I created this forum at the spur of the moment as I was going back and watching old NG animations like Madness and Tankmen which got me thinking.

I wonder what other Newgrounds features have been phased out or lost to time?

Well here's a forum where everyone can talk about features they miss, want back, or new features that we be fun to add!

Something that I'd love to see return are the seasonal site skins. While it would be hard to bring it back with the site over hall, I think it would be fun to see the logo and perhaps footer of the site change like in 2010 to match the festivities much like the site wallpaper.

Classic browser turned creator of this site here!

What I miss the most about Newgrounds is its classic website look from around 2002-2006. The new shiny look is pretty cool; don’t get me wrong. But what made Newgrounds stand out from any other website for a while was its signature design, it’s rough edges, and simplicity.

Though considered ‘dated’ by even other classic user standards today, the charm of the old layout will always be significant in Newgrounds and its identity to me. At least in my opinion.

At 12/18/24 03:01 PM, GlowBoyMusic wrote:

: Classic browser turned creator of this site here!

:

: What I miss the most about Newgrounds is its classic website look from around 2002-2006. The new shiny look is pretty cool; don’t get me wrong. But what made Newgrounds stand out from any other website for a while was its signature design, it’s rough edges, and simplicity.

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: Though considered ‘dated’ by even other classic user standards today, the charm of the old layout will always be significant in Newgrounds and its identity to me. At least in my opinion.

I share your love for the old design.

Like you said, the new design is great, but I feel like Newgrounds is going through simplification much like many other brands.

I definitely miss the tank in the logo too, it honestly feels a bit flat and lacks that feeling of adventure and discovery from the early days of the internet.

Long gone are the days of character over simplification. There are some days where I go on the Wayback Machine and just reminisce on the old look. My god that old Google logo! Remember the first doodle?! Wowee… To think I am older than Google is depressing sometimes, haha!

But the fact we even had Newgrounds for this long is a miracle in of itself, and rather a design change than the sites disappearance. I just hope Mr. Fulp doesn’t end up going through a Comic Sans breakdown— That is all we can ask! Protect him from the Comic Sans disease at all costs.

Another thing that I hope gets fixed is the Club a Seal link.

It's on the page for the Pico series, but the SWF file no longer works. Hopefully Tom will see this posy and fix it since right now we only have the wayback machine version.

Animated emoticons:

Hey, this is not a club!

At 12/18/24 06:56 PM, Painbringer wrote:

: Animated emoticons:

I didn't even know those were a thing!

: Hey, this is not a club!

It was the closest thing I could find to a general forum since general shut down.

They were; from 2007 to 2012.

Supporter Party is the closest thing.

But, you know...

At 12/18/24 07:54 PM, Painbringer wrote:

: They were; from 2007 to 2012.

Ah, I see.

: Supporter Party is the closest thing.

:

: But, you know...

Yeah, I wish I could put it there but not everyone would have access.

I just discovered this old thing!

https://youtu.be/1ieInlpwtMI?si=QmBYhosYPc35RUUC

It would be cool to see it come back in some form, most likely modernized instead of just being flash games and movies.

The general board.

At 1/1/25 09:26 PM, MyDogIsSoCool wrote:

: The general board.

I think they should at least have something in place of it to has a mass general discussion area since News posts are hard to navigate and read, as for PMs, well, they're private messages, not public messages.

But yeah, I wish I was around to see the general forum

The problem I personally have with the Supporter Party forum is how underpopulated it is. It's usually the same 4-5 people posting and most new topics in Supporter Party are cringeworthy self indulgent ramblings by Drunk Gecko and Wegra. :( It's getting stale

Woah, I forgot about these guys! Remember the screamer jumpscare if you held your cursor over an angry faic?? Launched me out of my chair on multiple occasions. Can't find a video of it anywhere.

I understand it was probably a heinous thing to put up with, but without General the place feels less lively. Plus we've denied a whole generation their version of "cock in the top left corner." Think of the children, Tom!

I lament the decline of forums in favor of individual-post-based social media in general. I don't know if it's really a downgrade or I'm just not the right age for it anymore, but the current internet feels so impersonal, interchangeable and stupid compared to what it used to be. Obviously it was always stupid, and aggressive, but the people had more personality or something.

"Dead internet" gets bandied about a lot but that doesn't articulate the change imo. It's more like "corporate internet." What used to be a vast open land is now a puny walled garden. Probably a big part of it is how much anonymity has collapsed - there used to be quite a firm mental separation between IRL and internet, which isn't really observed on the biggest sites anymore.

It hadn't even dawned on me how much the tank has retreated, although I think it was dropped simply for thickening the header too much on mobile. Is it on any of the main pages anymore? All I can think of off the top of my head is being in the default flash icon for uploads that don't have one.

Despite the very cool backdrops the internet's shift toward blandness has definitely seeped into NG too. I particularly miss all the grungy urban details in the 2012 design. Although this is also still peak website to my eyes (and now that I'm looking at it, remember the store???):

The past is present: the jumpscare works on wayback machine, albeit with a ruffle loading screen before it triggers.

For anyone too young to know wtf I'm talking about, scroll to the thread about PsychoGoldfish and leave your cursor over the angry emoji: http://web.archive.org/web/20100603033308/http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/forum/1

At 1/2/25 09:22 PM, Czyszy wrote:

: The problem I personally have with the Supporter Party forum is how underpopulated it is. It's usually the same 4-5 people posting and most new topics in Supporter Party are cringeworthy self indulgent ramblings by Drunk Gecko and Wegra. :( It's getting stale

Yeah, it's understandable though since not only a small percent of people have supporter. I do remember for the one month I was gifted supporter by NinjaMuffin99, the supporter party forum did seem fun and a really cool idea. But it was a bit empty because I don't think it's really advertised as much as some other features.

At 1/3/25 04:33 PM, Jackho wrote:

: At 12/18/24 06:56 PM, Painbringer wrote:

: : Animated emoticons:

:

: Woah, I forgot about these guys! Remember the screamer jumpscare if you held your cursor over an angry faic?? Launched me out of my chair on multiple occasions. Can't find a video of it anywhere.

I might try and get a screen recording of it like the old create an account ad and post it.

: It hadn't even dawned on me how much the tank has retreated, although I think it was dropped simply for thickening the header too much on mobile. Is it on any of the main pages anymore? All I can think of off the top of my head is being in the default flash icon for uploads that don't have one.

I think it used to be on the monthly voting and calendar, but those just got recently overhauled to the more modern look.

I do like the concept of the more chibi style tank that was never implemented for mobile users. I can't find a picture of it right now, but I'll be sure to post it when I do!

: Despite the very cool backdrops the internet's shift toward blandness has definitely seeped into NG too. I particularly miss all the grungy urban details in the 2012 design. Although this is also still peak website to my eyes (and now that I'm looking at it, remember the store???):

Despite me constantly looking through the Wayback machine at the old NG homepage, I never even saw the store icon. I'll have to check it out!

At 1/3/25 05:01 PM, Jackho wrote:

: : Woah, I forgot about these guys! Remember the screamer jumpscare if you held your cursor over an angry faic?? Launched me out of my chair on multiple occasions. Can't find a video of it anywhere.

:

: The past is present: the jumpscare works on wayback machine, albeit with a ruffle loading screen before it triggers.

:

: For anyone too young to know wtf I'm talking about, scroll to the thread about PsychoGoldfish and leave your cursor over the angry emoji: http://web.archive.org/web/20100603033308/http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/forum/1

I just tried it out, while it's definitely not intended to be on mobile, it was really cool to see!

When I get home I'll put together a video showcasing it!

I had just gotten a Newgrounds shirt for my birthday with the tank on the logo, and I started wondering if they have a shirt with any of the other NG logos like the red one from the 1990's or the pixel one from the early 2000's

Another thing I'd want to see back is the themed voting icons!

Pico being movie voting, Nene being art voting, and Darnell being audio voting.

I saw Ivanallmighty's try at remaking them in his Twitter post and I thought it would be a cool addition to the unlocked secrets as a toggleable option to still leave the Tankman as the default!

: Woah, I forgot about these guys! Remember the screamer jumpscare if you held your cursor over an angry faic?? Launched me out of my chair on multiple occasions. Can't find a video of it anywhere.

I got it screen recorded! Not the best video, but it preserves it!

https://youtu.be/aZtSaVqM5t4?si=YXOq4DbJ64DrY0na

Isn't this it on the right? Mid 2012 vs late 2012 on the wayback:

You might not know about this either then, there used to be a "gear" tab on profiles that listed all the store stuff you bought, with unique art for each item:

This got downgraded to a section under the "stats" tab post-2012 but still survived a long time:

Nice!

At 1/6/25 10:13 AM, Jackho wrote:

: Isn't this it on the right? Mid 2012 vs late 2012 on the wayback:

Huh, I thought it was just an unused concept! Cool!

: You might not know about this either then, there used to be a "gear" tab on profiles that listed all the store stuff you bought, with unique art for each item:

I didn't know it had it's own dedicated tab, but I know it's still there under the trophies category!

Oh, nice. I thought it was understandably nuked with the store having been gone for so long. Found there's also an archive of everything they ever sold in the wiki: https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/about-newgrounds/history/stories/the-ng-store

It was an absolute genius move back in the day to have one's purchases badged prominently on your profile. I recall some users would buy hundreds of stickers just to have higher counts than everyone else.

At 1/6/25 12:18 PM, Jackho wrote:

: Oh, nice. I thought it was understandably nuked with the store having been gone for so long. Found there's also an archive of everything they ever sold in the wiki: https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/about-newgrounds/history/stories/the-ng-store

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: It was an absolute genius move back in the day to have one's purchases badged prominently on your profile. I recall some users would buy hundreds of stickers just to have higher counts than everyone else.

Do they still sell the shirts and stickers anywhere like Amazon or on Etsy like Mindchamber? Whenever I click on the links to see them, it tells me to buy Supporter.

Newgrounds Annual tank awards, and Requests to Famous Collections

Can still get shirts via sharkrobot: https://sharkrobot.com/collections/newgrounds

And I think they occassionally do new designs, I have one for the 2018 DBZ collab that must have come from there.

There's also an ancient cafepress page still going, with the '04 logo shirt, no idea if still legit: https://www.cafepress.com/shop/newgrounds

At 1/7/25 12:14 AM, 2456D8 wrote:

: Newgrounds Annual tank awards, and Requests to Famous Collections

The Tank awards would be cool to have back, as for the requests to famous collections, I'm not sure how it works, since I see some modern entries put into old collections, but they seem to be random.

I took the current NG mobile hud and added it. It definitely looks scuffed, but overall I think it could fit.

Also for fun, I added the old red NG logo in place of the new one.