Scratch

Greenatic wrote:

Oh, and what about date and time sensing?

The reporter blocks will grab the time and date from the computer's time.

What kind of stuff is being thought of for 2.1?

AgentRoop wrote:

Will you be able to add friends along with following people?

Following is just friending, renamed.

henley wrote:

What kind of stuff is being thought of for 2.1?

Nothing, yet. Actually, not true: custom reporters and booleans.S

What will happen to the TBGs?

monatex wrote:

When is is coming out?

The Scratch team hasn't specified a certain date. They said sometime before 2013.

AgentRoop wrote:

will you be able to do this:

Change X of variable [x v] by 1

I understand what you mean by that, and I do not believe that the Scratch team will put that in during the first release. But if you are persistant enough, they might add it in 2.1 or a little later. 

AgentRoop wrote:

Will this website be changed, or will it be a different website?

It will probably be changed, but I don't think that I'll be a new website.

I have a question:  what made them want to make it look like facebook? 
second question: what is the current projected release date not year, date

Zbugni_Junk wrote:

What I want so bad is to be able to exports as an swf file.

same here! I want that so badly!

I remember hearing they were thinking about doing another alpha limited-release this month--do we know if that's finalized and if so, when it will be?

XenoK wrote:

I have a question:  what made them want to make it look like facebook? 
second question: what is the current projected release date not year, date

It doesn't look so much like Facebook, besides for the top bar.

Good questions everyone, keep 'em coming!
(SO hard to choose just a couple!)

TorbyFork234 wrote:

A few questions:

1.) Will the variable placement be better? Will it have a way of saving it's x/y positions, or setting the x/y positions with blocks?

I bet it will have a way to save the x/y positions, but I doubt you will be able to change it with blocks in 2.0. But it's certainly a good idea for 2.1.

2.) Will the variable displayers look different (both list and regular)?

They look no different than in the current flash player

3.) Are we allowed to "ban" someone from a project with good intentions? Like, if you make a chatroom, and a user id starts swearing everywhere, will you be allowed to add the user id to a blacklist that disallows them to use the project?

No. As this feature would most definitely be abused by many users. If someone swears, or is hostile to other users in any way, the ST has confirmed that you will be able to flag users as a whole. (and also inappropriate usernames, but that's a story for a different time

4.) Will Scratch take new audio formats, and if so, which ones?

This, I do not know.

5.) Will we be able to go over the 10MB limit, and if so, how far above can we go over it?

I don't think anything will limit you, except for lag.

6.) Will there be more manipulation of sounds (like starting the sound from a specific time)?

Yes. There is in 1.4, too I believe.

7.) There's problems with the flash player with playing the sounds built in to Scratch, will these problems be resolved, or will they just shorten the database of sounds to match up with what the flash player has?

My best guess would be that they will fix it, no guarantees though.

8.) Will there be different names, or more categories, in the forums?

Nothing much has been confirmed about the forums except that there will be new ones at all, but I'd guess that since they pretty recently-ish updated these forums, they will keep the format

9.) (this question isn't about Scratch 2.0) What's the difference between this topic, and the one Lightnin posted: "Got Questions About Scratch 2.0?"?

That one is for more specific questions you want to directly ask the entire community, these are going to be answered and put up to replace/add on to the current Scratch 2.0 FAQ.