Scratch

Many people have raised questions about Galleries. We are in the process of rethinking the way Galleries work. Here is one alternative we're considering:

* Everyone can add their own projects to any Gallery.

* A Gallery owner can add any project (by anyone) to their own Gallery.

* The Gallery owner can remove any project in their Gallery (so the Gallery owner can remove unwanted projects that were added by others)

* The owner of a project can remove their project from any Gallery (so if the project owner doesn't want their project featured in a Gallery, they can remove it).

What do you think of that approach? We want to keep things simple, but also offer the right functionality.

Other Gallery-related features that we're considering:

* Each project could have a listing of what Galleries it is in

* Rather than "subscribing" to a Gallery, you could just select it as a "Favorite" (as you currently do with projects).

Let us know if you have other ideas/suggestions for Galleries...

Mitch Resnick
MIT Scratch Team

Let the gallery owner decide whether people can post their own projects or not.
If someone tries to post to a gallery that the owner has not made open, then the owner should get a request to accept project X for gallery Y, which the owner can accept or not.
This would provide good control for school-specific galleries (better than having to keep monitoring and cleaning up a gallery that some unaffiliated person adds to).

I think that we should keep everything the way it is except the gallery owner has almost complete control...like for example. Lets say that Bob wants me to join his gallery. I agree and i send any games i want featured. to bob. then bob takes them and chooses which ones he wants to feature. Here is another example. say i wanna join bob's gallery. so i send a request to his "my stuff" page. when he recieves it he can either allow or not allow the person to join. Then the same process happens where i send my projects to bob. i don't think that we should have it so free as to allow people to just post any project they want in any gallery. last i think that the owner of the gallery may want to remove some projects from his gallery later. he should be allowed to do this too.

Yes. We're also considering having galleries without projects become automatically deleted after a certain amount of time. Thanks for the gallery improvement suggestions!

I would like to see official galleries. That way you could choose the best projects and make them featured, perhaps with a bit of extra commentary to highlight what to look for in the project. If you're starting new then it would help to see good projects, without having to plunge in to all the dross that gets uploaded every minute.

At the moment you sort-of have this via the projects that are installed with the application, but that's a fixed set.

Hugh

Thank you! Now we need to let gallery owners delete projects...

Anyways, thank you!

And....

I have like 5 or 6 off topic projects

the unused gallerys are made for comments. theyre like chat rooms. there might not be any projects, nut there would be 1,000,000s of comments! 

Same with my painting. The first person who added stuff was Vci8 who abused many galleries and has many complaints.

i agree that you should be able to remove projects

Gallery owners *can* now add and remove projects from their galleries at will.  In fact, the default setting for galleries is that *only* the owner can add and remove stuff (though the owners can change that setting to allow others to post to the gallery).