We need a replacement for ScratchDB.

dynamicsofscratch

Redstone1080 wrote:
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Pufferfish_Test wrote:
have fun finding >6TB (iirc) of storage.
I use a third of that for storing my games, and you can actually go on Amazon and get 8TB hard drives (dunno about SSDs)

sabrent makes 8tb nvme ssds. also, they are NOT CHEAP @ $1199

King of the page:)

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aII toasters toast toast, but what happens when there are no longer toasters being produced? will their technology simply become obsolete, with humans moving onto bigger, better things? will toast become a distant memory, written in textbooks of the future as foods us simpler generations ate? who's to say! society is constantly moving, changing, evolving, ideas being built upon, improved upon, theories being proven or disproven. are we but a blip on the timeline? sure, our names may not be remembered, but that's not the point. you can make a change. you can make a difference. you can make the world better, even if you don't know yet. and the first step is to go for it. even if you are afraid of failure. going back to the example of toasters, do you know off the top of your head who invented them? no? have you used one? probably. so, even if you don't remember my name, if I was able to help awnser your question, that is enough. if I was able to help you, even in the slightest way, this could push you to continue with scratch and not give up after the program crashes, and maybe one day learn other programming languages and change the world. everything is a cause and effect reaction, new inventions lead to the technology of the future, and even as the generations of the past are slowly forgotten, their influence lives on to this day, affecting how the world eventually turned out and how it will be for generations to come.

and, without toasters, we wouldn't have toast.

Regards
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I mean, a collaborated and combined effort to make a new DB would theoretically be possible. Here are my pros and cons of making a new DB

Pros

It would reduce the amount of load on ScratchDB, hence improving speed for ScratchDB users.
It would be (most likely) open-source so that issues can be located and code can be updated to fix them
It could be faster, more efficient and be more reliable than ScratchDB
Experimental versions of it could show new features and the DB could be modified for certain use-cases too.

Cons

While reducing the load on ScratchDB, It would increase the load on the main Scratch API (could be worked around though?)
Unspotted vulnerabilities could mean that the DB is more prone to hacking (rather this isn't a con as anything could be hacked)
Increased clutter as everyone would just create their own if making another one was possible and documented.
Rather than create a new DB, make a improved version of the existing DB as it prevent flocking of users from one to other.
Speaking of flocking, users would flood to the new DB and would increase the load on that, meaning switching between DBs.

aII toasters toast toast, but what happens when there are no longer toasters being produced? will their technology simply become obsolete, with humans moving onto bigger, better things? will toast become a distant memory, written in textbooks of the future as foods us simpler generations ate? who's to say! society is constantly moving, changing, evolving, ideas being built upon, improved upon, theories being proven or disproven. are we but a blip on the timeline? sure, our names may not be remembered, but that's not the point. you can make a change. you can make a difference. you can make the world better, even if you don't know yet. and the first step is to go for it. even if you are afraid of failure. going back to the example of toasters, do you know off the top of your head who invented them? no? have you used one? probably. so, even if you don't remember my name, if I was able to help awnser your question, that is enough. if I was able to help you, even in the slightest way, this could push you to continue with scratch and not give up after the program crashes, and maybe one day learn other programming languages and change the world. everything is a cause and effect reaction, new inventions lead to the technology of the future, and even as the generations of the past are slowly forgotten, their influence lives on to this day, affecting how the world eventually turned out and how it will be for generations to come.

and, without toasters, we wouldn't have toast.

Regards
dynamicsofscratch

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