Bleuet8 wrote:

hi i am @01cyborg on a school alt and i wonder why i haven't been on trending though i have hardly any followers and its very confusing

so i don't think it has anything to do with folllowers

here are my stats https://scratchstats.com/01cyborg

lazer54321 wrote:

I think that people who reach a certain amount of followers are sort of barred off of trending. the reason is, every time they make a project, it gets on trending. thats why people like @Griffpatch, @boymcboy, @huntedskelly and other famous scratchers are never on trending. if they were on trending, no other scratchers would reach it. Also, please keep making games because they are really good.

kevtheguy wrote:

I think the trending system is broken. A few days ago, I searched for a game, I turned on the trending filter, and the first result had about 240 views, while the 8th had over 2000 views. I think scratch may have some issues, since scratch has been quite slow for me recently.

Beta Platformer please test this!

PaddlerGames wrote:

lazer54321 wrote:

I think that people who reach a certain amount of followers are sort of barred off of trending. the reason is, every time they make a project, it gets on trending. thats why people like @Griffpatch, @boymcboy, @huntedskelly and other famous scratchers are never on trending. if they were on trending, no other scratchers would reach it. Also, please keep making games because they are really good.

It's not by followers, it does it by each project. Because @Brad-Games's new mario game didn't get on trending, but his countdown project did.

Bleuet8 wrote:

hi i am @01cyborg on a school alt and i wonder why i haven't been on trending though i have hardly any followers and its very confusing

so i don't think it has anything to do with folllowers

here are my stats https://scratchstats.com/01cyborg

-Impeccable- wrote:

I would say, yes this has happened a lot and I have seen it too, but when a project gets featured, it usually isn't even on trending! After it is featured, only the remixes get on trending. I don't really know what is happening here, though, like the mass reporting too! I saw a scratch was about to post a very exciting project, then he got banned for 2 weeks just because of mass reporting out of jealousy!

PaddlerGames wrote:

lazer54321 wrote:

I think that people who reach a certain amount of followers are sort of barred off of trending. the reason is, every time they make a project, it gets on trending. thats why people like @Griffpatch, @boymcboy, @huntedskelly and other famous scratchers are never on trending. if they were on trending, no other scratchers would reach it. Also, please keep making games because they are really good.

It's not by followers, it does it by each project. Because @Brad-Games's new mario game didn't get on trending, but his countdown project did.

Maximouse wrote:

Ihatr wrote:

colinmacc wrote:

At the moment, it doesn't seem as if they do represent the very best of Scratch.

There isn't a single project on trending that I would say is unique. Almost every single thing on trending is some random platformer, some meme project, or some animation that could have been created in 5 minutes

What's so annoying is that the best Scratch projects never get on trending. Never. A good majority of them barely get noticed, and by the slim chance they do, they just get 50 hearts.

Scratch's project quality is rapidly decreasing because people know that they can get popular without having to put lots of effort into their projects. All Scratcher's care about is the numbers, and thus they push out something that doesn't deserve to be popular, and people appreciate them for it. So many good coders have focused on the numbers instead of quality, and thus their projects become something I don't enjoy anymore.

It's really sad to see what the trending page has done to Scratch.

That's true, so I actually like the idea of removing trending completely.

Edit: what if the Explore page would show random projects with over 50 loves? So it wouldn't be possible for a project to be there for a long time.

PaddlerGames wrote:

lazer54321 wrote:

I think that people who reach a certain amount of followers are sort of barred off of trending. the reason is, every time they make a project, it gets on trending. thats why people like @Griffpatch, @boymcboy, @huntedskelly and other famous scratchers are never on trending. if they were on trending, no other scratchers would reach it. Also, please keep making games because they are really good.

It's not by followers, it does it by each project. Because @Brad-Games's new mario game didn't get on trending, but his countdown project did.

lazer54321 wrote:

your edit is actually a really good idea. if a project has 50+ loves it probably wont be bad, but then scratch wouldnt give us projects made by the same people on there.. its ALWAYS meme projects. some are good, but some just dont deserve it, like (i am just picking one out) Ghost dog. thats fine. THEN ANOTHER ONE called ghost dog. what. like, not saying they are bad becaues there not its just when 5 of ur projects get trending that took like 5 minutes to make it gets annoying for people who spent hours upon hours, days even to get barely 50 loves.

Chiroyce wrote:

lazer54321 wrote:

your edit is actually a really good idea. if a project has 50+ loves it probably wont be bad, but then scratch wouldnt give us projects made by the same people on there.. its ALWAYS meme projects. some are good, but some just dont deserve it, like (i am just picking one out) Ghost dog. thats fine. THEN ANOTHER ONE called ghost dog. what. like, not saying they are bad becaues there not its just when 5 of ur projects get trending that took like 5 minutes to make it gets annoying for people who spent hours upon hours, days even to get barely 50 loves.

Thats the exact problem. Effort gets unnoticed.

PaddlerGames wrote:

lazer54321 wrote:

I think that people who reach a certain amount of followers are sort of barred off of trending. the reason is, every time they make a project, it gets on trending. thats why people like @Griffpatch, @boymcboy, @huntedskelly and other famous scratchers are never on trending. if they were on trending, no other scratchers would reach it. Also, please keep making games because they are really good.

It's not by followers, it does it by each project. Because @Brad-Games's new mario game didn't get on trending, but his countdown project did.

Shrederless wrote:

Honestly remixes shouldnt be on the same algorithm as main projects.