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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-10 21:56:28 Reply

At 4/9/04 11:47 PM, liljim wrote: We've just released the new version of the NG MAG!

great, now fix the text search please!

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-10 22:33:34 Reply

...Jim is busy. YOU fix it.

Sincerely,
-Suckmydick Please

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-10 22:47:44 Reply

I usually don't post in the forums, but there usually isn't a day when I come across something as interesting and well-written as Newgrounds magazine. Very, very nice! I haven't been this excited to read something since I discovered Terry Pratchett novels and the old Diehard Gamefan magazines! Newgrounds magazine is very hardcore-- more information than you could ever need! This is one of the easiest ways to catch up on the artists you usually had to find by looking at other people's profile's or by wading through crap. READ this thing and get previews with quality information, author bios, and screenshots! If the portal is Newgrounds, then Newgrounds Magazine is the continuously-updated encyclopedia.

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-10 22:58:39 Reply

At 4/10/04 12:08 AM, liljim wrote:
At 4/9/04 11:58 PM, zoro wrote: FUCKING INSANO! I knew that suggestion to get ng mag back I posted nearly a year ago would work!
Was it really that long ago? And we all wanted to bring this stuff back. :)

More than year ago, you guys have done me proud! : )

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=49109

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-10 23:03:40 Reply

That is one bad-ass design!

Nice work, Stamper!

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-10 23:12:54 Reply

At 4/9/04 11:47 PM, liljim wrote: Comments? Suggestions? Lay them down!

I think the tools on it are neat and what not but I don't really get the concept of it. Wasn't the BBS sort of like a self publishing magazine that all the users fed into?

I just think its like another site seperate from NG. It makes the site seem a little to "industrial" to me.

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-10 23:12:57 Reply

At 4/10/04 10:58 PM, zoro wrote: More than year ago, you guys have done me proud! : )

WHOA. That's the first time I've seen that link! It's good that we were all thinking along the same lines! :)

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-11 03:01:30 Reply

At 4/10/04 11:12 PM, liljim wrote:
At 4/10/04 10:58 PM, zoro wrote: More than year ago, you guys have done me proud! : )
WHOA. That's the first time I've seen that link! It's good that we were all thinking along the same lines! :)

OMG, Telicenese tingy.i cant spell but im sureyou all know what i mean

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-11 11:07:08 Reply

At 4/11/04 03:01 AM, -Kurt wrote:
At 4/10/04 11:12 PM, liljim wrote:
At 4/10/04 10:58 PM, zoro wrote: More than year ago, you guys have done me proud! : )
WHOA. That's the first time I've seen that link! It's good that we were all thinking along the same lines! :)
OMG, Telicenese tingy.i cant spell but im sureyou all know what i mean

telekinesis? :) ??

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-11 11:11:11 Reply

Another mind boggling addition to the Newgrounds world. OMFG u r0x0rs!

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-11 11:27:45 Reply

Another BUG.

Error - it looks as though you've already expressed your anticipation of this Alpha for today. You'll have to wait until tomorrow before you're able to express your anticipation of it again.

Unless I am utterly retarded this isn't right. I am sure that I have waited a day before voting.

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-11 11:53:14 Reply

Omg, thats awesome.
I cant wait to submit my first alpha thingy.

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-11 13:36:10 Reply

At 4/10/04 08:23 PM, liljim wrote: Like what?

Layout glitches. Links and the music, etc, look fine.

Safari has a few CSS glitches (but hey, who doesn't?) At least, I'm assuming this is a CSS-related bug.

Stuff like this:

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-11 13:44:08 Reply

The design pwns indeed, and even the small amount of content currently up is excellent. Can't wait for the further improvements James.


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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-11 14:40:09 Reply

i just submitted my alpha and its so cool!!!

i feel like a little girl!!!!

http://newgrounds.com/ngmag/alphas/alpha/16

ahh i can hardly wait till we finish that game

but the pictures for every demo on my computer are extremly blurry....but that didnt happen on my friends or work computer...is this a problem any1 else is having?

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-11 15:56:10 Reply

looks awsome
good work

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-11 15:59:53 Reply

Nice job Stamper and liljim!

Ill "try" to find you some bugs...

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-11 16:47:17 Reply

wtf! Looks like he got inspired by my sig pic! Oh well, I'm prolly just being paranoid, as always...

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-11 19:14:09 Reply

Whoa, thats very cool... maybe I should purchase a subscription of the new NG Mag :0), its about time they made a mag.


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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-11 21:36:00 Reply

What I'd like would be to have an audio panel like the NG mag's one, but on the BBS.

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-12 19:31:05 Reply

Rather cool idea, altho a mailing list may be slightly better so that we dont have to check both sites, or why not just combine them, or change the homepage to encorporate all of these features? worth thinking about as i can hardly see myself clicking between both sites to be honest.

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-13 01:26:05 Reply

Sweet thing!

Just one thing...what if someone submits crap Alpha? If the Flash previews are being made for is going to be blammed, what will become of the Alpha? If it falls below a given anticipation level, does it get blammed? If it rises enough, does it get protected? Also, could there be extra exp. points for voting on Alphas?


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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-13 01:53:55 Reply

looking good. glad to see the mag is back. the alpha section is a nice new feature. some good movies and games already list there.

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-13 09:44:15 Reply

Ideas? I'm full of those! (amongst other things.)

- Incentive to 'vote' on submissions. NGers obviously love pointless stats, give them something :D

- Allow submitters to make updates. This could be handy for big projects that change and develop over a period of time. (additional 'Most Recently Updated Alphas' column optional)

- Email notification of 'anticipated' alphas when the full version is submitted to the portal, or are updated. Not everyone can watch every portal submission, It would be a shame to miss something you're anticipating. This email could be sent once a week, perhaps in the form of a newsletter that contains other updates from the mag :D

- Demo windows don't always resize to their proper specifications (IE6.) Very much annoying as I have to ctrl-n every submission. I occasionally have the same problem with screenshots.

- And as I pointed out in the email I sent you, the link colour is difficult to read and hard on the old peepers. ):

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-13 14:57:39 Reply

At 4/13/04 09:44 AM, QuarterMelonClock wrote: - Email notification of 'anticipated' alphas when the full version is submitted to the portal, or are updated. Not everyone can watch every portal submission, It would be a shame to miss something you're anticipating. This email could be sent once a week, perhaps in the form of a newsletter that contains other updates from the mag :D

I think thats a cool idea, if you add your name and password to a form at the bottom of the page you could be notified the moment it's updated and finished.
And how about submitting movies from the alpha section? Say you have an alpha and complete your project two weeks later, you log into your account and add the new portal info to the alpha info and when you load your movie the alpha is put into the collection page and is linked on the movie information when people go to view it.
Or simply when you go to upload your movie you link the alpha in the upload information and its put in the collection of completed alphas.

Hope you understood that.

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-13 15:30:26 Reply

The font or the text size is hard for me to read on my computer.
What I could read was great, and I loved the Alpha and Breakdown sections

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-13 15:32:52 Reply

At 4/13/04 01:26 AM, 1_WTC_Lock wrote: Sweet thing!

Just one thing...what if someone submits crap Alpha? If the Flash previews are being made for is going to be blammed, what will become of the Alpha? If it falls below a given anticipation level, does it get blammed? If it rises enough, does it get protected? Also, could there be extra exp. points for voting on Alphas?

points for alphas, i think somebodys being a little greedy, bad boy, *spanky spank spank* no eggs for you, ole buddy, A

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-13 17:01:40 Reply

oh yeah

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-13 17:42:09 Reply

QuarterMelonClock:

There actually is an updating facility, I just haven't uploaded it yet. It's an iframe that gets included on the right hand side of the page, much like the suggestions currently sit there.

E-mail notification is actually something we've been talking about for a long time and not just for the alphas. Whenever I start work on one of the methods we've talked about, I'll be working on all the methods, so you can probably expect to see some sort of e-mail subscription in the future.

I'm working on the demo window problems. It works fine for me on IE6, but you could be using some sort of skin on your browser that's different to the one I'm using. I know Tom said that he had problems with the demo window, but I had managed to iron those out. The frustrating thing is that that could all be cleared up if only IE6 had kept an old set of javascript functions that worked in IE4 and 5 (and yet they work in every other mainline browser. Bleh).

zoro:

I've thought of a simpler way to link up the alphas with new Portal entries. :)

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Response to Chocks Away! 2004-04-13 18:10:01 Reply

Damn, I think this kicks ass.
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