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Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 11, 2005, 02:11:00 pm

Today the TI-z80 community says goodbye to another great programming group known as z80 Revelation. The closing was mostly due to the fact that the webmaster doesn't have enough time anymore to work on it as well as the recent inactivity from the staff members (including me). It's sad to see them go because they had cool projects in the works. :(

The forums are still avaliable though so I just updated the website link instead of deleting it.

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: arti on July 11, 2005, 03:43:00 pm

I actually feel sadness to see this community slowly die. I wonder if new people will come to take their place, or if today's generation of 'calc noobs' don't care for limited platforms anymore, and don't bother to explore them and program for them :(

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: tifreak on July 12, 2005, 01:48:00 am

Yes, it is sad to watch this once great community be ripped apart by 1) People retiring and no one to take their places and 2) People who have to degrade others, to make themselves feel superior. <_<

That is why I hope to get as much info in my tutorials section of my, so for as long as TI-Freakware stays on the web, people will be able to learn how to program like the pros. :)B)

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 12, 2005, 03:15:00 am

its sad because lloydkirk could have tried to find new staff instead of closing the group, but he dont have time anymore :( . I still hope to see him and other members around sometimes though, I might miss sdome of them since they were mostly posting on maxcoderz not anywhere else :?

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: CDI on July 12, 2005, 08:44:00 am

Hrm... it is a sight for the ages...

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: greenorange on July 13, 2005, 11:47:00 am

Wahhhh..... goodbye z80 rev....  I actually had an account there...

And guess what??? 2000th post!

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 13, 2005, 11:54:00 am

yeah I noticed you registered right before the shut down, it was a cool site, it just becomes inactive in the past months

w00t 2000 post :) altough 800+ of them are mines  :oops:

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: CDI on July 13, 2005, 11:56:00 am

I'm guessing a good 1500+ are link/program posts

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 13, 2005, 11:58:00 am

I think 400 of them are links and programs, but not all from mine, also from gimpynerd and solitaire710 :)

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: greenorange on July 13, 2005, 12:07:00 pm

QuoteBegin-Kevin+July 13, 2005, 18:54-->

QUOTE (Kevin @ July 13, 2005, 18:54)

w00t 2000 post :) altough 800+ of them are mines  :oops:

 As long as you stay under 50% of the forum you seem fine.  All the forums around have at least 40% admin posting... :P  I think mine has 45 ish...  >D>D>D <--- I love that face

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 13, 2005, 12:17:00 pm

there are a few exceptions tho: calcgames, maxcoderz, uti, z80 revelation and revsoft where admins have like 10% or under posts

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: allynfolksjr on July 13, 2005, 12:47:00 pm

I was kinda curious as to what the admin posting ratio was on CG. Well, out of 25841 total posts, present and past administrators account for 11506 posts. That's 44%, however, the top poster, Z (an administrator) had 3640 posts (14% of total).

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 13, 2005, 01:38:00 pm

I think I saw top 10 poster list once at CG, but it was a while ago and I dont remember, I know CalculatorFreakCG was in it IIRC. I think I have something like 6-70 posts

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: alex10819 on July 14, 2005, 04:13:00 am

yeah, sometimes i wish i could see the CG lists... but then again, im sure they keep them hidden for a reason...

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: allynfolksjr on July 14, 2005, 06:50:00 am

Well, partially because we don't like people trying and inflate their post count, and partially because we're too lazy to make a script to show the top twenty or so.

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: alex10819 on July 14, 2005, 08:03:00 am

heh... i understand the second reason very well... i realized i was on the top ten list here about 4 days after i joined... then i wonder why they call me "forum junkie"

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: tifreak on July 14, 2005, 08:17:00 am

lol, I try to only post when I have something relevant to the conversation to add. I sometimes drift OT...

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: alex10819 on July 14, 2005, 08:30:00 am

i noticed... i had to split that topic... you went from links to PHP...

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: tifreak on July 14, 2005, 08:42:00 am

Oh, quit whining... lol

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: alex10819 on July 14, 2005, 09:00:00 am

anyway, back on topic...

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: allynfolksjr on July 14, 2005, 09:13:00 am

http://www.calcgames.org/cgi-bin/posts.cgi Happy now?

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: tifreak on July 14, 2005, 09:17:00 am

looks cool. :) I am in the top 10... Frightening... O_O

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 15, 2005, 02:48:00 am

I am in the list O_O

I think not showing those stats can help sometimes for preventing ppl from spamming and raising their post counts.

*Kevin

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: alex10819 on July 16, 2005, 09:12:00 am

QuoteBegin-allynfolksjr+July 14, 2005, 15:13-->

QUOTE (allynfolksjr @ July 14, 2005, 15:13)

http://www.calcgames.org/cgi-bin/posts.cgi Happy now?

 what? im number 14!!!

no, i didnt really need to see that... but thats pretty cool!

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: solitaire710 on July 17, 2005, 08:34:00 am

I think the reason I don't post very much might be connected to the fact that I actually have a life  aside from the Ti-Community......



Nevermind that previous statement

hehe
:D

Title: Z80 Revelation closes
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 23, 2005, 02:01:00 pm

QuoteBegin-Kevin+11 July 2005, 21:11-->

QUOTE (Kevin @ 11 July 2005, 21:11)

Today the TI-z80 community says goodbye to another great programming group known as z80 Revelation. The closing was mostly due to the fact that the webmaster doesn't have enough time anymore to work on it as well as the recent inactivity from the staff members (including me). It's sad to see them go because they had cool projects in the works. :( The forums are still avaliable though so I just updated the website link instead of deleting it.

i think i should have waited 3 months before posting this news. I see post from last week on z80 revelation forums and it closed 3 months ago O_O