Newgrounds is also doing a good job of making many of even their interactive Flash animations compatible with modern browsers, which is great! I hope they'll be able to extend this to the games too
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#12What I don't understand is why google is intentionally excluding .swf results from search results. Okay, fine, you don't want it in Chrome that's your choice. But not indexing .swf in your search engine product because you don't support it in your browser product is crazy. It's going out of their way, doing more work, to hurt people. I guess this is just another example of being unable to count on profit motivated co…
They are not supported in most browsers. Most users are going to have a bad experience if they load a page with Flash, and it makes sense to down-rank pages that will deliver a bad experience.
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#13What I don't understand is why google is intentionally excluding .swf results from search results. Okay, fine, you don't want it in Chrome that's your choice. But not indexing .swf in your search engine product because you don't support it in your browser product is crazy. It's going out of their way, doing more work, to hurt people. I guess this is just another example of being unable to count on profit motivated co…
They are not supported in most browsers. Most users are going to have a bad experience if they load a page with Flash, and it makes sense to down-rank pages that will deliver a bad experience.
Most file types are not supported in browsers. Only a few are. A "download file" dialog is not a bad experience. Treating .swf like a normal file type would both be easier and better in all ways.
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#14There's an enormous cache of historic SWFs hosted here [1] and it would be awesome if the Internet Archive could archive them, so they won't get lost. However, there are far too many to individually add.
My personal favorites would be the Demented Cartoon Movie [2], Weebl and Bob's transdimensional portal [3] (which is located under the stairs) and of course The End of the World [4]. They all load perfectly in Ruffle [5].
[1] https://locker.phinugamma.org/swf/
[2] SWF: https://locker.phinugamma.org/swf/albinoblacksheep/demented%... | Video: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/demented
[3] http://www.venue.nu/infusions/the_kroax/uploads/movies/Weebl...
[4] SWF: https://locker.phinugamma.org/swf/albinoblacksheep/end%28www... | Video: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end
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#16OMG Internet Archive take my money now, well done, and thank you.
(https://archive.org/donate/ in case anyone else is feeling generous)
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#17Hopefully some collaboration can be made between swfchan and the IA. swfchan claims to have 217753 flashes: http://swfchan.com/
(Edit: NSFW. Would recommend an adblocker before opening, at least.)
It archives flashes (and their threads!) from /f/ and others. A great historical resource.
The presentation of swfchan may not be for everyone, but it does hold an immense amount of data.
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#18While mini retro consoles are still all the rage, a retro console that has a flash emulator, with a keyboard, mouse, and a vast database of classic SWFs, would be awesome.
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#19Really excited about this, and so happy we were able to roll it out before Flash's official deprecation at the end of the year. If you have old SWFs you'd like to share, these are the directions for uploading them so that they'll be emulated in-browser: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Uploading_SWFs_for...
Congrats! Flash games and videos were a huge part of my childhood. It's heartwarming to see people dedicated to preserve such a treasure trove of the older internet.
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#20Hopefully some collaboration can be made between swfchan and the IA. swfchan claims to have 217753 flashes: http://swfchan.com/ (Edit: NSFW. Would recommend an adblocker before opening, at least.) It archives flashes (and their threads!) from /f/ and others. A great historical resource. The presentation of swfchan may not be for everyone, but it does hold an immense amount of data.
watch out I clicked on the first link on swfchan and got a lady furiously masturbating on my screen, at work.
> A great historical resource.
I wouldn't say great. It's a virus nest.