Redesigns

This pic is used with the Message "Fixin ur Serverz" during Redesigns

From time to time Newgrounds has a major site Redesign. The staff will store up a number of plans, talk about them in threads, fix it up ready, then add and take away features. Redesigns can be a controversial time on Newgrounds as people get attached to things the way they are and sometimes the Staff give up on features that are not working satisfactorily, to the dissappointment of those who like the feature. However, overall, they give an oportunity for the team to introduce anything from a different art style to a whole new Portal. The major redesigns require the site to go offline while work is done, which in itself causes a great fuss as thousands of people are left without one of the most popular sites on the internet.

2000

This was the vital year in which the new "Automatic" Blam/Protect system started in the Flash Portal, which revolutionised Newgrounds. At that time only the last person to vote on the submission in Judgment got the points.

2007

This was one of the bigger redesigns on Newgrounds, where various features were added or improved and some features lost:

The latest set of Experience Levels were added, adjusting the number of points required and making a whole new set of levels up to 60. Auz keeps a thread of what level a user would have had if they were pre-2007.

A few existing features were not supported: The Batting Averages for Authors failed to work with the new systems and are not updated, though they are still present and out of date. The Magazine, with the Alphas and the Interviews no longer works. The Alphas have sat inaccesible ever since- they always have the same error message implying that they are only temporarily out of order. The Interviews have not been updated since 2007 and feature a The-Swain interview from 2006 at the top. As of November 2010, if you click on NG Mag Home the following message still appears: "NG Mag was a work in progress that never quite made it to completion. Much of it will return with upcoming features! Alphas and interviews will both return, don't worry!"

The motto of the site changed from "The Problems of Tomorrow, Today!" to "Everything by Everyone". There are pix of the site on the day of changing on the Newgrounds Archive site.