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At 1/9/06 01:09 PM, TomFulp wrote:

From now on, the user system won't involve pop-ups. We were receiving tons of complaints from people with pop-up blockers, not to mention the windows were small and made a lot of the interface cramped.

It'll be interesting to see how many complaints you get about the new format.
Personally, i prefer the multiple window format and since the windows can be
resized (at least with the browser i use) the fact that they are initialized small
is not an issue.

;These new full-page menus will integrate much better with some upcoming user features, such as the long-awaited private messaging system.

If you say so. I assume the PM system will have an opt out feature so that folks who
*don't* want to use it aren't bothered by pings from other users?

At 12/21/05 12:17 PM, Masteronin wrote: Just wishing everyone on Newgrounds a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.

Season's Greetings to you, too.

http://burningrivers...com/XmasCard05.html

At 12/5/05 01:56 PM, Tim wrote: Just made a change. Does the problem still exist?

-Tim

Nope. It's fixed now. Thanks.

The page folks can go to when they want to see which movies still need to have an icon made for them is broken--- instead of the name of the flash one sees a number and clicking the link on the number generates an error message:
" invalid id parameter. Go to Newgrounds!"

At 10/22/05 04:22 PM, TomFulp wrote:

Things have slowed down a bit with user-submitted icons. There are thousands of submissions on NG that lack 50x50 icons, so James developed a tool that allows anyone to log in and submit icons for approval! The list is prioritized based on upcoming birthday showcases.

The entry currently at the top of the list is:
http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/9956

but it looks like the author has removed that flash.
Might want to make that flash a lower priority.

At 9/30/05 09:07 AM, TomFulp wrote:

But enough about that... I'm getting married!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds like a number of nice things are happening in your life
now. Congrats.

At 9/20/05 03:16 PM, TomFulp wrote: Aleksander originally premiered Polsupah right here on Newgrounds, so it's great to see how far he has come.

Strange. Could have sworn i saw it first on another site.
I agree that it's a fine piece and deserves to win a prize.

At 9/7/05 07:06 PM, TomFulp wrote:

People often complain when the random user of the month isn't an active member on the Newgrounds forums.

Why would they complain? The pool of potential winners is the folks who vote on
flash and deposit their experience points.

At 6/2/05 09:00 PM, gfoxclock wrote:

At 6/2/05 09:49 AM, mortalcoil wrote:

At 6/1/05 09:44 PM, liljim wrote: Here's how it will work - voting will open at 9am on the first of every month.

I can imagine what Tom's April Fools joke is going to be like next year.

[...]

Tom did the NumaGrounds April Fools this year instead of making a joke related to the flash voting.

Yes, i know.

:What makes you think he'd ignore the opportunity to joke when the system was only 1 (or 2 months, depending on how you look at it) month old... if he was going to joke with it at all?

jonthomson understands what i was driving at, but apparently you don't.
It looks like you're reading more into my post than was actually written.
Whatever.

At 6/1/05 09:44 PM, liljim wrote:

Here's how it will work - voting will open at 9am on the first of every month.

I can imagine what Tom's April Fools joke is going to be like next year.

At 6/1/05 12:10 PM, EKRegulus wrote:

It was there.

Where? I looked up and down the list 2-3 times for it.

It was surprising and disappointing to see that "Bones" was not on the list of
movies/games in the montly vote. How about letting voters include a write-in candidate
when they vote on the best flash to have been submitted during the past
month?

At 4/1/05 10:38 AM, -Akula- wrote:

At 4/1/05 10:37 AM, Forte_EXE wrote: BAD!!! IDEA!!!

I should start a collection of you morons.

But do you think you could manage to collect the whole set?

At 4/1/05 12:57 AM, TomFulp wrote:

[...]

I hope everyone understands why we are taking this step. I hope you will take this step with us. Together we can make Numagrounds the site Newgrounds always aspired to be!!!

Of course, Tom. And a Happy 1st of April to you, too.

At 3/24/05 07:15 PM, Back_Door_Baron wrote: Hmmm.. I understand your need to alleviate the strain on your servers, but doesn't this make it seem like you are trying to benefit from a tragedy? Don't get me wrong-- I know that's not your modus opperandi, but do outsiders? The media can spin things however they want, and I'd just be a bit worried at how they might spin this.

If you see any online articles that make that insinuation, would you be so kind as to
respond to it, pointing out that if certain journalists hadn't mentioned NG in the first
place the staff of NG wouldn't have felt the need to do something to take the strain off
their database? Reasoned, polite responses like that make that potential "spin" do
a 180 and land back on their own crusty mugs.

I notice that the link on the NG frontpage that went to the
ecard collection is no longer there. Does that mean that the
collection is no longer available? IF it is available, does NG still
consider submissions to the collection?

At 2/16/05 10:11 PM, WadeFulp wrote: If you didn't hear my wife gave birth to our second child, an 8lbs 15oz boy, this month. So things have been a little crazy for me the past two weeks.

Congrats. Have you and your wife settled on a name yet?

At 1/5/05 09:13 AM, TomFulp wrote: I did a front page tune-up yesterday...

[...]

Has anyone noticed a difference? :)

It looks nice, Tom. I'm not sure i would have noticed if you hadn't
mentioned it, but yeah. It seems more organized somehow.

One thing i have noticed for quite some time that you might
want to change:

"The console version ships on November 16th! Play the original here!"

At this point that kinda implies that AH console version isn't
coming out for another ten months.

At 12/25/04 07:49 PM, Dobio wrote:

It's not like I fucking asked for one,

If you didn't ask for one, why did the giver
give one? Do you train?

The shape of the blade reminds me of a
naginata.

One of the things i've noticed when filling out info on the webpage
for submitting flash to the portal is that bit about how it's OK to
parody someone else's work but it's not OK to rip their artwork.
Fine. So for the purposes of creating flash to be submitted to
newgrounds, what determines whether a graphic was "ripped"
or not?

I ask, because recently there was a flash featured on the front
page. I won't go into the merits of "Theoden Horsemaster", but,
ya know, i really DOUBT that the person who made that was
present on the set when "Return of the King" was being filmed,
snapping his own digital pix to use to make a parody of that film.
He animated the stills, but he didn't make 'em. So at what point
is the line drawn between ripped artwork and artwork based on
someone else's stuff?

At 12/9/04 01:27 AM, minyatur wrote: The problem with the audio portal for me is that it's too troublesome to listen to the music. I have to download the zip file then unzip it, which is kinda a hassle.

I have that problem, too. It'd be helpful if the audio portal link for
listening to a file before downloading it worked for folks who use
browsers like Opera. Occasionally, if i'm desperate, i'll use IE to
browse the audio portal, but i really try to avoid using IE because
of the security problems and the fact that there have been a few
viruses lurking on the NG servers in the past.

Which browser do you use?

At 12/6/04 02:31 AM, WadeFulp wrote:

People will go to the Portal, see 5 under judgement Flash entries, right click on all 5 titles to open them in a new window, then go through and vote, vote, vote, as fast as they can, and never watch a single entry.

BTW, any chance something can be done about the person or
people who seem to do nothing but vote 0 in the audio portal?
I'm not expecting folks to give a 5 to a sound file they don't like,
but it doesn't seem reasonable to me to give a 0 to a file just
because the music isn't to their taste, either.

At 12/6/04 12:33 AM, FatherVenom wrote:

And for people who don't use the BBS? If you haven't noticed there's a lot of them.

A person doesn't have to rummage through the BBS to find
announcements like that; it's on the front page of the site (which
is where i saw it first).

At 11/26/04 09:59 AM, TomFulp wrote:

They are small changes, but what does everyone think?

Nice. Thanks.

At 11/4/04 11:43 AM, TomFulp wrote:

Comments?

Oh, look at all the potential whistle points.

At 10/20/04 08:06 PM, liljim wrote: Perhaps you didn't read what I wrote, or you haven't been to the Newgrounds Mag since we re-introduced it and listened to the audio jukebox that you can launch. I'm fully aware of how to set up that kind of thing, but I don't think you understand just how many people would be unhappy about waiting long periods of time just for the page to load, just for some audio that they might not even want to be listening to in the first place

Based on what you wrote, my impression was that the problem
would be that it would take forever and a day to load the audio
portal index page because of the sheer size of all the files
involved in such a scheme. My suggestion attempted to
alleviate that problem by having the swf select single files.
It only pulls up more files if the viewer lingers on the index page.

However, if even selecting one file bogs down the loading of
the index page, then i can see how that could be a problem,
especially for the dial-up users. Given that the page in its current
state is presenting sounds, specifically those authored by
ParagonX9, i did not suppose that this was the difficulty.

As for the jukbox in the NG mag: you're right, i've not been able
to see/play it. Perhaps the problem is that i'm using Opera as
my browser, as a number of links in the mag don't work for me
when i try them.

At 10/20/04 11:35 AM, liljim wrote:

It's something I already thought of, there's just one problem with that; the sounds that are currently loaded into the player are in pre-compressed swf files (that work out at about 60Kb a pop). As soon as you start thinking about loading in raw mp3 and wav files, you can add up to another 3+ Mb to that and that's just a ridiculous amount of load time on the end user.

But does all of the sound have to be stuffed into the swf file?
Here's something i slapped together this afternoon (when i
wasn't busy coughing my lungs out):

http://burningriverstudios.com/audiodemo.html

It plays 19 second samples of audio files, the names of which
are stored in an array; none of the tunes are in the swf file
per se. The samples are played in a pseudo random order
(a few more lines of code would eliminate playing the same
sample more than once in a row), and the array that lists the
tunes to choose from could be revised in the wee hours of the
morning when all the other maintenance scripts are running on
the NG site.

And the small interval of silence between tune samples isn't
necessarily a bad thing.

At 10/19/04 07:34 PM, Chronamut wrote: nice work on the audio portal - altho i am a little miffed that the audio logo ONLY plays paragon X9's music - as if he represents the entire audio portal - could you not at least make it cycle thru other popular artists or will it just be paragon's music forever?

Agreed. Since the (original) idea of the portal is to provide sound
files that flash artists can use, mebbe if it rotated through, say,
the top 10% of sound files (regardless of who made it), ranking
being determined by the number of times a sound file is used
in flash that can be found on newgrounds. Or something like
that.

Thanks for your work, Stamper.

At 10/13/04 08:42 PM, TWDarkflame wrote: I dought very much that this decision came from high up in the company.

Some complaints about websites don't appear to come from a
legitimate source at all: http://www.bof.nl/
For those who don't read Dutch, a native speaker comments on
the experiment: http://golb.org/

I don't know exactly *how* Tom was confronted, but if the
exchange was strictly by email it's possible he's been had.

At 10/11/04 04:17 PM, TomFulp wrote: A lot of times I fight this stuff, but in this case fuck it... If Lego doesn't appreciate their fans, then I don't want to promote their toys anyway.

Sounds like it's time for a flash parody. Ummm...are you
allowed to mention the name of the suit who sent you the letter?