use this app all the time.

 

[neojubei]

Major Update:
Version 1.5 is now available! Same URL as before:

http://www.secondapps.com/neogaf/

NEW FEATURES:

• Skip To Last Post Setting
  When enabled, clicking an arrow (>) on the forum screen screen will not only take you to the last page of a thread, it will automatically scroll down to the last post
• Small Text Setting
  If you want to conserve space, this setting reduces the font sizes of posts and thread listings to ease scrolling fatigue some.
• Set Your Timezone
  You can now set your local timezone so that posts dates/time are accurate. It defaults to US/Pacific.
• The main screen now shows how many current users are reading.
• Locked threads are more clearly indicated
• You can now click the entire title of a thread or forum (not just the text) to jump to the bottom. An arrow now also appears to make this clear.
• Added "Jump to Top" area to bottom of every screen.
• Added Back button to bottom of every screen.
• Made the Page information in the center bottom of each page a button to better indicate that this opens the "jump to page" feature.
• Standardized Prev Page / Next Page button design.
• Other minor design tweaks.

BUG FIXES:

• Now gracefully handles 500 errors.
• Cookies are properly detected and set.
• Back end code rewritten and cleaned up

Thanks. Excellent fixes.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

This update is F.A.B.U.L.O.U.S!
The only thing I could see being added are quick links to jump between OT and Gaming.

 

[ckohler]

Thanks guys. Finishing this took most of my weekend.

EDIT: Actually, even just making the grey IMAGE boxes clickable to open the image would work.

Great idea! It's done. You may need to click the refresh button before you see the change. It's not as easy to have the images load inline so opening them in a new window is how I did it.

So essentially on-demand image loading. Oh, and with the gray image-off box give information on image size if that's possible. So I know not to load images that are greater than 50KB.

In order to know how big images are, my server would have to download them in advance. That would be a lot of excess overhead for my server.

 

[Eaten By A Grue]

Fantastic update ckohler! You are a god among members.

Just one suggestion, with the page selection instead of a text input use a selection list or selection wheel as I like to call it.

 

[jonah777]

This is really cool... makes browsing GAF on my phone that much easier. Thanks for your work on this.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

God among members.

This needs to be his tag.

 

[adelante]

Second the tag suggestion...he's single-handedly solve our gaf mobile surfing woes

 

[Median]

The new 500 error is awesome :lol

 

[Tobor]

Great, great update. Thanks for all your work. I had no idea you were still adding to this! We all owe you a beer.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

The new 500 error is awesome :lol

Screenshot?
I've been lucky enough not to get it tonight.

 

[leroidys]

That's awesome, nice job man.

 

[StriKeVillain]

Is anyone else on a Blackberry Storm using the app? It worked perfectly until the update however now anytime I click Gaming or OT I get a 404: Not Found Error.