Nue22 2023-11-27 18:12:13

They must be doing something right because we're still browsing this hell-hole.

JosephStarr 2023-11-29 18:53:04

It's been a LONG time since I've seen a PM or any notification on here, so this surprised me. It's like receiving a text message from a ghost.

Most of my experience was in the General Forum and the Art Portal, and I watched them change over the years.

The general forum stayed the same for a long time. The layout, the userbase, the atmosphere, ect... and it was fine. Then the 2020s came around and that's when things started to change imo.

We got new users. Okay. That's a good sign.
Alot of them were younger, so were we when we found this place.
Some of them posted personal stuff, and people were supportive.
Sometimes the forums would feel almost wholesome.

BUT FOR SOME REASON the personal rivalries and disagreements between older users became nastier at the same time, and even I got dragged into that nastiness occasionally despite hating that sort of crap. It killed the vibes man.

It's sad.
I've seen enough small communities fizzle out into nothing.
I genuinely love small online communities, they're more comfortable.
And General was on it's way up with new users.
But I guess there weren't enough good people in our city of Sodom.

Occasionally I'll stop into the videogames forum, but it's nowhere near the same atmosphere.

thepixelizer 2023-12-01 13:01:39

Yeah it sucks that general is gone, and the site doesn’t look too unique anymore. But at least everyone is still here for the most part.

Tom just got fed up with all of the rule breaking like people posting subliminal porn and making spam topics, let’s look at it from Tom’s perspective the general forum was the most used forum on the site meaning it took up the most data.

And everyone was just using it for a chat room to talk about nothing important.
Every spam topic was costing Tom actual money on plus he had to pay for all of the data for the content uploaded to every portal for over 20 years straight.

We’ve already heard Tom’s posts about it’s expensive to keep this site running, and general was like the flash portal with no blamming or whistles just a bunch of spam and content with very little effort put into it.

Sure we don’t have the same sense of community anymore but wouldn’t you say we did this to ourselves? I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did, he had a huge amount of patience with us, he was complaining about the state of that forum for months.

What I take from this is a lesson to appreciate what you have before it’s gone.

I also did like the big Newgrounds redesign too but it took forever to load! I prefer the speed of the new one more. Sure it was pretty; but looking at the same images time and time again would get old eventually.

I do miss the tank and orange button, but it would look retro in 2023. But at least now we can customize our profiles that wasn’t a thing before.

colorsCrimsonTears 2023-12-05 14:12:48

Do you still log on here?
Anyway, check out this page. It's one of the few that still use the older design

https://www.newgrounds.com/calendar/

ProjectAnarchy 2023-12-07 15:09:38

@thepixelizer I get your point, but text weighs nothing. I'm willing to bet the entirety of the forums would fit on a 32gb usb stick.