Same for fx normal.

Normally they join around 14-16 but we sometimes get 12-13 years old members too as well as adult ones who programmed calcs for ages before joining or older people in their 40s who are just interested in old school hardware. People who join past 14 usually stay until they start college and turn 18 and the 12-13 years old members usually stay for less than 6 months since at this age they have a much shorter attention span.

That sounds about right. I guess it starts going into high school where students get graphical calculators and begin programming, and they might join some forums along the way.

I haven't posted much in the last year, and at one point just forgot about calculators, but I have a secret project that I've recently resumed on.

Nevertheless, Omnimaga and other calc sites fill a niche of calculator development that is really unique and I hope it continues to live for many years to come. Because for me, and possibly for many others, calculator programming taught me the basic constructs of programming in general.

Jonius it would be nice to see you come back even if you don't do calc stuff. A lot of people here do non-calc stuff too

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on September 01, 2014, 10:08:51 pm

Normally they join around 14-16 but we sometimes get 12-13 years old members too as well as adult ones who programmed calcs for ages before joining or older people in their 40s who are just interested in old school hardware. People who join past 14 usually stay until they start college and turn 18 and the 12-13 years old members usually stay for less than 6 months since at this age they have a much shorter attention span.

That sounds about right. I guess it starts going into high school where students get graphical calculators and begin programming, and they might join some forums along the way.

I haven't posted much in the last year, and at one point just forgot about calculators, but I have a secret project that I've recently resumed on.

Nevertheless, Omnimaga and other calc sites fill a niche of calculator development that is really unique and I hope it continues to live for many years to come. Because for me, and possibly for many others, calculator programming taught me the basic constructs of programming in general.

Ah I remember you Jonius7 only by your forum avatar I'm afraid... haha welcome back! (I myself just came back from a year leave)

I noticed a bunch of the old users have returned lately, although if they eventually started posting again regularly like when Art of camelot came back from his hiatus a few years ago or certain members on Cemetech it would definitively fill the void left by the mass Minecraft exodus a few years ago while new users come in. Plus we lost pretty much most Nspire dev because of TI's actions against Ndless combined with other factors over the years so development on that platform is more scarce (most people still developing advanced tools for it are mostly on TI-Planet or keeping their progress private so that it doesn't fall under TI hands).

Since 2011 the TI community lost about 50% of its userbase (if not more) just because of Minecraft. The same thing happened in 2005 with World of Warcraft.

No that's not what I mean. Basically, when Minecraft became popular, half of Omnimaga userbase vanished entirely. Those people got so much into Minecraft that they stopped all calculator and programming development.

No that's not what I mean. Basically, when Minecraft became popular, half of Omnimaga userbase vanished entirely. Those people got so much into Minecraft that they stopped all calculator and programming development.

LOL i did play minecraft for about half a year during the exodus, but I don't believe that's why I stopped coming to omnimaga back then.