At 1/29/21 11:49 PM, DesertSage wrote: Wish there was some way you could have the default text file in windows be in some kind of dark mode, it's strenuous working into the night and having the blaring white box in my face.

Looks like I'll just have to have multiple instances of the entry thread at the ready in order to cut up the riveting chatroom history of a bunch of aliens and humans on a planet on the other arm of the milky way from earth.

I assume at least that's how some people have managed to post their massive tales, please let at least two other users have done that so I don't feel weird for this method being used.

And Please dear god let a Literature portal manifest!!!

At 2/1/21 02:49 PM, SevenSaysNoToDrugs wrote:

At 2/1/21 02:03 PM, CrosEl wrote: What's the character limit for this? I know I can post in multiple things, but how much should I do? If I do it by paragraph: it'll take WAY too many posts..

There really isn't one. Obviously don't post an entire book, but many people need 2-6 posts, filled entirely, to submit theirs.

At 2/5/21 06:12 AM, DiskCrash wrote:

At 2/1/21 02:49 PM, SevenSaysNoToDrugs wrote:

At 2/1/21 02:03 PM, CrosEl wrote: What's the character limit for this? I know I can post in multiple things, but how much should I do? If I do it by paragraph: it'll take WAY too many posts..

There really isn't one. Obviously don't post an entire book, but many people need 2-6 posts, filled entirely, to submit theirs.

Newgrounds really needs a proper writing portal, because it's abysmal to use the forums for these things.

At 2/5/21 07:03 AM, SevenSaysNoToDrugs wrote:

At 2/5/21 06:12 AM, DiskCrash wrote: Newgrounds really needs a proper writing portal, because it's abysmal to use the forums for these things.

I've asked many times but it's just not a priority of theirs at this time. I get it. The main event here is the movies, games, audio, art....... but we have great writers here and I hope to attract more by continuing to offer real cash prizes.
Maybe one day! I'd love to see a literature portal where our works could be submitted with a score, scouts, like art etc

At 2/5/21 07:16 AM, DiskCrash wrote:

At 2/5/21 07:03 AM, SevenSaysNoToDrugs wrote:

At 2/5/21 06:12 AM, DiskCrash wrote: Newgrounds really needs a proper writing portal, because it's abysmal to use the forums for these things.

I've asked many times but it's just not a priority of theirs at this time. I get it. The main event here is the movies, games, audio, art....... but we have great writers here and I hope to attract more by continuing to offer real cash prizes.
Maybe one day! I'd love to see a literature portal where our works could be submitted with a score, scouts, like art etc

You know, I've just looked at newgrounds.io API and I think there might be a possibility of creating our own writing portal on Newgrounds. An extra web host would be needed, but it might be doable from within NG with already existing NG users, without the need to create a separate account. I'll have to look into this over the weekend. Sounds like it would be a fun project if it's actually fully doable lol

At 2/5/21 07:39 AM, Egeus wrote:

At 2/5/21 07:16 AM, DiskCrash wrote: You know, I've just looked at newgrounds.io API and I think there might be a possibility of creating our own writing portal on Newgrounds. An extra web host would be needed, but it might be doable from within NG with already existing NG users, without the need to create a separate account. I'll have to look into this over the weekend. Sounds like it would be a fun project if it's actually fully doable lol

This actually seems really cool if doable, which I don't see why it wouldn't be. If you can associate posts to an external site with your ng account then it should be perfectly doable. It's not much different than a scoreboard for a web game, really. If you pursue this, I'd love to be able to help in some way.

At 2/5/21 10:59 AM, DiskCrash wrote:

At 2/5/21 07:39 AM, Egeus wrote:

At 2/5/21 07:16 AM, DiskCrash wrote: You know, I've just looked at newgrounds.io API and I think there might be a possibility of creating our own writing portal on Newgrounds. An extra web host would be needed, but it might be doable from within NG with already existing NG users, without the need to create a separate account. I'll have to look into this over the weekend. Sounds like it would be a fun project if it's actually fully doable lol

This actually seems really cool if doable, which I don't see why it wouldn't be. If you can associate posts to an external site with your ng account then it should be perfectly doable. It's not much different than a scoreboard for a web game, really. If you pursue this, I'd love to be able to help in some way.

I pondered about this some more after my initial excitement lol. I think the problem lies in running it rather than making it.

A large issue is with illegal texts like child pornography, and that you can't really publish it to the masses before vigorously confirming them, because that would have serious consequences. But that would require very active moderators and users. And despite it being integrated with Newgrounds' Passport system, it would be a separate entity.

Of course the stories would be saved under NG usernames, but what, if like, I modify the database, and, lets say, I add a story on DickRash's account that would surely get him banned. But the NG moderators couldn't really ban him, because they have no reason to trust a database operated by some unknown third-party.

So, in conclusion, it would probably not work. I'm sad...

Unless all stories and their edits would be held in a verification queue and be approved separately, but this would slow down posting content to the "portal" to a crawl.

I don't know, I'm going to have a nice evening nap right now, maybe I'll come up with something more feasible. If someone has any ideas about these issues, I'm feeling up for actually doing the "NG (temporary) Writing Portal" if anyone could enlighten me on what's the best approach to running it.

At 2/5/21 11:11 AM, SevenSaysNoToDrugs wrote:

At 2/5/21 10:59 AM, DiskCrash wrote:

At 2/5/21 07:39 AM, Egeus wrote:

At 2/5/21 07:16 AM, DiskCrash wrote: You know, I've just looked at newgrounds.io API and I think there might be a possibility of creating our own writing portal on Newgrounds. An extra web host would be needed, but it might be doable from within NG with already existing NG users, without the need to create a separate account. I'll have to look into this over the weekend. Sounds like it would be a fun project if it's actually fully doable lol

This actually seems really cool if doable, which I don't see why it wouldn't be. If you can associate posts to an external site with your ng account then it should be perfectly doable. It's not much different than a scoreboard for a web game, really. If you pursue this, I'd love to be able to help in some way.

I pondered about this some more after my initial excitement lol. I think the problem lies in running it rather than making it.

A large issue is with illegal texts like child pornography, and that you can't really publish it to the masses before vigorously confirming them, because that would have serious consequences. But that would require very active moderators and users. And despite it being integrated with Newgrounds' Passport system, it would be a separate entity.

Of course the stories would be saved under NG usernames, but what, if like, I modify the database, and, lets say, I add a story on DickRash's account that would surely get him banned. But the NG moderators couldn't really ban him, because they have no reason to trust a database operated by some unknown third-party.

So, in conclusion, it would probably not work. I'm sad...

Unless all stories and their edits would be held in a verification queue and be approved separately, but this would slow down posting content to the "portal" to a crawl.

I don't know, I'm going to have a nice evening nap right now, maybe I'll come up with something more feasible. If someone has any ideas about these issues, I'm feeling up for actually doing the "NG (temporary) Writing Portal" if anyone could enlighten me on what's the best approach to running it.

While all good ideas, I know we don't want lots of external links.
That's why it'd be nice to have a true writing portal.
I'd love people being able to vote and leave reviews on a writing piece and even blam them.

Someone submits 18 pages of the word PENIS over and over?

We just blam it.

Or vote 5, It depends.

At 1/29/21 07:31 AM, SevenSaysNoToDrugs wrote:

At 1/28/21 11:54 PM, Kaptindregbadd wrote:

At 1/28/21 08:13 PM, SevenSeizeHasCookies wrote:

At 1/28/21 08:08 PM, DesertSage wrote: So Peaceblossom is Kaput.
What does this mean for the contest?

He had his account deleted ☹

GoryBlizzard and I are still gonna judge and might need help from someone to break a tie.

Are you writing this one, or are you still wanting to judge?

If you still want to judge, you could be our tie breaker.

Yo what happened to Peaceblossom?

He didn't get into any sort of trouble or do anything wrong.

He requested to be deleted.

At 2/8/21 11:23 AM, Parablebox wrote: Hello there. I am completely interested and am wanting to join this nice lil collab. I just have one question so I can get started. Since I am a musician/noise-ician, I usually do spoken word tracks as well. Is it possible to send the story first, then upload the audio later (like after the collab's done)?

At 2/8/21 11:31 AM, SevenSaysNoToDrugs wrote:

At 2/8/21 11:23 AM, Parablebox wrote: Hello there. I am completely interested and am wanting to join this nice lil collab. I just have one question so I can get started. Since I am a musician/noise-ician, I usually do spoken word tracks as well. Is it possible to send the story first, then upload the audio later (like after the collab's done)?

No audio necessary, just written word 🙂

At 2/9/21 06:58 PM, Little-Rena wrote: @SevenSaysNoToDrugs I have an old story I wrong many years ago that I never shared, and it fits quite nicly with the theme, it's an original work, but it's old, so I am wondering if that is permitted? Also, it's around 13k words long, and 17 chapters.

At 2/9/21 07:21 PM, SevenSaysNoToDrugs wrote:

At 2/9/21 06:58 PM, Little-Rena wrote: @SevenSaysNoToDrugs I have an old story I wrong many years ago that I never shared, and it fits quite nicly with the theme, it's an original work, but it's old, so I am wondering if that is permitted? Also, it's around 13k words long, and 17 chapters.

If it's never been posted anywhere before, I'm fine with that.
13k words is a little long though 😬
See how many posts it would take up. If if takes up more than a page of posts, it's too long 😆

At 2/16/21 12:06 AM, Adam-Beilgard wrote: Hey so I just realized there's no time and I assumed midnight but then I realized it would probably be midnight EST. Can you confirm? I'm finishing up and was going to submit by midnight CST - would I still be considered?