Lighthouse Hockey Now Available via SB Nation iPhone App
by Dominik on Aug 25, 2011 12:06 PM EDT
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Hey hipster, what's happenin'? I see you got yourself one of them fancy iPhones my nephew begs for every birthday, Christmas, 4th of July, and NHL Season Opener. I myself do not -- but I do feel, and hear, your pain.
So if you haven't seen the banners, I'm happy to tell you the SB Nation iPhone app is now available in the App Store. (Yes, it's free ... Is zero cents per day too much to ask to better enable your reading Lighthouse Hockey on the train, in the theater, and on the throne?)
Of course this means you can stay on top of news and retro-live-blogs for all 300+ SB Nation blogs from your iPhone. There are more features, future steps, and instructions below. (If you don't have an iPhone but do have a mobile device that can fry eggs and pour drinks, SBN's tireless developers are working on apps for those platforms as well.)
Hopefully this makes your experience here better. New features will be added as they work those out. For me, I just hope this doesn't stop Keith's autocorrect from posting "rape silly" when he types "especially," nor "Blagojevich!!" when he types "#$% Blake Comeau!!"
With the SB Nation iPhone app you can:
- Get the latest, breaking sports news as it happens
- Customize your news with your favorite teams, sports and blogs (including BLOGNAME)
- Get notified of updates to the stories you choose to follow on SBNation.com, regional sites, Baseball Nation, and MMA Nation
- Read and reply to comments
Here's how to get it:
Go to the App Store on your iPhone and search for "SB Nation"
-- OR --
Go here and click "Download Now"
FAQ
- An Android version of the app is coming soon. Hopefully by the end of the year
- The app is free
- Comments are basic read-and-reply, but SB Nation has plans to enhance them in future updates
- You can use your existing SB Nation user name and password to log in to the app
Any questions, feedback, comments? E-mail support@sbnation.com.
Seriously, thanks to all you readers and commenters for making apps like this worth the developers' while. This isn't just intended to meet the needs of existing users, but also to help make the site more accessible to new readers.
And for those of you who never read this site on mobile, I join you in shaking my fist and shooing these other folks off our lawn.
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Testing testing 1-2-3
Just downloaded the app and it seems to work fine.
Screw Nassau.
by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on Aug 25, 2011 12:31 PM EDT via iPhone app reply actions
SB has always had a well known Apple bias
This just confirms it.
by AP77 on Aug 25, 2011 12:33 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Do you have any Corsi to back that up?
P.S. The Android app will have a default background image of Josh Bailey.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
by Dominik on Aug 25, 2011 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
MANAGEMENT DOES NOT LIKE ANDRIOD!
You know who has an android? Yep. Josh Bailey. Need I say more?
IPB Take: Continuing the trend of being the worst GM ever, Garth Snow’s Islanders, followed by SB Nation blog LHH, have denied access to users of the Android Mobile OS. When asked for comment, Snow responded from his iPhone, “Sorry, 2 busy eating live kittens and hatin’ on Mother Teresa. Will have official announcement maybe never?”
Let me be the first,.um..second..um..
Whatever. This is cool.
by CloseCallJiggs on Aug 25, 2011 12:57 PM EDT via iPhone app reply actions
Dear iPhone,
Please stop spell checking all of my rude words into nice words. You piece of shut.
Sincerely,
Every iPhone User
by O.Bender on Aug 25, 2011 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Rape silly the wards that aren’t all that ruddy to Steve Begin with.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
by Dominik on Aug 25, 2011 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
true
But tehn everythnig loks like tihs.
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
Lighthouse Hockey - a beacon of greatness on the rocky coast of sports blog mediocrity
Non-hockey scribblings at nightflyblog
by mikb on Aug 27, 2011 1:20 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
BLAH! HUMBUG!
No red line on the ice , phones masqerading as computers! and we can’t get a new arener or a decent 3d sweater
Back....
had to take a Campbell and wipe my Bettman.
by skeeterman on Aug 25, 2011 1:14 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
Between Islanders fandom
and Android phone ownership, I will never escape my second-class citizenship. :(
Hoping that Haley comes around more than once every 75 years.
by ilopan on Aug 25, 2011 1:17 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs
Alternatively:
Hockey fans, let’s hear it for your New York iSlanders
Hoping that Haley comes around more than once every 75 years.
by ilopan on Aug 25, 2011 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Hey, that has legs
ilopan (and all Androidites), apparently when they began development iPhone users were far and away the most common mobile visitors to these sites, but in the interim Android has “closed the gap.”
Look for an Android app in time to lament the December Swoon.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
Second class?
Not you sir. That would be a Android owner and a Pen’s fan!
Back....
had to take a Campbell and wipe my Bettman.
oooh shiny
Remember when fan communities had to meet in wood-paneled basements or school libraries? They arranged that shit on rotary phones, hard-wired into a wall. Blogs were typewritten and mimeographed. That was authentic, man. Now everyone’s got a smartphone and an app – which used to be called “science fiction” and “punchcard” when shit was real, man. Hell, I need an espresso.
#hipster
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
Lighthouse Hockey - a beacon of greatness on the rocky coast of sports blog mediocrity
Non-hockey scribblings at nightflyblog
by mikb on Aug 25, 2011 2:07 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
19" black & white
T.V.’s with rabbit ears and Coors beer smuggled in from Colo. The best of times… The worst of times. Hell, makes me long for a AMC Gremlin.
Back....
had to take a Campbell and wipe my Bettman.
Coors!
Was just talking about that in the post-game parking lot last night. Remember when Coors was geographically restricted, so people actually went out of their way to smuggle it.
Said my 63-year-old teammate last night: “Then they made it available everywhere, and that’s when we all realized it was crap!”
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
by Dominik on Aug 25, 2011 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
ALA Smokey and the Bandit
"If the bell needs to be answered, we've got the guys to answer it." "If they want to start something, that's fine."- Trevor Gillies
I sent this announcement to alt.sports.hockey
But all I got was silence.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
by Dominik on Aug 25, 2011 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I'm surprised you didn't get....
… Oodles of spam fot penis enlargement and porn sites.
Screw Nassau.
by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on Aug 26, 2011 12:18 AM EDT up reply actions
I just figured that was an autocorrect joke
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
A buddy of mine's father
was big into rotisserie baseball in the 80s. Some of his stories about it are hilarious. People calling his house at 3am to make roster moves. One of them had him using a payphone outside the Pentagon (where he worked), posing as a reporter for a fictitious local newspaper, to call the Padres about the health status of Tony Gwynn. The conversation ended with the woman on the other end telling him, “We have to be careful. We get all kinds of calls from those crazy rotisserie people.”
by afrosupreme on Aug 25, 2011 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
The health status of Tony Gwynn
Was probably “hungry.”
/love that guy. One of my few favorite baseball players.
"He's depriving some small village of a pretty good idiot" - Mike Milbury on Ziggy Palffy's agent Paul Kraus.
by PGI on Aug 25, 2011 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
hahahahaha, what a story
The lengths people would go to… and the ingenuity. Love it.
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
Lighthouse Hockey - a beacon of greatness on the rocky coast of sports blog mediocrity
Non-hockey scribblings at nightflyblog
Would really like an Android app
Maybe that’s next. iPhone apps tend to be released before Android apps from my knowledge.
Until then, I’ll just have to browse LHH through a web broser on my Android phone.
Yep, that's the plan
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
Yep
Another wanter of the Droid app here.
"If the bell needs to be answered, we've got the guys to answer it." "If they want to start something, that's fine."- Trevor Gillies
+1
"Look at my new clothes," said the Emperor to the Nassau County residents.
by metalcoconut on Aug 25, 2011 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions
We're chomping at the bit to get it out too
I’m an Android guy myself, so believe you me, we’ll get an Android app out as soon as we can.
by Luke Zimmermann on Aug 25, 2011 4:52 PM EDT reply actions
^ Luke is from SBN headquarters
He’s not even an Isles fan (forgive him, Bossy, he knows not what he’s done) — so they’re looking out for y’all, taking feedback and such.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
Hey Luke
Maybe you can get someone to look into that javascript error that’s making the pages stall out the past few days… ? :)
also...
Is there any reason why the quick navigation keys only work at random? Occasionally, they’re fine. Some of the time, they won’t work unless I happen to post a reply or rec, or is other people add new comments, and then they’re fine. And sometimes, they just never work and I have to scroll through the whole thread.
I’ve had this issue on IE8 and IE9.
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
Lighthouse Hockey - a beacon of greatness on the rocky coast of sports blog mediocrity
Non-hockey scribblings at nightflyblog
I Cannot get the Z button or any of those to work at ALL using IE.
I now use Firefox because it got so annoying.
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Aug 27, 2011 12:04 AM EDT up reply actions
I ought to download that for the new lappy
If for no other reason than all the “You must think in Russian” jokes.
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
Lighthouse Hockey - a beacon of greatness on the rocky coast of sports blog mediocrity
Non-hockey scribblings at nightflyblog
It's been an issue lately
they have a javascript error on the page that causes the page to not finish loading. Because of this the keys only work at times. If you stop the page from loading (after it has loaded the stuff you want to see!), the keys should then work. Annoying, but efficient workaround.
I actually commented it on that SBN fellow Luke’s comment about the Android app, so hopefully he sees that.
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