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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on May 26, 2009, 11:26:50 pm

Title: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 26, 2009, 11:26:50 pm
For the third time since this incarnation of Omnimaga forums and the new programming team started, our members have made a total of at least 1000 posts in one month, with a total of 1024 so far. Altough this is not as high as our average of 1700 a month on the old board (excluding the temporary board used from January 1st 2008 until its shutdown on March 3rd 2008), we are still the most active game-oritented calculator forums on the web and one of the most active calculator forum, along with United-TI and Cemetech, in terms of monthly activity. Here is a graphic of the monthly posting statistics on Omnimaga from May 12th 2005 to March 3rd 2008 and from August 25th 2008 to May 26th 2009:
(http://www.omnimaga.org/images/poststats.jpg)
Thanks to all members for their contributions in the community!
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: simplethinker on May 26, 2009, 11:44:50 pm
Nice ;D  But now I feel bad that I put us past 1024 :(
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 26, 2009, 11:46:17 pm
oh dont worry the graph is only for until today it doesnt matter too much unless ppl posted 1000 posts within the next few minutes lol
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: trevmeister66 on May 27, 2009, 12:49:30 am
Way to go simple...
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 27, 2009, 01:04:38 am
what do you mean trev?
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: Halifax on May 27, 2009, 06:48:34 am
what do you mean trev?
I think he was saying "Way to go simple[thinker]..."
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: trevmeister66 on May 27, 2009, 08:39:41 am
it was a joke because he said he felt bad for putting us over 1024.
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: Galandros on May 27, 2009, 09:17:40 am
Omnimaga discussion is mostly on developing games...

But this is a great board. It has very active members comparing to other forums...
My contribute is small, but I hope it is very positive. :P Let's get this thing back to glory days >_>
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 27, 2009, 03:39:23 pm
oh ok I was a bit worried it was in reply to my news post or my other comment, especially since you said "simple" :P

@Galandros, well actually, in some ways, Omnimaga being mostly aimed toward game programming is one good thing that most other forums doesn't have. Back in the days, the only board that was similar in that way was MaxCoderz and to a lesser extent Revsoft. UTI got a good period about that around 2006 too IIRC, where projects good good attention. However, aside from that everywhere else it's hard to get replies to your projects, since they are more oriented towards helping. On Omnimaga it will be harder to get programming help, but it will be easier to get constructive feedback on your projects. I think the later, combined with staff activity might have helped a lot in keeping this site active even after 8 months of downtime and with much fewer members than on United-TI and TI-BASIC Developper. On the old forums, it used to be this way too, but in 2007 almost the entire staff went inactive so fewer projects were announced and there was more offtopic talk, same on the temporary board (but again on the temporary board we had 3 days in a row with no post sometimes).
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: skuller972 on May 27, 2009, 04:33:08 pm
SWEET!!! I FEEL LIKE POSTING 1000 POSTS RIGHT NOW BUT I AM COMPLETELY SURE THAT WILL GET ME AN UNWARNED PERMANENT BAN!!! BUT STILL, SWEET!
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: Galandros on May 27, 2009, 04:33:35 pm
oh dont worry the graph is only for until today it doesnt matter too much unless ppl posted 1000 posts within the next few minutes lol
I fired my best shot. How it increased? :P
Kidding.
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: noahbaby94 on May 27, 2009, 04:46:11 pm
SWEET!!! I FEEL LIKE POSTING 1000 POSTS RIGHT NOW BUT I AM COMPLETELY SURE THAT WILL GET ME AN UNWARNED PERMANENT BAN!!! BUT STILL, SWEET!
Actully if you can pull off 1000 nonspam posts you wouldn't be banned but they couldn't be anything like me too.
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: skuller972 on May 27, 2009, 04:49:11 pm
well, i dont really see a way to post 1000 post all today without the majority of it being spamish. But, hey, I'll try my darndest to do it with a minimal spam (only 499, that way it isnt the majority lol)
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 27, 2009, 04:51:50 pm
agreed with Noahbaby94. This includes posts written in all caps, filled with smileys or huge text. There's a section on this forum dedicated to randomness and spam after all (altough guests can't see it), where post count doesn't increase.
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: noahbaby94 on May 27, 2009, 04:53:59 pm
But it does affect total post count of the forum.
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 27, 2009, 05:04:48 pm
As long as we don't upgrade to SMF 2.0
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: skuller972 on May 27, 2009, 05:57:43 pm
ive only been here a month or two (maybe three) but i already have 207 posts (208 now) and im 8th in the list of top posters, so i am proud to present myself as a somewhat large contributor to this achievement. not to be selfish or anything.
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: simplethinker on May 28, 2009, 11:51:40 am
ive only been here a month or two (maybe three) but i already have 207 posts (208 now) and im 8th in the list of top posters, so i am proud to present myself as a somewhat large contributor to this achievement. not to be selfish or anything.
Remember: quality over quantity :)

Way to go simple...
I wonder if I should change my name (probably to "snjwffl"), since I think we've used up all of the good puns for "simplethinker"...
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: noahbaby94 on May 28, 2009, 12:14:43 pm
I should just try to change my name to just noah.
Edit: Who is out there trying to kill my rep?
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: Galandros on May 28, 2009, 12:25:26 pm
I should just try to change my name to just noah.
Edit: Who is out there trying to kill my rep?
/me fixed reputation
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: skuller972 on May 28, 2009, 04:28:52 pm
ive only been here a month or two (maybe three) but i already have 207 posts (208 now) and im 8th in the list of top posters, so i am proud to present myself as a somewhat large contributor to this achievement. not to be selfish or anything.
Remember: quality over quantity :)

lol i was playing... not trying to be a jerk, so it may seem to some, but i was joking
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: Galandros on May 28, 2009, 05:15:12 pm
ive only been here a month or two (maybe three) but i already have 207 posts (208 now) and im 8th in the list of top posters, so i am proud to present myself as a somewhat large contributor to this achievement. not to be selfish or anything.
Remember: quality over quantity :)

lol i was playing... not trying to be a jerk, so it may seem to some, but i was joking
Hmmm, we can use it for joking with moderation, of course.

But maybe the reputation ought to be taken as serious thing... Not to be played with...
DJ what is your opinion? After all he is the board administrator.
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: skuller972 on May 28, 2009, 05:19:24 pm
im sorry. i really didnt mean anything bad.
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 28, 2009, 11:06:30 pm
well personally reputation doesnt have much importances, since almost everyone is rated positive. Some people will play with it to round up someone's number, though. For example, I've been stuck at 100 because whenever somebody rates me higher, someone else immediately rates me back to 100. The only way in which it is meaningful is that usually people who screw up often or are borderlines on forum rules breaking usually gets rated negatively. If I noticed somebody rated everybody down over and over I would probably disable it, though. It pretty much works like youtube comments rating, except that it's for members instead of posts
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: Ti-newb on June 06, 2009, 09:26:16 pm
I dunno about u. But ur graph shows that we've had more then 1000 posts several times.. Like.. alot more then 3 times.
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 06, 2009, 09:32:00 pm
Yeah but it's still the 3rd time it did since Omnimaga reopening. Remember this incarnation of Omnimaga opened its doors to public in late August 2008. The old board did saw more than 1000 posts in a month much more than 3 times, though (even 4000, as you can see in the graph)

If we combined the old Invisionfree Omnimaga forums data (if Invisionfree gave me access to it) with the new one and merged old accounts for members who re-registered again on the new board, we would have around 63000 posts right now and several forum members would be over 2000 posts
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: allynfolksjr on June 06, 2009, 11:26:24 pm
several forum members would be over 2000 posts
Like me!
Title: Re: Forums hits 1000 posts for the 3rd time since reopening
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 07, 2009, 12:10:33 am
Nope. You would have at least 101, though. :P