Since TI-Story is now read-only, I thought I would make a new topic here listing every single version of Omnimaga that existed over the years, including the site before Omni that was unrelated, but from where Omni's original green design was inspired from.

Omnimaga website ancestor: Métranor

Version 1.0 (June 12th 2001)
In French. Probably the worst site design ever (background was animated and made everything unreadable). Had no index.html (main page was siteweb.htm), and only a section about Final Fantasy VII and another page for my old comic books (which was lost, so a replacement with barely any info was made). This site opened before I got my 1st calc and before Omni existed.
[no screenshot yet, as no backups nor Archive.org cache are available.]

Version 1.1 (December 24th 2003)
Now every page has the same design as the main page. To tell how much hard it is still to read, the background was a GIF with the text RPG in red looping through different fonts, with a blue background. It was nowhere as bad as the FFVII page, though.

Version 1.2 (January 14th 2004)
Site redesigned to be actually readable, now using the same background color as what Omni would use until September 2004. This was gonna become my calc site if I found a working link cable or computer, but I finally started a separate site in English instead then closed this one.



Main site

Version 0.1 (January 21st 2004)
Site under construction, which only had an ugly remake of the 2001 logo using the 2004 Omni text, as well as a link to the Reign of Legends 3 thread on MaxCoderz and by March 3rd a link to the then-new Omni forums.
[no screenshot yet, as no backups nor Archive.org cache are available]

Original Omnimaga forums (March 3rd 2004)
Hosted on yAronet and opened before Omnimaga was popular, that board only got 60 posts in half a year.


Version 1.0 (April 9th 2004)
First site version. Reviews section added in August. Forum closed on Sept 10th 2004 and replaced with EPS forums. Features calc RPGs and programming tools.


Version 1.1 (Sept 20th 2004)
This is from where the current Omni color scheme (as of November 2013) came from. This version added a list of the recent files added to the archives, kinda like ticalc.org


Version 1.2 (February 1st 2005)
Site re-opened after two months of downtime. Now has Casio and HP RPGs/tools. Minor redesign and some banner changes.


Version 2.0 (May 12th 2005)
HTML site replaced with Invisionfree portal and forums. File archives/links section/reviews now part of forums. Major redesign. After much demand in June, a full forum is then re-opened on Omni. Guestbook added


Version 2.0.1 (September 2005)
New background image made of stars.


Version 2.1 (October 2005)
Site redesign, adding gradients, using a different star background, but keeping a similar color scheme. This caused some people to not join Omni, though, because they found the contrast too high.


Version 2.5 (December 2005)
Yet another site re-design, chosen out of many others after a community vote. Same colors, but no more blue background. Spam section added to the forums. Programming team opened with separate download archives.


The Coders of Tomorrow (April 10th 2006)
By then, the site was supposed to close, but it re-opened due to high demand. However, wanting to restart from scratch, Omnimaga was simply renamed to "The Coders of Tomorrow" (the first idea was "Calctopia"), with the main URL becoming http://tcot.ath.cx/ , although old links still worked. The name change was scrapped due to Omnimaga revival requests from a few staff members, who also offered to help bringing back the RPG archives and make a new banner. The Coders of Tomorrow was retained as slogan since then.
[no screenshot yet, as no backups nor Archive.org cache are available.]

Version 3.0 (April 12th 2006)
After changing back to Omnimaga, the site had another re-design (based on the 2.5 one). This was the beginning of Omnimaga's "Dark Ages" within the TI community (ironically, the new forum design was a dark version of the previous one), which would eventually lead to its demise in 2008. Computer downloads added somewhere around 2007.


Temporary boards v0.1 (Janurary 2nd 2008)
Following disputes with TI community members from another IRC channel, as it became clear that most members and staff seemed to side with them, Omni closed again, although a temporary board was re-opened due to high demand from the remaining members. Only the music and the 2004-05 downloads were available (via a backup of the v1.2 site). Although this version opened on Jan 2nd 2008, it was only available worldwide on January 6th.


Temporary boards v0.2 (February 2008)
Since most members didn't want to post until the old site is back, when it became clear that the old site would never return and that Omni would not recover, it closed "for good" in March 4th 2008 and became solely an IRC channel. Nonetheless, beforehand Netham45 decided to create a temporary skin anyway, which gave a design similar to the v3 site.


Omnimaga goodbye page (March 3rd 2008)
All downloads remained available for at least one month after the closing. Afterward, only the music remained.


Omnimaga music page (August 2008)
By then, Omni was pretty much gonna become some sort of music label, with some calc discussion still occuring every now and then on IRC. Although Omnidancerecords.com was registered in October 2007, Omnimaga.org was finally used instead. Site now uses SMF instead of the impossible-to-backup Invisionfree.


Version 4.0 (August 25th 2008)
Resurrection of the site and forums as a calc/music site. Design inspired from the v3 color scheme, but less dark. Banner almost identical, but with removed version number and more blue.


Version 4.1 (January 2009)
Front page portal and arcade replaced, recent files added in archives now back on front page, but they would never get as detailled as they used to be in 2005.


Version 5.0 (February 2010)
Site returns to 2005 color scheme, but with less gray and more blue. OmnomIRC shoutbox added in April 2010. RPG downloads section closes in August 2010, replaced with new downloads section spanning every game genre. I removed myself from FTP access in February 2011 then resigned from my admin position in July 2011, although I am now news editor. In February 2012, the old Invisionfree/Zetaboards posts are merged into the current database.


Version 6.0 (July 2013)
Despite the very high version jump, only the banner changed, along with some minor theme edits. Technically, this should be 5.1, but since the theme chooser lists it as 6.0, I guess we have to call it 6.0


Version SMF 2.0 (March 2014)
Upgrade to SMF 2.0.x, theme change and removal of arcade. Currently unfinished, tho, so some features are missing. Social network login and forum ignore added, along with other minor features :P
[no screenshot yet, as the current theme is not final]

nuuu, now everybody can see that one omnomirc fail in the v6 screenie
I hoped nobody noticed....

nuuu, now everybody can see that one omnomirc fail in the v6 screenie
I hoped nobody noticed....

LOL, now you mention it I did.

Actually that still happens (sort-of). If your browser window isn't full screen then you resize it up, the chat isn't resized. Refreshing fixes it, however.

For the high version jump in the v6, I think we thought making an entierely new theme, but we only did the banner. I guess the new theme will be with the switch to SMF 2.

Now let's see how the rules elvolved over the time . Note that several versions/revisions might be missing, but you'll notice that the policies have always been remaining the same in overall over the years, although they might have been enforced more or less depending of the year (For example, there aren't any rule specific about BASIC/large RPG bashing now, but it would still fall under the "intolerance" category to a certain extent and earn yourself a few negative post ratings)

*There was no rule list in May 2005. Common sense was simply expected. Rules (and the resulting decade-long Omnimaga policies) were added following an incident on Calcgames forums so that I can ensure that there is still at least one hostility-free forum left in the TI community at any time. Also, back in the days, drug discussion was against the forum rules, but if you made a Drug Wars clone for calcs, you were badass, so you could go ahead and share.

**Signature rules added in response to that infamous psychedelic smiley sig and those signature shoutboxes (the latter which were used to circumvent Omni rules).

***The bad word filter added there was only because of that psychedelic sig person abusing profanity and because two staffs were apparently very (but not to a life-threatening extent) offended by profanity >.<. Regarding rule 5, back in the days there were 10 new TI forums opening every hour, most by people who did not even know how to turn ON a TI calculator yet, and they kept spamming their links on big forums.

****In 2008, the TI community was a war zone, which probably explains why Netham45 (who became admin at that time) wrote the rules in big red fonts http://s1.zetaboards.com/omnimaga/register/

Wow
Many cool
Very lol
Much 2015
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You gotta love how all the smileys on the negative boards are doubled