Somewhere a week or two ago, Omnimaga broke 10 million requests, over 20% of which were in the past 2 months. This of course excludes OmnomIRC. After a giant posting spike two weeks ago, forum activity dropped due to most people (including myself) being busy with various things, but there is a tremendous amount of calculator projects progressing right now, some which has downloads available.

To tease you, here is one in action below.


Make sure to not miss them!

There may also be a new version of Axe Parser coming soon.

In addition to that, Raylin's mini-contests called Cage Matches are still going on right now. The current battle involves a RPG project using Doors CS7 libraries and TI-BASIC. ASHBAD_ALVIN, one of our many new forum members, is also holding a similar contest, but it involves team projects for the most part. If you are interested, read the first post of each topic for more information.

In other news, Ticalc.org POTY is coming soon, with a tremendous amount of files included in surveys so far. At this rate, this could become the second largest POTY ever, behind 2004. On the Casio side, the Prizm user guide is already available for download in PDF format since at least one or two weeks. If you want to see the new calculator features, such as BASIC programming, you can download it here. Yes, unlike the TI-Nspire, Casio Prizm BASIC has a GetKey function!

Yes, unlike the TI-Nspire, Casio Prizm BASIC has a GetKey function!

Glad at least Casio has some sense.

And hurrah! Another record broken! I noticed that slight drop recently, but still, 300 posts a day...

I hit a record too probably, 710 posts in less than a month

Sweet!  Its awesome to know that our popularity and activity is increasing so fast Omnimaga truly is an amazing forum and its so nice to see it so alive ^^

Not quite like UTI is right now , but it definitely wasn't as active as it is right now

well maybe we should all just use the SDK that is sure to come with it?  I'm sure casio would let us have that, they gave us that with all other models in recent history.

Plus, then we can have great power without BASIC limits.

EDIT: my post count is lucky now.

I stopped caring about my post count a long time ago (at around 350-400 posts), but it probably seems differently to you guys because I like staying so active.  I try to get at least 20 posts a day.  with some exceptions of course -- some days I'll get >50, others <2. 

Omnimaga is getting a lot more attention now, maybe we should start a secret campaign to get people to join AND stay moderately active.

If you mean advertising on other websites, no, because I feel this isn't very nice for those site communities when they try hard to remain active as well. This can also tarnish our reputation as well or worse: bring us some trolls retaliating against the advertising. (which I saw happening before) The only time where we did such thing was when another TI forum went through a drastic increase in hostility towards TI-BASIC projects and newbies (JFGI/RTFM comments), putting those users at risk of leaving the entire community if they knew no other site that did not have such problem. As a result, Omni was suggested to them as an effort to save the community. That was back in early 2009. I think this happened with Cemetech too, once, but if I remember, that was when they added the Freebuild forums, which resulted in a troll fest (thanks to Kllrnohj, Nikky, Elfprince and a few others for containing them inside the FB sections).

I think the best way to advertise a forum/website politely would be the following:

-Putting Omni and Cemetech (or whatever other site you like that you post your projects on) in your readmes
-Forum signatures, URL fields and social networks
-Youtube vids featuring various calc games or your projects

Also if you spot a good programmer on ticalc.org that recently released something, you can try to contact him, but it's good to make sure he isn't already member of Omni or another calc site first.

I'm guessing omnimaga used to be much less active, like UTI at one point.

It was mostly on-par with UTI for the most part, but only like 30 Omni members had above 100 posts including staff. Afterward we went down for half a year and reopened. UTI's current activity seems worse than how it was in Early 2005, when they had that server problem and a member trolling.

Fortunately, Cemetech and TI-BD seems to have picked up again too, which is good since each site focuses on different things and attract new users as well. Revsoft picked up again, too, but it doesn't seem to be signifiantly active, still.

so 2005-2006 were even better than right now in activity?