Yeah, the issue is that it caused page views to skyrocket, so for example one day there were 250000 views, when in fact it was 25000-50000 or so. I think that widget is also why people had troubles logging in too (too many login attempts due to the widget reloading pages multiple times).

The widget didn't reload automatically.

I save my vacation for Christmas. I'll be getting a little less busy in a couple weeks though. There are lots of things to do outside of just the theme though, so its a toss up on what gets worked on first.

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.

Plus you'd have to have a computer that could handle it. And server load would be high.

I'm going to re-work the notifications eventually.

Yes, and it will only be compatible with IE5 sorry.
Joking aside, a realtime feed where you can see what is happening is a cool idea. I might design something with together.js and polling the database for recent activity to allow something similar-ish.

you guys held out for the good deal offers, right? i thought we weren't going to be doing this unless they agreed to produce merchandise / upgrade the server / etc.

Of course. Full time salary for all the admins too.

For having Omnimaga host an integrated wiki, somebody can put in a request for that. I'd have to talk it over with the other admins, and make sure the integration was understood by enough of us that I (or whoever built the integration) am not the only one who can support it.

Having an integrated wiki that requires an Omnimaga account to register would be nice, but honestly I think if we want to start adding more documentation for things on a wiki, wikiti is a better option.

For this it would probably be better to use github like albert mentioned.