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At 8/27/13 02:58 PM, TomFulp wrote:
The REALLY COOL IMPROVEMENT is that games and movies can now get SAVED ahead of schedule

As I recall the number of votes required before a submission passed or failed judgment was at one point increased because certain crews were coordinating among their members to vote a submission as good and worth keeping even if it was of poor quality. Glad to see that this apparently is no longer an issue to deal with.

At 6/2/10 02:28 PM, TomFulp wrote: Our Flash submit and edit forms now REQUIRE thumbnail submissions (GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, etc.) and the new size is 140 pixels wide by 90 pixels tall. These new sizes will go public in a future update, when we feel enough submissions are being properly represented.

Our system will create a temporary 46x46 thumbnail for new submissions and existing 46x46 icons will remain in use until the big change takes effect.

OK...so will iconhelper.php accept 140x90 icons? There's not much point in people continuing to donate their time to make 46x46 icons, afterall. I can accept that the hundreds of icons I've made in the past on a volunteer basis are going to be trashed but will not bother to make more that I know are ultimately destined for the bit-bucket.

At 5/30/09 03:11 PM, BurningRiverStudio wrote: pop-up option does not work for me. I use Opera version 9.52--would that have anything to do with it?

Okaaay....now it works.

pop-up option does not work for me. I use Opera version 9.52--would that have anything to do with it?

At 12/25/08 10:05 AM, TomFulp wrote: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

To you, also.

What did everyone get for Christmas?

Turkish delight. Four boxes of the stuff.
Also, a novel by one of my favorite authors, a couple of gift cards, some very nice tea and a couple of new teapots.

At 12/3/07 06:55 PM, TomFulp wrote: So how does everyone like the icy winter layout by JohnnyUtah?

It's niiiiiiiiice.

At 11/14/07 04:31 PM, TomFulp wrote:

The bunny ear antennas create a mesh network, where you can share items with other laptops in the area, and if somewhere along the chain of laptops someone is picking up wireless internet (in a school, for example), the internet gets spread across the mesh network.

Along with trojans and other malware. I hope those laptops come with software that keeps
them from becoming somebody's zombie.

There is also software for drawing, programming, making music, writing, web browsing, calculating, gaming, etc.

Any mention in the literature as to what access they'll have to anti-viral updates?

We are already planning to make a second donation so that we can get two laptops in the office, and test out the networking and sharing capabilities!

I'd be interested in here the results of those tests.

At 9/28/07 04:02 PM, TomFulp wrote:

One by one, the leftovers from the redesign launch are falling into place!

That's good, Tom.

Here's something else that needs to be addressed:
If a flash without an icon has a link on its page that invites a user to make an icon for that flash, it would be really nice if it actually facilitated the uploading of an icon for THAT FLASH. As it is, the link just sends a person to the wish list, and the given flash may or may not be on that list at the present time.

To make it clear what i'm writing about consider this flash:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/39 0720

It has no icon, but neither is it seen on the webpage that lists the flash in need of icons at the present time. If a user wants to contribute an icon for *that* flash, he/she is SOL because there's no way to upload the icon for that flash the way the pages are currently coded.

At 9/10/07 01:17 AM, supyohos123 wrote:

At 9/10/07 01:11 AM, TomFulp wrote:
What I didn't want to admit was... It was pretty decent. Ok, it was good.

Oh God! Newgrounds users DON'T PANIC! Stay calm and pretend nobody heard that.

Heard what? ;-b

At 7/26/07 09:59 AM, hektur wrote: Morale of the story is never delete iTunes because it will kick your ass.

Actually, it sounds like the moral of the story is to avoid iTunes altogether for being
the plague that it is.

At 7/19/07 06:44 PM, TJ wrote: PM Bob? What exactly are Stamper and JohnnyUtah doing?

Are you sure you really want to know?

At 6/14/07 07:57 PM, TomFulp wrote:

I just can't express how GOOD it feels to read that in a major publication. I've always hoped WIRED would wake up one day and write something like this, but it's starting to feel like I'll need to hire a PR team to get their attention.

Why would you give a flying fig about WIRED? Judging from the articles i've seen there,
the editorial staff and/or the reporters who write for them take a short bus to work.

Meanwhile, new ideas keep bubbling up every day. I don't know what to do about it so I just get mad about it and loath myself.

Some things take time, Tom. Keep plugging away and it should turn out alright.

At 5/23/07 02:37 PM, JohnnyUtah wrote:

btw a very tan Tom Fulp has nearly returned.

Nearly returned? You make it sound like there are pieces of him
that still haven't gotten back from his honeymoon yet.

Did you mean "newly" perhaps?

At 4/2/07 10:19 AM, TomFulp wrote:

What's really sad is that I redesigned the header to look like a generic web 2.0 header, but people actually liked it more than the regular header, so now we need to debate black buttons amongst ourselves. I guess there's a reason why the web 2.0 trends exist.

The gradient on the orange buttons is nice, whereas the black buttons looked kinda flat.
Now, black buttons with a gradient to give them a sheen effect...that would be really good.
But whatever. I'm not terribly fussy about that sort of thing myself.

Though i do think Tagalog would look really good on those buttons for a day or even for just
an hour or two.

At 4/1/07 09:46 AM, TomFulp wrote: I'm sure you have all noticed by now that we FINALLY LAUNCHED THE LONG AWAITED REDESIGN!

Maybe this time next year you could give us all a wow by having everything written in
Tagalog or Chinese. Heck, even pig latin would be a nice change of pace for a day.

At 4/1/07 11:31 AM, rockymike wrote: lol, the subtlety is killer.
I love the people who haven't figured it out before posting.
McNewgrounds still my personal favorite though.

Has anyone noticed that in the BBS we are all listed as site administrators?

Yeah, you'll find the admin controls in the "secrets" section of your profile.
Take a look...they're cool.

At 4/1/07 09:51 AM, Siggles wrote: Tom, that is the suckiest April Fools joke ever

Well, if you have a better idea, perhaps you'd like to share it with him
sometime during the next 11.5 months.

At 12/25/06 08:40 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 12/25/06 07:26 AM, liljim wrote: What did you guys get?

Bagpipes. Straight up. Mother-fucking bagpipes. :)

Well, if that's what you wanted, that's great.
You'll have to make a recording of your playing and share it with us sometime.

At 12/25/06 07:26 AM, liljim wrote:

All that aside, did you all have a good Christmas? I hope so! What did you guys get?

It's been ok so far. I got a wacom 6x8 tablet which is nice. It's kinda ironic though, since
i had pretty much resigned myself to manipulating graphics with a mouse and i've gotten
better at it.

At 12/1/06 05:06 PM, TomFulp wrote: We've made a bunch of Angry Face t-shirts and will be selling them for a limited test period! If you're interested, GO BUY ONE!

Tom, i'm not sure how best to say this but....
that expression on your face makes me want
to laugh.

At 11/7/06 09:55 PM, liljim wrote:

Let's not forget what a user page is supposed to be. It's supposed to be a user's page.

Questions: Does this pending user's page replace the personal profile page that currently
exists? If it's something that is in addition to the personal profile page, will users have the
option of *not* having a personalized user's page here on NG, or is it going to be some
sort of auto-generated boiler-plate page which users can later modify?

If folks have the option of holding off on creating a user page until they're comfortable
with locking themselves into a particular nym/URL that might be a good thing. Also, folks
with a net presence elsewhere might not particularly want yet-another-page-to-maintain
here at NG.

You're right that names have a stickiness to them and that people are slow to learn to
associate new names with people, and certainly it's in the interests of the popular artist to
keep the name he/she is best known by, but for folks who have a fan base that can be
counted on one hand with some digits left over (like me), i would think it better to have the
option of re-making one's own image. People also tend to expect certain things from artists
based on their names, so sometimes being able to change the name helps the potentially
interested audience find the flash it would be interested in watching/playing with.

At 11/6/06 08:26 PM, TomFulp wrote:

The question is... Do we allow users to change their names at this point? If you change your name, you are essentially changing your URL, meaning all existing links to your page will become dead links.

I wasn't aware we had the option of changing our nyms in the first place. Heh.
As far as the problem of deadlinks go, is it really such a problem? Yeah, people outside
of NG who link to specific pages at the NG site might find it a royal bother, but the person
most hurt by something like that is the person who would change hir nym on a frequent basis.
Unless, of course, you're suggesting that there are NG members who are such jerks that
they'd flip names just for the twisted joy of creating dead links so as to give the NG servers
busy work.

I suppose if you and liljim (or whoever codes for the site) wanted to be extra nice to people
outside of NG it might be possible to write a script that keeps track of nym changes and
redirects to the appropriate page when someone uses an outdated URL. My experience with
a site that does not allow nym changes is that when a person really wants to change hir nym
the person creates a new account and either migrates the old material to the new account
or simply abandons the old account. Would that create less or more mess for NG than
finding a way to allow folks to still change their nyms?

And thanks for the headsup. I'll give some thought to it as i'm kinda tired of the nym i
currently use here.

At 10/11/06 04:26 PM, TomFulp wrote: It doesn't seem like anyone is really looking at the individual scores and they aren't being put to use elsewhere, so we're leaning towards just having the single OVERALL score. Instead of dealing with seven dropdown boxes, you can just write your review and pick a single number between 1 and 10 to represent your final opinion.

Thoughts?

The individual scores can help a person decide what it is that needs the most
improvement when he/she makes another flash. It can also help to underscore
that it is that reviewers really liked about a given flash. I've noticed that the
written portion of reviews often are not very helpful in that respect-- many reviews
are "that rocked" or "that sucked", and in the latter case often without really
making any effort to explain what the reviewer thinks needs to be improved.

At 6/17/06 04:04 PM, TitanAura wrote:

This isn't just to save his house, it's to shut down *ssholes who do what they want.

OK. But how would this "shut down" people in the loan biz who don't play nice?
If they're demanding the money all at once and get it, they're still getting the money.

At 4/1/06 01:20 AM, TomFulp wrote: GLENSIDE, April 1 -- Newgrounds.com, Inc. today announced the acquisition of popular comedy portal, I-Mockery.com. Thomas Fulp, president of Newgrounds.com, obtained approval from investors to purchase I-Mockery and rebrand it as I-Grounds, the Newgrounds comedy portal.

You're getting better at this. Sweet.

p.s. And a jolly April greetings to you, too.

At 1/23/06 12:51 AM, DanPaladin wrote: I tend to use iambic pentameter instead of the Alexandrine -- which sounds odd in English, which is more abbreviated than French anyway.

[...]

YOU HEAR ME? I WILL: ABOVE BETWEEN AROUND ABOVE YOUR ASS UNTIL _________
i need you to fill in the blanks guys

I'm kinda busy, but if i have a free moment i'll try to cook something up in a rondel[1] for ya.

[1]rondel = a french form of poetry

At 1/15/06 01:06 PM, Sanjay wrote:

At 1/15/06 01:04 PM, Sanjay wrote: I had the same problem not too long ago.

Chexk to see if you have Flash Player version 8, otherwise the panel might not load (if you are a Firefox user)

Whatever the problem was, it seems to be fixed now.

At 1/15/06 01:11 PM, Chasethebase wrote: ahhhhhhhh.....ok, i get it now...sort of

I've had a similar experience with a few
movies in the past. It is kinda weird.

At 1/15/06 01:06 PM, Sanjay wrote:

At 1/15/06 01:04 PM, Sanjay wrote: I had the same problem not too long ago.

Chexk to see if you have Flash Player version 8, otherwise the panel might not load (if you are a Firefox user)

Forgot to add, voting seems to work alright in Internet Explorer, if yo dont mind the 30,000 pop-up ads that get in the way before you make it to the Newgrounds Portal.

I've been using Opera (i hate IE) and voting worked fine when i voted on some
stuff in the portal this morning. It stopped working when i tried to vote on some flash
on the list of stuff that needs icons made.

As of a minute or two ago, it looks like the voting panel for voting on flash has been disabled. Is it being worked on at the moment?