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Why do we want to keep Flash alive?

• rzzzt 5y ago
  So that Ferry Halim's Orisinal page does not have to show this message instead of presenting you with wonderful games: https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
• jjj123 5y ago
  There’s a lot of original content (animations and games mostly) that only lives in .swf format. It would be nice to keep flash around if just for archival purposes.
• eric__cartman 5y ago
  Maybe you want to play/watch the thousands of Flash games/animations that exist? Use legacy software that depends on Flash? I agree that it's an insecure piece of crap that shouldn't be used in any modern system, but that doesn't mean that everyone should be restricted from trying to use old software that depends on it, as long as they asume the security risks of doing so.
• klyrs 5y ago
  Strong Bad. Probably Badger Badger Badger and some games, but mostly Strong Bad.
  • iKnowKungFoo 5y ago
    Strong Bad lives on YouTube now. https://www.youtube.com/user/homestarrunnerdotcom/featured https://www.youtube.com/user/homestarrunnerdotcom/featured
    • squeaky-clean 5y ago
      There's no interactive elements on YouTube though. I'm sure 99% of viewers don't really care, but it's not entirely the same.
    • deleted 5y ago
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    • gs17 5y ago
      Besides all the interactivity being gone, they never bothered to upload large chunks of the backlog.
• sam0x17 5y ago
  It's more about the precedent set by the ease with which large companies can issue takedowns like this. Eliminating that ability is the issue at hand.
• idonotknowwhy 5y ago
  Same reason we have SNES emulators, or the MiSTer fpga project