When I say former glory, I mean before July 5th when there was a link to the discussion forums instead of a link to the tips page .

The tips page can be very helpful for learning Scratchers, however, for some of us, seeing the Scratch website not the way we're used to is a cause of anxiety (which may be unfortunate when Scratch 3.0 comes out ). Furthermore, many users are active in the forums and/or don't need the tutorials.

Therefore, I have created a Google Chrome extension (sorry, non-Chrome users ) that can restore the navigation bar's former beauty. If you are interested and use Google Chrome (I would have made a userscript but I have no clue how (honestly I don't really know how to make Chrome extensions either, but I wanted to learn that more than I wanted to learn userscripts)), please download the extension [Removed].

If you want, you can access the tips page under the “support” column of the footer on the Scratch homepage or any other Scratch subdomain that uses the new, lighter blue navigation bar (as opposed to the darker blue one that the forums, profiles, projects, etc. use).

If you're curious, worried about personal information, etc., here's the code:

Enjoy, I suppose !

yay!!!! thanks!!!

init's is better

$(".box-head")[0].textContent = "committing AT crimes since $whenever"

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

init's is better

true

I just finished creating a chrome extension that automatically adds the discuss buttons back to where they used to be. It works for both old and new style pages and should work right after install. The extension should be published on the chrome web store later today if I get around to it.

zuwel wrote:

I just finished creating a chrome extension that automatically adds the discuss buttons back to where they used to be. It works for both old and new style pages and should work right after install. The extension should be published on the chrome web store later today if I get around to it.

Cool! I would've added mine to the Chrome Web Store, but apparently they charge a developer fee because I didn't make a developer account before 2010, and I didn't think it was worth the money when there were so many userscripts already made (I honestly just wanted to practice JavaScript and I figured this would be simple but still something I would actually use).

I find it kind of funny, though, that the Scratch Team removed the discussion link three days ago and there are already ten userscripts/extensions to put it back .

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

init's is better

lol the Scratch Team took away the discussion forums link, and people's first reaction is to not only put it back but take away every other link .

I was actually kinda annoyed to see that the discussion link had been removed, tips are great but they should be shown to all new scratchers and not all (like the welcoming committeee)… although it is nice to learn new things at any point down the line

#bringItBack!!

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

init's is better

You should be a bit more respectful in replies, it's rude to just say that. It's like implying this:

Yours sucks init is better than you

or like this:

Only init can make it

Consider rephrasing your statements in the future to avoid sounding rude, thanks. Also, awesome ItchyCatIII, I didn't know you could do that kind of coding!

They definitely should just make the navigation bar customizable in the users account settings, but great job with the chrome extension!

It's also possible to copy the code into a userscript extension, and have it work on other browsers. I used tampermonkey on Opera, and it works perfectly fine. All I had to do was adjust some settings in the userscript part.:

I have a userscript that I made with another user that adds this stuff and more https://github.com/Wetbikeboy2500/ScratchFixer

Current project: [s3Blocks: scratchblocks rewritten for Scratch 3.0] ::#4b4a60 //https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/290031/ Basically done!

Xx_DeathPetal_xX wrote:

Awesome ItchyCatIII, I didn't know you could do that kind of coding!

I can't . I just wanted to see if I could do something in JavaScript and I had to look up every command that I needed (and then used the HTML of the navigation bar to find and change the bar in the JavaScript).

chexbox wrote:

They definitely should just make the navigation bar customizable in the users account settings, but great job with the chrome extension!

Yeah, that would be nice . Thanks!

Scratch-Adventures wrote:

It's also possible to copy the code into a userscript extension, and have it work on other browsers. I used tampermonkey on Opera, and it works perfectly fine. All I had to do was adjust some settings in the userscript part.:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         #BringItBack
// @namespace    https://scratch.mit.edu/
// @version      0.1
// @description  #BringItBack
// @author       You
// @match        *://scratch.mit.edu/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
    'use strict';
    var links = document.getElementsByTagName("li"); // Gets all "li" elements, including the tips button
    for (var i = 0;i<links.length;i++) {
        if (String(links[i].innerHTML).valueOf() === '<a href="/tips"><span>Tips</span></a>'.valueOf()) { // If the HTML of an li element matches the HTML of the li element for the tips button on the new nav bar...
            links[i].innerHTML = '<a href="/discuss"><span>Discuss</span></a>'; // change that li element's HTML to the HTML for an li element of a button that leads to the discussion forums.
        }
        if (String(links[i].innerHTML).valueOf() === '<a href="/tips">Tips</a>'.valueOf()) {
            links[i].innerHTML = '<a href="/discuss">Discuss</a>'; // It works for pages still with the old nav bar too.
        }
    }
})();

Oh, cool! I guess it's just a JavaScript code so a userscript should be able to process it. Thanks for noticing that!

NitroCipher wrote:

I have a userscript that I made with another user that adds this stuff and more https://github.com/Wetbikeboy2500/ScratchFixer

Oh, nice job! What else does it add? I don't have Tampermonkey so I can't install userscripts.

ItchyCatIII wrote:

NitroCipher wrote:

I have a userscript that I made with another user that adds this stuff and more https://github.com/Wetbikeboy2500/ScratchFixer

Oh, nice job! What else does it add? I don't have Tampermonkey so I can't install userscripts.

You can go here to see the forum post which has all the info.

Cool!

Browser extensions are not allowed.

15-MinuteGaming wrote:

Browser extensions are not allowed.

And this doesn't work anymore anyway . This thread was made before the new rule, and I haven't really thought about it since (and this was a necropost), but you're right, it's now against the rules. I'll remove the link to the download and close this thread. I guess I do need a new signature now, though….