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Oh wait, it's back up again. Weird...

I see the front page grid of hot games/movies has been improved with title and description+genre. Nice!! I really wanted that.

And I like the new NG style. I think I've already gotten used to it. However some people seem to complain about it... it's kinda like when Wikipedia changed the look (they had an option to customize it per user, but I don't think that fits in here, unless there are plans for adding site customization options)

I'm missing a short description for the games in the front page (or at least tags/stars or something like that).

Also, I'd like the front page to be customizable. Would this be possible? Like, I'd prefer to see more games and less movies. Also be able to select a different frontpaging algorithm, so I can decide whether I prefer new or popular games? Sometimes the front page gets stuck with the same games for weeks and doesn't change them.

*sees new Newgrounds*

Newgrounds is up today? Booooo.

At 1/14/12 05:58 AM, Valio wrote: Has the NG staff considered to participate in a blackout strike as was suggested by Reddit or by that loose conglomerate with Google, Wikipedia and other giants?

I was about to propose that too. Tomorrow Internet is going to suck, but well.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-573485 11-281/godaddy-accused-of-interfering-wi th-anti-sopa-exodus/ win!
Tom, is Newgrounds domain in GoDaddy?
...apparently it's in "register.com", then never mind.

Relevant:
http://static.thepiratebay.org/dreamwork s_response.txt
Complaint mail sent from DreamWorks to The Pirate Bay, and their response. Read it. Quite fun.

At 12/20/11 03:12 PM, Perry wrote: First off I like how you are thinking. We could all use proxys to get around it.

OpenNIC is not a proxy (those are too slow), it's an open DNS server. If the only thing that gets blocked is the domain name and not the IP, then I guess using a different DNS that doesn't get affected by US law (and I guess OpenNIC is one of those) would be a nice way to get around this issue.
Even if the .com domain name gets banned, imagine the possibilities of having a newgrounds.geek or newgrounds.bbs domain name!

Block your domain name, essentially shutting off your site to the US.

This probably wouldn't affect people using things like OpenNIC (as long as they don't also ban IP addresses). However it would be a total pain in the net.

Block your search engine listings.

Google doesn't do this for pages that advertise themselves via forum spam or that sell fake merchandising pretending to be an official page, so it would be pretty stupid and pointless (but far from unbelievable) that they started doing this now.

Block your advertisers and payment processors.

Well, this would really suck.

shutdown notices directly to our bandwidth provider

The only solution around this would be to buy a server on a foreign country.

If your website has even one piece of infringing material (such as an unlicensed picture on a user page), this material could be used as an excuse to:

Well, I bet YouTube and Google Images have zillions of these (unnoticed), and I doubt a company would directly sue them for this. Sadly, you're not YouTube, so...

Why promote the wares of a massive consolidated industry when you can support individuals working alongside you on NG?

A very nice point of view, why be subject to licenses when you can actually get cool stuff for free (legally), helping freelance people with little resources or fame to get in the industry? The problem is that I'm afraid big companies will find a way to claim those open-licensed products are illegal because blah blah fallacy blah, or make things hard for them.

Am I being too pessimistic?

What are you looking for? The real joke is in your hands!

What format does ORGTone use? Maybe you need to do something like File - Export to get an actual song.

You all know that
* katana.webmaster.com
* glass.webmaster.com
* irc.webchat.org
are on the same IRC network, do you?