Thank god that's finally over.

Adobe Flash I mean.https://t.co/oUIV1iBPmk

— Graham Cluley (@gcluley) January 1, 2021

Last day of Adobe Flash today and I kinda feel I’m saying goodbye to a childhood friend ? https://t.co/nUrbZDjzGh

— Rania Chatzi Morosan (@underflowR) December 31, 2020

This is unbelievable for a certain generation of person. Flash enabled some of the most creative shit, and beyond the web too; so much TV animation has roots in the old handmade Flash cartoons. And of course away goes a whole style of beautiful but functionally useless websites. https://t.co/oMMwIZC1Tk

— Andy Khouri (@andykhouri) December 31, 2020

The thing that REALLY REALLY pisses me off is all the people who beat the war drums for Flash's demise, very clearly did not understand what made it so special.

"I don't see why this is valuable, therefore it is not valuable"

— Lars "Sweet Leaf" Doucet (@larsiusprime) December 30, 2020

Today is the Adobe Flash end of life date.

I come to bury Flash, not to praise it.

As an animation platform, Flash launched the web into new directions. But once it became a UX platform, without the structure of web or OS apps, it left millions behind. (thread)

— Matt May (@mattmay) December 31, 2020

Flash was my entry into the biz, and I have so many fond memories of the work, the community, and fighting with designers to remove all the frikkin alpha texture layers. https://t.co/7xz4MSvtmF

— Joshua Hirsch (@joshuahirsch) December 31, 2020

“Thoughts on Flash” was never about the open web and was instead, if anything, about Apple controlling the iPhone ecosystem (and eventually the AppStore). I can’t believe there is still such a naive interpretation of this. https://t.co/lUJ7Mzoqlu

— Francisco Tolmasky (@tolmasky) December 30, 2020

While it had its downsides, I share the sentiment that Flash was great for *both* non-coder creators and coders. ActionScript 3 was years ahead of JavaScript. In 2010 it was like TypeScript today. https://t.co/YHEgIGhOpk

— André Staltz (@andrestaltz) December 31, 2020

Today is bittersweet for me. I'm glad the web platform won. "HTML5" was in the first sentence I ever uttered to our CEO, in 2008.

Still, I and many others poured our hearts into boiling the ocean of inaccessible Flash, quixotic though we were.

It could have been so much more.

— Matt May (@mattmay) December 31, 2020

Ultimately this is all Adobe's fault. They just decided Flash wasn't the effort.

This is ultimately the problem with all proprietary software platforms -- the risk that the platform holder will one day just give up and let it rot but not let YOU pick up and carry the torch.

— Lars "Sweet Leaf" Doucet (@larsiusprime) December 30, 2020

Many fond childhood memories spending hours on the computer making animations on flash for my terrible e-card website. Was a surreal experience showing them years later on stage #adobesummit @bradrencher #TBT2020 #AdobeFlash https://t.co/umzJaRHGha pic.twitter.com/7AmIB8NZnm

— Amber Atherton ? (@AmberAtherton) January 1, 2021

No surprise this interview has been referenced so many times over the years. From privacy to Flash, among other things, Steve Jobs could always see around the corner.https://t.co/cuE5oKuwu0 https://t.co/ZZt8ZsGy5x pic.twitter.com/blyWJvxNey

— Gregory Adams (@grradams) December 31, 2020

Cheers to all my fellow former flash designers and developers! Flash was the software that helped me realize my love for art, design, and code.

It also taught me never to rely on one specific tool because tools become obsolete. ? https://t.co/AeGxM9nCy9

— Mike Mariano (@marianomike) December 31, 2020

And I remember how Adobe allowed it to deteriorate into something that crashed your computer and was a vector for malware.

— Walt Mossberg (@waltmossberg) December 31, 2020

Flash 3 is what hooked me, over 20 years ago. Summer 98 probably. It was SO exciting to get it... well, a cracked demo version - I couldn't afford software. And SO much fun to use.

Me with CSS animations, last week:https://t.co/GMG1skE5ge https://t.co/ZuMprLzMHy

— dietrich (@dietrich) December 31, 2020

The doc everyone links to - including Wikipedia - has disappeared from Apple’s website(!)

— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) December 31, 2020

The eulogy for Flash will be delivered in a Format Not Supported

— james myers (@arsetechnica) December 31, 2020

Good bye Adobe Flash Player. We had some good times. RIP pic.twitter.com/P02t6eH616

— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) December 31, 2020

What really mattered about Flash, in my view:

1) For 95% of applications you can just distribute a single SWF file

2) You have a robust authoring tool that is animation/graphics-first and newbie friendly

3) You can send a link to your mom and she can just play it w/ no issues

— Lars "Sweet Leaf" Doucet (@larsiusprime) December 30, 2020

Apple’s vision of democratized programming is signing contracts with school districts to buy 1000 underpowered iPad minis and then having everyone use Swift Playgrounds. If by some miracle students end up becoming devs then the 30% AppStore commission is just icing on the cake.

— Francisco Tolmasky (@tolmasky) December 30, 2020

To this day, I am super mad at all the people who put for the codswallop that HTML5 was this perfect replacement for Flash.

It's been 10 years since "Thoughts on Flash" was published and HTML5 STILL doesn't (in actual practice) replicate what mattered about Flash.

— Lars "Sweet Leaf" Doucet (@larsiusprime) December 30, 2020

When I was like 14 I was able to create a (really) simple game with Flash and post it on NewGrounds (where I was promptly downvoted into abyss, but that's another story)

*Nothing* available in 2020 comes close to that experience https://t.co/3M5SzpIoSA

— Tomasz Łakomy (@tlakomy) December 31, 2020

All those months learning to do Flash animation in 2005, gone to waste. https://t.co/qbwTEfrdoE

— Pj Perez (@PjPerez) December 31, 2020

We had a plan to bring Flash accessibility cross-platform, but then in 2010, there was the Apple memo. Flash as a UI tool had peaked, and not long after, it was over.

Flash lived out its last years as a great video player with a bunch of legacy content that withered on the vine.

— Matt May (@mattmay) December 31, 2020

I guess I can take “Certified ActionScript Developer” off my résumé now.

I HAD TO STUDY FOR THAT. https://t.co/PooKAkxDJt

— Lilah Sturges (@LilahSturges) December 31, 2020

Today is an end of an era for Adobe Flash. It’s officially end of support day. I remember growing up with Macromedia Flash, and how it helped usher in the first meme videos and web games before being key to YouTube https://t.co/TfNKPEDCP7 pic.twitter.com/mA2fcXyjrn

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) December 31, 2020

I was very much pro the end of Flash, mainly because of the security risks.

But this is all true. It was a huge loss for the creative community and I really miss all of the awesome stuff people made and the communities around Flash. https://t.co/PbvmCSkJll

— Hanna Fridén (@HannaFriden) December 31, 2020

NHS e-learning is going to fall on its arse isn’t it?

Adobe Flash Player is finally laid to rest https://t.co/FdDXe6Kvn2

— Eoin McCarthy (@eoinmccarthy) January 1, 2021

Oh no--what will keep my pages from uploading now? https://t.co/GKOuNrpb7s

— Tananarive Due SUPPORT GEORGIA DEMS 4 SENATE (@TananariveDue) December 31, 2020

We live in a world today where something like Homestar Runner would be way more difficult to create. Companies are OK with this because they can’t profit of an independent web comic, and devs are OK with this because they want to fiddle with toolchains, not make animated shorts.

— Francisco Tolmasky (@tolmasky) December 30, 2020

That's unfortunate, it looks like it was removed around May-June this year. Thankfully the original is archived at the Wayback Machine, it's an interesting read after 10 years. https://t.co/LcwJKnlLRi

— Nicolas Favre-Felix (@yowgi) December 31, 2020

I was 22 and teaching at @parsonsdesign when Flash came out - I had a brilliant semester length class that brought in traditional artists twice my age and turned out experimental animators. Probably my career highlight. I had no idea what a great gig it was, I was too young. https://t.co/CvR9y8HIRO

— Sarah Lefton (@sarahlefton) December 31, 2020

RIP flash wouldn’t be here without you. https://t.co/DtvQLpEiFx

— Trev?r (@whatdotcd) January 1, 2021

I wrote about this a lot over the years, and I never heard anybody boasting that HTML etc was a “perfect replacement,” but yeah, it’s been a long time and the open standards still are generally coder-first tools, not creator-first tools. https://t.co/RfIQjK6ZIz

— Stephen Shankland (@stshank) December 31, 2020

Remember this? "Anything you can do with Flash you can do with JS+Canvas+SVG"

Clearly written by a non-artist coder who never used Flash, equivalent to:

"Anything you can do with a paintbrush you can also do with a toothpick and an infinite amount of time."

— Lars "Sweet Leaf" Doucet (@larsiusprime) December 30, 2020

Good. While we're getting rid of outdated technologies, can we go and scrap HS2 as well?! https://t.co/6byLF5DUsH

— Mahyar Tousi (@MahyarTousi) January 1, 2021

Wow. Today is the last day ever for Adobe Flash. 2020 was not joking around.

— Aaron Levie (@levie) December 31, 2020

It's over. My ActionScript coding skills are needed no longer :) -> Adobe ends support for Flash today and will start blocking Flash content from January 12; major browsers will block Flash content from January 1 https://t.co/55cF5mxrib pic.twitter.com/LQRWRJ3BuN

— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) December 31, 2020

HTML5 *at its very best* accomplishes most of 3), and is still in the stone age when it comes to 1) and 2).

— Lars "Sweet Leaf" Doucet (@larsiusprime) December 30, 2020

2021 is off to a good start — Flash is dead https://t.co/vuCx0E1jvs

— Greg Otto (@gregotto) January 1, 2021

"It’s the long-awaited demise of a #technology from an earlier era of the #internet that helped spawn digital culture — and security breaches": https://t.co/tP2hn3bJ7w #ethics #cybersec

— Internet Ethics (@IEthics) December 31, 2020

Don't worry, if we ever want it back, we can ask The Flash to go back in time and resurrect Flash.https://t.co/6sUfHyKGIU

— Geoff Plitt (@GeoffreyPlitt) December 31, 2020

My final story (probably) of the year: RIP Flash. https://t.co/zxvMHsuC96

— Kevin Collier (@kevincollier) December 31, 2020

https://t.co/78wOqh9eSC

I'd just like to add that Salad Fingers hasn't been released in the Flash format since episode 8 in 2007. The software to make it isn't discontinued, just the web player.

— David Firth (Salad Fingers) (@DAVID_FIRTH) January 1, 2021

Hundreds of French wine websites become less usable than they previously were.https://t.co/PlcAMFAw0y

— Nayan Gowda (@vinosity) January 1, 2021

RIP Adobe Flash... https://t.co/JxEd24vlXs#DigitalMarketing #Webdesign #webdevelopment

— Biotica Medical Marketing (@BioticaHealth) January 1, 2021

Another good thing to leave behind in 2020...

Adobe Flash Player is finally laid to rest - BBC News https://t.co/a4zHCahMlJ#edtech #edtechchat #iaedchat pic.twitter.com/YaQZvWva5n

— Jonathan Wylie (@jonathanwylie) January 1, 2021

Bittersweet web news today. There has been a lot of negativity towards Flash from web developers, but there’s no denying that Flash helped to move the web platform forward in many ways in its time. https://t.co/zR765Kt2YT

— Daniel Appelquist (@torgo) January 1, 2021

「FlashLiteを搭載したローエンドの電話向けに最適化しました」と David Mendels 氏
「日本では信じられないほど成功しましたが、フルデスクトップFlashと同じではありませんでした。完全な互換性はありませんでした。」https://t.co/YIC7vifia9

— Ohgochi (@Ohgochi) January 1, 2021

as an inexperienced web designer in the 90s I marvelled at what #Flash made possible; as a more experienced #accessibility specialist I spent the next 20 years wishing people made it properly accessible.https://t.co/eiK5UWuvxY

— Léonie (@LeonieWatson) January 1, 2021

어도비, 예정대로 오늘 어도비 플래시 지원 종료
- 어도비는 이전에 2020년 12월 31일 이후 플래시 플레이어 지원을 종료한다고 발표
- 그리고 2021년 1월 12일부터 플래시 플레이어에서 실행되는 플래시 콘텐츠를 차단할 것이라고 말해https://t.co/4KF778uYCU

— Wan Ki Choi (@wkchoi) December 31, 2020

RIP Flash. It was a great ride.https://t.co/9IrOd7htDm

— Ramesh Gopal (@rameshgopalkr) January 1, 2021

Adobe Flash Player is finally laid to rest - BBC News https://t.co/A3125ojVs8

— Henrý (@henrythor) January 1, 2021

Remember Flash? Adobe just killed it for good. Here's what that means for the web, and how you can continue to enjoy Flash nostalgia for years to come. https://t.co/IcFPNEKtgd by @timbrookes

— How-To Geek (@howtogeek) January 1, 2021

Adobe Flash rides off into the sunset https://t.co/rbMz1EYZmE pic.twitter.com/5A9l0ZHuPT

— The Verge (@verge) December 31, 2020

Flash Stan 4 life. https://t.co/dPomqDgC8o

— Rick Webb (@RickWebb) January 1, 2021

Adobe Flash rides off into the sunset https://t.co/AUrttoFBuG via @Verge

— Michael Kammes (@michaelkammes) December 31, 2020

Say good -bye to Adobe Flashhttps://t.co/4OXdqbH7ps pic.twitter.com/IKpIiEVrJj

— IT Architechs, Inc. (@ITArchitechs) December 31, 2020

Today, #AdobeFlash, the web ap that launched a thousand @StrongBadActual emails, is now dead.
Read how @InternetArchive & Ruffle are working to keep your #Flash animations alive.https://t.co/Xv1XELLTZx

— Internet Archive (@internetarchive) January 1, 2021

Press f for flash player..https://t.co/7hgm4yWYqb

— Earth Shaker PH (@earthshakerph) January 2, 2021

Adobe Flash Player is finally laid to rest - BBC News. ⁦@DSCDP⁩ ⁦@DSCDPAdmin⁩ https://t.co/wwoSte6OqM

— Dusty Trotts (@DustyTrotts801) January 1, 2021

Goodbye Flash Player https://t.co/Yyt5dY0KYg

Chemix first started in Flash but was fully converted to #HTML5 during 2019. #RIPflash #webdev pic.twitter.com/8mJnKaAR36

— Chemix · Lab Diagrams ??? (@ChemixLab) January 1, 2021

Bye Flash player, you help provide the early internet with years of entertaining videos and games. Is it weird that I'm actually a little sad about this?https://t.co/cG5ALnM9GJ

— ?️‍⚧️Daniela A. Wolfe?️‍? (@Daniela_A_Wolfe) January 1, 2021

Flash is finally gone. With it, part of the history of the Internet. Thankfully the Internet Archive is preserving many games and animations, even though we won't be able to view them without an emulator.https://t.co/2Wq1Y16VdK

— Carlos Fenollosa (@cfenollosa) January 1, 2021

I scrambled to learn how to animate in Flash at one of the late 90's startups I was at because it seemed like it would be with us forever. Happy we moved to more open standards like HTML5 and CSS. https://t.co/bbSOljQcV2

— Shahed Amanullah (@shahed) January 2, 2021

RIP Flash, finally.

HTML5 never did completely replace the creative explosion made possible by Flash. Sites like Newgrounds and Bonte Games were a treasure trove of animations, art, and interactive games.https://t.co/nvf3w0GSU3

— Dave Rahardja → ? (@drahardja) January 1, 2021

Flash is dead.

Adobe ended support for Flash on December 31st, 2020, and will start blocking Flash content on January 12th. Major browsers will shut it all down today and Microsoft will block it in most versions of Windows. It’s over. https://t.co/NOUuuMhO7a

— T. Marshall Eubanks (@TM_Eubanks) January 1, 2021