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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: Juju on March 31, 2013, 09:02:37 pm

Title: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Juju on March 31, 2013, 09:02:37 pm
UPDATE (April 2nd): The site name change was an April Fools joke (as did the worldwide 15 MHz 83+ and the Justin Bieber tribute). :P

(http://tiplanet.org/forum/styles/prosilver/theme/images/tiplanet_header_logo.png)

Same website, but new formula and 20% cooler! We are proud to announce Omnimaga changes its name to TI-Planet. If you haven't refreshed your browser yet, you should see our new logo and a background with a TI-Nspire CAS sporting the logo. The URL should also change in the next few days to tiplanet.org (http://tiplanet.org), we have to give the time to transition between both.

We felt the need to renew ourselves, give ourselves a fresh start by changing the name to one that makes it obvious we're a site about Texas Instruments calculators. Of course, we're still encouraging Casio and HP development, don't worry.

Hope you like this brand new name ^_^
The TI-Planet Team
http://tiplanet.org (http://tiplanet.org)
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Adriweb on March 31, 2013, 09:06:35 pm
I, for one, like it.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: jwalker on March 31, 2013, 09:06:44 pm
lols
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 31, 2013, 09:13:07 pm
However, with that background image, I think that TI-Nspire haters will cringe. :P
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Ti-Programmer on March 31, 2013, 09:13:20 pm
Wow, French is easier to read than I thought it would be. Almost comes naturally to me :P
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Adriweb on March 31, 2013, 09:13:42 pm
Also, it says on my signature that I am a TI-Planet admin.
Where is the admin panel here ?
/me runs
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Sorunome on March 31, 2013, 09:13:55 pm
but how should we name OmnomIRC :P
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Ti-Programmer on March 31, 2013, 09:14:17 pm
Also, it says on my signature that I am a TI-Planet admin.
Where is the admin panel here ?
/me runs
They are working on it, PM Juju, he will be helpful.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: AngelFish on March 31, 2013, 09:15:28 pm
Also, it says on my signature that I am a TI-Planet admin.
Where is the admin panel here ?
/me runs

Top bar > Admin > Password > Sidebar > Ban Members > "Sorunome" > Enter key
/me runs the other direction
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Juju on March 31, 2013, 09:16:11 pm
but how should we name OmnomIRC :P
I guess it should still be named OmnomIRC.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Ti-Programmer on March 31, 2013, 09:18:50 pm
Also, it says on my signature that I am a TI-Planet admin.
Where is the admin panel here ?
/me runs

Top bar > Admin > Password > Sidebar > Ban Members > "Sorunome" > Enter key
/me runs the other direction
I think I remember Juju telling me the password.
I don't remember it completely, but something along the lines of: Y0u_l057_7h3g4me
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Juju on March 31, 2013, 09:32:30 pm
Also the name change is partly so DJ Omnimaga won't be confused as admin. Well, that's the solution we found. Might work, I dunno.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Sorunome on March 31, 2013, 09:51:52 pm
but how should we name OmnomIRC :P
I guess it should still be named OmnomIRC.
I went for IRCPlanet :P
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Juju on March 31, 2013, 09:52:46 pm
but how should we name OmnomIRC :P
I guess it should still be named OmnomIRC.
I went for IRCPlanet :P
That's good.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Ranman on March 31, 2013, 09:55:34 pm
Omni has been hacked!   O.o
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Sorunome on March 31, 2013, 09:58:33 pm
Omni has been hacked!   O.o
Nope, we just officially changed to be TIPlanet
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: jwalker on March 31, 2013, 10:41:20 pm
I have to say, awesome background
Title: Re: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Spacetime4.0 on March 31, 2013, 10:56:20 pm
Obviously this is an April-fools prank.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 31, 2013, 10:57:35 pm
Also the name change is partly so DJ Omnimaga won't be confused as admin. Well, that's the solution we found. Might work, I dunno.

I just got a nickname change request PM... O.O
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: ruler501 on March 31, 2013, 11:37:19 pm
I think this is a great choice by the admins I'm sure this will more greatly unite the TI Community :P
Nice april fools joke though it was a little awesome. Also I like the background could we get a whole theme to go with it and make that permanent?
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: annoyingcalc on April 01, 2013, 12:22:51 am
I like the background, can we have this be a choice for background?

ps: it is 3 hours before april first here
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Freyaday on April 01, 2013, 12:41:38 am
Orange-blue contrast LET'S GOOOOOOO
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: TIfanx1999 on April 01, 2013, 12:52:34 am
I just ctrl-r'd @ 12:51 AM after waking up. I was a bit surprised at first. Very nice new name. It makes it much clearer that we're a site primarily about TI calculators. :D
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Eeems on April 01, 2013, 01:19:29 am
Obviously this is an April-fools prank.
You are mistaken. It's not April 1st yet. This cannot be an April fools prank.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Darl181 on April 01, 2013, 01:34:48 am
Regarding the color contrast, it might be just me but the banner kind of works with the V5Retro theme. :P

And indeed April Fool's pranks by definition can't happen in March. That wouldn't make any sense.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Juju on April 01, 2013, 01:38:16 am
The OP has been posted at 9PM EST and the logos has been changed sometime before. So yeah it's pretty legit. We haven't had time to make a full theme with the new colors yet though (hence the weird blue-on-orange contrast), but it's coming soon.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Levak on April 01, 2013, 01:54:57 am
I like the background, can we have this be a choice for background?
Have fun http://imgur.com/0VMvT,qfw8m,PVCLd#0
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ps: it is 3 hours before april first here
Not in France :3
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: annoyingcalc on April 01, 2013, 02:14:02 am
Juju is your new name permanent?
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Hayleia on April 01, 2013, 02:19:44 am
Haha ! That is epic ! :P
And I just went to TI Planet, which got renamed Omnimaga, lol.
Seriously, that was a great idea :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Juju on April 01, 2013, 02:24:24 am
Juju is your new name permanent?
Maybe, maybe not.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: aeTIos on April 01, 2013, 04:01:06 am
Nice april 1st joke :P
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Streetwalrus on April 01, 2013, 04:14:21 am
^ Also TIPlanet has Omni logo and BG. :P
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on April 01, 2013, 05:00:16 am
I see it already before me: DJ_Planet.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Streetwalrus on April 01, 2013, 06:37:02 am
Stefan : 120 at that one. ;D
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Hayleia on April 01, 2013, 07:48:57 am
Eh attendez, si ici c'est TI Planet c'est qu'on doit parler français alors :P
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Augs on April 01, 2013, 08:52:45 am
Mais oui
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Darl181 on April 01, 2013, 11:30:12 am
Eh attendez, si ici c'est TI Planet c'est qu'on doit parler français alors :P
Dgooits tteo rraepmpeemlbeerr EFnrgelnicssh. :P
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 01, 2013, 02:22:25 pm
It is possible that the goal might be so that TI-Planet becomes English and Omnimaga French. :P

Or maybe a future merge? O.O (although if that ever happens, the site would need to be English by default, use the fast theme by default and have smart navigation disabled by default unless the site was moved to an American server)
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: ralphdspam on April 01, 2013, 06:07:48 pm
I am quite disappointed with the name change and background.  I strongly believe that we should be called prizmPlanet.  That is the direction the community will be going for the next few years.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Juju on April 01, 2013, 06:13:53 pm
It is possible that the goal might be so that TI-Planet becomes English and Omnimaga French. :P

Or maybe a future merge? O.O (although if that ever happens, the site would need to be English by default, use the fast theme by default and have smart navigation disabled by default unless the site was moved to an American server)
I, for one, welcome our new French overlords.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Dapianokid on April 01, 2013, 06:58:29 pm
I am quite disappointed with the name change and background.  I strongly believe that we should be called prizmPlanet.  That is the direction the community will be going for the next few years.

I'm pretty sure the Nspire is where it's at right now. The Prizm may take over, in which case Omnimaga would be a GREAT name, because Omni means all. All calculator models are welcomed here! :D
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Ranman on April 01, 2013, 07:27:08 pm
I think Omni has been hacked. I hope it can be restored to it old glory!  :-\  April Fools!  LOL
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Dapianokid on April 01, 2013, 07:28:18 pm
Ranman, it's not been hacked.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Hooloovoo on April 01, 2013, 07:34:01 pm
Try selecting all of his text ;)
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Dapianokid on April 01, 2013, 07:36:46 pm
ahahaha
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Ranman on April 01, 2013, 07:49:54 pm
ahahaha

LOL... I'm too old to fall for those tricks. ;)

Ranman is now wondering if the TI-83+ hardware post is a prank too -- that he fell for.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Juju on April 01, 2013, 08:10:45 pm
Wrong text color though. You're better with [color=transparent][/color]. The game.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Sorunome on April 01, 2013, 08:11:33 pm
Well, but in all seriousness, what if ti-planet and omnimaga did merge?
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: ralphdspam on April 01, 2013, 11:54:36 pm
I think Omni has been hacked.
I agree!  Why is everything so blue again!?  :(
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Juju on April 01, 2013, 11:56:55 pm
Well, happy April's Fools! TI-Planet went back to normal as well.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 02, 2013, 12:08:34 am
Well, but in all seriousness, what if ti-planet and omnimaga did merge?
Then we would be only 50K posts away from making it to Big Boards lists (which requires 500000 posts). We would also have a lot more features. There would be some issues, though:

-TI-Planet takes a long time to load in North America
-I'M fairly sure that Omnimaga loads very slowly in Europe
-TI-Planet shoutbox often fails to load.
-OmnomIRC and its bots are buggy in the way that the slightest EFnet/OmniNet downtime (less than a picosecond downtime) takes them down.
-TI-Planet's design is Web 2.0-heavy, so a lot of Omnimaga members would no longer be able to visit the site due to outdated computers (as guests, your settings are not saved properly, such as disabling smart navigation and switching to lite theme).
-TI-Planet is French by default. It would need to be English by default with a very large to see option to switch to French. Else a lot of users would be turned away. In fact, I think a slogan would have to be added clearing stating that this is a bilingual site.
-If the site became primarily American, all GBA, GBC, GB and NES ROMs would have to be removed to avoid legal problems that they don't get on French sites.
-If SMF was used, it would have to be modified to allow sorting topics by post date rather than IDs in order to allow a board merge.

It would definitively be feasible since both sites are affiliated and the news are somewhat tied together (even moreso now that half of TI-Planet news are now bilingual), but it would take a long while and there would be a lot of issues to be addressed in order to avoid losing any member. In the worst case scenario, you could do like Planete Casio did in 2006: Keep both front page and forums separate, but merge the archives/courses/tutorials together then convert one of the two sites so that it looks identical. Although the Planet-Casio UK experiment failed, you can still see what I mean there:

http://www.planet-casio.com/Fr/
http://www.planet-casio.com/Uk/

Anyway happy april fools day everyone! I think juju should turn this news to #995500 text now :P
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Hayleia on April 02, 2013, 01:09:30 am
-TI-Planet takes a long time to load in North America
-I'M fairly sure that Omnimaga loads very slowly in Europe
It may be because my connexion is strange but here (in my house in France), Omnimaga loads very fast and TI Planet has longer loading times but is still quite fast.

But yeah, the shout box there fails to load until you click on the text box, as if you were about to write something, and only then it refreshes :P
Not really a big problem so I think they didn't bother correcting it.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: TIfanx1999 on April 02, 2013, 01:41:12 am
Being in the USA, Ti-Planet has always loaded fine for me. Go figure. :o Anyho, Happy April fools day everyone! ;D
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Levak on April 02, 2013, 10:51:02 am
Just some answers, unrelated to the topic :
-TI-Planet takes a long time to load in North America
It depends on your FAI and suscribtions. TI-Planets pings google.com (not google.fr) at 1.2ms
BTW, have you tried https://tiplanet.org ?
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-I'M fairly sure that Omnimaga loads very slowly in Europe
Omnimaga loads fine for me.
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-TI-Planet shoutbox often fails to load.
This is a bug in the shoutbox : when someone deletes a post, the chat remains blank until someone posts a new message.
It has recently been noticed as an understood bug, even if it's an old one...
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-TI-Planet's design is Web 2.0-heavy, so a lot of Omnimaga members would no longer be able to visit the site due to outdated computers (as guests, your settings are not saved properly, such as disabling smart navigation and switching to lite theme).
I agree the website could be heavy for non-recent computer. I apologizes for that, but I was guided by new HTML5 features, developping on an i7 ...
On the other hand, the settings are saved properly in the cookies. If your browser cleans those cookies, then it's your problem. I never encoured any problem, even in guest mode. Also, if you're logged in, the settings are saved in your account settings (no more cookies).
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-TI-Planet is French by default. It would need to be English by default with a very large to see option to switch to French. Else a lot of users would be turned away. In fact, I think a slogan would have to be added clearing stating that this is a bilingual site.
This is a deep problem, since a lot of strings are hardcoded in the template / sources.
It would require a lot of work to make it properly bilingual..
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Eeems on April 02, 2013, 11:04:48 am
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-I'M fairly sure that Omnimaga loads very slowly in Europe
Omnimaga loads fine for me.
Some people have issues loading Omnimaga in locations other then North America due to the fact that our server is in NA. If you ping us you'll notice that you don't have the best ping.
I myself get a ping of around 38ms, I'm assuming yours will be much higher.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Levak on April 02, 2013, 11:07:51 am
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-I'M fairly sure that Omnimaga loads very slowly in Europe
Omnimaga loads fine for me.
Some people have issues loading Omnimaga in locations other then North America due to the fact that our server is in NA. If you ping us you'll notice that you don't have the best ping.
I myself get a ping of around 38ms, I'm assuming yours will be much higher.
Envoi d'une requête 'ping' sur www.omnimaga.org [108.162.198.193] avec 32 octets
Réponse de 108.162.198.193 : octets=32 temps=27 ms TTL=55
Réponse de 108.162.198.193 : octets=32 temps=30 ms TTL=55
Réponse de 108.162.198.193 : octets=32 temps=29 ms TTL=55
So ?
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 02, 2013, 04:24:13 pm
Just some answers, unrelated to the topic :
-TI-Planet takes a long time to load in North America
It depends on your FAI and suscribtions. TI-Planets pings google.com (not google.fr) at 1.2ms
BTW, have you tried https://tiplanet.org ?
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-I'M fairly sure that Omnimaga loads very slowly in Europe
Omnimaga loads fine for me.
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-TI-Planet shoutbox often fails to load.
This is a bug in the shoutbox : when someone deletes a post, the chat remains blank until someone posts a new message.
It has recently been noticed as an understood bug, even if it's an old one...
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-TI-Planet's design is Web 2.0-heavy, so a lot of Omnimaga members would no longer be able to visit the site due to outdated computers (as guests, your settings are not saved properly, such as disabling smart navigation and switching to lite theme).
I agree the website could be heavy for non-recent computer. I apologizes for that, but I was guided by new HTML5 features, developping on an i7 ...
On the other hand, the settings are saved properly in the cookies. If your browser cleans those cookies, then it's your problem. I never encoured any problem, even in guest mode. Also, if you're logged in, the settings are saved in your account settings (no more cookies).
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-TI-Planet is French by default. It would need to be English by default with a very large to see option to switch to French. Else a lot of users would be turned away. In fact, I think a slogan would have to be added clearing stating that this is a bilingual site.
This is a deep problem, since a lot of strings are hardcoded in the template / sources.
It would require a lot of work to make it properly bilingual..

Hmm what does FAI stand for? Also for the loading issues it might possibly depend of location in North America or Europe, then. I know that in Florida, IRC used to lag like crazy, and for a short while, following Hurricane Sandy, Omnimaga took a long time to load on East Coast (including Quebec), with pings averaging around 800ms. In my case, my ping to TI-Planet is
Reply from 88.190.40.207: bytes=32 time=108ms TTL=54
Reply from 88.190.40.207: bytes=32 time=107ms TTL=54
Reply from 88.190.40.207: bytes=32 time=107ms TTL=54
Reply from 88.190.40.207: bytes=32 time=108ms TTL=54

Cemetech averages at 11-27ms and Omnimaga 25-35ms. Ticalc.org (which is hosted in Germany) ping is identical to TI-Planet and Mic's site 135ms (it used to be 115ms back in Free.fr days).

As for the cookies issues TI-Planet is the only site I have problems with in Opera browser. It only happens in guest mode, though.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Adriweb on April 02, 2013, 06:49:20 pm
For me :

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Envoi d'une requête 'ping' sur omnimaga.org [108.162.199.193] avec 32 octets de
données :
Réponse de 108.162.199.193 : octets=32 temps=22 ms TTL=55
Réponse de 108.162.199.193 : octets=32 temps=22 ms TTL=55
Réponse de 108.162.199.193 : octets=32 temps=21 ms TTL=55
Réponse de 108.162.199.193 : octets=32 temps=24 ms TTL=55

and :

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Envoi d'une requête 'ping' sur tiplanet.org [88.190.40.207] avec 32 octets de do
nnées :
Réponse de 88.190.40.207 : octets=32 temps=23 ms TTL=49
Réponse de 88.190.40.207 : octets=32 temps=22 ms TTL=49
Réponse de 88.190.40.207 : octets=32 temps=24 ms TTL=49
Réponse de 88.190.40.207 : octets=32 temps=22 ms TTL=49

Pretty much the same....
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Juju on April 02, 2013, 06:51:42 pm
Hmm what does FAI stand for?
Fournisseur d'accès à Internet, or in English, an ISP.

I get pretty much the same ping times as DJ (because same ISP and location lol), I guess our ISP is kinda shit for exporting data to Europe.
Title: Re: Welcome on TI-Planet!
Post by: Eeems on April 02, 2013, 06:55:58 pm
Hmm, strange. I know that Sorunome's server has terrible connection to ours, thus omnomirc is on withg instead of his. It must depend on your ISP I guess.