hmmm, cool emotes are available now... nice.

and SNES-style, cool emoticons too. thats good, i like it as well.

BUT...

THE CHAT, THE CHAT IS BACK?!
...AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS...

wow, thanks tom fulp! and thanks to mr bren the man as well! you rock, bren!
it was almost a fading dream, but now its a reality: NG's functioning chat system.

good news!

i've tried it just now, and it works like a charm. (so far).
great update.

also, i shall advertise NG's greatness and its awesome supporter status on my social media.
keep up the great work, mr tom fulp!

The chat's awesome @BrenTheMan, I really appreciate the effort! Hmm, I wonder what chat to go to on Pico Day. Last year's stream was on Twitch so... Newgrounds or Twitch? I hope it won't cause a big divide.

I don't think I'll be going this year, my truck died around noon today. I've always heard of blown head gaskets, but never had to suffer through one, it's practically a vehicle's death sentence. Like my brother passing, there were no warning signs.

Is chat down right now? I only get a blank screen.

Yo half the people talking bout "WOOOOOO THE CHAT IS BACK!!!" never even went to the first one to begin with.

There was this chat that was on here around 2010 what ever happened to that. Still this chat looks nice and reminds me of the old little chat boxes that zwinky site used to let you embed on your profiles back in 2006/07.

At 5/5/16 12:36 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 5/5/16 12:15 PM, CrazyCreators wrote: Is it possible in the future to have a button created on the menu bar to access the NG chat without searching for it a lot?

It gets tough to avoid navbar overkill... In the new layout we might introduce the ability to customize your navbar buttons, so people could have stuff like "Classic Portal" and "Chat" as defaults in the main nav.

Put the link in a pod for people to drag around on starter page? Or maybe just list it in the "NG on facebook - NG on twitter NG on blabla" boX on the left for the time being? Also awesome, was hoping that chat wasn't just an April's fool, though I'm probably too old and too insignificant to really use it much... xD
Awesome job @BrenTheMan!

At 5/5/16 12:36 PM, TomFulp wrote: It gets tough to avoid navbar overkill... In the new layout we might introduce the ability to customize your navbar buttons, so people could have stuff like "Classic Portal" and "Chat" as defaults in the main nav.

I like this idea. Made me wonder btw: have you ever had/considered a Sitemap?

You know what'd be kinda cool? Giving Supporters the ability to use the old auras.
Ya know have: Fab, Light, Neutral, Dark, and Evil available under their "designated colors".
I am aware that their colors are already available for other stuff and "Neutral" could technically be the "Blank Slate" thing. But I know some users miss having the ability to use those auras. And while I'm normally not one to suggest Supporters get stuff, it'd be an interesting perk.

Or at least bring back Light, Neutral, and Dark for everyone but make it so Supporters get Fab and Evil.

I mean you have Melancholy...

At 5/6/16 04:29 PM, SirWaffleThe3rd wrote:

At 5/5/16 05:30 PM, TheGamechanger wrote: One thing from the days when the NG Store was still around that could return is the Mystery Boxes. Mystery Boxes seem to be easier to bring back than the NG Store since you can pretty much put anything in them and no one except the person who made 'em would know what's in them until you open it.

Yea, that'd be really be cool.

The best part is the only thing you have to worry about is hipping costs and that's just about it. The things that you can put in a Mystery Box can be things you already own (such as pre-owned Newgrounds merchandise), so "one man's trash is another man's treasure".

At 5/6/16 04:53 PM, Viper wrote: Or at least bring back Light, Neutral, and Dark for everyone but make it so Supporters get Fab and Evil.

I mean you have Melancholy...

Yeah that'd be nice. I always had Neutral back in the day, would be fun to get back. Having auras based on preferable professions makes you have to choose just the one specific category. I'm all-in-one.

At 5/7/16 05:57 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:

At 5/6/16 04:53 PM, Viper wrote: Or at least bring back Light, Neutral, and Dark for everyone but make it so Supporters get Fab and Evil.

I mean you have Melancholy...

Yeah that'd be nice. I always had Neutral back in the day, would be fun to get back. Having auras based on preferable professions makes you have to choose just the one specific category. I'm all-in-one.

Maybe combine the profession auras with the emotion auras. This way we can have combinations such as "Evil Movie Buff", "Fab Movie Buff", "Dark Audiophile", "Light Audiophile", "Neutral Audiophile", etc.

At 5/7/16 01:30 PM, TheGamechanger wrote:

At 5/7/16 05:57 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:

At 5/6/16 04:53 PM, Viper wrote: Or at least bring back Light, Neutral, and Dark for everyone but make it so Supporters get Fab and Evil.

I mean you have Melancholy...

Yeah that'd be nice. I always had Neutral back in the day, would be fun to get back. Having auras based on preferable professions makes you have to choose just the one specific category. I'm all-in-one.

Maybe combine the profession auras with the emotion auras. This way we can have combinations such as "Evil Movie Buff", "Fab Movie Buff", "Dark Audiophile", "Light Audiophile", "Neutral Audiophile", etc.

What if, as well as giving people the option of doing that, let people choose their aura color.
Like I have a "musician" aura but I like the color of the that kinda blueish one. I can't remember what it's under.
Or use @Squidbit 's "rainbow aura".

At 5/7/16 01:30 PM, TheGamechanger wrote: Maybe combine the profession auras with the emotion auras. This way we can have combinations such as "Evil Movie Buff", "Fab Movie Buff", "Dark Audiophile", "Light Audiophile", "Neutral Audiophile", etc.

That'd be cool too! Though as long as you can be just plain 'Neutral' I'd be happy. Having to be either Writer, Reader, Musician, Audiophile, Artist, Art Lover, Animator, Film Maker, Movie Buff, Voice Actor, Gamer, Game Developer or Melancholy is a bit of a limitation, it puts you in a category. And 'Blank Slate' makes it sound like you're none of the above.

At 5/7/16 01:42 PM, Viper wrote: What if, as well as giving people the option of doing that, let people choose their aura color.
Like I have a "musician" aura but I like the color of the that kinda blueish one. I can't remember what it's under.
Or use @Squidbit 's "rainbow aura".

Wouldn't be any more confusing than being able to swap out your level icon while the level still reads something entirely different. :) It is pretty cool how the categories reflect your 'allegiance', but yeah, it puts you in a category. That ^ would be nice. Games is blue btw, Writing is ... turquoise, I think?

At 5/7/16 01:51 PM, Cyberdevil wrote: Wouldn't be any more confusing than being able to swap out your level icon while the level still reads something entirely different. :)

Honestly the whole idea of being able to swap your level icon DOES sound kinda interesting, but I'd rather just keep the one I earned through voting and voting and voting every day for x amount of days. Though I can definitely understand why someone' would use the ability to change their level icon. But it is indeed very confusing at times for people who pay attention to that sort of stuff. It's another reason why I don't use the ability to do that.

It is pretty cool how the categories reflect your 'allegiance', but yeah, it puts you in a category. That ^ would be nice. Games is blue btw, Writing is ... turquoise, I think?

I'll admit that the colors categorizing you into whichever section thing on here it's supposed to reflect is kinda cool.
But yeah it's the Writing one. Turquoise is my "birth stone" and it's one of my favorite shades of blue.

At 5/7/16 01:59 PM, Viper wrote: Honestly the whole idea of being able to swap your level icon DOES sound kinda interesting, but I'd rather just keep the one I earned through voting and voting and voting every day for x amount of days. Though I can definitely understand why someone' would use the ability to change their level icon. But it is indeed very confusing at times for people who pay attention to that sort of stuff. It's another reason why I don't use the ability to do that.

Yeah, I haven't used the feature either... yet, I like being as close to lv60 as possible, but I meant: since that feature does exist, swapping auras outside the defined range wouldn't be any stranger.

I'll admit that the colors categorizing you into whichever section thing on here it's supposed to reflect is kinda cool.
But yeah it's the Writing one. Turquoise is my "birth stone" and it's one of my favorite shades of blue.

Ah, that's nice. I'd go with green myself if I could choose. Doesn't only feel Neutral but Natural, ya know? Turquoise isn't that far away though.

Thanks for the chat, Bren!!

At 5/7/16 02:54 PM, Cyberdevil wrote: Yeah, I haven't used the feature either... yet, I like being as close to lv60 as possible, but I meant: since that feature does exist, swapping auras outside the defined range wouldn't be any stranger.

Yeah @Tom should consider putting some thought into that. I can imagine some users would be happy to have the option to do that. Same with the Light, Dark, Neutral, Fab, Evil stuff that was mentioned earlier in the thread.

I'm on the way home now. Good times today.

Where can I find that live chat for pico day. there was an icon above that linked my to it but now it leads to the forums. Could use some assistance

Remind me of fuu from samurai chaploo really like that anime

At 5/8/16 12:34 AM, DeadToro wrote: Where can I find that live chat for pico day. there was an icon above that linked my to it but now it leads to the forums. Could use some assistance

You mean this?
Just hover over the community tab and click Chat.

At 5/8/16 12:09 AM, yurgenburgen wrote: today was your second time meeting me. how would you rate the experience on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being the most wonderful)

I got no clue. I must admit that I was and still am exasperated at your inability to get me some green on demand.

Happy Pico Day for Everyone!

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/683479

At 5/7/16 10:33 PM, Viper wrote: Yeah @Tom should consider putting some thought into that. I can imagine some users would be happy to have the option to do that. Same with the Light, Dark, Neutral, Fab, Evil stuff that was mentioned earlier in the thread.

Yupp, hope so. Neutral would be awesome to have back.

Oh, and Happy slightly belated Pico Day people!

Was expecting the usual official Pico Day post to post that in...

It only took 17 years.

MEEHHHH

The Chat is really Good!

I love it more and more to be a Supporter!