Scratch

Well, the scratch team dosn't shoot out updates and stuff like every week, so I don't find it neccessery.

Last edited by Snowdrift (2012-12-07 15:44:43)

You're obviously referring to Sparks' project earlier, and I agree, although I think there should just be a small "announcements" box, that the ST can toggle whenever there's an announcement project

Snowdrift wrote:

Wes64 wrote:

if the message is important then it requires exposure -- more people ought to know

Usually when it's really important they have a banner right one top of where your messeges usally are.

Wes64 wrote:

the main issue i see is that they are piggy-backing on the featured section, which is meant to be for users of the site.

I agree.

Wes64 wrote:

if the scratch team had their own section, it would consolidate all the important information. perhaps they would even endeavor to create more projects and announcements if they had their own section.

Well, they do have their blog, but it's not used much at all.

the banner is for extra important things that deal with every user, but in this section there could be something like a bug report, or the "gobo gets phished" thing. those are still important, just not as much. also, their blog is pretty invisible, there really aren't links to it on the main site except in some obscure corner

zammer990 wrote:

You're obviously referring to Sparks' project earlier, and I agree, although I think there should just be a small "announcements" box, that the ST can toggle whenever there's an announcement project

Yes, it is the catalyst which sparked this idea, but ive also seen it done before.

Maybe the row can only be shown when there is an announcement?

Wes64 wrote:

Snowdrift wrote:

Wes64 wrote:

if the message is important then it requires exposure -- more people ought to know

Usually when it's really important they have a banner right one top of where your messeges usally are.

Wes64 wrote:

the main issue i see is that they are piggy-backing on the featured section, which is meant to be for users of the site.

I agree.

Wes64 wrote:

if the scratch team had their own section, it would consolidate all the important information. perhaps they would even endeavor to create more projects and announcements if they had their own section.

Well, they do have their blog, but it's not used much at all.

the banner is for extra important things that deal with every user, but in this section there could be something like a bug report, or the "gobo gets phished" thing. those are still important, just not as much. also, their blog is pretty invisible, there really aren't links to it on the main site except in some obscure corner

zammer990 wrote:

You're obviously referring to Sparks' project earlier, and I agree, although I think there should just be a small "announcements" box, that the ST can toggle whenever there's an announcement project

Yes, it is the catalyst which sparked this idea, but ive also seen it done before.

"sparked the idea"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

but I don't think it deserves a whole row, but maybe a sidebar item like "most recent scratch news" or something like that

doodle81 wrote:

Do It

He can't.

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I don't think the ST wants every project they make to be put on the front page, but rather the projects Scratchers make.(And they would easily make #1 top loved and viewed lately all the time, even though the projects wouldn't appear, that would be strange.) plus there would probably only be a new project on it about every week or two. And that's if you count every project. (If you're only talking about announcements and projects like "Gobo gets punished" you're talking about possibly months.)

Last edited by CheeseMunchy (2012-12-14 02:34:40)

CheeseMunchy wrote:

I don't think the ST wants every project they make to be put on the front page, but rather the projects Scratchers make. (And they would easily make #1 top loved and viewed all the time, even though the projects wouldn't appear, that would be strange.)

The scratch team runs the site; it is their job to supply important information to the users of the site, especially because the users of this site are young. hence the "gobo gets phished" projects. i agree, they dont want to put every project they make on the front page, but many they make are important.

Easily make top loved? Well if that was true, why did 4 moderatpors have to upload "gobo gets phished"? why do they keep featuring important projects about Scratch? it's because they won't easily make top loved; and it is necessary to relay the information.

CheeseMunchy wrote:

plus there would probably only be a new project on it about every week or two.

Wes64 wrote:

if the message is important then it requires exposure -- more people ought to know, so increased exposure isn't bad.

Also, if they had their own section, chances are they would use it more frequently. the amount of projects they upload now does not correlate to the amount they would upload if they had this.

Hiya everyone!
Just a note to say yeah - we very rarely use the featured row for announcements and stuff. But since there's a lot going on these days, what with the forthcoming transition to 2.0, we decided it makes sense to use it for some things - like the open beta announcement for one. The reason is that only a small percentage of all Scratchers visit the forums, and we want to make sure that everyone gets to see and comment on important items.

But don't worry - once thing settle down after the 2.0 transition, we'll go back to using featured *very rarely*, if ever. (Actually 2.0 has a better "news / updates" system, so I think it's likely we'll just use that.)

Last edited by Lightnin (2012-12-13 22:02:37)