[analogpixel]

Flash feels like some technology from the future that was taken away from us from all those anal people that "need to do it the right way" (see yesterday's story about converting a monolith to micro-services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469845)

you could get so much done with flash which is just so cumbersome with javascript/html5. Simple things, like click on an object and play a sound, I tried to do this yesterday and it was pretty complex (break your animation into a sprite sheet, find something to work with sprites, find something to play an mp3 on click, make sure it all syncs up...)

Not to mention just having a default timeline/tweening system to work with.

None of this really matters, because if flash was still around, I still wouldn't be willing to pay Adobe $50 a month to use it.

[maybewhenthesun]

As an animator it's a shame flash is dead. As a (somewhat security conscious) internet user I'm very glad it's dead and buried.

[bmacho]

As an internet user flash never caused me any problem. It didn't run without a click, so it was fast, needed exactly 0 data (it was metered) and blocked some ads for me that weren't images.

[neovive]

The Flash era was the most fun I ever had as a developer. Flash was so ahead of its time, and it still feels like we're slowly crawling back after 20 years. Tools like Rive are helping us get closer, but there was something special about the Flash timeline and drawing tools that made it very approachable and fun to work with.