Omnimaga
Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on February 01, 2010, 03:33:45 am
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In January 2010, Omnimaga forums have hit 2591 posts total, making it the first time we hit 2500 or higher since 2006 ended. We also have made over 2000 posts for two months in a row, December 2009 being the first time we make it past 2000 on the new board (which opened on August 25th 2008). After we reached a peak of 1649 posts in June 2009, activity dropped due to summer vacations, then went back and forth from approximately 800 to over 1100 a month. After October 2009 low activity of 827 messages, we jumped straight to 1559 in November, an increase of 732, then in December our members made a total of 2094, an increase of 535 over the previous month. In January, we had an increase of 497 over December. This is a total increase of 1764 since October, meaning our activity more than tripled in 4 months!
(http://www.omnimaga.org/images/graph.png)
In other words, Omnimaga new forums activity is now the same as it was in the old forums glory days. The differences, which makes the new community even better, are that after only 40% of the total amount of posts we had on the old board (over 55000), we already have hit our old total member mark and more people seems to have stayed around. In addition to that, the overall post quality seems to have increased considerably in overall, even in our members-only Randomness sub-forum. 8149 of our 20419 posts, 40% of the entire board, are calculator projects and ideas discussions.
We would like to thank all members who are participating to our discussions, who share their work with us, help as well as all the staff who make Omnimaga a better place every day!
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Good work.
Omnimaga is back into full shape. I think our plans now should be focused on releasing good projects that attract attention to the calculator community. :)
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Wow! I only came around recently, but now I see what you were talking about. This is definitely a good sign, I love to see a renewed spark of interest in the Calc community.
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Me too, I noticed that other forums still have some difficulty remaining very active but despite that, there's a general increase inactivity in overall in terms of programming. I mean, if you check UTI forums, there are not a lot of active topics, but everything is calc-related! Same for Revsoft! Maybe not so much for Cemetech, but I checked recently and did saw some new calc-related discussion there. It seems that in overall, while there may still not be as many people as in 2004-05, there are more developers.
It also helped that Ticalc.org finally hire some active staff to process the archives and reviews and post more news.
Omnimaga activity seems disproportional to other sites, though. At some point, news articles here got more comments than on Ticalc.org and normally, UTI activity was the same as Omnimaga until the end of November. I think the reason why our activity rose this high is mostly because we focus a lot of projects and are more welcoming in general, the later of which rose in importance among our new userbase, especially with what happened to the TI community, especially Omnimaga, in 2008.
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That's neat. :)
Everyone had a hand in this; Congradulations all! :D
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*Silver Shadow does a little jig.*
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Warm fuzzy feelings abound!
> DJ Omnimaga : Ride stats like mechanical bull
Erh... Yeah :P
We all did our part in making sure this place is THE place to be. Keep up the good work!
EDIT: Post count now at 255. Limit of 1 byte number ftw!
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Woot! Everybody give
DJ yourself a pat on the back! You guys all made this happen!
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I <s>blame the bots!</s> thank everyone for their contributions! Huzzah!
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I think only about 5 posts out of the 2591 were bots :P
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Only 5? Looks like those anti spambot measures are working :P
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Well, about 10 bots registered this month, maybe more, but only a few posted. At least I am glad we don't get too many.
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With the projects being shown this 2 first days of the month, any post record is possible.
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I noticed that we are only half way into March and we already hit 2000, making me feel that this month we might achieve highest post with new omnimaga. Wow!
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I noticed that too. Wow is right! ;D
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Yeah I think we're almost guaranteed to beat feb 2010 record now. I am still unsure about hitting 3000, though, because some people have or will get Spring Break soon, and may go in a trip, plus about 4 of our most active members went less active in the past few weeks, but we have some chances. Right now I believe the small decline in activity of the last few days is mostly due to that storm that caused damages in Connecticut and New Jersey, though, because I heard it was pretty bad in some places, and many of our users lives there. If our activity in general remains consistent or at least similar to the past few months, we should proably hit the 3000s this month.
What may help us is if the newly registered members get more or remain active and if progress continues on projects in general.
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i'm telling my friends about this site :P
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Just make sure to tell them we are meant to be a friendly community, though, in case you migth have some who tends to troll, though :P. In the past Cooliojazz brought his friends here and all were nice, but Netham45 brought Ginger I think and he kept causing trouble x.x
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okay :) they arent the type who troll anyway.
and netham45 is an actual forum member? xD i thought they were just a character on that shooting game (CaDan83) >.> nevermind, he's online
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Lol, he has been in the TI community for 5 years, altough lost internet access for a while then got impersonated by someone else on IRC x.x
In 2006 the real netham45 (him) returned and he became staff of Omnimaga from Sept 06 to Early 2009. There's a whole local meme/joke going on with him now (which explains the blue lobster in the banner) :P
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It must have been my arrival ;)
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Actually if you meant how the joke started, the lobster meme started over a year ago now. The peanut distributing in intro section has been going on for 4 years.
Otherwise if you mean the explanation of forum activity increase I think it's all the people signing up lately and all projects going on at the moment, especially Axe and the Nspire GBC emu, that increased activity.
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Netham was impersonated x.x I didn't know anybody wanted to be a lobster that bad x.x
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Some people disliked Netham45 because back then he was too pushy when asking betas of Mirage 1.3 and didn,t search long enough when asking questions, and when he dissapeared, someone decided to cause him trouble by joining #tcpa as him and flaming everyone. later the imposter impersonated various other people too, using proxies to ban evade. he even impersonated me once too. Eventually he gave up then the real Netham45 came back, but some people were convinced it was him who caused that trouble, and some others messed with him and stuff for other reasons. he was harrassed on Cemetech too and nearly left because of it, then I managed to get him on Omnimaga. Now if he was really a bad person as some people say, then how did he manage to get my trust to be Omnimaga admin for all of 2008 and half of 2009 and still be a co-admin of the IRC channel today? :P
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yeah the storm was a mess im smack in the center of new jersey and its real bad we still are flooded well not me but neibors and other people i know are like under water still and our precious field for soccer and the like is now a lake X.x (of which some of my friends went kayaking in so eh its fun XD)
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Ouch I am glad you are OK x.x
Over here, we're high enough to not get flooded, but a few weeks ago, when we had these strong winds with the 3 day long storm, areas close to St-Laurent river were flooded by huge waves and normally on that river, waves aren't even a feet high. Or sometimes in Quebec city area, there may be some floods near St-Charles river when it rains too much, like Katrina rest of hurricanes in 2005. Besides that, it's generally ok, though. Storms won't break too much stuff. Some roofs and walls, maybe, but not too much hassle. And I never seen a tornado in my life yet, at least, not one that completly formed, just like a small cone in the sky half a mile away :P
Back on topic, Omnimaga sure has an hard time keeping the higher traffic load sometimes XD, but so far at least it's not too bad. I may get 5.5 sec page loading during one minute then it's over, it gets back to the usual 0.3-0.9 loading. It is still nothing compared to back when our images were hosted on UTI. Every week we had an entire day where all images went missing because UTI server was down, and Invisionfree was far from being the most stable network as well. We often had hours of downtime and the minute we got like 20 posts in 3 minutes, our site went down for 5 or 10 minutes XD