No, we are way more into making discoveries&creations, and making them public. Hence our news reputation.
But since it's the #1 FR website, it has to provide everything, including archives and online tools, etc.

Probably

Ndless 3.1 was featured though. Maybe ticalc's policy is not to nominate a program that already won a poll.

According to Ryan on the discussion thread that's exactly why it wasn't on the poll—it was considered an update to a program that was already featured (and won POTY) in 2010.

On the other hand, TiEmu won POTY twice (first as TiEmu in 2005 and then as TiEmu3 in 2007), so there's some inconsistency here...

(Oh, BTW, mViewer and FormulaPro were uplaoded on ticalc)

I guess they didn't see that. Maybe they're more familiar with major TI-83 Plus-family releases.

If a program you think should be on the voting list doesn't get featured when it's submitted, you can always suggest it as a feature by emailing featprog@ticalc.org as said on this page.

EDIT : with this happening, how could we even consider "respecting" the POTY anymore ? It has strictly no value ! That's like making a website on my own, making a poll with only my programs and awading myself for being the best, everytime.

I think the point of POTY is the best program uploaded to ticalc.org in a year, with ticalc.org acting as a largely neutral service that simply holds files.

One of the big differences is that the English community and the French community have different philosophies on the archives' purpose. In the French community it's common for a major site like TI-Planet to add major completed community projects to its own archives automatically (as DJ_O pointed out). But in the English community something like that would be unacceptable, so ticalc.org strictly relies on user uploads for its files and featured programs. Not saying one system is better than the other—just felt that that's part of what's causing the problem here.

It's still listed there for 2007.

Quote from: ExtendeD on December 17, 2012, 05:12:31 pm

Ndless 3.1 was featured though. Maybe ticalc's policy is not to nominate a program that already won a poll.

According to Ryan on the discussion thread that's exactly why it wasn't on the poll—it was considered an update to a program that was already featured (and won POTY) in 2010.

On the other hand, TiEmu won POTY twice (first as TiEmu in 2005 and then as TiEmu3 in 2007), so there's some inconsistency here...

Quote from: adriweb on December 17, 2012, 05:16:46 pm

(Oh, BTW, mViewer and FormulaPro were uplaoded on ticalc)

I guess they didn't see that. Maybe they're more familiar with major TI-83 Plus-family releases.

If a program you think should be on the voting list doesn't get featured when it's submitted, you can always suggest it as a feature by emailing featprog@ticalc.org as said on this page.

Quote from: adriweb on December 17, 2012, 05:05:52 pm

EDIT : with this happening, how could we even consider "respecting" the POTY anymore ? It has strictly no value ! That's like making a website on my own, making a poll with only my programs and awading myself for being the best, everytime.

I think the point of POTY is the best program uploaded to ticalc.org in a year, with ticalc.org acting as a largely neutral service that simply holds files.

One of the big differences is that the English community and the French community have different philosophies on the archives' purpose. In the French community it's common for a major site like TI-Planet to add major completed community projects to its own archives automatically (as DJ_O pointed out). But in the English community something like that would be unacceptable, so ticalc.org strictly relies on user uploads for its files and featured programs. Not saying one system is better than the other—just felt that that's part of what's causing the problem here.

^This exactly. Also, many things tend to get overlooked. It's not like archivers can constantly go thorough every single program that gets submitted and test them. This is something they do voluntarily, and they have other things going on as well. As Deep Thought mention, you can also suggest a program if you think it is worthy of a feature. Ticalc has even encourage people to do so because as mentioned, they don't see everything. I certainly don't see POTY as useless. Perhaps somethings need to be improved, but we as a community need to decide what we can do to help improve it instead of just complaining about it.

Yeah they added it after I made that post (they forgot).

Few featured programs, few votes... Does POTY still means anything?

Well even the Z80 category gets fewer and fewer votes. It's not due to the Z80 calcs getting less popular, but rather Ticalc.org getting less and less popular to participate to socially, although still popular for downloading programs. And yeah I did see the same problem in 2007 Lionel, where a lot of programs would get missed, such as an xLIB update and some great BASIC games. Late 2010 also had issues with Z80 stuff getting missed (and featured late). 2008, on the other hand, doesn't count, since the community was pretty much dead that year.

I know a few years ago some people on Omni were relunctant to post their games on ticalc.org due to the anti-Omnimaga bias from staff and his influence, slow news posting in 2007 and late 2010 and the site having an hard time transitioning towards web 2.0, but Ticalc.org had been the heart of the TI community for over a decade and the goal has always been that ticalc.org archives has every single existing TI program made by the TI community. If that changed in recent years, I guess we have to deal with it, since society elvolves over time, but it would be nice if at least some annual award for TI programmers still retained attention and if it had to be for example Omni starting some sort of POTM, then I worry that some voters would be biased and always vote for Omnimaga programs.

Omnimaga has a featured section since Early 2011 or so, but it's all manually updated rather than dynamically, so it's a major hassle to keep up to date. Since it features programs regardless of where they are uploaded (even attachments), this could probably be helpful, though.