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.
At 10/9/24 11:08 AM, DeadSM wrote: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.
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.
At 10/9/24 12:42 AM, ProsciuttoMan wrote:You should be able to feature content you worked on IMO, but I think it’d work better if you couldn’t just feature your own submissions ad infinitum (a lot of today was flooded with users self-promoting old content, and I saw a lot of it go WAY down in terms of overall score as a result). Like, if you’re listed as a « manager » or « owner » of a submission, you should be unable to feature it, but if you’re a « contributor » or « beta tester », you should still be able to.
Users self-promoting their projects shouldn’t count as « votes » for that project (assuming they do now, I’m not a supporter). That way, projects with big teams can’t completely dominate the front page (which I foresee being a huge problem in the future with how big collabs are now).
Alright Tom I've got another idea for you....
SELF-PROMOTION SUNDAY
At 10/9/24 12:51 PM, Leavesz wrote:At 10/9/24 11:08 AM, DeadSM wrote: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.
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.
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?
At 10/9/24 02:10 PM, KoniWorx wrote:I missed the results of this. Is there a way to view the archive somehow?
The archive is coming but isn't ready yet.
At 10/9/24 12:54 PM, Chdonga wrote:Alright Tom I've got another idea for you....
SELF-PROMOTION SUNDAY
I was thinking more of Fan-Fiction Friday.
We just need a writing portal.
At 10/9/24 02:21 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 10/9/24 02:10 PM, KoniWorx wrote:I missed the results of this. Is there a way to view the archive somehow?
The archive is coming but isn't ready yet.
I would love to see it B)
^this
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.
HeroPapaya~
That was awesome!
At 10/8/24 10:41 AM, TomFulp wrote:Today is our first ever Takeover Tuesday!
Today and every Tuesday for the foreseeable future, each Supporter has access to feature one item on the front page.
If someone features an item that was already featured, it will bump it back to the top of the page and add their name to the front of the list of people who have featured it.
At the end of the day, the results of Takeover Tuesday will be archived. Entries will be ranked first by the total number of people who featured them and second by when they were featured, so you get rewarded for starting early. The featured-by credits will also switch to chronological order, so the first person to feature an item will be first on the list in the archive.
Everyone is invited to react to the featured items with emotes, to make things more fun all around.
We’re excited and curious to see what you do with this and we hope it encourages more of you to come aboard as Supporters. Your support keeps NG going and growing, thank you everyone who helps to keep the dream alive!
Even if you can't be a Supporter, you can help make the day a success by viewing the things people feature!
If you don't want to support NG you can instead support @Matzerath today by buying Orange Roulette on Steam!
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 🍬
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At 10/10/24 08:04 AM, Luis wrote: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.
At 10/8/24 10:41 AM, TomFulp wrote:Today is our first ever Takeover Tuesday!
Today and every Tuesday for the foreseeable future, each Supporter has access to feature one item on the front page.
If someone features an item that was already featured, it will bump it back to the top of the page and add their name to the front of the list of people who have featured it.
At the end of the day, the results of Takeover Tuesday will be archived. Entries will be ranked first by the total number of people who featured them and second by when they were featured, so you get rewarded for starting early. The featured-by credits will also switch to chronological order, so the first person to feature an item will be first on the list in the archive.
Everyone is invited to react to the featured items with emotes, to make things more fun all around.
We’re excited and curious to see what you do with this and we hope it encourages more of you to come aboard as Supporters. Your support keeps NG going and growing, thank you everyone who helps to keep the dream alive!
Even if you can't be a Supporter, you can help make the day a success by viewing the things people feature!
If you don't want to support NG you can instead support @Matzerath today by buying Orange Roulette on Steam!
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)
At 10/22/24 05:28 PM, DeadSM wrote: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.
Ms. busy bee!! <3
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.
At 10/29/24 10:18 AM, QueenBoo wrote: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.
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.
im here to make stuff and kick ass and frankly im all out of ass
At 10/31/24 10:48 AM, CheddarExuberant wrote:At 10/29/24 10:18 AM, QueenBoo wrote: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.
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.
Ms. busy bee!! <3
At 10/31/24 10:48 AM, CheddarExuberant wrote: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.
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.
At 10/31/24 01:34 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 10/31/24 10:48 AM, CheddarExuberant wrote: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.
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.
That makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
im here to make stuff and kick ass and frankly im all out of ass
Thank you for your explanation and analysis!!
It makes a whole lot of sense why you decided to make the system this way. I didn’t think about the end result of this kind of system, and put into practice… yeah it wouldn’t be good for the most part.
My apologies if I came on strong with my suggestions. I was only thinking about the betterment of the community.
Ms. busy bee!! <3
At 10/31/24 01:52 PM, QueenBoo wrote:Thank you for your explanation and analysis!!
It makes a whole lot of sense why you decided to make the system this way. I didn’t think about the end result of this kind of system, and put into practice… yeah it wouldn’t be good for the most part.
My apologies if I came on strong with my suggestions. I was only thinking about the betterment of the community.
It's still tempting to implement a per-person throttle, so individual people have to at least mix it up each week. So far that hasn't been a huge problem, though, as most people do pick something different each week (plus it goes back to disclaimers and people feeling like they can't feature what they want to feature).
At 10/31/24 03:37 PM, PeachPinkyIsFat wrote:At 10/31/24 01:56 PM, TomFulp wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/530334At 10/31/24 01:52 PM, QueenBoo wrote:Thank you for your explanation and analysis!!
It makes a whole lot of sense why you decided to make the system this way. I didn’t think about the end result of this kind of system, and put into practice… yeah it wouldn’t be good for the most part.
My apologies if I came on strong with my suggestions. I was only thinking about the betterment of the community.
It's still tempting to implement a per-person throttle, so individual people have to at least mix it up each week. So far that hasn't been a huge problem, though, as most people do pick something different each week (plus it goes back to disclaimers and people feeling like they can't feature what they want to feature).
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/537864
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/553125
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/567481
@TomFulp, Please Add An "Leo & Satan" Series Page!
https://www.newgrounds.com/series/leo-satan there is one.
^this
So how exactly do I participate in this? I can't find where to do it.
Sorry for the potentially dumb question, I'm a new supporter sooo...
(UPDATE: wait i'm dumb nvm lmao)
At 10/8/24 10:41 AM, TomFulp wrote:Today is our first ever Takeover Tuesday!
Today and every Tuesday for the foreseeable future, each Supporter has access to feature one item on the front page.
If someone features an item that was already featured, it will bump it back to the top of the page and add their name to the front of the list of people who have featured it.
At the end of the day, the results of Takeover Tuesday will be archived. Entries will be ranked first by the total number of people who featured them and second by when they were featured, so you get rewarded for starting early. The featured-by credits will also switch to chronological order, so the first person to feature an item will be first on the list in the archive.
Everyone is invited to react to the featured items with emotes, to make things more fun all around.
We’re excited and curious to see what you do with this and we hope it encourages more of you to come aboard as Supporters. Your support keeps NG going and growing, thank you everyone who helps to keep the dream alive!
Even if you can't be a Supporter, you can help make the day a success by viewing the things people feature!
If you don't want to support NG you can instead support @Matzerath today by buying Orange Roulette on Steam!
I participated in my first ever takeover Tuesday today after becoming a supporter. Yotam And Fantasia 20 was my takeover Tuesday pick. <3
^this
Hi guys! I've done my first-ever animation! It's just a bunch of lotus flowers growing :)
Drawing Lotus Flowers (animated gif) by AnonVillainy on Newgrounds
At 12/3/24 07:30 PM, KiwiPoku wrote:So how exactly do I participate in this? I can't find where to do it.
Sorry for the potentially dumb question, I'm a new supporter sooo...
(UPDATE: wait i'm dumb nvm lmao)
Hi, could you explain how to do it since I couldn't figure it out either.
At 2/18/25 10:25 PM, SamrIllust wrote:At 12/3/24 07:30 PM, KiwiPoku wrote:So how exactly do I participate in this? I can't find where to do it.Hi, could you explain how to do it since I couldn't figure it out either.
Sorry for the potentially dumb question, I'm a new supporter sooo...
(UPDATE: wait i'm dumb nvm lmao)
there's an input field you can paste the desired link on the top of the frontpage, right below the takeover tuesday image
play my sexy games
At 2/18/25 10:40 PM, Edeshye wrote:At 2/18/25 10:25 PM, SamrIllust wrote:At 12/3/24 07:30 PM, KiwiPoku wrote:So how exactly do I participate in this? I can't find where to do it.Hi, could you explain how to do it since I couldn't figure it out either.
Sorry for the potentially dumb question, I'm a new supporter sooo...
(UPDATE: wait i'm dumb nvm lmao)
there's an input field you can paste the desired link on the top of the frontpage, right below the takeover tuesday image
Thank you so much!! I made it much more overcomplicated than I thought.
