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henley · 2011-03-16 07:49:29

What is it for? It seems exactly like the original scratch.mit.edu.

scratchr.mit.edu

Paddle2See · 2011-03-16 12:39:50

It's just an alias for our regular site smile

LS97 · 2011-03-16 13:04:19

And what do you use it for?

muppetds · 2011-03-16 13:51:29

Yep it is excactly the same
Why do you use it?

scimonster · 2011-03-16 14:14:48

What's it for? I could log in and view projects, unlike gamma.dev.scratch.mit.edu.
BTW, what's gamma.scratch.mit.edu & gamma.dev.scratch.mit.edu. Why is there no dev.scratch.mit.edu ?

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henley · 2011-03-16 18:25:04

Why would it need an alias that does the exact same thing? What’s wrong with the normal one?

platform710 · 2011-03-16 18:47:17

henley wrote:
Why would it need an alias that does the exact same thing? What’s wrong with the normal one?

Perhaps if one of the websites was destroyed, deleted or hacked by somebody?

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LS97 · 2011-03-17 06:28:40

platform710 wrote:
henley wrote:
Why would it need an alias that does the exact same thing? What’s wrong with the normal one?
Perhaps if one of the websites was destroyed, deleted or hacked by somebody?

I doubt that. Both sites seem to be using the same exact databases, so if a hacker happened to stroll by (which isn't very likely) and hack the database, both sites would be useless.

shadow_7283 · 2011-03-17 06:36:35

Maybe they're just reserving the domain name or giving an alternate web address? tongue

Blade-Edge · 2011-03-17 14:56:14

Alias usually means one thing with a different name, so shadow's probably right
It's just an alternate address for scratch, not a different site

henley · 2011-03-17 15:20:30

But why would they need a separate address?

shadow_7283 · 2011-03-17 16:00:22

Companies typically reserve domain names so no one else can take them.
That, or so their website has another chance at views.

For instance, type www.m-w.com. It should take you to Merriam Webster online dictionary. But then type www.merriamwebster.com. It should take you to the same place. Finally, if you type www.merriam-webster.com, you will be taken to the same place as well.

thebuilderdd · 2011-03-17 16:28:08

Maybe that is the testing website.

shadow_7283 · 2011-03-17 16:30:20

Nope. The testing site is gamma.scratch.mit.edu.

logiblocs · 2011-03-17 16:53:05

scimonster wrote:
What's it for? I could log in and view projects, unlike gamma.dev.scratch.mit.edu.
BTW, what's gamma.scratch.mit.edu & gamma.dev.scratch.mit.edu. Why is there no dev.scratch.mit.edu ?

All I know is that gamma.dev shows the SQL queries and gamma requires a password.

logiblocs · 2011-03-17 16:55:55

henley wrote:
What is it for? It seems exactly like the original scratch.mit.edu.

scratchr.mit.edu

Scratchr is what the scratch team made to host the scratch website(like their cms). Maybe they put that up when they were testing it and never took it down.

henley · 2011-03-17 20:43:44

*bump

*report

Lightnin · 2011-03-17 22:07:48

Yeah, AFAIK it was just a way to access it that got setup in the early days, and we've just kept it updating automatically. Same site, just a different URL.

scimonster · 2011-03-18 02:43:49

logiblocs wrote:
scimonster wrote:
What's it for? I could log in and view projects, unlike gamma.dev.scratch.mit.edu.
BTW, what's gamma.scratch.mit.edu & gamma.dev.scratch.mit.edu. Why is there no dev.scratch.mit.edu ?
All I know is that gamma.dev shows the SQL queries and gamma requires a password.

Yes I know. Why isn't there a dev.scratch.mit.edu?

owetre18 · 2011-03-20 09:17:01

shadow_7283 wrote:
Companies typically reserve domain names so no one else can take them.
That, or so their website has another chance at views.

For instance, type www.m-w.com. It should take you to Merriam Webster online dictionary. But then type www.merriamwebster.com. It should take you to the same place. Finally, if you type www.merriam-webster.com, you will be taken to the same place as well.

Like if you type iCarly.com or Splashface.com or Don'tWatchiCarly.com or Worldofchucks.com, they all take you to iCarly.com

coolstuff · 2011-03-20 09:38:24

Yes, it's just an alternate URL... Just like typing in googel.com or goolge.com or ogogle.com all lead to google.com

Kileymeister · 2011-03-20 09:43:05

coolstuff wrote:
Yes, it's just an alternate URL... Just like typing in googel.com or goolge.com or ogogle.com all lead to google.com

But those all lead to the proper spelling of google, while in this one the url stays the same.

coolstuff · 2011-03-20 09:45:50

Kileymeister wrote:
coolstuff wrote:
Yes, it's just an alternate URL... Just like typing in googel.com or goolge.com or ogogle.com all lead to google.com
But those all lead to the proper spelling of google, while in this one the url stays the same.

I see... Well, I think it's essentially the same in concept.

comp500 · 2011-03-20 11:50:56

coolstuff wrote:
Kileymeister wrote:
coolstuff wrote:
Yes, it's just an alternate URL... Just like typing in googel.com or goolge.com or ogogle.com all lead to google.com
But those all lead to the proper spelling of google, while in this one the url stays the same.
I see... Well, I think it's essentially the same in concept.

They are to make sure that people don't go to ogogle.com and get hacked so google own them and make them redirect to google.

throughthefire · 2011-03-20 13:37:01

owetre18 wrote:
shadow_7283 wrote:
Companies typically reserve domain names so no one else can take them.
That, or so their website has another chance at views.

For instance, type www.m-w.com. It should take you to Merriam Webster online dictionary. But then type www.merriamwebster.com. It should take you to the same place. Finally, if you type www.merriam-webster.com, you will be taken to the same place as well.
Like if you type iCarly.com or Splashface.com or Don'tWatchiCarly.com or Worldofchucks.com, they all take you to iCarly.com

Also if you type:
Beavecoon.org!

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