Ticalc, Cemetech, TI-Planet and Omnimaga have all been bought by TI, merged them together with TI-Cares and put Nikky at the head of the newly formed department of Communities as vice-president.

But, alas, it was only a rather convincing April's Fools joke. Many of you fell for it, others remained dubious.

I want to thank Eeems for the idea and for being very convincing and everyone for helping us having a great April's Fools day.

Among the other fake projects we announced are DJ Omnimaga's Custer's Revenge 84C and Juju's Project Thundercloud, although for the latter this project is very real but will not come out on NES cartridges but rather as a PC game with 3D graphics. Your account on alberthrocks' withg.org is also safe and sound as it won't close anytime soon.

On a end note, Omnimaga will rename to Omnidoge: here's the new banner.



...j/k.

Yah I'm one of those people, I have a screen resolution of 1280x800.
Everything looks so different with SMF 2.0

Now that this is a joke if "TI really buys omnimaga" how would it cost.    More of a retorical question. lol Good joke Eeems.     

Not sure what to say....  I am halfway between laughing and being really depressed about it...      

Knew it, just played along

Quote from: Eeems on April 02, 2014, 02:29:52 pm

Well if they wanted to buy the site I'd price it higher then that. I already know how much I'd charge yearly to run the site at the current support level we have. Let me tell you, it ain't cheap.

I don't know about support since it could turn away certain companies, but I know that just the fact that Omni has existed for almost 13 years, an entire decade online and had large following through certain periods of time (and even though activity is way down right now, it attracts many people who need calculator support), would be a good excuse to jack the price up. If it was sold to another individual the same way Casiokingdom did, then maybe it could be priced lower, but to an overly greedy company like TI? In such case you should go ahead and charge as high as you can if they really want to acquire the site.

Support costs wouldn't turn away companies. Most of the money spent on anything is for support. To run a site corporately you have to pay someone to keep it running. Currently there are a couple of us fulfilling multiple roles (such as DBA, server admin, application developer etc) and working long hours (sometimes all night) to make sure that this site can run.
Any company would be paying for that service to keep a site that they own running.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on April 02, 2014, 03:37:12 pm

Quote from: Eeems on April 02, 2014, 02:29:52 pm

Well if they wanted to buy the site I'd price it higher then that. I already know how much I'd charge yearly to run the site at the current support level we have. Let me tell you, it ain't cheap.

I don't know about support since it could turn away certain companies, but I know that just the fact that Omni has existed for almost 13 years, an entire decade online and had large following through certain periods of time (and even though activity is way down right now, it attracts many people who need calculator support), would be a good excuse to jack the price up. If it was sold to another individual the same way Casiokingdom did, then maybe it could be priced lower, but to an overly greedy company like TI? In such case you should go ahead and charge as high as you can if they really want to acquire the site.

Support costs wouldn't turn away companies. Most of the money spent on anything is for support. To run a site corporately you have to pay someone to keep it running. Currently there are a couple of us fulfilling multiple roles (such as DBA, server admin, application developer etc) and working long hours (sometimes all night) to make sure that this site can run.
Any company would be paying for that service to keep a site that they own running.

Yes, but we're talking about TI here, the very ones who cut TI-84+ RAM down by 80 KB and didn't bother having more than 21 KB of user RAM for the color model.

If they don't want to spend the extra penny that 1000 chips with 80 KB more RAM would cost, then I can't see how they'll spend extra money on support.

YEah the theme is still unfinished. Security breaches in the previous site forced a premature upgrade release (I actually saw the site beta a few months ago with features slowly being added and bugs fixed, but then suddenly one day I arrived and it was now the main site.). I noticed that certain things are being fixed right now on the theme, such as users viewing this topic now being on a normal color, but the staff seems busier lately so I don't really expect any signifiant updates until this Summer or so. (even then, some admins involved live in the United States, where labor laws are rather questionable so maybe they won't even have vacations or anything).