Well, in my opinion, TI-nSpire's programming couldn't get much because they're not that simple to program with. (Lua needs computer, and so does C.)True, this may change with being able to edit the lua script inside the tns file in OS 3.2
If someone comes up with programming language on-calc for nspire, it could bring more people (Just like how Axe did)
If someone comes up with programming language on-calc for nspire, it could bring more people (Just like how Axe did)Or the Prizm :D
I have tons of IRL stress
EDIT: @Juju: So you have an extra TI-8x to spare for a contest? :D/me runsI didn't even thought of that pun lol.
Not only he brags about his much higher salary to his mom and me IRL, but now he shoves it in our face on the forums too. <_<hehehe >:D
Qwerty.55 is stalking you again?? O.OI have to locate housing and allocate money for that, I have finals, a math conference, competition, grades (I did very poorly last year so I am trying to get my scholarships/grants back), applying for jobs and internships and doing interviews x.x
Seriously I hope things are not going too tough x.x
wait, there hasn't been another COT hiring since me?Well to be honest site management has been going much slower-paced since I retired X.x. And Juju I meant the addition of new CoT's. Actually the last hiring run was supposed to be around July 2011 and included computer coders, but then it never happened.
and good luck with school stuff, xeda!/me is doing all those things as well, aside from a conference, because he's not a math djinn
Well for the contest, I was just refering to last year's Nspire portion of Omni contest. Almost nobody even bothered to announce their entry, not even when it got finished. It sucked because it seemed like nobody was participating and the Nspire community was almost dead. Enforcing it would at least encourage activity instead of leeching/lurking. As for help usually it was allowed, as long as the author doesn't post a single line of code, right?
On a side note I really hope LuaFX will have some similarities with Nspire Lua, so that porting Nspire games to the PRIZM or vice-versa is easier.
Oh right, that stuff. X.x. I hope your grades are going better atm too. Btw any luck finding a decent appartment at a decent price? Your profile says "NY" which scares me, because I heard about appartment prices there and...I am in western New York (far from NYC XD). I live where there are trees and stuff everywhere and you can see the stars in the night sky :3 Um, but yeah, we have an apartment that we are going to settle for for $585 a month (we would have preferred if they had $450, though :/) That is just barely in our budget realm, so now we need jobs and I am hoping I get the Google Summer of Code thing x.x That will help a lot.
I assume you still lose points on originality, though, right?Well for the contest, I was just refering to last year's Nspire portion of Omni contest. Almost nobody even bothered to announce their entry, not even when it got finished. It sucked because it seemed like nobody was participating and the Nspire community was almost dead. Enforcing it would at least encourage activity instead of leeching/lurking. As for help usually it was allowed, as long as the author doesn't post a single line of code, right?
On a side note I really hope LuaFX will have some similarities with Nspire Lua, so that porting Nspire games to the PRIZM or vice-versa is easier.
actually posting code in general was allowed and will be as long as what you get help on adds up to less than a large portion of your topic (not like we are gonna hound you but be fair if your whole entry is done via help then who is really coding?)
back on-topic, another idea would be that when people decide to take a break or are gonna be unable to reach Omni for a while that they let us know in advance, so we don't get worried about them being gone or something wrong having happened.That's what I did but finally, my marks are not that bad, so I stayed.
Well here is an idea that I know would help me stay on here longer and perhaps contribute more (I myself have been less active lately). How about adding a chatting system? Like on facebook almost. I know sometimes the IRC gets hecktic with two dualing conversations and sometimes pms are too slow. I have noticed an increase in 'group' projects and I am sure direct quick connection to a single member would help them communicate easier and also keep members on the site for longer periods of time resulting in possibly more activity!This feature has been available in OmnomIRC for over a year actually. You type /query Nickname, which opens a new channel tab, where you can talk to the person in question.
Let me know if I didnt word the above correctly, but would this work? Its just an idea.
Hm, ironically this thread became pretty active. We need more of those threads!
(Btw the future of TI-Nspire debate has been split to http://ourl.ca/15791 it seems, so I guess it should be discussed there now while keeping this thread about activity.)
We have a computer section actually ??? (even split by language and even a projects section) ???What I meant was more encouragement of do some comp stuff instead of the semi-complete focus on calcs.
But yeah before quitting I thought about adding some computer coders in the CoT team, but I don't know the plans for managers about that. I guess anyone who is willing to join the team is free to apply on their own, though. (they just gotta share what they're working on and ensure they can maintain a small minimum activity level). I often see some cool PC projects in that section. http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?board=81.0
It was not me! O.O
Also stopping DDoS attacks would probably help to
How long will you be in vacations by the way? Is it for the rest of the Spring/Summer or just this weekend?Yeah, I forgot to say that :P
But yeah before quitting I thought about adding some computer coders in the CoT team, but I don't know the plans for managers about that. I guess anyone who is willing to join the team is free to apply on their own, though. (they just gotta share what they're working on and ensure they can maintain a small minimum activity level). I often see some cool PC projects in that section. http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?board=81.0I would really, really like this. I'm not really into calculator programming at all (only computer stuff) and I was a bit upset that only calculator programmers could become CoT and have their own sub-forums.
No mouse? O.OSorry for the delay before answering but the connexion is very limited here.
EDIT: Unless you mean you're on a laptop, stuck with the touchpad, or mobile?
I hate those touchpads. Everytime I always click stuff by mistake because it's too sensitive. I wish we had to press it to click stuff, like on a TI-Nspire, but without the choppiness of the TI-Nspire touchpad.Have you ever tried to drag and drop a file to the right place using a touchpad ? I always land in the wrong folder :P (at least, I have a lot of backups of my contest program now :P)
-Have 100 posts
-Have been active posting for at least one month
-Have a good forum/IRC behaviour during that period
-Be involved in at least one of the following:
*TI or Casio game programming
*TI or Casio game development tools (on calc or on the computer)
-Have a project under development (screenshots or topic needed).
-The language used to program games and tools doesn't matter.
Lemme guess. Minecraft? :P
I like the idea of branching out to computer programming. It gives the site wider appeal. :DYeah sadly it seems lately the computer section is often missed. :P Also if you notice interesting calc projects you could always still comment on the design or features if it's a game. I used to do so even when it was for a calc that I do not own and even if now I hardly code anymore. :)
I also think a lot of members overlook some of the projects going on there.
I'm with saintrunner, in that I have not left. I just lurk a lot. :P
Most of the reason I'm not that active though, is because I'm not too invested in calc programming and I usually don't have much to say in calc based threads. Although I usually post in computer development based threads, like C++ questions and such. So for that reason I'd also like to see increased emphasis on computer programming. ;D
Also it will be incredibly hard for a 68K program to compete against a TI-Nspire program:
HOMER-16 have you PMed a manager (Qwerty.55, Netham45, Deep Thought, Geekboy1011, Eeems and/or shmibs) to apply for CoT by the way? You said you wanted to join the team recently.
Yeah, it is $585 a month for the two of us, but I need to make a security deposit of the same, too. So I need to pay $1170 the first month x.x But yeah, NYC apartment prices would be terrifying D: And if I get the GSoC thing, I can be a programmer over the summer and it will look good on a resume when I apply for other jobs :)$585 a month for two people? Aaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha.
I am curious what is it, so it would be nice if you made a topic at one point. Just make sure to not kill your other projects or start too many though, yeong. :P *cough*ROL3*cough*I don't think I have too much projects going on. Let me see. ROL3, ASCII world (contest), secret project...
On a real calc... that will be hectic X.x. As for your activity and projhects you would be more than fine, although the issue might be July and August, when you typically become inactive for a while.Well, I've already done it once. :P
@HOMER-16 the requirement from the days I was still admin were to always keep your 30 day posting average equal or higher to 10 (or 5 during Summer), outside the spam/humor/intro sections, but seeing how Michael_Lee, Yunhua98 and z80man got away with it for months now, maybe it changed. Also you need to have a project upon joining (it can be computer, calcs or music, although one of the first two is recommended).
Seeing your recent activity you would be far above the requirements, unless you planned to get less active for the next few months.
This is why I encourage people who need help on programming to also ask here, in case someone can help them. Same for announcing projects. Also comment on other people projects to encourage them. :DActually, I don't think you can access the spam board currently at all. Maybe it has exceeded the 10% total post limit (O.O), no posts are in latest posts and "Spam" didn't come up in the Most Popular Boards By Posts in statPanel.
Also just so people keep in mind, Spam has been hidden to members under a certain post count for ages. I'm betting the members that liked it a lot and mainly used that board probably reduced their activity a lot too, although the good thing I guess is that it increased our Quality>Quantity ratio, which was rather bad on the old board. :P
Also don't use spam now since it takes a long while to load anyway (unless you just click topics from the new posts section)
Nah, it was disabled because for some reasons, its first page of topic has the same effect as if you would run Crysis maxed out on the server.I think the staff are just focused on fixing the server, since half the site broke with the move. Once all of this is fixed (and maybe even optimized), I think they'll have enough time to begin a hiring session. ;)
Also according to Qwerty last night on IRC, if people apply for staff they end up on a list. However, there doesn't seem to be any plan for hiring for the time being since there's other stuff to do before. I hope this is not another Void P or TI French Team scenario where they decided to stick with the current group of staff until the very end, until the entire staff is depleted, though, because it has been over a year since the last CoT hiring run occured and they used to occur every 6 month or so...
Also the closing of TIMGUL might possible bring some new musicians in, although it is not guaranteed. For that to happen Netham45 would need to send his db backup to juju anyway (or if that fails, I can send one, although it's much older)
Nah, it was disabled because for some reasons, its first page of topic has the same effect as if you would run Crysis maxed out on the server.
Also according to Qwerty last night on IRC, if people apply for staff they end up on a list. However, there doesn't seem to be any plan for hiring for the time being since there's other stuff to do before. I hope this is not another Void P or TI French Team scenario where they decided to stick with the current group of staff until the very end, until the entire staff is depleted, though, because it has been over a year since the last CoT hiring run occured and they used to occur every 6 month or so...
Also the closing of TIMGUL might possible bring some new musicians in, although it is not guaranteed. For that to happen Netham45 would need to send his db backup to juju anyway (or if that fails, I can send one, although it's much older)
The old forums did. The domain name http://mtv-music-generator.com now currently redirects to Omnimaga's music section.Nah, it was disabled because for some reasons, its first page of topic has the same effect as if you would run Crysis maxed out on the server.
Also according to Qwerty last night on IRC, if people apply for staff they end up on a list. However, there doesn't seem to be any plan for hiring for the time being since there's other stuff to do before. I hope this is not another Void P or TI French Team scenario where they decided to stick with the current group of staff until the very end, until the entire staff is depleted, though, because it has been over a year since the last CoT hiring run occured and they used to occur every 6 month or so...
Also the closing of TIMGUL might possible bring some new musicians in, although it is not guaranteed. For that to happen Netham45 would need to send his db backup to juju anyway (or if that fails, I can send one, although it's much older)
I wonder if the staff hiring/changing needs to go to the Anti-Riot Squad too, since half of them are currently inactive when I last checked?
And is it confirmed that TIMGUL is definitely closing down? ;(
we can soon have a music contest, right? :D
EDIT: Also blame Minecraft.And the Spam section :P
@HOMER-16 the requirement from the days I was still admin were to always keep your 30 day posting average equal or higher to 10 (or 5 during Summer), outside the spam/humor/intro sections, but seeing how Michael_Lee, Yunhua98 and z80man got away with it for months now, maybe it changed. Also you need to have a project upon joining (it can be computer, calcs or music, although one of the first two is recommended).
Yeah it would be nice. Be careful where, though, because for example on sites like RPG Toolkit Zone, there seems to be a bunch of people who find calculator game programming stupid and don't realize it can be fun to get around its limitations. (remember with Ashbad there?)@HOMER-16 the requirement from the days I was still admin were to always keep your 30 day posting average equal or higher to 10 (or 5 during Summer), outside the spam/humor/intro sections, but seeing how Michael_Lee, Yunhua98 and z80man got away with it for months now, maybe it changed. Also you need to have a project upon joining (it can be computer, calcs or music, although one of the first two is recommended).
*Michael_Lee is shamed into posting
I don't know if somebody brought this idea up yet, but one idea apart from internal events such as contests and whatnot would be to try to raise awareness of calculator coding outside of places like Omnimaga. For example, the main reason I joined Omnimaga was because of a video of Axe I saw on youtube -- perhaps more youtube videos might attract people who are willing to stick around?
One cool thing maybe would be if I eventually made some sort of TIMGUL Memories mix like the TIMGUL Rave mixes, using songs from the TIMGUL days.I like the name TIMGUL Legacy but that's my opinion.
At least it's better than when I left for work during morning after replying to every active thread, then when returning from work 8 hours later, there were like one or two new posts.Those one or two new posts used to be my posts, but I can't really be that active now. :D
EDIT: Also blame Minecraft.Lol yes I think there's a big craze been going on for at least the past few months.
IYeah it would be nice. Be careful where, though, because for example on sites like RPG Toolkit Zone, there seems to be a bunch of people who find calculator game programming stupid and don't realize it can be fun to get around its limitations. (remember with Ashbad there?)Ah ok... I see. Was always wondering about Ashbad
I wonder if what we are seeing is like:Not really. More like there isn't as much to discuss as there was when the Nspire was still new. There will be a new spike when something amazing happens. Eg remember when the GBA emu development started, there were 200 posts a day again for a short while.
The ball game ended and all the fans left and went about their business doing other things. Meanwhile there are a few guys still sitting in the stands asking hey where is every one?
Is it game over? Sure seems like it.
Would it be too much to add computer projects/music showcase btw? Music discussion and computer hardware/news might be a tad too much, though.The feed can search by board instead of category, but there are more boards to add (and keep updated) in the URL than categories.
THat said, if you look at the forum stats we average at like 5-8 new topics a day, so it shouldn't be that much of an issue I think (especially considering most Facebook users update their timeline every second)Wow, I didn't realize the topics count was so low :o
Yeah I noticed lately that there weren't more news. I kinda slacked down myself but it seems like Critor stopped newsing entirely too.
I have two ideas:I don't think that's really a good idea. Omnimaga is a calculator websites with a purpose to keep the TI-community alive. If we do what you suggest, the TI-community may decrease and possible die out.
1. Instead of everything being focused on calculator development, why not have contests or more support for mobile or computer programmers?
2. It would be neat if every member had their own subforum (or at least thread) where they could do whatever they please in there.
Well there were plenty of great games released (see the staff news sub-forum) in the past months, but sadly we barely had anymore time to feature any. Often it requires a lot of time to track down screenshots, let alone one that is small enough to not deplete people's bandwidth when visiting the front page, then writing a small news about the software and finding the source topic.Yeah I noticed lately that there weren't more news. I kinda slacked down myself but it seems like Critor stopped newsing entirely too.
It's simply that I have very little time as I'm back to work.
Add to this that there hasn't been huge things for TI calculators lastly.
I used to only crosspost huge news on Omnimaga - check TI-Planet: we haven't made huge news recently.
Before Ndless: barely anyone interested for the Nspire. Only one or two Nspire projects (such as gbc4nspire)
Ndless 1.0 until OS 2.1 anti-downgrade: Sudden upsurge in Nspire programmers and activity
Ndless 2.1 anti downgrade: Public outcry, but people stick around hoping TI might still change their mind
Ndless 1.7 release: Even more of it
OS 3.0 release, rumors about Ndless possibly never being possible on the CX: The start of decline in Nspire activity
Lua arrival: A new upsurge in Nspire coders, but C ones and overall activity remains on the decline
OS 3.0.2 stronger anti-downgrade: Almost every Nspire C programmer and most Lua ones gives up, temporarily or permanently. Omnimaga barely get anymore new members asking for Nspire help.
Ndless arrival on 3.0.1: Barely even generates any interest. Most project releases are from the very people contributing to Ndless development
Ndless arrival on 3.1: Same, but this time, there is a very long delay between Ndless 3.1 release and TI blocking it again. A small group of new projects appears, such as GBA emulation
OS 3.2 release with the ability to downgrade back to 3.1: At this point you can notice a slight increase in Nspire projects, game-based that is. By now it seems that this time, TI has left a small door open for Ndless by allowing people to downgrade back to an Ndlessable OS and they took a while before blocking it again, unlike previous times where they just flat out released an OS patch (usually extremely buggy) immediately after most Ndless release.
Yeah I noticed lately that there weren't more news. I kinda slacked down myself but it seems like Critor stopped newsing entirely too. Maybe we could have a newser for hardware/OS updates and some for games/program releases, and each others could sometimes help when they see something notable.
Another idea that would probably be nice is that when people add an attachment to the forums, maybe something advertising the downloads section should be added as a notice there telling people that if they are uploading a calculator program or game, they should consider adding it to the downloads section as well.
For those who don't want to, then maybe on the front page there could be a list of all the latest attachments and their topics/posts on the front page too.
Something that would be cool is if the mod to translate posts on demand (some icon in the top-left corner of posts) was added to the site, assuming it works properly. Although Google Translate provides half-hassled translations at times, at least our large French userbase wouldn't need to constantly open a new tab for Google Translate everytime they don't understand a post, same for other language-speaking people or vice-versa.
But yeah there are so many reasons why a community could become less active over time (or more) that it's hard to tell which ones in particular are the cause. It could even be the economy: Notice how few europeans are joining Omnimaga since Europe economy collapsed. Bad economy == Unable to afford internet/3G bills, let alone your own calculator. Even my Youtube videos get fewer views since the past years.
Year: DJ posts / Board posts = %
2005: 2190 / 7723 = 28.4%
2006: 6562 / 29213 = 22.4%
2007: 3505 / 18647 = 17.1%
2008: 1152 / 3989 = 28.9%
2009: 3644 / 15004 = 24.3%
2010: 19533 / 87232 = 22.4%
2011: 11770 / 115419 = 10.2%
2012: 4263 / 43207 = 9.8%
By the way I like the news translation idea. To do so we should make sure that news are compacted so for example there is only 2 linebreaks between paragraph instead of 5-6 like I saw in some news, so that way people don't go TL;DR, or French news could be placed in spoilers. Also someone would have to volunteer (not me) to translate news.
Could it be the fact that a lot of the staff/members who used to have ridiculously high posting ratesSure, and ephan had a ridiculously high posting rate too. I noticed that I am less active too in general (due to exams etc), I used to have like 10 posts a day which now dropped to around 3 posts per 2 days.
Actually didn't you have like 10 posts a day for a few months then kept disappearing for 3? :P And nice you got something in the works :)QuoteCould it be the fact that a lot of the staff/members who used to have ridiculously high posting ratesSure, and ephan had a ridiculously high posting rate too. I noticed that I am less active too in general (due to exams etc), I used to have like 10 posts a day which now dropped to around 3 posts per 2 days.
(however I'm planning on quite a big release soon :o and DJ_O, no it's not continuity x.x )
Yeah I've been suggesting Juju and a few other alternatives for servers, but to no avail so far. The issue is that staff simply can't afford the extra $20-40 a month that it would cost to run OmnomIRC.
- OmnomIRC (and if necessary, finding a new server)
- improving the download sections (latests uploads on home page, screenshot + descriptions, online emulator, categories and subcategories, possibility to update the files...)
How much do you pay the server per month currently?Actually didn't you have like 10 posts a day for a few months then kept disappearing for 3? :P And nice you got something in the works :)Yeah I've been suggesting Juju and a few other alternatives for servers, but to no avail so far. The issue is that staff simply can't afford the extra $20-40 a month that it would cost to run OmnomIRC.
- OmnomIRC (and if necessary, finding a new server)
- improving the download sections (latests uploads on home page, screenshot + descriptions, online emulator, categories and subcategories, possibility to update the files...)
And an emulator on Omnimaga would require TI-Planet help since staff here would probably not be able to implement such thing otherwise.
Also you would need to modify the emu to force the user to provide his own ROM for legal reasons. (like jsTIfied does).
I'd be happy to translate articles to dutch tho I think a lot of dutch guys don't care reading english news :pEvery Summer or so, and like twice in 2012 :P (remember when you were barely active anymore lol)
dj when did i disappear for 3 months O.o
Nothing, because I am no longer in charge of the site and no longer have any privilege except posting news.How much do you pay the server per month currently?Actually didn't you have like 10 posts a day for a few months then kept disappearing for 3? :P And nice you got something in the works :)Yeah I've been suggesting Juju and a few other alternatives for servers, but to no avail so far. The issue is that staff simply can't afford the extra $20-40 a month that it would cost to run OmnomIRC.
- OmnomIRC (and if necessary, finding a new server)
- improving the download sections (latests uploads on home page, screenshot + descriptions, online emulator, categories and subcategories, possibility to update the files...)
Can OmnomIRC be run on another server than omnimaga.org ?
Ah I see. I guess in short terms it wouldn't be that much of an issue, although we do not have much recent TI-83 programs I think. I am curious if in the future Kerm would be willing to allow external sites to use the emu to test programs, although it would need to not have plenty of Cemetech banners and ads plastered all over Omnimaga. :PAnd an emulator on Omnimaga would require TI-Planet help since staff here would probably not be able to implement such thing otherwise.
I didn't say no.
Just keep in mind that the emulator I currently maintain does not support 83+.
So it would only be useful for Basic programs, or assembly programs for basic TI-83.
We haven't asked Kerm if we could integrated jsTIfied yet, nor for the required conditions if any (links? banner?...).Also you would need to modify the emu to force the user to provide his own ROM for legal reasons. (like jsTIfied does).
No problem - I've got a build which asks for the ROM, although it's not the one we're using.
And I didn't know about WebWabbitemu. O.O Is there a topic about this?It's a secret and non-public project, so nope. :P
Will there be an option to require people's own ROM's and preferably not host any copy, even temporary, on the server?ROMs are ALWAYS stored on the user's computer via HTML5 LocalStorage (or whatever it's called), just like jusTIfied. The only things that may ever get uploaded are backups of calculator state, and programs/apps the person is developing.
Isn't witgh some $1-5/month VPS, though?Withg has 3 different servers. There is little downtime and the main server as well as the second backup server have pretty good specs. The first backup server is a little lacking in terms of specs, but it's meant for nothing other then backup. Backup2 hosts a minecraft server among other things.
OmnomIRC takes around 450 gigabytes of RAM though I think. :PIndeed that's quite a lot :D
OmnomIRC takes around 450 gigabytes of RAM though I think. :P
It seems crazy to me that Omnom takes up so many resources. Many websites I've been to have shoutboxes and don't seem to have any issues running them. Perhaps if Omnom(is rewritten) or a successor is written a more simplistic approach would be best.I've been thinking about adapting my node.js chat server for a while now. I've already got an irc bot that supports multiple servers and channels. The chat server itself has built in support for channels that I haven't implemented. I know that the chat server itself doesn't take up much ram and there is a lot of optimizing that the irc bot code could have. The irc bot also would take a lot less memory if it was only on one server instead of 2 or more. Each new server it is connected to adds a forked process.
Since OmnomIRC has troubles with auto-restarting/connect, wouldn't it be a bad idea to kill it when it takes too much resources?I will not deploy CPUHero on the server that runs OmnomIRC until I implement non-killing for limiting CPU usage.
Ok good to hear. Limiting CPU usage (and RAM) would be a better idea I think.I'm now enforcing CPU usage with CPULimit, which is a pretty safe tool. :)
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[Mon Oct 22 16:18:41 EDT 2012] [CPUHero] [Redemption] Society is rather peaceful... there are no trouble PIDs to redeem!(Yes, I was bored when writing this - you have to make the output somewhat interesting, right? :P)Earlier this Fall, some people were mentioning that most people had less school work starting in NovemberI have three German essays, 5 nights of calculus homework, some Physics homework, a big Government project, and two in-class essays next week
All I can say is: Why is it that we had a decrease anyway? I mean, I'm new, and yet I average ~ 5 posts a day now... Do we have less active members now?There could have been some of the following causes, not necessarily all of them though:
I'm just so glad the the community activity is rising
what is lowercase activity? activity without hitting the shift key?
dang, how did i read lowercase, can somebody please tell me that?what is lowercase activity? activity without hitting the shift key?
Lower activity as in not as much activity. A smaller amount :P Not lowercase
I need to find some project to get to work on./me slaps ruler501 with a ruler until he joins in on OmniRPG :P
/me will help with story and maybe graphics but doesn't have a z80 calcQuoteI need to find some project to get to work on./me slaps ruler501 with a ruler until he joins in on OmniRPG :P
/me welcomes ruler abored/me will help with story and maybe graphics but doesn't have a z80 calcQuoteI need to find some project to get to work on./me slaps ruler501 with a ruler until he joins in on OmniRPG :P
Idk, but lowercase activity would be annoying if abused. It would basically mean that for a period of time, every single member on the forums stops starting sentences with caps letters and probably stopping using punctuation entirely. :Pdang, how did i read lowercase, can somebody please tell me that?what is lowercase activity? activity without hitting the shift key?
Lower activity as in not as much activity. A smaller amount :P Not lowercase
Some calc games get lots of attention on ticalc.org when released, but as soon as they get off front page news, they're quickly forgotten unless their title has "Mario", "Zelda" or "Pokémon" in them. Eg Alien Breed 5 already gets less than 15 downloads a week there now. D:So my Pokemon Topaze will be lucky when I upload it to ticalc ? :P
Pokémon Topaze isn't on ticalc.org? O.OIt depends on your definition of "finished" :P
Wasn't it finished a long while ago? ??? I think it should definitively go to ticalc.org (and maybe Omni archives) if that is the case.
I just made up a name when creating a ticalc account :P/me checks what he said his name isYeah, that's what people tell me when I say why I don't have an account. But see, if BuilderBoy put a fake name, what would the Portal interview look like ? "Hello all, Donald Duck just made Portal". That doesn't look as serious as with "Alex Marcolina" (not saying that I think I will get featured but why not hope ? :P)
Pokémon Topaze isn't on ticalc.org? O.OIt depends on your definition of "finished" :P
Wasn't it finished a long while ago? ??? I think it should definitively go to ticalc.org (and maybe Omni archives) if that is the case.
It is fully playable but it still needs a real item engine.
The reason why I didn't upload it to ticalc is that it requires an account, and an account requires my real name -.-°
If it didn't ask for my real name, I would make an account and upload it but eh :P
You can put a nickname as your real name, like Deep Thought did everywhere. That's what I originally did (it was Kevin Illusiat or Illusiat O or something), and if any staff complain (which I doubt) you can always beg them for more privacy.Funny, looking at the ticalc.org news it seems I'm the only one (except maybe Xeda) to whom they don't refer to by first name <_< That's nice of them.
Another thing you can do is use a variation of your nickname if it requires a last name: Hay for first name and Leia for last (like how Deep thought uses Deep as first name and T. Hought as last name).I'd watch out for Princess Leia jokes though./me runs
I seriously doubt ticalc.org is as bad as Google for real name. On Google you can get banned if you don't use your real name, but if Deep Thought could get away with it for so long, then I can't imagine anything wrong happening on ticalc.org.Google probably hasn't noticed yet.
Funny, looking at the ticalc.org news it seems I'm the only one (except maybe Xeda) to whom they don't refer to by first name <_< That's nice of them.Yep, I was referred to as 'Zeda "ThunderBolt" Elnara.' I'm still not sure why I use 'Elnara', but I do go by the name Zeda almost everywhere.
I still remember your "real name" (or whatever it was) from ticalc.org :trollface:Me? Hehehehe, me too :trollface:
I'm also surprised about Google o.O I didn't think they would take issue with that D:Only for Google Plus. They treat that the way Facebook treats Facebook—should be your real you.
Yep, I was referred to as 'Zeda "ThunderBolt" Elnara.' I'm still not sure why I use 'Elnara', but I do go by the name Zeda almost everywhere.Yeah, I thought that was funny. People don't usually put a pseudonym in quotes in the middle of another pseudonym XD
even on youtube they tried to fish my real name...i don't even have google plusOh yeah, YouTube does that now too because Google merged YouTube profiles with Google Plus profiles. There may be others too (like Blogger, but that seems to be optional).
I thought that was Google-wide? Because to change your Google Plus nickname you have to change it accross their entire network (eg, I couldn't use DJ as first name and Omnimaga as last name if I still use my real name elsewhere on their site)I'm also surprised about Google o.O I didn't think they would take issue with that D:Only for Google Plus. They treat that the way Facebook treats Facebook—should be your real you.Yep, I was referred to as 'Zeda "ThunderBolt" Elnara.' I'm still not sure why I use 'Elnara', but I do go by the name Zeda almost everywhere.Yeah, I thought that was funny. People don't usually put a pseudonym in quotes in the middle of another pseudonym XD
I only use my first name and last initial...Unless, of course, Philip, somebody clicks on the YouTube video you posted, which clearly says who it’s by.
That way people can call me by name, but not track me down to where I live :P
On the long run now it still seems to be increasing, the activity! *yay*Yeah I noticed lately, especially the last 2 months (except Christmas holidays) where it jumped by 1000 one month. Most likely the 84 Plus Color Silver Edition, Portal and a bunch of the other big projects that are coming out. Christmas holidays seems to have slowed activity down a bit compared to Early December, though.
What did happen? Was it portal and omnirpg combined that brought many members back to the forums?
Why do I have to bring the bad news? D:Holidays activity peak. Nothing to worry about.
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http://status.omnimaga.org/You really should use http://status.ourl.ca/ It's smaller :P
the posts are still decreasing, the activity is decreasing.....does anybody have a new+good idea to prevent that?
The CSE unfortunatley didn't give us our hoped results :(
No new member due to the CSE yet
I don't really like the pay-for-activity idea as it is like paying people to use omnimaga and it somehow seems wrong to me......Yeah true, although if that eventually becomes the only way to save the TI community, then I guess we might have no choice. I think it should only be used in last resort, for example if we get less than 1000 posts for several months in a row. We were actually supposed to do the Pay-for-activity idea during SUmmer 2010, as we brought it up in August 2009 when we had an all-time low August activity, but we finally didn't because the site managed to rebound.
Yes, but as I mention below, check the May activity over the years. Summer might be less active, but there's still a major difference between July 2011 post stats and July 2012.http://status.omnimaga.org/You really should use http://status.ourl.ca/ It's smaller :P
the posts are still decreasing, the activity is decreasing.....does anybody have a new+good idea to prevent that?
The CSE unfortunatley didn't give us our hoped results :(
No new member due to the CSE yet
As DJ already mentioned the summer is normally slower on the activity side due to people going on vacation etc.
I don't know if it will be visible in the montly stats, but I find that recent HP-Prime topics got a nice activity those last days.well to be honest, the issue with the PRIZM is that on Omni, only two people were interested in hacking it and programming ASM, and the extremely slow BASIC turned people away, back to their beloved Axe Parser and 84+ BASIC.
There is a huge interest in that calculator - let's just hope that it won't die like the Casio Prizm interest.
So it just might be a good idea to go on? ;)
Unless every 2013 member including the ones still active are bots? O.O
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I don't know that this is completely true, but I believe that we are more active than Cemetech at the moment (just by the amount of new posts every time I get on).
It seems that all TI related sites have been rolling downhill. Schools have caught on to the fact that some calculators are programmable (or more likely that students know how to program them), and many have actually banned them calculators (the smarter students will make programs to solve problems and distribute them). Also, people playing Fruit Ninja in math class didn't help. :P I would say that most of the audience here on Omnimaga is composed of teenagers, and I became interested in calculators and coding in general after getting a calculator for school. If this trend continues, new users will stop coming to the site (my theory)... I think that things should possibly be shifted more into the orientation of mainstream computer programming (rather than a couple of threads), which appears to be the more popular route today.Actually this is why some computer sections were added a while ago. The site needs a free mobile theme that supports most important features, though, like most sites nowadays. Currently the mobile theme lacks image support, which is kinda important when it comes to calculator screenshots of projects and the only other option, which is Tapatalk, is not free.
BTW, a UI change might help a lot, since most potential users will only join a site that looks high-tech and capable. While I like the current layout just fine, Metro with some animations would be nice. ;)
As we are switching to SMF2 the layout will change indeed, and i thought tapatalk was free by now.
Nope, I like it too.As we are switching to SMF2 the layout will change indeed, and i thought tapatalk was free by now.
Am I the only one who likes this layout? :P
As we are switching to SMF2 the layout will change indeed, and i thought tapatalk was free by now.not anymore apparently.
Yes it is. I think it has something to do with the lack of some features like an easier to browse new posts section and the lack of notifications on new topics in OmnomIRC. Also the broken links on other sites might not help.New topic notifications in OIRC work. New posts have multiple different pages to view them omnimaga.org/unread omnimaga.org/recent omnimaga.org/replies
Cemetech and ticalc.org seemed rather quiet as well, though, same for MoHPC, so it might be more of a community slump than just Omni.
Things might pick up again as people get used to the new Omni site, though, especially now that to register, you have the option of doing it with Facebook/twitter/etc, which takes less time (most people today are too lazy to fill registration forms anymore).
Ah right. Do you think it will be fixed soon, if not already?It is already fixed.
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Aaah ok, I'll try to ask him when I see him around. Until the upgrade I didn't see him in #omnimaga for almost 2 years, though... O.OHe's been around. He mostly was in #IRP though. I also see him online on skype a ton.
It's ok, everyone gotta start somewhere after all. ;) But yeah I'm just making sure that people don't post more just for the sake of posting more and instead, keep their posting quality at the same level regardless of if they post more or not. And of course people who only try to rack up their post count with 1-word posts, although since people normally do this to reach the first rank, then this isn't a big problem on Omnimaga :trollface:You are free to look at http://www.omnimaga.org/stats for information without spam included. Also looking at http://status.ourl.ca/statsgraph.php I'm seeing a spike in posting starting up. I'm also seeing that our posting level seems pretty healthy still (ie: better then in 2005).
On the other hand, getting to 400K posts before 2015 would be nice :P (even though it looks impossible without a massive influx of new members and projects)
EDIT: I'm still curious about how many posts a month Omnimaga had from 2005 to 2012 but without including spam posts.
Hmm... I respectfully disagree! :DIt's ok, everyone gotta start somewhere after all. ;) But yeah I'm just making sure that people don't post more just for the sake of posting more and instead, keep their posting quality at the same level regardless of if they post more or not. And of course people who only try to rack up their post count with 1-word posts, although since people normally do this to reach the first rank, then this isn't a big problem on Omnimaga :trollface:You are free to look at http://www.omnimaga.org/stats for information without spam included. Also looking at http://status.ourl.ca/statsgraph.php I'm seeing a spike in posting starting up. I'm also seeing that our posting level seems pretty healthy still (ie: better then in 2005).
On the other hand, getting to 400K posts before 2015 would be nice :P (even though it looks impossible without a massive influx of new members and projects)
EDIT: I'm still curious about how many posts a month Omnimaga had from 2005 to 2012 but without including spam posts.
EDIT: Monitoring the post bot daily to see if it's working (eg not be dependent on me reporting the issue every week) and doing the same with the channel linker bot (to relay messages from EFnet to Omninet or vice-versa) would also help.We don't depend on you reporting if a bot isn't working correctly. It also doesn't happen every week you've only reported it around 3 times from my count.
I think in one or two cases I didn't use the report form (I think it was because I was worried about spamming the report form for the same issue over and over) so that would probably be 4 or 5 times at least. I was skeptical since each time it never seemed to get fixed until after I complained about the issue.That's probably because you were the only one who noticed it yet. I've fixed it myself when I've noticed multiple times.
DJ likes to exaggerate a bit :P such as saying I vanish for 3 months every year because I'm playing KSP. Wait, is that even an exaggeration?Nope, although it would be more like 1-1.5 months (every January) :P
@eeems you know how DJ likes to exaggerate a bit :P such as saying I vanish for 3 months every year because I'm playing KSP. Wait, is that even an exaggeration?Just because someone likes to exaggerate doesn't make it okay when what they are exaggerating on is calling into question the ability of others to properly do what they are suppose to do, which is what his statements are doing.
That is absolutely true with the whole active users thing. While I am not a fan of advertisements, I feel we could take the Cemetech route and make flyers.That's what I'm trying to do with reuben3
EDIT: Or we could work on a huge project of some sort, drawing people to the site...
That is absolutely true with the whole active users thing. While I am not a fan of advertisements, I feel we could take the Cemetech route and make flyers.That's what I'm trying to do with reuben3
EDIT: Or we could work on a huge project of some sort, drawing people to the site...