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[Melonica Stormborn]

Khal Rhaggat - Cart King, on 24 November 2012 - 06:26 PM, said:

Finally figured out what was going wrong... There is another forum that pops up when you search for a forum of ice and fire through taptalk. I searched again and was able to find the real forum. Connected to that no problem and am posting this from my jail broken iPhone 4s with Installous TapTalk. As is often the case, this was a matter of operator error. Thanks again for all of the help!

I installed TapaTalk last week and experienced the same thing. That other Westeros.org forum showing up on TapaTalk confused me.

[Ran]

There's another forum... ? Hrm.

[Melonica Stormborn]

Ran, on 26 November 2012 - 08:17 AM, said:

There's another forum... ? Hrm.

When I used the keyword "Westeros", the choices that appeared include: "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "A Forum of Ice and Fire". I initially chose the latter for obvious reasons, and it ended up with errors connecting (I couldn't connect at all). I thought it was with the app at first, then tried option 1 and it worked. Further checking and option 2 has the wrong URL too.  

Edited by Melonica Stormborn, 26 November 2012 - 08:27 AM.

[Ran]

Weird. I'm going to have to try and find out how to sort that out.

ETA: What's the URL of the Forum of Ice and Fire?

Edited by Ran, 26 November 2012 - 08:31 AM.

[Melonica Stormborn]

It's showing up as westeros.com. Clearly not this forum since we're .org here. But it's using the forum name. Also the site description given by TapaTalk looked legit, adding to the illusion. Very weird, indeed.

Edited by Melonica Stormborn, 26 November 2012 - 08:48 AM.

[Ran]

I've tried to update the name that will appear in Tapatalk to make it clearer which one is the real forum. It looks like someone briefly tried to run their own 'Forum of Ice and Fire' on the Westeros domain they've been squatting on for a decade, but a look at Google suggests nothing but spam bots filled it up until they quit bothering.

Let me know if the name change has propagated -- it may take awhile.

[Melonica Stormborn]

The name change is now visible at least on my device

Edited by Melonica Stormborn, 26 November 2012 - 09:37 AM.