Important news: FlashDen is changing its name to ActiveDen

For just over three fantastic years FlashDen has been the jewel in Envato’s crown. It is our longest running and most active community, and thanks to the amazing authors who showcase their work here, has become the largest Flash marketplace in the world.

This week Adobe asked us to change our name and URL so that it would no longer contain the term ‘Flash’, which is a registered trademark of Adobe. And so here at Envato HQ we’ve been busy thinking up new names and we think we’ve found a great new home for our community.

As of Monday 19th October, FlashDen.net will be changing its name to ActiveDen.net.

The new name amends the use of the word Flash, and it also opens up the marketplace for the future. In the last year we have added a budding Flex library and we now look forward to listing other interactive products like Adobe Air and maybe even Microsoft Silverlight!

We realize some members may have concerns about this decision, and to be honest I know I am always going to feel a little wistful about our old name, but we feel strongly it’s the right choice for FlashDen and will serve us in good stead for the future, allowing us to focus on what we do best – providing the very best marketplace for selling digital goods online.

As of Monday, the URL FlashDen.net will redirect to the new ActiveDen.net site. Everything will stay just as it always has been – we’ll just have a nifty new name!

I am sure the community will get behind us during this period of transition, and we’ll do everything possible to ensure it’s a smooth one with plenty of redirects in place to make sure no traffic, links, and especially buyers, are lost.

Thanks to everyone at FlashDen for three years of amazing growth and community, and here’s to many more as ActiveDen!

Collis

Collis Ta'eed is the CEO and co-founder of Envato. Most Envato sites begin life in one of Collis' many Moleskine notebooks where he obsessively scribbles down numbers and plans, diagrams and mockups. As chief web designer he then heads up the Photoshop work to bring those plans to life before handing it all over to Envato's crack team of developers to build.

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