Zing Touch
Social Networking
Free
With Zing Touch you can read and post to forums and bulletin boards including the legendary I Love Music ILX forums at ilxor.com. This will enrich your life.
FEATURES:
• Bookmark support: Open updated threads, set new bookmarks, delete older ones and quickly update your saved reading positions.
• Search: Find questions and answers, including from an archive of more than 20 years on I Love Music.
• Message composer: Bold! Italic! Message quoting! No BBCode required.
• YouTube and Twitter support: Watch videos and tweets embedded in posts.
• Fast loading: Using ILX API, Zing needs very little data to load threads and messages — you can zing with a bar of 3G.
IMPORTANT:
- You must have already created an account on a ConversationBoard forum (such as ilxor.com) to use Zing.
more Over 740 souls were spared — thank you Zing!
Over 740 souls were spared — thank you Zing!
Fixes issues on older phones and with blocking posters. Poll voting too. Sry.
5.3.2 06/24/2025
Two big bug fixes - the search results bug, and the "hang after reloading" bug. I hope.
5.0.3 06/16/2025
- Fixes issues with checking for new bookmarks
5.0.2 03/03/2025
Since we last rapped at ya:
- There's a new, faster, way to comment on questions.
- There are better controls for questions, including muting: you can hide questions you never want to see again.
- Display improvements, like a true dark theme which automatically follows your device settings, and timestamps that make sense if you don't speak 24-hour clock
- A proper browser for external links (and a setting to go to your system browser if you prefer)
- You can swipe on bookmarks to update or remove them
- The trucker hat icon is still here, but it's not red because red hats mean other things now
5.0 03/18/2024
- Classic: a button for adding quote tags to posts (added)
- Dud: underlining in posts (removed)
4.5 01/26/2021
- Some support for formatting in posts
- Hidden text is hidden (no more spoilers)
4.4 08/18/2020
- Fixes a problem where it wasn't always possible to edit all of a very long post.
4.2.9 01/27/2020
New:
- Keyboard shortcuts on iPad (a few)
Fixes:
- You can vote in polls once more (sorry)
- Twitter (and other) links should open properly now
- The account editor doesn't lose all sense of perspective when you change your password.
- Fixes an issue where text could disappear while editing a post.
4.2 01/16/2020
New:
- You can now search within a single board (open the board first)
- You can sort search results
- All the themes now use dynamic font sizes (as set in Settings)
CHALLOPS fixes:
- Twitter and YouTube videos now play properly (and stop playing when they shouldn't)
- Threads remember where you were when your device rotates
- Some layout fixes, especially when using serif fonts
4.1 12/09/2019
SEARCH! You can now search for both questions and answers, across more than 20 years of posts (on I Love Music and I Love Everything, at least). There's more to come on this, but it's a (big) start.
Also: Think of all the "pls delete old post i am very embarrassed thank u" requests that are coming our way now.
4.0 11/28/2019
Small changes:
- There's a dark mode toggle in the homescreen
- You can now swipe a bookmark left to set it to the latest message, and right to delete it
- You can now share a post as a link, or open it in your browser (tap a message and hit the share button)
- The message detail view is a bit easier to read, and a bit less 2007.
- Copes better if threads have corrupt or badly-coded HTML in them
- The keyboard's now quite dark in dark mode
3.5 04/17/2019
- Snippets (previews of bookmarks) are now optional (look in Settings)
- Fixes the bouncy homescreen
3.0.5 01/07/2019
- Updated bookmarks now show a preview of the most recent post.
- Borad descriptions!
- Easier-to-read fonts on smaller devices
- Sear— nah, kidding.
3.0.4 05/09/2018
- xpost bug = fixed
- xpost bug = fixed
- xpost bug = fixed
- no really, the xpost bug = fixed.
- also fixes a number of display issues on iOS 11 devices, er, I mean "we're always making changes and improvements to Zing Touch"
3.0.3 10/05/2017
- Adds support for embedded tweets in posts
- Support for secured https connections to sites
3.0.2 06/02/2017
Quick bug-fix version that:
- Handles existing accounts properly after a server upgrade
- Poll vote option restored
- New-style YouTube embeds supported
- Corrects issues with dark theme on some devices
3.0.1 08/26/2016
- Zing Touch ON IPAD!
- That includes slide-over, split-view and multitasking on supported devices
- Now uses the Safari view to open links
- A better-looking serif font theme. Classier.
- Improved support for iPhone 6+ and 6s+ especially in landscape
3.0 07/08/2016
- Better support for Dynamic Type (using the system fonts)
- Thread display less worse
NOTE: This will be the last update that supports iOS versions older than 9; the next update will be iOS 9-only.
2.1 02/26/2016
• Supports Dynamic Type, so you can set the fonts to HUEG if that's your wish. (Settings app > General > Accessibility > Larger Type)
• Fixes some bugs (threads getting stuck at loading, spinners that won't stop spinning, draft posts that don't get deleted)
• Share sheet support in the detail view (more to come here)
2.0.1 04/23/2015
• Support for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
• iOS 8 ~theme~ including serif and night mode versions
• Search, sort-of: You can find threads by filtering
• Choose only the boards you want to see on the homescreen
• Flag Post support
• "Killfile" - block posts from certain users
• Redesigned composer: no more trashcan! No more crashing on undo!
• 50% faster at loading longer threads
• Images from Flickr work properly again
2.0 02/08/2015
- Support for iPhone 5
- YouTube videos display correctly on iOS 6
- Scrolls to latest bookmarks correctly
1.9.6.1 02/28/2013
NEW:
- Now supports multiple accounts/sites (so you can add the Sandbox as well as ILX, for example)
- Shows only your favourite boards on the home screen
FIXES
- Faster logging in and checking of bookmarks
- Quicker restore from sleep (no more "Connecting…")
- Display of new post composer on iOS 5
1.9.5 09/08/2012
NEW
-Multitasking is enabled on supported devices.
-Ask questions (start new threads) on boards.
-Updated icons for Retina display.
FIXES
-Fix crash that could happen when deleting a bookmark
-Now warn when trying to set bookmarks with old-style bookmarking set in the site's settings.
-Thread timestamps now update correctly
-Better handling of a changed password.
-Properly uses the serif font in the message detail view (thx Ben)
-Fixes an issues where reordered boards weren't saved. (thx Ben)
-You can now undo hitting the "clear" or formatting buttons when writing by shaking the device. (thx Ben)
1.9 11/14/2010
NEW
Display options: serif fonts and an all-dark night theme.
FIXES
Message display is much faster, particularly on original iPhone and iPod Touch models.
Fixes a problem with the post composer and landscape mode (thanks to gbx).
Fixes a problem with the sizing of messages for display.
1.6 02/09/2010
NEW
- Full poll support: Read open polls, see results and vote
- You can now re-order and delete boards.
- Deleted boards are hidden from Site New Answers (to restore to defaults, just log in again)
- Compose posts with the landscape keyboard
- Timezone support. Thread, poll and message timestamps appear in your local timezone.
- New buttons for all BBCode tags, including smart completion of images and web links.
UPDATES
- Vastly faster bookmarking
- Much faster startup and login times
- Better quoting of messages for reply
-Better account checking in the login screen
FIXES
-Site icons are now loaded properly
-Threads with very old ilxor.com HTML now load properly
-Thread display keeps your place after rotation
-Thread status display updates properly after visting a nested thread
- Thread scrolls to correct place of permalinked post, if possible
1.5 01/12/2010
Fixes issues on older phones and with blocking posters. Poll voting too. Sry.
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