At 10/5/24 04:20 PM, BlakeyTakeyTheCakey wrote:I'm hyped! My guess is something to do with voting/improving on features. Coincidentally, I've been thinking of getting supporter lol. Also this morning when I was looking at my feed I noticed there were some ads. They were all about some game sale. I just checked now and they are gone. Weird.
We’re experimenting with bringing back ads at the moment. Based on how Tuesday goes, they might go away or there might be a lot more of them.
Response to Tuesday Surprise & LordSpew on Adult Swim 2024-10-05 21:38:01 (edited 2024-10-05 21:40:38)
I've been giving Newgrounds $100 every year for the last two years and I plan to continue to do so and hope to be able to give more.
Because goshdarnit ain't nobody supporting creators like Newgrounds.
At least I think it's $100 like I'm pretty sure but I'd feel like a huge jerk if that weren't actually true and I gave like $50 instead but no I'm pretty sure it's $100 each year
At 10/5/24 08:38 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 10/5/24 04:20 PM, BlakeyTakeyTheCakey wrote:I'm hyped! My guess is something to do with voting/improving on features. Coincidentally, I've been thinking of getting supporter lol. Also this morning when I was looking at my feed I noticed there were some ads. They were all about some game sale. I just checked now and they are gone. Weird.
We’re experimenting with bringing back ads at the moment. Based on how Tuesday goes, they might go away or there might be a lot more of them.
People might be mad at this, but I'm fine with them if there aren't too many and they don't make the site lag. Bonus points if there are no pop-ups.
At 10/5/24 08:38 PM, TomFulp wrote:We’re experimenting with bringing back ads at the moment. Based on how Tuesday goes, they might go away or there might be a lot more of them.
It’s gonna be received how it’s gonna be received, but my hope is that it makes a splash, whatever it is :D
Ah yes, amazing video. 10/10
professional ksp player. also, i have like 5 websites right now, xdd
At 10/6/24 07:08 AM, EuropeanRat wrote:Ah yes, amazing video. 10/10
Oh weird, maybe there are regional restrictions? It's working for me.
At 10/5/24 03:14 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 10/5/24 12:14 PM, Anonicus wrote:Calling it now, We're getting G-Bot's feet pics every week
G-Bot is actually on treads, unless you're into that sort of thing.
You'd be surprised Tom
At 10/5/24 08:38 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 10/5/24 04:20 PM, BlakeyTakeyTheCakey wrote:I'm hyped! My guess is something to do with voting/improving on features. Coincidentally, I've been thinking of getting supporter lol. Also this morning when I was looking at my feed I noticed there were some ads. They were all about some game sale. I just checked now and they are gone. Weird.
We’re experimenting with bringing back ads at the moment. Based on how Tuesday goes, they might go away or there might be a lot more of them.
Calling it now, we return to 2007 internet without adblock.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil"
~Donald Knuth
At 10/6/24 08:00 AM, TomFulp wrote:At 10/6/24 07:08 AM, EuropeanRat wrote:Ah yes, amazing video. 10/10
Oh weird, maybe there are regional restrictions? It's working for me.
ye always everythin working for america
also clean up your code, it was a pain to find the link
i turned on my vpn, it worked (yay... i guess?)
professional ksp player. also, i have like 5 websites right now, xdd
At 10/5/24 08:13 AM, TomFulp wrote:Tuesday Surprise
We’ve been working on a new feature that, if all goes well, will premiere this Tuesday and become a weekly event every Tuesday moving forward.
Aww sweet wonder what it will be?
it will start every Tuesday morning at 12am EST.
Hmm I live in Malaysia when is that in my time zone..
Oh midnight
What's a Signature text? Why'd I click on this? How do I leave?
Thats some crazy news, congrats @LordSpew for kicking some serious ass
At 10/7/24 06:36 AM, EuropeanRat wrote:At 10/6/24 08:00 AM, TomFulp wrote:At 10/6/24 07:08 AM, EuropeanRat wrote:Ah yes, amazing video. 10/10
Oh weird, maybe there are regional restrictions? It's working for me.
ye always everythin working for america
also clean up your code, it was a pain to find the link
i turned on my vpn, it worked (yay... i guess?)
The tom is just following protocol is all.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil"
~Donald Knuth
This will add some life on the website. Because people are going to wait for every week for this.
ZombieGhost
At 10/7/24 11:55 AM, MindChamber wrote:Thats some crazy news, congrats @LordSpew for kicking some serious ass
THANK YOU BUD
Response to Tuesday Surprise & LordSpew on Adult Swim 2024-10-07 15:16:27 (edited 2024-10-07 15:17:27)
At 10/5/24 08:38 PM, TomFulp wrote:
We’re experimenting with bringing back ads at the moment. Based on how Tuesday goes, they might go away or there might be a lot more of them.
Damn, it felt like NG has gone through such long streak without ads. I hope you find a way to make them as unobtrusive as possible if things don't go as planned tomorrow.
At 10/7/24 03:16 PM, Nabella wrote:At 10/5/24 08:38 PM, TomFulp wrote:
We’re experimenting with bringing back ads at the moment. Based on how Tuesday goes, they might go away or there might be a lot more of them.
Damn, it felt like NG has gone through such long streak without ads. I hope you find a way to make them as unobtrusive as possible if things don't go as planned tomorrow.
I know, we're approaching five full years without them! I think most people never really appreciated it because most the people here have ad blockers.
At 10/7/24 03:54 PM, TomFulp wrote:
I know, we're approaching five full years without them! I think most people never really appreciated it because most the people here have ad blockers.
It's been five years already?
At 10/5/24 08:38 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 10/5/24 04:20 PM, BlakeyTakeyTheCakey wrote:I'm hyped! My guess is something to do with voting/improving on features. Coincidentally, I've been thinking of getting supporter lol. Also this morning when I was looking at my feed I noticed there were some ads. They were all about some game sale. I just checked now and they are gone. Weird.
We’re experimenting with bringing back ads at the moment. Based on how Tuesday goes, they might go away or there might be a lot more of them.
I feel like you read my mind there - I contemplated floating that idea (sorta) by you for a while (though I did say I wasn't expecting you to go through with it back in June).
By my guess, its gonna be allowing Supporters to serve ads on Newgrounds. Giving my personal opinion on this before it goes live (and risking public embarrassment if my prediction's off the mark): Good call, Fulp. Here's three major reasons why:
At 10/7/24 03:54 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 10/7/24 03:16 PM, Nabella wrote:At 10/5/24 08:38 PM, TomFulp wrote:
We’re experimenting with bringing back ads at the moment. Based on how Tuesday goes, they might go away or there might be a lot more of them.
Damn, it felt like NG has gone through such long streak without ads. I hope you find a way to make them as unobtrusive as possible if things don't go as planned tomorrow.
I know, we're approaching five full years without them! I think most people never really appreciated it because most the people here have ad blockers.
Tom, are you going to use something called ethicalads if you were to do more advertising? I hope you don't sign a pact with the devil and go with google ads.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil"
~Donald Knuth
At 10/7/24 04:31 PM, xeiavica wrote:Tom, are you going to use something called ethicalads if you were to do more advertising? I hope you don't sign a pact with the devil and go with google ads.
We're considering doing our own in-house system and having a fixed amount of slots available but it feels unlikely it would generate meaningful revenue each month.
At 10/7/24 04:34 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 10/7/24 04:31 PM, xeiavica wrote:Tom, are you going to use something called ethicalads if you were to do more advertising? I hope you don't sign a pact with the devil and go with google ads.
We're considering doing our own in-house system and having a fixed amount of slots available but it feels unlikely it would generate meaningful revenue each month.
I need to ask, if this won't make much, why are you doing this? Or will we find out tuesday innit?
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil"
~Donald Knuth
At 10/7/24 04:31 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:By my guess, its gonna be allowing Supporters to serve ads on Newgrounds. Giving my personal opinion on this before it goes live (and risking public embarrassment if my prediction's off the mark): Good call, Fulp. Here's three major reasons why:
This is a consideration, bypassing a dedicated ad buying system and making it a Supporter perk with a higher threshold, like if you pay at least $20 per month you can insert your ad into the rotation.
At 10/7/24 04:42 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 10/7/24 04:31 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:By my guess, its gonna be allowing Supporters to serve ads on Newgrounds. Giving my personal opinion on this before it goes live (and risking public embarrassment if my prediction's off the mark): Good call, Fulp. Here's three major reasons why:
This is a consideration, bypassing a dedicated ad buying system and making it a Supporter perk with a higher threshold, like if you pay at least $20 per month you can insert your ad into the rotation.
What's to stop people from buying ads for stormfront though? You'll have to screen every single ad that comes through or whitelist/blacklist external stuff you can advertise for?
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil"
~Donald Knuth
Response to Tuesday Surprise & LordSpew on Adult Swim 2024-10-07 16:49:38 (edited 2024-10-07 16:51:33)
At 10/7/24 04:45 PM, xeiavica wrote:What's to stop people from buying ads for stormfront though? You'll have to screen every single ad that comes through or whitelist/blacklist external stuff you can advertise for?
Yup there would definitely be an approval process if we did this, so it would become part of the daily chores. Too many approvals at $20 a pop wouldn't be the worst problem to have, though!
There would be the problem of people who simply can't get approved, they would need a refund and we'd lose some processing fees on that. The alternative is to let them get approved before becoming Supporters but that would be a lot more busywork with people just testing it out without paying. We'd at least try to make it clear what sort of ads they wouldn't be allowed to promote.
At 10/7/24 04:49 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 10/7/24 04:45 PM, xeiavica wrote:What's to stop people from buying ads for stormfront though? You'll have to screen every single ad that comes through or whitelist/blacklist external stuff you can advertise for?
Yup there would definitely be an approval process if we did this, so it would become part of the daily chores. Too many approvals at $20 a pop wouldn't be the worst problem to have, though!
Tom Fulp: Suffering From Success
There would be the problem of people who simply can't get approved, they would need a refund and we'd lose some processing fees on that. The alternative is to let them get approved before becoming Supporters but that would be a lot more busywork with people just testing it out without paying. We'd at least try to make it clear what sort of ads they wouldn't be allowed to promote.
NSFW's almost certainly off the table, though I suspect you won't have to deal with too many people trying to get porn ads through the system.
At 10/7/24 05:04 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:There would be the problem of people who simply can't get approved, they would need a refund and we'd lose some processing fees on that. The alternative is to let them get approved before becoming Supporters but that would be a lot more busywork with people just testing it out without paying. We'd at least try to make it clear what sort of ads they wouldn't be allowed to promote.NSFW's almost certainly off the table, though I suspect you won't have to deal with too many people trying to get porn ads through the system.
We actually could allow people to give their ad a rating, so if they are promoting something like adult commissions that could be an option.
Response to Tuesday Surprise & LordSpew on Adult Swim 2024-10-07 18:18:32 (edited 2024-10-07 18:29:15)
An idea was roaming around in my head that would fit very well with Newgrounds I think.
Imagine there would be a way for users to buy a certain amount of a new NG "currency", say 100 NG$ per 1$US.
Then a user could distribute NG$ to creators of their choice, and when a user cashes out, it pays out 0.90$US per 100 NG$
People encouraging artists would give 10% to NG by doing so, and it would be seen as a good argument by many artists probably to bring their fans on NG. It would also mean that 10% of any amount of NG$ bought could be used right away, then the 90% remaining waiting for distribution to artists and cash out, could be used to generate interests while it sits there.
Then interests could trickle into prize pools, attracting more artists.
At 10/7/24 04:31 PM, BlueMonday1984 wrote:By my guess, its gonna be allowing Supporters to serve ads on Newgrounds.
Above me in the thread talks about how this won't be that, but BOY that would be pretty cool if it was launched right.
Now you've got me extra psyched for tomorrow's launch!
At 10/5/24 08:38 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 10/5/24 04:20 PM, BlakeyTakeyTheCakey wrote:I'm hyped! My guess is something to do with voting/improving on features. Coincidentally, I've been thinking of getting supporter lol. Also this morning when I was looking at my feed I noticed there were some ads. They were all about some game sale. I just checked now and they are gone. Weird.
We’re experimenting with bringing back ads at the moment. Based on how Tuesday goes, they might go away or there might be a lot more of them.
Fulp, make it like roblox where you can add custom ads
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Who's ready to live-BBS this feature tomorrow if applicable??
