Seeing all the lovely banners on the NPLU website reminded me of the forum signatures and how much time I spent making fancy banners for it and how jealous I was of users who had mastered the art of fancy graphic design (sprinkly gifs that didn't have the ugly blingee logo) and CSS. I miss forums so much. There are a couple that are still chugging along, kept afloat only by the mod's sheer affection to the topic, and it warms my heart to see familiar usernames pop up even twenty years later.

Re: flash videos & animations. I understand that Adobe Flash was a cheese full of security holes, and that it becoming deprecated is a good thing, in the grand scheme of things. However I will forever be sad about the fact that now in the music video for the Vocaloid song Double Lariat, Luka doesn't keep on spinning even if the video's paused :(