make community guidelines breaking projects unviewable instead of just unsharing them

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reallysoftuser wrote:
Futurebot5 wrote:
reallysoftuser wrote:
TopCode wrote:
Steve0Greatness wrote:
You already can't..
as already explained, you can
reallysoftuser wrote:
jesus christ if you have to send an api request to view it it's already bad enough, so no support
you are aware what an api request is, right? Your computer has to send them every time you load a webpage. and if youve been on scratch for a while you will know that sites like turbowarp and forkphorus do this and allow you to view unshared projects
Turbowarp and forkphrous are outside of the Scratch Website, so i assume they're external tools. Again, having to use an unofficial tool to view unshared projects is bad enough. Maybe if there was a way to view unshared Scratch projects inside the Scratch Website i'd support, but there isn't so for now, No support.
All you have to do is literally just turbowarp.org/PROJECTID.
Scratch doesn't endorse external tools or are responsible for what they do so no support

Erm, that isn't how it works. If an external tool can easily access a supposedly restricted endpoint from an API, then that's bad security (not even security at all). Also, I think the OP means that unshared projects should be completely private, just like they're meant to be, and that you can't just GET https://api.scratch.mit.edu/projects/{id}/ (or the relevant endpoint), and have access to an unshared project.

EDIT: there seems to be lots of people misunderstanding what an API is here, so maybe check your knowledge?

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PkmnQ

I don't know how the API works, but I'm gonna assume that it asks for the information from the server. If so, the server could just check if it has some unviewable flag set, and if it is, it tells the API to send a specific unviewable project JSON.

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PkmnQ wrote:
I don't know how the API works, but I'm gonna assume that it asks for the information from the server. If so, the server could just check if it has some unviewable flag set, and if it is, it tells the API to send a specific unviewable project JSON.

The API is the server, it handles Scratch's backend.

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PkmnQ wrote:
I don't know how the API works, but I'm gonna assume that it asks for the information from the server. If so, the server could just check if it has some unviewable flag set, and if it is, it tells the API to send a specific unviewable project JSON.
The API is the server, it handles Scratch's backend.

Then where does it store the unshared?

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PkmnQ wrote:
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PkmnQ wrote:
I don't know how the API works, but I'm gonna assume that it asks for the information from the server. If so, the server could just check if it has some unviewable flag set, and if it is, it tells the API to send a specific unviewable project JSON.
The API is the server, it handles Scratch's backend.
Then where does it store the unshared?

All projects are stored in object storage internally. When the frontend wants to get any project, shared or unshared, it asks the API for it.

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dhfbei8987 wrote:
Like deleting it?
no, just making it so you cant just send an api request and get the project, or if thats not doable then yes, deleting
jesus christ if you have to send an api request to view it it's already bad enough, so no support

not really. Turbowarp works for anything really.

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You already can't… +just removing the ability to view it(even for the owner) would be problematic, as some people want to be able to see what was wrong with their project fix it(you can't fix an issue if you can't see it) and request for it to be put back up(via contact us).

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What if internally the API checks if it's set to unviewable first, and if it is, it requires the session id of either an ST member or the project maker (or alternatively it always requires one but it just ignores it if it's viewable) and if it isn't it returns some 403 forbidden or something like that?

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How about instead, we just warn the user before they reshare the removed project on why the project was removed. And maybe make it so you can't reshare the project unless you change something.

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How about instead, we just warn the user before they reshare the removed project on why the project was removed. And maybe make it so you can't reshare the project unless you change something.

That solves nothing as you could still view them unshared and the entire premise of this suggestion is to stop that.

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What if internally the API checks if it's set to unviewable first, and if it is, it requires the session id of either an ST member or the project maker (or alternatively it always requires one but it just ignores it if it's viewable) and if it isn't it returns some 403 forbidden or something like that?

It should work like this for all unshared projects, not just censored ones.

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There's no need for this, unsharing does the job.

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There's no need for this, unsharing does the job.

see but it doesnt

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then they would probably restrict API access to unshared projects altogether.

This ruins Turbowarp and previews, no support. Also ruins my TV-14 series that I have on Discord lol.

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then they would probably restrict API access to unshared projects altogether.
This ruins Turbowarp and previews, no support. Also ruins my TV-14 series that I have on Discord lol.

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then they would probably restrict API access to unshared projects altogether.
This ruins Turbowarp and previews, no support. Also ruins my TV-14 series that I have on Discord lol.

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reallysoftuser wrote:
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Unviewable and unsharable are the same thing
they are not the same, you can view unshared projects, you wouldnt be able to view an unviewable one.
I don't see the point in this suggestion, you can't open unshared projects in Scratch

uhh yeah you can there's a glitch that happens sometimes

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the2000 wrote:
then they would probably restrict API access to unshared projects altogether.
This ruins Turbowarp and previews, no support. Also ruins my TV-14 series that I have on (removed by quoter - please don't mention any unmoderated chat sources) lol.

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the2000 wrote:
then they would probably restrict API access to unshared projects altogether.
This ruins Turbowarp and previews, no support. Also ruins my TV-14 series that I have on (removed by quoter - please don't mention any unmoderated chat sources) lol.
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Scratchfangs wrote:
the2000 wrote:
then they would probably restrict API access to unshared projects altogether.
This ruins Turbowarp and previews, no support. Also ruins my TV-14 series that I have on Discord lol.

How did you manage to say Discord.
Anyway, the purpose of TurboWarp is not to view unshared projects. It is to speed up projects. The ability to see unshared projects is a problem with the API, which is what the OP is asking to fix, not a problem with TurboWarp. Also, if you need to share TV-14 Scratch Projects just upload them to Google Drive, OneDrive, or some other cloud storage provider.

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