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Lightnin wrote:

slapperbob wrote:

I think you should do the friend & follow thing, instead of just friend list. This will help organize our current friend lists; for example, I have like 67 friends and its too hard to manage. Although, if you do do the friend & follow thing, however, will it remove everyone on our friend list, and we have to re-  friend/ follow them, or what?

Scratch on!

That's a good question! If we were to move to a facebook style friends system, I think we'd do it by turning everyone's friends into people they follow. So, for a brief moment, there'd be no friends on Scratch! 

But of course then everyone could friend each other after that and get things sorted pretty quickly.

I think I like the friend/follow system better because most of the friended people I have are so I can quickly acsess their projects without having to search their username. +1 or thumbs up or whatever you want to call it to this idea.

Lightnin wrote:

Here's the latest blog post on Scratch 2.0:

[removed because the person who is quoting this is a new scratcher]

What do you think? Is it worth changing the friend system on Scratch? Or should we just keep the friends system the same? Join in the discussion and share your thoughts.

Check it out, and then join the discussion on this thread!

I think it would be a good idea to do a mix of both. On clutter there is something where you can be come someone's fan, and it would be fair to have a friends request system too! 

idk

funelephant wrote:

I like the old system. If someone has to accept a request, then if they friend you they could probably see more things, like for privacy.

What personal information do you put on the Scratch website that isn’t already accessible to everyone else?

I don’t think this argument makes sense.

Lightnin wrote:

kimmy123 wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

But of course then everyone could friend each other after that and get things sorted pretty quickly.

But I can't friend myself anymore.

  That's true, you wouldn't be able to friend yourself!

That DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE.
Your YOU. Why would you wanna be friends with YOU? When your YOU?

BTW we should make the friend list like facebook. It will be easier. I like the idea of following to.

Techoguy wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

kimmy123 wrote:

But I can't friend myself anymore.

  That's true, you wouldn't be able to friend yourself!

That DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE.
Your YOU. Why would you wanna be friends with YOU? When your YOU?

I don't know. 

Keep it! But maybe add a best friend option

soupoftomato wrote:

Code:

What if this message showed up when Friending:
You've asked [name] to be your friend! If he accepts
 you guys will be known as "Friends!"
When receiving a request:
[name] wants to be your friend! If you decline,
 he will still see your newest projects on his homepage. 
(Accept) (Decline)
When being accepted:
You are now friends with [name]!
When being declined:
[name] declined your friend request. Don't feel bad 
though! Many people like to keep their friends list 
for specific people and you can still see his newest 
project on your homepage!

I like

i don't really care-both sound good! 

Thanks to everyone who shared their views on this!
We've decided, for now, to go with a "following" only strategy. So there will be no friends in Scratch 2.0   

After we get 2.0 off the ground and all sorted out, we may consider also adding a "Friending" feature that would work the same as friending does on other sites, like facebook. But for now we want to keep it simple and clear. So in 2.0: you can follow others, and others can follow you.