Talk:Adobe Flash

message: The introduction currently says "Adobe Animate (formerly called Adobe Flash and Shockwave Flash)". However, as far as I see, the Flash platform as a whole was not renamed. For example, on http://www.adobe.com/products/flashruntimes.html you can still download the "Adobe Flash runtime" and the "Flash player". Even the page for Adobe Animate CC says you can use it to:
Design interactive animations with cutting-edge drawing tools and publish them to multiple platforms — including Flash/Adobe AIR, HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, or even custom platforms [...].
So clearly Adobe uses "Adobe Animate" for the software, and "Flash" for the platform. I have therefore changed the introduction  accordingly. Sebastian (talk) 09:31, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Flash" was not renamed - only the software "Flash Professional" 

message: On scratch, lag is very bad because Adobe Flash removed pixelbender.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.203.169.191 (talk) 14:14, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why pixelbender is removed. 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The text in the following sections:
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needs significant updates.  Many of the devices and platforms mentioned there are now of only minor historical interest.  Reading this material is a bit like picking up a seven-year-old newspaper for IT specialists — dated.  Rather than clutter an already tediously long article with yet more banners asking for sections to be updated, I've stopped at adding just one, which may prompt some cluey editor to check out this "Talk page" - and do something about it. Here's hoping …!  yoyo (talk) 16:21, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Significant updates needed to three sections 

message: The situation in February 2021 does not seem to jibe with the text.  I routinely get a message from Adobe about updating my Flash.  At the same time, I often run into interactive educational sites that tell me I cannot play without Flash or without a current Flash version. Kdammers (talk) 02:22, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Which specific statement contradicts your experience? Can you find a reliable third-party source describing it, which could be used for the article? Also, Wikipedia is not a tech support forum, so if you are looking for help with Flash, we might not be able to provide it here. Anton.bersh (talk) 16:32, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I do note we have the fact that Adobe is trying to patch Flash post Dec 31, 2020 to make it impossible to run; and that sites haven't updated to remove Flash content is not Adobe's responsibility, that's just lazy web site management. --Masem (t) 16:34, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  2021 

message: This page (Adobe Flash) and Adobe Flash Player have a lot of overlap, even some copy-pasted content. This is not good. Therefore, I propose we determine which sections belong where, and consolidate each topic in corresponding place (thus de-duplicating content and making each section complete). Furthermore, we can add "Main article" templates in place of moved sections so that people can find the info.
I propose the following moves (incomplete):
:- EOL section is about Player, so should be on Adobe Flash Player (including "Post EOL support")
:- "Content preservation projects" are about Flash content as a "platform", so they belong to "Adobe Flash"
:- "Open source" should be moved to Adobe Flash
:- "Availability" should be updated and moved into corresponding articles
Anton.bersh (talk) 08:40, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deduplicating copy-pasted content on [[Adobe Flash]] and [[Adobe Flash Player]] 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Flash templates. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 13#Flash templates until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  ~~~~User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:49, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Flash templates" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: After some googling, all I could find was a harman tweet from 2021 saying that support ends in 2023. However, the linked page says nothing about a 2023 EOL and the wayback machine also has nothing (at least on the day the tweet as posted). So, who's to say these plans didn't change? Is there an WP:RS that says that Harman ended support for Flash in 2023? Nickps (talk) 02:33, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is enterprise Flash EOL or not? 

message: This sentence is confusing. The obvious way to read it would imply that Flash is not, or was not, a multimedia platform in China, which is nonsense. It doesn’t even specify that what it actually means is that Flash isn’t deprecated in China. 138.185.195.46 (talk) 15:49, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I readded the except in China part as a footnote and tried to explain what it means. The biggest problem right now is that there is a comment telling us not to change "is" to "was" and yet that is exactly what has been done. If the comment reflects consensus we need to change it back, otherwise we need to remove it. Nickps (talk) 17:19, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, I changed was back to is. Nickps (talk) 17:23, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad lead sentence