Yeah true. That said, it also help that people who don't necessarily work on projects also check other projects from time to time and reply to them.

I would post more, but most of the time neck or back pain hinders my concentration so I don't feel like posting nor programming. >.<

One thing that some members could do is to reply to 3 project threads a day, then if someone else sees 3 threads where the last poster is the author or one he thinks he didn't check, then he replies to them, and so on.

Also Geekboy summer is usually much worse than the end of school, because most people don't feel like doing calc stuff while it's warm and sunny outside, and the ones who feel like doing so usually end up in camping with no Internet access. Based on the posting rate this year, I would say this Summer we get around 1000-2000 posts a month max (like on the old board).

It might just be the community really dying for real this time, though, because even Cemetech has low posting and TI-BASIC Developer isn't doing any better. In 2008, however, we all thought the community was on the verge of dying, then it eventually revived 2 years later, so all hope is not lost, but it is entirely possible that this time, Omnimaga have to expand its team and focus to non-calc programming in order to survive in long terms.

One thing I noticed on past forums, though, is that the regular members activity tends to be influenced by the staff activity, especially considering most people visit the programming team sub-forums in hope that those projects will get released. So if most staff rarely ever post, then most regular members will rarely post too. (See United-TI, Revsoft and MaxCoderz, for example)

(I'm probably gonna try to make another Omni tribute/ad on Youtube at one point, on my Channel, which has 620+ subscribers.)

EDIT in case anyone mentions school finals and such stuff being a reason for the decrease in activity, check this out:

May 2004: 4 (yAronet)
May 2005: 588
May 2006: 2634
May 2007: 711
May 2008: 0 (no board)
May 2009: 1431
May 2010: 4363
May 2011: 11169
May 2012: 5207
May 2013: 2771

Also April 2013 was actually lower than April 2006. On the other hand, it could be worse, because I still remember several months where days with fewer than 10 posts were very common, but I seriously hope we don't go through that again >.<

The good news so far is that we already have more posts in 2013 than our worst full year on this board install (2009) and we almost have as many as in 2007 (which was our final year on Invisionfree). It is still possible that we might have more than 2006 again. I hope I can manage to finish Zelda or something to bring some stuff for the CSE, since to attract CSE users, we need games.

You could always start some topics in general technology stuff (or general programming), and if many people like it i can see a board for it coming up

I don't really like the pay-for-activity idea as it is like paying people to use omnimaga and it somehow seems wrong to me......

I don't really like the pay-for-activity idea as it is like paying people to use omnimaga and it somehow seems wrong to me......

Yeah true, although if that eventually becomes the only way to save the TI community, then I guess we might have no choice. I think it should only be used in last resort, for example if we get less than 1000 posts for several months in a row. We were actually supposed to do the Pay-for-activity idea during SUmmer 2010, as we brought it up in August 2009 when we had an all-time low August activity, but we finally didn't because the site managed to rebound.

However, I think the contest should have posting requirements to a lower extent, such as posting one contest project update or idea every 2 week, so people don't vanish until the end of the contest , and pay-for-activity might actually not be too bad for Summertime, as it might encourage people to not leave the site for the entire summer.

Quote from: Sorunome on June 06, 2013, 10:12:33 pm

http://status.omnimaga.org/

the posts are still decreasing, the activity is decreasing.....does anybody have a new+good idea to prevent that?
The CSE unfortunatley didn't give us our hoped results
No new member due to the CSE yet

You really should use http://status.ourl.ca/ It's smaller

As DJ already mentioned the summer is normally slower on the activity side due to people going on vacation etc.

Yes, but as I mention  below, check the May activity over the years. Summer might be less active, but there's still a major difference between July 2011 post stats and July 2012.

Not yet. One is planned but I'm unsure what ever happened to it.

As for numbers, yeah, although what surprised me the most was that unusual summer activity spike at the end of July.

EDIT: By the way you should change the 1st topic post title to General Decrease/Increase in Omnimaga activity - What can we do? or something, since the activity usually fluctuates rather than continuously decreasing lately.

I don't know if it will be visible in the montly stats, but I find that recent HP-Prime topics got a nice activity those last days.

There is a huge interest in that calculator - let's just hope that it won't die like the Casio Prizm interest.

So it just might be a good idea to go on?

We had "duels" of sorts going on a while back. They were called "cage matches". However, no one was organizing them anymore, so they kind of faded away. They were pretty neat though. Team competitions would be a nice idea, but team projects don't seem to go to far usually in this community. If one person lags behind or drops out the project tends to fall apart.