At 6/28/09 09:38 PM, gt44coder wrote: Someone hacked my account and uploaded a video of the Jackson 5 for the MJ Tribute that is currently on the front page. I have deleted the SWF and reuploaded the old one, but it says that it will take 24 - 48 hours?! How the hell did this happen? And, why in God's name is my flash still in the frontpage?! Where are the damn ADMINS OF THIS SITE!?

What, what and what. Likelihood is that you had a crap password and someone guessed it... and accessed your account that way.

As for the time it might take for one of us to clear it.... we don't work weekends as a rule (yet I'm here).

At 6/28/09 12:49 PM, Gateau wrote: Actually in areas of England, they DO take euros... Also the United Kingdom is capitalist, and most of Europe is aswell.

I've lived there all 31 years of my life and never seen a place in England that's taken Euros. Please enlighten us as to the places where we might find that kind of thing. Currency exchange places don't count.

I think you mean bandwidth. And we're only pumping out just over half of what we can at the moment. The problem's probably at your end.

At 6/28/09 12:55 AM, Igotaname13 wrote:

At 6/28/09 12:25 AM, liljim wrote: Visual aid. Times are in Eastern time.

You edited your last post didnt you?

No.

At 6/28/09 12:26 AM, TheFaces wrote:

At 6/28/09 12:25 AM, liljim wrote: Visual aid. Times are in Eastern time.

So if I read that chart correctly. Some time between 2:00pm-6:00pm???

Correct. It's a little different at weekends, given that people aren't at work/school. The peaks are more evenly spread during that time.

Visual aid. Times are in Eastern time.

It's actually done with javascript, not flash.

At 6/26/09 03:06 PM, sucho wrote: i doubt the under 16 yrs percentage is that low for newgrounds, but this survey only reflects the hardcore users of newgrounds who actually have the motivation to fill out surveys. regardless, i'm sure the gender ratio is totally off. there's no way that there are 4% females on newgrounds. COME ON. THAT MANY??

Actually, you contradict your own theory. The ratio of females should be higher - it's just that the hardcore male fans tend to be the ones that fill out these surveys.

At 6/22/09 03:33 PM, FBIpolux wrote: http://tomsdad.newgrounds.com/

Is this actually Tom and Wade's dad?

Yes.

At 6/20/09 02:32 AM, JarrodK wrote: Those money questions are flawed if you specified your country as UK, Germany, Australia or Canada. I'm not going to use a US$ converter to answer a survey. But I did the best I could.

For future reference: xe.com. Only takes a couple of seconds to punch in an amount in the currency of your country, then have it converted to another currency.

At 6/20/09 02:17 AM, absent wrote: But man, that was my first time every meeting Internet people in real life. I felt so freaking awkward for a while, and as a result felt like such a creep kinda just standing around the Newgrounds booth. Luckily, I fit in a little better as time went on.

You didn't come across as a creep at all, you should have just made it clear who you were from the get-go.

This convention was the first I've ever been to and I was kind of intimidated by it, but the point about the NG booth is that it's supposed to be as laid back as it can be, so it's a case of turning up for as little, or as long, as you like, and just introducing yourself from the start - something I failed to do. :)

I might be misunderstanding your question... but once you have something like winrar, you open the first in the sequence, and the rest will open and extract as they go.

At 6/11/09 12:21 PM, henke37 wrote: It's inefficient, will do the parsing twice, and is often disabled due to most of the time, it's only used to exploit other people.

I didn't say it was a practical thing to do, I was just disputing those who said you can't do it.

I think that this issue is now completely resolved - let me know if it's to the contrary.

Can I just say that ignoring issues like this isn't the prudent thing to do - if there's a glitch on the site, it's always unintentional. It surprises me how many people find it easy enough to post a comment about issues on the BBS, who then never follow it up with a message to one of us (even a link to a thread is sufficient). I keep saying this, but we can't be expected to follow every single bbs thread in an attempt to track down bugs - we just wouldn't get anything done in the day if that were the case.

I'm not talking about the OP here, who did exactly the right thing by making contact, but in general. It's not like we're gonna snap your heads off if you report something, even if it turns out to be a false alarm.

You can use full URLs (in 4.3.0 +) if allow_url_fopen is enabled, though of course, the information in the page is already parsed at that point.

Thanks for letting me know. PsychoGoldfish has gone ahead and shored that up.

At 6/9/09 10:06 AM, wismty wrote: There is an option on the main menu to do that, James ;)

I'll admit I missed that, but I actually meant as you're in the game itself - I got to level 9 and got tired of hearing the same music... I'd rather have a hotkey, like 'M' or (even 'P' to pause) to toggle the menu up or something like that, so I could turn things off and on as I want to, without interrupting the game or having to restart it.

That's a great game! You should have the option to toggle music and sound on/off, though.

Quick and simple example for http://rss.ngfiles.com/dailytop5.xml :

<?php

$rss = new SimpleXMLElement(file_get_contents('http://rss.ngfiles.com/dailytop5.xml'));

// print_r($rss) to see details of the feed and how you might go about accessing the
// parts you're after
foreach($rss->channel->item as $item) {
	// entify these as necessary
	echo $item->title . "\n";
	echo $item->description . "\n";
}

?>

When you include something like www.newgrounds.com, the markup for that is parsed after you have posted and converts it to:

<a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/">www.ne wgrounds.com</a>, more than doubling what you had originally typed.

Also, characters like " and & are converted to their html equivelants, like &quot; and &amp;. Again, this happens as your post is parsed, rather than as you type it.

At 5/27/09 08:40 PM, Wonchop wrote:

At 5/27/09 08:39 PM, ThoArtNoobish wrote: Omfg look @ my screen i cant change it
can u tell me wtf happend it

The options disappear when Classic is selected cos they don't apply to Classic. Simples.

Haha, you're quoting that compare the market ad? "Sergei already have nervous meltdown (he already have worms)."

Anyone else not knowing what the hell I'm on about: http://www.comparethemeerkat.com/my-movi es

Though I can't promise that the URL will retain the same movie I'm talking about.

At 5/27/09 07:12 PM, JeremysFilms wrote: Plus, you're now copying other site ideas which defeats what we all love about NG.

Um... you do realise that Newgrounds used to put content in the pages originally? Like back in 2000-2001. Thought not.

At 5/27/09 12:16 PM, Jdisasoldier wrote: For anyone with a graphic design background like myself, the new layout just makes you cringe.

Has it ever occured to you that the "wide layout" is a works in progress? Of course not, someone who has such a swollen inferiority complex as you wouldn't even have contemplated that.

Eventually, each of the elements of the page will fill the width of the inner part of the page. It is not possible to do that without going all out on that for every section of the site, which we did with the redesign and it very nearly burned us all out.

And I saw someone mention how NG didn't really consult the user base before the change at all.

We base what we work on from solid facts - trends we see in statistics, something the userbase is not privvy to (though they tend to speculate upon it regularly enough, taking heresy for fact).

Well, I'm sure it'll all be driven by the money sources and not by the people who have just came here for years to enjoy what all of the artists are doing for them as media consumers.

You have completely misunderstood the point of all of this. Most people who come to this site come to watch flash, or listen to music. The fanbase does not equal the majority of people who come here on a daily basis, who watch the content, but couldn't give a monkeys about who created it, stats, etc. They get to the site, watch the content, then leave. Simple as that. If they have to get to the page, click something to get the content going, etc, this hinders what they were here to do in the first place.

THE most important thing about each of the content pages is that it delivers the content to the audience. And what we've done here makes that far more efficient than it was before. This actually will benefit authors more, too, because anyone who's patient enough to sit through submissions will also be likely to find out more about who created it. There is no evidence against changes we've made in the past to suggest otherwise.

At 5/26/09 08:48 PM, EARIO wrote: With ABP the blank boxes where the ads are supposed to be block some of the review text/the whistle panel, heres a pic to prove it. i hope you can fix it

So wait.... You come to a site that's funded by ads, block those ads and then expect that site to expend its resources on finding workarounds to accommodate your habits? I sincerely hope you're joking.

At 5/26/09 08:34 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: 1. "Pop Out" doesn't work for me (running safari 4 beta)

I brought this up with Goldfish the other day. Apparently, Safari doesn't do as other browsers do - where, when a popup is attempted to be opened, it doesn't give you any notification about it. It just doesn't do it, period. Unless we missed something, which is possible, it's been a frantic few days.

At 5/26/09 08:32 PM, statueofdiveo wrote: But.... theres no ratings! What If I stumble on one of stamper's collabs? Will i know there will be barfy pornography? no!

If you didn't fully read Tom's post, please do. However, I'll say this:

the suggested content is kinda skewed at the moment, but it's being updated as I write this up (it'll take a few hours). Eventually, all suggested content will be of the same type and suitability - so if you land on a game that's suitable for everyone, the suggested content that falls to the right or below what you're playing will be of the same suitability (and will be games, rather than a mixture of games and movies)... thus negating the reason for putting suitability against the suggested content.

Furthermore, "shock" flashes that are inappropriately categorised are unlikely to show up in any of those lists in the first place.

In other words, don't worry about it too much.

If you enjoyed that, and haven't seen the Green Mile, that's worth a shot, too. It's also based on a Stephen King novel and based around life on death row in prison.

At 5/21/09 05:37 PM, HandsomePete wrote: They have proms in England?

Yes. Though they probably differ from what you're used to. At the age scuzzfest is, that would the end of school leaving party, which, like he mentioned (at least when I was at school) is more like a glorified disco.

If you go on to further education, there are other proms, too, which are probably more along the lines of what you guys get up to... minus prom Queens, dancing, and all that stuff and more concentrated around food and booze. At least, that was my experience of it all.

If you're signed up to receive daily e-mails/weekly e-mails and you're not getting them, the first place to look is in your junk mail. That's your problem, not ours, since we do all we can to make sure we're not blacklisted and that the e-mails follow convention.

I feel dirty thinking this, but they'd be perfect for a funeral!

What are they made out of?