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Hi all,
This may sound a bit out of the tune but why doesn't rickresource have a mobile application? Wouldn't it be nice to have a mobile app on our phones so that we could check everything easily? Did someone think about it before? Is there a reason that this app does not exist?

Congratulations on volunteering to create it!

Don't you use facebook?

When Peter migrated to FB that took most of the life out of the RRF.

jps wrote:Don't you use facebook?

When Peter migrated to FB that took most of the life out of the RRF.

A carbuncle on the backside of humanity, right next to Twitter !!

thx1955 wrote:

jps wrote:Don't you use facebook?

When Peter migrated to FB that took most of the life out of the RRF.

A carbuncle on the backside of humanity, right next to Twitter !!

I'm not sticking up for it, mainly cause they don't need me to, but I've been able to reach audiences I otherwise never would have been able to without social media. So there's a bright side. As Phil said at a Genesis show in 1980, every cloud has a silver lining, and every silver lining has a cloud, and every bin has a liner.

Guys, I am not fully able to follow you on this, but the thing is for me that I am holding my phone at least 6 hours a day, an app would be very nice.

I work in a department that we create mobile finance applications, but I'm an analyst I don't code. I can contribute on the design, interface and user experience but if we are talking about a native application we need backend and client developers

How much does that cost? There's that volunteer talk again

Hi Ozan.
An app for what exactly? the forum? the register?

The big question is how long would it take to create it and how many users will use it.
Unfortunately there are less users than there used to be. Facebook is slowly chirping away all the good stuff although I admit - I would take a forum over facebook anytime (not just RRF).

gibsonlp wrote: I would take a forum over facebook anytime (not just RRF).

Where is the damn like button so I can like this!

jdogric12 wrote:How much does that cost? There's that volunteer talk again

As long as I am useful, I am willing to put my effort on it. How much it will cost, I have no idea. For my part I won't cost anything. In fact for the things I learnt from here I owe a lot to this forum Just we need other volunteers.

gibsonlp wrote:Hi Ozan.
An app for what exactly? the forum? the register?

The big question is how long would it take to create it and how many users will use it.
Unfortunately there are less users than there used to be. Facebook is slowly chirping away all the good stuff although I admit - I would take a forum over facebook anytime (not just RRF).

On facebook I can never ask something like "Hey guys how can I fix this bow on the neck of my bass?". They'd be thinking that I cought a mutated fish during my last visit to the lake in my town Or on facebook (If you consider my friend list) I can't find a rickenbacker master luthier that can spot the problem of my guitar by just looking at the photos I posted. So I believe that forums like these will be always alive thanks to people who want to learn and teach.

Considering that the world is going mobile more and more everyday, why not RRF? New and young members of this forum will be heavy mobile users in a relatively short period of time.

I want to emphasise again that I am not an expert on this, but I can see below that the forum is "powered by phbBB". So If we find a phbBB responsive mobile theme and add it to themes folder of the forum and that the admin chooses the theme from the console, at least from the browser we'd have a very nice looking mobile experience. However, of course a native app would be very very nice.

My initial opinion was that the register can stay only in internet channel by the way.

What's the use of going through the trouble to create an App for a forum that barely sees much traffic these days?

Furthermore, I'm on my phone constantly and never saw a need for an app version of the RRF. If it ain't broke...

Are you sure its called Facebook?

I went to the library and asked about the title and they all laughed at me.

jps wrote:Don't you use facebook?

When Peter migrated to FB that took most of the life out of the RRF.

Can you post the link?

Some of the forums I'm a member of are available via the Tapatalk app on my phone which presents the forums in a mobile friendly manner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapatalk

Apparently it can be installed by a forum owner in 15-20 mins (see https://tapatalk.com/start-here.php) and once done anyone who uses Tapatalk would be able to browse the forum on mobile in a more mobile-friendly way.

Not saying Tapatalk is the best/only one, I'm sure there are other similar products available to forum owners to install.