What are some of the most obscure Scratch features you can think of?

Maximouse

the2000 wrote:
leahcimto wrote:
This one is odd too.
What the heck is that?

The backpack server, but I don't know why the ghost emoji is there.

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the2000

Maximouse wrote:
The backpack server

Yeah, I figured. I'm assuming the ghost emoji is just an easter egg for people sticking their nose where they shouldn't be

gosoccerboy5

the2000 wrote:
cat_tap wrote:
the2000 wrote:
Dang it, beaten to it
XD
And i see now, so back to the subject…
Okay, here's something else I noticed:

I discovered this on a random project made by somebody else during 2.0: For some reason the “when up key pressed” and “when down key pressed” hat blocks also respond to scrollbar input. It's been this way since at least 2.0 and once again I've never heard anyone else talk about it. Maybe it was mentioned in a tutorial somewhere, I don't know. Clearly someone had to remember it for it to be ported to 3.0, at least. Maybe this is really common knowledge to everyone else, but it totally blew my mind. Not even the Scratch Wiki mentions this

Haha not checking the wiki go brr
Why did I use that as the text

gosoccerboy5

WindOctahedron wrote:
Not really a feature, but I don't even remember where I first found the link to this.

What - what is that-

CatsUnited wrote:
Did you know that for a brief period during Scratch 2's development, you were able to scroll the stage?

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Neato!

Bluebatstar wrote:
This:

Why would somebody ever use this? I doubt anybody wants to read every single post in every single topic across all forums.

Although, I'm not certain if this is topic is a good fit for QaS. Or any forum for that matter. I remember a few months ago, a lot of forums like this got closed.

Yeah, I don't even know why that's there.

lazer54321

leahcimto wrote:
I thought the magic wand tool in the 2.0 paint editor was always a bit odd.

i forgot about that. i cant even remember what it did i just remember it being added lol

h e l l o

PicoMetrics

Probably Oh noes! We are having difficulties!

Scratch isn't Javascript

gosoccerboy5

PicoMetrics wrote:
Probably Oh noes! We are having difficulties!

You mean this?

the2000

gosoccerboy5 wrote:
the2000 wrote:
Not even the Scratch Wiki mentions this
Haha not checking the wiki go brr
Why did I use that as the text

It wasn't on the Scratch wiki page for the block itself though, and that's what I was looking at.

PicoMetrics

gosoccerboy5 wrote:
PicoMetrics wrote:
Probably Oh noes! We are having difficulties!
You mean this?

I think there might have been oh noes in one of them, but not that…

Scratch isn't Javascript

gosoccerboy5

PicoMetrics wrote:
gosoccerboy5 wrote:
PicoMetrics wrote:
Probably Oh noes! We are having difficulties!
You mean this?
I think there might have been oh noes in one of them, but not that…

Wait, is it the one where Scratch cat is siting next to a whiteboard and there's a link to the ST's twitter feed?

Maximouse

PicoMetrics wrote:
gosoccerboy5 wrote:
PicoMetrics wrote:
Probably Oh noes! We are having difficulties!
You mean this?
I think there might have been oh noes in one of them, but not that…

This?

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Jeffalo

literally every downloading related subdomain i can find is wack in some way.
https://download.scratch.mit.edu/
https://downloads.scratch.mit.edu/
https://downloads.scratch.ly/

disclaimer: sometimes my posts are pretty critical of the scratch team (especially my older ones), but i really do

scratch & scratch team. jvvg made a short essay thing about the scratch team, which is a pretty good read, if you want a different perspective for the scratch team's actions.

my website: jeffalo.net | ocular: scratch forum search

Jeffalo

Jeffalo wrote:
literally every downloading related subdomain i can find is wack in some way.
https://download.scratch.mit.edu/
https://downloads.scratch.mit.edu/
https://downloads.scratch.ly/

oh yeah and download.scratch.mit.edu hosts a bunch of old mit stuff.

oh yeah and community blocks, maybe also all of scratch.ly because scratch.ly is hecking wack

disclaimer: sometimes my posts are pretty critical of the scratch team (especially my older ones), but i really do

scratch & scratch team. jvvg made a short essay thing about the scratch team, which is a pretty good read, if you want a different perspective for the scratch team's actions.

my website: jeffalo.net | ocular: scratch forum search

Jeffalo

oh and one more non-edit post, let's not forget the scratch team owns a heck-ton of scratch domains

most of them are not used, but they're all pointed at similar ips and are using fastly so it's probably the scratch team

scratch.org
scratchjr.org
scratch.ly
scratch.love (????)
scratch.computer
scratch.chat
scratch.land
scratch.rest
scratch.team
scratch.camp
scratch.pizza

please scratch team are you ok

disclaimer: sometimes my posts are pretty critical of the scratch team (especially my older ones), but i really do

scratch & scratch team. jvvg made a short essay thing about the scratch team, which is a pretty good read, if you want a different perspective for the scratch team's actions.

my website: jeffalo.net | ocular: scratch forum search

the2000

Jeffalo wrote:
oh yeah and download.scratch.mit.edu hosts a bunch of old mit stuff.

Are you allowed to link any of it?

This isn't really a “feature” but I remember when the “Music notes” sound category was being added to Scratch 2.0, there was a period of time in which the category existed but there wasn't anything in it. I recall someone making a thread about it and a Scratch Team member responded something like “Good catch, we're still working on implementing it.” I don't know, I just thought that was neat.

Jeffalo

the2000 wrote:
Jeffalo wrote:
oh yeah and download.scratch.mit.edu hosts a bunch of old mit stuff.
Are you allowed to link any of it?

search site:download.scratch.mit.edu on google

disclaimer: sometimes my posts are pretty critical of the scratch team (especially my older ones), but i really do

scratch & scratch team. jvvg made a short essay thing about the scratch team, which is a pretty good read, if you want a different perspective for the scratch team's actions.

my website: jeffalo.net | ocular: scratch forum search

Super_Scratch_Bros20

I think the 10000 following limit is neat. You can only follow up to 10000 users at a time. This was put in place to prevent those “follow every user” accounts, I'm pretty sure.

Last edited by Super_Scratch_Bros20 (Jan. 25, 2021 12:55:13)

gosoccerboy5

Jeffalo wrote:
oh and one more non-edit post, let's not forget the scratch team owns a heck-ton of scratch domains

most of them are not used, but they're all pointed at similar ips and are using fastly so it's probably the scratch team

scratch.org
scratchjr.org
scratch.ly
scratch.love (????)
scratch.computer
scratch.chat
scratch.land
scratch.rest
scratch.team
scratch.camp
scratch.pizza

please scratch team are you ok

o wowsers

the2000

Jeffalo wrote:
the2000 wrote:
Jeffalo wrote:
oh yeah and download.scratch.mit.edu hosts a bunch of old mit stuff.
Are you allowed to link any of it?
search site:download.scratch.mit.edu on google

I found an instruction manual for Scratch 1.4. Neat.

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, games, and animations – and share your creations with others on the web.

It's not particularly interesting but it's something. I guess it's kind of a little window into how people felt about Scratch at the time, which is cool. If you use Scratch a lot it's hard to go back to a mindset from before you started using it.

gosoccerboy5

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, games, and animations – and share your creations with others on the web.

That is literally Scratch nowadays, minus the “new”.

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