Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on February 23, 2010, 12:30:57 am

Lol, maybe, and also with the new multi theme support, we can see hidden post texts (especailly with the 3rd theme that looks like the old board we had on Invisionfree)

That is why I use very small font to hide.

SMF doesn't have a spoiler BBcode?
Maybe a quote or code box with font colour corresponding to the box do the job. I will try.

Small fonts shows in Opera. In opera text can't be under a certain size.


Unfortunately SMF has no spoiler BBcode but I could probably add some mod that adds one

Well, it definitively looks like the activity peak we had since Early March until Mid April has definitively arrived to an end. May 20th 2010 was the most inactive day since march 2nd 2010.

Are most people still into finals? I am not sure exactly when the average people end school and know some finished school recently.

I hope this is just temporary. Despite activity still being a lil higher than before March in general (and higher than other forums for the most part), half of our active members joined this community in 2010 and did not know Omnimaga as a less active place. We used to have 800-1400 posts a month and most members at the time were used to it and felt the board was somewhat active for a TI forum. However, the new members are used to 5000+ a month. From experience in the TI community, when a forum gets less activity (especially projects) for an extended period of time, regulars starts checking the board for new posts less times per day, then eventually check every few days or even once a week, then only reply to threads with replies in the last two or three days, afraid they might be seen as necroposting. In short term I am not too worried, because the site is still very active, especially project-wise, but since Summer Time is already much less active than the rest of the year, if our activity dropped a lot before Summer, then it is very hard to get all old members back when school restarts. Do you think an extended decline in activity could discourage some of the newer members?

Are the people who have been less active still interested as much toward calcs but just too busy? Or is there a decline in interest (due to delayed Ndless release or the like)?

I also wonder if it could be due to the recent increase in 500 Internal Server Errors? When posting, if you get that error, you can click "Back", copy your post, refresh the page then paste it, then try again and again until it works, but not everyone knows that, so they might be scared of posting because they migth lose their post.

Is it because the IRC post notifier bot (SpyBot45) is no longer working since over a month?

Is it because of the recent lack of features on ticalc.org?

Just something I,ve been wondering, because every week I hear people saying "YAY! Finished school!", yet those people barely show any sign of life for the weeks afterward.

Same as Builderboy. We have finals, trebuchets, and presentations. I'm also out of project ideas

Yeah, school is still in session for a lot of folks. I know a guy who doesn't get out until like the end of June. Also, for the people who declared school's out and then disappeared, it's probably for one of two reasons:
1) They immediately went off on vacation.
2) They're relaxing and de-stressing from the hectic chaos that is always Finals Week

Furthermore, I really don't see any correlation between activity on omnimaga and features on ticalc. Could you elaborate?

I'm still in school and will be for the next 3ish weeks.  The teachers are working us pretty hard.  I think it's exams and the end of school for most people.

I wouldn't worry to much Omni, we're still going very strong. Also, that activity spike was pretty massive, so I don't think people will expect activity to always stay that high.

Im taking a summer class so I'm not as active as I was. I'll be a little more active in June.

9 days left for me, then it will be right back to piworld pc development