Celebrating the thing that generated the least interest would probably have a lot of negative results but there are some fun things we could try. For example if someone shares something by someone else that had never been featured and it gets a positive response, maybe they'd earn a Treasure Hunter badge and the item could be showcased as a found treasure in some way in the archive.

If the event starts to feel too samey every week we'll have to consider our options there but something I want to note, that everyone should keep in mind, is that there isn't a single artist on this site who is getting the amount of views they deserve.

So imagine a popular artist on NG, who is likely getting far less views here than on YouTube, sees us going out of our way to put a cap on their potential success and give them less views - does that encourage them to stick around?

At the same time, I understand it's discouraging to other artists when they see the same people dominate. But they should also have confidence that if they make something really great, they could also achieve that level of success and not have an artificial cap placed on it.

Next Tuesday I'm going to pick something good but not likely popular. Toss the Turtle was a no brainer, but none the less

kinda a bit too popular to feature by itself.. That game is nearly having 10 Millions people who played it.

So my main focus is to bring one thing in the featured tuesday, that deserve the attention.

I'm going to avoid featuring my stuff too. Except if I really think my work deserve some love.

Anyways, was really awesome to see that feature. My crappy chromebook lagged alot yesterday too

You know, this sounded like something that sounded like a good idea but in practice would kind of suck, but yesterday kicked ass. Yer doin' a good job, Tom & friends! I'm telling people (who already like NewGrounds) to check the site every Tuesday. Felt like the old, self-correcting wild west that I loved about this place when it was too crowded to get a word in edgewise

Tuesday was selected as the day to do it because on Monday we're still parsing through weekend site activity, while on Tuesday things are pretty quiet. So we basically turned our slowest day into something exciting, which feels like a powerful upgrade.

There's an obvious bias in that. Some people might think their own work is the best thing ever only because they made it and they could not see any objective flaws within it because of that, but it doesn't mean it will be seen as good by anybody else. Another thing is that some might try abusing this feature only to link people to their eCommerce webpages or other similarly sketchy things, although it would probably result in their accounts getting banned immediately anyway but still. I don't think it's an unreasonable concern, albeit a bit paranoid.

Seeing it more positively I guess it could result in lower quality submissions receiving more constructive feedback that they otherwise wouldn't have received, but I'd rather encourage people to seek that feedback through the forums or even private message conversations with more experienced users instead of waiting for every tuesday and hoping their submission won't end up drowned amongst the rest.

Regardless, I think this is a cool event and I hope it continues to be improved, made the site feel a lot more lively yesterday.

This might be my favorite new addition to the site in the last 10 years or so. Such a cool idea, and a great incentive to be a supporter too.

I am really happy you wrote this out. I think you brought a lot of reasonable concerns to the discussion. Maybe I can chime in from another side.

As someone who doesn't get much engagement, I featured my work. I saw my ratings drop, and I was overjoyed. I can't speak for others, but I make things on NG because I want critical feedback or ratings. I love making things that put a smile on someone's face.

The forums and private messages sound great, but the truth is, it's hard to find people who want to give you honest feedback. Reaching out to another artist privately sounds pushy, mainly when many people use critique as a paid service. Some people are overconfident, but that is the same, no matter how they promote their posts. Honestly, I think that's fine because self-critique is a superpower.

The self-hate I have gets me into training more. 🌚

I love that idea! I always thought there should be some sort of way to re-feature old/classic NG animations and art so that newer users or people who may have forgotten or missed them can discover them, but letting the community decide what to bump is legit the best way of implementing that!

I bumped one of my old animations yesterday but I've got some old favorites from decades ago I want to bump to the front page next time.

I don't believe it could hurt that much to ask if you do it politely enough, if they didn't want to receive such requests they could just disable their inbox. As for feedback on the forums, specifically about the art forum as it is the most active, from what I've seen people really are not shy in the slightest to point out any flaws in the work of whoever's requesting some critique in any way. Most people here definitely wouldn't mind sharing their knowledge if they notice you're putting in the effort to actually improve your work in the first place.

Alright Tom I've got another idea for you....

SELF-PROMOTION SUNDAY

Well hey I won't argue here. Maybe it's just my bad experiences. If that's what you have seen I'll make sure to take advantage of it and see if I have any more success. Thanks for the reply! ❤️

I missed the results of this. Is there a way to view the archive somehow?

The archive is coming but isn't ready yet.

It is planned to be viewable! They’re working on it

I was thinking more of Fan-Fiction Friday.

We just need a writing portal.

I would love to see it B)

I really like this feature. Seeing people sharing things that are funny, impressive, thoughtful, awesome, etc; it gives a glimpse of ways newgrounds has impacted people, and which place it might have in their lives.

Some will always find ill feelings towards a new features. I think it's natural to want to resist change, since a loss of a pattern you're familiar with could mean uncertainty. I do think it will be easy to adapt to it in time though.

Everything about this will likely settle down in time, as this is the first time we experience it. Riding a roller coaster for the third or fourth time seldom beats the first ride. We are just now exploring what a takeover tuesday can be, and to me that's exciting.

I think allowing users to promote themselves this way is a very reasonable exchange for supporter status.

That was awesome!

Unrelated to this, but I had this idea while I was having breakfast. I dunno how feasible it would be but:

what if on Halloween there was candy medals scattered amongst certain front page movies/games/audio/art(?). And so if you happen to view it you’d get a candy as an achievement. I know we did something like this years ago but with userpages and it was kind of fun.

also I luv candy 🍬

Do want to bring back the candy medals. It's unlikely this year but maybe next year... Would it be interesting if each candy was tied to a task, like vote on five things, favorite something, make a forum post, etc? That might start to get messy on the implementation side but could be a fun way to have people try out different site features.

I think that could be cool as long as it doesn’t go into some of the GameJolt quest territory, they have stuff like “comment on a friend’s post” (specifically people you have friended) and it’s like…you can’t really force stuff like that, I feel like

You did it again Tom, another excellent idea!

Forgive me if this has been asked. Do users get a notification if someone features their link? If so what does it look like? Can users get multiple notifications if more than one person features the same link?

Also, any plans to be able to feature a playlist or text/news post for takeover Tuesday? (something like the NG newspaper or an album playlist)

You do get a notification, here's what mine looked like today:

As for sharing blog posts and playlists, we'll see where things go with all this!

One thing I would please request as a suggestion is:

—To have one user supporter frontpage the same project only once or twice, and that’s it.

—Additionally, If another user supporter wants to frontpage the same project as well, they can, once or twice.

I think I can speak for a lot of people that we’ve seen the same people recommend the same exact things every week.

— and I get it.

People pay to promote anything, but it’s not limited to their own posts. It’s also for other people’s projects as well.

& while it’s funny to do a little trolling, it gets repetitive, unfunny, & gives people’s newgrounds entries a bad taste in people’s mouth sometimes, and they may not even mean to.

It’s like drinking refreshing Coke for a month straight and listening to joyful Christmas music for three months as a retail worker. It gets old & its initial effect dies.

Sometimes the repetitive promotion done by the same people will have the opposite effect.

You also kind of miss out on seeing other people’s project posts as well.

It'd be nice to see if we can view who we follow/our friends features easily visible in, say, your feed or something.

I'm personally not a big fan of "hot items" because popular stuff will already be featured, because, well, it's popular. It doesn't need help getting noticed, it's exponential. I'm looking for the personal recommendations that were lost to time but one person remembers and believes deserves more clout.

I agree with all of this, but one addendum: I think a work should only be featured once PERIOD, not on a per-person basis. I’d imagine having people submitting one thing you’ve made over and over in general has to get insanely obnoxious very quickly.

Unrelated to this post I’m replying to, I disagree with the “even popular artists don’t get the views they deserve” sentiment. Popular artists DO, they often get Frontpaged every time they post. Smaller artists get drowned out all the time. I do not want to see the same people over and over on Takeover Tuesday. I want to see hidden gems, people with few or no FPs to their name. Hell, I know plenty of artists that could benefit from more exposure via Takeover Tuesday. But between repeats and popular works getting submitted it’s hard.

Takeover Tuesday is a great concept, but I want it to be better. It’s a feature that needs a lot more fine-tuning.

I agree. Most people know games like “Pico’s School” & cartoons like “Punch Punch Forever” is at this point, I strongly believe it doesn’t need to be frontpaged every week.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask for this due to the fact it may drown out potential hidden gems that can be spread by its hype by word of mouth by supporters alone.

Let's imagine this in practice: Starting next week, nothing can be featured if it has already been featured. ~2000 items are now already on the "block list." What happens when someone finds something to feature, gets blocked, then finds something else to feature, gets blocked, then finds something else to feature, and gets blocked?

I imagine they will give up eventually. If they became a Supporter because they wanted to participate, they might also request a refund.

Right now the premise of Takeover Tuesday is easy to explain: Become a Supporter and you can feature one thing on the front page each week. Any deviation from that will result in a text wall of disclaimers on the front page, along with people feeling like they don't have the freedom to truly feature what they want to feature.

I'll use Punch Punch Forever as an example to explore some other thoughts. Most NG regulars know that it's pretty basic to feature Punch Punch Forever on Takeover Tuesday, given that it's already so popular here. The person who decides to feature Punch Punch Forever is probably not in tune with this and if they got blocked, it's unlikely they would turn around and suddenly feature some hidden gem. They would likely go for another extremely popular item, or give up because they are just here for Punch Punch Forever.

I've seen people feature Punch Punch Forever each week but I don't get any feeling that it's dominating Takeover Tuesday and stealing opportunities from other people. The whole idea is that "Supporters have taken over" and I don't think we need to rush to start micro-managing them with "not like that" stipulations.