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Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art

458 points · 136 comments · azhenley

  1. Arkeus · · focus · HN ↗
    It's cool to see how far Ruffle has come in making flash games playable without flash. Was able to go check out a flash game I uploaded 15 years ago on here, and it's completely playable now, when I just assumed it was gone forever. There's so much content on Newgrounds and similar sites that isn't lost to time because of it, makes me want to go spend a few hours reliving the olden days.
    1. Ennea · · focus · HN ↗
      A Ruffle anecdote: I know websites ship Ruffle, but I've also had the Firefox extension installed for some old sites that do not. I recently had to disable it because it made Twitch claim that my browser is too old to use their website. I'm assuming they check for Flash support, and somehow that trumps everything else they use to identify the browser version. Pretty pathetic, honestly.
      1. soulofmischief · · focus · HN ↗
        Amazing. Literally the opposite of what you're supposed to do, which is detect individual feature support and upgrade the experience when possible, while gracefully degrading as much as possible when features aren't present.
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