I'm really glad someone is making the effort to preserve this stuff even if getting it all working again in the future will be difficult/impossible. It almost feels like a crime against humanity...
I'm really glad someone is making the effort to preserve this stuff even if getting it all working again in the future will be difficult/impossible. It almost feels like a crime against humanity to let all those creative works hosted on the Flash portals disappear forever when they go under. Even though the vast majority of it all is/was kinda trash there were also many, many hidden gems and regardless of quality someone still poured their little 14 year old heart into making it. I felt the same sense of loss when YTMND shut down but thankfully someone is making an effort to preserve and revive all that as well with YTMND 2.0.
I also wonder if archive.org would eventually be willing to host all this old Flash stuff? They already have software/games archive, including old DOS games that can be played right on the site using an embedded DOSBox emulator. It's not much of a stretch for them to also include old Flash stuff as well.
I'm really glad someone is making the effort to preserve this stuff even if getting it all working again in the future will be difficult/impossible. It almost feels like a crime against humanity to let all those creative works hosted on the Flash portals disappear forever when they go under. Even though the vast majority of it all is/was kinda trash there were also many, many hidden gems and regardless of quality someone still poured their little 14 year old heart into making it. I felt the same sense of loss when YTMND shut down but thankfully someone is making an effort to preserve and revive all that as well with YTMND 2.0.
I also wonder if archive.org would eventually be willing to host all this old Flash stuff? They already have software/games archive, including old DOS games that can be played right on the site using an embedded DOSBox emulator. It's not much of a stretch for them to also include old Flash stuff as well.