-When did you first learn about Newgrounds?

Some 5-6 years ago.

-What do you most enjoy about the site?

Submitting my games and watching the page on auto-refresh until 5am to see my daily placing (usually to be beaten by hentai at the last minute).

-Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?

In a day? Nothing probably, but some suggestions in general:

Redesign the whole site to wide view, the inconsistency annoys me. Make us of this on the main page with 100x100 icons.

Add some kind of friends system, not turn NG into a social networking site, but sometimes I want to save users for PMing (the buddy system isn't effective for this as it was designed for collabing).

Change the Flash controls from Flash to JavaScript, I use FlashBlock and find it annoyingly pointless to have to allow it every time I want to maximize a movie.

-Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)

The Alpha's section, I think its still there but it was broken last time I tried. Bring it back and update it to a full beta testing platform for games, as well as being extremely useful this would increase the overall quality of Newgrounds content if everyone started using it to properly test and improve their work.

I chose a good day to submit XD

Happy birthday! Wish I could've stayed in London an extra today to join the celebrations, hope you guys have a good time there.

You can claim my bed if you haven't already!

At 6/18/09 09:04 PM, Tarnal wrote: Awesome! I hope it doesnt just turn into a porn portal...

I hope it does turn into a porn portal.

Just a small suggestion about the header, I think its confusing that Games, Movies, Collections and Series are part of the Flash section of the site but separate on the menu?

Maybe it could be arranged liked in the picture below. I know the icons look kinda crap, they're just placeholders, I'd imagine they' be more like indentations.

Feel free to bash this idea. Just a thought.

Working again now, buts whats this about:

Movie Earnings: £0.96
My Earnings: £0.00

This is a solo project! Who's getting my money?!

Anyone else getting this?

Mine's been dead since yesterday. I think the China stuff made it break!

At 1/26/09 12:01 PM, Mogly wrote:

At 1/25/09 09:13 PM, Luis wrote: I'll probably mention it on my next front page post, but there will be an Amsterdam meet in the first weekend of March.. i may be in london for a day just to say hi.

also, SO IMMATURE

Haha brilliant picture. The best expression is Mark (ChromeShark) and James (JPI), Mark looks confused but in awe of JPI's failed attempt to express excitement. Also looks like they may be hugging.

Lol I think this needs explanation - just before this was taken I nearly fell off the podium and grabbed James for support. NOT HUGGING.

;I'll probably mention it on my next front page post, but there will be an Amsterdam meet in the first weekend of March.. i may be in london for a day just to say hi.

I'd think about going to Amsterdam for a meetup, this will probably by in the middle of Uni for me though : /

At 1/23/09 09:46 AM, Cally wrote: I'm up for anywhere accessible as the venue for the next meet.
As it's probably August, though, has anyone considered any coastal venues? If we're looking for somewhere more northern/central, Blackpool might be a winner.

Blackpool sounds like a great idea for the next meetup. Lots of touristy things to do, B&Bs to stay cheap, places to go out at night etc..

Brightons a pretty good coastal place too, but probly too far out the way for most people.

At 1/22/09 02:04 PM, Luis wrote: lmao i just spit out my drink at that photo on the last page. Tom is a good breakdancer... sort of.

At any rate, I've been thinking and it would be refreshing to have a non-london meetup ... so the next meet wont be in london... itll either be Birmingham or Leeds. I'll have to flip a coin... its boring to do London two times a year anyway.

Might be a smaller group but who cares... two years ago London was only like 12 people.

I live in Birmingham so would be pretty handy for me. If people are coming from abroad it'll be pretty underwhelming compared to London though.

Can't think of anywhere here as good as Namco for the main meet in the day, there's an arcade but its a lot smaller (not sure if its even open any more).

At 1/13/09 11:14 AM, Grammer wrote: Facebook, Twitter, Digg - all just passing crazes like Myspace was. Not getting into that social networking crap anymore.

Facebook will be #1 for at least a few years. Getting on the Facebook train sooner rather than later is a good idea.

Anyway the meet, will be there again : D The magnitude of this one scares me, I hope Namco can accommodate the masses of Tom's followers that'll be coming.

Never mind its been approved now. God knows how the admin approved it without even seeing it though...

I'm stuck with this too, my game is 'awaiting approval', but how will it get approved if I haven't uploaded it anywhere?

I dont want to submit to the Flash portal before the ads are working as I'll be losing potential revenue!

Moved my Flash to the top for the hell of it, just cause I can : p

But I think this update is more problematic than helpful. Now when we want to look at a users News/Flash/Whatever we have to search around for it rather than it being where we'd expect.

I'm nitpicking, its an improvement, just not a very necessary one. Being able to choice which Flashes and Favorites to show would be a much more useful feature, hope this is something you've got in the works.

Seems that Gravity 2 was stolen so its a 4th place underserved. I left a bloody long review for it too > : (

This is one high scoring day, games getting over 3.5 and not even making top 10, unfortunate.

My Reindeer Crusher didn't stand a chance : (

The new favicon is great, the old one always looked too squidged up. I think it was still the old tank too.

Doubt we'll get a news posr for such a minor update (hence me posting my comments here) but maybe this is part of a bigger site update? Hope we can choose the submissions shown on our pages soon.

Ok thanks, they should put some kind of Under Construction thing on the Alpha submission page so people don't take the time to fill it in to find it won't work.

I've been trying to submit an alpha for days but every time I click submit I get sent to a blank page.

Is anyone aware of a problem with the Alphas section atm?

I should go through the whole site and give detailed thoughts on every aspect of the new design, but i got too excited and had to post now!

The new look is amazing, really really amazing.

The user pages are fantastic too. I feared a MySpace rip-off, but I think it's a great feature that works well with the site. Going to go play about with mine in a minute!

Love how voting on Flashes stays on the same page. Also like the way Flashes open in the same page (how is that done???), although often while a Flash was loading I'd open the Flash portal link in a new tab and start finding the next submission to look at, which wont be possible any more. I'll just have to get in the habit of keeping the Portal open in a separate tab.

I was hoping you'd have dropped the 'most recent review' feature.. instead there's now two! This is a bit better as if the most recent one was crap at least the one before might be alright, more a balanced opinion. But still, I'd have prefered just a review summary on the submission page (e.g the last 5 review headlines and the average score).

I am having one MAJOR problem, dont know if I'm alone on it (cause i'm not wasting time reading through everyone elses posts when there's new stuff to check out). I'm stuck on 'Checking Login Status'.. can't access my account at all. Needs fixing pretty urgently unless i'm alone on it.

But in all, it's great. Newgrounds went from 2002 to 2007 in a day (ok I know you've been working on this far longer than a day, but you get my point). Congrats to everyone involved.

At 4/26/07 10:43 AM, Tafari-dh wrote: by the sounds of it, this new flash cs3 has it going on!
i just hope actionscript 3 isn't too different from as2

It is very different going by what I read. Looked like a completely new language. All for the best I'm sure...

I'm really liking the sound of Flash CS3, a while back people were complaining cause they thought the only new feature was AS3, but some of those other new features sound fantastic. I'll definitely be upgrading...after I finish of the stack of half-finished games I've got going on in 8.

Stating the bloody obvious here but isn't it kinda dumb calling it CS3 when there's no CS1 or CS2. They should've just thought up a new name for the whole package (eg Flash CX, Photoshop CX etc).

Thought I might as well take this chance to practice with my new tablet. Took me so long somebody already submitted something similar : /

Kinda hard to read the smaller machines with the resize, they are; sushi, mustard, kittens, coke, mini submarines, smoothies and custard.

First time I've fallen for one of your April Fools jokes (Numagrounds ALMOST got me). Can't believe I didn't see this coming, congrats.

I spend ages choosing my top entries, and when I submit I get this:

"Error - parameter mismatch."

Not doing all that again, count me out for the vote this month.

Wow thanks so much for putting Bit Crusher in the webcam category! Right at the top too ^_^

Hm I can't say I mind just yet, but I may wish to change my name in the future (as this is my third incarnation). I'd like that option to stay.

Maybe this has been suggested already (a LOT of posts to read through here) but could everyone have a separate Display Name and Username? The username could be used for the URL and logging in, and is permanent. The display name would be changeable and appears by submissions, BBS posts and such. Initially everyones display name and user name would be the same by default, but the Display name can be changed when the user wishes.

I think it would be a bad move to make names permanent because that would lead to many people having multiple accounts when then wish for a new name, which would get very confusing.

At 10/27/06 09:50 AM, Auz wrote: Both were submitted pretty late on the 25th and probably didn´t have enough votes (or didn´t even passed judgemend) that day. So they didn´t qualify and they got their awards the day after.... I think

Ahh yeh thanks for clearing that up for me.

Congrats to all the winners ^^

Is there something wrong here? BR's Climate Chaos and Black Sheep Acres were submitted on the 25th, this is the top submissions for the 26th.

Maybe I've just forgoteen how this things works :: )

I think the limit raise is a good idea, bandwidth speeds are rocketting (soon we'll be seeing standard sizes up in GBs) so the 5mb is not as necessary as it was. This'll mean more room for Swift 3d and a good music selection.

Thanks for the replies. Kirupa looks like it might be worth checking.

I wouldn't want to post a beta here at Newgrounds, I think it'd be an open invitation to steal the game (my beta is encrypted, but that can easily be removed with SW Decompler).