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General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?

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Jonius7:
I think so. Apparently it will come with the LuaSDK, but I may have got things completely wrong.
oclua can already edit on calc in an indirect way.
Also made minor edits to my post.

Yeong:
I know this is kinda asking too much to certain people, but since both Prizm and nSpire uses C (Well, for nspire, with ndless), if somebody comes up with the new programming language that can be used in both prizm and nspire(well, kinda differentiating the screen size.), it'll be nice. (idk if it's possible though, lol)

Darl181:

--- Quote from: TBO_Yeong on April 05, 2012, 08:27:15 pm ---If someone comes up with programming language on-calc for nspire, it could bring more people (Just like how Axe did)

--- End quote ---
Or the Prizm :D

But anyways, what seems to boost stuff the most IMHO are projects, that are often updated.  So keep 'em coming ;)

DJ Omnimaga:
There are a few ideas that I think that could help bringing back the site to its previous activity rate (or close):

-More active CoT staff and admins. The team activity often have big influence on member's activity and encouragement to sign up. I speak from experience, after seeing MaxCoderz and Void Productions die (barely any regular would bother visiting anymore), and Revsoft barely surviving over the years. That staff activity, if they are too busy to work on projects, can simply be encouraging other member's projects, by replying to their threads. That doesn't have to be extreme, such as Darl/Qwerty's insane post rate, but they should not just try to barely make it to the 10 post minimum every month, else members might think they just don't care enough.

-Focus more on the forums than OmnomIRC to ask help when it's not that urgent. Not only this provides more discussion to the hundreds of people that have OmnomIRC disabled/minimized, but also that discussion won't get lost in myriads of logs. We got help sections for a reason, after all.

-Don't worry bumping a 3-5 weeks old project topic if you want to comment on an update or release that you didn't have time to comment to. Heck, if the member was procastinating, maybe that could give him a small regain in interest to finish the game faster if he get extra encouragement?

-For next programming contest, do like Cemetech and force participants to make a topic about their entry when it reaches a presentable state (code done) in order to not be rejected. That will prevent people from just disappearing for 3 months while working on their entry. Last Summer, I think only 2 or 3 Nspire entries even had a topic and almost every Nspire coder on omnimaga vanished entirely during that time.

-An actual contest to begin with, but it might be best to wait for when Summer arrives, such as June, because there are too many contests lately and it prevents every other projects from progressing. I actually thought about taking over the entire contest management (except judging), if the staff do not mind. As for money issues, my entire TotKotM album sales are going for the contest, along with an extra personal contribution. However, until we know what happens with the Phoenix Coyotes NHL team, I do not know exactly how much I can contribute (it will be at least enough for 3 prizes, though).

-It seems many Nspire coders abandonned the fight against TI, and Ndless 3.1 did not create as much interest as 2.0 did. Don't give up! You know some people still code for 68K and AFX calcs, right? Also if you are really afraid of the Nspire being blocked permanently, maybe it would be a good idea to try doing what Reo did with his RPG: Make it for both the PRIZM and Nspire at once? Maybe Reo could share how he works on a C game on both the PRIZM and Nspire at once.

-The community has received fierce competition from smartphones, handhelds, Minecraft, other online games and such stuff since the past few years, which forced us and some other calc sites to branch out. If somehow you're on a calculator break at one point, remember we still got plenty of non-calc discussion areas, such as gaming, where you can also share your latest interests.

By the way what I noticed is that most of the activity decrease seems to have been in the Nspire scene. PRIZM saw a small regain in activity, but not that much. 83+ programming seems steady. Besides that, we have to take in account that two of our most active users got banned last Summer, so that possibly affected our activity a lot. Besides that our spam section is now limited to 500 post users so that's a lot less posts there (although that's a good thing I guess that people do not overuse it). I got less active too so that might have gotten an effect too. I just wonder what happened to some of the formerly active members and staff that are hardly around anymore (a bunch just vanished without saying why).

But yeah I agree something has to be done (by contributing to the forums like we used to, while not neglecting development/life either), because if we ever had another community-wide lull like in 2008, remember how hard it was to recover from it afterward: It took us 1.5 years to do so, and I pretty much had to reply to almost everything during that entire time to allow the site to grow again. Basically at the moment we still got a quite decent amount of activity, so it's a good opportunity to keep the site afloat in case of an inevitable lull. (From experience the community goes through up and downs every 6 year or so)

Juju:
^^ This exactly.

Also I might contribute as well for the prizes, since I'm now 8x richer than usual.

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