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Increase the limit on length of URL linked to in your sig pic, I spotted someone earlier using a tinyurl to link to their blog post because it was truncating it to 45 characters or so, but the link was actually 50 characters, and as a result it cut off some of the numbers at the end and was redirecting to someone elses news post.

Regarding the flash "reviews:"

-instead of one box for reviews, give us the 4-6 basic review boxes to fill in (sound, graphics, presentation, lasting appeal [if applicable], gameplay [if applicable] and overall) depending on whether it is a game or a movie. And yeah, I stole those from IGN, but only because they have the best reviews around. This will help prevent the pointless "reviews" that don't really help the author.

But what about those people who just want to say how great it was? I have another idea to solve that problem:

-add another box on the side of the screen, just like a shoutbox, where people can write their short personal opinions. The author can review these at his/her leisure if they feel they need a little supportive boost, or quite possibly a kick in the pants. You'll want to retain the ability to flag abusive comments so that most of the bad ones are weeded out before the author gets around to looking them over.

So in summary, if this system is brought into being, then we'll have a place for more thorough reviews, and we will have a special place for those not-so-useful, but still somewhat important words of encouragement/harassment.

Ohther thing that would be very cool is if we could see how many people have favourited an author or flash submission.

On an authors page you can have a line like "XX people have favourited this author." and something along those lines for flash submissions as well.

I think it would be cool to see exactly how many people have favourited JohnnyUtah or Chuck's New Tux.

You may also be able to turn it into a second type of ranking as well, to pick out the most popular flash artists. Artists get more poitns based on their current ranking on members' favourite artists page. That'll help us see the very top ranked artists for all time, monthly, and weekly.

long shot, but a newgrounds app for the ipod touch / iphone, although you can't view flash at this time on there (?), but it'd be cool to check the latest news, peoples profiles, and most importantly deposit, because a computer isn't always accessible.

just throwing it out there.

I think you guys should work on getting more downloadable iPod flashes, although i'm pretty sure this is done by the authors themselves, it would be cool if there was more encouragement for it.

The monthly awards page needs more organization.

I can't be arsed into trying to retrace all the flash I had voted into the top 10 right before I exit out the window or something, then I have to find all those flashes all over again, which are once again clumped in an unorganized manner.

Needs some organization like in alphabetical order, differentiate between games and movies, etc.

have a kinda friends list thing and if the is one then I think it needs to be shown better

Ooh! Ooh! What about A search bar for your reviews? I mean if you have over 1,000 reviews (like me) I might want to see them again. This can also let us know if we reviewed a certain flash or not.

Newgrounds should have a section for their best artists, series, audio and games or give them free domains since the best of all time can't show you all the good stuff. Newgrounds should reduce the top menu-es by adding slide down menu-es.And have E-10,

the legendary award
this is a fairly simple idea, but could prove itself interesting. Basically you know how there are handfull of flash/audio submissions in the top 50 that remain in the top fifty for very long periods of time, don't you think they should be rewarded for creating something that could retain such a status? The legendary award would basically be a award that would tell people that the submission has been in the top 50 for a year or more. It would go with the previous awards already given (like daily 5th, weekly pick, ect)..

think its worth a shot? :)

Being able to use that new flash/audio linking feature in blogs.

And strikethrough, although i'm sure I already said that.

Since we have that new feature where the flashes and audio that we link to in our posts shows up as a picture then why don't we have it so P-Bot is programmed to use this new feature? I think it would be a pretty good idea.

Authors and coauthors should not be able to vote on their own submissions, at least when they are under judgement.

Create your own which can be sold:

Action figure
Card game
Plushie
Retail Game CD.

I would like a way to privately respond to an author's response, via PM with the original review and the author's response included. Just because if the author is asking a question, or if you have a bit more to say, it would be useful to show him the original posts in case he forgets who you are. This would make it easier to discuss submissions with authors to make them even better.

I think that submissions that have their details edited or their file swapped after passing judgment should have to go under judgment again in order to prevent people from changing their submissions after passing just to get the turd of the week. I've already made a topic to discuss the idea HERE so if anyone has an opinion on this matter feel free to discuss it in my topic.

Audio Portal: allow longer track titles, 40 characters at least. Long titles could be truncated with ... to fit the audio portal layout, but there's plenty of room to fit the full title on the track's page.

My reasoning for this is that song titles in music exceed 30 characters fairly often. For a few artists and obsessed fans, it's discouraging to see song names spelled wrong. It would also be handy to allow more room for things like naming remixes correctly with who remixed it. I know not everyone feels the same way, but to me, someone spelling the title of one of my songs wrong is just as bad as someone spelling my name wrong, if not worse!

A nice addition would be to have a 'roll-over' like we do with flash on the portal (hover mouse over, show the artists, file size etc) in the Audio portal, it'd help so we know the artist who has made the song among other things.

Something that I figured out last night and today was that if you make a post with the new feature, linking to a flash or audio piece, and then you try to make a quote afterwards the quote will not show up as a quote. Now if you make another quote under the one you tried before it works perfectly fine, but the first one still doesn't work.

Sorry for the double post, but I just thought of something that I really find annoying. When you are making a large post or blog and you link something inside of text it scrolls all the way back up to the top of the post or blog. I don't know if it does this to anyone else, but when I make large lists of things like members lists or just posts that have 10 + links in it I find it very annoying when I have to scroll back down and find my spot again.

I think certain rules need to be refined, for instance the "discussing illegal activity rule" should be more like - "planning,speculating or giving guidance (hypothetically or not) to an illegal act such as (and not only) ROMS, cracks, warez etc..." - that way there would be allot less confusion and far less complaint when someone gets banned under this rule.

Future Portal Bot posts should take advantage of the new portal entry linking, below is an example.

Posted at: 10/9/08 12:01 AM

Hello NG-fans! P-Bot here, with Thursday's hottest games and movies submitted to the Portal:

1. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/46 3688 (also known for ZSL Extravaganzafestathon)
2. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/46 3653
3. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/46 3709
4. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/46 3749
5. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/46 3696

Here are the runners up for the day (poor guys!)

6. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/46 3670
7. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/46 3739
8. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/46 3659
9. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/46 3723
10. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/46 3757

We also have new submissions by the following popular artists:
TremcladClock, Sidorio, Cereal, nggangsterpimp, BobtehLog, Jonimator, Tmn50, KittyDot, Tactical0125, ATOMICCLOUD, AndyCrog, Gameitnow, PARAGON-pvp, Mega-Spit, FlashArt, chocolatechang, Fupa, gibbsy1, DaddySculpin, d00f, MarioFlashMovies, Bookinator, 4guys1series, awscherb, zackyboy2, MrBobo64, flannelprincess, n0ise, Tnylea, C-Doodlez-Man, DXT, Sparkplug90, Thracian, i-copeland, FlasherToni, JackBlackKitten, Death619, Jibbix, squf, Lucy88, InsaneScaryMovieGuy, ryuzakinawa, psychomantis9, Yoshio and Cristo.

What does everyone think of these submissions?

Posted this in it's own thread, locked, redirected here :D

My suggestion is for bans being made public with a BIG RED STAMP OF DOOM on the offending post.
It'd work exactly the same as the system 4chan uses (oh shhhh)

The benefits being breaking up mob abusing of OPs, making examples of what isn't 'on' on newgrounds and making the rules more prevalent in the forum, far too few users have actually read the rules and this causes problems

This forum needs a Television Series board, there are a lot of TV Show topics in General lately.

Simple Version

It would be nice if choosing an author to be in our favorites "subscribed" us to them so we could get an update whenever they upload a new flash. It could be as simple as a PM with a link that gets sent to our inbox whenever one of our favorite authors make a new submission. I frequently let submissions by artists I like slip by and I don't get to see them for months or even longer. I'm sure most people would probably appreciate that.

Crazy Version

There could be a customizable front page box that automatically displayed recent submissions that fit into certain criteria that users defined. People can specify if they want their favorite artists, just movies or game and since there are genres now people can pick the ones they prefer and the day's flash with decent and high scores will be put right up on the front page. I know that most people who come to Newgrounds just watch and play whatever gets put up on the front page and a lot of high scoring submissions get necessarily passed up. This could help people diversify what they get exposed to.

I think there should be a update with the downloads section. because there isint that many movies for the ipods

First of all most people have ipods obiviusly so you guys would have to update the ipod sections movies

So add some new awsome newgrounds collections

LIKE.....
mastermind
madness
clockday
picoday
AND MUCH MORE awsome movies

I mean we only have about 10 movies and all of them are pretty much saladfingers
to be honest salad fingers is kinda boring to me idk about you guys its kinda entertaining but thats the only thing thats actaully entertaining in the downloads for ipod section for downloads and picos unloaded of course.

A new section?
PICTURES
In pictures it will show pictures you could put as a backround, print out, and do many other things with it yes i already know theres a section for the backround but this will be more interactive

who knows you could make a scrap book with them or hang em up on your wall *some how* and yes i know you can buy posters at the store but these will just be a do whatever you want with item i mean hanging up a piece of printer paper on the wall with some awsome ng characters isint that great but hanging up a post made by newgrounds store looks kinda awsome!

This is just a thought, but maybe would could have something that shows what users are online. I know it shows what users are on the BBS, but there should be something that says "online now" on their profile.

Maybe it could be next to their profile picture. Here's an example of what it could look like.

1. A running radio that plays songs at random that you can join. You can let it play and you might hear songs you wouldn't have clicked on before, and could be a chat for it so people can discuss the currently playing song.

Here's a good idea!

There should be a status next to your friends in "Contacts" in the PM Inbox.

So that way, if ya wanna talk to a friend with quick replies, or if it's urgent, OR if you believe IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE INSTANT.

So, there could be like:
Online
Offline
Not Signed In
Away - Busy
Away - Be Right Back

and mayve more!
If anybody wants to, they add can to it, object an idea, or just tell me there should be another reason up there!

I don't think this was suggested, I checked all posts here anyway...

My idea is to have a way for users to easily quote multiple posts. The way of opening new tabs (or windows if you're oldschool) and copying all the posts you want to quote is just annoying. It also might prevent liljim from triple posting...