The TI forum activity stats archival project (2002-present)

[Dream of Omnimaga]

The worst was ticalc.org comments, though. The most notable example at the time was the TI Keyboard news, which had like 800 comments of almost just randomness. But also, some forums like CalcHaven, Tama-Team and Espace-TI had an high concentration of forum games and low relevant content. Same for Omnimaga, late 2006 and most of 2007. I kinda wish that CH did not switch to a new forum 5 times, though, because they had quite a lot of potential to last longer. They should have stuck with the Invisionfree forum they started with and point their domain name there.

Revsoft is also another site that had quite a lot of potential. There were some questionable decisions in early 2009 about a troublesome user, who almost completely destroyed their fanbase, but after a one year lull or so, they started reviving and seemed to head in the right direction. Unfortunately, their hosting shut down with no trace of the provider nor their data. They also lost their domain name in the process, because they were no longer able to reach the owner to point it to a new site. So Revsoft was down for 4 months until they decided to restart everything from scratch at http://revsoft.tifreakware.net without the referencing from other sites (including large blogs) that linked to revsoft.org . Fortunately, the remaining staff overall didn't give up, but most people don't even know that they still exist.

The problem with most other sites of that size is that most TI community members stick around for 2 years at most, so if they start their own forum, they will often vanish off the face of the earth and abandon the forums without telling members that it's closing and to go elsewhere.

[Unicorn]

Didn't ticalc also have a bunch of flame wars!

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Yeah, during the TI-Files vs Ticalc.org rivalry in the 90's, in particular. BASIC vs ASM flame wars were also quite common until 2005 or so.

[Snektron]

A forum with discussions isn't really a problem. But flame wars are just bad.
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ASM wins

* Cumred_Snektron runs

(note: this was a joke, i don't actually want to start a flamewar )

[TheMachine02]

I really didn't understand how could flame wars start/even exist. I mean, of course every language are different, each other have their specification, advantage/disadvantage. We can't really say  one language is better than another. But yeah, seing 'old topic, it seems that it goes pretty far.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

It has something to do with the intolerance or elitism of certain human beings and on the Internet, they usually gather in groups at forums where they don't risk getting banned for it.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

TODO:

-Add Time to Team (yN)
-Forum TI-83+ (Ftp83plus hosted on yAronet)
-Frost Fusion Games
-TIFT (yN)
-TI International Forum (yN)
-ETP Studios (yN)
-Shadow Phoenix forums (hello83)
-Nerdy Productions (I think they had a forums too)
-The TI Programmers Union
-Basic Revolution (http://s9.invisionfree.com/basicrev/index.php?act=idx) by CDI
-MyTI.net (still up at http://myti.phpbb.net/ )

That's of course if Archive.org still even has any cached stats. It's possible that the latter two are still online, though.

[Unicorn]

Cool!

Also cumred: Ruby tumphs alll!!!!!!@ mwahahahaha! So don't even try

[Snektron]

u wot m8. i swer on me mum i will hit u rite in the gabber u cheeky fekker

[Unicorn]

Wats a fekker? some kind of animal? also, ASM sux like snakes.

Ok, dnoughfaking

[alexgt]

Wats a fekker? some kind of animal? also, ASM sux like snakes.

Ok, dnoughfaking

[spoiler=Urban dictionary sooo...]http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fekker[/spoiler]

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Let's cut down on the spam, please.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

UPDATE:

I added 4 yAronet boards to the list, but I can't find 2007 stats for Time to Team, since they temporarily lost a massive amount of posts that year it seems, then when they retrieved them, the total was lower than 2006.

EDIT: Added TI-Programmers Union, MyTI and Ftp83plus to the list. There are now 60 forums in the list!

[Unicorn]

Cool! Also, alex I was just messing arounfd its pretty easy to understand.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

On a side note, I think that future versions of the chart will gray out 0-post years so that it's easier to see which forum had any life in it on a given year. I initially thought about just omitting those years and adding RIP after a site shut down, but that got too confusing.

Also Michaelv.org is another site I forgot to add, but finally won't be added, because it is not available on archive.org