Maybe this will usher in a whole new crowd of people and coders, don't lose hope! Since this is where I discovered the death of flash Realm, I feel inclined to leave a few words. I have enjoyed learning about ActionScript and flash development, and I have met some pretty inspirational people who feel the same way.
I discovered RotMG in 2012 through an unerwhelmingly small game hacking forum similar to this, **********. There were two active Realm hackers on there, and through the death of that community I discovered MPGH. So basically, I played this game from DAY ONE with hacked clients. I remember starting on build 123 and watching the Wildshadow devs frantically revert and recode as the hackers stayed two steps ahead of them. I remember the fake godmode clients that hacked you or gave you viruses, the shitty phishing programs that promised to fill your vault with anything and modify your gold endlessly. I remember when duping started to gain publicity, and how it caused waves in hacker communities and the game community simultaneously. Then the recode happened, and there was a distinct change in crowd. Suddenly there were more advanced programmers creating much higher quality software, like those automatically updating client modifiers and a multitude of proxies and scripts. So many things have happened since I lurked these forums as a teenager and spent countless hours grinding with the advantage I got here.
I thank you 059 for your dedication and creativity. If not for your sharing attitude, so many of us would probably have given up on this game long ago. To the rest of the comrades who have walked the path of the hacker alongside the realm community, I thank you for the years of memories we have all made through Flash. May she rest in peace.