Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead!

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-07 15:56:28

At 9/7/24 02:49 PM, PsychoGoldfish wrote:
At 9/7/24 12:28 PM, FLOUNDERMANCLOCK wrote:
At 9/7/24 11:39 AM, PsychoGoldfish wrote:@53xy83457, @Pingu, @FLOUNDERMANCLOCK

I believe I have squashed the bug that was causing your issues. Give it another go and let us know how it went.
The error message is gone and I can add things without issue thanks! Though now it keeps putting the one I had as first at the bottom of the list when I refresh or leave the page. Every other submission on the list can be moved around and they stay put. I tried adding them all again in the order I wanted but that particular submission keeps reverting to last.

Man this was a "fun" bug to figure out, but I think I squashed it. Try re-sorting your votes again.

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-07 17:03:23

Voting was enjoyable, the pin feature was really nice for narrowing down the decisions. Completely missed the art slideshow thing though and used new tabs instead. Oops.

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-07 17:23:37

Monthly voting works really well!

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-07 17:54:30

At 9/6/24 03:24 PM, TomFulp wrote:September 7th Update: Monthly voting launched but there were some bugs! The bug with selecting items should now be fixed, so give it another try if you ran into trouble earlier. The second bug is that the invite PM shows the old deadline of September 6th, when the new deadline is end of day September 13th.

Moving along to the original post:

This next week is gonna be pretty nuts, hope you’re ready!

Here’s what is happening, starting tomorrow:

Monthly Voting Overhaul

Saturday, September 7th: Our new monthly voting system makes its debut, with an expanded voting pool. If you’re part of the pool, you’ll receive an invite from @P-Bot via PM.

Monthly voting will now work on mobile and has expanded to include categories for Art and Music. The link above includes a walkthrough of the new process but @PsychoGoldfish has managed to add two last-minute surprises!

The first is an alpha version of our Art Slideshow Viewer, to make it easier to digest the 100 art nominees. Art, Audio and Movies all let you play entries in-page by clicking the item thumbnail. With art and movies, the arrow keys advance to the next item. This remains on the todo list for audio!

The second addition is a Pin button, so you can pin items to the top of the nominee list, under your Top 10 selections. This helps to organize your thoughts as you finalize which ten entries you will be ranking.

Picking the best of the month can be a big undertaking but we’re trying to make it fun and hope you discover lots of new favorites along the way!

If you get invited and rank your favorites, reply to this post and let us know how the experience was for you. If you try it on mobile, let us know how that works out too!

Brazil Art Contest

Also on Saturday: @Arzonaut will be announcing a Brazil-themed art contest, with prizes! This spawned from the Brasil Roll Call thread.

Dreamcast Collab

Monday, September 9th: The much anticipated Dreamcast Collab arrives! The Dreamcast launched on 9-9-1999 and this collab celebrates its 25th birthday. We’ll also have a Dreamcast site skin by @sheepSLAPS!

Friday Night Funkin’

Thursday, September 12th: The next FNF update, with playable Pico! We’ll have an FNF site skin by @KornArt3, as well!

Surprise?

Friday, September 13th: A tentative surprise! It's a movie.

Best of August Announcement

Saturday, September 14th: If nothing breaks, expect the Best of August to be announced. Really curious to see how things go with art and audio!

Other News

Sign ups for Sketch Collab 2024 have opened!

Listen to this Podcast Interview with The-Super-Flash-Bros!

ComixGuy927 posted the remainder of their wonderful Summergrounds Art!

More code cleanup happened this week! Is NG feeling snappy for you?

Robot Day Winners have been announced!

I made a post highlighting recent games on Steam by NG veterans.

Keep an eye on the NG Calendar for ongoing events and collabs!

I am glad that there are votes for users to say the best of August

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-07 19:27:08

Aw I'm gonna miss the very old NG top bar while picking my top monthly picks :) So far works well for me but so like we can cast vote on like a total of 40 submissions now? I hope its ok if not all categories are filled out. (yet anyways)

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-07 21:52:13

The new system is slick and definitely more user friendly, good shit

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-08 00:39:15

At 9/7/24 05:53 PM, Dungeonation wrote:I may be biased as every little NG fix and update makes me happy, but I don't think this has been too boring of a year for NG updates, as was said previously! KUDOS as usual to @PsychoGoldfish and everyone else who contributes to NG's upkeep! <3

Things are starting to shape up nicely, plus the site is running better after all the behind-the-scenes stuff that has gone on this year! Jim is prepping for the next stable release of PHP, which is expected in November and will bring some useful features. Our text editor update to Quill 2.0 is also on the way. Should be lots more improvements before the year is up!

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-08 01:26:02

Just voted, it was very smooth and simple. I personally didn't use the pin feature but could see it being useful if I hit my limit and hand a tough choice to make

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-08 05:34:51

Can you add the ability to rate audio that's currently playing in the audio monthly voting thing? I like to use that time to listen to all the tracks and rate on the ones that I haven't given a rating too yet but it disrupts my workflow to have to open the link in another tab to rate it on the main page. It would be handy if the 5 star system popped up somewhere when the track is playing.

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-08 07:53:28

It's good to be back and see the community thriving. Nice updates, looking forward to the tentative surprise, good shit all around.

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-08 08:06:22

At 9/8/24 05:34 AM, RosieUV wrote:Can you add the ability to rate audio that's currently playing in the audio monthly voting thing? I like to use that time to listen to all the tracks and rate on the ones that I haven't given a rating too yet but it disrupts my workflow to have to open the link in another tab to rate it on the main page. It would be handy if the 5 star system popped up somewhere when the track is playing.

We have a plan to bring voting / reviews and Add to Playlist to the in-page audio player, no ETA at the moment but it's pretty high on the list.

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-08 10:48:11

Can confirm it works great on mobile! I'm glad I can take part in the monthly voting now!

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-08 11:30:27

Yesterday I tried the voting system (thank you so much for selecting me, I didn't expect considering I am pretty new here) and I liked how user-friendly it is. The voting went smooth and there were a lot of cool stuff to choose. Art was the most difficult because I would have voted everything XD

Thank you again for this opportunity!

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-08 12:58:20

At 9/8/24 08:06 AM, TomFulp wrote:
At 9/8/24 05:34 AM, RosieUV wrote:Can you add the ability to rate audio that's currently playing in the audio monthly voting thing? I like to use that time to listen to all the tracks and rate on the ones that I haven't given a rating too yet but it disrupts my workflow to have to open the link in another tab to rate it on the main page. It would be handy if the 5 star system popped up somewhere when the track is playing.

We have a plan to bring voting / reviews and Add to Playlist to the in-page audio player, no ETA at the moment but it's pretty high on the list.

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-08 19:54:07

If you get invited and rank your favorites, reply to this post and let us know how the experience was for you. If you try it on mobile, let us know how that works out too!

I tried it on both mobile and PC, very straight forward voting system and allows you to pick multiple, and decide on your favorites in whatever order you choose. Good work guys!

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-08 23:15:46 (edited 2024-09-08 23:18:28)

I voted on pc using Chrome and the experience was great! I didn't see a reason to pin things at first, but when selecting the nominees I found it very useful for submissions I didn't view before and wanted to, this really helped with Audio because I don't listen to that much music here lol (I will now). I also liked the detail of selected nominees having the color of its respective portal. Very good update.:)

Oh yeah! On voting day THIS came in the mail!

So that's cool. :>

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-09 08:51:11 (edited 2024-09-09 08:52:21)

first time voting and, although i have no idea how the previous voting UI looked like, i can confirm the new system is definitely easy to use.

i was especially worried about being locked out of editing my choices once i was done with the first selection but i'm glad i can go back indefinitely to make changes as many times as i want.

ended up here because i decided to look up how other people are doing, in regards to the submissions.

since i pretty much only play games here, having to vote on movies, art and music as well felt especially daunting because i don't feel nearly as "qualified".

managed to keep up with the 10-submission limit so far, but the audio submissions have me stumped.

i've somehow narrowed it down to about 35 of the originally 100 entries, and still sifting through.

i have absolutely 0 music knowledge so this selection is entirely based on "vibes" and nothing else.

how do you people manage to choose only 10? any method to the madness that you'd like to share?

all of these are so good, i honestly have no idea how to pick them out

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-09 14:17:54

New voting system is sick af. Can't even remember how it use to be (gross).

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-09 23:39:46

I really, REALLY liked the pin feature. I'm definitely someone who has trouble ranking or narrowing down favorites, so that was really *chef's kiss*

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-10 14:21:21

Monthy awards are revived back and they are for movies and games as well?

HOORAY!

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Response to Best of August Voting and a Busy Week Ahead! 2024-09-10 17:13:03

Trophies are changed lol

Best of the Month is back

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