At 5/24/23 05:19 AM, YendorNG wrote:

At 5/24/23 02:08 AM, needza wrote: 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. :)

At 5/24/23 11:21 AM, Foxmosis wrote: Well now that you mention the idea of pocket devices I think it'd be cute if the borders were actually themed around that, haha. Like each one is it's own little handheld that you could strap to your keychain. A Newgrounds Pokémon mini sort of thing.

At 5/22/23 10:20 AM, TomFulp wrote: What do you think of that mockup? It’s a shift back towards a more skeuomorphic design, something that was frowned on this past decade but is maybe primed for a come-back. I enjoyed all the feedback I got on Saturday’s post because it’s a reminder you are out there and reading this, so please don’t hesitate to weigh in on this idea now!

At 5/25/23 11:01 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 5/25/23 10:53 AM, Zhon wrote: Cool, rad, etc. Hey, random thought, could we get separate content rating filters for different media types?

This is one of those things that has been really tempting, although the added complexity might make it too confusing for people (plus the added complexity on our end).

At 5/22/23 10:20 AM, TomFulp wrote: We have embarked on a series of small incremental playlist updates that will be bringing a lot of cool things to the playlist space. Phase One updated the edit form to our current, mobile-friendly layout while introducing a rich text editor for commentary and a better thumbnail uploader with cropping tool.

Phase Two launched today, updating the Playlists page to our current layout and introducing ratings filters based on the content of individual playlists.

We’ve changed the formatting of how playlists are presented on pages, where they now include a thumbnail and short description. We also brought back number counts for individual content types on the desktop layout, in addition to showing the ratings range of the content in the list.

You can now create a rich content link to a playlist by pasting the playlist URL on its own line in our text editor, like you can with movies, games, art and audio!

Here are some examples of playlist URLs converting to rich content links:

https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/aed7e09ed6b7ba583a57003a27672dcf
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/67661c95b5156f8053795930789ce4a2
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/0d27b093c77fff5051b0b041619515d2
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/df2f69b39320040e04931ef5232752ff
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/8bdedffd86d1ff57bccf5936dae49ed3
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/b9662f0885e255c1f36f693888e05f1f
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/4b7a6a19e6a0797e2a89e61b557f828a
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/a8b45b0c9bb63bace9c8c5f4a94ca522
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/b9a96d146e8fec8b92a42f40b1a88ddc
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/f9bd0cfd9f687f3135ff635e2a4fcf78
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/b594bd0b2f6e07ea914ad1bc7632933a
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/9aae7ae744a8321ea66ef08e15f90f00
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/6ad4ea77e2351fad6f118c7b87dbbdde

Wednesday Update: On the playlist edit form, you can now specify a category from a list that includes Album, Collection, Playlist and Series. These categories will be utilized in future updates! If you're releasing a music album on NG, your album will essentially be a playlist categorized as Album.

If you’ve never made a playlist on NG, you can start one by clicking this button on any animation, game, art or audio entry:

Clicking that button will open this box, where you can select from your existing playlists or create a new one:

Music and Game Thumbnail Discussion

In my previous post on Saturday, I asked musicians if they felt it was time to retire the CD iconography for music thumbnails, instead showing their full square thumbnail art. 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. It also came up that games could look like game cartridges and movies could look like film strips. 

It’s fun to think about these things but it’s especially helpful when the ideas get visualized, which is what @JamesLee did with this game and music thumbnail mockup!

What do you think of that mockup? It’s a shift back towards a more skeuomorphic design, something that was frowned on this past decade but is maybe primed for a come-back. I enjoyed all the feedback I got on Saturday’s post because it’s a reminder you are out there and reading this, so please don’t hesitate to weigh in on this idea now!

Other News

Flash Forward Jam winners were announced last Saturday.

We’re hosting an Eddsworld Charity Art Contest. Entries will be posted on June 6th to celebrate Edd’s life and the 20 year anniversary of his first movie on NG.

Piconjo Day is June 9th.

The Art Inspired Music Contest deadline is June 19th.

June 23rd is the Too Many Games Meetup in PA.

Winners of the Treasure Hunt and Pico Day are coming up!

At 5/26/23 12:32 PM, HenLP wrote: Looks like some neat updates.

Only thing I think is missing for users, is a sort of 'folder/sub-galleries' feature for Art. It would probably suck to implement, especially when the "You might also enjoy..." bit on an image's page displays a user's most recent art submissions, but it'd be quite handy to have sub-galleries dedicated to user-organized collections; at least, more handy than the current "Suggested tags" feature.

At 5/26/23 01:46 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 5/26/23 12:32 PM, HenLP wrote: Looks like some neat updates.

Only thing I think is missing for users, is a sort of 'folder/sub-galleries' feature for Art. It would probably suck to implement, especially when the "You might also enjoy..." bit on an image's page displays a user's most recent art submissions, but it'd be quite handy to have sub-galleries dedicated to user-organized collections; at least, more handy than the current "Suggested tags" feature.

I think the upcoming playlist updates will address most of that, although an option to pin playlists to your art gallery page might be what you're picturing, like this?

At 5/22/23 10:20 AM, TomFulp wrote: We have embarked on a series of small incremental playlist updates that will be bringing a lot of cool things to the playlist space. Phase One updated the edit form to our current, mobile-friendly layout while introducing a rich text editor for commentary and a better thumbnail uploader with cropping tool.

Phase Two launched today, updating the Playlists page to our current layout and introducing ratings filters based on the content of individual playlists.

We’ve changed the formatting of how playlists are presented on pages, where they now include a thumbnail and short description. We also brought back number counts for individual content types on the desktop layout, in addition to showing the ratings range of the content in the list.

You can now create a rich content link to a playlist by pasting the playlist URL on its own line in our text editor, like you can with movies, games, art and audio!

Here are some examples of playlist URLs converting to rich content links:

https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/aed7e09ed6b7ba583a57003a27672dcf
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/67661c95b5156f8053795930789ce4a2
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/0d27b093c77fff5051b0b041619515d2
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/df2f69b39320040e04931ef5232752ff
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/8bdedffd86d1ff57bccf5936dae49ed3
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/b9662f0885e255c1f36f693888e05f1f
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/4b7a6a19e6a0797e2a89e61b557f828a
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/a8b45b0c9bb63bace9c8c5f4a94ca522
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/b9a96d146e8fec8b92a42f40b1a88ddc
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/f9bd0cfd9f687f3135ff635e2a4fcf78
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/b594bd0b2f6e07ea914ad1bc7632933a
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/9aae7ae744a8321ea66ef08e15f90f00
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/6ad4ea77e2351fad6f118c7b87dbbdde

Wednesday Update: On the playlist edit form, you can now specify a category from a list that includes Album, Collection, Playlist and Series. These categories will be utilized in future updates! If you're releasing a music album on NG, your album will essentially be a playlist categorized as Album. Update 2: Oops that's staff only at the moment, hold tight.

If you’ve never made a playlist on NG, you can start one by clicking this button on any animation, game, art or audio entry:

Clicking that button will open this box, where you can select from your existing playlists or create a new one:

Music and Game Thumbnail Discussion

In my previous post on Saturday, I asked musicians if they felt it was time to retire the CD iconography for music thumbnails, instead showing their full square thumbnail art. 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. It also came up that games could look like game cartridges and movies could look like film strips. 

It’s fun to think about these things but it’s especially helpful when the ideas get visualized, which is what @JamesLee did with this game and music thumbnail mockup!

What do you think of that mockup? It’s a shift back towards a more skeuomorphic design, something that was frowned on this past decade but is maybe primed for a come-back. I enjoyed all the feedback I got on Saturday’s post because it’s a reminder you are out there and reading this, so please don’t hesitate to weigh in on this idea now!

Other News

Flash Forward Jam winners were announced last Saturday.

We’re hosting an Eddsworld Charity Art Contest. Entries will be posted on June 6th to celebrate Edd’s life and the 20 year anniversary of his first movie on NG.

Piconjo Day is June 9th.

The Art Inspired Music Contest deadline is June 19th.

June 23rd is the Too Many Games Meetup in PA.

Winners of the Treasure Hunt and Pico Day are coming up!

At 5/22/23 09:56 PM, NightfallGloam wrote: 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!