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I'm disappointed, Tom.

2100 followers? Is that right? Hm :)

At 9/18/14 10:50 PM, jeim wrote: To be perfectly honest, it is just not the same. The original NG search is better, it is more specific on what you are looking for on Newgrounds, therefore more organized. It should stay as is. The new search option could be secondary to search Newgrounds content via Google if you are not sure what something is called, or to search your username, but not the primary search option. The original should stay as it.

The main problem with this new search is that the original drop-down button for choosing to search for games, movies, art here is missing and you do not get to choose what kind of content you are looking for.

Are you serious? Some filters would be nice, but how often do you really search for "Ninja Tortulez 3" in something like Google only to be disappointed that the third result is a game, not the original movie.

I think this is a reasonable complaint for filtering purposes, but in practice, entirely bogus with a good enough search engine. The main reason a good search engine would want to filter/separate content is to display results differently. Ex: Google Search vs Google Image Search, and of course filter further, but with a good enough search engine, the results are already "filtered" in the sense that the top results are most-likely to be what you want.

At 9/18/14 02:05 PM, WahyaRanger wrote: Searched "beating a hobo"
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/399726
Was disappointed.

No, but in all seriousness, The title of that Flash doesn't have the word hobo or anything in it, but it's still the subject matter. Point being the search was still relevant.

I know some sites have Google-powered searches, but you can stay on the site and isn't redirected. Is it going to be like that eventually?

If you switch over to the "Images" search tab with that query, you get this image:
http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/15781000/ngbbs47df09893f44a.jpg

Enjoy your hobos!
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:newgrounds.com+beating+a+hobo&safe=off&rlz=1C1EODB_enUS566US566&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=9h4bVMmACJCLyASIjoGYBg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=809

At 9/18/14 01:55 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 9/18/14 01:52 PM, DBuck-Eye wrote: Above all else, I love the unified search. I hate having to choose between the things I'm searching for, which is particularly not useful if you only have a vague idea of what you're searching for. Would it be that hard to return all movie and game and user and forum and art and etc. results or is that a serious resource drain?

It's something we could do but it would take a major rewrite of the search, which has already been a time consuming process multiple times in the past... Which is why either Google or integrating a pre-made solution would be best at this point.

What do you guys do with your search? I know you're a larger website, but I've built pretty darned effective searches using C# and LINQ in a matter of hours/days. Adding some steps to cache and index results is probably what I would want to do next. Thankfully, I was also using LINQ + Entity Framework (an ORM), which already performed some level of results caching.

I just worry that integration with another tool would be just as much work. But hey, there's probably a ton of "serious" search concerns that "real" search engines take care of, that I haven't ever had to implement. (Thumbnails, summary descriptions, statistical ranking/weighing of results and scores, etc.)

Hey, dude.
Is there any way you guys could be convinced to update the NG search functionality? I've had some frustrations with it.
$elling Point ($$$)
$$$$
Good search, rather than buttons/UI, is the #1 piece of functionality I see requested these days. I write web applications for a living, and I am surprised to find out how much even our smaller clients value search.
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As a use case scenario, a game I played recently was "Return to Tolagal".
- Searching for the exact title gives exactly one result, which isn't too bad of thing, and it's at least what I wanted.
- Searching for "Return to" gives me the following list of games:
1) Mastermind: WC
2) Abobo's Big Adventure
3) Cave of No Return
4) endeaver
5) cantankerousTANK
6) Sik Trix BMX
7) Tattoo Artist
8) Music Catch 2
9) Gamma Bros
10) Return of the Squid
11) Dark's Return
12) Return of Papulatus
13) Chronotron
14) REDDER
15) Paradox Embrace
16) Fragger
17) Return Of The Snowmen
18) Seedling
19) Return to Tolagal

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You remember that email, Tom? Well, a Google search for "Return To" gives "Return to Tolagal" as the FIRST result.

Searching for "The Hippo Song" gives "Noodles on my Back" (What I wanted) as the THIRD result.

Searching for artists, ex: "Oney" gives me their profiles, just as I expect.

Already, much better than what I think is a really crappy NG search bar :)

But I do wonder sometimes why using a monster like Google is necessary for giving decent search results. Ffs, I can't say I'm impressed that you couldn't even search for artists in the typical NG search, or that even a simple typo (bad because movies are often named "artistically" aka purposely misspelled) would omit what you're looking for from search results.

If I had searched for "return ot" in the usual NG search, I'd never find what I want.

Whereas a simple multi-threaded word-by-word search and a scoring system for results based on a prioritization filter could do the job. Of course, it'd also be computationally expensive! So maybe something statistical that does indexing is really what you want :) I won't judge.

I'm just passionate about the idea of this place having a decent search engine.
And it just doesn't have one.

• 
  Clicker Heroes by playsaurus

  An epic Clicker/Idle game with great production quality, graphics, and sound effects.

  Score

  4.27 / 5.00

  Type

  Game

  Popularity

  200,869 Views

  Rated

  Everyone

Wow, 200,000 views.

Well, at least I can re-apply now.

:: Even more frustrating, we could actually get ad revenue from those ads if we attached it to our Adsense but Google kicked us off Adsense years ago and is being COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE with ever giving us another go... Which is also why we have no future with a YouTube channel at the moment.

I do not friggen understand this at all.

It is very, very easy to make a mistake with AdSense at some point. (I did it by applying and not being able to prove ownership of a pre-existing site.) They didn't even have the option to re-apply last I checked.

Can't like, you bother someone on Twitter about that? Twitter seems to get people replies.

Also, I get that Google's search is cool and all, but what is so hard about writing a custom search filter?

I see you listened to my advice about the search bar!

At 8/5/14 12:05 PM, TheAdventMaster wrote: I love the high self-esteem in this post!
Tom Fulp, I am glad you are my friend! :)

On another note, Tom, how many monthly views with a loading screen ad only would I need if I wanted to make a couple hundred dollars a month off of NG?

I can make games on the weekends, but I currently make around $4k / mo doing web applications. I don't like starting things I can't finish. I need to know posting stuff to NG is worth it.

I love the high self-esteem in this post!
Tom Fulp, I am glad you are my friend! :)

At 6/19/14 04:10 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 6/19/14 03:44 PM, TheAdventMaster wrote: If they can get $10 / minute, they'll hit the exact $1150 they need!

$452 to go! I'll bet they hit that in the next 20 minutes and have 60 minutes left for bonus.

Well congratu-fricken lations. Enjoy paying taxes on that Kickstarter money.

And that "Please include only the quoted text that is relevant to blah blah blah" popup dialog is so annoying, and offensive. Nitpicking here, but all of the quoted text is relevant.

You know, Tom. I hate to say it, but I could complain about Newgrounds all day.

Sorry that requires you to have tough skin. The fact is, I really enjoy Newgrounds' existence. I am changing the response mood of my post to something happy and silly to demonstrate my love.

Wow. Beasts Fury is within $1150 of completing with less than 2 hours left. This would make anyone anxious! The fear that you'd get so close but not make it in the end...

If they can get $10 / minute, they'll hit the exact $1150 they need!

Good. I think it's fine so far. Looks mobile-friendly. Clean, simple text. It's always nice to iterate between adding more glamour/flair and stepping back to simplify and streamline things.

Serious performance boosts on my end. Animated movies actually load now.

1. Open a website just like Newgrounds that's censored. Get better sponsors. Maybe give me a place that's like Newgrounds where I don't have to see gradually-looks-more-like-porn ads all over the site.

2. Use that money to fund Newgrounds. Censor nothing.

3. ??? (not really. nothing goes here.)

4. Win!

Will you guys ever let people search in multiple categories at once?

Will you ever display inexact results so that users who make typos or who can't recall the exact name of something will still get results when they search?

I've had so much trouble using NG's search. Assuming someone knows exactly what they're looking for, it works just fine. If you assume that, though, there's no need for a search utility... Then again, I've been using NG for a long time and occasionally want to find a 5+ year old game or movie I have long-since forgotten the spelling of.

Removing the colors makes the content pop, but it also makes the site look really boring and the extra padding/margins around elements seem pointless.

I don't think Newgrounds needs to have the typical slick/modern, tile-based layout as every other site but I really hope someone at NG has time to just play around and prototype this stuff.

UX/UI is the #1 priority of a site which already has content-related stuff going for it. Not saying it should receive the most time invested into it, but there should be a day a week, or a few hours every now and then where someone sits down and talks about/prototypes new layouts or sections + the themes.

With modern web tools, that stuff isn't really hard.

I'm not sure how difficult the site would be to modify to adapt it to layout changes. I recommend just making something work and then learning, over time, the best way to refactor difficult code. Sometimes, rewriting very small portions at a time and using new code, slowly fading out old code (ex: replacing only one instance of old code, rather than all similar instances and seeing how that works) is all you can do.

At 5/26/13 02:11 AM, BenjaminTibbetts wrote:

At 5/24/13 06:28 PM, TomFulp wrote:
I'll just let my emoticon do the talking.

Don't get down, Tom; obviously evil-dog is already so famous that 1) only seven people hadn't heard of him and 2) everyone else has bad taste.

Yeah, ignore me. I was being a jerk.

WOW! Evil-dog now has 8007 fans!

NG News posts are obviously read by a TON of people who pay a LOT of attention to what's written in them!!!

Tom will you be my friend?

... :3

At 9/21/12 06:25 PM, Aslemn wrote: Well, I tried. D:

Reminds me of Braid.

It brings me a dark, cold kind of joy to see the majority of Newgrounds' professional-level Flash developers avoid this thread like the plague, while those who probably fall well short of satisfying the competition's requirements are flocking to it.

What a fine paradox...

That's so good for them :3

At 8/20/12 05:53 PM, PsychoGoldfish wrote:

At 8/20/12 05:35 PM, TomFulp wrote: BTW everyone thank PsychoGoldfish!

but send all complaints to JohhnyUtah

But of course.

Seedling was great gobbles of fun.

I actually want a sequel. I want more of the world. More about the tree. More about the Oracle. More everything Seedling.

Not a lot of games make you beg for more like Seedling does.

At 6/28/12 09:40 PM, kj29 wrote: A much better run cycle, I maybe up all night working on this one.

This is a serious improvement. Good job.

I seem to notice an oddity in the running itself, though. The way the right (closest to camera) leg suddenly pops forward in the cycle seems a little off.

At 6/27/12 09:23 PM, colonbackslash wrote:
looks better colored !

ASH_CATCHTHEM

I agree.

At 6/27/12 10:31 PM, colonbackslash wrote: Yeah but wouldn't that slow the action down? I kinda have it at the speed I was looking for. Any advice on how to add frames without slowing the action down?

I have some. If in-between frames and fiddling with the frame rate doesn't make sense, try experimenting with "ghosted" movements. Think about how manga/comic artists create action out of still images. They're under the ultimate animation constraint - they can't actually animate.

So they project.