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.
― tehresa, Saturday, 7 November 2009 07:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah of course. Going blind is me.
― i obtain much semillon (Trayce), Saturday, 7 November 2009 07:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Another pint from me, raa!
― JimD, Saturday, 7 November 2009 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, and I got it direct from the ON IPHONE app store.
― JimD, Saturday, 7 November 2009 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― JimD, Saturday, 7 November 2009 09:32 (thirteen years ago) link
amazing!!
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 7 November 2009 09:46 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ tipping thred in screenshots - says it all, really
I am rockin this now and it is awwwwesome
― Clay, Saturday, 7 November 2009 09:51 (thirteen years ago) link
can someone please post screenshots here for those of us who are itms:// deficient
― koogs, Saturday, 7 November 2009 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I have posted a review.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 7 November 2009 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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????
― tomofthenest, Saturday, 7 November 2009 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
it's ten bucks for us, more like "buy me a jug"
lol at screenshot #4
― niggaz thought M.A.S stand for mop and shit (sic), Saturday, 7 November 2009 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
prediction: stet's gonna get wasted!
Oh god, he'll turn up at mine and make me drink vodka with a Blue Aftershock mixer.
Anyway, yes. This is truly a piece of aceness.
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Saturday, 7 November 2009 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Stellar.
― J, Saturday, 7 November 2009 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a (I believe) 70/30 split between Apple and stet, so I think it work out to about a pint :^)
― 囧 (dyao), Saturday, 7 November 2009 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
stet this is awesome, thanks so much man!
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 7 November 2009 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Pint from me! Thank you!
― ljubljana, Saturday, 7 November 2009 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Awesome stuff, thanks very much, everyone! I really appreciate it. I had no idea there were so many iphones on here.
koogs: There's some slightly out-of-date-but-mostly-right screenshots in this post
JimD: Yeah, am working on editing the boards that appear on the start page so you can cut it down to your favourites and reorder etc.
― stet, Saturday, 7 November 2009 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Ace. :)
― JimD, Saturday, 7 November 2009 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
ok this is pretty amazing -- fantastic work!
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Saturday, 7 November 2009 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I will, happily, because just yesterday I figured out how to do screenshots on an iPhone: as you hold the home button at the bottom, press the sleep button on top. It saves a screenshot to your photoroll, which you can then email to yourself and upload to tinypic.
Give me just a sec...
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Saturday, 7 November 2009 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Oops, I didn't see stet's post just above with the link to screenshots. Yeah, it basically looks like that. The only main difference is that pictures don't appear in the thread - you have to click on the individual posts to see them. Which is actually fine, because it makes picture heavy threads load a lot faster.
Again, great work Stet, this is going to make goofing off on ILX waaaaay easier at work now. :)
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Saturday, 7 November 2009 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Thank you! Yeah, it's never done the images inline -- the performance would be really horrible and slow. I might look at doing an image browser like in Facebook for picture threads, though.
― stet, Saturday, 7 November 2009 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy lol at the screenshots
― Yeah~ I can flay~~~ (HI DERE), Saturday, 7 November 2009 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
One thing I'd request; a white background on the app logo. It'd look so much nicer on my screen.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 7 November 2009 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Found this thru my app store search. iPhone is being stupid and not letting me install.
― kingfish, Saturday, 7 November 2009 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
An image browser would be fantastic!
― schwantz, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
D/l'ed the lite version today, will grab the $8 full when I get paid next week. Gotta save money for upcoming trip to NYC next week ON IPHONE.
― Bears Are Alive! (Pancakes Hackman), Sunday, 8 November 2009 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Just searched found and downloaded today. Awesome!
― cough syrup in coke cans (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
do any of these profits go to server costs
― It's-a not so bad (jeff), Sunday, 8 November 2009 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
feature request: landscape keyboard! also more bb code tags
― 囧 (dyao), Sunday, 8 November 2009 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yep, have landscape keyboard working already, also the full set of bbcode will be in 1.1. I've got a few other fixes, but I couldn't upload them while it was in review without losing my place in the queue. App store is frustrating as hell.
― stet, Sunday, 8 November 2009 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
just spotted a bookmarking bug too. Will fix
I don't think stet making this app and stet running the server have anything to do with each other, jeff. If it were any other user writing the app would you have asked the question?
― Mark C, Sunday, 8 November 2009 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
hey stet are u going to add admin log at some point?
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 8 November 2009 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Wasn't going to -- it's not in the API, so it'd be hard. Same with search, but I'd really like to add that somehow.
Shld also add SB for czn's portable suggestin needs.
― stet, Sunday, 8 November 2009 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the message you get when you x post
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 8 November 2009 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
desired feature when you can be arsed to get around to it: local timestamping for logged-in users?
― zing touch me I'm (sic), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
another request -
to stay where u were when u quit the app, instead of goin back to the list of boards
regardless - what a terrific program!!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
^ yes, the latter
― zing touch me I'm (sic), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 12:00 (thirteen years ago) link
hello when will android version come out pls?
― ken 'a shaved finn' c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
im embarrassed at how rad i find this app, i mean, i dont want to admit how great it is to use ilx on my iphone, but, you know.
any chance we could get archiving of bookmarks for offline browsing?
― max, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
you could just use instapaper for all yr offline bookmarkin needs - i find myself using it more than safari these days
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Tracer: does it need to save whereever you are, or can it just remember if you're reading a thread or in the middle of compose. I've been trying to save state, but it's a bit tricky as the server can completely change between launches, and threads that were there have dropped off new answers.
Archiving of bookmarks is a good idea actually -- then you could bookmark a post before getting on the subway or w/e, and the whole thing'd be there on the phone. Or I could add in Instapaper integration.
― stet, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
exactly as it was wd be ideal but just remembering what thread you were reading wd be almost as great
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, exactly.
― max, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
does instapaper even need integration? i just hit the "read later" bookmark in firefox and BILL VIOLA this thread is there
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, within zing of course, duh
id rather have a built-in archiving feature in zing
― max, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
that seems simpler
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Ugh, sorry! is this still happening? I'll take a look
― stet, Thursday, 19 May 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
stet, it resolved itself on its own, without any signing out or uninstalling etc. works fine now! not sure what the issue was. thank you, tho!
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
has zing been delisted from the apple app store? just tried to install zing ON (new) IPHONE and can’t seem to find it anymore
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 February 2023 18:32 (seven months ago) link
Oh that’s strange, not showing for me either.
― here you go, muttonchops Yaz (gyac), Thursday, 9 February 2023 19:04 (seven months ago) link
same here. funnily enough I had a problem with the app some time last month and removed it. it was still in the store then or I wouldn’t be here now (perish the thought)
― i saw mommy kissing twink henry kissinger (breastcrawl), Thursday, 9 February 2023 19:20 (seven months ago) link
Sorry about that – I need to pay Apple yearly to stay on the store, and they had an expired credit card on file. Should be back shortly!
― stet, Monday, 13 February 2023 13:24 (seven months ago) link
thanks stet!
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 13 February 2023 13:43 (seven months ago) link
Not exactly urgent, but I am finding that the latest version of this app crashes when I am reading a message and tilt it to landscape. I’m on iOS 16.3.1.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 21:59 (five months ago) link
It’s been like that for years, for me. Any chance the dark mode could be tied to the system setting? The number of phones without that feature must be pretty small now.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 22:07 (five months ago) link
Love this app and have a feature request:In-app toggle to lock orientation - I don't think I'll ever use landscape mode on my phone.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:56 (four months ago) link
I've put it on the list, but while you wait this is pretty easy to automate with Shortcuts. Just make a new Automation that sets orientation lock on every time Zing opens (and another one that disables it when Zing closes). Ok now I type it out that sounds cumbersome, but it's pretty easy!
― stet, Saturday, 29 July 2023 23:03 (one month ago) link