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Its cool, thought now when i go on newgrounds on my phone it just disconnects me :S

At 5/28/09 03:19 PM, Eliminate wrote: Its cool, thought now when i go on newgrounds on my phone it just disconnects me :S

Buy a new Fone and crank up it's Awesome a bit. What is your awesome set to now??
I've been running Over 9000 for years. I think I was using 8999 or w/e back in 2000 or earlier

This is awesome! With the darker screen thing I can finally feel like I'm at the cinema! YAY POPCORN

Oh, yay. I like the classic mode better. I don't know, I just didn't like the wide layout, it was too much for me. It's still really glitchy for me, I hope you guys will fix this, but the whole page still feels really buggy.

so you can click moive or games so you can't click "watch a moive!" or "play a game!" so is update can you watch or play is atuomadiede!

i like the autoplay. Sounds good to me!

At 5/28/09 03:01 PM, WadeFulp wrote: Then buy a larger monitor and crank up your resolution! What is your resolution set to now?

I've been running 1600x1200 for years. I think I was using 1280x960 (or whatever) back in 2000 or earlier.

What minimum resolution are you aiming for? My monitor maxes out at 1920x1080 so it's not a problem I'm just curious.

At 5/28/09 02:19 PM, mohawkorz wrote: it doesnt show me that i get the medals, even i unlocked them ingame. when i restart the page they are still locked.
even if i turn off the internet and go back then they arent there.

The exact same thing is happening to me, i've tried all methods i can think of (refreshing, meeting the criteria for earning them in fullscreen pop-up and normal, turning off the internet and turning it back on, and turning off the computer and turning it back on) but nothing works! Please, can someone help me?

I just quickly made this in like 10 mins :P medals really should be added to the menu. . . also this is supposed to fit the wide layout.

The new wide layout is OK, but I'll stick to the classic, thanks. The main reason I don't like this new look is because of the "You might also enjoy" panel being right next to the flash. This seems too distracting and may cause viewers to click away from your flash before voting or reviewing the work...so thumbs down on that one. It would be more beneficial for the Author info to go next to the flash instead, that's just my opinion...
But other than that everything else seems to work fine with this design.

Sounds swell.
Thank you Tom for the update.

Well, while I'm still not a huge fan of the wide-ness in general, I'm happy Classic mode is an option, and since you're still working on the layout, hopefully most of the bugs will get worked out. Thanks bunches! :]

When I choose "classic" in the drop down menu for the layout, there is no 'SAVE CHANGES' button? However, there are plenty of 'SAVE CHANGES' buttons for the wide layout, not my concern though.

Perhaps it's just me or my lowsey browser.

At 5/27/09 07:16 PM, TomFulp wrote: PsychoGoldfish just launched the first update to the wide view page.

You can now access this handy dandy form to set your view page preferences!

YES!!1 Thank you PsychoGoldfish!! Now I can view me movies the way I like em!~

OH YES OLDIE STYLE IS BACK!!!!!!! cheers Psycogoldfish and Tom and the rest of you guys!!!

At 5/28/09 04:48 PM, TomFulp wrote:

Stamper is saving the pretty for the redesign, so you get the "classic Tom" for now.

So the "terribly done one"?

Gotcha!

One thing I find kind of annoying with the new layout is the lack of ability to control the movie.

With the old layout I could easily close the window and the movie would stop. Now there is no way for me to stop a movie (that doesnt have a pause button) without having to click a link or close the tab I'm using.

Not a huge gripe but it does change how I have to view movies though... like I probably wouldn't click on questionable quality movies to vote on unless they have a certain grade.

Just a few requests for the widescreen mode.

I was wondering if you could bring back the "add to favorites" button. Also, some of the more Hi-Def flashes get too big for the screen when they're enlarged. I was hoping that you could add some sort of size-limiter on the enlarger. Just a thought.

awesome design, awesome features, I'm really speechless...
the only thing bad with it is when I open a couple of movies, my browser starts lagging... if you could perhaps make the player a little lighter...
good luck

I love the new wide layout, my computer would always freeze when I accidentally scroll while playing flash, but this is great! I would like the badges to be visible while playing the flash, like on the side. The banner gets kind of messed up to, it needs to be expanded. Love the new preferances too!

The top glow along the sides of the header disappear too.

Update #2? You can now hide games.

That "Hide movie" was quick....Thanks guys
Awaiting the redesign =D

At 5/27/09 08:49 PM, liljim wrote:

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.

Oh, Jim. Not even sound same.

Like the new wide layout... noticed one thing though - the 'Dim' option above and to the right of the play pane, when activated, disables the play button,

I can die happy now.

At 5/28/09 09:14 AM, TomFulp wrote: We aren't changing the layout for widescreen monitors. NG's current layout was made for 800x600, when just about every website nowadays is made for 1024. Our layout is getting smaller and smaller on most computers, not just people who have widescreen monitors. We would have gone wide with the last redesign but that redesign started in 2005 and there were still enough 800x600 users that we didn't want to alienate. Nowadays, the whole web is geared at 1024 and we're behind the times.

Tom, thanks for the personalized response. I currently use the web "standard" of 1024 and I agree that making the change would be for the best.

At 5/28/09 03:49 PM, WadeFulp wrote:

At 5/28/09 03:13 PM, DumbassDude wrote:

At 5/28/09 03:01 PM, WadeFulp wrote: Then buy a larger monitor and crank up your resolution!

Not everyone can afford a new monitor or is willing to buy one just so a websites appearance looks slimmer.

Any monitor that is less than 10 years old should be capable of displaying NG properly. Some people may just need to up the resolution setting.

I can, I just don't want to - I don't like using any resolution bigger than 800x600 unless absolutely forced to. Most websites still look fine at that resolution. Youtube videos fill up most of the screen, and Newgrounds animations look a lot bigger too, without the need to stretch them bigger than what they were meant to be seen at.

For example, my own Flash submission "One Quiet Winter Night" uses exclusively bitmap images, so it looks bad when stretched out - it is only meant to be seen at the correct resolution. It actually would be nice if there were a way to PREVENT users from seeing it in any resolution other than the proper one, because I don't really want it to look all pixelated...

The new "wider" Newgrounds isn't too horrible, because there are two basic halves to the screen. The really annoying thing is when forums are set to a wider resolution and force me to scroll sideways to read every single post. The NG forums currently aren't "forced widescreen", but I guess this will change also, unfortunately...

Again, I think that the percentage of people accessing websites from smaller internet-capable devices is going to keep increasing, which will likely mean websites shrinking their resolution once again to meet demand... so I do think that this widescreen thing is only a temporary trend, and the pendulum is already swinging the other way again (much like how the pendulum has swung from high-resolution audio to easy-to-store mp3s).

By the way, one tip that I WAS hoping Newgrounds would take from Youtube is their subscriptions system.

It's nice that you added RSS feeds a while ago, but the truth is that it's still very inconvenient for someone who wants to follow several dozen artists. I don't want to have dozens of separate RSS feeds clogging up my client - I'd like all of my Newgrounds RSS subscriptions to be in one place. To try and fix the problem, I combined several dozen Newgrounds RSS feeds into one with RSSmix.com, but this was a time-consuming process and I am unable to edit the resulting feed (either to add new artists or to remove artists).

Another thing I was hoping for is making audio portal voting count as NG experience points (I think this could substantially boost participation there, which is currently pathetic - each new crappy Flash submission receives at least 200 votes and at least 10 reviews, whereas new audio submissions are lucky to receive one review and a few votes). That, and having a "judgment period" for audio submissions would be nice.

So... I guess I'm of the mind that functional change is a lot more important than cosmetic change. And you've added a lot of nice functional changes over the past few months (i.e. revenue), but there are some problems that have been around for a long time that have not been fixed...