Newgrounds - Moderators and Administration

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Albrechtion said:
Wade Fulp was definitely overzealous as an administrator. He was in charge of "community" stuff, which at the time boiled down to policing the forums. He would frequently flip his shit over any small happening, or god forbid you call his wife fat.

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Despite being Tom's brother, he was cut from the staff when the site downsized. A couple years back someone noticed that he listed his new amazing job as a used car salesman on his twitter page and made a thread on the forums about it.

This led to him getting doxed pretty much instantly and the dealership was flooded with calls asking for Wade. He's no longer listed as an employee, though you can still find his number through the dealer's directory.

Naturally the idiot who thought it was a good idea to reveal personal information about him was a moderator, too.
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Oh come on! I never read Bride of Frankenstein!
 
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Munchingonfish said:
Where will the Newgrounds refugees go?

Is it still a site people make money off of? I haven't used Newgrounds regularly in 10 years.
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I don't think there will be a lot of refugees, and the few there are will probably follow the artists who left Newgrounds to go elsewhere. But that's only a guess.
 
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Videos are now played in an HTML5 player, and older videos are being converted from .swf over time. Old games are going to be stuck as flash. Initially this was intended to support a mobile version of the site, which is kind of a standard thing to do these days, but after six years of "working" on a mobile version they have made almost zero progress.

Web developers hired by newgrounds have a long history of doing pretty much nothing. The chat was a feature in development for a long, long time. The first developer, Psychogoldfish, pissed around for years (literally years) before the site eventually released a barebones, featureless chat that was eventually taken down for security reasons - The exploit allowed you to post under other users' accounts and see their passwords if online, and one moderator was made to flood the chat with racial slurs.

A few years down the road, the new chat was developed by BrenTheMan, which he now dumps time into adding features nobody asked for that are pointless. He's started work on the mobile site, but it's a fantastic clusterfuck that utterly destroys the previous functionality of everything.

It seems obvious that these guys were milking the site for all its worth while it was simultaneously hemorrhaging money. The owner, Tom Fulp, made a post today explaining the site came up $64,000 short last year, about what you might expect to pay the salary of one of these guys.
 
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Pointless Pedant said:
I haven't been on Newgrounds for years. The last time I went was back when flash games were big, so about 2010 I guess.

At what point did it turn terrible?
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Yeah, same here. I used to visit Newgrounds every day for new games and animations. Used to be my goto site back in high school and for some years in college. I miss the days of Flash games.
 
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Albrechtion said:
Videos are now played in an HTML5 player, and older videos are being converted from .swf over time. Old games are going to be stuck as flash. Initially this was intended to support a mobile version of the site, which is kind of a standard thing to do these days, but after six years of "working" on a mobile version they have made almost zero progress.

Web developers hired by newgrounds have a long history of doing pretty much nothing. The chat was a feature in development for a long, long time. The first developer, Psychogoldfish, pissed around for years (literally years) before the site eventually released a barebones, featureless chat that was eventually taken down for security reasons - The exploit allowed you to post under other users' accounts and see their passwords if online, and one moderator was made to flood the chat with racial slurs.

A few years down the road, the new chat was developed by BrenTheMan, which he now dumps time into adding features nobody asked for that are pointless. He's started work on the mobile site, but it's a fantastic clusterfuck that utterly destroys the previous functionality of everything.

It seems obvious that these guys were jerking off the site for all its worth while it was simultaneously hemorrhaging money. The owner, Tom Fulp, made a post today explaining the site came up $64,000 short last year, about what you might expect to pay the salary of one of these guys.
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I could see a mobile newgrounds site appealing to the kiddies, but I'm not surprised they cocked it up.
 
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They have a really neat April Fools gag going on right now, they actually made the website good for a day! All the content is actually worth the server space it's hosted on!
 
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Was there any major difference between Newgrounds in 2002 when @MysticMisty was using it and in 2010 when I was using it? I get the impression the decline started when people stopped using Flash in the mid 2010s, but I might be wrong.
 
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Was there any major difference between Newgrounds in 2002 when @MysticMisty was using it and in 2010 when I was using it? I get the impression the decline started when people stopped using Flash in the mid 2010s, but I might be wrong.
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I think it started in some form when YouTube began to get really popular (2008-2010). While a lot of quality stuff was still uploaded to Newgrounds through like 2010/2011, it stopped being the dominant host for young talent in the mainstream's eyes - that title went to YouTube.
 
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BlueChan said:
I think it started in some form when YouTube began to get really popular (2008-2010). While a lot of quality stuff was still uploaded to Newgrounds through like 2010/2011, it stopped being the dominant host for young talent in the mainstream's eyes - that title went to YouTube.
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That's a good point. I was mostly there for flash games then, which weren't on YouTube, so I didn't think of that.
 
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