[Hopperxx] Farewell Flash

[Danny Kodicek]

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On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 at 11:23, Danny Kodicek <dragon at well-spring.co.uk> wrote:

> (Of course old offline versions of Flash from before the Creative Commons
> days will still run, although you'll need a crack to get around the license
> authentication if you want to install them on a new machine.)
>
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 at 11:21, Danny Kodicek <dragon at well-spring.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>> 514.938.8512
>>> rob at article19.com
>>> www.article19.com
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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