I want to send a message to someone secretly, but I don't know how. If I comment, everyone else can see. If I send a link to a forum, still everyone else will press it. So how do I send a message secretly?

There is no way to privately send messages on Scratch, and the Scratch Team has no plans on adding anything like that. The best thing you could do is comment on their profile.

It's not a problem if everyone can see a topic anyways. Topics aren't “private” anyways.

Yeah… Isn't the whole “you can't delete other people's comments on studios” thing because of that?

Sorry, you can't, and adding a way to do so has been rejected many times.

The closest thing to private messaging is typing your message in this
The result will be this:
Quote this post to read it.
But, that is not completely private, anyone can quote it.

Dragonlord767 wrote:

The closest thing to private messaging is typing your message in this

 [Your message] 

The result will be this:
Quote this post to read it.
But, that is not completely private, anyone can quote it.

But then people can still see it, and it's not private. There is no such thing and will never be such thing as “private messaging” on Scratch, mainly due to moderation issues.

Dragonlord767 wrote:

The closest thing to private messaging is typing your message in this

 [Your message] 

The result will be this:
Quote this post to read it.
But, that is not completely private, anyone can quote it.

Maybe don't make it explicit that your post has a secret message; use a code phrase set up between you and another Scratcher to indicate that your post has a secret message. But don't do that actually.

findanegg wrote:

Dragonlord767 wrote:

The closest thing to private messaging is typing your message in this

 [Your message] 

The result will be this:
Quote this post to read it.
But, that is not completely private, anyone can quote it.

Maybe don't make it explicit that your post has a secret message; use a code phrase set up between you and another Scratcher to indicate that your post has a secret message. But don't do that actually.

There's a rule against using ciphers for private messaging?

ifmmp

That's an 1 step advanced cipher for “hello”

findanegg wrote:

Dragonlord767 wrote:

The closest thing to private messaging is typing your message in this

 [Your message] 

The result will be this:
Quote this post to read it.
But, that is not completely private, anyone can quote it.

Maybe don't make it explicit that your post has a secret message; use a code phrase set up between you and another Scratcher to indicate that your post has a secret message. But don't do that actually.

Still not private messaging since anyone at all can decode.

Guys. Don't confuse “hiding a message” and “private messaging”. The user is asking if there is a way to privately message someone, not if there is a way to hide a message. And no, there is no way to privately message someone.

BEAT_alt wrote:

I want to send a message to someone secretly, but I don't know how. If I comment, everyone else can see. If I send a link to a forum, still everyone else will press it. So how do I send a message secretly?

I'm just going to say, most likely no one will care to press the ‘expand convo’ button on profile comments, so just comment on people's profile and as long as they don't have like 10, 000 followers your comment won't be seen.

TL; DR: No one cares about your comments enough to see them.

GullumIncComicz wrote:

You can already do this.

Please don't write in a transparent text; not everyone knows that this is a feature, and you may get and alert for unintentional spam.
Oof, didn't read all the previous posts to understand why you said that - my bad.

OP, to answer your question, there is no way to do this, due to the fact that it is very hard to monitor. If you want to talk to other Scratchers, comment on their profile/studio/project.

GullumIncComicz wrote:

You can already do this.

That's hiding a message, not private messaging. They're asking for a way to privately message, not hide a message..

use gmail bud

This was rejected Go here
Also the original forum is This

2GuysFullOfLies wrote:

use gmail bud

You're not allowed to share email addresses on Scratch..

NilsTheBest wrote:

2GuysFullOfLies wrote:

use gmail bud

You're not allowed to share email addresses on Scratch..

I guess that's the point: unless you know the person in real life, you probably shouldn't communicate with the user privately. That has some risks and liabilities that the Scratch Team would rather not take.

You can ask them to register on another website that allows private chat.

Scratch---Cat wrote:

You can ask them to register on another website that allows private chat.

That isn't allowed either.