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There is currently no direct way for a Newgrounds user to check their own stats within Newgrounds itself, other than the current values they see in their account. The designers of Newgrounds were more focused on the sharing and discussion of Flash and Audio content rather than the self-importance of user rankings and comparisons. Originally, these stats were manually kept by various dedicated users, who looked up information and kept track of it all on spreadsheets. Then, on a weekly or monthly basis, they would publish these stats in specific user forums for all to see.

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  • There is currently no direct way for a Newgrounds user to check their own stats within Newgrounds itself, other than the current values they see in their account. The designers of Newgrounds were more focused on the sharing and discussion of Flash and Audio content rather than the self-importance of user rankings and comparisons. Originally, these stats were manually kept by various dedicated users, who looked up information and kept track of it all on spreadsheets. Then, on a weekly or monthly basis, they would publish these stats in specific user forums for all to see.
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  • There is currently no direct way for a Newgrounds user to check their own stats within Newgrounds itself, other than the current values they see in their account. The designers of Newgrounds were more focused on the sharing and discussion of Flash and Audio content rather than the self-importance of user rankings and comparisons. Originally, these stats were manually kept by various dedicated users, who looked up information and kept track of it all on spreadsheets. Then, on a weekly or monthly basis, they would publish these stats in specific user forums for all to see. In 2005 Casualty figured out a way for a program running on one server to access the pages on the Newgrounds server. When user pages were read in, the program would extract the vital information from the pages and convert it all to a statistical data record. Once it became a data record in a file on Casualty's server, he could then program any analysis or report that was needed. He put together all of this knowledge into one system called "NG Log", and became the first person to create a decent stat-management tool for Newgrounds. In May of 2009, Casualty passed the care and maintenance of the site to ByteSlinger, who moved all of the programs and data to a different server hosted by WKR Concepts. Many programs were cleaned up and streamlined, reports and graphs were added, and the interface to Newgrounds was improved to make page loading faster and more reliable. As always, NG Logs is always under construction, since there is always "one more stat to manage and one more report to add" However, after many years of the user statistics being externalized on various sites, it is now up for discussion as a possible improvement when "Newgrounds Mark III" is released. All of the information is available on the NG servers - but it would require additional storage to keep daily snapshots for all users, as well as some additional programming to create the user ranking lists and graphs currently provided by NG Logs. Should all of these stat tools be integrated into Newgrounds in the future, it would most likely mean the end of NG Logs.
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