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Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe by sdenton4 on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:14AM (#48536516)
And yet, there was no html5 newgrounds. The magic of flash was that it gave a space where a music person, an art person, and a programmer could bang something out. The barrier to entry was comically low, which allowed an absolute explosion of content.

Sometimes good products happen despite bad technical foundations.

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Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe by zimpenfish on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:38AM (#48537018)
> And yet, there was no html5 newgrounds.

Let me introduce you to itch.io[0] where, in fact, people bang out HTML5 games at a rate that will stagger your eyeballs.

(Even me, a resolute "backend-only" dinosaur managed to use a HTML5 game engine to knock something out playable in an hour or two.)

[0] https://itch.io/games/platform-web - ~689k results

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