oh yeah! I don’t think I remember shavedplatypus, though. The others I recognize.
lol I remember when the Java guys were saying that about us (Flash) too haha. But thats prevalent just about everywhere.
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Haha, that’s true the Java community was claiming the same …
… no new thing under the sun. – Ecclesiastes 1:9
dqs - was the one I was thinking of but could not remember above. That and SP had some top quality content. How about layer51, after looking at my hard drive for dqs, I could list tons of sites/forums from around the globe from tons of countries. Its also no joke concerning the museum quality flash archive resource, about 200 gigs of content, info, sources, most of which is no where to be found online today. I was a flash resource pack rat it seems, always feeling I needed to archive in case it disappears. Sadly most of it did online, as well as the need for it. I don’t think there is an effect or result that I either recreated or even more so have source of others whom did.
Yikes, quite an inspiring and depressing trip down memory lane after a quick look on that HD. I may have to set aside some time to dig deeper and reminisce, maybe shed a tear or two.
Holy cow. Pack rat; no kidding!
Layer51 was another big one for me. I still have a few things online under that name, like, uh…: http://senocular.com/pub/layer51/freetransform.swf
Oooo even have a couple of things from were-here, including a tennis battle with the final being:
http://senocular.com/pub/werehere/ASTennis/ASlines9.html
(complete with rendering bug still visible!)
I have a bunch of old stuff I wanted to go through and sort out myself, but I never found time. Or never seem to want to if I have the time heh. I have nowhere near that much though, and most of it is small, little things I was experimenting with (like the transform stuff linked above). I don’t remember keeping too much from other people, though. 
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BillyBussey, 2advanced, k10k, yugop, turtleshell, balthaser, akimbo, hillmancurtis, juxt interactive, shockwave.com, habbohotel, dubit.co.uk, once-upon-a-forest, bit-101, erik natzke, and soo many more that I should add to this list of Flash content that is mostly lost forever.
Oddly enough, it seems they think they have it under control….
Spam attack stopped
… or seemingly they have given up again since then?
Appears to me like maybe a DDoS attack got their attention and got them to take some measures at that time, but I doubt (and it doesn’t seem to be the case) that they’re going to try to do a better job of maintaining things.
Hey, I remember Barn on this forum! I also seem to remember being annoyed by him several times, though I was ~15 back then and not old and wise like I am now 
I was just digging around in the post about Barn quitting as.org. It’s funny, in a sad/ridiculous way, reading the old Internet forum fights about nothing.
Senocular, by the way, do you still have MOD privileges over there? Whatever happened to CyanBlue do you know?
Seems like they are either still under attack or trying to resolve the spam, or maybe neither just adding more ads.
3/31/14 - We are performing some essential maintenance. Please come back soon!
The question is however, after being run off by spammers is there anyone to come back once resolved?
If you look at the person whom posted that announcement about the DDoS:
Rafael-MasMedia - Administrator
Home page - http://theforum.com/our-communities/
They seem to own many unrelated and somewhat diverse forums, sadly AS.org seems to be the only one that was left to become a waste land (at least presently).
I do, but I think I stopped being very involved myself before a lot of this happened. I’m not sure what happened to CB, but I assumed he lasted longer than I did. With an increased workload I’ve pretty much reduced myself to just kirupa (and even then often sporadically). I could do some digging around but not much can be done while they’re under maintenance.
Not to prolong this discussion, but the actionscript.org forum has been gone completely for a few months. Perhaps they gave up completely? What a shame, with Flash all but dead, it’s still nice to have these repositories for cross reference for relative JS research. Sigh, a lot was lost if its gone for good, thanks Kirupa for keeping your old forum as an archive.
I think that forum was rather active up to the end.
I doubt that there are any people in that forum?
Well, aside from spammers, it seems like regular participants just gave up long ago, sadly.
The forum actually just came back online in the last week or so, after about two months of being down, sadly they didn’t do anything to remove or rectify the spam problem. I think they actually added even more “ad” features though.
nice…post
Another one gone for the ages, gotoandlearn forum
http://www.gotoandlearnforum.com/index.php
“Forum will cease to exist 12 Sep 2015, due to inactivity.”
Looks like they are ahead of schedule however. 
Louis ck
kirupaForum: Now the biggest Flash forum on the web!
(by default)
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Yay!!!
Their most recent article is from the middle of 2013. Are you seeing something more recent?