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that's very neat! I like it, though for your broadcast explaination, it may seem to people that they're looking for a < %e recieved? > block and just can't see it, maybe point out that it needs to be added by the user, and that ordinary hat blocks will work too?

Uh, the new Block Lib is by YourLocalBlockLib.

rdococ wrote:

How about my topic: Guidelines/Rules of making a mod
I think it needs to be ITopic'd and stickied.

I wouldn't say need, especially since you don't even capitalize the first letter of every sentence. ^^

Last edited by scimonster (2011-05-12 14:02:54)

I know one that should be ITopiced: Waterbear.

Scratch Online/Offline API, by Sparks because it's a small first step to lots of possibilities and other users could use some of the code to make their own.

Long post. 
I support!

sparks wrote:

A few people have expressed an interest in my forum API. A large number of Scratch users around the fora are using the API (especially then online/offline part) in their signatures and I believe that it could potentially be a strong resource for making the forums even more interesting, dynamic and fun!

The API can (at time of post) show different images depending on your online status, automatically display links, thumbnails, names and number of loves of your n'th project, display a thumnail or link to your n'th friend, a random image (replacing rotasig, which seems to have broken) and random links.

No more dangerous than images and URLs can be and so causing little or no increase in forum moderating difficulty, the API can be applied to forum posts and signatures (and other websites) either using img and url bbcode tags and either the full documentation pages on the above linked thread or the excellent generator built by comp500 that does it all for you!

Please consider the API, it's growing in use and capiability every day and promises to become a useful, well used resource for the entire Scratch forum community.

http://blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?user … flineh.gif

I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on this kind of stuff, so I've asked the rest of the moderators what they think of this. 

Would anyone be interested in an iTopic in FAQ/AT about the ScratchR API that lets you query the Scratch website? I know Scratchers are often trying to find out where it is and how to use it...I could write up a quick tutorial if there's some interest.

I think we're set on adding it at some point, the only problem being that there's already a TON of ITopics there - wouldn't you agree?

I realise my documentation of the API is a little hard to grasp at times as it's quite technical so I am perfectly happy to work on a simplified step-by-step tutorial that covers a few simple parts of the API such as online/offline and newest project image and links? If fullmoon wants to write it that's fine too!

I support sparks's API. It's a very useful resource for those people who aren't too acquainted in PHP or other server-side scripts. I, for example, coded my own post counter, but many Scratchers might not know how to do that. Sparks's API allows them to use these features with zero coding knowledge. (And, by the way, an easy guide for it would be more useful than the current technical info).

EDIT
(Sorry: post N*2011!)

Last edited by LS97 (2011-07-25 16:54:21)

sparks wrote:

LS97 wrote:

I support sparks's API. It's a very useful resource for those people who aren't too acquainted in PHP or other server-side scripts. I, for example, coded my own post counter, but many Scratchers might not know how to do that. Sparks's API allows them to use these features with zero coding knowledge. (And, by the way, an easy guide for it would be more useful than the current technical info).

EDIT
(Sorry: post N*2011!)

Post counter! Great idea! I'll add it tomorrow 

Your post now has ITopic status!

What about Tutorials-R-Us? It would be great if we could get some more writers. More viewers means more writers, and more writers means more content.