I am trying to follow my friend but I can't find them. They have published a project and I have tried searching it, but I can't find that either. What do I do?

If you know their username, you can type scratch.mit.edu/users/(their username) in your browser's search bar. As for the projects, sometimes it can take the server a while to update things constantly, as many projects get published every day, or it could have been NFE'd.

Thanks, that helped. I found them and am now following them.

I recommend doing all of these things:

-Searching their name exactly
-Searching their projects
-Looking for their activity
-Finding another friend who may know them
-Asking them to comment on your pf irl
-Talk to them irl and ask for trigger words that may trigger projects in search.