On the long run now it still seems to be increasing, the activity! *yay*
What did happen? Was it portal and omnirpg combined that brought many members back to the forums?

Yeah I noticed lately, especially the last 2 months (except Christmas holidays) where it jumped by 1000 one month. Most likely the 84 Plus Color Silver Edition, Portal and a bunch of the other big projects that are coming out. Christmas holidays seems to have slowed activity down a bit compared to Early December, though.

Maybe we should post about nDoom CX on 4chan/b/ and then start a religion debate thread once traffic increased. That will certainly bring more activity

(don't)

nuuu!
At least we have (int)pi*100 new registrations in January

Why do I have to bring the bad news?

You check the number of posts.
Maybe you should check the number of visits/hits too.

Because even if very few people comment a news/topic, it's still important if many people read it.


And indeed, pageviews is greater in february than in january.
No wonder with the exclusive TI-84+CSE news we shared

YEah true although it was kinda higher last year IIRC (although it might be due to CloudFlare blocking most bots). One issue might be that due to most questions having been answered already to newbies, there's less discussion to be done for help. Everything is already available to read for newbies. Programming-wise, the novelty of Axe weared off, as did the TI-84 Plus novelty 2-3 years after the 84+ came out, along with ASM libs, and of course Ndless.

Also I think the Nspire platform is almost dead now, game programming-wise. I think that the Nspire is facing the 4 following problems:

-Most calculator programmers love to push limited hardware to their max potential. The TI-Nspire isn't limited enough.
-The rest would rather do computer programming
-The constant danger of seeing Ndless blocked on the latest OS again and again
-A bunch of people prefer user interfaces like on the TI-83 Plus, Casio PRIZM or TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition.

As for low project activity, it's probably due to the following:

-People started projects that are too big for them, then newer coders finally realized that they should avoid doing such mistake, so they wait
-People saw too many great projects die, so they are less interested to reply to active ones, since they think it will be dead in a few months.

And I think that some people are relying too much on myself to keep Omni afloat. Omni suddenly have a large activity outburst with several 100+ post days close to 200, then as soon as I start my 6 days in a row work schedule, the site slowly dies again (usually on weekends). I still even receive constant admin requests even though I am not admin anymore since 2011. People need to realize that the key to Omni survival is in their hands too and that the site should not be dependent on 1 person. It takes that part of the community too. I'm not as healthy (physically) as I was until 2010 so I can't really pull 1500+ posts months like I used to.

And I agree on the projects. People need to learn to backup more and manage their time better instead of spending most of their time playing Minecraft and flooding humor and jokes with duplicate image/botswana threads. Not only projects die, but when that many do it makes other people even less interested in replying to them or helping out, since they know it will die in a few months. But again, this is a problem everywhere on the Internet with freeware games. It's just worse with calculators since a TI programming "career" usually lasts less than 1 year.

I just hope that people are not scared too much of the slow vertical scrolling. Of course if the program editor is really bad for editing large code then this platform might not be as popular for on-calc programmers (one extra reason to make an on-calc IDE!) but that platform will be fun to code and challenge and it will be interesting to see what shortcuts people use to get around limitations, like what happened with the 6 MHz TI-83+ back in the days. Heck, if people still code for the 2 MHz TI-81, then why wouldn't we with the 84+CSE?

For me, I just have a lot of work and stuff to do during the week, so I don't really get a chance to get on during the week.  I'd probably be a bit more active during the weekends.