To anyone on tapatalk:
I uninstalled tapatalk and reinstalled it, then it asked me for my tapatalk I.d. sign in. I completely forgot it so I just skipped it.
Now I'm noticing tapatalk is much much faster and smoother and responsive. I don't know if its cause its not communicating with tapatalk servers constantly or if the reinstall did it or what's going on behind the scenes but its something to consider I guess