At 10/9/24 01:26 AM, Chuw-Croissantier wrote:I like this idea not gonna lie, it's a big opportunity for smaller artists... only problem i see is that people tends to feature artists that are already big, dudes that eat and breath frontpages in daily basis, major example is the punch punch forever episode.

At 10/9/24 09:22 AM, PhantomCat wrote: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

At 10/9/24 09:45 AM, Leavesz wrote:

At 10/9/24 01:23 AM, aapiarts wrote:I don't get why there is so much negativity against self promo.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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!

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 🍬

At 10/10/24 08:32 AM, TomFulp wrote: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!

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.