For 2010, Omnimaga forums has broke the 20000 posts bar, making it the first time since 2007 that an English TI calculator forum reaches at least 20000 posts in one single year! The image below lists the yearly stats for every forum that ever had at least one year in the five digits, as well as a few other boards, since the year 2005:
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After reaching a peak of posting activity in 2006, TI-Z80 community dwindled afterward, reaching a bottom low in 2008 (the year where Omnimaga was gone for almost half a year), where Ticalc.org POTY only had two entries in total. Afterward, activity in overall started to increase again, programming-wise too, altough only a few forums picked up again (including Omnimaga). However, even on the forums that did not see their activity increase yet in 2010, there seems to be new members arriving as well as former ones showing up again, especially lately, even on MaxCoderz. Revsoft, despite just having come back from a one month downtime, has some activity on the forums. As for Cemetech, it seems like that they might have chances to break the 20000 bar this year, too. Omnimaga, on its side, just shattered 4 monthly activity records in a row, all of which were originally set in 2006. As for Ticalc.org, 2010 already have 10 featured programs, while in 2009, only 4 programs were POTY candidates at this time of the year. In May 2010, their website also saw the first monthly traffic increase (over the same month of the previous year) for the first time since April 2008.
In long terms, the skyrocketing activity on both Cemetech and Omnimaga forums and the recent invasion of new great programs on ticalc.org could possibly benefit for other sites, too, providing their respective owners are still active. Will we eventually see POTY polls with over 10 choices once again?