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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.279s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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cr125rider ◴[11 Oct 25 23:04 UTC] No.45553469[source]▶
Macromedia Flash. Its scope and security profile was too big. It gave way to HTML’s canvas. But man, the tooling is still no where near as good. Movieclips, my beloved. I loved it all.
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1. socalgal2 ◴[12 Oct 25 03:35 UTC] No.45554987[source]▶
I agree the tooling was great, .... for making apps/games for desktops with a mouse and keyboard and a landscape screen of at least a certain size.

Maybe they could have fixed all that for touch screens, small portrait screens, and more but they never did make it responsive AFAIK.