[warrenm]

>Also away from games where animated interaction is part of the point, designing a good animation that works better than text+images is often not as easy as many think, and you need to contend with that before you attempt to implement the design

The places where "animation that works better than text+images" is incredibly small

I can read faster than you can animate - speed it up!

Or I want to read longer than you animate - slow it down!

Text (+images) solves this perfectly - and has for millennia

[stuaxo]

There is a whole segment of the web that is now gone, things have become boring and uniform, and while that's fine for all sorts of sites, it's sad that we have just thrown all that out.

[warrenm]

I wouldn't say it's so much "we have just thrown all that out" as it is "we found out the overwhelming majority of it wasn't wanted or even 'good'"

[noduerme]

well, it would be nice if Adobe hadn't unilaterally nuked the ability for anyone to even look at it and judge for themselves.

[warrenm]

Adobe spent years telling people the end was coming - ending Android in 2011, deprecating in 2017, and only finally EoL'ing in 2020

If that wasn't enough time to move on, I don't know what to tell you :)

[noduerme]

They put an undocumented kill switch in players and then disabled them remotely in the wild. Such that no bytecode can be run on any machine that took the last couple years updates. Then they sold the player rights to a company that ransoms them by offering to bundle a working player with individual critical binaries at unlisted prices.

Laughably, they claimed this was ethical to prevent users from accidentally running insecure versions after they stopped patching.

I can still install Basilisk and run HyperCard stacks I wrote 30 years ago, but I can't run the dozens of games I wrote in Flash. It destroyed a good chunk of my life's work.

So your comment is rude. It's fine to move on and work in other languages, as I have, but to not be able to even show 80% of your portfolio because it was intentionally crippled by the company you rented the software from that you used to make it, isn't something you can move on from. It's been disastrous.

[warrenm]

>So your comment is rude. It's fine to move on and work in other languages, as I have, but to not be able to even show 80% of your portfolio because it was intentionally crippled by the company you rented the software from that you used to make it, isn't something you can move on from. It's been disastrous.

It's no different than what happened when the C64 when the way of the dodo

Or folks who built stuff for DOS, and never updated to Windows

Technology moves on

Languages and platforms get deprecated and/or die

And if "80% of your portfolio" is on a now-dead platform, I'd say it speaks more to you not wanting to do something new than that you happened to build a bunch of stuff on something now dead

I get that it sucks that stuff drops out of support/manufacture/etc

But it happens

You can be sour about it, or realize it's the nature of life, and move ahead :)

[animitronix]

It was all Apple's fault, specifically Jobs.

[esparrohack]

Homestar runner.