[Hopperxx] Farewell Flash

[Danny Kodicek]

Well, you don't have much longer! It's no longer supported as of this month
and will be shuttered for good next year. They're basically saying you have
a year to get all your work ported into other forms or you'll lose it.

On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 at 11:10, Robert Gordon <rob at article19.com> wrote:

> I actually still very much have Animate in my workflow. Like many of us,
> my catalog went from Director to Flash to HTML5. In that last transition, I
> kept all of my assets in Flash (later Animate) ‘cause most of them were
> vector and the texture atlas exporting was decent enough. Illustrator and
> Photoshop (to my knowledge) still don’t natively support texture atlase
> export. Will probably keep Animate around a while longer…
>
>
> r o b
>
> Robert Gordon
> The Article 19 Group Inc.
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> On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM Danny Kodicek <dragon at well-spring.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm guessing everyone here has seen the news that Animate (nee Flash) is
>> being abruptly discontinued as Adobe "pivots to AI". Considering that it's
>> still very much actively being used as an animation tool, despite the death
>> of the SWF online, that really does seem like a very sudden and callous
>> move, and one that I think they'll regret.
>>
>> I found myself thinking about how things might have played out if Adobe
>> hadn't decided to kill off Director. Even at the time, Flash was already in
>> trouble - it had been seven years since Steve Jobs put the first nail in
>> its coffin. Shockwave had already been essentially rendered useless, but
>> Director was still a viable tool for making apps. Maybe if Adobe had put
>> its force behind Director instead, even melded the two tools into one, they
>> could have salvaged the situation.
>>
>> And with Animate gone, what do Adobe really have left that's unique and
>> justifies their exorbitant cost? Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign are all
>> still great, but there are so many cheaper rivals out there (Affinity is
>> especially snapping at their heels). The PDF obviously isn't going anywhere
>> any time soon, so Acrobat will still be around, but who really uses it now?
>> Premiere is still my favourite video editor but obviously there are many
>> more. AfterEffects is probably the only truly unique tool in the suite, but
>> Adobe has never really known what to do with it and I'm frankly astonished
>> it's still going.
>>
>> Anyway, it's 3am over here so I need to get to bed. But I felt the need
>> to raise a glass to our old friend.
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