Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 11, 2006, 08:24:00 am
As some of you know every year from the middle of May to october the TI community activity keep decreasing, and every forums are hit.
However this year, while lot of the members are very active on the forums, you may have noticed the unexplicable amount of people announcing their retirement and I am wondering if it's just Omnimaga or the community as a whole? I am getting pretty worried atm with all the staff leaving. With Alex retirement today, this makes the 5th staff to retire by himself from Omnimaga this fall, without counting the non staff members who seems to have dissapeared. While the members and staff that are still active still posts often, I have never seen such thing happen before, at least not in such small amount of time. As Cemetech, HRP and TI-Freakware doesn't seems much active anymore and having people who left as well I am worried that if no one else take over the community and start coding when the past generation of coders will all leave who will remain? This is why I am worried atm. As UTI still seems to be very active atm, noticing the amount of "today active topics", I am even more worried, because i am afraid omnimaga is falling apart and that people aren't willing to help anymore. The fact 3 people retired the same day worry me even more, I fear the people may have got together to plan a mass leaving and I fear it may be because of things I did. THis may be 5 staff only out of maybe 2-25, or 2 members out of 50, but this is also great members and staff who left, people who contributed a lot to the community. Plus, if there is always people leaving like this, at one point there will be no one remaining, or the few remaining people will slowly give up because nobody post in their topics anymore, and they will leave too. There is also the fact we may never see those people again in the future, which is hard when you started caring about them.
Anyway I just hope there is no other staff plannign to leave, and that the inactive ones will stick here when they are less busy and hopefully become slighyl more active again sometimes.
Post by: tifreak on November 11, 2006, 08:47:00 am
Post by: Spellshaper on November 11, 2006, 09:04:00 am
*Spellshaper
Post by: rivereye on November 11, 2006, 09:41:00 am
Post by: Radical Pi on November 11, 2006, 09:54:00 am
Post by: Alex on November 11, 2006, 01:58:00 pm
- Alex
Post by: Netham45 on November 11, 2006, 02:00:00 pm
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 11, 2006, 02:13:00 pm
Post by: Halifax on November 11, 2006, 05:22:00 pm
Post by: Speler on November 12, 2006, 05:08:00 am
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 12, 2006, 05:19:00 am
Post by: Speler on November 12, 2006, 05:23:00 am
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 12, 2006, 05:28:00 am
that happens
Post by: kirbykook on November 12, 2006, 05:37:00 am
Post by: bfr on November 12, 2006, 06:06:00 am
-.-
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 12, 2006, 06:31:00 am
| QUOTE (bfr @ 12 Nov, 2006, 12:06) |
| I think I'm going to leave because everybody else is. -.- |
for some reasons I am worried that this is what is happening atm with the ppl who left.
on another sad note loki announced to netham he may not be coming back to Omnimaga anymore, due to all the drama, i wish that crap would end, i hope the ppl stick around
Post by: Radical Pi on November 12, 2006, 07:18:00 am
*Radical Pi
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 12, 2006, 08:07:00 am
I hope omnimaga continue to live. if it doesnt become active like last winter i hope at least it doesnt become less active. But we are starting to get ages at least, the website originally opened on april 9th 2004:
http://omnimaga.unitedti.org/index_v1.html
in may 2005 it became in forum form and since then we got 34000+ posts. Technically if things go well near the end of july 2007 we should have joined the club of the 50000 posts forums
Post by: rivereye on November 12, 2006, 08:47:00 am
Post by: Radical Pi on November 12, 2006, 11:55:00 am
That sounds like a challenge that would keep us busy for a while. Yeah it would suck until xlib and friends are ported, but homescreen only is how it always starts.
Post by: Zeromus on November 13, 2006, 10:32:00 am
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 14, 2006, 03:37:00 am
*hides*
*challenges to a pilgrimage*
Post by: Netham45 on November 14, 2006, 08:54:00 am
*netham45
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 15, 2006, 02:01:00 am
Post by: bfr on November 15, 2006, 12:14:00 pm
*back on topic*
Post by: necro on November 15, 2006, 06:25:00 pm
Post by: Fryedsoft on November 16, 2006, 08:20:00 am
Of course, if you ask around, people think I left sometime around 2000 :)
As for the Nspire draw functions, thats what I'm seeing from the beta manual. This could change by the time final hardware ships.
Post by: tifreak on November 16, 2006, 08:25:00 am
You have any programming plans?? I am just curious. I thought before you mentioned that you had a game or two you wanted to work on/finish.
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 16, 2006, 01:52:00 pm
by the news on your old site, but then i saw you were starting working on a project back in 2005, then you started posting on EPS forums, then when Omnimaga got their own forums you posted here. After the 9 month are you still planning to continue bluecrimson tho?