True, although I wish we would have gotten that small spike in December like last year, but again last year the 84+CSE got leaked, and since it's a Z80 calc, this was pretty much inevitable that a big activity spike would occur. We also had a small spike in September or so IIRC, same for ticalc.org.

Unless every 2013 member including the ones still active are bots?

It's pretty much like United-TI and MaxCoderz in their early forum days (2003-04), except that MaxCoderz had some extra activity from the infamous debate thread (about 5% of the entire board postcount and that excludes the posts prior their first data loss) and UTI had a spam section in 2004. That said it's far lower than MC's 2005 activity or our activity around 2010-11 when Nspire users basically outnumbered 84+ users.

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I don't know that this is completely true, but I believe that we are more active than Cemetech at the moment (just by the amount of new posts every time I get on).

Have that feeling too.

So what you're saying is that we should have more contests!

It seems that all TI related sites have been rolling downhill.  Schools have caught on to the fact that some calculators are programmable (or more likely that students know how to program them), and many have actually banned them calculators (the smarter students will make programs to solve problems and distribute them).  Also, people playing Fruit Ninja in math class didn't help.    I would say that most of the audience here on Omnimaga is composed of teenagers, and I became interested in calculators and coding in general after getting a calculator for school.  If this trend continues, new users will stop coming to the site (my theory)...  I think that things should possibly be shifted more into the orientation of mainstream computer programming (rather than a couple of threads), which appears to be the more popular route today.

BTW, a UI change might help a lot, since most potential users will only join a site that looks high-tech and capable.  While I like the current layout just fine, Metro with some animations would be nice.  

It seems that all TI related sites have been rolling downhill.  Schools have caught on to the fact that some calculators are programmable (or more likely that students know how to program them), and many have actually banned them calculators (the smarter students will make programs to solve problems and distribute them).  Also, people playing Fruit Ninja in math class didn't help.    I would say that most of the audience here on Omnimaga is composed of teenagers, and I became interested in calculators and coding in general after getting a calculator for school.  If this trend continues, new users will stop coming to the site (my theory)...  I think that things should possibly be shifted more into the orientation of mainstream computer programming (rather than a couple of threads), which appears to be the more popular route today.

BTW, a UI change might help a lot, since most potential users will only join a site that looks high-tech and capable.  While I like the current layout just fine, Metro with some animations would be nice. 

Actually this is why some computer sections were added a while ago. The site needs a free mobile theme that supports most important features, though, like most sites nowadays. Currently the mobile theme lacks image support, which is kinda important when it comes to calculator screenshots of projects and the only other option, which is Tapatalk, is not free.

But yeah eventually calcs will most likely disappear, although it was supposed to happen in 2008 or so and finally the community rebounded, thanks to the Ndless and Axe Parser craze back in 2010. For a real community revival it would really take a calculator with similar BASIC capabilities as the HP Prime, but made by TI (due to their monopoly).

Tapatalk misses a lot of important features. It's like I'm interacting with the site with a thick pair of gloves on, really.