As you can notice on our forum index (if you are logged in), now there is a new section between the latest downloads and latest active topics (which was reduced from 15 to 9) where you can see what's currently happening on #omnimaga IRC channel. Since we prefer to keep a certain focus on the forums regarding activity (as you could see with the recent addition of a Board posting notifier bot in #omnimaga), any feature allowing chatting directly from the board index will require a certain amount of forum posts. However, this, combined with the new IRC bot and the old logs history (now split by year, the latest of which is avaliable on the board index below the log fetcher. See Misc section for previous years.), should connect both Omnimaga forums and #omnimaga IRC channel more. Thanks to Netham45 for making most of this possible!

Besides that IRC-related addition, Omnimaga now has a radio, which can be listened 24/7 on any music player that supports m3u streams or radio URLs, such as iTunes or Winamp. The link to the radio is avaliable in the Misc section. This radio is provided by Geekboy1011 (who also setup the music player added last month) and juju2143.

We also moved the Latest Downloads and Board Statistics sections of the board index at the bottom of the page, the first at the top and the second between the Ltest Members and Choose Your Theme sections.

Enjoy!

UPDATE: Some minor formatting changes were done to the log fetcher. Now it shows the last 15 lines, so no scrollbar appears unless people most long lines of text. Also, the logs now auto-refreshes every 10 seconds so registered members can see IRC activity in real-time without reloading the page manually.

I could maybe make it to 15 again, but you can also view it on front page or the new posts links (the later shows 100 instead of 10).

However, if I make it 15 I feared everyone would start complaining that the box at the board top is too huge. Do you think I could maybe get rid of the latest files added to the archives on board index? My only fear about removing that is that people would no longer pay attention to our download section. Before we add this box on our board index, a bunch of members didn't even know we even had a download section at all.

I thinkZera actually liked it on board index, since on front page you need to scroll down all the time. To access IRC, you could actually try this. You just need to select a different server, where you would type irc.blessed.net or irc.servercentral.net, for example. Or use another IRC client like Y-Chat or mIRC, providing your parents allow you to install stuff. Or if you're lucky, when you open the Java client and get disconnected, type the command /server irc.blessed.net . Hopefully this might work. Otherwise there are other servers on http://www.efnet.org .

Woah, that's pretty neat.  It's even up to date o_o.  Also, reguarding space, if people think the stuff on the top takes up too much space, couldn't they press the minus button on the top left of what they don't want to see?  It even seems to save the setting, which is nice.

^I agree with making it invisible to guests.
Also, i think you should move it underneath the recent posts.

Actually, I already do minimize the "Recently Added" section. I don't really use it. Minimizing other sections doesn't expand the ones you have open, though. (as far as I know)

When I logged-in today, the "Latest Posts" section was expanded again. I like how this currently looks; although, it would also be fine to place the IRC activity log above that section. People who don't use it can just minimize it so it doesn't obstruct their view.

Personally, I don't mind where the IRC section is positioned, either way. As long as I have my standard "Lastest Topics" list, I'm a happy camper.