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Title: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: aeTIos on October 06, 2011, 10:44:32 am
It might be me, but did activity drop due to omnom being down?
Maybe netham could at least do something with spybot45 so that we get informed when a new post arrives. just a thought.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on October 06, 2011, 12:33:59 pm
I surely don't hope so. :(
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: Netham45 on October 06, 2011, 02:25:38 pm
Jim offered to host OmnomIRC for the rest of October yesterday, I think once I get the bug patched (should be a couple days max) I'll take him up on it.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on October 06, 2011, 02:41:04 pm
If that affects our internet, he's gonna get it. :P

Reason for edit: Embarrassing mistake  :-[
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: aeTIos on October 06, 2011, 02:47:49 pm
lol. sounds OK, though.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: parserp on October 06, 2011, 04:42:24 pm
Jim offered to host OmnomIRC for the rest of October yesterday, I think once I get the bug patched (should be a couple days max) I'll take him up on it.
it'll take that long?
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: Netham45 on October 06, 2011, 06:22:47 pm
Jim offered to host OmnomIRC for the rest of October yesterday, I think once I get the bug patched (should be a couple days max) I'll take him up on it.
it'll take that long?

It won't take that long to fix it, but I can't really say for sure that I'll have time to fix the bug until tomorrow.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: parserp on October 06, 2011, 06:54:31 pm
Jim offered to host OmnomIRC for the rest of October yesterday, I think once I get the bug patched (should be a couple days max) I'll take him up on it.
it'll take that long?

It won't take that long to fix it, but I can't really say for sure that I'll have time to fix the bug until tomorrow.
oh that's what you mean. :)
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: BalancedFury on October 06, 2011, 07:48:37 pm
I thought there was a site that let's you talk on Omnom IRC?
If i'm not mistaking, it was EFNET?
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 06, 2011, 07:50:38 pm
Direct link to the #omnimaga channel: http://chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.umich.edu&channel=%23omnimaga
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 06, 2011, 08:05:07 pm
Yeah I feared this would bring down activity since a lot of people relied on Spybot in OmnomIRC to check new posts.

Not to mention activity is already down by 100+ posts a day over last fall X.x. I hope at least Spybot45 is still up. Good luck fixing Omnom Netham45.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: BalancedFury on October 06, 2011, 08:11:57 pm
It really doesn't effect me, because I actually never depended on the Omnom IRC
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: Darl181 on October 06, 2011, 08:13:47 pm
Spybot's still up, i can see it notifying in the chan.
Do we still have that old java thing sitting around btw?  ("PJIrc")
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 06, 2011, 08:15:43 pm
I wouldn't be surprised if it was still on somewhere, but I forgot the URL.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: Darl181 on October 06, 2011, 08:20:22 pm
Found it
http://omnimaga.org/irc/
tho it's not starting up for some reason..

Anyway efnet.org works better than that thing so blarg
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: BalancedFury on October 06, 2011, 08:21:49 pm
Found it
http://omnimaga.org/irc/
tho it's not starting up for some reason..

Anyway efnet.org works better than that thing so blarg
blarg?
dont u mean Bleh? :P
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: boot2490 on October 06, 2011, 09:25:27 pm
The activity did really did go down. I used spybot a lot! You don't know what you have until you lose it :)
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 06, 2011, 09:27:46 pm
Well so far activity actually seems average with the last few weeks (290+ posts today when I checked an hour ago). It just seems to be IRC that is affected right now. Of course 290-300 is a huge change from last year's 350-450 though :P

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Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: Netham45 on October 06, 2011, 09:54:31 pm
I'm glad to see that it's not affecting it too much in the short term.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 06, 2011, 10:08:12 pm
Yeah, I think the activity drop over last year was mainly caused by the collapse of the TI-Nspire community, which was our second largest audience, and the fact I post much less than I used to.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 07, 2011, 09:28:13 am
Direct links to working #omnimaga webchats:

http://chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.umich.edu&channel=%23omnimaga

http://chat.efnet.org/irc.cgi?chan=%23omnimaga
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: parserp on October 07, 2011, 06:23:27 pm
I feel like I don't know what's going on without IRC. :(
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: aeTIos on October 07, 2011, 06:28:50 pm
Seconded Parser.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: boot2490 on October 07, 2011, 06:29:34 pm
Thirded.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: parserp on October 07, 2011, 06:34:18 pm
Now it feels like nobody’s on omni but me. :(
oh well, should be up and running soon, right?
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 07, 2011, 06:51:49 pm
Funny how you don't realize how important something is to your life until it's not there. I suddenly feel like I can't keep track of what's going on around here now because the posts aren't getting announced :(
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: parserp on October 07, 2011, 06:57:15 pm
Yeah, you have to go all the way to "new posts" to see if anyone posted anything.
gets frustrating. :banghead:
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: BalancedFury on October 07, 2011, 07:13:42 pm
Fourthed?
:P
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: parserp on October 07, 2011, 07:15:27 pm
Looks like everyone is agreeing. :P
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: JustCause on October 07, 2011, 07:16:36 pm
Looks like everyone is agreeing. :P
Seconded.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: parserp on October 07, 2011, 07:17:11 pm
We need you omnom!!!!!!!!!! :(
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: BalancedFury on October 07, 2011, 07:18:59 pm
Looks like everyone is agreeing. :P
Seconded.
Thirded lol XD
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: parserp on October 07, 2011, 07:20:26 pm
This is soooooo boring without omnom.
when will it be repaired????????
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: BalancedFury on October 07, 2011, 07:21:33 pm
Someone said Spambot will fix it so... Idk
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: parserp on October 07, 2011, 07:22:03 pm
how does spambot work?
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: BalancedFury on October 07, 2011, 07:24:10 pm
Im not quite sure ask DJ or Juju or anyone over lvl 8.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: parserp on October 07, 2011, 07:26:55 pm
what's level 8 have to to with it?
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: BalancedFury on October 07, 2011, 07:28:25 pm
Idk, lvl 8 sounds like the level when u should know most about Omni...
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: JustCause on October 07, 2011, 07:29:46 pm
Idk, lvl 8 sounds like the level when u should know most about Omni...
Levels have to do with postcount, not Omni knowledge. For instance, I'm LV7 and I've still got access to the staff forum (being CoT). As a general rule, don't put too much weight on postcount. ^^
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 07, 2011, 09:10:45 pm
Yeah true post counts are not an indicator of knowledge, more an indication of how much someone contributed to the site in terms of messages/text.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: BalancedFury on October 07, 2011, 09:13:19 pm
Yeah true post counts are not an indicator of knowledge, more an indication of how much someone contributed to the site in terms of messages/text.
I know, but what I meant was the more posts u hav, it usually means that u hav been a member of Omni for longer.
That's y I said that they hav more knowledge.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 07, 2011, 09:20:32 pm
Well it depends. Eeems, for example, posted 3000+ messages, but he has been member for 2 years, while Ephan posted 6000 times, even though he was member for one fewer year. I guess it's true they got more knowledge if their posts are quality, though, since their higher post count usually means they checked the forums more often and the spam/humor sections do not count towards users' post counts.
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: annoyingcalc on October 07, 2011, 09:36:10 pm
I need to log in more I usually come on omni alot be as a guest just because I dont really need to log in when Im just browsing
Title: Re: Lower activity due to omnom being down?
Post by: Deep Toaster on October 09, 2011, 01:25:41 am
Well, at least it's made me more active on IRC.