Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by ehsankia on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:30PM
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What? Everyone these days has a browser. How is it more difficult to share a web game than sharing a flash game? IF anything, back then you often had to install macromedia and other plugins since they didn't always come by default on every computer.
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Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by redisman on Sunday October 13, 2019 @09:27PM
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Discovery. Discovery. Discovery.
Sure you can host it on your personal site but who is gonna find it? It has to be on a 3rd party website and that 3rd party website wants some way to monetize it (by showing ads). It's harder to manage many files than one file that a VM can run as is.
Also Flash had something like 98-99% installation base during like 2000-2010 so it was very much not a problem. Flash had a much larger market share than any one browser.
Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era
by ehsankia on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:49PM
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The reason discovery is down isn't because they're hard to find, it's because there's much more interesting "entertainment" on the web these days, such as Youtube, Netflix, Reddit, and other time sinks. Back in the days, Flash games and geocities were the only forms of entertainment, which is why they were so big. Nowadays, we've got amazing free content and games everywhere, which is why this kind of entertainment isn't as sought after anymore. It's not lack of discovery, it's lack of demand.