[MeeGo] Siilihai Web Forum Reader
 

Creating this for the author Vranki.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...30#post1148330

Re: Siilihai Web Forum Reader
 

Answering Kozzi's questions -

No. Any user can create a 'parser' which extracts the needed data from forum. It takes around 15-30 mins and needs only basic understanding of html. Real users have actually been able to create some parsers.

A Siilihai account is required for use. This allows for example syncing between computers and other stuff. Accountless
usage would be possible but not implemented yet.

Probably yes. Most phpBB, vBulletin and SMF-like forums can be supported.

TapaTalk would be a nice addition, as it is seems to be the most common API for forums. Adding it would relieve from creating a parser for each forum.

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Tapatalk API
http://tapatalk.com/api/api.php

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So anyone working on this? In the mean time where can I find a working link to download Maemo Forum App?

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Yes vranki is (2nd post in this thread), maybe try PM'ing him for status.

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NIce, will be happy to do some "parser-ing" :D

hope it support non-latin language from day one :D maybe UTF-8 or let the user who parser choose the coding! or maybe auto detection.

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how is the development advancing? Soon on Ovi store ? :)

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What's the status vranki? (Has he left us, still only 2 posts :( )

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Hi,

Sorry for slow response. I have a Harmattan version in the works and the code can be found at https://github.com/vranki/siilihai-mobile

It 'kinda works' but the UI is not very polished and authentication doesn't work yet. I'll try to allocate some time to finish the Harmattan version now that i know that someone is expecting for it.

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I'm surely waiting for it! ;)

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Excellent....

If you implement everything you previously said you would...
Then many people will want/love this app.

And if it's polished enough, most users will be happy to pay for it.

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Still waiting :)

I made 2 icons for you as well :)

http://i41.tinypic.com/1pfr0n.png
http://i42.tinypic.com/2j61uhi.png

"I used the icon from the website+the bg color"
hope you like them :)

Re: Siilihai Web Forum Reader
 

Here's an alpha version of Siilihai mobile for Harmattan.

Known issues:
- It's not very pretty. Anyone want to edit QML and make it look good?
- It can only display messages, not mark them as read yet. Message display is not cleaned up from excess html junk.
- First sync takes long time (~15 mins here on wlan) if you have many forums subscribed and there's no progress bar. Just leave it running until you see new messages appear. Start in terminal to see debug output.
- There may be other bugs i'm not aware.

http://www.siilihai.com/media/harmat....1.0_armel.deb

http://www.siilihai.com/media/harmat....1.0_armel.deb

Let me know if you like it. Contributions would be welcome. I have managed to move almost all "hard work" to libsiilihai so the mobile ui is quite simple.

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thx:)
Can we install it as normal or do we need to dpkg -i`?
Libsiilihai first?

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You'll need to install with dpkg -i, lib first (or *.deb)

And thanks et3rnal, i'll include the icons in some release soon.

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I have installed it but it wont launch. Tried reinstalling but same issue

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New (quite broken) version:

http://siilihai.blogspot.com/2012/03...9-version.html

"Works for me" but has been reported to crash sometimes. It's still alpha quality.

Re: Siilihai Web Forum Reader
 

Great!

Cannot wait to have a working version.

Thanks a lot!!!!

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I'm eagerly waiting for this too!

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Really waiting for this one to make my N9 experience closer to perfect..! So keep up the good work!

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New version available!

- Progress indicator
- Icon by et3rnal (thanks!)
- Other minor UI fixes
- Some essential functionality is still missing so it's not completely usable
- Version number lowered to 0.9.0 as i decided not to keep same version for mobile as for lib. 0.9.0 is really newer than 1.1.0.
- Not properly tested but "works for me". Let me know of any issues.
EDIT: - Close it from menu. Swiping just kills it without syncing read messages with server.

Download at:

http://www.siilihai.com/media/harmat....9.0_armel.deb

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Thank you very much!

I have a problem, though. I am not able to add my user account details to any forum. It doesn't allow me to add any text to the fields.

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Yeah, me too.

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Can you get pass the login screen ? I can't, it crashes right after that for me.

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Is there a server-less mode too (i.e. saving locally)? I kind of like being independent from a server so the app would still work if the server went down or was hacked or whatnot. RSS readers work great without connecting to servers as well.

Of course synchronization with the cloud/server is a nice feature, but imho shouldn't be mandatory.

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the UI unresponse

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Does the forum you're trying to add support login in desktop siilihai? If not, the fields are disabled iirc. I think it would be better user experience to just say "login not supported" in this case. I'll have to check this, thanks for reporting.

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Can you run it in terminal and get the few last lines of the output log to me? At what point exactly does it crash? Are you creating new account or using existing one?

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Offline reading is supported already on the desktop reader, but not in mobile. It's completely possible to do and will be implemented later.

Syncing is already optional with desktop Siilihai. Also completely accountless usage will be implemented. These will come to the mobile version later.

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Great, I'll try to keep an eye out for the accountless version then. Thanks.

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Hey, that was the problem. Thanks. Not Meego version's fault.

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the ui unresponse.

i saw it is login, after login, only see 'subscribe new' and right bottom button, but they both unclickable.

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New version with some UI enhancements:

http://www.siilihai.com/media/harmat....9.1_armel.deb

I didn't have time to hunt the crasher bug yet.

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This seems to work pretty well for me and i'd call it usable. One thing i've noticed is that syncing is unacceptably slow when subscribed to many forums. There's a lot of room for optimization in sync process and that's what i'll do next. It will also benefit the desktop reader.

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After installing this (I had to remove previous version to be able to install the new one) I have no desktop icon to launch Siilihai...

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i still dont know why my UI is still freezing..

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Wow didnt see this before, thank you very much.
Now I will try it.

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thanks man, is the required lib in this package already or should we use the lib from a few posts back? thanks again
edit so i just installed it and it works fine, i have a question though, how can i get more of the forums on? for instance xda-forums, cant seem to find them under the possible subscribe ones, is there a search option? the forums that are there dont seem to be in order either for me (my issue or common?)

Re: Siilihai Web Forum Reader
 

If you want a new forum to be added, you can add it yourself using the desktop client or leave a request so someone else may add it.

See http://siilihai.com/howitworks.html

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what forum is working? Siilihai still crash as soon as I tap ghe OK button after having selected a forum. The version in use is the one posted above.