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[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 174 points 2 weeks ago

And they bought Macromedia’s suite and destroyed it.

[-] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 2 weeks ago

I miss macromedia flash so bad, actionscript for life

[-] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

I once built a website preloader that was so large that I made a pre-preloader for it. Good times indeed.

[-] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 14 points 2 weeks ago

A flash preloader was my first real tech job! As I recall, they stiffed my last paycheck and went under later.

But it was incredibly fun and I made connections that steered my career to a new direction for the next decade.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Awesome, what’s keeping you busy these days? (If this is an account where it’s OK to share that on)

[-] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed, the wildest of wests.

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Fireworks for me. I miss that whole suite though.

[-] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Rogue@feddit.uk 19 points 2 weeks ago

Fireworks had so much potential as a web design app and they threw it away.

Illustrator and InDesign were too focused on print media and Photoshop could barely comprehend anything unless it was rasterized.

[-] Wimster@lemmy.wtf 5 points 2 weeks ago

That's what big tech companies do, they buy small and promissing companies they think that once can become a competitor and then.... destroy it. The young startups just take the money and can retire early.

[-] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

And they bought Paintshop pro and destroyed it

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