Hey Everyone!
Hope you all are having a great start to the new year.
As you probably have heard, Flash is officially dead and is no longer being supported by Adobe. This happened on December 31, 2020. Starting January 12, 2021 the company has said it will block Flash content from being run in their software.
All major browsers have taken steps to eliminate Flash support with future updates. Safari had already done so several months ago. Chrome and Firefox will soon follow. Windows will be releasing a future update that will remove Flash entirely from the browser.
A look back at Flash and #1 Chat Avenue
Some of the regulars will remember that Flash was the primary software used by this website for well over a decade. At the beginning, it was not well received but eventually users adapted and eventually all of our chat rooms were flashed. Its fast speed and lag free use was appealing. Web cams and image transfers at blazing speeds were a bonus. However, all good things must come to an end. Flash had major vulnerabilities and was easily exploited. It had outlived its time.
How does that affect the chat rooms?
As of this writing, only two chat rooms ares still using Flash: the video chat and the adult chat. The adult chat rooms which are for users 18 and over, will transition completely to several separate “modern version” rooms. The modern version has already been available for a couple years but we are adding more categories and topics. For the time being, users will be able to choose from 4 separate chat rooms including what is now known as classic chat (our Flash based chat). There will be many different categories and genres to encompass everybody. In the future, we will be adding web cam functionality to these modern rooms. The classic chat will only be active for a very short time. We urge our users to start the transition over to the new modern version chat rooms as soon as possible.
For the video chat we will be adding a new software. We will have more details in the coming days (or weeks). Please stay tuned.
It was a good run and will be hard to say goodbye
Although we know that change is not easy to accept, we are confident that our community will. We encourage you to use our new modern version chat rooms that has a wide range of features including image transfers, wall posts, friends lists, music players and many more features that Flash never had. As always, we will be developing and offering the best available chat systems for our community. Stay tuned for some exciting future releases.
As always, happy chatting.