Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

dertermenter wrote:

I believe the semi colon is automatic so the scratch team didn't do anything really.

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

jvvg wrote:

In the past they have done something every year (some years it was pretty simple things while other years it was very elaborate), but this year the development team seems to be stretched pretty thin, so they weren't able to add any new features this year. The moderation is also stretched kinda thin as far as I'm aware, so they weren't able to put extra moderation resources towards any special April Fools' Day stuff.

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As Maximouse has said in a recent thread it requires a single variable to be changed. I’m sure changing one variable would be a large investment risk, especially for a company such as the Scratch Foundation. The amount of money and time required to accomplish such a feat would be rather large because of the given task’s challenging nature.

To be fair maximouse has also said today that a new cat block for high contrast would have to be created and overall high contrast makes the implementation of cat blocks more tricky.

They couldn’t take like two days to prevent the flooding of the forums and overall disruption over the community over the lack of features on a day each year that is usually filled with new features?

no.

If this is a forum flood than the Studio update must have wiped out the scratch earth - there hasn't been barely enough posts to challenge the post volume on other events like the studio update.

Honestly i doubt most scratchers care about no april fools day features depending a high percentage of scratchers use it for educational purposes or just use scratch more casually and dont know/mind how this AFD has no new features.

Besides, if everyone was outraged than that doesn't mean the Scratch Team is bad for implementing no AFD features - that would be the community's fault as nothing should be expected - AFD has been a repeated privilege, not an expectation.

han614698 wrote:

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

jvvg wrote:

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

I’m not threatening to spam the forums, I’m pointing out the fact that the forums are currently being spammed with new threads asking where the cat blocks are. It’s almost as if not adding the AFD features did the exact opposite of what they wanted

There haven't actually been that many topics. I count seven topics on the first page currently related to the topic.

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There’s still a higher average of topics, especially ones that the ST has to close, adding more stress onto the ST

You do realize that closing a topic takes about 30 seconds… programming changes to the Scratch website takes lots of time and money.

That’s a lot when a bunch of people are on the website, and there’s tons of studios filled with AFD comments and higher potential for spam so they have to go off the forums to check studio and profile and project comments

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

han614698 wrote:

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

jvvg wrote:

Gamer_Logan819 wrote:

I’m not threatening to spam the forums, I’m pointing out the fact that the forums are currently being spammed with new threads asking where the cat blocks are. It’s almost as if not adding the AFD features did the exact opposite of what they wanted

There haven't actually been that many topics. I count seven topics on the first page currently related to the topic.

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There’s still a higher average of topics, especially ones that the ST has to close, adding more stress onto the ST

You do realize that closing a topic takes about 30 seconds… programming changes to the Scratch website takes lots of time and money.

That’s a lot when a bunch of people are on the website, and there’s tons of studios filled with AFD comments and higher potential for spam so they have to go off the forums to check studio and profile and project comments

The Scratch Team doesn't check every single comment created - I'm telling you that developers have a lot of work keeping the website up, they don't have enough time to add AFD fun. That's like me telling you to create five complicated Scratch projects while still posting on the forums the same amount, and also making 300 edits to the wiki everyday. It's not that easy, and it's rather blunt for you to be upset at the ST for not adding AFD things.

NMario84 wrote:

I remember when Scratch added a few things just for April Fools such as the cat ears on hat blocks, and new visibility/work space options, but this year, I don't see anything different. Did I miss something, or did they not plan for anything this year?

Don't they usually do something every April Fools day, or is it just every once in a while?

Yes, it's been pretty much every year up until now. Hopefully it can return in the future - I have no information about that though.