Skeuomorphic designs were frowned upon bc a designer at Apple said they were, then every tech journalist repeated that, then they broke out their dictionaries to see what "skeuomorphic" meant.

The render of RavioliBox's CD idea looks pretty clean. It would be interesting if the discs had different colors based on genre or something, but a subtle effect. The game cartridges are overbearing for me, and it would make them look different from animations in a way that doesn't make sense to use for both.

My mind jumps to film reel tape sticking out of animations, which I think is cool but not quite as cool as something Flash-inspired could be. It would also be wasted space I think in the portal view as opposed to only seeing it in the inline post view.

Well you should of said that before I made my news post https://tankcraft.newgrounds.com/news/post/1360316 cool update tho

My one takeaway from this post is that @JamesLee is a helpful cutie pie.

THIS IS THE GAME CHANGER I'VE BEEN WANTING!

Oh yikes. You got rid of the default robots image. Guess I am gonna make / dole out cash to get some art created for the playlists now! :P

ALSO, I like Lee's mockup. I actually wanted cartridges for the music if we were going to go square-- but games works too! :)

I'll confess I barelly noticed the game thumbnails mockup until a second look lol

it just looked so natural to me xP

that said, I loved the music thumbnail mockup

The numbers show up on desktop but not on mobile at the moment due to space concerns there, dunno if that will change. Is there a place where you aren't seeing them on desktop?

This is on our list! Hoping it will get sorted out during some spring cleaning after the Art Portal update goes live.

God those cartridge thumbnails look wonderful, holy shit pls make them a thing in the future.

Paylists are lookin sleeeeek, the audio section is looking like a great place to organize a little music/sound portfolio with these...any chance we get playlists within movie, audio, game sections on the profile pages? rearranging playlists would also be neat

Also, I learned a new word today "skeuomorphic", nice! Thanks Tom!

The playlist changes generally just seem quite nice.

I love those thumbnail mockups for the music and game portal submissions, they got so much personality to them!

I'm liking the new update to the playlists so far, provides a good chunk of relevant information for us desktop users, though I have noticed it takes its time to load on my laptop even after everything else has already loaded in, like, roughly 5 seconds afterwards (OS is Linux Mint 21.1 and I use Firefox if that info helps)... Actually I just checked again and it seems to be loading much faster now, must've just been my internet at the time or the bug was already fixed.

Although, I was wondering if playlists without thumbnail art could default to taking thumbnails from content inside the playlists similar to how other websites tend to do it?

I definitely would enjoy seeing the addition of skeuomorphic borders around submissions in the various portals, as long as it isn't anything too distracting I think it would add a nice touch to the Newgrounds experience. Themes would also be fun too!

I like how it snap shots not only the amount, but the different types of media in the playlist. Also, Thank you for showing my TOP 10 arts playlist!

Maybe something that invokes .fla files might work, like the thumbnails being contained in a window, or a sidebar resembling the classic .fla icon.

Thank you so much! Playlist links will be so helpful for me ^^

That mockup by JamesLee looks amazing! I love both of those ideas.

This. This would be awesome to bring back in some form or fashion, and I could see that working well with the mockup of the discs poking out of the case.

Originally I wasn't seeing on any of the playlists in your original post in this thread, but coming back to it now, I do see them. I didn't take a screenshot of it earlier, so I probably missed them on the far right side. I guess now that you mention mobile, it would be nice to have the number of entries be displayed somewhere on mobile, even if it isn't in the embedded links. As far as I can tell, I don't see anywhere it is visible while browsing on my phone.

I'm glad to see the playback issue is on the list! Would there ever be shuffle and/or repeat options within playlists as well? These are more nice-to-haves for me, but I'd love to see them made available.

Awesome update. You can sort by views but don't actually see the viewcount though hmm... would be cool if that number was visible somewhere too.

I like the idea of game cartridges, movie strips and CD sleeves, @JamesLee's mockup looks awesome. All the more personal with games, and you see more of the cover art with the music. Only downside I can think of would be older covers designed specifically to fit a circular disc possibly looking a bit odd with this, but seems like a minor thing...

Always enjoyed skeuomorphic design, don't see why it left really, all for bringing it back wherever possible!

Seemed like the intention with having a more streamlined layout - for example having the same thumbnail style across all content types - would be that it was easier to maintain and update, but if that's no issue the more detail the better IMO.

This sounds even better. Vinyl would be awesome, the old vinyl icons we had were pretty cool, kept using 'em as cover images for a while...

Sleeve + regular/gold/diamond/platinum style vinyl in sleeve based on views? ;)

Either way cartridge/sleeve idea sounds awesome, if possibly to customize further even better IMO.

That update is so sick I want to dance now. Thank god I have a playlist for this

These are a possibility, have a bunch of higher priority plans at the moment though.

I'm really loving this update. The playlists look sweet, especially on mobile. I might have to make new icons. Thanks team!

Check out my playlists!

(The utility one is gonna have another one soon. 😉)

Response was mixed, however a lot of people liked the idea of treating the thumbnail like a sleeve with a CD or vinyl record poking out the side, to keep music unique while showing the full thumbnail.

I am 100% for the idea of changing the disc thumbnail to be a square "sleeve" with a CD poking out! But I also think that if this change is gonna be made its gonna emphasize the cover art for audio uploads a little bit more than they already are. My suggestion because of this is that maybe the cover art for an audio upload should show up in a square next to the waveform much like a playlist page's cover image does.

Here is a quick and messy concept image to showcase my idea, It should probably be handled differently in the final but I feel this edit gets the idea across.

vouch

The mock-ups are awesome! The cartridges are a super nostalgic look and I like it a lot. The CD cases are also a big improvement in my opinion. The current design isn't bad by any means, but sometimes the hole through the middle impacts the artwork. I'm a big fan of the new look!

The 2007-2012 layout was my favourite for a reason! I understand that changes are sometimes necessary but I'm sure mr. Fulp and co could have found a way to iterate upon that layout instead of making a new one from scratch if they were inclined to do so.

This was a quick and neat update. Things are starting look better in 2023.

I'm digging the mockups! I'd maybe have the cartridges be a little more subtle but I like the idea of the games on NG looking like cartridges.

I mean, if you're going Skeuomorph like @JamesLee's example, for movies you'd do better having TVs or VHS tape covers to get that hardcore '90s vibe going.

I really dig the CRTs, feels very newgroundsey to me.

It looks a lot cleaner now, great work!

The CRT wall in the Movies mockup makes me think about the wall of TVs playing videos at an electronics store. It gives off the same kind of vibes.

Which makes me think about the games again: if we keep with the CRT theme, would games get a computer monitor? That might work as a callback to flash games' influence on the site.

That would be kinda pointless as games can be played on almost any screen. We seem to be leaning towards cartridges as its identifier-- besides some games are played on pocket devices, not CRTs. :)