Asandir 2011-06-23 12:12:30

Well, here are my thoughts:

- Dividing the experience points is not that good, I would make it so, that you can vote on audio and art, and that it counts to the 5 needed votes.

- Dumping grounds is indeed great and should be used more by other artists

- The forums are great and I use them alot, but you should know that already ;)

- Can´t comment on the API, since I have no experience with it and won´t have any in the future.

- I have also mixed feelings about the scouting system, but only because it lets out unknown users, I guess.

- I like the userpage, but more ways to customize it would be great, yes.

- The collections are barely updated, it´s sad, maybe some people could make it?

Well, that´s all that I wanted to say.

Dosensuppen 2011-06-25 02:24:40

Only two thins I really have much of a concern about. Voting system and dumping. O

- Voting: There is no leak-proof system for voting. There isn't. I rather keep the 0-5 voting style. It generally shows the quality of a flash (unless abused), allows for a middle ground on certain ideals -- rather than the mindless Like/Dislike feature on most damn content on the web, it doesn't hop the bandwagon of Internet voting (Most hopping from Newgrounds style back in the early 2000s), and is all around traditional and should be one of the things to stay since it has been one of the main pulls since automated portal system has been implemented.
-- You could have no voting, but that would destroy what is THE heart of Newgrounds. You could change it entirely, but it's not broken and there is no leak-proof system, and it would destroy the feel of this site.

Dumping Grounds: I'm not worried so much about the security. But a confirmation email for everything you may delete would be nice, but also tedious. However, I really wish there was more mention of dumping grounds to other artists. So many artists who are in the portal upload these "test" flashes to see how things look, and time to time I shoot them a little email saying "Hey, you know there's Dumping Grounds, right?" And they think me for letting them know because they had no idea. Maybe a little message in the submitting screen saying "Woohoo, test flashes go here". It would be a real saver.

MintPaw 2011-06-25 03:36:56

Why would I listen to a retard. :P

Dosensuppen 2011-06-25 04:42:25

I wasn't saying you wanted to switch to Youtube, but I heard some talk once that Tom thought of the whole like/dislike thing It's just that seems to be the only other form of voting I can really think of.

Anyhow, what would the purpose of the dump having a form of voting be?

VioletVulpine 2011-06-25 08:55:37

I think you should comment on medal approval/denial, as it seems that you'll either be waiting months for approval, and in one of my friends cases, denied before they upload the game. That's bullshit. I agree with a lot of your stuff here.

Asandir 2011-06-26 08:39:46

"The rest are just about batcat."

OBJECTION! Batcat is actually part of my newspost, so people stay infact ontopic when they comment on him ;)

Lintire 2011-06-26 09:06:23

I don't know how the hell you're going to re-review Newgrounds again in 2 months. You could just say that you're going to review it after the redesign; that is, in your words, never.

I'm okay with them putting off updating features of the website which I myself have stopped using for a while now, but hopefully they'll input all that time into hurrying it the hell up.

Okay review, pretty explanatory and conventional views but whatever. Didn't know they were re-implementing animated profile images. Hopefully they'll raise the image limits above the ridiculously low 50kb limit.

Asandir 2011-06-28 11:20:20

On the redesign part:
I would like it, when we can choose between the colour layouts, when there will be a blue one, so that everyone gets what he/she likes, although I doubt that Newgrounds will change its famous colourscheme.

Not sure on Unity games, but they could bring in more variation, when I understood it right, there will be one flash portal and one portal for creations that were made with other utilities, I might be wrong, though.

Well, I agree on the things you said about the widescreen layout.

Mizzjuicyflava 2011-06-29 20:22:23

nice review! Very thorough and detailed. I agree with you about the art portal. There a lot of artists I like on NG but I can't fav them. And yes I'm a retard.

Quicksmasher 2011-07-02 10:15:02

You're copying Asandir.

cdjproductions 2011-07-03 05:36:17

- Flash - A lot of people will abuse voting; you can't stop that. On the other hand, if you take out the voting system, the portal will be filled with crap submissions, spam, one-tween movies, stuff like that.

- Audio - Of course we need the audio judgement by actual people; it may take a few weeks, but this keeps (some) people from just posting stolen audio, noise, or stuff with crappy pre-made loops. Plus judgement only needs to be gone through ONCE. As for making it like the Flash Portal blam/save voting, people would abuse that even worse. You've seen good songs that have a score of zero or near-zero, right?

- Collections/Series/Etc - I agree, some of the stuff there is barely updated. The Games section should be sorted out according to what kind of game it's categorized as in the Flash description, rather than having the staff manually pick and choose what games go where, and organize them either by name or by score. Would be nice.

- Possible Features - If Unity stuff is added, I hope it's better maintained, although I prefer regular Flash games and don't want to see a huge switch. I'm not too concerned about the size change, but there are still people out there who view this on 1000-or-less pixel screen. I like the grey-and-orange color scheme; I swear, if they dare change it...

Quicksmasher 2011-07-03 07:21:14

Wowowow We know us? Sorry bro I really forgot who you are, maybe you made some Name change eh?

Nufin muth has happened, NOW is the time things are gonna happen, since holidays just started (mine are just 1 day old =P)