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How did you find Omnimaga?
« on: March 13, 2010, 11:51:45 am »
With the recent surge in new members, I started to wonder how everyone is finding Omnimaga.  Basically this is just a spot to put how you found Omnimaga.  I'll start: :D

I found Omnimaga when I was looking for info on Builderboy's Portal 2.  I saw Omnimaga was a neat site and started checking it on a weekly basis.  Then I started checking more frequently, and eventually I made an account.  Now I'm here to stay. ;D

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2010, 11:58:22 am »
I found Omnimaga while on the tibasicdev website's forum a while back. I finally got around to making an account recently :)

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2010, 01:36:03 pm »
I found it on google actually... I pretty much just typed in TI84+SE games download, and they gave me omnimaga... So I went in, and after looking at some posts and such, I joined ^^


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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2010, 04:05:05 pm »
I wish I could remember exactly, but I probably found a link to here on unitedti years ago
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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2010, 05:03:49 pm »
Well I found it a couple times looking for games but never joined or really looked around. Then someone made a post about Axe Parser over at UTI and I looked a little more. Then you, ztrumpet, made some comment about Illusiat and I checked it out further and decided to join :D
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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2010, 07:12:21 pm »
I found it back in 07 or 08 or some time around then from tifreak's website. Maybe it was 06... I can't remember (possibly 05? nah, I haven't been programming that long).
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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2010, 07:34:58 pm »
I don't remember


j/k :P

But there is something funny: When Omnimaga was revived near the end of Summer 2008, the re-opening was never announced anywhere on TI forums. Yet, back then, we still managed to have higher activity than United-TI sometimes. On top of that, back then, we didn't have TI-Boy SE and the Nspire was not cracked yet, not to mention the site wasnt very high in Google rankings. My guess is that people probably found the site via UTI or TIBD links in old posts and old members were probably checking if it was re-opened every now and then.

Now I am curious how people find us, though, since it has been 1.5 years since we re-opened.

@trevmeister66 I think it was November 2006

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2010, 07:47:43 pm »
I don't remember


j/k :P

But there is something funny: When Omnimaga was revived near the end of Summer 2008, the re-opening was never announced anywhere on TI forums. Yet, back then, we still managed to have higher activity than United-TI sometimes. On top of that, back then, we didn't have TI-Boy SE and the Nspire was not cracked yet, not to mention the site wasnt very high in Google rankings. My guess is that people probably found the site via UTI or TIBD links in old posts and old members were probably checking if it was re-opened every now and then.

Now I am curious how people find us, though, since it has been 1.5 years since we re-opened.

@trevmeister66 I think it was November 2006
Man time sure has flown.

And yes, I found Omnimaga after the re-opening simply because of pure luck. I had accidently typed "o" for my first letter in my browser, and omnimaga automatically came up, and I hit enter, not realizing I had mispelled my URL, and it showed that Omnimaga was back, and I was like... SWEET!
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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2010, 07:55:28 pm »
Let's see... first time I found the place was near the end of the forum system we used before Zetaboards. I was googling TI-basic stuff to learn how to program and the place came up. Stalked a bit. Joined with a crappy version of Nyaar as my first project, got a bit of support, and stayed around (although not hugely active) until I got on one day to see Omnimaga was down for good.

Well, at that point I just kept coding and stayed away from the community. Then, one day for no reason at all, I typed "omnimaga.org" into my address bar to see what would happen and this place came up. So... I joined, kept working, became staff, became admin, went back to staff, and here I am. =)

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2010, 08:01:46 pm »
One major issue about Omnimaga resurection is that the majority of members who were still active at the time only used MSN to chat. Not long before the shut down, my MSN got phished and I lost my entire buddy list. With the board shut down, I lost even more contact info, so basically, no way to warn the old members it's back. x.x

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2010, 08:33:17 pm »
I was a frequent member at TiBD.  The creator Burr invited me over there after he saw some of my games on TiCalc.  I spent some time there until I was invited to Omnimaga by Noahbaby.  I saw how Omnimaga was more oriented towards games and I jumped at the opportunity!  A little while later I became staff, and here I am :D

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2010, 11:01:34 pm »
I don't really remember how or when I found Omnimaga but I've known about it for years. All I remember is that I was convinced to join Omni's IRC channel a while back and from there I eventually took a leap and joined the fora/forums. However, I initially signed up as "Sephiran".
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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2010, 12:36:11 am »
From Silver Shadow. I heard about it on Cemetech from him and joined.
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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #13 on: March 14, 2010, 12:51:18 am »
well i found united ti first joined with my wip crimson warfare the ti game

from there i got recomeded my eeems and ztrumpet came join and now im where i am sadly not much coding going on or playing but im around to stay :)

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #14 on: March 14, 2010, 12:57:25 am »
I got recommened by someone on Cemetech (sorry I forgot who, I accidently deleted the PM)  I was working on a programming GUI (which I still work on from time to time).  Anyways, I made an account and am here to stay :)