TIL the flash animation I made in 2004 is still available on Newgrounds.
I’m pretty sure you’re the most famous person to use Lemmy. Well besides Margot Robbie
31k views on Newgrounds. I’m basically the Taylor Swift of Lemmy.
The cellular-bananular phone changed my life. I still sing it to this day
Interactivodular?
Talk about nostalgia fuel lol
User name checks out
Bring it to !usernamechecksout@lemmy.zip
Newgrounds is dead serious about preserving its content, even with the death of Flash. Ruffle, the Flash emulator, was created by a former employee and Newgrounds is a major sponsor of the project. The most important movies have been converted to video as well.
When Newgrounds adopted high-resolution thumbnails about a decade and a half ago, there was a big volunteer campaign to recreate thumbnails for the entire back catalogue of the portal.
Thanks to Ruffle, people can and are still submitting Flash content to the portal, in addition to web-friendly content!
yo, this is straight fire
fuck I started leaning to program in flash specifically because of videos like this.
Actionscript 2 was the shit
Flash for Dummies was my first book on programing. I used it to make games about feces.
Oh my god. I can’t get the song out of my head now! Sweet Jesus what have you done to me?!
Love it lol. That banana phone song was a blast from the past.
Omg mine too (too embarrassing to share).
I forgot how much more patient with pacing we all used to be back in the 00s. Just trusting that the video would go somewhere and there’d be a payoff.
Looking at some of the popular videos from back then, people these days would just scroll away because nothing hooked their attention quickly enough. Myself included. We’ve been trained to expect such quick payoff 😭.
Fuck, now I’ma have to go check on my old deviantart account.
Its jot newgrounds if it doesn’t end in violence ❤️
TIL Newgrounds still exists.
Not only does it still exist, newgrounds is unique in that it is a long-running website from the early days that is still being run by the same person (never bought out or sold), still has no ads (despite funding issues), still has the same basic focus, still hosting the same content, and is still more or less exactly the same despite some UI changes.
Granted part of that is there hasn’t been any real pressure on it, but still.
Genuinely, it is the kind of thing that I would want to put behind glass, because it is an abnormality in this wasteland we call the internet. It’s this beautiful little corner that has been allowed to remain as it is, unmolested by the terrible bullshit around it.
It’s feels like it’s the only site where the algorithm doesn’t kill animators.
Shit, am I about to become a newgrounds user again after like 15 years?
I assume the success of Friday Night Funkin’ gave it some extra life.
Newgrounds would be awesome in the Fediverse tbh, would bring so much content (beyond politics and news).
Image hosting seems to be super problematic with activity pub, especially with something pf Newgrounds’ size. I’m super invested in this, can’t wait to see where it’ll go.
With Tumblr joining ActivityPub soon enough™ we’re already going to see the impact on hosting stuff like that. If I were Newgrounds, I’d wait for Tumblr to switch over and see how they do it.
Not to mention that fediverse software still loves to occasionally hug of death a server when you post links, heh.
(Post federates to lots of servers, and lots of servers pull images/previews all at more or less once.)
Quick, someone post “Cascade” from Homestuck and bring down the entire fediverse.
Perhaps for images they’d have to federate just the text and a small thumbnail, and then just the people interested would click through. I wonder if that’d be enough.
So we need better federated hosting…
Various services have the capability to fetch and copy hosted content (Mastodon, Lemmy, many more) but that capability is often restricted for larger files because those free servers don’t want to pay the massive bill for hosting video. I bet it’s also why Bluesky only recently added video support.
The problem isn’t necessarily the federated hosting, but picking who pays the bill. Everyone wants to host fancy text messages, but nobody wants to pay for large files.
That makes total sense. And I would guess decentralized hosting or federated hosting couldn’t meet this need?
It probably would, but if you federate hosting, you’ll need to agree on things like “what file size is acceptable” and “who pays when a scraper fetches terabytes of data in a day”.
Even with something like torrents or IPFS, someone needs to sacrifice storage and bandwidth to keep every file around. I don’t know of any good federated hosting solutions that would provide an experience acceptable to someone scrolling through a feed. The closest I can think of is one of those web3 scams, but that’d add the difficulty of variable storage costs (and inviting cryptocurrency traders).
I’d donate a few dollars a month. Newgrounds is a great content creation space. I still play games there from time to time. The Mario 63 game is off the wall. Dead Estate is also a fantastic retro style shooter like the ones I remember from my childhood. I think places like this need to survive.
Hell Yeah, Newgrounds is blocked in my country. But if they added Activity Pub it will solve the problem for me.
What country blocks new grounds of all things?
India
It would just federate comments I think, you’d still need to go to the site for the media
“Millions of people” if only…
Mastodon has a couple million ADUs
Are you sure about that? Joinmastodon indicates 819k MAU, would you have a source you can share ?
Looks like I’m out of date
Removed by mod
The Problems of Tomorrow, Today!
Oh man, I miss that shit so much heh heh
so like not share the videos peertube style? just the art section of the site?
hasnt this already been solved with cdns? even if you just use it for the image hosting.
Those cost money too
shit costs money. cant imagine wanting to stand up a server/instance/whatevs with no hosting costs.
Not no hosting cost, but cost for things you don’t want or need. I would host a server if it only filled up with things on my direct server and not pulling images and posts from other servers
Omg that would be peak 🥹
Edit: autocorrect :/
Can’t they just not allow anyone on their server? Like read-only while people talk about it from other servers?
Reading still requires distributing media
