Scratch

The Scratch Team is implementing some changes to the website (log out and look at the front page, you can see one of the changes there). Perhaps there are some bugs that were unforeseen during the changing process?

Last edited by cheddargirl (2009-11-09 15:02:20)

Hey BWOG, I would like it if you added this to the bug list in your first post (this way, if the problems persist later on, Paddle2See can see the problems straight away and create a bug report):
- projects cannot be added to galleries
- user cannot add love-it to project
- user cannot add project to favorites

You're right. Wierd. But the new look for people who haven't logged in is nice! Although can't they do this at a time which the timezone with most of the scratchers live in (EST  ) are sleeping, like at 2AM?

Last edited by Lucario621 (2009-11-09 15:31:36)

With that being said, you can't edit the title. As far as I can tell, the main website links work, and the forums, but everything else is not working. The forums work, because andresmh just made it from punbb hosting or something.

RHY3756547 wrote:

Maybe messages aren't updating? I haven't recieved any.

I'm not sure if that is a bug. It could be a consequence because people cannot comment to projects or add stuff to galleries.

cheddargirl wrote:

RHY3756547 wrote:

Maybe messages aren't updating? I haven't recieved any.

I'm not sure if that is a bug. It could be a consequence because people cannot comment to projects or add stuff to galleries.

It sounded quite funny before I read the second sentence 

The Scratch Team contacted me after I sent in an e-mail about the problem. They told me that they're having the website use a proxy to increase speed. This new proxy server is probably causing all the other bugs that you see going on the website. Hopefully, the Scratch Team will get the bugs fixed soon.

now adding 2 friends?????

Hi everyone - sorry about the glitches with the site today! Sometimes unforseen problems come up when we roll out updates / changes.  We're looking into the issues reported on this thread. As always, it's very helpful when Scratchers include lots of information when reporting bugs - like 1. operating system (Windows / Mac / Linux) 2. Browser (IE, Firefox, Opera, etc.), and 3. Detailed steps to see / reproduce the problem. (i.e. go to project page, try to click "reply to comment" but the reply window does not show up.)

Thanks for your help! Hopefully we can fix these glitches soon....

How many people have visited this site on Linux? Just to chat on the forums or comment and play projects? Scratch Linux is only in a mini, open Alpha, which is also a little hidden(I found it..lol)..

This is my explanation for the banning:
The scratch team was trying to ban one user for spamming. They were looking through the list of users, and instead of using the keystroke for copy (Ctrl-C), they used the keystroke for select all, then copied because of their constant need to use it. (With the changing of the website, they must have gotten used to using select all)

OR:

One of the admins or mods banned everyone by accident XD

samurai768 wrote:

This is my explanation for the banning:
The scratch team was trying to ban one user for spamming. They were looking through the list of users, and instead of using the keystroke for copy (Ctrl-C), they used the keystroke for select all, then copied because of their constant need to use it. (With the changing of the website, they must have gotten used to using select all)

OR:

One of the admins or mods banned everyone by accident XD

Not quite. 

One moderator (me) was trying to ban one user for commercially spamming the forums; as usual, the IP ban was added as an extra measure. What she didn't know was that there was a proxy server bug, causing the forum website to read everyone's IP address as the same as that of the server on the Scratch forums - thinking she was banning the IP address of the spammer, she put the server IP address in the IP ban field and unintentionally ended up causing everyone to be banned from the Scratch Forums. Fortunately, she contacted the Scratch Team and they fixed the proxy bug in the forums, so everyone got unbanned again while the spammer was no longer allowed to post in the forums. 

*thanks to BWOG for corrections from the original story*

Last edited by cheddargirl (2009-11-09 21:08:26)