RIP Flash

[Palamon]

Flash has now been dead for about three weeks. What are some fond memories you have of Flash back in the day? How did you feel when Adobe announced back in 2017(?) that flash support was ending?

 

[Roni]

i guess i ain't as sad of its departure as i expected to be since a lot of sites already transitioned to a different system long before it left, and old flash games of my youth are very well preserved via Blue Maxima's Flashpoint.

my memories of flash go waaay back. Miniclip, y8.com, i think Club Penguin and Poptropica used flash back in the day? games from Garfield, Hot Wheels, Cartoon Network, Barbie, Looney Tunes, Disney Channel websites, etc. i was so happy playing those on an unused computer in my mom's office back in the day heh. typing this up makes me wanna reinstall Flashpoint and relive those games dang.

also i didn't even know that Adobe announced this all the way back in 2017 til now. it came completely out of left field for me when someone mentioned it in passing last year. looks like i'll need to monitor news better.

 

[Mewtwolover]

How did you feel when Adobe announced back in 2017(?) that flash support was ending?

I was happy because Flash was so insecure.

Nothing of value was lost when Flash died, Ruffle.rs allows running flash content in browser like before but it's still under development and doesn't have full actionscript support yet so some flash games don't work with it for now.

 

[Tsutarja]

Flash being dead is a great thing. HTML5 took over in style by being mobile-friendly and not requiring any sort of extraneous download just to be used.

 

[Mab]

I never really played many flash games but I did do some digital art courses as a kid where we spent some of the time learning to make flash animations, it was pretty fun. Can't really say I mind it being gone though, now we have HTML5's <video> and <canvas> elements and technologies like WebGL and WASM to make videos and games for the web instead.