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Lackadaisy said:
It was always terrible.
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What I mostly remember from Newgrounds were decent animations made by but not limited to Egoraptor, Kirbopher, etc. with their own series and contributions to Flash Collabs (Street Fighter, Metal Gear Solid and Nin10Doh for example).
TBH it wasn't that bad before, I just think most people have moved on.
 
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I was into Newgrounds type stuff whenever I could steal a moment at the computer lab, and some time after high school even. It was probably cool like a decade or more ago, but now it's just old hat. I'm not surprised it's gone downhill from there on.
 
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El Garbage said:
Has there been any autistic screeching about preserving the PRECIOUS KAHNTENT for future generations?
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I am genuinely interested in whether anyone will preserve flash games. Now people have stopped using Flash they're largely unplayable, but they're an important step in online gaming history.
 
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MysticMisty said:
Funny enough I didn't particularly care about the games, and neither did anyone else I know. We were all about watching the videos.
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To me, I was going there like you back in early 2000, and you're maybe 10-15 in the first half of that decade--you probably didnt have a job, and if a game like Grand Theft Auto came out you couldnt just run out and grab a copy. If you were bored, the shitty edgy flash games like Madness Interactive, it's ersatz but it's good enough because it's free.

Another thing I remember was those stick animations where the stick figure is running around with a sword and dodging bullets Matrix-style and cutting dudes' heads off only to have them drop their gun as they fly across the room, then the stick guy jumps on the corpse and skis down the side of the screen shooting at other guys. Bored teenagers don't really have very good taste. I remember being 10 and for whatever reason my friend and I legitimately thought SPOON-GUARD was kinda funny. Or something made by the spoon-guard guy. Maybe it was albinoblacksheep? I wonder whatever happened to Eric Bauman.
 
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Sounds about right for the quality of stuff we watched. I think the only non-vulgar videos we liked was Suzukisan and the Demented Cartoon Movie (I think they were called that), and those two might've not been on Newgrounds. Otherwise it was the Care Bears getting drunk, Link trying to avoid getting raped by the old man, shit like that I can barely remember. I stopped going to Newgrounds within a year of starting high school, and YTMND came along not too long after and pretty much everyone I knew was sharing shit from that site instead. When YouTube came along we migrated there.
 
I remember the animation with Blood And Thunder by Mastodon where the "whale" turned out to be someone's boyfriend. That was probably my favourite animation on there.
 
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Duke Nukem said:
I was into Newgrounds type stuff whenever I could steal a moment at the computer lab, and some time after high school even. It was probably cool like a decade or more ago, but now it's just old hat. I'm not surprised it's gone downhill from there on.
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Considering how any website can end up going down the toilet, Newgrounds was bound to follow that, especially when people found other entertaining ways to waste their time outside of just playing some edgy flash games involving stick figures and such. Mods and admins would no doubt be a part in the site going downhill, even in times when the site was worth visiting. As mentioned earlier in this thread, there was Wade Fulp who was more or less a member of the administration that would flip over something like calling his wife fat.

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I am genuinely interested in whether anyone will preserve flash games. Now people have stopped using Flash they're largely unplayable, but they're an important step in online gaming history.
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Best one could do is save the SWF files of those flash games. Could be possible provided Newgrounds didn't bump certain ones off the site.

Ntwadumela said:
What I mostly remember from Newgrounds were decent animations made by but not limited to Egoraptor, Kirbopher, etc. with their own series and contributions to Flash Collabs (Street Fighter, Metal Gear Solid and Nin10Doh for example).
TBH it wasn't that bad before, I just think most people have moved on.
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More or less what anyone else can say. Places like Youtube is where they could go to upload their animations without the fear of it getting "blammed"(deleted). Far as one could remember, Newgrounds had some sort of overhaul to it that no doubt removed some flash games (pretty sure the old, edgy assassin games got the axe. Never again can I slice up Stone Cold).
 
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c-no said:
Newgrounds had some sort of overhaul to it that no doubt removed some flash games (pretty sure the old, edgy assassin games got the axe. Never again can I slice up Stone Cold).
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Older games are generally safe. The Torture Game 2 is probably one of the most controversial examples, which drove a lot of traffic to the site back in the 2008.


But in recent years, games like "Beat up Anita Sarkeesian" and a "The Slaying of Sandy Hook" were quietly deleted after they started getting media attention. It's questionable how these games immediately had articles written about them in several publications, but obviously the site wasn't willing to capitalize on the attention like they did in the past.

Its hard to say exactly how much is being preserved and how much is being deleted, since the statistics for the portals aren't readily available. However, on the forums, users with post counts as large as 10,000 would often see stretches where they would lose 30-50 posts daily. Looking far back into the forums, old threads are swiss cheese with how many posts and users are missing without an explanation. If a low-traffic forum like NG is being pruned to remove offensive content, then I can only imagine how much of the site's other content is being discreetly removed.

Throwing out everything the site is about to appeal to a wider audience, and subsequently appealing to nobody is the tragedy of the place.
 
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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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Wow, sounds almost exactly like Something Awful's downfall, but with less Ambien and diaperfurs.
 
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