At 8/22/07 05:29 PM, DABridges wrote:
Another idea...I still believe there should be some type of embed feature so users can put movies on blogs. The embedded video could just link right back to the original submissions page, also have a link to the artist's page and of course, a link right to newgrounds.
Also, its a great way to kill bandwidth.
That would be really cool. The problem is, when people upload Flash, the NG system can't make any changes to it. With Youtube, it's built so that the player links back because the player plays the video. So NG wouldn't really be able to ensure the Flash links back to Newgrounds.
Here's what they should have done, and I've been really upset since the redesign that they didn't: When you view Flash on Newgrounds, it should have it's own designated view page. That way, you would be able to link directly to the view page, making it MUCH cleaner to link to content on NG. I find the lightbox pretty annoying, and extremely ineffective when it comes to large movies/games because they go off the screen. Viewing content here is the most important aspect of Newgrounds, you think they would give it it's own page and not just a mediocre lightbox :\