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I get a browser error page when I try to save my forum settings by pressing blue button on bottom page "Save Changes" in Tapatalk Site Owners even if I doesn't change anything. Does anyone have the same issue?

Browser is telling me also sometimes at each page of tapatalk.com siteowners dashboard it can't find DNS servers.
 
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yes, I tried Chrome and Firefox in Inkognito/Private Mode. https://tapatalk.com is sometimes working, but siteowner loginpage at the moment every time doesnt work.

Anyway, I don't need the login and I am waiting for Slaviks alternative app release until end of year so I will probably leave tapatalk soon.
 
I dug up my old account information and logged in. I don't have any sites listed, so I am guessing that when I deleted the add-ons about three or more years ago, I unpublished/deleted the sites from my account.

If anyone recalls, they used to have a competitor: ForumRunner. I preferred that one myself, but it was bought out by IB and sank quickly without a trace afterwards.

BTW, they really ripped off that Pentax forum. Shameful. Even the members' photos are reproduced in the threads. I'm sure nobody is giving TT permission to reuse their photos. (And who even knows if the Pentax forum knows about this?)
 
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Rudy said:
BTW, they really ripped off that Pentax forum. Shameful. Even the members' photos are reproduced in the threads. I'm sure nobody is giving TT permission to reuse their photos. (And who even knows if the Pentax forum knows about this?)
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I messaged the Pentax Forums owner to inform him when I learned that they were doing this to my photography forums.
 
Rudy said:
If anyone recalls, they used to have a competitor: ForumRunner. I preferred that one myself, but it was bought out by IB and sank quickly without a trace afterwards.
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Such a shame. I wish IB would open source Forum Runner. Was a very good product.
 
Its the same with anything IB touches, turns into a death zone.

I asked Rob before buying the app(forum runner) would he sell it off (and it wasn't cheap, but if he needed more money to keep the project running he should of emailed us all and asked for more!), he said blind he hated when sites did that only to do it a few years later to one of the most hated brands I've ever seen.
 
Someone over on TAZ hit the nail on the head.....

The main problem I foresee is that the TT-controlled chatroom essentially hijacks your site's mobile users to drive traffic away from your site to a section controlled by TT, and may result in 'vendor lock-in' quickly. I doubt such an advantage wouldnt eventually be leveraged by TT. At that level, they're pretty much creating a social network overnight
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I removed Crapatalk from all of my sites.
 
Thank you for the very detailed post, this was helpful.

We removed Tapatalk (and all of it's code) from our forum in September 2015 and from the listing around the same time.

I have found approximately 20 threads listed on their site (tapatalk.com) showing redirects to our site. These are from existing threads that were created in July and August 2015.

It's not a lot, but if there was any question this was happening long before this feature was "officially" enabled (from what I've been reading)...

There shouldn't be any doubts now.

Amin Sabet said:
I have been a critic of Tapatalk in the past. More recently I felt that Tapatalk had made substantial improvements in meeting the needs of site owners and reported that in this thread.

However, I just became aware that Tapatalk has been copying and republishing content from my websites (with their own ads) on Tapatalk.com.

See:
https://www.google.com/#q=mu-43.com+site:tapatalk.com
https://www.google.com/#q=talkemount.com+site:tapatalk.com
https://www.google.com/#q=fujixspot.com+site:tapatalk.com
https://www.google.com/#q=leicaplace.com+site:tapatalk.com
https://www.google.com/#q=seriouscompacts.com+site:tapatalk.com
https://www.google.com/#q=foreverfilm.org+site:tapatalk.com
https://www.google.com/#q=photographerslounge.org+site:tapatalk.com

The fact that it was announced with little fanfare and then implemented as an opt-out option is very poor behavior on the part of Tapatalk IMO, and that is without even considering the incorrect information in the announcement:

https://blog.tapatalk.com/tapatalk-monetization-update/

"Tapatalk.com is similar to Google News – it is not a forum reader and it only shows a preview of posts."

Not true. In many cases it shows the entire posts or even the entire threads. One of countless examples: How to tame a Dragon. - Tapatalk

"The listing will always be below the result direct from your site... not considered duplicative content..."

Also not true. I found many instances where it outranked the results from our site. For example:

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Tapatalk has no control over how Google ranks results, nor can they speak with any authority over what Google will consider duplicate content.


"These are the forums that will have Tapatalk.com disabled, and you will have to login to enable Tapatalk.com: All Paid Tiers (both Enterprise and Premium)"

Again, not true. I was on a paid tier (Premium), and I was opted in by default.
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Amin Sabet said:
What they can do - but repeatedly ignore my requests to do - is delete the copied pages from their website so that they return a 404 Error in Google. That is the best way for them to undo the damage.
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I just checked again, and those pages are now returning a 404 as I requested.
 
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