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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on April 16, 2012, 01:11:58 am

Title: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 16, 2012, 01:11:58 am: (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=13258.0;attach=12498;image)

The calculator community will see two old websites content be saved by admins of other sites now. In 2003, United-TI was founded as a result of a merge between multiple TI-83 Plus calculator sites, such as Cirrus Programming (notably known for its online hex disassembler, later revived (http://www.omnimaga.org/asmunsquisher/asmunsquisher/) by Galandros on Omni), Prokul Interactive, The Calc Site, and more. It then grew into one of the most active TI calculator forum and a TI-BASIC powerhouse, sort of, where many tricks were discussed and where many pure BASIC projects were released. However, following the community-wide activity slump in 2008, the departure of founders and other stuff, they never recovered and eventually died, while getting infested by spambots. In July 2011, their hosting service was also terminated.

With the future of United-TI being uncertain, Cemetech and UTI admins discussed about a possible merge with Cemetech database, reviving the UTI file archives in the process. Today this is official: United-TI will merge into Cemetech (http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7701&highlight=), allowing United-TI's history to be preserved instead of eventually disappearing entirely, like too many sites in the past did.

Back in late 2006, when Omnimaga future became incertain and activity started to dwindle, there were some discussions with United-TI about a possible merge, but they eventually got dropped, due to too much disparity between both site's TOS and the lack of available Invisionfree backups. As a result, Omni continued on its own for one more year before dying then being revived a few months later.

Besides this merge, CasioKingdom, which stopped being updated in 2009, became unuseable due to PHPNuke allowing hackers to render the site that way. No admin were contactable. Eventually, a project to save the website content and history, started and Casio-Scene (http://www.casio-scene.com/) was born. For now, the file archives restoration project is still under progress, but all posts from CK up to 2009 are backed up!
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Juju on April 16, 2012, 02:03:22 am: UTI noooo D:
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 16, 2012, 02:07:07 am: Yeah I was sad to see it would go away (although glad someone has stepped up to save the content from an inevitable deletion like Helder7 did with CasioKingdom). I haven't been as active on UTI as Cemetech, MaxCoderz and here, but I can tell it has a lot of history and a lot of good, bad and notable stuff have happened since I signed up in November 2003 (I was probably one of the only lower 3-digit member account to still be active somewhat).
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Xeda112358 on April 16, 2012, 11:53:35 am: Yeah, it sucks that UTI has to go like this, but at least KermM is picking it up :/ I am still wondering if there will be any need for my super moderator-ness o.O
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 16, 2012, 11:55:45 am: Yeah I was curious about that too, since you were still active regularly and Weregoose, who is admin on UTI, was very active on Cemetech. I don't know for Digitan, though, since he seems to have disappeared too now...
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: alberthrocks on April 16, 2012, 02:12:51 pm: Quote from: Xeda112358 on April 16, 2012, 11:53:35 am
Yeah, it sucks that UTI has to go like this, but at least KermM is picking it up :/ I am still wondering if there will be any need for my super moderator-ness o.O
He might assign mod privledges based on Cemetech site activity. (Which would be a negative for ya, since you're more active here.) As always, we'll have to wait and see.

Of course... you can always be a mod here! :D
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 16, 2012, 02:40:27 pm: Actually she was moderator on Omni but eventually retired. However back then she had to moderate two sites at once and with the drama that was going on here that was a ton of pressure.

I guess you could always ask Kerm, though, about what being moderator on Cemetech would entail, the rules and other requirements. Of course as Alberthrocks says you could always join us back since our activity level is much more sustainable than it used to be a year ago (thus, less work to do :P), but I think the staff have changed activity policies so you would have to ask an admin if your summer absence would pose a problem (although seeing JustCause situation, I think you would be fine)
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: FinaleTI on April 16, 2012, 03:22:46 pm: It's kinda sad to see UTI going down, since that was the first TI community forum I joined, but I am glad that it's being preserved. It's too valuable to lose completely.
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Xeda112358 on April 16, 2012, 03:28:21 pm: This should be interesting >.> Also, I have more posts on Cemetech than I thought o_O (only 125, though).

EDIT: And if I was a moderator for the UTI sections of the site, I'd still maintain a similar degree of activity (it would be proportional to the amount of activity on the boards XD)
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 16, 2012, 03:35:23 pm: IIRC it's gonna be read-only (hoping the Nspire hacking thread remains open, though), but since UTI kinda becomes part of Cemetech I guess you could moderate certain sections there (I was thinking the TI-BASIC and ASM sections?)
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Xeda112358 on April 16, 2012, 03:36:42 pm: Yeah, we'd have to see what KermM thinks about that.
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: helder7 on April 16, 2012, 04:49:51 pm: thanks for put this in news, djomnimaga!
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: flyingfisch on April 16, 2012, 07:15:53 pm: Way to go helder!
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 16, 2012, 07:19:57 pm: Quote from: FinaleTI on April 16, 2012, 03:22:46 pm
It's kinda sad to see UTI going down, since that was the first TI community forum I joined, but I am glad that it's being preserved. It's too valuable to lose completely.
Same for me. I'm glad that at least all the content will still be there though.
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: TIfanx1999 on April 17, 2012, 12:54:38 am: Wow, I'm a bit surprised at this. I guess I'll have to go check it out. I wonder if people that have UTI accounts are going to be merged into Cemetech's forums, or if this merger is mainly to serve as an archive for the old forum posts and files.
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 17, 2012, 03:51:04 am: They will, if I heard correctly, but I do not remember what will happen with duplicate accounts. I know the UTI posts will become read-only, though, while the UTI archives are merged into Cemetech's.
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: apcalc on April 17, 2012, 06:34:41 pm: It's sad to see United TI going. :(

Nevertheless, I am glad that it will be preserved! Good luck to Cemetech in the merging process! :)
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: KermMartian on April 17, 2012, 07:28:40 pm: Quote from: apcalc on April 17, 2012, 06:34:41 pm
It's sad to see United TI going. :(

Nevertheless, I am glad that it will be preserved! Good luck to Cemetech in the merging process! :)
Many thanks!
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Jonius7 on April 18, 2012, 01:25:31 am: Wow these are major developments. I knew both sites, though I have been familiar with CasioKingdom longer, and it is interesting to see that they both mark the end of an era of sorts, in which websites live and die.
Good job to Cemetech and those who set up casio-scene.com!
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Jonius7 on April 18, 2012, 11:43:51 pm: O.O no other replies
I also realised that it had been so long since I last actively logged into casiokingdom that I had used one of my very old usernames: jahes
Interesting.
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 19, 2012, 01:08:58 am: Wow I didn't know you were around back then. I signed up around 2009, but it was because some people were attempting to start some sort of pointless war against Casiocalc.org and Kucalc, which was solved later though. Then CK admin left and the site was abandonned, while Casiocalc became mostly math-only for one or two years, rather than oriented towards development.
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Jonius7 on April 19, 2012, 01:14:00 am: Yeah even I wasn't sure I had an account on casiokingdom.com (I feel proud that I signed up so long ago?)
But I do have an account on UCF, thought a bit older (late 2009)

I was mostly looking into casio websites back then. I downloaded programs from there though and didn't really post in the forums though.
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: KermMartian on April 19, 2012, 05:10:43 pm: (Crosspost from Cemetech) The basics of the United-TI Forum are in place! Some of it needs work, still, particularly in the area of avatars, profile linking, and BBCode adjustment (translation?), but the content is all more or less there. Please report (big) bugs to me, but don't bother with the little stuff, like where I've left myself obvious notes or where it says Cemetech instead of United-TI when it shouldn't

The United-TI Forum Archives
http://www.cemetech.net/projects/uti
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 19, 2012, 05:14:14 pm: Looks awesome, and glad you kinda took my idea of having a blue Cemetech6 :D (unless someone got it before?)

I will take a look later for bugs and stuff. Will UTI domain redirect there soon?
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Jonius7 on April 20, 2012, 12:24:13 am: Quote from: KermMartian on April 19, 2012, 05:10:43 pm
(Crosspost from Cemetech) The basics of the United-TI Forum are in place! Some of it needs work, still, particularly in the area of avatars, profile linking, and BBCode adjustment (translation?), but the content is all more or less there. Please report (big) bugs to me, but don't bother with the little stuff, like where I've left myself obvious notes or where it says Cemetech instead of United-TI when it shouldn't

The United-TI Forum Archives
http://www.cemetech.net/projects/uti

Wow I like the blue theme. Definitely brings a bit of variety to the United TI Archives.
~~Or is this an existing theme that you can choose?~~
EDIT: No it cannot be chosen for the main website but I'd use it if it became available I think.
It's a pretty good job so far.
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 26, 2012, 10:02:29 pm: I just noticed... the UTI merged preserved the original UTI account ID numbers. This means I can still brag about having an early 3-digit UTI account, as a compromise for lacking a ticalc account under 10000 :P *runs*
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Xeda112358 on April 26, 2012, 10:09:52 pm: Wait, so your TICalc ID is >9000? Makes sense >.>
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 26, 2012, 10:17:22 pm: Lol. It was 45556 until it was deleted last fall. My UTI ID is 176, but since late 2005, everyone went in the 4 or 5 digits. Kinda like how the Omni members with IDs under 400 might eventually be known as old time members. :P
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Juju on April 26, 2012, 10:24:00 pm: Yay I'm an old-timer :D
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Xeda112358 on April 26, 2012, 10:36:03 pm: 1083 for me. I'll be a young one for a looong time o.o
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: jsj795 on April 26, 2012, 10:45:05 pm: woah my Omnimaga user ID is 199 :O I'm old
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 26, 2012, 10:47:32 pm: In my case here are my member IDs:

Omnimaga - 1 (well, duh)
United-TI - 176
MaxCoderz - 40 (although they had multiple board resets. I signed up in August 2003 on the previous one, but it used cryptic member IDs. For example mine was 75-1063909752)
Cemetech - 15
Cemetech's previous board - 17
Ticalc - 45556

But of course I was not very active early on on Cemetech and on UTI I was barely active during the last 3 years.
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 30, 2012, 12:57:54 am: I wonder... does that store even works anymore? O.O

http://www.cafepress.fr/dd/11251816

Looking at those items brings back some old memories from back when UTI had a Cafepress store.
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Xeda112358 on April 30, 2012, 07:41:21 am: Wow, that stuff is neat D:
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 24, 2012, 09:56:29 pm: What happened to Casio-Scene and its wiki? O.O

It just vanished completely last week or so it seems. Planet-Casio even pulled the site from their affiliates...
Title: Re: United-TI merges with Cemetech. CasioKingdom becomes Casio-Scene.
Post by: Jonius7 on July 30, 2012, 07:03:39 am: Quote from: DJ_O on July 24, 2012, 09:56:29 pm
What happened to Casio-Scene and its wiki? O.O

It just vanished completely last week or so it seems. Planet-Casio even pulled the site from their affiliates...
Now I can't remember what my CasioKingdom ID was. If there was one... :(