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#1 2009-01-22 16:26:27

SaloniIsAwesome
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Registered: 2008-10-05
Posts: 50

My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

I'm posting suggestions here, but feel free to add on.

THERE SHOULD BE MORE OPTIONS WHEN USING THE TEXT TOOL ON SCRATCH.
I think that we should be allowed to edit text better, by:
--Adding options for bold, italics, and underline.
--Allowing us to change font color for different words or letters, instead of having the whole thing one color.
--Adding options to align text. (Right, Left, Centered)


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#2 2009-01-22 16:29:46

SaloniIsAwesome
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Re: My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

I ALSO THINK THAT 2 (OR MORE) USERS SHOULD BE ABLE TO SENED MESSAGES AND/OR PROJECTS BACK AND FORTH WITHOUT ANYONE ELSE VEIWING THEM.
(unless you can already do that and I just don't know how)
This way, if someone needs help with a project, they can send it back and forth instead of posting it. When they do post it, the surprise is ruined, and people aren't as excited to use the project, because they've seen that technique before.


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#3 2009-01-22 16:33:07

SaloniIsAwesome
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Re: My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

ANOTHER IDEA WOULD BE E-MAIL RESPONSE.
The user should be allowed to edit the settings, so that they can recieve notices about  recent activity. Examples:
--new comment
--reply to comment
--post on a forum


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#4 2009-01-22 16:34:36

SaloniIsAwesome
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Posts: 50

Re: My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

Ooh...another one...
SCRATCHERS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SUBSCRIBE TO OTHER SCRATCHERS. (like on youtube)
They could receive a notice by email, or just on Scratch, when the user uploaoded a new game.


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#5 2009-01-22 16:46:34

archmage
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Registered: 2007-05-18
Posts: 1000+

Re: My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

Scratch will never have private messaging
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=12732

You can subscribe to people by going to their mystuff page http://scratch.mit.edu/feeds/getRecentUserProjects/11664


Hi, I am Archmage coder extraordinaire. I do Scratch,pascal,java,php,html, AS2 and AS3. Leave me a message if you want coding advice. Also check out my personal website, lots of good stuff about web development, Flash, and Scratch (v1 and v2) !

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#6 2009-01-22 16:51:02

SaloniIsAwesome
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Posts: 50

Re: My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

Well, there could be people monitoring it or something. Because it spoils the surprise of a mew project if you have to post it for the public for just one other person to see.


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#7 2009-01-22 17:08:23

Paddle2See
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Registered: 2007-10-27
Posts: 1000+

Re: My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

SaloniIsAwesome wrote:

Ooh...another one...
SCRATCHERS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SUBSCRIBE TO OTHER SCRATCHERS. (like on youtube)
They could receive a notice by email, or just on Scratch, when the user uploaoded a new game.

That feature is currently available.  When you go to somebody's home page, look for a link called Subscribe on the right-hand side up near the top of their projects.  Clicking on that lets you set up an RSS feed which will alert you when they add new projects.


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#8 2009-01-22 19:45:14

Buddy_ca111
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Registered: 2008-08-30
Posts: 100+

Re: My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

Paddle2See wrote:

SaloniIsAwesome wrote:

Ooh...another one...
SCRATCHERS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SUBSCRIBE TO OTHER SCRATCHERS. (like on youtube)
They could receive a notice by email, or just on Scratch, when the user uploaoded a new game.

That feature is currently available.  When you go to somebody's home page, look for a link called Subscribe on the right-hand side up near the top of their projects.  Clicking on that lets you set up an RSS feed which will alert you when they add new projects.

What if you don`t use RSS, why isn`t there an ablitly to recive a message say that they had a new project?


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#9 2009-01-23 16:07:47

SaloniIsAwesome
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Registered: 2008-10-05
Posts: 50

Re: My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

Oops! I didn't know you could.

Paddle2See wrote:

SaloniIsAwesome wrote:

Ooh...another one...
SCRATCHERS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SUBSCRIBE TO OTHER SCRATCHERS. (like on youtube)
They could receive a notice by email, or just on Scratch, when the user uploaoded a new game.

That feature is currently available.  When you go to somebody's home page, look for a link called Subscribe on the right-hand side up near the top of their projects.  Clicking on that lets you set up an RSS feed which will alert you when they add new projects.


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#10 2009-01-23 16:10:04

Lucario621
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Registered: 2007-10-03
Posts: 1000+

Re: My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

archmage wrote:

Scratch will never have private messaging
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=12732

You can subscribe to people by going to their mystuff page http://scratch.mit.edu/feeds/getRecentUserProjects/11664

that link just goes to a bunch of html code.


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#11 2009-01-23 19:48:29

archmage
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Registered: 2007-05-18
Posts: 1000+

Re: My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

You need a browser that has RSS feed support. I recommend firefox.


Hi, I am Archmage coder extraordinaire. I do Scratch,pascal,java,php,html, AS2 and AS3. Leave me a message if you want coding advice. Also check out my personal website, lots of good stuff about web development, Flash, and Scratch (v1 and v2) !

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#12 2009-01-26 15:44:13

SaloniIsAwesome
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Registered: 2008-10-05
Posts: 50

Re: My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

A MESSAGE TO ALL VIEWERS:

This project has 121 views (now), but only 11 posts. Feel free to add in your own ideas. If you've ever faced something on Scratch that you feel s limited, post suggestions. You can also comment on the ones already here.


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#13 2009-01-26 19:05:17

mtechy
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Registered: 2008-11-06
Posts: 5

Re: My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

There should be a block to show/hide list viewers, like there is for variable viewers.


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#14 2009-01-30 15:39:28

SaloniIsAwesome
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Registered: 2008-10-05
Posts: 50

Re: My Ideas for a Better Scratch Experience...

Thanks for posting mtechy...at least there are 13 posts for the few hundred people that viewed this. I'm surprised that no one has any oter ideas.


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