Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone.

So yeah, obviously the Newgrounds redesign is up and running (for the most part). It looks pretty and all, but just like everyone else I've got beef over a couple of the changes. Several items aren't working properly yet, including those important little icons at the top of the screen next to the user name, but those are bugs that will be ironed out in due time and have probably been brought up by everyone else already. The thumbnail images for movies and games are nice, but having to mouse over everything to see the title and rating is a bit of a mixed bag. I also miss being able to view the current score of a submission, but I'm thinking that it was probably designed that way so user won't make all their decisions on what to watch and vote for based upon that.

What makes me thoroughly unhappy is losing all of my nifty little audio icons. Sure, the bigger and better size will be great going forward, but all but a select few of my submission icons are 46x46 per the previous design scheme. Those are now gone, and they're simply not big enough to use anymore. I had sixty submissions before the redesign, but there are plenty of other artists with more. It's admittedly a rather superficial gripe, but I spent enough time selecting, sizing, and cropping images to earn the right to nitpick.

I won't be replacing all those artistic little icons that were quite likely unappreciated anyway. It was a lot of extra work that now amounts to fuck all. Perhaps I'll do what so many other artists have done and simply create an artist icon for future submissions; something that symbolizes my music. Yeah, that sounds like a plan.

Good talk. We'll have to do this again sometime.