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For the best videos in the history of YouTube. All sh.itjust.works server rules apply here. This is an archival community so moderation will be strict to keep the quality of posts at a consistently high level.

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How does this community feel about including content from other classic/deprecated animation & video sources like atomfilms, ebaumsworld, newgrounds, &etc which has since found its way onto YouTube? does the origin source have to be purely YouTube? are there other/better communities for such things?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I'm not going to comment on the YT aspect of it, but I still think there's extra value for Flash itself as a technology, particularly that it's vector-based (also, interactivity to a lower extent) whereas video is bloated by comparison.

I know a lot of people don't like it, though I still have the standalone player on my computer (not Windows). There is also Ruffle, which might work fine for animations (personally: the loading time isn't great, also lack of zoom option).

I mean I know this probably depends on a platform more than anything. But there is the Internet archive.

Badger badger

Albuquerque: THE MOVIE EDIT: Better yet, Everything You Know is Wrong by the same creator

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I'm definitely a fan of keeping some of the old flash content alive - in an isolated environment because flash was always a security nightmare, and moreso now. But it would be a shame to lose all those works.

How would you share it here though, in a way that people would be able to access it?