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@p @sjw @TheMadPirate I think what it comes down to is, modern platforms for people who like to create stuff barely take their opinions into account when it comes to introducing or sunsetting features. Youtube is the most obvious example, constantly at odds over it. Youtube can barely fix their shitty UX on their own and is at odds with their users over things as simple and obvious as the dislike button. By comparison Newgrounds started a lot of those features the others adopted and continues to actually care about preserving the older content. They cared enough about letting their creators preserve their content that they made Swivel so that nobody was beholden to poorly made flash to video solutions anymore. They’ve run their own infrastructure since they had persist at a time when they were the target of all the controversy mongering, they focus on enabling the artists who power them, they started the sound portal so animators had music from other creators to work with royalty free, which predated youtube’s sound library and tiktok’s music/sound ecosystems, and love it or hate it the portal system for voting and blamming content works at scale more often than not. Newgrounds is just quietly there on the slow feature ramp, keeping what works, remaining for its creators, while the other platforms go through boom-bust phases.