meaning of "sb" in .sb3

Deguy2009

What does the “sb” mean within downloaded scratch files.

Wei-ern_520

I found this: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/483085/?page=1#post-4872823

Here's the wiki
https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Scratch_File_Format

Last edited by Wei-ern_520 (Oct. 3, 2021 10:49:27)

Chiroyce

SB may just mean something related to Scratch, I don't know exactly what.

3 stands for the version number.

cloverCat156

some say sb is a bad word in Chinese…

I think it is short of “Scratch Blog” because in the early times of Scratch, a project is called a blog post and Scratch was just a blog with almost no social features and after years they didn't change it to “sp” or something, the number after it is its version number.

Scratch 1.x projects have the suffix “.sb”
Scratch 2.x projects have the suffix “.sb2”
Scratch 3.x projects have the suffix “.sb3”

dhuls

Ivy_Zhangyanchu wrote:
some say sb is a bad word in Chinese…

I think it is short of “Scratch Blog” because in the early times of Scratch, a project is called a blog post and Scratch was just a blog with almost no social features and after years they didn't change it to “sp” or something, the number after it is its version number.

Scratch 1.x projects have the suffix “.sb”
Scratch 2.x projects have the suffix “.sb2”
Scratch 3.x projects have the suffix “.sb3”

In the days Scratch was a blog, the suffix used was “.scratch” and the blog was for ST only

SB probably stands for “Scratch Blocks” or possibly “Scratch Binary” since 1.x projects are binary

Jeffalo

world_languages asked andresmh about this, and the answer was Scratch Blocks

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