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At 5/29/13 05:22 PM, TomFulp wrote: Were they right? Is it time for a change?

I think instead of yet another redesign you need to revert back to the old portal and focus on finding and implementing a better way to exhibit user content. It seems to me that a only a core group of people or movies with a certain type of humor are what is displayed. More often than not a lot of movies go under the radar and don't get the recognition they deserve. I'm sure this is infuriating and dispiriting for the content creators. Not only that, but when only certain types of movies are the only ones being showcased, what that leads to is a lack of originality in the content that is created in the future. People want to conform to get the page views.

It seems to me that Newgrounds no longer has the focus that it used to and it's way too complicated and superfluous. This site could really used to be streamlined. Perhaps it's also time to rethink or rework many of the features of Newgrounds. For example, judgement, in my opinion, needs to be retooled, and bad. The site no longer has the popularity it once did, and sometimes flash will sit in judgement for several days before they pass the portal. As the months and years go by, the number of active users are dwindling and while your site is surely an impressive achievement in coding, it really has lost its accessibility and mass appeal.

I also want to say, that the amount and way user content is exhibited needs to be expanded. There is plenty out there to do so.

Yes! Everything New! Everything Clean!!

I liked the colors. It seems really dull now that its grey

At 5/29/13 05:22 PM, TomFulp wrote: Are you browsing on Verizon FIOS? Notice that NG content loads really slow in the afternoon? There's apparently some sort of peering issue between Cogent (our bandwidth provider) and Verizon. Not sure when it will be fixed but I sure hope they fix it soon or else I'll have to switch back to Comcast!

The problem isnt just with Cogent and Verizon. It's with Verizon and Google as well, people keep claiming verizon is "throttling" down bandwith :http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28027601-Horrible-youtube-
speeds~start=40 there's also a nice solution there which worked for me. The IP range they gave didn't work for me, you'll need to find it yourself with netstat -n command. I imagine a similar solution can be done with Cogent?

I like the grey look. Gives a more tank / metal vibe.

At 5/29/13 05:22 PM, TomFulp wrote: grey layout. Do you prefer the site this way?

Yes and no.

I've noticed the grey, and I like it. However, if the whole site color scheme is nothing but grey, I can't say I like that idea. I like the changing colors from page to page, sometimes grey and sometimes whatever color. Always haing it the same, whether the same color or no color, could get dull. The random color change is cool with me.

This came up because it's all wound up so tight at the moment.

How do we unwind it?

Stamper's offering massages, but don't do it. It takes a while for the itching to stop. :\

Well... it actually looks pretty cool. The orangish color is good though. Post an example and show us?

I always enjoyed the brown color scheme of the site since the redesign. The new grey color for the games is great and better than blue. The red for the movies is decent, maybe a darker shade of burgundy would do but it does kind of give it a movie theater atmosphere. Just my three cents.

I prefer the previous blue theme because the grey one is quite sad,plus the blue gaming aura would have no sense.

I think a bit of color keeps the site interesting, particularly yellow/orange with the grey because that makes the NG aesthetic unique. On the other hand, I've always hated how the art things are such a flashy pink - they just distract from the content. So much of the page is pink that more often than not, it'll clash with and distract from the art we look at. It's not as bad with darker blue (games) etc, but I would definitely support scaling back some of the color. As someone said - NG should be about the user content, and the site should make some effort not to distract from that.

At 5/29/13 05:22 PM, TomFulp wrote:

Totally different topic... If you aren't a supporter (or a supporter who isn't logged in), you may have noticed some pages on the site (ie game pages) are using a grey layout like the store. Do you prefer the site this way? Been pondering stripping the colors out of the page elements and just going with grey - it seems to make the content pop. During the redesign, Wade used to complain that the front page looked like someone took a shit on it and Rob used to say we should style the entire site with the store colorscheme... Were they right? Is it time for a change?

This came up due to some quirks with our CSS that made it difficult to run dynamic skins while retaining a variety of page layout colors, because it's all wound up so tight at the moment.

Regarding colors, I think Step has a great point...I like that things are color-coded. However, maybe those colors should be toned down, because I agree that the gray makes content "pop", but is also perhaps a shade too dull. If the rest of the site (outside the home page) used subdued colors for the background/border, I think that'd go a long way.

I'd say go grey! You've said it yourself, the store seems to make the content POP, which it hink is pretty high on the priority list.

One thing that you could try, is converting all the page colour schemes to grey, but focus the gold/yellow schemes with the wall art. I think that doing it that way is much more like the old site. On the whole i think that it would feel more homely and make the seasonal wall art all the more interesting.

I much prefer it being colored, it looks better.

At 5/29/13 05:42 PM, Step wrote: I prefer having it coloured. I like how colour-coded everything is; music-related stuff is green, game-related stuff is blue, movie-related stuff is red, art-related stuff is pink, etc. This even reflects in our auras and in the colour schemes of the backgrounds. So yeah I think it looks awesome the way it is and beats having everything grey.

Exactly!

I think you should fix the portal before worrying about how the site looks. everything listed there is under judgement, it makes the whole color coded score system defunct.