<story><title>Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclusively to Mobile Games</title><url>https://www.miniclip.com/games/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jterrys</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s really a shame that Adobe&amp;#x27;s absolute garbage treatment of Flash ended up causing, in my opinion, roughly a decade and a half or so of young childrens&amp;#x27; and teens&amp;#x27; disinterest in making video games. That niche was somewhat filled partly by Roblox and Minecraft, and today it&amp;#x27;s getting easier and easier to spin something up in Unity, but there&amp;#x27;s never been anything quite comparable to the level of simplicity of just making some bullshit in Fireworks and fiddling around with Flash for a few hours while recording audio on a shitty microphone and splicing up old pictures to make a dumb joke. Ah nostalgia</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>End of the day the people at the top of Adobe only really saw Flash as owning the web video delivery mechanism.&lt;p&gt;Also it was pretty disgusting how little effort they put into optimization until it threatened them being on iOS. I was knee deep in working with Flash and suddenly one day all the code was running as fast on Mac as it did on Windows. After years of it usually being 30% slower.</text></comment>
<story><title>Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclusively to Mobile Games</title><url>https://www.miniclip.com/games/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jterrys</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s really a shame that Adobe&amp;#x27;s absolute garbage treatment of Flash ended up causing, in my opinion, roughly a decade and a half or so of young childrens&amp;#x27; and teens&amp;#x27; disinterest in making video games. That niche was somewhat filled partly by Roblox and Minecraft, and today it&amp;#x27;s getting easier and easier to spin something up in Unity, but there&amp;#x27;s never been anything quite comparable to the level of simplicity of just making some bullshit in Fireworks and fiddling around with Flash for a few hours while recording audio on a shitty microphone and splicing up old pictures to make a dumb joke. Ah nostalgia</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wodenokoto</author><text>On one hand, I kinda stand by being against flash, but on the other hand, we aren&amp;#x27;t really at a better place today than when Flash was all over the place.</text></comment>