The Resurrection

[DJ Omnimaga]

True, a lot of people who were around during the closing are still around today. There's only one community that didn't wanted to see us stay and even less to come back and showed it by taking over of our old domain name and old IRC channel 8 months ago and spammed the rest on about a monthly basis, sometimes more, but at the moment I don't think they are even aware we are back at all and if they are it's just best to pretend they do not exist. Things should go without too much hassle considering we have been gone for so long and it calmed down.

[SirCmpwn]

Epic necropost.  Glad to see Omnimaga is back up

[Deep Toaster]

Epic necropost.  Glad to see Omnimaga is back up

HOLY ... LOBSTER ATTACK!

Anyway, what's Omnimaga? Nice site here, btw

And I see Bungie's legacy still remains

[jnesselr]

Epic necropost.  Glad to see Omnimaga is back up

HOLY ... LOBSTER ATTACK!

Anyway, what's Omnimaga? Nice site here, btw

And I see Bungie's legacy still remains

What happened this time?

[Deep Toaster]

Naw, I just meant that all of DJ's posts here are still rated down

[MRide]

Not anymore

[Deep Toaster]

How'd you fix that?

[jnesselr]

How'd you fix that?

Most likely rated a bunch of posts up.

[DJ Omnimaga]

HOLY NECROPOST BATMAN!

I wondered what the hell was that resurrection thread in news then saw it wasn't at the top and I thought another bot posted there.

As for Bungie he most likely went in random threads when he rated posts down. Also the second account he did not only rate down my posts, he rated all posts in random topics. Only real way to fix it is to rate them back up.

On the subject of Omnimaga resurrection, when I got begged to revive the site from scratch, I was still not very confident it would work, but it seemed the people that wanted to be involved were more dedicated than they were when the original site shutted down. Because mostly only the loyal users remained, we could restart from a cleaner userbase, so there was less risk of drama. Yes, there was some, but it was much less worse than what it could have been, and we ended up with a more loyal userbase, which, in long terms, allowed us to grow pretty fast.

To be fair I still think closing the other site was for the best, because it was doomed and if it remained open, we would have went through crap for half a year or more (such as the spam attacks). Omnimaga needed to no longer get attention from the community anymore. Also, the old site had less trustworthy member/staff in overall (no offense to some of the old staff), and the shut down ended up cleaning Omni from those less open-minded members who cared only about themselves. However, I regret the fact I deleted the site instead of just putting it offline completly. Today, we restarted from scratch and got unexpected success, which I later understood from the fact the shut down cleaned Omni from uncaring users, but if the old site was not deleted, today we would still have access to the old database and some interesting content.

If I could return in time, on Jan 1st 2008 Omnimaga would not get deleted, but it would still get shut down, hidden somewhere nobody can access for at least until September 2008. I would still have moved from Invisionfree, though.

[SirCmpwn]

I went around Omnimaga looking for the most spectacular necropost I could, so this was my selection.  It's almost the oldest post.

[DJ Omnimaga]

Yeah true.

It still can't beat my necropost on Cemetech, though.

[aeTIos]

Yay Omnimaga is back!




 

[DJ Omnimaga]

Please do not bump 2 years old threads if you have nothing useful to add to the discussion or reviving a project you were working on.