:When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
March 2008, searching for Flash Tutorials.
:What do you most enjoy about the site?
The forums and the Flash and Audio Portals.
:Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
I would add more genres, in both the Flash and Audio Portal.
:Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
I never really experienced it, but the Audio Awards should return!
Whoops, looks like I messed up the quotes...
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
A: 2000 on the dot.
What do you most enjoy about the site?
A. The respect that animators get is nothing websites like youtube can offer.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
A. Definitley a tutorial section for noob animators, because if your gonna start anywhere it should be here.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
A. Don't miss this website revolving around porn!
I'll randomly grab a user's reply, and post it on my user page, declaring them the winner.
A. ok.
Home made movies since 1933.
first of all.. i dont want your free chicken... i live in the uk and it would be a waste... anyway...
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
i found it on google / yahoo while searching for "free online game" during class... it was in the top 3 so i clicked it and spent a great deal of time browsing and playing games / watching moives after school... that was around late 2000 early 2001... i didnt join up untill 2005 when i wanted to submit animations... my brother "FramuSS" joined ages before me when i showed him it... i didnt see the point of joining up at the time... (foolish me)
What do you most enjoy about the site?
i enjoy the people mostly... how everyone gets along... the art fourm, art portal, flash portal, audio portal (which i have spent many hours lost in), medal games as well as normal games... reading peoples profiles and talking... not to mention the holy gold day in which thou shalluth blam / save thy moives/games in...
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
the art portal scout system.... i should rule over it and only let people in i like >:3, at the moment i can see a new flaw in it... possibly have harder rules on people who submit spam into the flash portal and get them blammed instead of statwhores letting them through regardless of quality... hmm... give myself a gold aura and host a contest for the "legolaSS ruler of newgrounds for a day music fanfair contest" in which the winner gets $10 of store credit and a pancake machine... what else... hmm.. oh yeah... make sure all the collections / series / moives and games sections are UPDATED!!!...
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
i loved the blam and save animations... they were ace!!! *LOCK ON.... *power up*.... BLAMMMM!!!* take that shitty flash!.... apart from that... i dont really miss anything else... seen as im able to keep the old style look of newgrounds... so yeah.. bringing back the flashes for the B/S would be cool... even have a mix of new flashes so its not always the same one... :3..
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if i somehow win... put my stuff on your page... and redraw the prize :P
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
-That it was a website posting titles of a new concept in flash games called "Dating-Sims" someone showed me a dating sim game and I was like "what the hell?" Oddly enough, the Pico Sim date was pretty addictive to play.
What do you most enjoy about the site?
-The AMAZING flash movies and games. I still hold record of highest score in some games. Some games I would love to see on counsel as for the movies on the big-screen. It frustrates me why they aren't yet.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
-The Art Portal has a few ethical issues about scouting and being scouted. I don't agree with all the rules.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
-Why the hell the flash "Rock-It" (song by the Gorillaz) only replaced by NG characters removed!? It was just a parody! That's the only one I want to see.
I discovered Newgrounds in highschool where immature flashes were really popular
The thing that i love about Negrounds is the multi-culturality of the site. I mean, there's everything and there's everyone.
The audio portal needs to be more perfect like the flash portal or the art portal.
I don't really miss the other things from the past. I just think that newgrounds keep getting better and better
I first learned about NG kind of late in 2007, when I was playing Newgrounds Rumble on another site and wanted to find out who all the characters were. I've been visiting the site almost everyday since.
What I enjoy the most about the site? The whole indie-ness of it all. I've always hated the mainstream crap; music, clothes; tv shows, everything. NG is huge, and still isn't mainstream, which rocks.
If i had the site for a day, I would probably ask the users what they would do to make the site better (ironic, no?) since I'm not the best thinker.
As a relatively new user, I can't really say much about the older features. Though i hate all those ads on the side of the Homepage.
NOW WHERES MAH MAGICAL CHIKEN?
love ya jonas
At 10/20/09 02:06 PM, Jonas wrote:
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
Sometime back in early 2006. One of my good friends had stumbled across Ebaums World (boo and hiss I know) and showed it to me, which is when I first discovered what a flash movie is. After about a week we were directed to The Ultimate Showdown and subsequently Newgrounds by one of his cousins on the topic of "it's a really good Chuck Norris joke". We watched more and more movies and I eventually joined up to learn how to start animating myself.
What do you most enjoy about the site?
The General forum. Flashes are all well and great, and I love the award system and all the opportunities that NG gives to its authors but General is where all the action is. What makes it even better is that General isn't a clusterfuck of authors, but a mix of the audience and creators alike. It isn't focused on a single topic, like the rest of the forums, and it's more laid back.
Plus I've picked up plenty interesting news stories from bumming around the BBS.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
Nothing. Well, nothing about the site layout itself.
If anything I'd start a spam collection. I don't know why but usually spam flashes are funnier than the actual movies that get submitted, and some are even more visually appealing too. They may just be loops, or screamers, or trolls but many of the spam users are decent artists. Plus spam is fun, and actually a good way to train yourself to work with flash. I even have a spam alt myself; and I consider some of my spam flashes to be significantly funnier than some of my actual works.
Other than that I'd slap a BBS ban on the religious bashing topics that are only made to bash whatever religion the OP has a problem with. The legitimate ones are OK, but for every one pro-religion/actual anti-religion topic there are 5 trolling religion bashing ones.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
The old blam/save animations, defiantly. I'd even remake them myself if I had the chance.
ANIMATED SIGS, fuck yes. Seizure-inducing .GIF sigs were awesome. Well, maybe not the flashing ones but a lot of .GIF sigs were pretty creative, considering they couldn't be that long.
But other than those I think everything so far has been an improvement.
FREE CHICKEN PL0X!11!!1!3
When did you first learn about Newgrounds? Middle School, looking for porn
What do you most enjoy about the site? Watching B/W Theater all night long
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix? I'd make it like it was before the redesign, it felt more personal then just another site.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? Can't think of anything
At 10/20/09 02:06 PM, Jonas wrote:
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
From my friend Daran who showed me the "The Decline of Gaming" movies
What do you most enjoy about the site?
The overall community of the site. How we all treat each other for the most part as fellow comrades. Also how none cha lat it is to contact the staff weather its just to say hi or say there is a problem. We can relate to them because they themselves act like fellow site users instead of most websites with flash based content where you have no idea who the hells in charge except maybe an message from an anonymous administrator with something like the servers are down. But on newgrounds we are all one.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
Honestly, nothing. I like the site the way it is and where its going.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
Whats really been taken away? For as long as I've been a regular stuff has just been added such as our own userpage instead of those little boxes with just stats on them.
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
My signup date says 9/10/04, so around that week I suppose.
What do you most enjoy about the site?
The core content, the flash movies and games.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
To start, a new forum to separate elite actionscript from the rest. Then maybe a simple word detection script to keep people from posting in the wrong forum. After that, cleanup of the categories. Maybe I would kill some dead ideas properly too.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back?
The categories being more human, I miss those comments grouping the entries and so on. It was more than just a boring list of names, it was a page with it's own content.
Each time someone abuses hittest, God kills a kitten. Please, learn real collision testing.
At 10/20/09 02:06 PM, Jonas wrote: When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
What do you most enjoy about the site?
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
--March 16th, 2002.
--The community (i.e forums)
--I would finally fix the batting average bug that plagues my username. (Don't know what I'm talking about? Search my name on the flash search bar and scroll over my user pic.)
--Old template for the site.
chicken plz
At 10/20/09 02:06 PM, Jonas wrote: All you have to do is comment in this topic and answer these questions.
Kay-O.
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
I found it while looking for the sequels of this flash:
: What do you most enjoy about the site?
At first it was the games and movies. Back in '06 I especially enjoyed the mario collection and video game spoofs in general. Nowadays my main reason for coming here are the forums, I still watch movies and play games though.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
I'd try to find a good solution for the problem of the flash portal, namely the loads of crap flashes passing through it. Also, chat lolol.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
Oh man, I'm remembering the old whistle flash. Blow my whistle baby... But I guess animated signatures would be the first thing I'd bring back.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
A friend showed me the Drag Racer game back in '03. I stuck around.
What do you most enjoy about the site?
The artistic movies. Things that are experimental and expressive.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
Put something ultra sweet like candy or unlimited HD movies in the "Some account type thingy here."
But seriously would make this place more organized. User Ranks(fix them and add more categories or statistics), Top 50 Flash algorithm, Flash tags. This place is a mess and backwards archiving is going to be a huge task. Good Flash movies have to be accessible if they will have longevity to draw viewers beyond getting front paged.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
Yeah I always wanted to play Ross in Mario Kart 64. I even PM'd him about it but now that he's left NG I don't think I'll ever get the chance :/ Nobody plays that game anymore...
Man I would love that chicken. I'm so skinny :(
I found out about this site because knox had links to his claymations hosted on this site/
As much as I like the flash portal, my favorite part of this site is the BBS.
I'd delete everyone's account who's spammed my inbox >:3
The old whistle animation was the shit.
PSN ID/Gamertag: KittensWithBeer
GAH OOH NEWGROUNDS IS AWESOME!!!
except the search system isn't great
and then you can't organise the results by score either
and the likes
I wish I was magical :( but alas I'm not
however I can do a dance *does dance*
but you can't see it
LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME
At 10/20/09 02:06 PM, Jonas wrote: When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
It was back in 2001 or so. My cousin Tyler, who was 5 years older than me and my other cousin at the time, was showing us Tubby Fun Landand Pico's School. It was hilarious to us. We were 8 or 9 at the time. In 2003 I had a strange rush of nostalgia and decided to make an account because of the levels system and to look around again. I then got bored and came back in 2004, but had reluctantly forgotten my account information. So I made this account, which was originally named PicoPyro.
What do you most enjoy about the site?
I enjoy the community. The ability to chat with people from all over the world with the active forums. I also like to rank up my stats on this website. It's kind of odd to say, but the huge collection of flash movies and games is just a 'plus' for me.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
This site has been tweaked, re-arranged, and fixed more times than ground zero. I'd say there are a lot of small things that could be added to any site just to make it that better. I'd fix the chat. I'd have more advanced searches. The collection pages would be organized a whole hell of a lot better. For the most part this site is already beefed up to the max, though.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
I really miss the old pop up profiles. It was easier to click on someones name and read their info from a pop-up window. Now I have to open up a new page then filter out all the bullshit from the user pages. I'm not saying user pages wasn't a good idea. I'm just saying it could have been pulled off better. Oh yeah, and the whistle song was really goddamn catchy.
You could really go for a chocolate chip cookie right about now...
At 10/20/09 02:06 PM, Jonas wrote: YOU ARE MAGICAL RIGHT?
You're damn right I am
At 10/20/09 02:06 PM, Jonas wrote: When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
What do you most enjoy about the site?
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
1. I was searching for flash games on google and stumbled upon newgrounds.
2. It's the only logical choice for a flash community/portal
3. I'd mess around with it and add a bunch of cool secrets
4. I want the old blam/save animations back
Sweeeet! Free wings!
I think that anyone that calls Buffalo Wild Wings "B-Dubs" should be banned from the contest/site. ;)
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
Like 2003. Madness was the reason I came, and the pure awesomeness of Newgrounds is why I stayed in this magical land!
What do you most enjoy about the site?
The wonderful characters and games that are steadily pumped out by the people.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
Not too much. Maybe some art portal tweekage, but thats 'bout it.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back?
Not really. Usually the crap that gets blamed gets blamed for a reason. :P
When did you first learn about Newgrounds? Some time around 2006, this website ruined my childhood.
What do you most enjoy about the site? Right now, it's looking through all the art in the art portal. There's some pretty good stuff in there.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?Hah, well I don't think there's anything I would fix. I'd probably just mess everything up. Although one feature I might add to the BBS is a 24 hour restriction on new accounts. So they can't make a post, start a thread until the 24 hours is up.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? Nothing that I can think of right now, although I wish some of the old members I used to know would come back.
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
Probably when my best friend at the time showed me a Mario parody.
What do you most enjoy about the site?
Two things-- ease of interface & the whole everything by everyone deal (it's art democratically)
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
Better rating system for the audio portal; I'd like to see you be able to gain points from rating audio instead of solely flash. Some people are better at music things than flash, and they shouldn't be punished.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
Not really. I'm pretty much a fan of most changes made by Newgrounds so far. Unless they mess with
the flash portal.
Hey, flash artists, want an idea? Check this out: The Scarecrew
And everyone, please check out the latest humorous spy serial, The Frank Keretta Stories
I'm starving
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
I was a stupid kid surfing the interwebs for games, and found this place out, I registered because it was cool.
What do you most enjoy about the site?
Obviously the flash animations and games.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
Bah, its good as it is.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
Not entirely, but the bitesize or whatever its called thing is now.. gone?
Meh dunno if I can get them, but...
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
Hum I was in 5th grade of primary school (elementary school for USish folks) when suddenly one of my friend was playing excite bike trouble . I got hooked by curiosity, so my friend typed the site and I played my first flash game in this same computer room. The game was torture Bill Gates ( a pretty bad game I know :/). Soon after, I founded Teletubbies fun land and Assasins. I quit Newgrounds until 4 years ago, where we had finally a better internet speed. Now my life is fulfilled with newgrounds :D
What do you most enjoy about the site?
Games...movies... why would I love other things than that if I'm on newground? I'm not a fan of forums, but I do get here sometime...
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
Hum... maybe a multi-language option?.... But my mostly I would like to know when my fav. authors do an other movie/game! Some of my fav.artists are not very populars and I would like to know when they do something :)!
And mostly play Pico school 2 :P
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back?
Updates on Sherbert the Cat :P
I love ya all!!
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
Been playing the games for years, can't remember how long!
What do you most enjoy about the site?
The organization of the media. I love the features and the layout of the Flash and Audio viewing pages.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
I would gather the Audio Forum regulars and, with their help, fix everything about the Audio Portal. It has too many problems and loopholes to be taken seriously at the moment.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
Not really, everything seems as fresh as ever and I like it just fine!
Sometimes, it would rain men. "Hallelujah!" we would cry. Thousands were killed.
I first learned about newgrounds from a classmate in my computer class in 2005, people in that class were obssesed with finding game sites to play instead of doing schoolwork.
the thing i enjoy most about newgrounds is the fact that it is based by animators and programmers, for animators and programmers
if i ruled NG for a day i would probably finish the chat, and fix the store, because for some reason i cant buy a t-shirt. I would also get rid of the fucking huge front-page ads
i cant think of anything old that would be better now
I will cut your lips and tongue from your head with a... LINOLEUM KNIFE!
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
When I first discovered the internet back in the day, I played a lot of flash games off of flash dump/stealing sites. A few had newgrounds logos in them, saying things like "if this isn't on newgrounds it's stolen!!!!!!". Eventually I checked out this site and here I am.
What do you most enjoy about the site?
Newgrounds is very good at getting the best flash on the web first. There's really no site out there that has an even remotely similar function. I also love the way the reviews and ratings are streamed right onto the page of the flash.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
Not much. Really, I think the sites good as is. Maybe a cap on flash posters whose flash is consistently spammy. And maybe a restriction on crappy flash (here's looking at you, hentaibrutalrape), from winning awards and money. As long as it's stolen images and not original work, why should the flash submitter get anything?
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
There used to be different components of reviews if I remember correctly. I remember them mostly being pointless, but maybe sections like "plot" and "animation" for toons and "gameplay" and "sound" for games and such.
When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
I first learned of Newgrounds back in 2001. My brother's friend showed him the site, and he in turn, showed it to me. We watched a couple funny movies, but we didn't know that some of them were more, risque, than others. After a while, my parents caught on, blocking the site, and Newgrounds became a thing of the past...that is until ~5 years ago.
There were a lot of people all around this one computer and it was showing the first ever episode of madness combat. We laughed so hard at the funny music mixed in with the gore, that our teacher came over. He laughed too, but told us not to get caught with it. I went to the site where I originally saw it on. No, it wasn't Newgrounds, it was this place called Flash Archive.
Long story short, in search of new madness episodes it led me here, and another 2 years later I decided to sign up.
What do you most enjoy about the site?
The community, really. If it weren't for these evil, vengeful, and comedic bastards (you know who you are ;P), Newgrounds would be a really dull place. I might not comment on half the posts I read, but believe me, I always get a kick out of reading some of the threads in General.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
If I were at the reins of this site, I would mod DavidZX for 5 minutes, then ban him for the rest of the day.
That, or create an "NG Hall Of Fame" link above the header, which would display some of the key events, people, or ideas that shaped Newgrounds into what it is.
French tanks have six gears, 5 reverse, and one forward in case they are ever attacked from behind
I would change the scouting system for the art portal. I hate it because I don't see why flash and audio can just submit and have their stuff up relatively fast while artists have to wait forever to be scouted. IDK, it just erks me.
At 10/20/09 02:06 PM, Jonas wrote: When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
from my friend in 2nd grade. I mean she like "hey go to newgrounds!" i didnt actually go until a month after she told me
What do you most enjoy about the site?
the forum and egoraptor/S13/Exmortis
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
make Pimp level 1 screw around on the BBS. Maybe change that account type thingy here. Also i would give Poozy supreme power over all of Newgrounds. The ads on the front page would be moved.
Id also add a spam portal where everything is instantly saved except for illegal things ( CP/presedent death threats etc.)
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
I miss the old layout mostly everything in that. Id like to see Tomspulp back for a day maybe though.
At 10/20/09 02:06 PM, Jonas wrote: When did you first learn about Newgrounds?
My brother introduced me back in 05
What do you most enjoy about the site?
Teh BBS, surprisingly, and some flashes.
Given one day at the reins of the site, what would you change, what would you fix?
Make myself a permanent mod, and go on a ban spree.
Is there anything you miss, that you'd like to see back? (I.E. Old Blam/Save Animations)
Old user interface.
