Forum App; Free with Ads, or Low Cost with No Ads?

Dan · Mar 31, 2015

Planning the forum app.

It'll use the Tapatalk core system, but their unbranded version. I've paid for it for years but haven't used it yet.

We have a couple of options. It'll need to pay for itself somehow.

Please vote.

Discuss as you wish. But I'll be looking at the outcome of the poll mostly.

midgetman · Mar 31, 2015

No ads I willingly pay. I cant see poll so that would be good lol

shanky887614 · Mar 31, 2015

i personally dont mind the ablock adds when i very rarely use the normal website i just block those elements lol, i would rather support the site but id rather do it through donations or paid app etc

happysteve · Mar 31, 2015

If you can do both relatively stress free then do that. Many apps have a "free with ads" version that you can upgrade to an ad-free version (like a calculator app, say). So you try the free one, put up with ads for a bit whilst you try it out, then if it's good you pay the pennies. I will happily pay pennies to remove ads, but not if I end up with a product that's worse that viewing the forum through a browser.

If it's too much hassle to develop 2 versions, perhaps just go for the paid one. Folk on here know how to whinge. You'll soon find out whether it's any good or not!

Geordie Spark · Apr 1, 2015

Dan said:
Last updated August 2012!!

Yeah that's quite an old app now mate. We can keep that one live for a while if we have users of it.

The same Apple iOS app hasn't been available in the app store for a while now.

Generally, rather than me work on that one, which is made by vBulletin, I'd rather work on the Tapatalk one, which is the one that's most used on all our forums.

We'll also eventually be porting the forum software away from vBulletin, which isn't working on our forum version and hasn't been for some time.

We're quite outdated in general over here!