Released - RedUser iPhone app

[Tyler Stromberg]

No more Mobile Safari; absolutely free: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/code-red/id366359884?mt=8

[Imran Farouk]

very nicely done!

[Andrew clemson]

cant get it here from the emirati Itunes store, dang. Hope to see it soon.

[Nick Burridge]

Oh man, that's awesome. Great work.

Thoughts: maybe stickies could be shaded differently in the list? and minor quibble but I don't get the spinning load/internet activity icon as it loads up threads?

Anyway, this'll be incredibly useful regardless, thanks!

[jimhare]

Fantastic, well done!

Any chance of having an option to SHOW RECENT, similar to the search option?

This is the way I use reduser, just to see what people are talking about today as opposed to a specific subject.

Great job!

[Lewis-M Soucy]

Sooo cool! It's about time someone did this!!! I dreamed of that so many times, thank you thank you thank you!!! :party:

[Sanjin Jukic]

Great app!!!

[Martin Weiss]

Great app, exactly what I've been hoping for for a long time. I'd pay happily a good deal more than .99 for these features:

- Display date of post and a tiny avatar
- Only show posts not yet read
- Option to load all posts, rather than 20 at a time
- Option to post
- Option to show only posts by a list of people
- Similar color scheme, especially the background. Otherwise colored text and graphics might look different than intended.
- Highlighting of posts made by RED people
- Support of the "New posts" feature from reduser.net

Last one being the most important one

[Ryan S]

Awesome, Tyler! I second Martin on the features, I'd pay for that.

[Mark Phelan]

Say, wait just a darn minute. The Apple iTunes site has the following disclaimer:

Rated 12+ for the following:
Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content or Nudity
Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor
Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References

So what twelve year old has been sneaking onto this site talking about mild alcohol or tobacco?

[Lewis-M Soucy]

I think it has to do with the fact we post lots of pictures and films stills that might not be appropriate for young kids... Oh and some discussions are also sometimes well flaming... :furious3:

[Eric Haase]

Awesome! Any chance of an iPad version or a universal version?

[Oscar Ubilluz]

Awesome app! Been waiting for this one.

[Eirik Tyrihjel]

Great app, and yes I do occasionally wake up in the middle of the night and go check reduser in my iphone, and I am not ashamed of it.

One suggestion: Many threads on reduser are endlessly long (many many posts), and it would be really useful to have a way to navigate to the end of a thread without going through all the posts.

Anyway thanks for a great app!

[Randy Lee]

Great App! No more excuses for missing out on updates... And there have been some exciting ones lately.

[Chris Luker]

Love the app... Safari sucks.

[Wendy Woods]

COOOOL!

[Kaku Ito]

I was able to download it even from the Japanese app store.

[Nick Shaw]

Great app.

Another vote for Martin's feature requests, although I suspect that the simplified format may preclude some of them.

Most important for me would be a "load all and scroll to the end" button for long threads.

[Martin Planer]

Very nice app!

A bit simplistic but therefore it runs very smoothly. :thumbsup:

Hope you'll continue to enhance the app, but for the time being it's already a must-have iPhone app.

[Andrew clemson]

just downloaded it from here. Great stuff

[Terry VerHaar]

There doesn't seem to be a way to sign in... did I miss it?

Means you have to slog through every post in every thread every time to stay on top?

I am jazzed to have REDuser on my iPhone, though.

[Austin Neill]

ha.. I am on the screen shot.. shhweeet

[chrislancaster]

will there be a dvxuser app ?

[Massimiliano Cuzzupoli]

Great app!!!

[Grant Goss]

Could this app be used on the i-pad?

[Felix C]

Could this app be used on the i-pad?

All iPhone apps will work on the iPad.

[Michael Olsen]

This is fantastic. Thank you!

[Tyler Stromberg]

There doesn't seem to be a way to sign in... did I miss it?

Means you have to slog through every post in every thread every time to stay on top?

I am jazzed to have REDuser on my iPhone, though.

ARGH! I just lost my first post, so this one will be a little more succinct.

I just submitted v1.0.1 of the app to Apple for approval! Two new features have been added:

1. User login! You can now log in via the app. It doesn't support a whole lot of user-centric features yet, but it does support two big ones:

- The app now respects your thread display mode (set via the User CP here on the forums)! This means that you can now browse threads newest-to-oldest. No more tapping the "More" button a hundred times to get through Recon threads!
- The app also respects your "posts per page" setting (also set via the User CP). This means that you can adjust it (up to 40/page) and browse through threads much faster.

More features are coming in the next few weeks. To be quite honest, when I sat down today to work on the app, I didn't expect to be able to get user login implemented so easily (I was mostly going to work on some bug fixes).

2. Thread loading is now performed on a separate thread, so the UI remains responsive. Note: I still need to do this for posts, but one thing at a time, people! :smile:

Keep the feedback coming! You may not see instant results, but I do keep a list of suggestions and am working on a number of them.

Screenshots to come - probably tomorrow...

[Brad Webb]

Incredible work!


Suggestion: push notification for whenever Jim or Jarred post.

[Terry VerHaar]

ARGH! I just lost my first post, so this one will be a little more succinct.

I just submitted v1.0.1 of the app to Apple for approval! Two new features have been added:

1. User login! You can now log in via the app. It doesn't support a whole lot of user-centric features yet, but it does support two big ones:

- The app now respects your thread display mode (set via the User CP here on the forums)! This means that you can now browse threads newest-to-oldest. No more tapping the "More" button a hundred times to get through Recon threads!
- The app also respects your "posts per page" setting (also set via the User CP). This means that you can adjust it (up to 40/page) and browse through threads much faster.

More features are coming in the next few weeks. To be quite honest, when I sat down today to work on the app, I didn't expect to be able to get user login implemented so easily (I was mostly going to work on some bug fixes).

2. Thread loading is now performed on a separate thread, so the UI remains responsive. Note: I still need to do this for posts, but one thing at a time, people! :smile:

Keep the feedback coming! You may not see instant results, but I do keep a list of suggestions and am working on a number of them.

Screenshots to come - probably tomorrow...

This will be fantastic and quite helpful. I am a little obsessive about tracking REDuser these days and your app had potential to save me lots of productive time by letting me cruise the board in bits and pieces when I am, otherwise not productive. (Now I can do real work when I am at my computer!!) But I have to admit, the first version really didn't work for me as I had no wany to jump right to the posts I hadn't yet read. THANKS FOR THIS UPDATE!!! I'll look forward to it.

And imagine how cool this will be when I get my iPad!! :thumbsup:

Terry

[Tyler Stromberg]

Logging in:

http://homepage.mac.com/tylers/.Public/RedUser_App/Login.png


Newest-first posting and 40 posts/page:

http://homepage.mac.com/tylers/.Public/RedUser_App/ReverseThread.png

[Rich Schaefer]

Great app!

I would love a way to get to the last page. it is needed on the long running threads... also a search by user would be very helpful.

Thanks Much

[Tyler Stromberg]

I would love a way to get to the last page. it is needed on the long running threads...

Yeah, that's next on the list.


also a search by user would be very helpful.

Duly noted. This one probably won't see the light of day for a while, though...

[Shawn Booth]

Great app! Thx for this.

Any chance of NEW POSTS button?

[Tyler Stromberg]

Any chance of NEW POSTS button?

It's on the list, but there are a number of features ahead of it. :smile:

Ugh, three days later and it's still waiting for review. Gotta love the app approval process...

[Chris Swinbanks]

Nice work Tyler... this one will move to the "useful apps" pages! Look forward to future updates... cheers!

[Stephen Strangways]

Amir, Tyler is working long and hard on an app which he is making available to us for free. Even though you may be getting impatient waiting for the Scarlet to be released, it is not appropriate to vent your frustration by calling his app useless.

[Dustin Cross]

Tyler,

I would think New Posts is the most important feature and should be the top of your list. I don't use this app because I always read New Posts. When you have New Posts, your app becomes very interesting and I'd pay for it then.


Dusty

[DCC Erickson]

*cough*, Ahem ............. er -- android?

[Lewis-M Soucy]

There's "it woulb be a better app... It's useless" and there's "I'd really love these features... Would make it more useful"...

Just basic politics/marketing/politeness/education... You get what you want when you know how to ask. I wasn't going to reply to this, but I also found that post very rude.

I hope this is a newbie mistake, but just know that this is a very friendly based forum and this community supports each other very hard. Wash your mouth and come back with a nice old fashion "sorry".

Do your homeworks then you can come back and play.

[DCC Erickson]

Absolutely. One of the first signs of a true pro is manners.

[Terry VerHaar]

Tyler,

I would think New Posts is the most important feature and should be the top of your list. I don't use this app because I always read New Posts. When you have New Posts, your app becomes very interesting and I'd pay for it then.


Dusty

Second this. Love the idea of the app but it is pretty hard to use when I have to slog through all the old posts (10 at a time) to get to what I am looking for. Sorry to say but for now, I have given up on it.

[Tyler Stromberg]

Thanks for the posts, everyone. I was going to reply to that comment with thoughts along the same lines, but I think everyone else said it much nicer than I would have :laugh:


Second this. Love the idea of the app but it is pretty hard to use when I have to slog through all the old posts (10 at a time) to get to what I am looking for. Sorry to say but for now, I have given up on it.

I'm sorry to hear that, Terry. Unfortunately, as far as the "10 at a time" goes, I am limited by what the forum software allows. I was able to party work around that with the last update in that it will respect your user settings for posts/page if you log in. I am currently working on another hack (it sucks that I have to resort to hacks) that would just load all of the available pages in order. I am also trying to figure out the best way to wrangle longer posts into something more manageable.

I understand people's requests. I, too, get frustrated by having to load a hundred pages of any thread started by Jim or Jarred. :laugh: I am working on it, but other things in life take priority...

[Terry VerHaar]

:laugh: I am working on it, but other things in life take priority...

Ah, yes... life! As everyone knows, we here on Reduser have learned to be a patient lot... er... maybe, sometimes. :lol:

[tj williams]

Tyler thanks for the hard work. this thing is 90% compared to a bunch of apps on I phone....

[Philipe Ratton]

There's "it woulb be a better app... It's useless" and there's "I'd really love these features... Would make it more useful"...

Just basic politics/marketing/politeness/education... You get what you want when you know how to ask. I wasn't going to reply to this, but I also found that post very rude.

I hope this is a newbie mistake, but just know that this is a very friendly based forum and this community supports each other very hard. Wash your mouth and come back with a nice old fashion "sorry".

Do your homeworks then you can come back and play.

This !
Totally agree

[Peter Moretti]

It would be a better app if I had something useful to post like how do I fix the levels on my new Scarlet. Til then, it's pretty useless.

Wow, that is very rude!

[Justen Nguyen]

Thanks a bunch for this Tyler! Good stuff!
Would it be possible for you to implement the new posts feature once logged in?
I think that combined with the long thread hack you mentioned around would leave little room for complaints.

[Tyler Stromberg]

Great news, everybody: an update with preliminary support for the "New Posts" feature will be submitted to Apple for approval tomorrow.

[Philipe Ratton]

Great news, everybody: an update with preliminary support for the "New Posts" feature will be submitted to Apple for approval tomorrow.
Looking forward, thanks for the effort man !

[Michael Andrew]

Awesome, yet another app to use all my data on :P

[Tyler Stromberg]

OK. The update has been submitted. Now we play the waiting game...

[Nik Harper]

OK. The update has been submitted. Now we play the waiting game...

oh shit! thats so sick! i've been waiting for this! how long did it take last time for them to approve it?

[Tyler Stromberg]

oh shit! thats so sick! i've been waiting for this! how long did it take last time for them to approve it?

I've worked on a couple dozen apps now, and the approval time has varied across them from 2 days to 2 months. Most recently, I've been seeing about 7 or 8 day turnarounds. The last update was 5 days.

So, I guess what I'm saying is, "I have absolutely no idea." :smilewinkgrin:

[Nik Harper]

I've worked on a couple dozen apps now, and the approval time has varied across them from 2 days to 2 months. Most recently, I've been seeing about 7 or 8 day turnarounds. The last update was 5 days.

So, I guess what I'm saying is, "I have absolutely no idea." :smilewinkgrin:

hahaha nice, well lets hope for the 5 or so days and not the couple months!

also what all is new in it? we have the ability to post now? or is there more?

[Tyler Stromberg]

hahaha nice, well lets hope for the 5 or so days and not the couple months!

Seriously.


also what all is new in it? we have the ability to post now? or is there more?

Because there were so many comments about New Posts, I decided to sit down and add support for that. Beyond that, it's just a couple of minor bug fixes.

Rest assured, the ability to post is on my list.

[Nik Harper]

Seriously.



Because there were so many comments about New Posts, I decided to sit down and add support for that. Beyond that, it's just a couple of minor bug fixes.

Rest assured, the ability to post is on my list.

oh okay so you're saying we can start new threads but can't post yet? well hell thats way better than nothing. Very nice of you to start up the app in the first place. i thought about doing it a while back and then like the next week you came out with this one haha.

[Tyler Stromberg]

oh okay so you're saying we can start new threads but can't post yet? well hell thats way better than nothing. Very nice of you to start up the app in the first place. i thought about doing it a while back and then like the next week you came out with this one haha.

Sorry for the confusion, but starting new threads is not supported. I was referring to the "Show me all posts since my last visit" feature of the forum (http://reduser.net/forum/search.php?do=getnew).

[Nik Harper]

ohhh okay! now i understand, it sounded like we would be creating new posts. okay well still any improvement is good improvement. how hard is it to add posting abilities? seems time consuming.

[Tim Morton]

- Support of the "New posts" feature from reduser.net

Last one being the most important one

I'll probably stick with safari until this one happens. Great app none the less!

[Nik Harper]

I'll probably stick with safari until this one happens. Great app none the less!

The update is available! Go get it now!

[Tyler Stromberg]

Just a heads-up: the site update broke the app. A fix is almost ready for submission.

More info to follow.

[Russ Lasson]

Thanks!

Russ

[Anthony Cote]

Just a heads-up: the site update broke the app. A fix is almost ready for submission.

More info to follow.

yay! I love this app. I use it hourly....gotta know when those Scarlet deposits go online.

[JPSendall]

cant get it here from the emirati Itunes store, dang. Hope to see it soon.

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/03/05/how-to-create-a-us-itunes-app-store-account-when-youre-not-in-t/

Only for getting free apps but easily done

[Peter Johnson]

Every time I try and click the link on the first post iTunes tells me there is no object to be found. How can I get this app? What is the name of the app so I can search for it?

Thanks.

[Tyler Stromberg]

The link doesn't work because I've pulled the app from the store until I finish the update. I didn't want new users downloading it and then being disappointed and confused that it didn't work.

[Peter Matthes]

Look forward to the updated version, Tyler.

[Jon Corcuera]

Tyler great work, definetely a needed aplication, Can I know when are you going to upload it to the itunes?, an if it is already uploaded what name does it have, thanks in advance

[Rudyle]

disregard, should of read more before posting, hope to see it resubmitted soon!

Any ideas, also got this from the UK app store....

[Andy Best]

Looking forward to the update. I love this app

[Solomon Nero]

Yeah says not available in US :'(

[Chris Santucci]

"The item you've requested is not currently available in the US store."

[Izabela Kurczewska]

@Rudyle, @Chris - same.... :/

[Jean Guerra]

i cant open the link....whats the name of the app to see if i can download it from the iphone??

[Tyler Stromberg]

The app is not currently in any of the regional stores. I've temporarily pulled it.

I got the scraping working again with the new layout, but I'm currently working on polishing up a few things before I submit it again. I also plan on open sourcing the app in the coming weeks so that others can help out.

[Bérenger Brillante]

Hi

Any news on the next release ? I jut bought an iTouch and this app looks really cool.

[Marek.Vesely]

I'd be also intersted in the iOS app :-) Keep on going with development if you can!

[Josh Beadle]

I get the error message: "The item you've requested is not currently available in the US store." Can't find on iTunes with a manual search for RedUser. Noob move or is this app gone?

[Jarek Zabczynski]

Why can't mobile be built into the forum? It is on DVXuser, same people run both.

[John Bannister]

...cant get it in the NZ store yet ....Sounds good though, I will be checkin :)

[Gary Hoctor]

Still not available in the Irish store...and when redirected to the US store, I'm told it's not available there either. It used to work on my iPhone about 4 - 5 month ago but not anymore. Looking forward to an updated and working version soon though

[Mohamed Younis]

Can't get this in Egypt. Should be worldwide tbh. Anyway, looking forward to this.

[Justen Nguyen]

I don't think Tyler has worked on this in awhile. But I say we set up a little donation pool, that way we can have someone put some time and effort into developing the app (and of course paying for the itunes listing as free apps have to pay to be listed on itunes)

[Sierra Haworth]

I have no clue how apps work, but would a donation pool help to modify this for droid? Or am I the only droid user and will now be shunned for admitting it until I buy an iPhone?

[Nik Harper]

I don't think Tyler has worked on this in awhile. But I say we set up a little donation pool, that way we can have someone put some time and effort into developing the app (and of course paying for the itunes listing as free apps have to pay to be listed on itunes)

i agree with this. I've also been working on making an app for reduser (it will take a while). It just seems like tyler is a bit busy with other stuff for now.

[Bérenger Brillante]

+1 on the donation to help the making of this app.

[Brian Self]

can't get it on the Canada store yet, CRY!!!!!!

[Tyler Stromberg]

Hey everybody. Yes, it's been a while without a peep from me. Unfortunately, I have not had very much time to work on this lately.

Ultimately, I have decided to rewrite this from the ground up. The new version will have pretty much the same functionality and appearance as the old one (at least to start), but it will have a much better backend.

You can find the code on GitHub: https://github.com/AquaGeek/CodeRED. If you're familiar with iOS development, go ahead and take a look around. The rest of the UI and the networking/parsing code should be up by the end of the week.

If you're not familiar with iOS development, hang tight. Trust me - the rewrite is for the best.

[Nik Harper]

Hey everybody. Yes, it's been a while without a peep from me. Unfortunately, I have not had very much time to work on this lately.

Ultimately, I have decided to rewrite this from the ground up. The new version will have pretty much the same functionality and appearance as the old one (at least to start), but it will have a much better backend.

You can find the code on GitHub: https://github.com/AquaGeek/CodeRED. If you're familiar with iOS development, go ahead and take a look around. The rest of the UI and the networking/parsing code should be up by the end of the week.

If you're not familiar with iOS development, hang tight. Trust me - the rewrite is for the best.

This is perfect! I will definitely be checking that out!

[Nik Harper]

Hey everybody. Yes, it's been a while without a peep from me. Unfortunately, I have not had very much time to work on this lately.

Ultimately, I have decided to rewrite this from the ground up. The new version will have pretty much the same functionality and appearance as the old one (at least to start), but it will have a much better backend.

You can find the code on GitHub: https://github.com/AquaGeek/CodeRED. If you're familiar with iOS development, go ahead and take a look around. The rest of the UI and the networking/parsing code should be up by the end of the week.

If you're not familiar with iOS development, hang tight. Trust me - the rewrite is for the best.

Tyler, I saw the additions that were made, was that you putting the rest of it online?

[PC Greene]

Not in US iTunes store?

[Nik Harper]

Not in US iTunes store?

correct, it was taken down by Tyler (who made the app) because he needed to rebuild it but he also needs time to do so.

I'm currently working on a new app for reduser, i will be posting everything about in a day or so and i will give everyone the opportunity to offer up feature requests and/or say if they think something is useless

[Nick Wernham]

Good luck on the rebuild, Tyler. I haven't had a chance to try this yet. Looking forward to seeing it on the Canadian iTunes store soon. :)

[Ken Kosub]

Thanks Tyler for the link, however when I go to iTunes to download it gives me the following error message:
"The item you've requested is not currently available in the US store." Has anyone else had this issue?

[Nik Harper]

Thanks Tyler for the link, however when I go to iTunes to download it gives me the following error message:
"The item you've requested is not currently available in the US store." Has anyone else had this issue?

Ken, i answered this question two posts above yours.

And, welcome to Reduser its great to have you here!! :)

[Victor MOREIRA]

just saw it. Downloading ASAP

[Daniele Marconcini]

well done

[Jason Osterday]

Is this still in the store? It still comes up as "not available in US store" for over a year now. Was it officially pulled?