Zing Touch: ILX now ON IPHONE (and ipod tooches too)

After spending forever in review, the ILX iPhone app has been approved.

WHAT IT CAN DO
- Read and post to ILX (or the Sandbox or any other server running a really recent version of ConversationBoard for that matter)
- Set and delete bookmarks
- Automatically check for updated bookmarks
- See pictures in posts, resized for the screen
- Open Youtube and links in its own browser
- Quote post text
- Easy bold and italics in the post composer
- Post drafts automatically saved until you delete or post them

COMING SOON
- Polls: Right now the threads are displayed, but the options aren't there and you can't vote
- Starting a new thread

WHAT IT WON'T DO
- Work with the old-style bookmarks. If you've set them in preferences, unset them to use Zing.

WHAT IT NEEDS
OS 3.0 or better (if you've got an old iPod Touch you'll have to upgrade, but 3.0 is miles better anyway)

Zing Lite is free on the app store. There is also the buy-Stet-a-pint version, Zing Touch, which is £4.99/$7.99 and will probably get new features first. Right now they are identical, except for some wee ads in Zing Lite.

Anyway links to the App Store (they open in iTunes):
Zing Touch and Zing Lite

Bump. It's not live in searches yet, but the links above work

omg

um, this is great, but I'm waiting for the Motorola Razr version.

hahaha the hat!

just bought you a pint =-0

also lol at me being in the screenshits O_o

weeeeee!

lol @ last screenshot

*downloads furiously*

this is great stet!

works like a charm

phew! tx! And thanks dyao! I liked yr pic pls don't sue me

WOW

pint-friendly version bought!

lol being on the app store is probably the most coverage I'll ever have, thanks ;o)

great job y'all!!! er I don't actually have an iPhone so I can't check out the app but it looks great!!!

You must be at least 17 years old to download this application
Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content or Nudity
Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
Frequent/Intense Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor

I am posting from my tooch right now!

change ILTMI description to "I am posting from my cooch right now!"

prediction: stet's gonna get wasted!

well-deserved wasted imo

wasteder now

Thanks, Stet. Enjoy your pint!

stet<3 stet<3

Testing testing...

Awesome!

Thanks

Thanks
--Jeff

Yes

Nice one!

next pint's on me.

thanks millions!!!

(LOL @ you = too slow)

Pint version bought. This is v. great.

YAY! AND IM IN THE SCREENSHOTZ!

I kind of love that max's display name in one of the screenshots got the phrase "rip dom passantino" into the App Store.

ok maybe one of the best iPhone apps so far ON IPHONE

Posting from zing litr, works great, thanks!

Happily contributed to Stet's collection of pints.

oh so excited for this, will purchase you a pint soon, thx so much stet!

Now posting ON IPHONE

I am posting from Zing Touch.

Im sure I am just dense but what are the diffs btwn the paid and free zinger? I need to update my tooch sw before i can even use this anyway.

There is also the buy-Stet-a-pint version, Zing Touch, which is £4.99/$7.99 and will probably get new features first. Right now they are identical, except for some wee ads in Zing Lite.

Ah of course. Going blind is me.

Another pint from me, raa!

Oh, and I got it direct from the ON IPHONE app store.

Featurerequests: reordering of boards in the board list, so I can drag my favourites to the top. And those little filled-or-hollow bullet points that tell me whether there are new posts in a thread.

amazing!!

lol @ tipping thred in screenshots - says it all, really

I am rockin this now and it is awwwwesome

can someone please post screenshots here for those of us who are itms:// deficient

I have posted a review.

Stet this is really cool and would be even better if I had an Iphone :-( great work though.

just one question ... what the hell are you drinking at £4.99 a pint????

inconceivable!

i mostly just rely on the dots! So on mobile ILX is kinda hard to navigate at all haha.

Having SNA show up before / above bookmarks would be a massive improvement to this user’s experience

Not sure why but the “help me learn Japanese” thread will not load any answers at all on iOS 12. Everything else fine apart from the occasional lockup.

Same

my minor complaint is embedded twitter vids won’t play but I’ve found workarounds so it’s v v low priority

haha yeah at this point i think of that not as a bug but as just a particularity, a lovable quirk

Why doesn’t ILX on iphone/safari warn you that other people have posted when you hit submit post?

I think that was put in because the OG Safari on Edge was so slow that you could get caught in xpost warnings forever on slow threads. Could probably take that out now.

New Zing version rolling out now: adds a preference for those snippets. Sorry it took so long!

thank you

So nice thanks!

:D

#stetrulez

this is great

gooood thx stet

no idea why, but the recently revived Prodigy thread refused to open for me on zing...

Same here

There’s some old-ILX HTML in there somewhere that’s giving Zing pause

Old like flint... Thanks for checking stet.

Bookmarking the Filmforum thread on De Subjectivisten crashes the app.

Hmm works for me!

Hmm. I'm on an iPhone SE/12.2.
Maybe removing and re-bookmarking will work..

It didn't :/

Is that the only thread you can’t bookmark?

Yes. Out of 30-40 bookmarked threads that's the only one.

btw thx for fixing that thing where the menu text was all jumbled

Just weighing in to say I'm on iPhone 5S/12.2 and filmforum bookmarks just fine here.

New version rolling out now, mainly small changes:
- There's a dark mode toggle in the homescreen
- You can now swipe a bookmark left to set it to the latest message, and right to delete it
- You can now share a post as a link, or open it in your browser (tap a message and hit the share button)
- The single message page now follows the font size set in settings, and looks a bit less 2007.
- Zing copes better if messages have corrupt or bad HTML in them, and lets you open the thread in Safari instead of crashing.
- The keyboard's now quite dark in dark mode

Awesome! Have you looked at the rotate bug?

Yes, but haven't fixed it — it doesn't seem to be totally my fault, the tableview is doing something I can't quite explain but I might be able to work around it.

thx, man!

as always, many thanks. it’s a great app anyway and those additions all seem really useful.

All hail the Stet

Excellent update.

This is so good, first time using it and it’s great! Thanks stet!

you left off the “post anyway” feature when xposting, stet, which i was pleased to see tho muscle memory meant i clicked out and posted again anyway obv.

Rats, so I did, and that was the hardest bit to do

- You can now share a post as a link, or open it in your browser (tap a message and hit the share button)
- The single message page now follows the font size set in settings, and looks a bit less 2007.

Lovely update! Thanks stet

yes, thank you stet!

re: the recent update.

Bookmarks have disappeared from Zing for me but I still see them on the web.

same here

Back now. Thanks?!

stet, I saw that you added a few versions back a little Zing link at the top of mobile versions. But it just goes to the main page. Is there any chance you could have the app open web links to the actual thread? This would be a great way of effectively adding a search function.

that's a really good idea, yep

Where is that little Zing link again?

It appears when Apple decides it should, which is a bit opaque

Oh right. Can see it in safari but not in chrome