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Galneda
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Geoff Galneda @Galneda

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11 Things I wish Newgrounds would do.

Posted by Galneda - November 22nd, 2011


1. Of course, for the redesign to come. I've been waiting to see how it'll look for what seems like a year now.

2. The launch of the Literature Portal

3. For the Top 50 of All Time to be placed by human judgement, not automatically relegated by score, so older, timeless flashes are less susceptible to being buried by newer, trending flashes. That way craftsmanship and true legends of NG's History gains proper recognition.

4. For a more thorough code to replace NG's current search bar, so submissions are easier to find.

5. For newgrounds.com/account/art/edit to exist / for Art Portal Reviews to be as accessible as Flash and Music reviews are on a user's profile.

6. For a vote of 2 to count as a vote for blamming, not saving. This would help balance the blam/save ratio for nearly all users, and it might even help combat spam submissions who slip by whistle criteria.

7. For the "Recent Medals" feature on the userpage to be capable of being arranged on the left side of the userpage, beneath the Newgrounds Stats box; instead of one long line of 8 flash game medals, 2 rows of 4.

8. For News Posts to allow pictures to be embedded in the middle of a News Post similar to how Videos operate. It makes no sense why a News blog can have multiple embedded videos, but can only contain ONE jpeg and it has to be on the bottom.

9. For the Audio Portal to have a collab function similar to the Flash Portals, only obviously with different roles involved. Several users can collaborate their unique musical talents into one submission, but without a collab feature, only one would be able to submit it, and they would have to clumsily name drop the link to their userpage for credit as the extent of their collaborator's recognition. That limits the Audio Portal's potential in a huge way.

10. For Author Comments of any submission have the same text durability as the forums, in that they can italicize, bold, underline, and most importantly, EMBED LINKS to the text.

11. I'm making it a point to put it on dead last, but for PsychoGoldfish to get off his ass and finish NG Chat.


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Chat has probably been finished for quite sometime now and they're just waiting for the redesign. A lot of the stuff you mentioned, except for Number 7 and Number 3, are being worked on for the Redesign. It will come don't worry, just have patience.

It's better that they take their time with it instead of just releasing something buggy that people will bitch about.

"WAH! WHERE REDESIGN!"

Redesign Released due to Bitching.

"WAH! IT'S BROKE! FIX IT! WAH!"

However even when the redesign is released, there will be a minority of people who don't like it.

"WAH! WHERE IS REDESIGN!"

Patience and Patience, Then Release

"WAH! OLDER DESIGN WUZ BETTER! WAH!"

Bitches gonna bitch. I understand with more time, less is likely to go wrong with the design...I just wish they'd keep us posted on progress. The absence of updates creates a false sense of nothing being done...I know that's not the case, but that's how it feels.

Plus, this is really just a wish list I mopped together in ways I think could improve NG. Number 7 being the most pointless, but still a neat thought.

Collab functionality for art portal would be great too. I think what probably happened is that a lot of these issues (especially more recent ones such as art portal) have been postponed to launch together with the redesign so that they don't have to do the same thing twice.

I'm having difficulty seeing the practicality in Art Portal collaborations, but I guess it would be fair to include it if the other two were to gain it. Audio Portal definitely needs it way more, in my honest opinion.

12. For NG users to submit Flash more often rather than idealistically bitching.

Just kidding, biddy, some good points, but some bad.

Good: 1, 2, definitely 4, 5, 9, 11

Not sure about: 3, 7, 8

Bad: 6, 10

0-5 is actually a voting system that allows 6 different opinions (0,1,2,3,4,5) and I think it's a great system the way it is, 2 to blam is too unforgiving and it will kill inspiration in beginning Flash artists. I personally vote 2 for crappy stuff under judgement quite often. This way it still stays. The way it is there's 33% blam 66% stay, you want it to be 50/50.

It's a bad idea to let authors embed links in their comments I think. It will allow a lot of speculation.

Speculation of what? I honestly see no problem in allowing authors to post links in their comments on their submission.

If they wanted to cite to an external link, post to their own website, "like me on facebook" page, or even honorable mentions to users, linking to their profiles. Hell, if the flash were based on a thread from the forums, they could link to the thread right there. If it would make more sense in the context of a viral video, bam. Link to Yout-..err...Vimeo. Yeah...

The worst one on my list is 7 easily, but I profoundly believe the others are sound. The 2-Blam would only encourage improvement in quality as to what passes. Newbies probably won't get eaten alive as you'd like to think, especially now that we have the NG Dump for material that's more WIP than completed submission.

I meant buddy, not biddy, lol

Biddi-biddi-bom bom, Cada vez...cada vez que lo wer pasar....Oooooooooo

#1, 5 and 9 will be addressed by the redesign launch.

Also hoping to address more freedom in the author comments space and multiple pictures in news posts... Want the Lit Portal badly but we need to further improve and unify the existing Portal systems before we add another. Chat isn't coming with launch but will hopefully get back on track in 2012.

That's excellent news, thanks for putting me at ease,

1, 8, and 9 are the only ones I'm really interested in. I've always spent pretty much all of my time on NG in the audio portal and lurking the forums/userpages.

Holy shit, are you really back, or are you the guy that took over his account?

YES I'm glad to hear there gonna work on the art portal more. I always hated you couldn't look at your reviews for art pieces.

Same, I take pride in my lengthy reviews, and annoyed that it was very difficult to keep track of Art reviews.

Seconded.

Woot

If I had to pick just one, I'd pick 4. It's extremely annoying for instance that when you're looking for "757irish" on the Audio Portal search bar, if you type "757", "irish" or "757 irish" nothing comes up. This is soooooo 10-years-ago search technology.

Agreed. I've eventually found flashes through Google with greater ease, only to discover the name I had been typing was only similar, not precise enough for NG's search bar.

i like them all!!!

high five your monitor because I'm doing that RIGHT NAAAOOOO.

These are some excellent points you have. #9, inparticular, is something I REALLY wish would happen as almost all of my submissions to the Audio Portal are collabs. It annoys me to no end that both John Weeks and I cannot have both of our names on our Sonic the Hedgehog piano/electronic music remakes.

No, it's me. Boss gave me my info back last night, account is mine again.

Oh okay! I'm going to divulge secret information to you now AS A DEMONSTRATION OF SKEPTICAL TRUST.

Also I misread #3 and would like that one also.

The "Top 50 of All Time" is a straight lie. More like the Top 50 of This Month.

You already said almost exactly what I said on your last news post.

I feel like we wore the same dress to the party.

Who wore it better? OOOH DRAMA, GRRRLLL

I think it compliments my figure better, to be honest.

I agree with all of those except the top 50 thing. It's better than the current system yeah, but how would it work? How would new flashes ever be able to get into the list (a new flash, regardless of quality, would never be seen as as influential, innovative etc. as the classics, rose tinted glasses and all that) and how would people ever be able to agree on what the order should be? It would be completely subjective and mostly arbitrary. Ideally your idea is the way it should be, but it would never work.

You have an awesome bike by the way.

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