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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #30 on: September 03, 2014, 12:39:52 am »
Same for fx normal.
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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #31 on: September 03, 2014, 12:41:25 am »
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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #32 on: September 03, 2014, 12:44:42 am »
Normally they join around 14-16 but we sometimes get 12-13 years old members too as well as adult ones who programmed calcs for ages before joining or older people in their 40s who are just interested in old school hardware. People who join past 14 usually stay until they start college and turn 18 and the 12-13 years old members usually stay for less than 6 months since at this age they have a much shorter attention span.

That sounds about right. I guess it starts going into high school where students get graphical calculators and begin programming, and they might join some forums along the way.

I haven't posted much in the last year, and at one point just forgot about calculators, but I have a secret project that I've recently resumed on.

Nevertheless, Omnimaga and other calc sites fill a niche of calculator development that is really unique and I hope it continues to live for many years to come. Because for me, and possibly for many others, calculator programming taught me the basic constructs of programming in general.
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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #33 on: September 03, 2014, 11:27:23 am »
@Jonius7: Nice to see you're back on again, every other year, i guess.
Well, "that" sounds about wrong for me, personally. But who cares, what counts is the majority of users and that seems about right.  :P Anyway, long live Omnimaga!
Just curious about your secret project, i can't wait. Does it  have any music, hmm ...?

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #34 on: September 03, 2014, 11:49:59 am »
Jonius it would be nice to see you come back even if you don't do calc stuff. A lot of people here do non-calc stuff too :D

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #35 on: September 03, 2014, 01:25:11 pm »
Eyyo, happy burfday omni!

calculators could possibly either become a thing of the past or be adopted by vintage computer programmers and the like.

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #36 on: September 03, 2014, 09:07:43 pm »
Normally they join around 14-16 but we sometimes get 12-13 years old members too as well as adult ones who programmed calcs for ages before joining or older people in their 40s who are just interested in old school hardware. People who join past 14 usually stay until they start college and turn 18 and the 12-13 years old members usually stay for less than 6 months since at this age they have a much shorter attention span.

That sounds about right. I guess it starts going into high school where students get graphical calculators and begin programming, and they might join some forums along the way.

I haven't posted much in the last year, and at one point just forgot about calculators, but I have a secret project that I've recently resumed on.

Nevertheless, Omnimaga and other calc sites fill a niche of calculator development that is really unique and I hope it continues to live for many years to come. Because for me, and possibly for many others, calculator programming taught me the basic constructs of programming in general.
Ah I remember you Jonius7 only by your forum avatar I'm afraid... haha welcome back! (I myself just came back from a year leave)
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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #37 on: September 03, 2014, 09:15:59 pm »
Yeah I just haven't been posing much, maybe 1 or 2 a month so it seems like I haven't been on for much longer.
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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #38 on: September 04, 2014, 01:14:07 am »
I noticed a bunch of the old users have returned lately, although if they eventually started posting again regularly like when Art of camelot came back from his hiatus a few years ago or certain members on Cemetech it would definitively fill the void left by the mass Minecraft exodus a few years ago while new users come in. Plus we lost pretty much most Nspire dev because of TI's actions against Ndless combined with other factors over the years so development on that platform is more scarce (most people still developing advanced tools for it are mostly on TI-Planet or keeping their progress private so that it doesn't fall under TI hands).
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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #39 on: September 04, 2014, 06:01:30 pm »
What's the minecraft exodus?

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #40 on: September 04, 2014, 06:11:59 pm »
Since 2011 the TI community lost about 50% of its userbase (if not more) just because of Minecraft. The same thing happened in 2005 with World of Warcraft.

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #41 on: September 04, 2014, 06:16:40 pm »
O.O

So 50% was minecraft discussion?


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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #42 on: September 04, 2014, 06:18:30 pm »
No that's not what I mean. Basically, when Minecraft became popular, half of Omnimaga userbase vanished entirely. Those people got so much into Minecraft that they stopped all calculator and programming development.

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #43 on: September 04, 2014, 06:20:36 pm »
Whoa...
That is a lot O.O
so they just stopped coming and their users are still here?

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Re: Omnimaga moves 1 generation up
« Reply #44 on: September 04, 2014, 09:28:37 pm »
No that's not what I mean. Basically, when Minecraft became popular, half of Omnimaga userbase vanished entirely. Those people got so much into Minecraft that they stopped all calculator and programming development.
LOL i did play minecraft for about half a year during the exodus, but I don't believe that's why I stopped coming to omnimaga back then.
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