I'm working on a YouTube video for Scratch Week and want some useless facts about Scratch. Your name will be on screen if I use your fact.

In an older version of the scratchblocks plugin used on the forums, there was a mistake where it detected “stop all pinks” as a sound block instead of “stop all sounds”, so “stop all sounds” showed up in red like a block with an unknown category while “stop all pinks” showed up in pink like a regular sound block.

A project may have been taken down for Infinity War spoilers once.

The 60-second rule used to be much harsher for New Scratchers, going up to 1,000 seconds at one point.

The delete comment box on 2.0 pages (ie. profiles) can be dragged around

The founder of Scratch, Mitchel Resnick (@mres) was inspired to name his website “Scratch” because of technique used by disk jockeys called “scratching”, where vinyl records are clipped together and manipulated on a turntable to produce different sound effects and music.

I helped test Scratch Lab features before they were released to the public.

There’s a few domains that redirect to Scratch.
https://scratch.love
https://scratch.team

The 1.X versions of Scratch have things like a video player, a notepad, and a port of Tetris accessible through the Shift-Click-R debugging features.

China's government banned Scratch because of one video.

Also, about ten years ago, Bandai Namco (the company that made Pac-Man) forced the Scratch Team to take down a kid's Pac-Man project.

Finally, Scratch has often collaborated with Cartoon Network. The channel actually has an official account on Scratch.

When loading a project, there are things other than “Loading Sprites” or “Loading Extensions”
An example is “Transmitting Nanos”

AIGamesDeveloper wrote:

there are things other than “Loading Sprites” or “Loading Extensions”

also those loading indicators have nothing to do with what is actually being loaded, they're just for show

1. There was a small period of time when you could backpack scratchblocks from the forums.
2. Gobo might have been the mascot for Scratch.
3. backpack.scratch.mit.edu, projects.scratch.mit.edu, downloads.scratch.mit.edu and download.scratch.mit.edu contain some stuff.
4. Scratch has some code for an unused “disable studio notifications” button.

Although most people on the forums probably know this, it is a running joke to change every wiki page to an April Fool’s version on April fools; for example, the ‘Sprite’ page will talk about the drink.

The ‘collapse’ feature on the forums page is supposed to save a cookie to your computer, but they didn't add the code to do that.

coder2045 wrote:

The 60-second rule used to be much harsher for New Scratchers, going up to 1,000 seconds at one point.

What's a 60 second rule?

SparklesTheWorld wrote:

coder2045 wrote:

The 60-second rule used to be much harsher for New Scratchers, going up to 1,000 seconds at one point.

What's a 60 second rule?

When you post in the forums, Scratchers have a 60-second cooldown for posting.

https://api.scratch.mit.edu/Username-without-@/messages/count will show the current messages the User has right now!

historical_supa wrote:

SparklesTheWorld wrote:

coder2045 wrote:

The 60-second rule used to be much harsher for New Scratchers, going up to 1,000 seconds at one point.

What's a 60 second rule?

When you post in the forums, Scratchers have a 60-second cooldown for posting.

Oh tnx!

Scratch has a small easter egg put into Scratch every year on April Fools' Day (See here for the easter eggs put in the previous years)

SparklesTheWorld wrote:

snip!

Sparkles? You're here too?