Scratch

Jonathanpb wrote:

For the people saying that the majority of Scratch users are about 8 to 10 - look here. I'd say that the average is more of 13.
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While the front page is not how I like it - I don't bother to view it except for Featured, Curated and Design Studio - I do realize that the other projects that get front paged (ie. Top Viewed, Loved) get there because enough users want to view the project or put a love-it. Consider the fact that your opinion of a bad front page may not be the largest one.

People say that they are 13 because they think its a requirement (Like my brother...)

But I see your point.

your sig is boss AB3

MiffinTheMuffin wrote:

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

The real problem is that the majority of people on Scratch are 8 - 10 year olds. We'd probably have much better projects if the users of Scratch were older and/or more mature.

Ten year olds aren't that bad.

Thank you 

sanddude wrote:

While the front page can be a little annoying, I am absolutely sick of these complainers!

A project is a project, no matter how stupid.

You're complaining about complainers?

TuffGhost wrote:

that's really the only way nowadays

spam your way to the front page, then keep a constant stream of mediocre/bad projects to retain fame

once you've done that congrats now you have both an overwhelming fanbase and a selection of people who hate you because they can do better

but bro
i make plenty of bad projects
and im never on the front page
i see a flaw in your plan

There should be a two week block from the front page after a persons project has been on there for at least several hours (6?).

More variety.

cheddargirl wrote:

what-the wrote:

There should be a two week block from the front page after a persons project has been on there for at least several hours (6?).

More variety.

I usually find that the an unusual variety of people do hit the Top Loved/Viewed list, but not the top three slots. Maybe, instead of doing the top three all the time, I would like to see the front page pick, at random, three from the top ten list every time the page is refreshed. 

That's an excellent idea that would go a long way towards providing some fresh faces on the front page.  I'm pretty sure it's been put forward a couple of times by others as well, in various forms.  I'll pass this topic along to the rest of the team in case they missed it.

In the meantime - this isn't the first discussion these forums have seen about how some categories of the front-page lack variety.   The Remixing, Loving and Viewing areas tend to reflect whatever popular fad is currently sweeping through Scratch.  There have been times when it was dominated by other types of projects such as Dress-up games and Hamster RPG projects.   

If you folks get organized and make a push for it, you can put anybody you want on there - I've seen it done!  Of course, if the project has broad appeal, it's more likely to stay there for a while.  And if there are followup projects already on hand, that helps with lasting name recognition.  So go have some fun and let's see you put somebody new up there 

Paddle2See wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

what-the wrote:

There should be a two week block from the front page after a persons project has been on there for at least several hours (6?).

More variety.

I usually find that the an unusual variety of people do hit the Top Loved/Viewed list, but not the top three slots. Maybe, instead of doing the top three all the time, I would like to see the front page pick, at random, three from the top ten list every time the page is refreshed. 

That's an excellent idea that would go a long way towards providing some fresh faces on the front page.  I'm pretty sure it's been put forward a couple of times by others as well, in various forms.  I'll pass this topic along to the rest of the team in case they missed it.

In the meantime - this isn't the first discussion these forums have seen about how some categories of the front-page lack variety.   The Remixing, Loving and Viewing areas tend to reflect whatever popular fad is currently sweeping through Scratch.  There have been times when it was dominated by other types of projects such as Dress-up games and Hamster RPG projects.   

If you folks get organized and make a push for it, you can put anybody you want on there - I've seen it done!  Of course, if the project has broad appeal, it's more likely to stay there for a while.  And if there are followup projects already on hand, that helps with lasting name recognition.  So go have some fun and let's see you put somebody new up there 

That's been asked before and the scratch team said it was a great idea, but they never 'got around to it'....

agscratcher wrote:

12three wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

That's an excellent idea that would go a long way towards providing some fresh faces on the front page.  I'm pretty sure it's been put forward a couple of times by others as well, in various forms.  I'll pass this topic along to the rest of the team in case they missed it.

In the meantime - this isn't the first discussion these forums have seen about how some categories of the front-page lack variety.   The Remixing, Loving and Viewing areas tend to reflect whatever popular fad is currently sweeping through Scratch.  There have been times when it was dominated by other types of projects such as Dress-up games and Hamster RPG projects.   

If you folks get organized and make a push for it, you can put anybody you want on there - I've seen it done!  Of course, if the project has broad appeal, it's more likely to stay there for a while.  And if there are followup projects already on hand, that helps with lasting name recognition.  So go have some fun and let's see you put somebody new up there 

That's been asked before and the scratch team said it was a great idea, but they never 'got around to it'....

That, mah boi, is because they're (sort of) lazy.

They are working on the next version of scratch and don't have time to do a website makeover right now.

mathematics wrote:

agscratcher wrote:

That, mah boi, is because they're (sort of) lazy.

I said that "they are lazy" once before and they replied with this...

Lightnin wrote:

Lazy, eh?!    That's one word I would definitely not use to describe the Scratch Team!

Scratchers don't get to see a lot of the stuff we're often doing behind the scenes... so it's understandable that you'd think we were just lazing around, sitting on our porches drinking iced tea all day, can't be bothered to write in the forums, or fix bugs....

But nothing could be farther from the truth!

They aren't lazy!

Its just that this whole front page thing is messed up!

Maybe you get a PHP scripter *cough*TheSuccesor*cough* to make it so that you can only be there once a MONTH?

It's funny, we were just talking about some of these same issues this weekend.
By the way, SCMB1 has made a great suggestion on one way to address the problem of lack of diversity on the front page that would be relatively easy to implement. If you haven't already voted for it, you might consider it:

http://suggest.scratch.mit.edu/forums/6 … ?ref=title

Lightnin wrote:

It's funny, we were just talking about some of these same issues this weekend.
By the way, SCMB1 has made a great suggestion on one way to address the problem of lack of diversity on the front page that would be relatively easy to implement. If you haven't already voted for it, you might consider it:

http://suggest.scratch.mit.edu/forums/6 … ?ref=title

If you think that it's a great suggestion, you should implement it - it already has 65 votes anyway 

Keep voting people!!!