We're glad you came by, but you might find what you're looking for elsewhere.
TI-Basic Developer is not the site it once was. While its information on commands and other calculator features remains almost second-to-none, its forum, archives, and even hosting service, Wikidot, have been decaying for years. The calculator community would love to see what you're working on, or help you in your next coding adventure, but TI-Basic Developer is no longer the place to do it.
Instead, you should head over to Cemetech (primarily American) or TI-Planet (primarily international). Both are active, well-established forums with their own archives, chatrooms, reference material, and abundant coding tools and resources. We'll see you there, we hope.
Date: 03 Jul 2025 03:19
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As a lot of you have noticed, you have probably realized that this website hasn't been active in quite some time. Now that I can't say the same for every user on here, but if you're wondering why nobody really discusses anything (at least users who have been on here for a long time) have moved on and taken their chapters in their life and focus on more important things.
You could go back less than 10 years ago and see that the activity was a lot higher than it is now. It's been quite a while since then, and this website has grown. So have it's users. It's always amazing to have new members register and join the Wiki to ask questions, submit programs for the archives, post answers to problems. I have watched this community grow and get where it is today, and it's astounding of the achievements that it's made.
But unfortunately just like everything in life, not everything is made to last. As of the last few years, Wikidot has gone downhill for a while and it's not what it used to be. Take searching the wiki or uploading programs to the archive for example, there are notorious problems and have been there for years. Many people have messaged the team about it being fixed, to no avail. In addition to that, wikidot is growing insecure since it wants users to cough up money to use HTTPS protocols to use their website, when majority of places nowadays use that for free.
While it isn't necessarily wrong to continue using this website as a place for asking questions for problems, I would recommend visiting Cemetech. It has an active community and is maintained more than Ti-Basic Developer and you would definitely see a decrease in time to get responses to your comments and posts then you would here.
Don't let this discourage you from posting here, but I've noticed some of you have posted questions awaiting answers and unfortunately I don't think those questions will ever be answered. I'm not saying I'm going to go around to every question out there and answer them right now, but I'm just saying that you would probably have a better experience with Cemetech. Everybody is absolutely amazing over there, and it's a definitely fun community to dip your toes in and collaborate with other members there and see what it has to offer.
I also want to point out that this website isn't going down anytime soon as far as I know, but what I do know is that Wikidot is slowly moving to another platform, I'm not sure when and I also don't know how it will affect this wiki here. I'm not going anywhere as there is no reason to, but I just wanted to post this because I believe it would provide a better alternative for new users to communicate and reach out to the calculator dev community regarding your questions and programs.
Well I'm kind of late to the party to say this and have the courage to admit this, but I'm the same person as TI-Basic Dude, GatoradeDC, BioHazard1282, and other relative usernames that relate to those I've mentioned. It's been quite a few years since that drama has happened, I've grown as a person since then and I take full responsibility of my actions that I have done long ago and I sincerely apologize to the community here for what I've done, I apologize for evading bans and creating alternative accounts to communicate on this platform when I wasn't wanted here. I recognize my actions and I understand that they have been extremely disruptive and upsetting for certain users. During that time I haven't obtained full maturity during those years as I was an early-mid middle school/junior high. I promise nothing like that will happen again, I'm not sure if any of you are active just see this message, but I just want to put this out there I'm sorry for what I did and I hope that there aren't any hard feelings. All of you have tolerated me for a long time and I still regret pushing you to your limits with my behavior. Thank you for your time and your volunteering to keep this community healthy and active, you all have put in countless hours of work to maintain TI-Basic Developer to what it is today, and for that I am greatful as I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for you.
As for them administrators of this website, I have done my best to go over the rules to make sure that this post doesn't break any of them. If any of you have questions, feel free to message me here or send me a private message.
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This is a sentiment that a lot of us have been feeling for years, and it's good to finally put it into a statement. TI-Basic Developer did its job and did it well for years, but is now well and truly dead, in all relevant manners of speaking. As a semi-moderator and probably one of the last active staff that still pops in now and again, I would like to second all of naga's impersonal points.
Some efforts to save TI-BD's content from the decay of Wikidot were started about a year ago, and some have bore fruit.
- The TI-Toolkit group (of which I am a co-owner) now maintains a machine- and human-friendly tokens wiki, with much of its content derived from TI-BD pages (with all due attribution included). There is also something of a mirror over at learn.cemetech.net, though I would like to talk with the Cemetech admins about making that subdomain a more "proper" resource.
- Speaking of Cemetech, as naga mentioned, it is surely the best place for you to head for calculator discussion and help requests, with an active forum and IRC/Discord chat. Its archives are a near superset of the TI-BD archives, as many authors tended to upload their programs in multiple places, Cemetech being a prominent one. Another great forum, particularly for the international crowd, is TI-Planet.
- As for the pages not strictly about specific commands, such as the Starter Kit, that may take more time. I can't say much, as there's been little motion since an attempt to export the pages using Wikidot's internal systems over a year ago. Its content would likely end up in a static GitHub site.
If I had the perms to plaster this message on the home page itself, I would. Do feel free to continue to use TI-BD as you had or intended to, or even prove us wrong, but if you need help or want to meet fellow enthusiasts in any timely manner, this is simply not the place anymore. Thank you all for stopping by and making for a great site. I'll be seeing your elsewhere I hope.
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As somebody who has been around for 24 years, I have seen many websites come and go, and when services or websites stop being maintained, it takes around two years and then they disappear, and a lot of past calculator websites haven't been archived on the Wayback Machine. I think it would be better for the TI community if the content of this wiki was transfered over to another place, such as Awesome TI Docs on Github or Cemetech wikis.
I know there were past efforts at content preservation by Cemetech, but it was at a time when this website was still thriving so it never really made it through. Today is completely different, with chances to see Wikidot disappear at any moment, and I think that either the Cemetech wiki or the Awesome TI Docs would be a nice place for TI-BASIC documentation, as long as it's searchable. A standalone URL and website is also fine as long as it's maintained.
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I'd also like to point out that TI-BD has a sister site called TI-Story, about the history of the TI community, that would be nice to preserve in my opinion. https://tistory.wikidot.com
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Awesome edits that were made to the home page. To help encourage users to move to Cemetech, would it be a viable decision to make the threads read-only?
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I think they can certainly be made read-only, but I'll give others some time to chime in before fully committing to that. What I have done in the meantime is disabled the creation of new threads (existing threads can still be commented on, however)
Maybe the edit should also be on the forum front page and the main site page at http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/ ? At first it took me ages to find it.
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