> the rest of the web is better off with flash gone and nothing new to fill that role. What has filled the role of flash for commercial websites is native iOS

> the rest of the web is better off with flash gone and nothing new to fill that role. What has filled the role of flash for commercial websites is native iOS and android apps, which still somehow end up being way larger than a flash payload and also drain battery faster. The truly magical bit of flash though was the small scale culture of making tiny little once-off things to share for the love of it, for free. Hacker culture, if you will. In the flash days, you could make a little toy for fun as a 10 year old kid without a credit card, post it on newgrounds for free to let others see it, brag to your friends, and feel good. Now, you need to buy a macbook ($1000) and apple dev account ($100/yr) to be able to share your dumb joke with your friends at school. No wonder young kids instead use the even more closed roblox platform to make dumb jokes rather than building iOS apps.