yeah vistaprint is good to make/sell merch, but i dont know if its free tho

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on June 05, 2016, 07:18:23 AM
Well 2K was pretty standard for a TI forum at the time, but if you mean the decrease, then yes it was drastic.

yeah, if you want to keep a community active you need to keep it active by being active too, youtube at first , no one uploaded, so the developers from youtube uploaded videos themselfes so people would do too.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on June 04, 2016, 03:49:13 PM
Yeah, when I lost internet access in Feb 2007, Omnimaga went from 2000+ posts per month to 700 in just a month span. That said, when Dudeman313 went less active here a few weeks ago it did not impact activity that much (although perhaps it did nullify a potential increase).

thats alot of posts :o

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on June 04, 2016, 05:12:25 PM
Congrats. Always feel free to ask for help in the development and support sections or showcase your stuff in the future

sometimes i ask for help but i feel like im bothering others with the overload of errors i have , but if we release something, i will post on here

this is my 150th post

the black one is nice! (the others are too)

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on June 03, 2016, 06:37:32 PM
Yeah. I personally would have an hard time without Internet for that long, plus it would suck for CW activity >.<

yeah you are the most active person on this website :p

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on June 03, 2016, 04:19:31 PM
Aah ok, I was wondering because that seemed like an unusually long trip. At least it's not one of those LDS Mormon Church missionary trip where you are not allowes to use Internet for 2 years straight, though.

2 years without internet? thats hell on earth right there

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on June 02, 2016, 05:51:15 PM
You could upload them at img.omnimaga.org unless the new site will take months to be public, in which case it's up to you if you want to create hype too early or not. We can give suggestions on design/layout, though.

yeah, currently i'm the only one developing the system because Ben is in thailand,  this is going to take some months for sure, but it really depends how advanced we are going to make it.  I will screenshot  if i have something more to show then just the layout

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on June 02, 2016, 05:14:33 PM
Do you think you'll have some screenshots early?

i have some yeah, should i upload them? just a screenshot from the layout we might use

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on June 02, 2016, 05:00:10 PM
SOmething to keep in mind though is that if your blog suddenly becomes very popular due to certain type of video games, then that alone can bring in trolls, so it's up to you to decide how to enforce rules. On Omnimaga when nDoom got featured  it brought in a massive influx of spammy or troublesome users from hardcore gaming news sites and eventually we had to instate temporary modified rule enforcement to fend them off (although we would probably not have gotten to do it if certain people who were not involved in the first place got involved and constantly tried to force us to run our site the way they run theirs. The latter was like if they tried using oil to extinguish the fire or to keep it alive while we tried extinguish it.

But at first you are probably not gonna get comments much, so it's best to focus on content and showcasing your content elsewhere (like here) to increase traffic.

yeah i know, we actually have some plans for that, but first we are going to focus on development, then we are going to focus on how we are going to run things, but i can't tell much now, but i can tell you that we are making good progress, i'm so excited about this project

Quote from: alexgt on May 31, 2016, 05:58:38 AM
Sounds awesome! I frequent velocity quite a bit now I have almost beaten the record for platformer game lvl.1

i'm glad to hear that , does the platformer still works tho? we recently did some changes and it glitches sometimes, but i hope we fixed it.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on May 30, 2016, 08:54:50 PM
I hope you keep the old posts or convert them to blog topics with comments. I think it might be a good move to move away from forums, though. I might be biased since I run a forum but a lot of smaller sites that starts side by side with larger ones tend to not have an high level of activity, so the move to a blog to showcase people projects and such things might help making it stand out. The tag thing is something I wanted to implement on CW but we would still keep the forum system (just that it would work closer to PICO-8 forums rather than a traditional bulletin board, and we would keep the bulletin board system in place as an option for people who don't like the new system).

As for the random stranger thing, yeah it's a good move to not go full Omegle, else get ready for massive troll influxes. >.<

Yeah there are going to be alot of trollers out there, i think we are going to keep the forums up as a read only mode.

This is going to be a fun adventure of programming, i'm excited to work on this project.

Thanks for mentioning Velocitygames and the kind words

Velocity Games is changing

During the next few months, we will be working on updating parts of our website.

At first, most of the changes will be invisible, internal changes. When all the internal parts are ready, then we will start adding new features based on them.

Since most of the new features are still in a planning phase, we prefer to keep the details secret for now. If everything goes as planned, then this should make our site into a more unique experience that can be used for more than just a platform on which we share the games we make.

Unfortunately, working on the website can cause it to be less stable. We'll still try our best to keep downtimes at a minimum, but if something does get messed up, then at least you know what caused it.

We'll keep you guys updated once the new features are ready.