Have you searched your project and nothing came up? This has to do with the indexer.

What is the indexer?

The indexer is the system that the search uses to find results. Indexing is the act of the system putting your project into it and having it show up in the search.
Note: Indexing is automatic, not done by the ST. If your project is not indexing, it's a glitch; the ST has nothing against you.

How do I get it to show up?

These things should be met:

1. Projects are indexed around once every two weeks. Wait around that long to a month.
2. If your project has an ID over 970,000,000, it won't show up. This limit changes every once in a while.
(Additionally, there is such thing as a project being rated NFE. However, this is very rare, and you can't tell easily. This is almost never the problem.)

How can I search better?

Here are some tips to make sure that you're getting the right thing:
Make sure to search the PROJECT name, not the USERNAME.
You can also put tags in your Instructions and Notes or Credits (i.e. #BestGameEver) and try searching that.

Best of luck! If any of this information is wrong or I need to add something, please tell me!
Consider reporting for sticky!
(Don't worry, I asked Contact Us first. They said it was fine.)

It's really nice that you want to help out with a guide! However, we have a number of them in the forums already and we don't have a good way to showcase any more. If you want to make a guide in a Scratch project, that would be fine. You could advertise it in the “Show and Tell” section too.

There are lots of other ways to help out in the forums too. Helpful Scratchers are always welcome in the “Questions About Scratch”, “Help With Scripts”, “Requests” and other sections. Just look around and ask questions.

han614698 wrote:

It's really nice that you want to help out with a guide! However, we have a number of them in the forums already and we don't have a good way to showcase any more. If you want to make a guide in a Scratch project, that would be fine. You could advertise it in the “Show and Tell” section too.

There are lots of other ways to help out in the forums too. Helpful Scratchers are always welcome in the “Questions About Scratch”, “Help With Scripts”, “Requests” and other sections. Just look around and ask questions.

I asked to make a sticky using Contact Us. They said to go ahead and post it.

TheAutocorrectingCat wrote:

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han614698 wrote:

It's really nice that you want to help out with a guide! However, we have a number of them in the forums already and we don't have a good way to showcase any more. If you want to make a guide in a Scratch project, that would be fine. You could advertise it in the “Show and Tell” section too.

There are lots of other ways to help out in the forums too. Helpful Scratchers are always welcome in the “Questions About Scratch”, “Help With Scripts”, “Requests” and other sections. Just look around and ask questions.

I asked to make a sticky using Contact Us. They said to go ahead and post it.
I am waiting.

Ah, okay. Please don't mention NFE as there's no way for a user to know if their project is NFE and just makes them paranoid. If you are to mention it, make sure you say it's very rare and there's no way to easily know.

han614698 wrote:

TheAutocorrectingCat wrote:

(#3)

han614698 wrote:

It's really nice that you want to help out with a guide! However, we have a number of them in the forums already and we don't have a good way to showcase any more. If you want to make a guide in a Scratch project, that would be fine. You could advertise it in the “Show and Tell” section too.

There are lots of other ways to help out in the forums too. Helpful Scratchers are always welcome in the “Questions About Scratch”, “Help With Scripts”, “Requests” and other sections. Just look around and ask questions.

I asked to make a sticky using Contact Us. They said to go ahead and post it.
I am waiting.

Ah, okay. Please don't mention NFE as there's no way for a user to know if their project is NFE and just makes them paranoid. If you are to mention it, make sure you say it's very rare and there's no way to easily know.

Yeah, I agree with this. NFE isn't that common and mentioning it just makes people think all their projects are NFE even though they probably aren't.

TheAutocorrectingCat wrote:

If your project has an ID over 970,000,000, it won't show up.

1/ how you know the indexer limit
2/ does that means that if a project has an ID like 930,000,000 it can get on the first page
3/ an estimation of the time needed to index ID like 1,000,000,000?

everwinner64 wrote:

TheAutocorrectingCat wrote:

If your project has an ID over 970,000,000, it won't show up.

1/ how you know the indexer limit
2/ does that means that if a project has an ID like 930,000,000 it can get on the first page
3/ an estimation of the time needed to index ID like 1,000,000,000?

1 is probably confirmed somewhere
2, as long it’s under 970 000 000
idk about 3 depends if the indexer gets up

I believe the Scratch Indexer can handle projects above the ID of 970,000,000 because my Scratch 4.0 project (https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1041876113/) show up when searching Scratch 4.0 - A Demo. However all of my project that is shared after this project wouldn't show up in the Search Bar.

ywps181513 wrote:

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I believe the Scratch Indexer can handle projects above the ID of 970,000,000 because my Scratch 4.0 project (https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1041876113) show up when searching Scratch 4.0 - A Demo. However all of my project that is shared after this project wouldn't show up in the Search Bar.

Search uses a different algorithm than trending

Mryellowdoggy wrote:

han614698 wrote:

TheAutocorrectingCat wrote:

(#3)

han614698 wrote:

It's really nice that you want to help out with a guide! However, we have a number of them in the forums already and we don't have a good way to showcase any more. If you want to make a guide in a Scratch project, that would be fine. You could advertise it in the “Show and Tell” section too.

There are lots of other ways to help out in the forums too. Helpful Scratchers are always welcome in the “Questions About Scratch”, “Help With Scripts”, “Requests” and other sections. Just look around and ask questions.

I asked to make a sticky using Contact Us. They said to go ahead and post it.
I am waiting.

Ah, okay. Please don't mention NFE as there's no way for a user to know if their project is NFE and just makes them paranoid. If you are to mention it, make sure you say it's very rare and there's no way to easily know.

Yeah, I agree with this. NFE isn't that common and mentioning it just makes people think all their projects are NFE even though they probably aren't.

Edited!

"Hello! It's great that you want to help out other Scratchers. However, I think we have enough guides in the forums at the moment. Please feel free to welcome new Scratchers on the group welcoming topic or on individual topics created by New Scratchers.

Other places that can always use more helpful Scratchers like you, are the “”Help With Scripts“” and “”Questions About Scratch“” areas - please use them as designed, by responding to topics created by folks with problems to solve

Finally, a really good place for Scratch guides is the Scratch Wiki - check it out and see if it's something you might like to work on. They have a number of guides - and great organization."