DifferentDance8 wrote:

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

you think there's 6 year olds and 8 year olds happily dancing around with their own Google or Apple account?

You may speak for yourself, but I've had a Google account since I was 12.

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

Isn't a google account quite literally just an email anyways?

I think you're getting Google and GmaiI confused. Google does allow you to access GmaiI, but Google is not GmaiI in of itself.

First, well i got it when I was 10 or so, but I'm saying 5-8 year olds that also have scratch.

And no I'm not mixing them up, to create an account you need to make your email first

MillionOfficial wrote:

Sign In/Up with Google/Apple

most social media apps have this feature lol

Table of Contents
1. Intro
2. How to Connect
2.1. To a new account
2.2. To an existing account
3. Log in with a Connected Account
4. Let's aim for the suggestions directory!

Intro
Have you ever forgotten your username, password, and email connected to your Scratch account, or found them hard to remember? Well, no worries — you can use a Google or Apple account!

How to Connect
For this feature to work, you must connect your Scratch account to your Google or Apple account. Here's how:

To a new account
Click “join scratch”. Then, click “Sign up with Google” or “Sign up with Apple.” If you click Sign up with Google, you will be redirected to the Google account selection screen. Clicking Sign up with Apple will ask if you want to hide your email from scratch. In this case, you should click “Share My Email” so that your email will be automatically added to your Scratch account.

To an existing account
One could go to their account settings, click Account, then click “Connect to Google Account” or “Connect to Apple Account”. See the “To a new account” section to see what each button does.

Log In with a Connected Account
To log in with a connected account, there are two ways:

• Click “Sign in” then click “Sign in with Google” or “Sign in with Apple”.
  
• Type the Google/Apple account's username (or Apple ID if connected to Apple) and password.
  
• Enter the Scratch username and password. (of course)
  

Let's aim for the Suggestions Directory!
If you like the suggestion, even if you don't plan on posting here, POST HERE! WE HAVE TO GET THIS ONTO THE SUGGESTIONS DIRECTORY! COPY THIS SECTION AND PASTE THIS INTO THE POST! Nvm chainmail isn't allowed

Good idea! If i was a ST Member i add this and a funtion to see password in Enter.
Support, But with Facebook, Twitch and Amazon is good.

This is an intriguing suggestion. Whilst I don't have a personal opinion on the subject (I believe it offers little benefits but has little drawbacks as well), it is worthy of note that both Apple (external link) and Google (external link) offer guides on how to implement this service to add additional sign-in options for users, as do several other platforms commonly used by developers for this purpose. I should note, of course, I am not a developer - so I am unsure how complex it would be to add this and implement this on the Scratch website.

My only question is that it could make the pop-up for logging in more complex and cluttered. Whilst people also use the log-in page, it is evident from the design that the page is not necessarily as commonly used as the pop-up in the top-right of the screen when clicking Sign In or Log In. I believe any such addition should seek to preserve the simplicity of the current log-in box, for the sake of the relatively young userbase of Scratch.

MillionOfficial wrote:

snip

Many accounts can be connected to the same email and password.
How does the system know which account to login to.

MilhãoOficial wrote:

Sign In/Up with Google/Apple

most social media apps have this feature lol

Table of Contents
1. Intro
2. How to Connect
2.1. To a new account
2.2. To an existing account
3. Log in with a Connected Account
4. Let's aim for the suggestions directory!

Intro
Have you ever forgotten your username, password, and email connected to your Scratch account, or found them hard to remember? Well, no worries — you can use a Google or Apple account!

How to Connect
For this feature to work, you must connect your Scratch account to your Google or Apple account. Here's how:

To a new account
Click “join scratch”. Then, click “Sign up with Google” or “Sign up with Apple.” If you click Sign up with Google, you will be redirected to the Google account selection screen. Clicking Sign up with Apple will ask if you want to hide your email from scratch. In this case, you should click “Share My Email” so that your email will be automatically added to your Scratch account.

To an existing account
One could go to their account settings, click Account, then click “Connect to Google Account” or “Connect to Apple Account”. See the “To a new account” section to see what each button does.

Log In with a Connected Account
To log in with a connected account, there are two ways:

• Click “Sign in” then click “Sign in with Google” or “Sign in with Apple”.
  
• Type the Google/Apple account's username (or Apple ID if connected to Apple) and password.
  
• Enter the Scratch username and password. (of course)
  

Let's aim for the Suggestions Directory!
If you like the suggestion, even if you don't plan on posting here, POST HERE! WE HAVE TO GET THIS ONTO THE SUGGESTIONS DIRECTORY! COPY THIS SECTION AND PASTE THIS INTO THE POST! Nvm chainmail isn't allowed

With Facebook, Arduino and Amazon is good

Super-Cat-Poderoso21 wrote:

MillionOfficial wrote:

snip

With Facebook, Arduino and Amazon is good

Good idea!

why does everyone have to keep mispelling my names

MillionOfficial wrote:

Super-Cat-Poderoso21 wrote:

MillionOfficial wrote:

snip

With Facebook, Arduino and Amazon is good

Good idea!

why does everyone have to keep mispelling my names

What names?

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

MillionOfficial wrote:

Super-Cat-Poderoso21 wrote:

MillionOfficial wrote:

snip

With Facebook, Arduino and Amazon is good

Good idea!

why does everyone have to keep mispelling my name

What name?

Mine

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

……no

why? just why?

Scratch is a kids site, you think there's 6 year olds and 8 year olds happily dancing around with their own Google or Apple account? Isn't a google account quite literally just an email anyways?

one two words: school accounts

ihavenocluewhythisis wrote:

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

……no

why? just why?

Scratch is a kids site, you think there's 6 year olds and 8 year olds happily dancing around with their own Google or Apple account? Isn't a google account quite literally just an email anyways?

one two words: school accounts

Two words: teacher accounts

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

ihavenocluewhythisis wrote:

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

……no

why? just why?

Scratch is a kids site, you think there's 6 year olds and 8 year olds happily dancing around with their own Google or Apple account? Isn't a google account quite literally just an email anyways?

one two words: school accounts

Two words: teacher accounts

two words: easily exploitable

No support. The reason those sign-in exist is so the website can use your data (from google or apple). That isn’t something you want on a kids site.

Along with that, you can just use your google email to sign up.

imo, this isn't really worth adding. Scratch “remembers you” (it doesn't make you relog everytime you open the website) so you wouldn't be logging in very much.

Even so, from my experience, mail also requires you to log into it sometimes, so you aren't saving much time. Lastly, if you forget your password, username, and email simultaneously, I feel like there's a bigger issue. That's a pretty extreme example.

DifferentDance8 wrote:

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

ihavenocluewhythisis wrote:

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

……no

why? just why?

Scratch is a kids site, you think there's 6 year olds and 8 year olds happily dancing around with their own Google or Apple account? Isn't a google account quite literally just an email anyways?

one two words: school accounts

Two words: teacher accounts

two words: easily exploitable

this probably feels like something a teacher should be discussing. We have no idea how school emails work, whether teacher accounts are effective, or (for most of us) what it's even like to use one

no support, most of scratch's demographic isn't allowed to create a google account, and this violates privacy since it's collecting data off very young kids.

MillionOfficial wrote:

(#1)
most social media apps have this feature lol

scratch isn't a social media. it has many aspects of one, but scratch is more of a bulletin board for random games and animations than a general social media.

MillionOfficial wrote:

(#1)
Have you ever forgotten your username, password, and email connected to your Scratch account, or found them hard to remember? Well, no worries — you can use a Google or Apple account!

no, just reset your password, or use a password saver (everyone should have one these days, it literally comes with browsers)

MillionOfficial wrote:

(#1)
Let's aim for the Suggestions Directory!
If you like the suggestion, even if you don't plan on posting here, POST HERE! WE HAVE TO GET THIS ONTO THE SUGGESTIONS DIRECTORY! COPY THIS SECTION AND PASTE THIS INTO THE POST! Nvm chainmail isn't allowed

this is complete utter spam. you're too fixated to the suggestion directory, so stop encouraging unconstructive spamjust to get into a directory.

gotta go now.

doggy_boi1 wrote:

DifferentDance8 wrote:

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

ihavenocluewhythisis wrote:

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:

……no

why? just why?

Scratch is a kids site, you think there's 6 year olds and 8 year olds happily dancing around with their own Google or Apple account? Isn't a google account quite literally just an email anyways?

one two words: school accounts

Two words: teacher accounts

two words: easily exploitable

this probably feels like something a teacher should be discussing. We have no idea how school emails work, whether teacher accounts are effective, or (for most of us) what it's even like to use one

i wasn't talking about the emails side of it all, that's held on tight. I was talking about how people can and have faked being a teacher and spam-create new accounts