So far, I'm not really the biggest fan of the implementation of Takeover Tuesday. Might need to warm myself up to it a little more.

My main gripes with it are that it takes-up too much space, and that it sometimes feels like P-bot 2.0 with it only highlighting the obvious popular stuff. Though, I might need to check back on that last one later today because it's probably not as bad as it looks at first glance. Especially now that the "Hot item" got removed from the top of the list

Really, the biggest suggestion I have is to put the items on a grid instead of a list so that it takes-up a lot less space, and put the "show all" button a lot closer to the top instead of over 50% of the entire web-page. Like, maybe 25% instead?

Overall, I like the idea because it gives me another reason to participate in the website, see some things I may have quickly glossed over in the past, and discover some never-before seen things. I just don't like how obnoxiously big it all is.

Those were just my first impressions of the feature, but with a few fixes and a bit more time it'll probably be my favourite feature.

Freaking sweet. NG really is the best place to share stuff. A feature like this is super cool for discovery. That's the one thing I think NG lacks compared to other places. Thanks for being so user friendly with your monetization!

This post got me concerned it will return to zero bombing in reverse.

tubular

Damn, enetring the cite today was a huge ass jumpscare lmao

This sounds hella neat actually!

Neato!

A really cool concept - already discovered a few hidden gem artworks and pieces in the mix, which is a great way to further support users on the site :D

Tell me about it - I was anticipating a simple Supporter-driven ad system, not this mass-frontpaging of Supporters' favourites!

Tell me about it - I've already seen some obscure stuff get some much-deserved time in the spotlight, and witched an instant classic or two resurface (Punch Punch Forever, I'm looking at you).

I think this is a really good feature, and a great way to get supporters more involved and hopefully boost the total number of supporters for the site. However, there are a couple minor elements of it that I'm not fond of.

First of all, as others have pointed out, it takes up too much space. I want to be able to quickly access what my friends have posted and the features for the day, and the massive wall that is Takeover Tuesday prevents me from doing that efficiently. I hope that a shrinking button is added, so that it shrinks to become similar in size to any of the other featured sections (or maybe a tad larger if necessary).

In my opinion, I do not think self promotion should be allowed on the grounds that it is not fair for users who do not have the ability to become a supporter. It's essentially creating a frontpage ad for your own work. While there are already multiple threads to self promote your work, but the difference is that Takeover Tuesday is widely viewable by everyone, but only those who have paid can contribute (and therefore self-promote). This feels like very "pay to win", and is unfair to any user who cannot afford a supporter upgrade. Before this, there was no major limitations by staying a non-supporter as an artist, while now it seems you can gain a legitimate advantage as a creator by paying for exposure. While I love the idea of Takeover Tuesday, I do not think self promotion should be allowed within it.

I also think that self promotion defeats the purpose of becoming a supporter, as people should be supporting Newgrounds and it's community by recommending lesser known works of art, games, animation, and music for others to see. (This last part is more about how I think people should act as role models and less so about unfair competition, but I thought I should mention it anyway.)

thx Tom uwu 🍑🍆🥵 ❤️

I did´nt think it before but actually, self-promoting urself in this section it brokes the portals meta and becames pay-to-win. Not cool, I didnt choose to be a broke ass

Pretty damn cool feature

idk how i feel about being able to self promo, but at the same time you are paying monthly to the website so go off I guess

Now that is a good feature, Mr. Tom Fulp and Newgrounds Staff can suprise everyone, besides, @PsychoGoldfish did good work there!

When Tom teased a Tuesday surprise I was hoping for a blowjob, but this is better than two blowjobs!!

Honestly, this idea is legitimately pretty cool. Not only it fits with Newgrounds being this place for new talents to get their name out there, but I already found a ton of cool stuff and insanely talented artists that went under my nose, in fact, I think this works far better as a frontpage suggestion than the actual BBS FP suggestion thread.

However, the way this is implemented as of now feels a little too intrusive

My main problem being the fact that my "Latest From Your Friends & Favorites"/Follow List is at the very bottom, and I have to scroll quite a bit to get there, when I believe that my follow list should always be at the top, or at least the 2nd thing I see after the frontpage/events banner

At times I just don't feel like seeing new stuff, and just want to stick to my followers list, and I think that making this simple change, or simply giving the user an option to minimize the tab would already help a lot to sell this new feature.

The other suggestion I have, is that instead of having a list for the "Show", you could just have buttons instead, but that's more of a suggestion than a necessity.

However, as much as I don't like how things are implemented right now, I sincerely love this idea, and I'm glad that this place is being run under people that genuinely care over their community and website, and I could not be more grateful for all the effort that goes under keeping Newgrounds running, specially when it comes to introducing new people to the community.

I'm excited to see what new stuff you guys are working on next, best of luck to everyone.

Since I don't know how to edit posts I figure I'll bump my ramblings a bit -

Just got on NG from my phone for the first time today - the takeover section actually looks really good in mobile view. I try to use desktop mode on NG from my phone most of the time but this takeover section looks really great and is easy to navigate (it's long, but that's the point too!)

you're right, in fact I thought it was only to promote others and not themselves, even if I found out in advance I wouldn't have promoted myself anyway, but this thing of paying to promote yourself isn't that great in fact... the "takeover tuesday" could be very modifiable for example having 1 or 2 tokens, if you promote another person you spend 1 and it could be modified so that you can select that this person must reciprocate by spending his token for you, for example, if I want to promote Napt but I want him to reciprocate, 1) first I put his post 2) I click on a verification box next to "I want you to reciprocate" and put my post (or someone else's post) on the second text bar that will appear 3) I click on send ... napt will receive a notification to see the post I selected for him and my post with which I want him to spend 1 token, if he accepts his post placed by me and my post placed by him will appear on the front page at the same time.

I always thought the Wiki page was more readable than the way it’s listed on the Supporter page!

Josh is working on a length toggle right now, so people can adjust the default amount and it will save the value.

i think this is the best perk to add for supports, also means less recognized items can be brought to the spotlight once again

Epic feature! XD Really elevates the "Everything, by everyone!" concept :3

lol, okay all the users calling this new feed clunky have a point. I'm looking at this on a desktop computer now and it is huge compared to how compact everything else is on the Frontpage.

Newgrounds appears to be the only website giving away a (decent) free hosting service for all types of creative media without selling out its users' data or infesting the site with malicious ad campaigns, unnecessary javascript bloat or weird tracking domain connections. Just thinking about it for more than a second I would say it's incredible that people wouldn't want to financially support the site for that fact alone. Almost (or rather: certainly) taking it for granted.

Honestly if you have to pay to get your work seen it's probably not worth anybody's time in the first place, and taking this cynicism up a notch I could see this "cheap self promo" thing attracting the kind of people that don't really give a shit about this site, that would only come to promote their business and unceremoniously leave with no further intent of engaging with the site or its community in any kind of positive or constructive way. Although if it does prove to gather enough money to help keep the site afloat I don't think I'd care so much about it, I think. I'd like to hope people will be able to naturally maintain some integrity in that regard if the self promo feature is here to stay.

BTW as p.s: I would totally be throwing some coins at the site if I weren't struggling to pay internet bills. Regardless of whatever perks come with it. Seeing the rest of the mainstream web taking the opposite direction, gaslighting people to think it's a good thing makes me appreciate this site a lot more, even if it's not without its flaws, they're easily overlooked in comparison.

At 10/8/24 05:39 PM, xeiavica wrote:

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: : : At 10/8/24 12:03 PM, TheBestBroster wrote:

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: : : : : : WHAT.

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: : : : : : THIS IS ALMOST LIKE HAVING THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM.

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: : : : : : DUDE CAN I BE A SCUMBAG AND NOMINATE MY OWN STUFF?

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: : : : : Sure!

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: Neato!

Astonishing!

Not everyone can handle as much length as me.... oh wait, you meant something else... yeah that's done

Man, I wish I had money for Newgrounds.

I'm loving this idea!

very good idea!

The length selector is exactly what I needed! <3

Thank you so much! I wasn't expecting it to be done that quickly. Good job! :)