Your thoughts on these things...

[Scott Greczkowski]

Since the SatelliteGuys app is no longer supported by Tapatalk and was removed from the App stores, I need to figure out a way to have something for the mobile users.

We get a lot of traffic from Google and I am told we would get more and be higher ranked if our mobile site was rendered in "AMP" (Accelerated Mobile Pages). well there is a new Plugin for Xenforo which adds this feature and appears to work well. This plugin costs about $100 (when converted from the British Pound) and then has a $40 a year renewal fee.

AMPXF - AMP for Xenforo 2

AMPXF makes your forum serve AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) that are super fast to load and usually favored in search results by the search engines. This will give you an edge when competing for SEO keywords and likely bring your forum more...

xenforo.com

Now while you can continue to use Tapatalk to access SatelliteGuys, another company has not released their own Community App, but what it costs I don't know.

Community App

Engage your audience with a community app designed for your community that lets members stay connected and engage with ease on their mobile device.

community.audent.io

Should we look at either of these things?

 

[charlesrshell]

I get along pretty good in my cell phone just using the Chrome browser with email notification of threads I follow, new post, etc. I have icons for both in my cell phone home desktop so to speak to get to things quickly. But I am game to anything.

 

[KE4EST]

I agree the site should be rendered in AMP for phones and such, if we can swing it.

 

[harshness]

There are some intriguing limitations to AMP (especially the single CSS) so it may be useful to see a preview what the result looks like.

Are there some well-known of sites that use AMP (Google pages may or may not be a good example)?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Check out Grow your Xenforo 2 Forum traffic with AMP for answers to your questions.

Some sites using it The Tolkien Forum JoyFreak | Gaming Forum | Video Game Forums

And reviews of it ... reviews

I was wrong on the price though, it is 50 pounds, I thought it said 70.

 

[RandallA]

Now while you can continue to use Tapatalk to access SatelliteGuys

I've been trying to use the app and it just re-directs me to Google Play, first to install Tapatalk and now to open it but forums never open. The error message reads: "Invalid License - This forum is currently not available on this app. Please contact the forum administrator."

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The app is no longer supported. We expected it to die a long time ago and now it finally has.

Whats funny is on iOS it gives an error message yet still works.

 

[navychop]

Oddly, the newer Reader version is “demo mode” but the older one works fine. Guess where I’m posting this from?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I wish they would still support it, but they are not they want people to use their Tapatalk app as then they collect all the ad revenue.

Oh well I am glad it lasted a year longer then we expected.


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