At 12/8/18 05:33 PM, solitonmedic wrote: I don't want to be that guy... but isn't 10 sec porn loops winning portal award is a little strange?

Hey, I'm with you man. It may not be the first time I've seen looping boobs win a daily prize (and it probably won't be the last) but it's the first time I've seen it win daily 1st twice in a row. I would go as far as to say it rivals the unlikeliness of StrawberryClock's B making it through the portal back in 2001. We may be witnessing Newgrounds history in the making haha.

At 12/8/18 07:42 PM, BrianMolinet wrote: I´m not going to react to the Tumblr. migrants like they´re a bad thing, it´s not their fault that they´re here and I´m happy that Newgrouns is reigning supreme again

It is good to embrace all of the new members.

but holy shit the amount of the artwork and new artists is seriously overwhelming and kinda scare because I remember Newgrounds being a pretty tame and slow site when it came to art.

I find it awesome. Reminds me of the old days.

At 12/9/18 04:23 AM, JosephStarr wrote: I think we need a way for individuals to hide content uploaded by certain users, not everybody wants to see...fetish art...all over the portal.

That could be figured out.

It would get rid of alot of grief, frustration, and complaints. Similar to how we can hide forum posts by certain users.

No argument with that at all.

At 12/9/18 04:42 AM, Marcotonio wrote: New user coming through!

WElcome aboard.

At 12/9/18 04:42 AM, Marcotonio wrote: New user coming through!

Come on in.

for the community. I never knew Newgrounds had this art gallery aspect to it, for some reason I always thought it was just Flash animations and some music on the side... fortunately all the Tumblr migration gossip reached me and opened my eyes to the obvious. (:

NewGrounds has many different aspects to it.

I might be late, but I damn sure hope this place will thrive; as many others, I have a past of coming here and being entertained, and seeing dedicated and personally involved with the community made me smile.

Many users are very dedicated to NewGrounds. This is a great place to be.

Ok, now time to set my profile up, see you guys around!

Have fun setting up your profile. See you around.

you really are amazing Tom, You really look out for us creative people and I feel kinda bad for not being a supporter.
Someday I'll find a way to help this community, I really look forward to it.
Keep at it Tom. And best of luck.

At 12/7/18 09:13 PM, Mel-Agaroth-Xilliam wrote:

At 12/7/18 08:46 PM, carso150 wrote:

judging by your join up date , you're one of them , it means that your really don't know how horrible Tumblr was, or you were just accustomed to it, either way , Tumblr is the internet's version of Chernobyl.

Dude, come on. I've been on this site longer than you and a lot of those artists are my friends.

And their personal income was directly effected by tumblr's last suicidal act of spite, since many of them advertised their commissions and patreons through tumblr.

Not to mention that my tumblr artist friends moving here is like 90% of the reason I plan to become active here again after like, what, 13 or 14 years? But I mean, you can we can always go back to the days where Newgrounds was unfairly falling into obscurity too, if that makes you happy. Because as least we'll be "pure".

I'll say this: Newgrounds is one of the VERY few places where you can, with just a few minutes of searching, find something you enjoyed from 10+ years ago without remembering its title or author.

That really is something else. This place's a keeper!

At 12/10/18 03:15 PM, IoTheEternal wrote: Tom is there a chance that with the influx of new art there could be a return of the ng store? It would make awarding prizes a heckuva lot easier! That or teaming up with a site to do such things? Just thinking in terms of contests and stuff.

I don't think I'll want to get into a big order & fulfillment situation again in this lifetime although it would be cool if we could integrate more with Sharkrobot some day and award badges for purchases. It's not high priority vs everything else, though.

At 12/10/18 07:01 PM, Mel-Agaroth-Xilliam wrote: so what if you joined up 2 years before me ?, I've been lurking on Newgrounds since 2000 , just didn't join officially until 2006.

And I've been lurking since the 90s, your point?

and by your own admission your opinion is biased

You better believe I'm bias toward my friends. I'm not even slightly ashamed of that.

Don't even get me started on Patron, artists hiding content behind pay walls. but that is aside from the point, Newgrounds doesn't owe anyone anything .

Clearly you've never been self employed in a creative field before.

It's not about being pure , it's about not having undesirable content.

No comment here. I'm just going to let that sentence speak for itself.

At 12/7/18 03:30 PM, IoTheEternal wrote: Omg thatd be great if the populace could choose art, audio I'm not sure though..

cuz audio listeners are pretty much biased towards just dnb and dubstep, so itd just be f-777 envy and waterflame music for all eternity hahaha..

but hey it might work.

Incorrect, a lot of the older users that proliferated under the dubstep bang back when I was in college are in obscurity now a days. There are some users that just seem to absorb views and listens regardless of their genre. I think there's more to it than assuming there are sexily accessible genres.

Spectators of music need a special kind of attention span. Someone can genuinely be turned off by music they might otherwise like if perhaps the intro is too long or the song starts with a harpsichord. I remember hating so much random music when I was growing up. I've gone back and found I now like those things for new reasons. Music is not easily accessible.

Also, drum and bass has never been popular. Change my mind.

EDIT: newgrounds has never been popular, change my mind.

At 12/10/18 11:45 PM, Mel-Agaroth-Xilliam wrote: that means any opinion you have of aforementioned artists can be taken with the smallest grain of salt ever ,ever .

Wait, doesn't "taking with a grain of salt" mean to interpret something with some scepticism?
Wouldn't it make more sense to say something like, "taken with a whole cargo ship of unrefined rock salt"?
Otherwise you make it sound like you can almost take those words at face value. (which imo you can, but I get it you don't wanna)

@EvilSandwich this is his game, chum. And the only win condition for us is to not play. ^^U

At 12/11/18 12:01 AM, Vinsionary wrote: @EvilSandwich this is his game, chum. And the only win condition for us is to not play. ^^U

Yeah fair point. I said my piece anyway. lol

At 12/10/18 07:13 PM, Mel-Agaroth-Xilliam wrote: The only Fallacy I see here is is that my opinion triggered you into using an overly beaten to death quasi Strawman (see I get to use cool terms too, how neat is that huh ?)

Nice that you can use the cool terms, too. Next step will be understanding what they mean, right?
A strawman is (cit. Wikipedia), "giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent". You literally said that "it's only a matter of time before we become tumblr 2.0", so I'm not twisting your words in a convenient way.

You obviously never seen what the bowels of Tumblr had it in, already we have had more furry content submitted within the last few weeks Than we EVER had Before the Exodus of Tumblr . linked directly to artists that are new or admit to being refugees from tumblr

No, I've never been in the deep bowels of Tumblr. If you don't like furry content, just skip it, it doesn't look so difficult to do. I get it, you hate furry and diaper, but should that kind of content be excluded because a few people don't like it?

we're not talking about a one off flash game that has long since been deleted , we're talking about being flooded (literally) by THOUSANDS of Artists, and a good 98 % of them will automatically get scouted once here, because they have some form of connection here .

Club-a-seal was just a SINGLE example of what I was saying. Or should I list every single flash game/animation/art in the history of NG that has been controversial?
Also, you talk about those LITERALLY THOUSANDS of new artists as if that's a bad thing. You're assuming that those thousands all post furry diaper fetishes and other things like these? I've taken a look to the art portal this morning, and in the first four pages of the portal I've seen very little furry content. That's why I called it a "slippery slope": you're seeing a catastrophic event where there isn't one.

It's not about being pure , it's about not having undesirable content.

Again: "undesirable content" is just your opinion. You're just whining because you see content you don't like. Nothing new under sun, people have been doing this since the beginning. If you don't like it, vote accordingly. But other people have the same right as you of seeing content they like on this site.

At 12/10/18 11:43 PM, IoTheEternal wrote:
You have to admit however, that a song that is in say, classical, gets far less views and more negative votes than a song that is in dance and dubstep on this site though. That just seems to go without saying. It seems there really actually IS a recipe, and the more untz untz your song has, the more views and the higher it is rated. One only has to look at the popular audio charts weekly to see this in effect. Dance and dubstep are always at the top. Only exceptions seem to be if say waterflame makes a vg or experimental track, then it goes on as you said, users with more pull than others due to years of gaining popularity, which is fine.

To be honest, I don't even pay attention to the audio page's best of, popular, or brand new. I don't even look at the audio page. I was conditioned a decade ago to think it was static and never changing, with the popular artists getting all the love. I've always used the front page as a metric because that seems to be where I get most of my attention from. Maybe I should start paying more attention to the audio page. Besides, my genres are popular or something. Who knew.

I was a little sad to have to leave tumblr to be honest. It's felt great to be able to post normal artworks and NSFW stuff alike.

But due to the adult-ban and the tumblr-migrants hashtag I found a boatload of great artists I've never seen before. It's amazing and really inspiring.
And I found newgrounds again. I guess I visited once or twice back in the days to watch some stick figures endlessly beat each other up. :P

And from what I've seen so far I love it.

I hope you and the staff are able to fix the news post section for mobile devices.

At 12/11/18 03:01 PM, Seizmic765 wrote: I hope you and the staff are able to fix the news post section for mobile devices.

That will be getting fixed when our new text editor launches - it's arriving with the forum update this year and then will get integrated into the blogs.

It's good to see Newgrounds running strong, but I have concerns.

As the outrage mobs clamor to get controversial topics off the "MainWeb", and BigTech conspires to destroy its competition through myriad means, is Newgrounds ready to face these upcoming challenges?

Is the Newgrounds team ready for the imminent uphill climb that this Orwellian future poses? Ready to stick to its original principles? To not only protect its People, but to protect its Brand?

Surely Tom is also aware of the legal issues presented to Tumblr (FOSTA/CESTA), and while I doubt people will be drawn to Newgrounds to engage in sex-work, one must still be vigilant for looming legal threats(weaponized by the anti-free expression mobs or otherwise) to destroying the hard work that has gone into this platform.

Payment Processors are another concern. I am not too learned on Newgrounds's relationship with PayPal, but we have seen in recent months that PayPal is not our friend, either.

There is no telling what otherwise perfectly acceptable content hosted on this site will be dredged up and paraded around by the anti-American media(as I see it) as something to use against this site and its ability to function as that which we know and love today.

New technology is surfacing and becoming more and more utilized (such as Blockchain) and newer, bolder sites are coming into their own (such as Gab.ai) in order to combat Orwell's future and combat BigTech, but I must wonder what technologies and methods Newgrounds has in the works. I am, myself, trying to understand Cryptocurrencies in order to start using them, and the more I learn the more I am seeing that the websites of today may benefit in the future through some similar technology, which, at least in theory, will be the ultimate shields against the kind of takedown attacks we are seeing today.

I've been a supporter and admirer of this site for some time, and I will continue to do so while I believe the community and its leaders are willing to stand together against what I see is an imminent existential threat to this site, its users(some of whom depend on a reliable platform to make a living), and the foundational principles that had allowed it to exist in the first place.

Regards,
~Cyrus

I think it's been four days since I signed up.
Ah whatever. ^~^ Hi there! Glad to meet 'yas! Hope here's a better place than what's left of Tumblr! XD

At 12/9/18 06:37 AM, HuntaKilla wrote:

At 12/9/18 04:42 AM, Marcotonio wrote: I never knew Newgrounds had this art gallery aspect to it, for some reason I always thought it was just Flash animations and some music on the side...

NewGrounds has art and animations, plus more.

I thought the art gallery was a relatively new thing because I remembered when it was introduced, but apparently it's been around for about 9 years O_o

Yes, it is not new at all.

At 12/9/18 04:42 AM, Marcotonio wrote: Other than that, is the whole commission market a thing here? The ToS says "no offering/requesting business and services", but I'm not sure of what that covers.

Make sure that you are not bugging anybody about anything.

At 12/9/18 08:39 AM, JosephStarr wrote: Okay, now I'm convinced.
We definitely need a way to hide content uploaded by certain users.

Not everything is right for everybody.

At 12/9/18 09:22 AM, StickmanMarkinson wrote: Well for once I agree with Joseph , but I think there needs to be change for the art portal over there;

Any change can be discussed and figured out

You should be able to block certain users and you won't ever have to see their artwork at all. Also change the whole ratings system as well. I know that NewGrounds is a private website, but some things have to be changed in order to protect some certain users (moral people, users under 18, etc).

Blocking certain people could be helpful to some, but not necessary for everybody.

At 12/8/18 06:56 AM, Kolumbo wrote:

At 12/7/18 11:37 PM, Vinsionary wrote:

At 12/7/18 09:58 PM, Andre-APM wrote: Just a doubt...

If I understood correctly...

Almost there!
When the person you scouted gets their scout status revoked, your scout status won't be revoked BUT you won't be able to scout anyone else (you'll still be able to recommend them for the art portal)

Trust me, happened to me a few months back

...though just to add to this, it doesn't necessarily have to happen this way. Depending on what you did you might actually get those privileges revoked entirely, or just a warning. There's no rulebook there as far as I know but I assume it has to do with if your err was intentional or not, and how much you've contributed/scouted/etc before it (IOW how many your particular branch would affect).

But if you do get pruned due to the person who scouted you, you should be able to get scouted again by someone else.

At 12/10/18 02:49 PM, Vinsionary wrote: I'll say this: Newgrounds is one of the VERY few places where you can, with just a few minutes of searching, find something you enjoyed from 10+ years ago without remembering its title or author.

That really is something else. This place's a keeper!

It sure is! But now I'm really wondering: how do you find something without even remembering title or author? Keywrods? Tags? Date? Curious what that might've been you were searching for...

At 12/8/18 08:00 AM, jonthomson wrote: Ah, so it's Tumblr that's made the Portal look like it's 2001 again

2001 must've been a lot like 2007. :)

At 12/9/18 10:23 PM, Whirlguy wrote: We may be witnessing Newgrounds history in the making haha.

That's one way to look at it. :D We'll look back at this as that legendary Tumblr era...

At 12/9/18 09:22 AM, StickmanMarkinson wrote: Any 'tease' (like showing some cleavage or some 'skin') or fetish art should have immediately have the rating changed to M related tag, if not already. It's not like that I go to the art portal that much. But the change could be better for some people who likes to hang around NG, but can't just stand that sort of stuff.

That seems a bit extreme, but maybe a T would be reasonable? It'd reflect the intended age group better that way.

At 12/17/18 05:54 PM, Cyberdevil wrote: But now I'm really wondering: how do you find something without even remembering title or author? Keywrods? Tags? Date? Curious what that might've been you were searching for.

Tags, really. I was looking for Champions of Chaos:

• 

  Champions Of Chaos

  by herian4

  Defeat other teams in the arena to climb up the ranks!

  Game

  64,806 Views

  (Everyone)

I just asked NG to search "Arena RPG" and kept hitting Next for 5~8 minutes. It's from 8 years ago, not like 10+, but you get the point...
(Try doing something similar on Twitter and see how you fare, HA)

On an unrelated note, I still can't edit my message to fix typos. It keeps detecting the edit as spam.

At 12/9/18 09:48 AM, Zenjaka-Art wrote: Thanks! Glad to be here!
I remember NG in my beginnings of discovering the internet when I was a teenager. Great, that you guys still are around and that I am a part of this now. <3

NewGrounds has always been here, and will always be here. Welcome to the winning team.

At 12/9/18 12:28 PM, W-P-S wrote: There's a typo on the history page!
"On November 20th, Tumblr began randomly deleted accounts"
You should either remove "began" or turn "deleted" into "deleting"

Nice catch on that one.

Also, you erroneously forgot to mention that I actually won first place, every month, non stop, forever.

lol you might want to double check that one. lol

At 12/9/18 02:40 PM, GoodL wrote: I don't know if this has been asked already, but if Art and Audio make it into the monthly voting, will we still only get 10 votes?

Would have to look into that ans figure it out.

At 12/17/18 07:38 PM, Vinsionary wrote: Tags, really. I was looking for Champions of Chaos:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/556975
I just asked NG to search "Arena RPG" and kept hitting Next for 5~8 minutes. It's from 8 years ago, not like 10+, but you get the point.
(Try doing something similar on Twitter and see how you fare, HA)

That's some commendable commitment too. :) I guess as long as you recognize the name when you see it hmm. Ah yeah that's bound to give you a few pages to skim through. So basically it's easier to find things here because we have less things? XD

At 12/17/18 07:42 PM, Vinsionary wrote: On an unrelated note, I still can't edit my message to fix typos. It keeps detecting the edit as spam.

But I can't find any typos. O_o

At 12/18/18 06:11 AM, Cyberdevil wrote: I guess as long as you recognize the name when you see it hmm.

Not even that, I only recognized it by the thumbnail, huehuehuehuehue

Ah yeah that's bound to give you a few pages to skim through. So basically it's easier to find things here because we have less things? XD

No no, not something so discrediting! NG is just that much search-friendly! It facilitates skimming through galleries and lists, making the process of digging out old gems much less of a herculean task than, say, Twitter, where you MUST know who the author is or at least which hashtag they put on it (if ANY) and even then put up with several minutes of scrolling.
(Sheesh, I really got a beef with that site being used as an art gallery, haha...)

At 12/17/18 07:42 PM, Vinsionary wrote: On an unrelated note, I still can't edit my message to fix typos. It keeps detecting the edit as spam.

But I can't find any typos. O_o

I typed "not like 10+" when I meant "not quite 10+". I'm just nitpicky like that. ^^U

At 12/18/18 06:48 AM, Vinsionary wrote: Not even that, I only recognized it by the thumbnail, huehuehuehuehue

Imagine if they'd changed the thumbnail. :P

No no, not something so discrediting! NG is just that much search-friendly! It facilitates skimming through galleries and lists, making the process of digging out old gems much less of a herculean task than, say, Twitter, where you MUST know who the author is or at least which hashtag they put on it (if ANY) and even then put up with several minutes of scrolling.
(Sheesh, I really got a beef with that site being used as an art gallery, haha...)

It's really that complicated huh. :) That's good to know. I don't think I've ever actually used their search, but you'd think a giant like them would be quick to streamline it a bit. It's cool that we're jumping to the forefront with regard to features we used to be falling behind with. Submission quality too. Suddenly we're way ahead of all the other platforms in terms of what sizes and dimensions you can upload. And way better (as in less noticeable) compression/codecs.

Twitter's just out of control these days.

I typed "not like 10+" when I meant "not quite 10+". I'm just nitpicky like that. ^^U

Aha. XD Either way do hope they get that bug fixed...

At 12/17/18 07:42 PM, Vinsionary wrote: On an unrelated note, I still can't edit my message to fix typos. It keeps detecting the edit as spam.

You're trying to edit this post?

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1436985/3#bbspost26267448_post_text

@TomFulp Yeah, that's the one. It was meant to be just a small tweak, nothing worth fixing now that the deed is done. I'm more concerned how many more times this issue will repeat itself...