I have the same issue in firefox with the forums as Trigonomicon has, they're pretty much unusable. I also use an ad-blocker however.
Interesting. I saw Gecimen write in the forum that he also has problems with firefox, so I guessed it wasa general issue, but it looks like I'm gonna have to mess around with my setup a bit and see what works.
Works fine for me in Firefox. I have an ad blocker and a script blocker though, maybe some 3rd party script is messing the site up for you?
So has anyone with firefox managed to use the forums lately? The site loadds, but nothing can be clicked for me. Works in Chrome though.
@Hapiel
Did someone pass away? Was this recent? That's awful to hear.
Aww. I'd have thought coming up with a series of connected challenges would be simpler than coming up with several completely separate ones :'D
I enjoy mockup challenges a lot too, though! Seems that I always miss them.
Ahh, ok then, I can't promise that since it's a bit of too much work to prepare them.
@Gecimen: Pretty sure they're referring to multi-part challenges or challenges that are a continuation of the concepts from the weeks before. Like pixelween!
@Eishiya, do you mean game mockup challenges? If so, we do them time to time.
As time progresses, the internet gradually becomes a mausoleum.
Embrace the void.
I'm still alive, just haven't posted any art for a while >->
Considering doing a piece for Halloween though :3
I'm afraid there won't be as many people as there are now
lemme throw some old names at you:
lawrence, ensellitis, ben2theedge, larwick, iSTVAN, buloght, ManningKrull, snader, alkaline, brian the great
Nice! I wish they would send in some pixels here again.
Though I keep missing Pixelween, I really enjoy these connected challenges and seeing what people come up with. Is there any chance we might see more of those as regular challenges, without prizes and as much pressure to participate in all of them?
Mashpotato: Alive
Cocefi: Alive
Jamon: Alive
4tochkin: Alive
ui_: Alive
miascugh: Alive. No recent social media activity, but his art is featured a lot in the past months (including today) on @minecraft instagram
Mil: Alive
Junkboy: Alive
I've been thinking that there have been a good few artists who have disappeared:
Mashpotato, Cocefi, Jamon,4tochkin, UI, miascugh, Mil, Junkboy etc
Sadly no. And I even tried his private email which he said were for emergencies only. Short of going down to Florida and knocking on his door I tried every possible way to get in contact with him.
Which kind of sucks because I was finally in a better place mentally and I didn't want Jal to only know me as the emo kid who kept trying to commit suicide all the time.
It sucks but I feel at this point it is pretty safe to say that he passed away. Gone but not forgotten.
The server owner from the looks of it. I'm curious how they came up with that number though.
https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=ImagesDownloader.com
Cuz I'm seeing some other domain names for as little as $2k.
So jal's old website is currenly being auctioned off for $10k. 
https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=bugpixel.com
Pixelween concept idea with prizes is a pretty sweet idea! Well played!
Oh. That also happened with the Egypt one a few challenges back too and that was the first time I had seen that happen.
There were only one (or two?) entries submitted in time, so the ongoing challenge got extended another week.
There was a problem with the forum that alerted some antivirus programs so Sedge made some changes, the changes may be due to that.
Maybe! My guess is that it's something more complicated, since the dates are all different and many abandoned accounts still have their old registration dates, while ones that are still active have "updated" dates. It looks like at some point there was a PJ hiccup that caused users' registration date to be set to the current date when they next logged in to the forum.
If I were to speculate wildly, I'd guess there's some component of the forum source code that didn't expect dates to pass a certain treshhold.
It is nice that the forum here still exists, but it's so annoying to use ;_; Changes my theme every time I get logged out, the WYSIWYG editor is confusing but also doesn't have the decency to keep my BBCode as BBCode, new post display is buggy...
Speaking of which, what's up with the forum join dates? I apparently joined last month, Hapiel apparently joined this April...?
Twitter as an alternative doesn't work for me. Sad to see it go. At least we still have the forums here.
Aaaand, it's back online, but of course in its inevitable non-interactive form..
Pixelation still serves a purpose: entertaining me every morning. Is that not sufficient ;D
Absolutely agree. Some invaluable threads did happen there, which I'd love to see preserved.
Last I knew, ptoing owned it and ran it. I gather Dan took it over?
#freepixelation
Quite a few pages have been recorded on the Internet Archive, but it's far from being complete...
it had some great threads, would be nice if we could at least archive it for future reference. I'd be willing to host it.
For Pixelation, it may be the case that it just doesn't really have a purpose anymore.
A nigh forgotten relic of the past.
Covered in dust.
He is still super active on twitter. I wonder if he is ignoring messages, or if nobody simply contacted him on a channel that he reads? (I only tagged him on discord, but that worked once before...)
Fair point. I asked him to submit it himself, makes more sense.
Sad for pixelation 
Yeah, we could definitely have helpcomputer's interview as a news post!
Pixelation seems pretty dead 
Cool man! Good stuff. Thanks for posting.
(Why not a news link so it pops in the main part of the site?)
also . . . is uhhh Pix just dead now?? https://pixelation.org/
@eishiya: Wooow, It's amazing how many "hidden features" this site has. Now the hall of fame is 4090 pages long! I wonder if I can manage to find myself in there somewhere...
Yeah I can't particularly blame you on how you feel on Discord. It would also appear that most forum spaces are dying out save for the Newgrounds BBS which seems to be more active than several other forums that I've come across these days.
I feel like part of the problem stems from how people want more instantaneous group chats. On one end that can be nice because you can talk like it's a regular conversation with a group but for the more long term stuff it becomes difficult to really navigate a particular chat room to find a specific post someone made.
I just noticed that even though the "Highest Rating", "Newest Pixel Art", and "Most Favorites" browsing categories top out at 84 pages via the website, if you manually put in 85 or more via the URL, you can view more results o: This 84-page limit annoyed me for years, I'm surprised it took me this long to see it's not a hard limit.
Time to browse some art that's rated well but isn't the same stuff that's been highest-rated for years <3
Edit: On the topic of Discord: At least on Windows, the "reduced motion" option isn't fully implemented, which means it's not possible to disable the animation on the PJ server icon at the user-end ):
I really despise discourse, I find it very messy and hard to use. I'm excited for the discord forums, though I dont have access to test them yet. I'm thinking of just shutting down the Lospec forums, it seems that forums are just a thing of the past. The vast majority of what's posted to forums is not worth archiving, and most people who have something worth saying on a forum don't post much on forums. And if a forum has to compete with a discord, I don't think it really has enough activity to stay afloat.
Hello there! A friend of mine made a track to my pixel art "Attack Of The 50FT Foot"
https://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/142518.htm
Here is the music track and it's absolutely lovely!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3qk1g0anWg
I recall encountering some security holes with Vanilla and removing it from my site for that reason. Hopefully at least that has been fixed in the years since. The actual software was... fine? It lacked a lot of the conveniences of Discourse, and at the time I was just sad that it wasn't as full-featured as the older forum software :'D But again, it might've gotten better since.
I've only heard of Flarum, never used it or seen it in the wild, so I can't judge it.
The benefit of Discourse, to me, is the myriad little convenience for people writing posts. You get a live preview (much better than WYSIWG editors), you can drag/copy+paste images and files into the post, you can get OpenGraph link cards, that sort of thing. You can edit the post right on the page, add tags, etc. Async is great for editing. If only they didn't use it for everything. It's unnecessary and harmful for just reading things :|
Discourse has a lot of good features, but it also feels bloated to use because it's almost entirely asynchronous JavaScript stuff, and I run into some bug with it or other almost every time I use it because of that - systems like that are houses of cards that collapse at the slightest irregularity in one's connection. It's also harder to customise because there's both a client-side and server-side layer you have to deal with, though people have made a lot of cool plugins for it.
I'd love to see the posting experience of Discourse combined with the more server-oriented, JS-light reading experience of older forums.
You can see archived things, but of course their usefulness is greatly diminished if they are hidden from plain sight... :(
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Oh no! I had wondered what had happened to him and had no idea he passed away. That's terrible to hear. I'm not on social media. Was it an illness?