Maybe it could produce glitches. But I simply don't think that we should remove features just because they are not too relevant anymore. Oh, I forgot that those few characters will take up to 30 bytes which can cost something. We're wasting money!

HTML-Fan wrote:

I think that it could be important in some cases, so I would leave it like that, removing features is almost never a great idea. No support.

But why? This is the Scratch forums, Scratch doesn't use Flash anymore, so there is no need for the Scratch forums to detect Flash. It can't be important in any case, because Scratch doesn't use Flash.

HTML-Fan wrote:

Maybe it could produce glitches.

Maybe? We don't know, but how could it produce glitches?

HTML-Fan wrote:

But I simply don't think that we should remove features just because they are not too relevant anymore.

It's not that it's “not too relevant anymore”, it's simply irrelevant now.

HTML-Fan wrote:

Oh, I forgot that those few characters will take up to 30 bytes which can cost something. We're wasting money!

Of course it's not a high priority, but keeping outdated features around is the problem here, not that it is wasting server space.

I just think this suggestion is dead on arrival because the forums haven't been maintained for years, which means they are currently completely abandoned. Many glitches are known but not even those are fixed. I believe when (if) the Scratch forums are moved, or updated to a new system, this feature won't exist then, so not much to worry about. Even right now the Flash detector doesn't really bother anyone.

HTML-Fan wrote:

Flash is still a thing I like to have in my browser, because a lot of old games and homepages require it.

Well sorry, because Flash is going away in December. Of this year.

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Support! I see no reason to keep it around, it's like your wisdom teeth.

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I agree. Scratch doesn't run on flash, so it's just pointless. Support!
You could manually remove it though…

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Support! There really isn't any point in having it anymore.

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Support; now, and in 2021, there is no use of it anymore.

There are 20 days until every browser will permanently disable Flash. There is no need to detect versions of Flash anymore, especially become it seemed to be broken even when Flash was still around and always displayed “No Flash version detected.”

Full Support!
Here are some replacement ideas…

• Javascript disabled or enabled
  
• Using HTML5
  

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mybearworld wrote:

Full Support!
Here are some replacement ideas…

• Javascript disabled or enabled
  
• Using HTML5
  

I like that idea, it would be way more useful than showing whether or not the user has an obsolete plugin that isn't required for Scratch to run. +1

the2000 wrote:

mybearworld wrote:

Full Support!
Here are some replacement ideas…

• Javascript disabled or enabled
  
• Using HTML5
  

I like that idea, it would be way more useful than showing whether or not the user has an obsolete plugin that isn't required for Scratch to run. +1

I also like that replacement idea. HTML5 and JS are more important now that flash isn't required to run Scratch.

Support! Since Flash is now blocked on all major browsers, it will just always not detect it, so what's the point?