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Jonathanpb wrote:

Scratch Resources is so awesome! 

Chrischb wrote:

OH WOW

It's been years since we've released it. XD
I'm one of the people on the team. I'm simply someone who approves appropriate things. 

Oh, and you posted at the same time again.

Last edited by ihaveamac (2010-07-17 21:02:35)

gettysburg11 wrote:

Just a question, I don't know if this is doable, but can you make it so that it shows how many downloads a sprite, sound, etc. has? I just want to see how many people download the resources I share.

I actually just suggested that:

Here's the post.

WOW. Blown away. I especially love how you handled the search feature, it's great to be able to preview sounds!

*Moment of respectful silence*

It is amazing! I can't wait to use it more often. The more we contribute, the more we have to use! I never knew how great it would turn out!    Thanks for taking the large amount of time to put this all together.

Last edited by coka (2010-07-17 22:11:29)

This is so awesome! Wow, I'm really impressed. Hats off to JSO and everyone who helped make Scratch Resources possible!

coolstuff wrote:

After having browsed the website for a little bit of time, I figured I might as well make a suggestion:

Each item, I feel, should have a page - it just feels rather incomplete without one. Maybe there could be some sort of a love-it button for sprites, number of downloads, etcetera. It just feels like we're not getting enough info on each sprite, I feel reluctant to download one.

Of course, that's probably a lot more work than you want to do... Just something to think about 

That is a suggestion that we got from various people before. It is doable, and then people would be able to find resources via the Google search bar, but then think about it. There are about 110 resources up, and that's just now. Automatically making a page for each resource would add up to a lot of pages.

Simple Solution: You know when you are uploading a resource there is a text box labeled 'comments'? That's not for "I just made this cat sprite", it's for "A simple cat, it is red and orange, and it has a long tail". Now that there have been many suggestions, I'll talk with JSO about giving a bigger hint about to what extent you should describe your resource 

adriangl wrote:

coolstuff wrote:

After having browsed the website for a little bit of time, I figured I might as well make a suggestion:

Each item, I feel, should have a page - it just feels rather incomplete without one. Maybe there could be some sort of a love-it button for sprites, number of downloads, etcetera. It just feels like we're not getting enough info on each sprite, I feel reluctant to download one.

Of course, that's probably a lot more work than you want to do... Just something to think about 

That is a suggestion that we got from various people before. It is doable, and then people would be able to find resources via the Google search bar, but then think about it. There are about 110 resources up, and that's just now. Automatically making a page for each resource would add up to a lot of pages.

Simple Solution: You know when you are uploading a resource there is a text box labeled 'comments'? That's not for "I just made this cat sprite", it's for "A simple cat, it is red and orange, and it has a long tail". Now that there have been many suggestions, I'll talk with JSO about giving a bigger hint about to what extent you should describe your resource 

Well, it wouldn't have to make an official page for each resource - for example, many websites simply use their database to generate those pages based on how the user got there. Usually you can add the data to the URL to determine what the page will look like, for example, there isn't a page for each individual topic on these forums - if you look at the address bar, there's a "?" and then some data following that. That data prompts the server to retrieve the data from a database and turn it into a viewable webpage. That's called the "$_POST" method.

You can also do the same thing with the $_GET method, but the data isn't displayed in the address bar - it's useful for login scripts and things that need to be a little more secure.

adriangl wrote:

coolstuff wrote:

After having browsed the website for a little bit of time, I figured I might as well make a suggestion:

Each item, I feel, should have a page - it just feels rather incomplete without one. Maybe there could be some sort of a love-it button for sprites, number of downloads, etcetera. It just feels like we're not getting enough info on each sprite, I feel reluctant to download one.

Of course, that's probably a lot more work than you want to do... Just something to think about 

That is a suggestion that we got from various people before. It is doable, and then people would be able to find resources via the Google search bar, but then think about it. There are about 110 resources up, and that's just now. Automatically making a page for each resource would add up to a lot of pages.

Simple Solution: You know when you are uploading a resource there is a text box labeled 'comments'? That's not for "I just made this cat sprite", it's for "A simple cat, it is red and orange, and it has a long tail". Now that there have been many suggestions, I'll talk with JSO about giving a bigger hint about to what extent you should describe your resource 

Hey - the Scratch Website has at millions of pages. Why not yours?

Sweet.

I think POST is so named because the data is stored in the POST headers of the HTTP request...or something.

what-the wrote:

Has anyone made a point to x y script making tutorial? because I want to make one.

Here's a great project that has a script for this:

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Fourex/315251

I shared an image of a ship. 

@everyone Thank you *so much* for all the positive reactions, please don't hesitate to download and upload resources but be aware that we review them before they actually appear.

Also feel free to make suggestions 

@adriangl Those pages don't take space ;D For example, the browse page is 1 page although it serves a lot of different sortings and stuff

@coolstuff & others I am indeed planning to make an intermediate page in between the overview (e.g. the search results or the home page) and the actual download. Because it feels better, and also because Google can index those pages so people can look for resources through the Google search too. The fact that those pages are absent is the reason why the custom Google search returns no hits right now