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ryan, rok temu do gaming w Neopets is promising a ‘new era’ with an improved website and fixed Flash games

"oh shit we drove away our core user base by making our site actively hostile and it turns out the end result of that is no money"

It's interesting that they plan to just milk remaining nostalgia rather than move forward by converting games to HTML5, etc., as that indicates no new games. Or, being more optimistic, maybe the plan IS conversion and new games but this is a stop-gap?

Neopets has changed hands so many times. I was there from the beginning, when it was more of a weirdly British satire site (the original Bruce was not a penguin FYI), and watching everything unfold has been so weird.

owls, rok temu do gaming w Neopets is promising a ‘new era’ with an improved website and fixed Flash games

The guy that bought it is the one who ran the neopets metaverse thing. So it sounds a little dubious.

frog, rok temu do gaming w Neopets is promising a ‘new era’ with an improved website and fixed Flash games

Maybe… maybe this is the next stage of enshittification? When enshittification has so utterly destroyed a company that it’s essentially worth nothing, there’s only two options: it dies, or the remaining employees who actually care about it buy it in an attempt to save it.

Lionir, rok temu do gaming w Neopets is promising a ‘new era’ with an improved website and fixed Flash games

Love me some ruffle.rs usage!

pizza_rolls, rok temu do gaming w Neopets is promising a ‘new era’ with an improved website and fixed Flash games

I don't use neopets anymore but I have been following the neopets saga. I will believe it when I see it, they promised this with the site redesign back when flash died, and most of the original games are still not playable years later.

PelicanPersuader, rok temu do gaming w Neopets is promising a ‘new era’ with an improved website and fixed Flash games

Ugh, about time they stopped shilling the NFT shit.

realChem, rok temu do gaming w Neopets is promising a ‘new era’ with an improved website and fixed Flash games

Flash games will work again? Moving away from NFTs? Well dang, I might just make a new neopets account! Lots of nostalgia there, it’d be cool to mess around with again after all these years.

soyagi, rok temu do games w Xbox’s Major Nelson is leaving Microsoft after 22 years

He could comfortably retire now, but I’m sure he’ll move on to some other company. Anyone want to place bets where?

LiamTheBox, rok temu do piracy w Here's how copyright laws can be dangerous.

Reversing The video does solve the problem. But I get the point

photonic_sorcerer, rok temu do piracy w Here's how copyright laws can be dangerous.

There’s a good reason why ACAB is sprayed everywhere around the world.

Bison1911, rok temu do piracy w Here's how copyright laws can be dangerous.

Everyone should watch Tom Scott’s video on copyright law to see just how outdated the laws currently are and how that hurts online platforms’ ability to fairly moderate this.