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Plus people have rose-tinted goggles. I see people saying now they're sad Flash Web sites are dead. What? Everyone hated Flash Web sites. That is like sayin

Plus people have rose-tinted goggles. I see people saying now they're sad Flash Web sites are dead. What? Everyone hated Flash Web sites. That is like saying you miss squeegee men in New York. You might not like the means taken to get rid of them or what New York has become but nobody actually liked that experience.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Miss flash websites? I don't really see that opinion very often. Missing flash on the other hand it fairly common because it was a tool that lowered barriers to entry for animation and game development that doesn't seem to have a good replacement in the current web.
- emodendroket 4y ago
  Hey, right here some people are saying they’re good. You just had to wait a bit
Moru 4y ago
The ones that miss Flash websites are the ones that learned to use flash and nothing else. That was their art tool that they could use and now they have nothing. I have a friend that still complains about it.
- hutzlibu 4y ago
  Did you ever created a simple arcade game? There is indead still nothing, that beats flash in this regard. And flash games were somewhat popular with users as well.
  - Moru 4y ago
    I didn't do anything in flash since it cost money and I had none at the time. I was making games with other tools and programming languages. Played a lot of flash games too. The homepages made purely in flash was realy annoying though.
    - hutzlibu 4y ago
      "The homepages made purely in flash was realy annoying though." Most of them, yes. Because they were "programmed" by people not good in programming or UX design. But flash enabled even newbs to build awesome stuff - and it had powertools for the pros. The workflow I had back then, I never found again in any other tool. So it has nothing to do with not wanting to learn something new - there still isn't something alike. And that is quite sad, despite the flaws of the flash player and adobe. (oh. and flash was for free for students and also easy to pirate)
      - Moru 4y ago
        I'm more of a programmer type, had already worked with assembler on Atari and was used to that way of working.
Dalewyn 4y ago
Flash sites were at least usable and otherwise easily disabled, unlike the JavaShit hellscape we find ourselves in today.
- emodendroket 4y ago
  No they weren’t. They were much worse, weren’t accessible, and often blared music and sound effects to boot.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago

Miss flash websites? I don't really see that opinion very often. Missing flash on the other hand it fairly common because it was a tool that lowered barriers to entry for animation and game development that doesn't seem to have a good replacement in the current web.

emodendroket 4y ago
Hey, right here some people are saying they’re good. You just had to wait a bit

Moru 4y ago

The ones that miss Flash websites are the ones that learned to use flash and nothing else. That was their art tool that they could use and now they have nothing. I have a friend that still complains about it.

hutzlibu 4y ago
Did you ever created a simple arcade game? There is indead still nothing, that beats flash in this regard. And flash games were somewhat popular with users as well.
- Moru 4y ago
  I didn't do anything in flash since it cost money and I had none at the time. I was making games with other tools and programming languages. Played a lot of flash games too. The homepages made purely in flash was realy annoying though.
  - hutzlibu 4y ago
    "The homepages made purely in flash was realy annoying though." Most of them, yes. Because they were "programmed" by people not good in programming or UX design. But flash enabled even newbs to build awesome stuff - and it had powertools for the pros. The workflow I had back then, I never found again in any other tool. So it has nothing to do with not wanting to learn something new - there still isn't something alike. And that is quite sad, despite the flaws of the flash player and adobe. (oh. and flash was for free for students and also easy to pirate)
    - Moru 4y ago
      I'm more of a programmer type, had already worked with assembler on Atari and was used to that way of working.

Dalewyn 4y ago

Flash sites were at least usable and otherwise easily disabled, unlike the JavaShit hellscape we find ourselves in today.

emodendroket 4y ago
No they weren’t. They were much worse, weren’t accessible, and often blared music and sound effects to boot.