Scratch

Hehe, yes those were golden times. ^^

Most of the old Scratchers left, sadly.

idk, definitly not me, im only 2 years old

I know it's sad  (and the Scratch Team probably does not likes what I'm typing right now...) but I really miss the participation of the Scratch Team on the forums. It looks like they are "less open for suggestions".

I think a lot of things that make Scratch "worse" seem to be caused by the Scratch Team not having enough resources: Server Dropdowns caused by not-having-enough-resources-to-pay-a-full-growing-with-the-usage-hosting-system, not enough team members to program AND check the forums all day. The Only real and daily connection between the ScratchTeam and the community seems to be paddle2see these days and - admitted - I would not like to fill in his role being all alone!

That criticism does not mean Scratch gets worse! I started up Scratch 1.1 (the scratch we used those days xD) and it drove me mad! Also, new people, be happy you don't have to use te old gallery system!  Scratch has improved so much...

Scratch sure has changed a lot! It's a lot easier to use, but I miss how it's so much harder to make new things, and it might be just me, but the projects were a bit higher quality back then, you didn't get so much violent ones, and a lot of them would be games and interactive things, whereas nowadays there seems to be a lot less.

^ That's what I was trying to say...XP!

ahh yea, i remember i was the first person to comment on paddle2see's first project  . Good old days when your newest project would stay with the newest list for a couple of minutes, and just about every project had atlest some effort put into it... i didint get on the forums untill 1.2 came out, but i still enjoyed it

I wasn't there but i'm day dreaming about it now   
I suppose it was a bit like sonic the hedgehog games really...

I wonder when the golden age ended.

Paddle2See wrote:

I must say that I agree to some extent with elements of this discussion...it was nice when the community was fairly small and it had more of that "small town" feeling - it was easier to know who was who  .  I think there is still work to be done in that area - finding ways to cluster people of like interests without giving up too much of the diversity of ideas.

And I also think that Scratch is a suffering a bit from it's own rapid expansion with the server issues and the explosion of topics in the Forums. On the plus side, the server seems better this week and there have been some real improvements in opening up Front Page space to more projects.

As for the Golden Age being over...sure, it's over.  Because change is inevitable.  Let that Golden Age be over and done with so we can start on another one!

Yeah I liked the small community feeling and I wish there is some way to cluster together people with similar interests.

Jens wrote:

Ah, ye olde days! <sigh> ...

Don't believe everything others tell you about how things used to be better way back when you weren't around. I must have spent years of my youth agonizing over having missed Woodstock or the Beatles. But then there was Runrig and Peter Yarrow at the Beacon, which happened, of course, before any of you youngsters entered the scene  . So, while I do miss Jimi Hendrix and KevinKarplus I'm sure the best days of Scratch are yet to come. We can make it happen!

Fix'd

BoltBait wrote:

I remember waaaay back to when I first joined.  There were no decent project on the main page.  That's what got me motivated to write some decent games. 

Wow, that was so long ago...

I've been on since 1.1 I think... But yes "The Golden Age" was nice. All the projects were actually fun...lately though....pics...I don't even try to look at front...