Happy 25th Birthday to the Portal! I remember it like it was yesterday
Happy 25th anniversary! I LOVE NEWGROUNDS!!!
] MUCH IN COMMON
] AFTER ALL
At 4/6/25 01:50 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 4/6/25 12:25 PM, ejulia14 wrote:At 4/6/25 11:59 AM, StitchMiss wrote:I think back to Nox's video on AI, where he discusses his want to make a Flash Game or animation, and names some of the greats from NG. It made me realize how much it shaped our childhoods without us realizing it in the moment. How it offered a creative outlet. How it killed hours of boredom. How we discovered games and series and creators through it.Man, Nox is a great series. Truly James Lee's best work. I kinda regret seeing NG as a lost leader in web creation and wishing it to be bigger, but the latter's a truly terrible idea that would hurt the brand and I couldn't have it any other way!
It's remarkable NG has kept its legacy going, where other websites shrug it off as a relic. But its become like a piece of fine art. To be remembered, appreciated and archived.
Happy Anniversary! ^-^
NG would really benefit from being 5-10x bigger, which would still be way smaller than platforms like YouTube.
For an example, 10x would mean that every movie that currently gets 10k views would get 100k views. It means instead of 8k Supporters we could have 80k Supporters.
Our hosting expenses would also go up but staff expenses would ideally remain the same, meaning NG could stop losing money and start boosting prizes / re-introducing the rev-share system.
Whenever I talk about my work IRL I direct people to Newgrounds and so many people are shocked that the place still exists in the first place. I don’t really know what we can do to remind everybody but it seems like a big part of the problem is people just seem to have forgotten about us or think that because Flash died then Newgrounds must have followed suit.
At 4/7/25 10:32 AM, Chris wrote:At 4/6/25 01:50 PM, TomFulp wrote:At 4/6/25 12:25 PM, ejulia14 wrote:At 4/6/25 11:59 AM, StitchMiss wrote:I think back to Nox's video on AI, where he discusses his want to make a Flash Game or animation, and names some of the greats from NG. It made me realize how much it shaped our childhoods without us realizing it in the moment. How it offered a creative outlet. How it killed hours of boredom. How we discovered games and series and creators through it.Man, Nox is a great series. Truly James Lee's best work. I kinda regret seeing NG as a lost leader in web creation and wishing it to be bigger, but the latter's a truly terrible idea that would hurt the brand and I couldn't have it any other way!
It's remarkable NG has kept its legacy going, where other websites shrug it off as a relic. But its become like a piece of fine art. To be remembered, appreciated and archived.
Happy Anniversary! ^-^
NG would really benefit from being 5-10x bigger, which would still be way smaller than platforms like YouTube.
For an example, 10x would mean that every movie that currently gets 10k views would get 100k views. It means instead of 8k Supporters we could have 80k Supporters.
Our hosting expenses would also go up but staff expenses would ideally remain the same, meaning NG could stop losing money and start boosting prizes / re-introducing the rev-share system.
Whenever I talk about my work IRL I direct people to Newgrounds and so many people are shocked that the place still exists in the first place. I don’t really know what we can do to remind everybody but it seems like a big part of the problem is people just seem to have forgotten about us or think that because Flash died then Newgrounds must have followed suit.
I have heard the same from a few art friends when I told them I moved to NG. They didn't think many still used it!
I just keep encouraging them to move over, because it really is a great options for any artist looking for a platform and support from a strong community! It's one of the best ways to help, I think ^-^ Advertise it as much as you can on other platforms!
I'm proud to be a supporter of Newgrounds for all this time. here's to another 25 years
damn, feels like it was just yesterday. time flies!
Happy 25th anniversary to The Portal! It will always stand as a major piece of internet, Newgrounds, and Flash history. Crazy how fast time flies...
I was around just as the Audio Portal opened in 2003. I LOVED all the video game remixes that were there, and I'd always wanted to be a part of it
I got my chance starting Christmas 2005, when I got a DAW as a present, Cakewalk Kinetic. A few months later, spring 2006, I started posting my music here.
There were good times, bad times, a six year hiatus in between, but I'm very grateful to have been on this platform this whole time.
Thank you Tom and thank you Newgrounds staff for giving us all a chance to chase our dreams and get ourselves out there. Here's to 25 more years
A cool place like this existing for so long is a true miracle, long live Newgrounds.
The ball is in the wall, fetch
