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The banner ad people have moved on to Animate. The 'flash splash' thing went away due to iOS. The people who were doing actual ActionScript dev are using JS now
by flomo 4y ago
The banner ad people have moved on to Animate. The 'flash splash' thing went away due to iOS. The people who were doing actual ActionScript dev are using JS now. I'd guess people are just nostalgic for those homemade flash minigames and cartoons and the like.
- EamonnMR 4y agoI don't think it's unreasonable to be nostalgic for those things though. We had a period where animation and game production was democratized, where the promise of computing was actually realized. And what did we switch to, but consumption devices where the only capacity to create is a camera for glamorizing your life or creating parasocial relationships.
- antifa 4y agoMicro-transactions were basically impossible back then, and sites like newgrounds had community enforced quality curation that were orders of magnitudes harder to pass off shitware to the front-page than it is to promote shitware to the top of the Google/Apple app stores.