As we are switching to SMF2 the layout will change indeed, and i thought tapatalk was free by now.

not anymore apparently.

And yeah tapatalk isn't always reliable. Most animated GIFs will not play if you click them and attachments do not work.

Is it just me or is the site going down the slope again?

Yes it is. I think it has something to do with the lack of some features like an easier to browse new posts section and the lack of notifications on new topics in OmnomIRC. Also the broken links on other sites might not help.

Cemetech and ticalc.org seemed rather quiet as well, though, same for MoHPC, so it might be more of a community slump than just Omni.

Things might pick up again as people get used to the new Omni site, though, especially now that to register, you have the option of doing it with Facebook/twitter/etc, which takes less time (most people today are too lazy to fill registration forms anymore).

New topic notifications in OIRC work. New posts have multiple different pages to view them omnimaga.org/unread omnimaga.org/recent omnimaga.org/replies

It is pretty much spring break for a lot of people which would account for the slower activity.

Ah right. Do you think it will be fixed soon, if not already? EDIT: Nvm I just saw Eeems' post.

Also one other issue I noticed from the Recent Posts feature is that topics listed shows the subject name of the latest post rather than the first. By seeing something such as "Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?" in the title bar, people who don't pay attention as much will not notice that only a post per topic is shown and think that individual posts are displayed one by one, making them think activity is actually worse than it actually is. Hopefully that issue won't be too hard to fix when the admins will be ready to implement the new "New Posts" feature.

It's still kinda low activity, though, considering it's March, which is normally busier in terms of amount of people who have time to visit the site. Things goes quieter in January, picks up again in March then goes quiet again in mid-April or so when everyone goes camping and stuff. But again, July activity didn't make much sense either, as July 2013 was unusually more active than most other months that year.

CoolioJazz is working on a replacement for recent posts that mimics the old style. You'll have to bug him about it.

Aaah ok, I'll try to ask him when I see him around. Until the upgrade I didn't see him in #omnimaga for almost 2 years, though...

He's been around. He mostly was in #IRP though. I also see him online on skype a ton.

Nuuuu, not being hunted and killed is a thing I would like to do  But yeah, I haven't been terribly active on Omnimaga for a while now, lots of lurking. Yay.

As for the recent posts page, it's coming, but it's not here yet, so you'll just have to deal with what we have till I finish it, which will hopefully be fairly soon.