Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

They couldn’t take like two days to prevent the flooding of the forums and overall disruption over the community over the lack of features on a day each year that is usually filled with new features?

Evidently not.

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jvvg wrote:

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

Do they not have a test website???? I don’t have a source for this but it would make logical sense that they have a test website

It's not just that, it's also the fact that the act of deploying in and of itself is not without risk and disruption.

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A single variable

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

They couldn’t take like two days to prevent the flooding of the forums and overall disruption over the community over the lack of features on a day each year that is usually filled with new features?

That's kind of a bad reason to add something. It's a little bit entitled to tell the ST to add features otherwise you'll spam the forums…

ItBeJC wrote:

depresso-boiyo wrote:

ACTIVITY CHECK

All employes please quote this check and respond “active” to avoid being given a strike, exemptions include employees on leave who have filled out the form.

You have one week to respond.

Also bumping

I could've sworn I responded to this
But I could've seen it and closed the tab?
Anyways I'm here.

ACTIVE
AAAAH
king w/ edit pro

dertermenter wrote:

I believe the semi colon is automatic so the scratch team didn't do anything really.

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

jvvg wrote:

In the past they have done something every year (some years it was pretty simple things while other years it was very elaborate), but this year the development team seems to be stretched pretty thin, so they weren't able to add any new features this year. The moderation is also stretched kinda thin as far as I'm aware, so they weren't able to put extra moderation resources towards any special April Fools' Day stuff.

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As Maximouse has said in a recent thread it requires a single variable to be changed. I’m sure changing one variable would be a large investment risk, especially for a company such as the Scratch Foundation. The amount of money and time required to accomplish such a feat would be rather large because of the given task’s challenging nature.

To be fair maximouse has also said today that a new cat block for high contrast would have to be created and overall high contrast makes the implementation of cat blocks more tricky.

They couldn’t take like two days to prevent the flooding of the forums and overall disruption over the community over the lack of features on a day each year that is usually filled with new features?

Rayyani321 wrote:

How do I make a scratch class myself. Does someone have to do it?

You must be a real life teacher.

Please don't ask questions here, add a topic in the QaS forum.

PresidentLoki00 wrote:

AnimatorsParadise wrote:

PresidentLoki00 wrote:

AnimatorsParadise wrote:

PresidentLoki00 wrote:

AnimatorsParadise wrote:

PresidentLoki00 wrote:

Alright team, I need an honest answer. Do you think you can have the entire movie animated by May 13?

We'll have to see how things go, but at least the script is short.

That's why I made it the way I did. I plan on having it be at least 3 parts so it's easier to manage. We won't start part 2 until September though so you'll have some time to work on other projects.

That's a good idea.

You might have to check the script, but I think we should rig the characters that don't have any voice lines next so we can get those scenes finished. Just a thought, I dunno if it'd speed up the process or not.

Yeah, I was working on Pyro.

I'm pretty sure him and Avalanche are just chasing Bishop in the opening scene, I dunno how much rigging he needs.

I think he'll need the limbs rigged, but the back might be unnecessary.

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

Do they not have a test website???? I don’t have a source for this but it would make logical sense that they have a test website

It's not just that, it's also the fact that the act of deploying in and of itself is not without risk and disruption.

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scratchusername40 wrote:

supersonic61223 wrote:

(#390)

scratchusername40 wrote:

I am an iOS developer, Apple enthusiast, and web developer so I feel like I am qualified to comment on this.
First of all, the App Store guidelines do not block Scratch from making an iOS/iPadOS app. That was changed a while ago, and you can find all sorts of apps that allow coding in much more powerful languages.
And, they literally have the ScratchJr app which came out after the Scratch Viewer app was removed from the store. So the entire debate is literally null.

As for the development needed, there are several options you could take. Scratch runs as a React web app right now. React has a variant called React Native which is used for native development. It's not easy to transfer from React to RN, but it's definitely not starting from zero. There's also Cordova which, while probably not ideal, will build a native app directly from the current codebase in a few minutes. Finally, they could start from scratch (pun intended) and build a native Swift and SwiftUI app, which would be massive ordeal. The Scratch Team would probably use React Native if I had to guess.

There's no real reason why they haven't done this already other than it's not their priority. The ST could easily do this if they wanted. They probably want to do it. It just isn't a priority for them.
(Also, Scratch Team, if you're reading this, I will contribute to a native SwiftUI app if you make one!)

Read this I beg of you this is so annoying to look at just read this and get over it. The Scratch Team could make an iOS/iPadOS app at almost any time they wanted, they just need the time to do so which I'm pretty sure they do considering they can update Scratch to remove exploits in enough time where little to no one is affected.

Yeah, this thread is kind of going in circles. There's no technical or legal reason why they can't do it, they just haven't gotten around to it.

I personally think ST just doesn’t care, as Scratch is also available on the Mac App Store, plus it would be too much effort regarding how the website works just fine.

jvvg wrote:

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

As Maximouse has said in a recent thread it requires a single variable to be changed. I’m sure changing one variable would be a large investment risk, especially for a company such as the Scratch Foundation. The amount of money and time required to accomplish such a feat would be rather large because of the given task’s challenging nature.

As someone who works in the software industry, this kind of thinking is extremely dangerous. This kind of statement is often made before deploys that cause major disruptions due to unforeseen circumstances.

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Do they not have a test website???? I don’t have a source for this but it would make logical sense that they have a test website

Hi all!

How do I make a scratch class myself. Does someone have to do it?


Rayyani321

I believe the semi colon is automatic so the scratch team didn't do anything really.

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

jvvg wrote:

In the past they have done something every year (some years it was pretty simple things while other years it was very elaborate), but this year the development team seems to be stretched pretty thin, so they weren't able to add any new features this year. The moderation is also stretched kinda thin as far as I'm aware, so they weren't able to put extra moderation resources towards any special April Fools' Day stuff.

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As Maximouse has said in a recent thread it requires a single variable to be changed. I’m sure changing one variable would be a large investment risk, especially for a company such as the Scratch Foundation. The amount of money and time required to accomplish such a feat would be rather large because of the given task’s challenging nature.

To be fair maximouse has also said today that a new cat block for high contrast would have to be created and overall high contrast makes the implementation of cat blocks more tricky.

I made a game for April Fools. Here's the game:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/992990255/

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

As Maximouse has said in a recent thread it requires a single variable to be changed. I’m sure changing one variable would be a large investment risk, especially for a company such as the Scratch Foundation. The amount of money and time required to accomplish such a feat would be rather large because of the given task’s challenging nature.

As someone who works in the software industry, this kind of thinking is extremely dangerous. This kind of statement is often made before deploys that cause major disruptions due to unforeseen circumstances.

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Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

Maximouse wrote:

han614698 wrote:

That would be an interesting addition to the extension.

Could it be changed locally with a script?

Try running the following in the editor's console (replace extensionName in the first line with the name of the extension in camelCase):

const redux = extensionName.eventTargets.tab[0].redux;
const session = redux.state.session.session;
session.flags.everything_is_totally_normal = true;
redux.dispatch({type: "SET_SESSION", session});

Would that work on all days?

Correct, it does not rely on AFD at all since there has been no changes to anything today.

AnimatorsParadise wrote:

PresidentLoki00 wrote:

AnimatorsParadise wrote:

PresidentLoki00 wrote:

AnimatorsParadise wrote:

PresidentLoki00 wrote:

Alright team, I need an honest answer. Do you think you can have the entire movie animated by May 13?

We'll have to see how things go, but at least the script is short.

That's why I made it the way I did. I plan on having it be at least 3 parts so it's easier to manage. We won't start part 2 until September though so you'll have some time to work on other projects.

That's a good idea.

You might have to check the script, but I think we should rig the characters that don't have any voice lines next so we can get those scenes finished. Just a thought, I dunno if it'd speed up the process or not.

Yeah, I was working on Pyro.

I'm pretty sure him and Avalanche are just chasing Bishop in the opening scene, I dunno how much rigging he needs.

medians wrote:

There is a studio and the semicolon, but that is it from what I can see.. If you're wondering about the jokes thing or the clap thing, that's from an extension.

The semicolon is automatic. It doesn’t require any work from the ST. let me find source rq

It's up to the individual user whether or not to respond to you. If they are taking a while you can send them a comment on their profile as a reminder. Just don't send them a lot of comments to the point where it's likely to bother them.

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PresidentLoki00 wrote:

AnimatorsParadise wrote:

PresidentLoki00 wrote:

AnimatorsParadise wrote:

PresidentLoki00 wrote:

Alright team, I need an honest answer. Do you think you can have the entire movie animated by May 13?

We'll have to see how things go, but at least the script is short.

That's why I made it the way I did. I plan on having it be at least 3 parts so it's easier to manage. We won't start part 2 until September though so you'll have some time to work on other projects.

That's a good idea.

You might have to check the script, but I think we should rig the characters that don't have any voice lines next so we can get those scenes finished. Just a thought, I dunno if it'd speed up the process or not.

Yeah, I was working on Pyro.

There is a studio and the semicolon, but that is it from what I can see.. If you're wondering about the jokes thing or the clap thing, that's from an extension.

jvvg wrote:

In the past they have done something every year (some years it was pretty simple things while other years it was very elaborate), but this year the development team seems to be stretched pretty thin, so they weren't able to add any new features this year. The moderation is also stretched kinda thin as far as I'm aware, so they weren't able to put extra moderation resources towards any special April Fools' Day stuff.

;

As Maximouse has said in a recent thread it requires a single variable to be changed. I’m sure changing one variable would be a large investment risk, especially for a company such as the Scratch Foundation. The amount of money and time required to accomplish such a feat would be rather large because of the given task’s challenging nature.

so i told one of your members in the collaboration section about a collab I want to do he has not responded.

Thanks to MrKingofScratch's help. This issue has been resolved. We identified that the introduction of the new cloud variable feature more than 12 days ago has altered the behavior of cloud variables. Specifically, cloud variables can no longer retrieve values stored by the last record. Instead, when a project is reloaded, it reverts to the cloud value saved at the last save point. This change impacts the functionality of high score features in Scratch projects, rendering them inoperative.

jvvg wrote:

co0lcr34t10ns wrote:

I swore I saw a blockspam post get taken down live. Anyway…
Can we just talk about the front page? AFD has never left such an impression. It's like the whole wiki became a sandbox.

We've actually been working on it all year, and it will magically all go back to normal in a few hours.

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Seeing as this user is a fairly experienced wiki editor, I think they know that, and they're just saying that they are surprised at how “silly” it is this year.

AnimatorsParadise wrote:

PresidentLoki00 wrote:

AnimatorsParadise wrote:

PresidentLoki00 wrote:

Alright team, I need an honest answer. Do you think you can have the entire movie animated by May 13?

We'll have to see how things go, but at least the script is short.

That's why I made it the way I did. I plan on having it be at least 3 parts so it's easier to manage. We won't start part 2 until September though so you'll have some time to work on other projects.

That's a good idea.

You might have to check the script, but I think we should rig the characters that don't have any voice lines next so we can get those scenes finished. Just a thought, I dunno if it'd speed up the process or not.

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It’s April Fool’s day! Write about an interesting time you’ve pranked your siblings in the past or today. If you haven’t had any experiences or don’t like to prank your siblings, write 250 words about what you would do to prank your siblings (or an imaginary sibling) for 250 points. An extra 100 points if you show proof.

It was finally April Fools Day. My favorite day of the year, specifically because I got to prank my brothers, CJ and Jamie.
I slid down the stairs just before 6 o’clock, in hopes to beat my brothers to everything. Last year CJ had given me a toothpaste stuffed Oreo, so it was my chance to pay him back by making him brown ‘E’s. As I cut out the paper E’s, I thought what other pranks could I do? And then the biggest idea popped in my head, I’d make fake dog poop and put it in their shoes. Perfect.
I searched up ‘fake dog poop’ recipes on Google, and the first thing that popped up was just use Nutella and water. That’d work, right? So I combined them together, with a whisk and a spoon, then put it in both of my brothers’ shoes.
I had already done two pranks, but that wasn’t enough so I decided to get a water bottle from the garage and a penny to squirt water up their eyes. I also grabbed a whoopee cushion from my room, in hopes to make them think they’ve farted as well as some ‘lovely’ smelling fart spray to spray in their rooms.
I finished laying a towel over the brownies, and a few whoopee cushions on the chairs, and just as I was about to head downstairs to my dad’s office to prank him, I felt a drop. I looked up, and a bucket of fruit punch poured all over me.
CJ and Jamie must’ve put this up there, they had beat me to April Fools. I headed upstairs to change out of my soaked clothes, and just as I was about to my brother CJ jumped out behind the corner and said a big “Boo!” I jumped up, and stared at him. Then a giggle popped out, and a few hehes. Until both of us were rolling on the floor laughing our hearts out, the day was just getting started.

You could use a join block for this

DangerPuppy10 wrote:

han614698 wrote:

Interested concept - can you think of any example uses where you couldn't just type it in?

Actually you could do

switch costume to (report [previous costume]::operators)

You can actually get the block in this project:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10126833/editor/

The functionality for previous costume is a thing, though it hasn't been implemented for some reason (well, I mean the ability to select it without creating a costume)

bruh-moment6 wrote:

I think I'm just gonna give up on the game and trash it.

Giving up so easily doesn't bode well for future tasks.

Share the project and I'm sure you'll get lots of simple solutions. I'm sure you can handle this with something along the lines of setting a pickUp variable to false at the beginning of each frame, setting it to true when something has been picked up and checking that it's false before allowing anything to be picked up.

Maximouse wrote:

han614698 wrote:

That would be an interesting addition to the extension.

Could it be changed locally with a script?

Try running the following in the editor's console (replace extensionName in the first line with the name of the extension in camelCase):

const redux = extensionName.eventTargets.tab[0].redux;
const session = redux.state.session.session;
session.flags.everything_is_totally_normal = true;
redux.dispatch({type: "SET_SESSION", session});

Would that work on all days?

Also, what is a double igore slime encounter?

KittyCatKayden wrote:

mybearworld wrote:

It's not started for them yet. They're planning to have a themed April Fools studio - any other April Fools activity that may come will probably start around when that studio gets created.

YAY! I can't wait to finally experience an April Fools Day on scratch! I missed out in 2022 and 2023, so I want to do it in 2024

Who’s gonna tell them…

han614698 wrote:

jvvg wrote:

To my understanding, the development team is stretched pretty thin and needs to prioritize things like keeping the website running over “fun” features that only appear for a day.

- https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/7896405/

Skill issue on ST part. Just evade taxes.

JTanner2026 wrote:

(#2937)

C0D3N00B wrote:

JTanner2026 wrote:

there's a really dumb argument going on right now in TCF on whether axe of regrowth should be nerfed or not

Why should it? All it does is save the hassle of manually replanting.

the op of the thread said it was “”“overpowered”“” and it broke the “”“”“”axe progression“”“”“” (there is no such thing as axe progression in this game)

Ah yes, functioning as a regular axe but replanting stuff is overpowered

PresidentLoki00 wrote:

AnimatorsParadise wrote:

PresidentLoki00 wrote:

Alright team, I need an honest answer. Do you think you can have the entire movie animated by May 13?

We'll have to see how things go, but at least the script is short.

That's why I made it the way I did. I plan on having it be at least 3 parts so it's easier to manage. We won't start part 2 until September though so you'll have some time to work on other projects.

That's a good idea.

co0lcr34t10ns wrote:

I swore I saw a blockspam post get taken down live. Anyway…
Can we just talk about the front page? AFD has never left such an impression. It's like the whole wiki became a sandbox.

We've actually been working on it all year, and it will magically all go back to normal in a few hours.

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INSERT-USER_NAME wrote:

INSERT-USER_NAME wrote:

I think I just first-hand witnessed wiki downtime, I just searched the wiki for the triangle eye, then next thing after I go to search for something else, I get 503'd.

Okay ignore that, i don't know what it was but it was just five-minutes short.

It’s been on and off for almost a week.

co0lcr34t10ns wrote:

I swore I saw a blockspam post get taken down live. Anyway…
Can we just talk about the front page? AFD has never left such an impression. It's like the whole wiki became a sandbox.

Yeah a whole bunch of posts got removed.
I think it’s good that everyone is really getting into enjoying it, and making it silly. I attempted to make the main page have a lowercase title but I couldn’t get it to work.

Rayyani321 wrote:

How do I enter a scratch class

You must be added by the teacher.

My browser / operating system: MacOS Macintosh X 10.15.7, Safari 17.3.1, No Flash version detected .When ever I’m in the midst of a game Sometimes it says An error has repeatedly accrued at scratch.mit.edu (project number) and then reloads and then it says “we are so sorry scratch crashed… the scratch team has been informed.” BUT THIS HAPPENS TO ME REPEATEDLY. (YES I KNOW THIS IS A DUPLICATE BUT HELP ME OUT HERE!)

Hi all!


How do I enter a scratch class?


Rayyani321

JTanner2026 wrote:

C0D3N00B wrote:

JTanner2026 wrote:

there's a really dumb argument going on right now in TCF on whether axe of regrowth should be nerfed or not

Why should it? All it does is save the hassle of manually replanting.

the op of the thread said it was “”“overpowered”“” and it broke the “”“”“”axe progression“”“”“” (there is no such thing as axe progression in this game)

axe “progression” lasts till you reach a giant tree


or you can be like me and not upgrade from a copper axe till hardmode

I swore I saw a blockspam post get taken down live. Anyway…
Can we just talk about the front page? AFD has never left such an impression. It's like the whole wiki became a sandbox.

I remember when Scratch added a few things just for April Fools such as the cat ears on hat blocks, and new visibility/work space options, but this year, I don't see anything different. Did I miss something, or did they not plan for anything this year?

Don't they usually do something every April Fools day, or is it just every once in a while?

Hi I am a fairy small scratch maker.
I mostly make animations about undertale (or deltarune if I want to).
So, I am making series about like a Mettaton news (if you played Undertale you would know)
and in the second episode (not out yet) there is a Q and A with the Anoying Dog and Temmie.

Now, I am not good at questions.
So I wondered if you guys wanted to have some questions (that they could answer in the animation)!
The uh animation comes out on SUNDAY so if you have any ideas , type some quick!

I will credit you guys

If you have a question about a Scratch Team action, please use the Contact Us button at the bottom of every page to ask the Scratch Team directly. If you need an email, talk to your parents.

teamsonic2011 wrote:

Comix_2 wrote:

teamsonic2011 wrote:

Comix_2 wrote:

snip

I mean it's shockingly easy to do so

Has the phrase “I'm not modding my 3ds” not been clear enough?

snip

I want to know how to make one of those please

plot twist: you use a 3ds homebrew app (you don't but it would be funny)

han614698 wrote:

No clue. Other users such as Maximouse seem to disagree with Za-Chary on this so he may be wrong.

I wonder if my post is getting misunderstood. Of course they don't re-code the cat blocks from scratch every single time they bring them back. But the Scratch Team needs to manually make the changes that put them on the Scratch website. That is, there is nothing that enforces “If the day is April 1st, then automatically update the website to include cat blocks even if no Scratch Team member is online at the time.”

Updating the website is done manually, to my knowledge — and as has been brought up already, the code for the cat blocks already exists, so theoretically (and perhaps naïvely) it would not take that long to update the website to include them. But of course I'm not a developer, so I have no idea how much work is put into making sure the cat blocks work. It's just my understanding that the process to update them is not automatic, which is what I was initially trying to say.

PLEASE SEND AN ANIMATION IN THE COMMENTS YOU MADE TO BE AN ANIMATOR OR A VOICE RECORDING OF YOU SAYING “This is a test recording” IN THE COMMENTS IF YOU WANNA BE A VOICE ACTOR!

I believe the Scratch Team has a censor for words like dam(n), cra(p) etc where the comment is still posted but then the Scratch Team is alerted of the comment and put in a report queue for the Scratch Team to review.

Chrome-Dog wrote:

the other person legit got away with [it]

Chrome-Dog wrote:

only his project taken down.

So uh… they didn't get away with it.

And you're not saying what your friend did to get banned. You're making it sound like they got banned for looking at a project, but it could instead be that they deleted their account, broke the community guidelines, or did something else that was bad.

Luedcapp wrote:

What is the new clapping icon?

It's from a Scratch browser extension you have installed - not related to Scratch at all.