ANIMATED PROJECT THUMBNAILS

nitrodude

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Saiid

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:
djdolphin wrote:
MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:
ahem* don't forget who discovered the exploit to do so first
*cough*
*cough*
*ahem*
Idk who you're talking about.
Seriously, I see this happening on Scratch a lot though. For example:
User A shares a project with song X by artist Y; gives credit to Y for X
User B sees user A's project, backpacks the sound (which is most likely mislabeled - songs names should really always be in the format “Artist - Title” as in “Darude - Sandstorm” :P )
Anyways, then User B goes and makes their own project using song X, however, because they did not read the terms and conditions notes and credits (and also because song X was most likely mislabeled as above) they give credit to User A for the song, not person Y
More people get confused, some credit User A, some User B, and some even credit others who credited User A or User B, and so on… Not a single person really credits Y for the song (other than User A).
If I had a dollar for every time a Scratcher did that, I would be Bill Gates!

Bill Gates is dead. Are you saying that if you had a dollar for every time a Scratcher did that, you would be dead? A better comparison would be to the president, who gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars just for being prez, not to mention hundreds of thousands of dollars given to him for groceries for his family, as well as the budget he is given to deal with the countries problems.(there's some other stuff the prez gets paid a lot for, but i'm lazy and i don't feel like looking it up)

cheeseeater

Saiid wrote:
MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:
djdolphin wrote:
MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:
ahem* don't forget who discovered the exploit to do so first
*cough*
*cough*
*ahem*
Idk who you're talking about.
Seriously, I see this happening on Scratch a lot though. For example:
User A shares a project with song X by artist Y; gives credit to Y for X
User B sees user A's project, backpacks the sound (which is most likely mislabeled - songs names should really always be in the format “Artist - Title” as in “Darude - Sandstorm” :P )
Anyways, then User B goes and makes their own project using song X, however, because they did not read the terms and conditions notes and credits (and also because song X was most likely mislabeled as above) they give credit to User A for the song, not person Y
More people get confused, some credit User A, some User B, and some even credit others who credited User A or User B, and so on… Not a single person really credits Y for the song (other than User A).
If I had a dollar for every time a Scratcher did that, I would be Bill Gates!
Bill Gates is dead.

http://www.gatesnotes.com/ He's alive and well.

foxyaya

theonlygusti wrote:
No support. I don't think gifs should be allowed anywhere, personally.

Haters gonna hate GIFs are just liked vines what is wrong with that?

Meese123

The ST doesn't approve of moving thumbnails for projects.
In late 2014, a hack was revealed which allowed users to set animated thumbnails. This then went popular and encouraged many users to try this hack by themselves. A user has even wrote a program that sets animated thumbnails. However, many users protested the hack as it would be flashy and annoying to users. The Scratch Team has declared that all projects with animated thumbnails would be marked NFE to avoid lag in Front Page. That means that it will not have an opportunity to be front paged, and if by chance it does, a Scratch Team member will remove it. They will rarely appear in the search results. If you wish to have an animated thumbnail on a project, please keep in mind that it cannot be front paged nor likely found through search results, and do not animate it if you wish it to be front paged someday or found using Scratch's search bar.- Scratch Wiki.

Last edited by Meese123 (June 16, 2015 15:33:52)

Joe5402

Sorry, no support. Animated thumbnails can be annoying, and not really the point of thumbnails.

Zarlog

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:
turkey3 wrote:
No, I'm tired of all the GIFs on this site.
I disagree. However I don't support this either as per some points above
I never get tired of my awesome gifs. Maybe you should
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Jk if you can figure out where that gif is from, +100000 points to you (lol )

I don't mind GIFs. They aren't as boring as JPEGs

PS: The GIF is from Wild Kratts

iamunknown2

foxyaya wrote:
theonlygusti wrote:
No support. I don't think gifs should be allowed anywhere, personally.
Haters gonna hate GIFs are just liked vines what is wrong with that?

…Until your computer lags from 30+ gifs on the same page.

CatsUnited

ShinySkarmory227 wrote:
People have already shared their opinions, and it's basically resolved… The program has been shared that gives the user the ability to do this suggestion, so like I said, it's resolved.

Let's just see what the ST thinks…

Paddle2See

CatsUnited wrote:
ShinySkarmory227 wrote:
People have already shared their opinions, and it's basically resolved… The program has been shared that gives the user the ability to do this suggestion, so like I said, it's resolved.
Let's just see what the ST thinks…

I'm still interested in opinions on this - and it hasn't been implemented (the exploit is not considered an implementation) so let's leave it open

Zro716

I'm a bit torn on this idea. I really love the idea of customizing thumbnails beyond a static image, but I feel it would be so overused/abused that people would want them removed. If we look at studios, a vast majority of them use GIFs, some are interesting, some are impressive, some are boring, some are flat out annoying. sometimes it requires extensive page loading because there is no size limit to GIFs for thumbnails (I want that to change ASAP), which isn't good for users with low bandwidth.

tl;dr i want it but i don't want users to upload random GIFs of stuff like fnaf or frozen

TimothyLawyer

No support for animated project thumbnails.

No support for animated studio thumbnails.

The projects should be where the motion is, in code.

Support for account icon animation, as a compromise, for personal expression, and since our avatars generally do not represent a project or collection of projects.

And maybe a limit should be added to animations, similar to Zro716's suggestion above.

stickfiregames

TimothyLawyer wrote:
No support for animated project thumbnails.

No support for animated studio thumbnails.

The projects should be where the motion is, in code.

Support for account icon animation, as a compromise, for personal expression, and since our avatars generally do not represent a project or collection of projects.

And maybe a limit should be added to animations, similar to Zro716's suggestion above.

What would happen to existing animated studio thumbnails?

Semi-support for the suggestion, I would like animated thumbnails but it would probably be quite annoying if, say, the whole front page had them.

TimothyLawyer

stickfiregames wrote:
What would happen to existing animated studio thumbnails?

Truncate to first frame.

matey1234

Saiid wrote:
MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:
djdolphin wrote:
MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:
ahem* don't forget who discovered the exploit to do so first
*cough*
*cough*
*ahem*
Idk who you're talking about.
Seriously, I see this happening on Scratch a lot though. For example:
User A shares a project with song X by artist Y; gives credit to Y for X
User B sees user A's project, backpacks the sound (which is most likely mislabeled - songs names should really always be in the format “Artist - Title” as in “Darude - Sandstorm” :P )
Anyways, then User B goes and makes their own project using song X, however, because they did not read the terms and conditions notes and credits (and also because song X was most likely mislabeled as above) they give credit to User A for the song, not person Y
More people get confused, some credit User A, some User B, and some even credit others who credited User A or User B, and so on… Not a single person really credits Y for the song (other than User A).
If I had a dollar for every time a Scratcher did that, I would be Bill Gates!
Bill Gates is dead.

You're confusing yourself between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

BTW, no support.

Last edited by matey1234 (July 25, 2015 23:30:22)

CGRises

Prinseskat wrote:
I'd rather have it that you can choose where in the project the thumbnail is (or if it's just random), because seeing the last frame of it isn't always helpful. Like it could just be a blank screen saying “THE END”, which doesn't give you much information about the project itself.
Nevermind, you can already do that…
I think just a picture's enough.

iamunknown2

Saiid wrote:
Bill Gates is dead.

Where did you get that information? He's alive and well…

pokepower123

theonlygusti wrote:
No support. I don't think gifs should be allowed anywhere, personally.

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Why?It's cool! if you had a studio that was about animation,why would you not put a GIF?

http://orig00.deviantart.net/071d/f/2013/135/b/8/sad_applebloom_animated_by_furstreak-d65doyu.gif

Zarlog

turkey3 wrote:
No, I'm tired of all the GIFs on this site.

Me too. Plus, they cause lag. = No support.

Superdoggy wrote:
That's not true - GIF is a common compressed filetype for images - and it is very common to see a static GIF file. They're often used for animating because the GIF filetype is one of the common filetypes that support animation.

I have seen a dandy amount of gifs that aren't moving, I always wondered why they used them instead of JPEGs. You have answered my question, thanks!

Also, I am aware that I wrote above that I don't mind gifs. Well I do now. The amount of them seems to have grown since when I joined (last month). Anyone else notice this?

Last edited by Zarlog (Aug. 19, 2015 19:16:54)

3_toed_sloth

no support, i'm sick of gifs on scratch. i think they all should go

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