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Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 06:43:28 Reply

Ive noticed not very many blams anymore, today there was 5 and a few years ago there were hundreds. It seems like no one updates anymore, or as much as they used to.


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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 07:11:26 Reply

r.i.p newgrounds

Is newgrounds dead?


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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 08:06:59 Reply

Honestly, flash games are a dying breed of video game. The overall "feel" of flash games has shifted almost entirely to IOS/Android phones and devices. It's more convenient, as phones and tablets can go ANYWHERE. Flash video's are also finding a place on YouTube. People get PAYED for their content on youtube. The difference here is that on newgrounds the opportunities to make money are limited, while youtube and phones offer quite a bit of wiggle room for earning cash.

Newgrounds won't actually "die", but i see a shift of focus in the near future.


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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 08:55:10 Reply

Newgrounds is not dead, you're dead.


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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 08:55:13 Reply

'negroundz is died'

'no'


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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 10:14:46 Reply

it already died, but were bringing her back from the dead!


Death cures a fool

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 10:15:25 Reply

www.newgrounds.com

Still works.

So no.


Still a world famous superstar.

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 10:21:20 Reply

At 11/5/12 10:15 AM, Dobio wrote: www.newgrounds.com

Still works.

So no.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/newgrounds.com


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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 10:25:05 Reply

At 11/5/12 06:43 AM, PlatformSource wrote: Ive noticed not very many blams anymore, today there was 5 and a few years ago there were hundreds. It seems like no one updates anymore, or as much as they used to.

maybe we need to remove unoriginal / effortless & spam submissions
by voting 0 on them

provide newbies with constructive criticism
tell them why there shit is shit

offer more rewards to good content producers

nurture those who have potential to be good

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 10:28:51 Reply

At 11/5/12 10:25 AM, straberrykiler6789 wrote: provide newbies with constructive criticism
tell them why there shit is shit

like everyone else i forgot to mention how they can improve
and what parts i didn't like/why

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 10:54:06 Reply

yeh


:'(

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 11:18:46 Reply

R.i.p.e.n.i.s.T.o.m.F.u.l.p.e.n.i.s.

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 15:58:33 Reply

Too many threads about Newgrounds is dying. I like this place... it's fun to just post when you are bored and watch flash cartoons! :)

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 16:57:52 Reply

Newgrounds is dead? Uh shut up! No its not....

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 17:05:53 Reply

I'm not saying the redesign killed newgrounds, but the redesign overkilled the fucking shit out of newgrounds

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 17:06:35 Reply

Nah, it's far from dead.


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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 17:07:11 Reply

Posting on a "dead" website, cannot compute.

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 17:30:06 Reply

Ok, this is the eighth time I've seen this type of thread on this website (and I've been posting since yesterday!). Is there nothing else to talk about other than the fact that this cite is dead? Who the fuck cares, we are still here bitching and complaining about life and how we coexist with everything else. FUCK!

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 18:08:50 Reply

Allow me to provide a visual demonstration.

Is newgrounds dead?

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 18:19:06 Reply

It starts with the community and ends with the lacktherof.

Newgrounds is built upon foundations of potential and imagination.

What good is potential if it's not exercised?

What good is imagination if it's cast aside for something easier?

It starts with us. We are the Everything. We are the Everyone.

Fuckin' pride. If you ain't satisfied with something, you ain't doing it right...get pumped, get your friends involved...you got facebook, google +, a CELL PHONE, go network the shit out of content you support. And if that content doesn't exist, than let's make it. I'm tired of the same old dance...the NG staff bust their asses off giving this place a sweet new layout. Let's make something of it.

Is newgrounds dead?


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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 18:20:18 Reply

bring the 2005 design theyt will come


I'm an instigator

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 18:28:53 Reply

At 11/5/12 06:08 PM, T3XT wrote: Allow me to provide a visual demonstration.

You forgot the new logo.


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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 18:36:11 Reply

p sure it is


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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-05 19:00:23 Reply

You're right, I've been holding back on making flash shits because I feel like not many people will see them anyway. I hope newgrounds gets mad popular again.


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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-06 01:36:56 Reply

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-06 02:34:13 Reply

Like everybody here I'd say that the redesign killed newgrounds. Splitting the games and movies and giving them their own page kind of killed off the traditional portal. Newgrounds used to be a place where it was easy to find new content but now with this system we can only really find the best.


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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-06 02:47:46 Reply

At 11/6/12 02:34 AM, aListers wrote: Like everybody here I'd say that the redesign killed newgrounds. Splitting the games and movies and giving them their own page kind of killed off the traditional portal. Newgrounds used to be a place where it was easy to find new content but now with this system we can only really find the best.

Im not sure if I ever visited this site back then. But I think the current layout is good and simple. You can easily find new games. Games - Latest.

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-06 02:53:07 Reply

At 11/6/12 02:47 AM, BuzzardGames wrote:
At 11/6/12 02:34 AM, aListers wrote: Like everybody here I'd say that the redesign killed newgrounds. Splitting the games and movies and giving them their own page kind of killed off the traditional portal. Newgrounds used to be a place where it was easy to find new content but now with this system we can only really find the best.
Im not sure if I ever visited this site back then. But I think the current layout is good and simple. You can easily find new games. Games - Latest.

I know but that system doesn't say if they are under judgement or not. People who used the portal went there specifically to get their 10 xp and blam/save points. Now levels and under judgment flash are a lot less significant.


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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-06 02:59:04 Reply

A couple of the more successful animators got skilled to the point where they decided to move on to more commercial routes and ever since that started happening, a lot of people have been crying either foul or wolf.

I agree that it's a little disappointing that 2009-2011 style quality isn't really around all that much anymore (except for Sexual-Lobster's fucking rad flashes) but it's left a void literally anyone with a tablet and a copy of flash can fill. I think that Newground's standards of quality have somewhat risen to the point where absolute beginners might feel a little intimidated (I think it's been said a few times before, but Pico's school would be thrashed in today's portal), but even blams have plummeted to the point of negligibility.

It's not dead, or dying, there's just a lull in the action.

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Response to Is newgrounds dead? 2012-11-06 04:00:18 Reply

At 11/5/12 06:19 PM, Phobotech wrote:
It starts with us. We are the Everything. We are the Everyone.

Loud and proud brother,

They want my newgrounds they better wring it form my cold dead hands.