These are good questions.
Tap-A-Talk requires someone to download their App to access a mobile friendly version. With our new enhancement you will not need to do that. When you are on your phone and you go to the TOTV website you will automatically see a mobile friendly TOTV. So we would not make an app as that is one more step a user has to take to get to the same experience.
Tap-A-Talk requires the website owner to allow and make certain files accessible by their App. We only allowed participation and the work as there wasn't another option. Now that we will have a mobile friendly version we will not have a need to continue this.
Issues with Tap-A-Talk that we have no control over because it is a 3rd party product and app:
1) No control over security or user information shared. Remember with TAT your are NOT on the TOTV website or server. We have no control over any data, passwords, or user activity or information on TAT or what they do with it.
2) In political forums the user name is shown instead of guest. With our new mobile version this will be corrected.
3) Requires user to go and download an app, grant Tap-A-Talk access to your privacy to be able to view a mobile friendly version.
4) Search engines (Google, Safari, Bing, etc) penalize websites that do not have a mobile friendly version. An App does not fill this requirement.
5) No access to certain areas of the TOTV website with TAT such as classifieds. With our new mobile version you will have access to all areas of the TOTV website.
Our goal is to have the mobile friendly version an even better experience for the Majority of users than ever before.
Our ask is to try using it for a number of days, get use to it, and provide any improvement suggestions you may have.
Thanks in advance for your support,
TOTV Team
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