Flash was trash that made the web almost unusable for a time. I was glad it died. Shit never properly worked anyway.
Anon misses flash
Submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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banazir@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
porkloin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Absolutely, anyone who thinks it was a golden age didn’t have to live through the broader flash based website hell. Flash games and videos were just the silver lining on otherwise noxious Adobe shit scented cloud
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I tried to become a flash developer back then 😞
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 months ago
There are a shitload of free in browser and not games on itch. Anon OP is just a fucking lemming who thinks they have to pay $80 for the latest COD.
Fuck even some.AAA shit like Overwatch and Fortnite are free.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was working as a flash developer when they killed it. I was definitely not on board haha. I had to pivot my whole career but I learned such a valuable lesson.
Flash was the tool that really made programming click for me. It was easy to pick up but hard to master and I spent so much time learning how to write all kinds of code patterns
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Newgrounds still works. They’ve adapted
jcorvera@quokk.au 2 months ago
Along with Homestar Runner. I think Newgrounds and H*R were the two big flash sites to pivot to using Ruffle.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Fancy Pants, Falling Sand, Stick Fight, Kill Your Boss, Moto Trials games etc etc
Gooooood times0ops@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Awe man, I couldn’t afford a console or PC until I was an adult, so these are the video games I’m nostalgic for. Plus the local 2-player games where you share a keyboard! Boxhead, Fireboy & Watergirl, etc
Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 months ago
The last line I don’t remember being true. Pretty much everybody were pissed that flash was canceled. I sure as shit was. Still go to ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ to play his old flash games. He managed to make them work again after flash was discontinued. I was so happy because I love his games and their atmosphere.
Also loved the Bitey animations with the little pan who runs around being a total asshole to animals in this weird fantasy world.
I dunno why this anon thinks that millennials were celebrating the downfall of flash. We really didn’t. We just didn’t have any power to save it.
Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
There are plenty of other places to play games online still, Like Pico-8
JOMusic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Making things is Godot actually feels a lot like making Flash games used to
nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Nothing has really changed on this front. Nothing is stopping you from making and playing flash games, and flash itself is just as vulnerable now as when it was still supported. The only thing that’s really different is that dropping support seemed like a good excuse to massively shift culture away from it all.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
Even more annoying is when some of those games were garbage but they ended up being turned into phone microtransaction hell or overpriced Steam games anyway.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t know if people working at Artix are passionate, but I definitely wouldn’t call their games ‘free with no microtransactions’.
Object@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Does anyone know the name of the game that features that particular ball under “Anonymous” in the image? I remember that ball very well, but I can’t find the game.
XaetaCore@lemmy.neondystopia.world 2 months ago
TAKE ME BACK 😭
mo_lave@reddthat.com 2 months ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Donko Donko Literate Club
zeca@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
i never celebrated this, wtf
AffineConnection@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mata Nui Online Game
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Still peak humor
stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Relevant: Newgrounds Flash Forward Jam 2025