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Jonathanpb · 2010-04-13 06:50:17

At around Halloween 2008, I got Top Downloaded! big_smile I saved a picture.

Today I took a look at it, and - well, take a look for yourself (I'll point out the features)...

Website differences:
• "What the Community is Loving" was called "Top Loved Lately"
• "What the Community is Viewing" was called "Top Viewed Lately"
• There's "Surprise Projects"
• There's "Top Downloaded"
• People could be on the front page in more than one spot at a time

But you know what? People always talk about how Scratch isn't as good now ( hmm )... let's take a look:
• There were good projects on Top Loved - those projects did deserve the love-its...
• Top Viewed actually had good stuff - now they almost never... Different projects got front-paged - they deserved it more than the ones nowadays.
• The celebrities (ie. bosox397) made good projects - better ones than nowadays... they got famous because they deserved it.

One thing that already changed - remix chains were already dominating. lol You can see a remix chain there...

hmm

Last edited by Jonathanpb (2010-04-13 06:52:02)

floatingmagictree · 2010-04-13 07:08:26

yikes

That was around the time I joined.

Chrischb · 2010-04-13 07:10:29

Hmm... I see bosox397 on the front page in three places. yikes

08jackt · 2010-04-13 07:12:03

Good times.

In '07 it was all Plumbery.

Jonathanpb · 2010-04-13 07:19:16

08jackt wrote:
Good times.

In '07 it was all Plumbery.

I wish I could have been there... sad

demosthenes · 2010-04-13 07:19:32

Chrischb wrote:
Hmm... I see bosox397 on the front page in three places.

Yup, that's because whenever he would share a project because another one of his projects was on the frontpage, the newly shared one would get tons of views.

floatingmagictree · 2010-04-13 07:21:50

demosthenes wrote:
Chrischb wrote:
Hmm... I see bosox397 on the front page in three places.
Yup, that's because whenever he would share a project because another one of his projects was on the frontpage, the newly shared one would get tons of views.

I remember right before he left, he told me his strategies on how he got so many views, but I never used it myself.

Jonathanpb · 2010-04-13 07:23:31

floatingmagictree wrote:
demosthenes wrote:
Chrischb wrote:
Hmm... I see bosox397 on the front page in three places.
Yup, that's because whenever he would share a project because another one of his projects was on the frontpage, the newly shared one would get tons of views.
I remember right before he left, he told me his strategies on how he got so many views, but I never used it myself.

yikes What is it? Oh, probably the stuff you see in the Show and Tell stickies...

...but what are the strategies? smile

floatingmagictree · 2010-04-13 07:24:23

Jonathanpb wrote:
floatingmagictree wrote:
demosthenes wrote:

Yup, that's because whenever he would share a project because another one of his projects was on the frontpage, the newly shared one would get tons of views.
I remember right before he left, he told me his strategies on how he got so many views, but I never used it myself.
What is it? Oh, probably the stuff you see in the Show and Tell stickies...

...but what are the strategies?

I remember that he said not to tell anyone, but I can't be sure because he also told me to delete the comment.

demosthenes · 2010-04-13 07:24:51

Jonathanpb wrote:
floatingmagictree wrote:
demosthenes wrote:

Yup, that's because whenever he would share a project because another one of his projects was on the frontpage, the newly shared one would get tons of views.
I remember right before he left, he told me his strategies on how he got so many views, but I never used it myself.
What is it? Oh, probably the stuff you see in the Show and Tell stickies...

...but what are the strategies?

Spam on everybody's project so much that Scratch had to make a filter to stop him even though only 1/100 people clicked on the links he would still automatically get front paged.

Jonathanpb · 2010-04-13 07:27:03

Meh - I'm content with my popularity level anyway. smile

floatingmagictree · 2010-04-13 07:54:31

demosthenes wrote:
Jonathanpb wrote:
floatingmagictree wrote:

I remember right before he left, he told me his strategies on how he got so many views, but I never used it myself.
What is it? Oh, probably the stuff you see in the Show and Tell stickies...

...but what are the strategies?
Spam on everybody's project so much that Scratch had to make a filter to stop him even though only 1/100 people clicked on the links he would still automatically get front paged.

Something else.

RHY3756547 · 2010-04-13 08:05:04

Bosox was on that page 3 TIMES.

...

I want to go back in time.

fanofcena · 2010-04-13 08:08:04

Lol

Jonathanpb · 2010-04-13 09:22:05

RHY3756547 wrote:
Bosox was on that page 3 TIMES.

...

I want to go back in time.

lol You could have five projects on the front page at once! big_smile

hmnwilson · 2010-04-13 13:09:46

For those who didn't get to see 2007.

markyparky56 · 2010-04-13 13:18:50

Man... That was good times... I want it to be like that again,

juststickman · 2010-04-13 13:37:27

Good times, lol [removed by moderator] virus is there too...

I remember getting top download sometime in december 08.
(and yet people still can't figure out who I am?)

Last edited by cheddargirl (2010-05-24 16:48:19)

TheSaint · 2010-04-13 15:45:43

Yay, My old account was # 3 Top loved back then. Good Times, Good Times. Thanks for the pic.

Berry122 · 2010-04-13 16:06:50

I had joined then I think hmm smile

Last edited by Berry122 (2010-04-13 16:07:36)

scmb1 · 2010-04-13 17:36:00

Since I was around to say congratulations- Congratulations! big_smile I don't think all of the changes have been for the worse. I mean, its good that a user can only have one project on the front page at a time (in my opinion). I do wish Surprise projects would come back though...

gershmer · 2010-04-13 17:39:30

hmnwilson wrote:
For those who didn't get to see 2007.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070314204927rn_1/scratch.mit.edu/forums/

The forums make me lol.

littletonkslover · 2010-04-13 17:43:43

I disagree, the front page still has lots of good stuff. Pokemaster works really hard on her drawings, and I know because she was one of my first friends when I joined Scratch. I feel kind of bad, because people go on her projects and post,"SCRATCH ISN'T FOR ART. GET A DEVIANTART THIS DOESN'T BELONG." hmm

floatingmagictree · 2010-04-13 18:11:39

littletonkslover wrote:
I disagree, the front page still has lots of good stuff. Pokemaster works really hard on her drawings, and I know because she was one of my first friends when I joined Scratch. I feel kind of bad, because people go on her projects and post,"SCRATCH ISN'T FOR ART. GET A DEVIANTART THIS DOESN'T BELONG."

You have yet to understand anything.

littletonkslover · 2010-04-13 18:12:44

floatingmagictree wrote:
littletonkslover wrote:
I disagree, the front page still has lots of good stuff. Pokemaster works really hard on her drawings, and I know because she was one of my first friends when I joined Scratch. I feel kind of bad, because people go on her projects and post,"SCRATCH ISN'T FOR ART. GET A DEVIANTART THIS DOESN'T BELONG."
You have yet to understand anything.

Maybe, maybe not.

Not everything should be learnt.

Scratch

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