Is Flash dead?

Out of context: Reply #79

  • Started 15 years ago
  • Last post 2 years ago
  • 98 Responses
  • ********
    5

    To some extent, those of us who are nostalgic for the Flash days are looking at it in a good light. We're looking at the creativity, the fun, the possibilities and all the great work that came out of it.

    We're ignoring all the mind-numbing bullshit and browser-crushing ad garbage that came along with it. The endless "this website has a script that is causing your computer..." or whatever. The beachball of death because of an embedded ad on a myspace page.

    For me, some days I look at the web and hate what it's become. We replaced our world of bloated Flash (that at least allowed creativity) with bloated front-end frameworks (that were designed specifically to save money by reducing creativity.)

    We're lazy, and we're letting fucking software engineers dictate culture.

    • (Almost) everything is a generic, scrolling pile of images and text all made for a phone. It's damn boring.formed
    • I went to siteinpire and clicked on 10 websites - all the same, all boring and ugly on a computer. Sad.formed
    • Jobs did a marvelous job of killing it, but alas, I do own Apple stock and, from a biz perspective, it was brilliant.formed
    • I think we are seeing the end. With the exception of massive sites, Wix, etc., will kill the small/med firms.formed
    • AI will kill it all. It'll be here in 5 years. Check out what openAI are doing with text to code to site.shapesalad
    • I don't miss Flash. Shit animation tools. Was happy to go back to AEdkoblesky
    • A lot of creative work came out of that era but you have to ask what was the return on investment on all of those Flash sites? Did anyone visit them more thanyuekit
    • once? People use the web to get stuff done, if they want an immersive experience there are other mediums that are better for that.yuekit

View thread