automatically compress old projects

EngineerRunner

a lot of suggestions can't be implemented due to storage costs. however, what if projects that haven't been viewed in a while were simply compressed? while compressed projects would have a longer load time, they'd save a lot of storage on scratch's end.

these don't have to be the exact numbers, but let's say if a project hasn't been viewed in 1 month by a Scratcher other than the creator, it would be automatically compressed server-side. when somebody views the project, it will be decompressed and cached server-side for 24 hours. if over 10 unique people view the project within that 24 hours, it will be uncompressed and the 1 month counter will restart.

this should save a lot of space, and possibly even allow for an increase in project size limits.

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EngineerRunner wrote:
a lot of suggestions can't be implemented due to storage costs. however, what if projects that haven't been viewed in a while were simply compressed? while compressed projects would have a longer load time, they'd save a lot of storage on scratch's end.

these don't have to be the exact numbers, but let's say if a project hasn't been viewed in 1 month by a Scratcher other than the creator, it would be automatically compressed server-side. when somebody views the project, it will be decompressed and cached server-side for 24 hours. if over 10 unique people view the project within that 24 hours, it will be uncompressed and the 1 month counter will restart.

this should save a lot of space, and possibly even allow for an increase in project size limits.

Hmm… this seems simple, yet innovative. Support!

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INSERT-USER_NAME

This actually sounds like a great Idea, it would definitely save server storage space like you mentioned. I'm unsure of how easy (or hard) it would be to implement, though. Otherwise, I support.

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How would scratch know which project is too old though? would it have to search through every project every day? if so, that sounds like it could cause more issues. (one indexer is already pain, 2 would be worse, although you could try alrtering the current to also add this feature ig?)

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INSERT-USER_NAME wrote:
This actually sounds like a great Idea, it would definitely save server storage space like you mentioned. I'm unsure of how easy (or hard) it would be to implement, though. Otherwise, I support.

As a developer, the compressing itself wouldn't be hard to implement. Don't know Scratch's codebase but fetching it from the server and sending it back would be not that hard to implement, the specific logic mentioned could be done with if statements and other stuff. Overall this would be medium difficulty to implement.

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blablablahello wrote:
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How would scratch know which project is too old though? would it have to search through every project every day? if so, that sounds like it could cause more issues. (one indexer is already pain, 2 would be worse, although you could try alrtering the current to also add this feature ig?)

why not just compress all projects, old or not?

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SonicFanX123_321 wrote:
blablablahello wrote:
(#4)
How would scratch know which project is too old though? would it have to search through every project every day? if so, that sounds like it could cause more issues. (one indexer is already pain, 2 would be worse, although you could try alrtering the current to also add this feature ig?)
why not just compress all projects, old or not?

because that would make projects load a lot slower, especially on older devices

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INSERT-USER_NAME wrote:
This actually sounds like a great Idea, it would definitely save server storage space like you mentioned. I'm unsure of how easy (or hard) it would be to implement, though. Otherwise, I support.

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This actually sounds like a great Idea, it would definitely save server storage space like you mentioned. I'm unsure of how easy (or hard) it would be to implement, though. Otherwise, I support.

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GIitchInTheMatrix

Isn't it already compressed? The sb3 file itself is just a fancy .zip file.
Another issue, to my knowledgeable, if a sprite is identical to another, it references the same resource, but I don't remember, so don't quote me on that.

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GIitchInTheMatrix wrote:
Isn't it already compressed? The sb3 file itself is just a fancy .zip file.
Another issue, to my knowledgeable, if a sprite is identical to another, it references the same resource, but I don't remember, so don't quote me on that.

I would assume that only happens when you clone a sprite or costume, as otherwise, it'd be kinda laggy to search through the entire upload library for a identical copy everytim you upload something

then again I dont commonly upload things so maybe it is laggy

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GIitchInTheMatrix wrote:
Isn't it already compressed? The sb3 file itself is just a fancy .zip file.

Compressing it to a tar.gz might lower the project size more than just ZIP

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