when you download a scratch project as a file to your computer it outputs a .sb3 file.
recently i realized that its probably an acronym for something and i have no idea what it stands for.

i think that the s stands for scratch and that theres a 3 because were using scratch 3.0 right now, just like it used to be a .sb2 file a few years ago when it was still scratch 2.0.

but what does the b stand for?

I will safely assume that its “Scratch Build 3”, as it is the third build-version of the Scratch Offline Editor.

I read somewhere a while ago that it stood for “Scratch Blocks”, but I don't remember where it was.

Flowermanvista wrote:

I read somewhere a while ago that it stood for “Scratch Blocks”, but I don't remember where it was.

psst

Robby_Blue wrote:

when you download a scratch project as a file to your computer it outputs a .sb3 file.

They aren't talking about the Scratch Blocks plugin (correct me if I read that wrong), so (as I said above), its probably Scratch Build 3

NotDucki_ wrote:

I will safely assume that its “Scratch Build 3”

what about sprites? they are also using the third build-version of the Scratch Editor, but are not sb3 files.
they are sprite3 files or something.

NotDucki_ wrote:

(correct me if I read that wrong)

You did. I was indeed talking about the .sb extension and all of its derivatives - thus, .sb3 stands for “Scratch Blocks (version) 3”.

I went to a lot of file extension websites, but they all just say “it's for Scratch 3.0”

It's safe to assume it means “blocks” or “build”

NotDucki_ wrote:

Flowermanvista wrote:

I read somewhere a while ago that it stood for “Scratch Blocks”, but I don't remember where it was.

psst

Robby_Blue wrote:

when you download a scratch project as a file to your computer it outputs a .sb3 file.

They aren't talking about the Scratch Blocks plugin (correct me if I read that wrong), so (as I said above), its probably Scratch Build 3

they are talking about the normal scratch project file format. i do think it is more likely it stands for “scratch blocks” however, because the file format stores the blocks and their data of the project, and not the actual script/build of the project, which “scratch build” would imply.

noobthepro500 wrote:

IDK

Don't post if you won't answer the question

It probably doesn't mean “Scratch Build” because old versions of Scratch used just “.sb”, without a number.

Maximouse wrote:

It probably doesn't mean “Scratch Build” because old versions of Scratch used just “.sb”, without a number.

welp- I tried

I don't think it has a meaning.

noobthepro500 wrote:

IDK

Please don't post useless or otherwise meaningless things.

I have no source for this, but as far as I am aware, it is Scratch Blocks 3.

It's a file for scratch projects made in 3.0. If you tried importing a 3.0 project into 1.4, it won't work because it's not a sb1.
Files for 2.0 projects are sb2
1.4's version is sb1

Robby_Blue wrote:

i think that the s stands for scratch and that theres a 3 because were using scratch 3.0 right now, just like it used to be a .sb2 file a few years ago when it was still scratch 2.0.

This is correct. The number at the end indicates the version of Scratch that was used to create the project. .sb, .sb2, and .sb3 files are compatible with Scratch 1.x, 2.0, and 3.0 respectively.

As for what it stands for, I found this old thread from the early days of Scratch 2.0 where someone asked the very same question. Multiple people there agreed it was Scratch Blocks, citing an old Facebook post made by the Scratch Team. Nobody linked to the post and I can't find it anywhere, so you should probably take this with a grain of salt.

I remembered when I search the forum, actually, SB3 stands for Scratch Binary 3.0.
See:
Scratch
Binary
3.0
SB2 stands for Scratch Binary 2.0
SB stands for Scratch Binary (how can Scratch find a suitable place for file formats?? Two letters??)

Robby_Blue wrote:

when you download a scratch project as a file to your computer it outputs a .sb3 file.
recently i realized that its probably an acronym for something and i have no idea what it stands for.

i think that the s stands for scratch and that theres a 3 because were using scratch 3.0 right now, just like it used to be a .sb2 file a few years ago when it was still scratch 2.0.

but what does the b stand for?

scratch project

It means “Scratch Binary 3”.
Fun fact: Early betas of Scratch used “.scratch” instead of “.sb”.