Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

Flash content potentially becoming suddenly inaccessible shows why we need open, backwards-compatible web standards.

Hot take: if you want people to use your proprietary platform for their content, you’re responsible for keeping it working. FOREVER.

You don’t get to pull out because it’s not a good business decision or whatever. People put their trust in you.

You have painted yourself into a corner where only you have the ability to maintain part of *history*. You don’t get to give up on that.

(fwiw I think open sourcing Flash would be a reasonable move on Adobe’s part here. Letting it die entirely would not be.)

It won't happen though. AFAIK Air and Animate aren't dying.