5/10/13 Updates to the Scratch website!

Lightnin · #1 May 11, 2013 00:40:53

Yesterday and today, we pushed a great deal of little changes to manage the load on the servers, which got very high today when Scratch 2.0 was mentioned on both TechCrunch and BoingBoing.

In addition, we updated the bitmap editor (v 311) to provide a fix for the bug that made using transparent fill turn things black, instead of transparent. We also deployed a bunch of translations - so now Scratch is available in many more languages!

The last few days have been very busy and very long, with all of us staying up all hours to fix bugs and keep things running as smoothly as possible. We still have lots of work to do fixing bugs, and improving the design of various features. But we're very happy to have made this leap - and grateful to all those who have made it with us.

Scratch On!
Lightnin (on behalf of the Scratch Team)

p.s. Later tonight ~ 10 pm EST we will be taking comments offline for a brief period of time to make some database updates: one to begin displaying 3rd level comment replies imported from the old site, and another to (mostly) fix the ordering of projects on profiles and my stuff.

DJ-stickman · #2 May 11, 2013 00:43:08

You have done extremely well I have to say! The Scratch Team should earn a well deserved break! Well done its really good and I hope everyone else enjoys 2.0 as much as me. Thumbs up

coinman · #3 May 11, 2013 00:43:49

Yay! When will cloud lists be released?

cobraguy · #4 May 11, 2013 00:50:47

You've done an amazing job Scratch Team!! You all should get a well deserved break.

vedkhandekar · #5 May 11, 2013 02:36:40

You all Scratch Team members do deserve a good break!

Thanks for Scratch 2.0!

JJROCKER · #6 May 11, 2013 03:50:57

Great updates

They also fixed the project order on profiles.

Sausagefanclub · #7 May 11, 2013 05:47:14

Amazing, guys. I was devastated when my school's proxy murdered the layout of the site, but you even fixed that. I was very worried at first, but now that I see just how skilled ya'll are at fixing these numerous bugs, all hope has been restored in this sausage. Don't stop breathing!

Gaza101 · #8 May 11, 2013 07:17:17

Awesome! I noticed the changes and wondered when you'd make this post!

Failord · #9 May 11, 2013 21:26:06

Keep on keeping on! Might be worth pointing out here that the faves count is broken…

destroyallhumans · #10 May 14, 2013 17:44:20

Great!Cant wait for more updates!

SFollis · #11 May 14, 2013 17:47:09

Awesome!

Lightnin wrote:
p.s. Later tonight ~ 10 pm EST we will be taking comments offline for a brief period of time to make some database updates: one to begin displaying 3rd level comment replies imported from the old site, and another to (mostly) fix the ordering of projects on profiles and my stuff.

:O anyways i won't be on at that time

(about 1 or 2 hours before that, forget all the time which).

Keep going scratch team! your doing great!

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