Cream_E_Cookie wrote:

Rumanti wrote:

Semi-support. This will allow FPC to still favorite projects that they didn't intend to curate (e.g, a contest they want to enter, an art dedicated to you, a bookmarked project they want to check out later). It also helps to avoid mistakes.

However, in turn, curating by favoriting allows simplicity. In my imagination, there is some lines of code on the Front Page that displays the latest 5 favorites either by getting an API or inspecting the DOM- only calls, filters and displays the result. A separate button would be a totally new feature, but as I said before, you have good points- it's a nice idea.

Featuring has a button for featuring. If they could to the code for that, then why not for curators?
Well, the lines of code could be completley different.

Chibi-Matoran wrote:

Support. This way, curators can favorite projects that they don't want to curate.

Rumanti wrote:

Semi-support. This will allow FPC to still favorite projects that they didn't intend to curate (e.g, a contest they want to enter, an art dedicated to you, a bookmarked project they want to check out later). It also helps to avoid mistakes.

However, in turn, curating by favoriting allows simplicity. In my imagination, there is some lines of code on the Front Page that displays the latest 5 favorites either by getting an API or inspecting the DOM- only calls, filters and displays the result. A separate button would be a totally new feature, but as I said before, you have good points- it's a nice idea.

chooper100 wrote:

Also, I presume the curate button would only appear whilst the person was an fpc - ie. not before. Therefore, as soon as the curator changes at 5:00pm each Monday, the new FPC will have no projects what soever in the curate section, meaning the curator section on the home page will appear empty. Whilst this is not too much of a problem for people in the US (they can just be online at 5:00pm and select the projects there and then), people in other timezones (the UK for instance) aren't in as good a position - 5:00pm Scratch Time I believe is 10:00pm GMT, which is not viable for younger Scratchers to stay up until.

chooper100 wrote:

Nice idea, but no support unfortunately

My trouble with this is that with project favorites, you are pretty much guaranteed to have at least 5 projects there. However, with a separate button, what happens for the case where the FPC has only chosen 3 projects (eg. if somebody loads the home page whilst the fpc is still going through each project and clicking the ‘curate’ button).

Also, I presume the curate button would only appear whilst the person was an fpc - ie. not before. Therefore, as soon as the curator changes at 5:00pm each Monday, the new FPC will have no projects what soever in the curate section, meaning the curator section on the home page will appear empty. Whilst this is not too much of a problem for people in the US (they can just be online at 5:00pm and select the projects there and then), people in other timezones (the UK for instance) aren't in as good a position - 5:00pm Scratch Time I believe is 10:00pm GMT, which is not viable for younger Scratchers to stay up until.

I do understand your reasoning, having heard of many accidentally curated projects, but there are just too many technicalities introduced by this, let alone the significant new code required to implement this.

chooper100 wrote:

Nice idea, but no support unfortunately

My trouble with this is that with project favorites, you are pretty much guaranteed to have at least 5 projects there. However, with a separate button, what happens for the case where the FPC has only chosen 3 projects (eg. if somebody loads the home page whilst the fpc is still going through each project and clicking the ‘curate’ button).

Also, I presume the curate button would only appear whilst the person was an fpc - ie. not before. Therefore, as soon as the curator changes at 5:00pm each Monday, the new FPC will have no projects what soever in the curate section, meaning the curator section on the home page will appear empty. Whilst this is not too much of a problem for people in the US (they can just be online at 5:00pm and select the projects there and then), people in other timezones (the UK for instance) aren't in as good a position - 5:00pm Scratch Time I believe is 10:00pm GMT, which is not viable for younger Scratchers to stay up until.