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#1 2010-08-17 16:26:31
An "Unlisted" Option for Uploading Projects
Many people, including myself, have test accounts that they use to test how their projects will work online so they can iron out kinks and online issues. A lot of times, this requires uploading a project again and again to make sure it works properly. However, you don't want those projects displayed on Scratch, because people look at it when it's not intended to be, and it spams up the "New Projects" section.
So what I suggest is a checkbox labeled something like "Unlist this." Unisting the project would make it so you could only view it if you were the project's owner.
Mockup:
Last edited by Harakou (2010-08-19 15:09:52)
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#3 2010-08-17 17:22:15
- Lucario621
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Re: An "Unlisted" Option for Uploading Projects
I do see what you mean - youtube recently added this feature.
It has potential, but in the Scratch community, I think it would be awfully mean to other users, because lets say you showed a project to all of your close friends but not everybody else. Wouldn't it be unfair.
Besides, the Scratch Team is heavily against having suggestions for private stuff, like PMing and private collab tools, and thus including this.
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#4 2010-08-17 17:31:48
Re: An "Unlisted" Option for Uploading Projects
Lucario621 wrote:
I do see what you mean - youtube recently added this feature.
It has potential, but in the Scratch community, I think it would be awfully mean to other users, because lets say you showed a project to all of your close friends but not everybody else. Wouldn't it be unfair.
Besides, the Scratch Team is heavily against having suggestions for private stuff, like PMing and private collab tools, and thus including this.
Oh! That makes sense. The flagging system also wouldn't work.
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#7 2010-08-17 18:26:10
Re: An "Unlisted" Option for Uploading Projects
Lucario621 wrote:
I do see what you mean - youtube recently added this feature.
It has potential, but in the Scratch community, I think it would be awfully mean to other users, because lets say you showed a project to all of your close friends but not everybody else. Wouldn't it be unfair.
Besides, the Scratch Team is heavily against having suggestions for private stuff, like PMing and private collab tools, and thus including this.
That's a good point. Maybe only the project owner could see it, purely for testing purposes. You couldn't be unfair that way.
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#8 2010-08-17 18:27:53
Re: An "Unlisted" Option for Uploading Projects
Harakou wrote:
Lucario621 wrote:
I do see what you mean - youtube recently added this feature.
It has potential, but in the Scratch community, I think it would be awfully mean to other users, because lets say you showed a project to all of your close friends but not everybody else. Wouldn't it be unfair.
Besides, the Scratch Team is heavily against having suggestions for private stuff, like PMing and private collab tools, and thus including this.That's a good point. Maybe only the project owner could see it, purely for testing purposes. You couldn't be unfair that way.
That makes sense 
Still, I don't see the need for it with the release of Scratch 2.0, which will make projects run exactly the same online as they do offline.
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#9 2010-08-17 18:47:13
Re: An "Unlisted" Option for Uploading Projects
coolstuff wrote:
Harakou wrote:
Lucario621 wrote:
I do see what you mean - youtube recently added this feature.
It has potential, but in the Scratch community, I think it would be awfully mean to other users, because lets say you showed a project to all of your close friends but not everybody else. Wouldn't it be unfair.
Besides, the Scratch Team is heavily against having suggestions for private stuff, like PMing and private collab tools, and thus including this.That's a good point. Maybe only the project owner could see it, purely for testing purposes. You couldn't be unfair that way.
That makes sense
I have a funny feeling that the online version will still be slower, since it has to run in the browser. I'd like to still have this feature to make absolutely sure it works right. We'll see...
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#11 2010-08-19 15:40:28
- ScratchReallyROCKS
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Re: An "Unlisted" Option for Uploading Projects
I support!
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