I’m assuming this is in the scope of this community since Newgrounds was founded almost 30 years ago, tho I did notice posts here focus more on the small we than on bigger websites, so sorry if this post is perceived as inappropriate.
Newgrounds is a site for posting art, animations and games where I’ve had an account for a few years and I quite enjoy it. Since last year it’s been becoming more pressing about asking for donations and morphing into a kind of “premium” model, where only donators get access to some stuff. I’m feeling a bit conflicted because I tend to shun sites with this model, but I also kinda understand that it might be necessary since hosting all that content probably costs a lot. But then again, it must have been costing a lot for a long time, and this comes up surrisingly close in time to the enshittification of Twitter and Reddit. Does anyone have any thoughts? Or maybe some more background knowledge about why Newgrounds has been making these decisions now in particular?
Yeah, I was applying the term “enshitification” directly to Reddit and Twitter but not to New grounds… Or rather, I had some doubt on whether or not New grounds was the same phenomenon as the others or something more legitimate (and your comment confirms that it’s the latter)