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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
I was looking for problems for forum owners - I thought that must be what you were referring to. The beta was a mess for a while, I was using the Amazon free version because there were problems, but that's what a beta is for.
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Uhm, most of the feedback you see there regarding the beta is from forum owners. Remember forum owners have to deal not only with the client software but also the server software. I don't disagree that a beta is most likely to have bugs and that's what a beta is for, but some of these bugs were just completely unnecessary, while others were fixed only to introduce new bugs. And then, suddenly, they released it as non-beta, even though a big number of bug reports continues to flow in.
For example, just a couple of days ago a security issue was reported related to post/quote notification. Basically, a user quoted was notified about the quote, even if he did not have the rights to see the post in which he was quoted in (think of a section dedicated to site moderators). These are fundamental issues that are not supposed to happen. In the past, we had to disable push notification, because they caused massive slow downs for any of our members browsing Mobileread (with or without Tapatalk). The culprit, we discovered, was their slow push server. We reported the issue, and it was slowly being looked at. We even offered a solution that would make sure that no slow downs could occur at all, but they deemed that solution too complicated to support. Another example: We discovered that all forum passwords were stored in plaintext (at least on Android devices), even though there is no need for that (a hash would be sufficient). We reported the issue, and they came back to us saying that they'd be working on improving the security. That was in April 2012. As of today they haven't changed anything in this regard.