LinusTechTips App

[Tanner_hovda]

Hello people of the Internet, from my 1 week of using linustechtips forums I have already fell in love with it. One thing that sucks is that I'm always traveling and have to use my phone to access the forums on safari (Nothing works properly on safari) and I thought what if a LinusTechTips app was made for IOS and Andriod so anyone can use the forums without dealing with safari's way of formatting websites. If this was done I think more people would use the forums and people would use it more often because the easy access. What do you guys think? I personally think it would be a great idea. Thank you for reading have a great day!

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

LTT mobile site works great as it is. - LTT mod's reply. 

[Guest]

Making an APP is harder than implementing mobile friendly website

[ThinkWithPortals]

4 minutes ago, Tanner_hovda said:

Hello people of the Internet, from my 1 week of using linustechtips forums I have already fell in love with it. One thing that sucks is that I'm always traveling and have to use my phone to access the forums on safari (Nothing works properly on safari) and I thought what if a LinusTechTips app was made for IOS and Andriod so anyone can use the forums without dealing with safari's way of formatting websites. If this was done I think more people would use the forums and people would use it more often because the easy access. What do you guys think? I personally think it would be a great idea. Thank you for reading have a great day!

This has been proposed about a billion times, and has been rejected about a billion times. It's not worth their time to develop an app.

[Tanner_hovda]

1 minute ago, dexxterlab97 said:

Making an APP is harder than implementing mobile friendly website

I'm sure it is I think every thing would just be cleaner it wouldn't be an over night procces.

[Carlos1010]

Well, on IOS and I think on android too, you can save the website on your home screen for easy access. The only downside of this that I think should be added that it doesn't remember my login details. But eh, its ok my name details only take a minute to put. 

[Guest]

Just now, Tanner_hovda said:

I'm sure it is I think every thing would just be cleaner it wouldn't be an over night procces.

You have never developed an app before? It's a nightmare

[Tanner_hovda]

Just now, dexxterlab97 said:

You have never developed an app before? It's a nightmare

I've tired it didn't go so well.. But I mainly blamed that for my lack of knowledge in that field I'm not saying it would be easy by all means  

[Bananasplit_00]

solution to your problem: dont use Safari for browising LTT forums if thats broken for you, works fine in chrome for me, but im also on Android but still. there is an app thing beeing developed but its not for viewing the forum and i dont have a link right now

[pinksnowmanshandle]

Just now, dexxterlab97 said:

Making an APP is harder than implementing mobile friendly website

The only nice thing about an app would be push notifications, though I think that there might be some way to reach that either like what the LTT notifier is on Chrome/Firefox for desktops as it would be for mobile.

Just now, ThinkWithPortals said:

This has been proposed about a billion times, and has been rejected about a billion times. It's not worth their time to develop an app.

Pretty much 

[Guest]

Just now, wcreek said:

The only nice thing about an app would be push notifications, though I think that there might be some way to reach that either like what the LTT notifier is on Chrome/Firefox for desktops as it would be for mobile.

Pretty much 

You still get notified through Android's chrome

[minibois]

"Nothing works properly on safari"

Well, just don't use Safari. ez fix.

[Tanner_hovda]

9 minutes ago, Minibois said:

"Nothing works properly on safari"

Well, just don't use Safari. ez fix.

I do have the Google app but I always click safari because that's what I've been doing for the past couple years 

[Mr.Meerkat]

2 minutes ago, Tanner_hovda said:

I do have the Google app but I always click safari because that's what I've been doing for the past couple years 

Change the location of chrome with safari...simplez

[Bouzoo]

This has been discussed many, and I mean many times, and it's not gonna happen in the foreseeable future. It would be easiest if you just read this:

 

[vorticalbox]

30 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

solution to your problem: dont use Safari for browising LTT forums if thats broken for you, works fine in chrome for me, but im also on Android but still. there is an app thing beeing developed but its not for viewing the forum and i dont have a link right now

works in edge on Windows phone, except I have to click in the reply box then click quote for that function to work.

 

website is public as is the posts, sure if you really wanted you could pull the data. Would be even easier if there was json to parse.

 

is there a rss feed?

[Bananasplit_00]

Just now, vorticalbox said:

works in edge on Windows phone, except I have to click in the reply box then click quote for that function to work.

 

website is public as is the posts, sure if you really wanted you could pull the data. Would be even easier if there was json to parse.

 

is there a rss feed?

dont think there is an RSS feed

[vorticalbox]

11 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

dont think there is an RSS feed

shame that would have been a nice way to get new post data.

 

either way you could parse html but seems like more work when the website is here.

[Bananasplit_00]

Just now, vorticalbox said:

shame that would have been a nice way to get new post data.

 

either way you could parse html but seems like more work when the website is here.

and thats why there is not app, the website works fine

[Tanner_hovda]

16 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

works in edge on Windows phone, except I have to click in the reply box then click quote for that function to work.

 

website is public as is the posts, sure if you really wanted you could pull the data. Would be even easier if there was json to parse.

 

is there a rss feed?

 

2 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

and thats why there is not app, the website works fine

What is RSS feed? 

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, Tanner_hovda said:

 

What is RSS feed? 

its a way to get info from a website when it updates, here is the wiki article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

[Tanner_hovda]

16 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

its a way to get info from a website when it updates, here is the wiki article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

Thank you

[burnttoastnice]

16 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

shame that would have been a nice way to get new post data.

 

either way you could parse html but seems like more work when the website is here.

You could hook off the same API that the LTT notifier browser extensions use, I think there was a thread somewhere highlighting how it works.

 

https://linustechtips.com/main/api.php

There's a separate page for reading the notifications but I'm unsure of what it's called.

[pinksnowmanshandle]

1 hour ago, dexxterlab97 said:

You still get notified through Android's chrome

Not push notifications?

[LogicalDrm]

14 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

works in edge on Windows phone, except I have to click in the reply box then click quote for that function to work.

 

website is public as is the posts, sure if you really wanted you could pull the data. Would be even easier if there was json to parse.

 

is there a rss feed?

14 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

dont think there is an RSS feed

There is RSS for each subforum. Or you could make your own Activity Feed and use that for RSS. Notifications aren't in that. But you could setup email for those.