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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #330 on: January 30, 2014, 01:18:45 pm »
As we are switching to SMF2 the layout will change indeed, and i thought tapatalk was free by now.

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As we are switching to SMF2 the layout will change indeed, and i thought tapatalk was free by now.
not anymore apparently.

And yeah tapatalk isn't always reliable. Most animated GIFs will not play if you click them and attachments do not work.

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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #332 on: February 19, 2014, 05:38:54 pm »
2004 - 4 comments, 24 news (0.17 comments per news average)
2005 - 1292 comments, 210 news (6.15 comments per news average)
2006 - 1757 comments, 115 news (15.27 comments per news average)
2007 - 1422 comments, 85 news (16.73 comments per news average)
2008 - 426 comments, 37 news (11.51 comments per news average)
2009 - 1443 comments, 73 news (19.77 comments per news average)
2010 - 5513 comments, 216 news (25.52 comments per news average)
2011 - 10978 comments, 353 news (31.1 comments per news average)
2012 - 5617 comments, 208 news (27 comments per news average)
2013 - 3466 comments, 170 news (20.39 comments per news average)
2014 - 141 comments, 12 news (11.75 comments per news average)

Note that in 2007, 10% of the news comments were in the Doors CS 6.0 thread and in 2010-11, there were several TI scandals such as anti-downgrades resulting in a lot of 100-300 replies news. Also, it wasn't possible to comment on 2004 news and most 2005 ones until a few years ago (board merge)
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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #333 on: March 10, 2014, 11:53:06 am »
Is it just me or is the site going down the slope again? :(

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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #334 on: March 10, 2014, 12:37:27 pm »
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.

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).

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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #335 on: March 10, 2014, 01:24:12 pm »
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.

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).
New topic notifications in OIRC work. New posts have multiple different pages to view them omnimaga.org/unread omnimaga.org/recent omnimaga.org/replies

It is pretty much spring break for a lot of people which would account for the slower activity.
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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #336 on: March 10, 2014, 01:53:03 pm »
The issue why the topic notifications didn't work was because some other code crashed on a new topic before the topic notification code was reached, thus never being executed.

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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #337 on: March 10, 2014, 05:50:32 pm »
Ah right. Do you think it will be fixed soon, if not already? EDIT: Nvm I just saw Eeems' post.

Also one other issue I noticed from the Recent Posts feature is that topics listed shows the subject name of the latest post rather than the first. By seeing something such as "Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?" in the title bar, people who don't pay attention as much will not notice that only a post per topic is shown and think that individual posts are displayed one by one, making them think activity is actually worse than it actually is. Hopefully that issue won't be too hard to fix when the admins will be ready to implement the new "New Posts" feature.

It's still kinda low activity, though, considering it's March, which is normally busier in terms of amount of people who have time to visit the site. Things goes quieter in January, picks up again in March then goes quiet again in mid-April or so when everyone goes camping and stuff. But again, July activity didn't make much sense either, as July 2013 was unusually more active than most other months that year.
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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #338 on: March 10, 2014, 06:01:07 pm »
Ah right. Do you think it will be fixed soon, if not already?
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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #339 on: March 10, 2014, 06:02:28 pm »
CoolioJazz is working on a replacement for recent posts that mimics the old style. You'll have to bug him about it.
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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #340 on: March 10, 2014, 06:03:55 pm »
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.O

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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #341 on: March 10, 2014, 08:46:01 pm »
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.O
He's been around. He mostly was in #IRP though. I also see him online on skype a ton.
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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #342 on: March 10, 2014, 08:52:10 pm »
YEah I saw him on Starcraft II too lately  (only started to sign in again a few months ago, tho), but like a few years ago, he was idle most of the time. I could try to do squirrel-hunting on Skype, though.

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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #343 on: March 10, 2014, 09:48:39 pm »
Nuuuu, not being hunted and killed is a thing I would like to do  <_< But yeah, I haven't been terribly active on Omnimaga for a while now, lots of lurking. Yay.

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Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« Reply #344 on: October 26, 2014, 01:40:50 pm »
Ok the activity is pretty low currently :(

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