That is likely, since you are a New scratcher. Just make a lot of friends, post a lot of projects, and then sooner or later you will post a good project and it will be front paged.
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Yeah, I've been here for over a year and I am yet to be on the front page.
It takes a lot of hard work, effort, and a bit of luck, but if you dont give up you will get there eventually. (Most scratchers dont have the patience.)
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Front pages are chosen by moderators. If a moderator sees a good project he/she can nominate it to be on the front page(I think)
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Projects get on the front page if they are top loved or viewed for the community, selected by a curator, or featured by the Scratch team. These are all very, very hard to acheive. Never, on all my jillion accounts, have I ever been frontpaged. But you can try
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snowpaws1 wrote:
I never been front paged!!! ):
I got 79+ views in 8 days and still that game hasn't gotten front paged yet. So IDK
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Bookworm300 wrote:
Front pages are chosen by moderators. If a moderator sees a good project he/she can nominate it to be on the front page(I think)
No.
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bananas-rule wrote:
snowpaws1 wrote:
I never been front paged!!! ):
I got 79+ views in 8 days and still that game hasn't gotten front paged yet. So IDK
Project has to be made under 4 days if you want to be top viewed, I think it is 2 weeks for top loved and remixed though.
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Front paged is getting viewed, loved, picked and such. I've been here for a while, even though my discripition says New Scratcher, I've actually been here for years! To get front-paged, make something that is really good and something in common to what the majority of people like!
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Being front paged is actually quite easy if you get lucky. Just try to make a Scratch project by looking at projects from Scratch Studio. Then you can see what they are making and make one your own and hope you get lucky and get front paged. Also, you can get front paged by getting alot of views, remixes, and love its. Also remember to Scratch always. And try to make games that are very complex and very fun and of course with good graphics or very funny animations with very good graphics, because graphics is also a step towards the front page V.I.P.
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Well, there's no easy way to answer that. I've been on Scratch a year and 6 months on other accounts and I was only front paged once and it was for 1 day. Thats it. Well, it wasn't my fault. CoolerThanIce (past curator) curated stuff pretty fast... Like LivelyStickDude said, friends are important on Scratch. They'll always give your project that extra view, love-it, etc. But don't take them for granted. And NEVER go around friending whoever you see. You'll be considered annoying. Friends stick by you, you stick by them. Simple really. My friends are the only reason I Scratch on. They will really help, trust me.
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Bookworm300 wrote:
Front pages are chosen by moderators. If a moderator sees a good project he/she can nominate it to be on the front page(I think)
Not exactly.
The Featured channel is indeed controlled by the Scratch Team, but the other channels are not. The Top Loved, Top Viewed, and Top Remixed channel are community controlled, and one slot is controlled by the curator. And the Scratch Design Studio channel is randomized. ^^
The only other way the front page is controlled by the Scratch Team is if a project falls under Scratch's guidelines but has content that some might object to (for example, mild violence) - that project would then be marked "not for everyone" and cannot hit the front page.
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Agentpieface wrote:
bananas-rule wrote:
snowpaws1 wrote:
I never been front paged!!! ):
I got 79+ views in 8 days and still that game hasn't gotten front paged yet. So IDK
Project has to be made under 4 days if you want to be top viewed, I think it is 2 weeks for top loved and remixed though.
10 days.
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Do you like giant walls of text?
You know, being front paged is quite an interesting thing. Why do you want your project to be on the front page? Why do you think it is important to get on the front page?
I'm asking these questions to myself as I consider everything I have done and what I should do.
I personally believe that being front-paged is some nice little commodity that people get sometimes. Meh. Think about what kind of projects get front-paged. Are they made good? Did people put thought into making them? How much time did people put into them?
And of course the wonderful Scratch Team is trying to find and tweak the algorithms of the front page so that the best projects get showcased. They came pretty close. However, I don't think that this is of any importance. Sure, there are special ways to calculate where a project should go, but this wouldn't matter.
I think what matters is you focus on making a good project that people enjoy. If you make enough thoughtful projects, people will notice you. They'll like what you do. They'll ask for more.
And at that point, if you just keep to your audience and make more projects, they will grow. When you stop making projects, they will go away. I have experienced this many times. On average, the higher rate of projects I make, the more people view them.
Now, being featured, curated, or being on Top Loved are different things. Top Loved is what people press the love-it button on. This shows no direct correlation to if the project is good or not. Being featured and curated are almost the same thing. Someone picked your project because they thought it was good. And if you make a good, thoughtful project, you'll get featured or curated(at least I hope this is still true ).
And look at the advice other people give. In general they say, make a thought out well-polished project. What appears on the front page? Mostly thought out, well-polished projects.
I have never been on Top Remixed, Top Viewed, or Top Loved. For more than 5 years, yeah, I know.
But I have plans
EDIT: In case you want to know, yes, I have been curated and featured.
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A little while ago, I got my first time being frontpaged. I put a lot of effort into my project, and the team liked it, and boom! Featured!
Another thing about being featured is you need someone (But it can't be you) to nominate your project.
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Make good projects, make URLs to your games with flashy pictures and put them in your signature, and put your projects on the Show & Tell fourms are all good ways
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snowpaws1 wrote:
I never been front paged!!! ):
Don't go for front page! Go for your enjoyment of making a GOOD project. Usually trash lands on the front page. Just try hard! That's what i do.
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Wait, how long do you have to get Love-Its on your project if you want to be in Top Loved?
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Jaiku wrote:
Yeah, I've been here for over a year and I am yet to be on the front page.
It takes a lot of hard work, effort, and a bit of luck, but if you dont give up you will get there eventually. (Most scratchers dont have the patience.)
I hardly do. XD
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mrdinosaur wrote:
Don't go for front page! Go for your enjoyment of making a GOOD project. Usually trash lands on the front page. Just try hard! That's what i do.
.....Was my project trash?
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Make a darn good project ^_^
Advertise it a bit in the show and tell fourm and your signature. An awesome tactic is to make a great game but not upload it then build it up saying that you've "added" new features and then at the peak, release it
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that depends what kind of front paged. easiest one is the scratch design studio one
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