So we all know that the filter hates 10 digit numbers. Why? Because it could be a phone number. Project IDs will always gradually be growing, once there was a project with an ID of 1!Now then, one day, it is inevitable that project IDs will reach 10 figures. All those people.. Trying to share a link to their project. What's gonna happen?

I'm not sure, maybe they will update the filterbot to check if a specific URL exists and not be a phone number so it will be allowed? Still, there will be downsides, like secretly hiding your……….


I tried scratch links with 10 numbers and they don't seem to be X'd.

This:
https://scratch.mit.edu/users/mybearworld/#comments-160917395
if it doesn't load

mybearworld wrote:

This:
https://scratch.mit.edu/users/mybearworld/#comments-160917395
if it doesn't load

So, it detects if it's a Scratch project link. That's not very safe. Someone could conceal their phone number in a link

1Oaktree2 wrote:

mybearworld wrote:

This:
https://scratch.mit.edu/users/mybearworld/#comments-160917395
if it doesn't load

So, it detects if it's a Scratch project link. That's not very safe. Someone could conceal their phone number in a link

Then what do you expect the Scratch Team or anyone else to do about it?

Wei-ern_520 wrote:

1Oaktree2 wrote:

mybearworld wrote:

This:
https://scratch.mit.edu/users/mybearworld/#comments-160917395
if it doesn't load

So, it detects if it's a Scratch project link. That's not very safe. Someone could conceal their phone number in a link

Then what do you expect the Scratch Team or anyone else to do about it?

I don't know, that's why I asked the question in the first place.

1Oaktree2 wrote:

So, it detects if it's a Scratch project link. That's not very safe. Someone could conceal their phone number in a link

I know, but that's how they handle it right now. They could make a more thorough check, for example, if it's a project, check if it's shared, if it's a studio, check if it exists, if it's a forum topic, check if it's non-dustbinned and exists…

mybearworld wrote:

1Oaktree2 wrote:

So, it detects if it's a Scratch project link. That's not very safe. Someone could conceal their phone number in a link

I know, but that's how they handle it right now. They could make a more thorough check, for example, if it's a project, check if it's shared, if it's a studio, check if it exists, if it's a forum topic, check if it's non-dustbinned and exists…

That will wipe all comments that send links with 10 digits to unshared projects. What's better is to check if it exists in the Scratch servers.