You know how YouTube and other platforms save your content viewing history so you can easily revisit the content in the future? I think Scratch should have a similar feature where it saves the projects you previously viewed into your account so you can easily revisit them in the future as well.

Why not just ‘star’ them?

The whole point is to not have to favourite them. With your argument, you’re saying that people should just like YouTube videos instead of having them automatically save into their watch history.

eugenejung wrote:

The whole point is to not have to favourite them. With your argument, you’re saying that people should just like YouTube videos instead of having them automatically save into their watch history.

You're doing a mix of the straw man fallacy and the red Herring fallacy.
1. I never said YouTube should save videos like that, you're making things up
2. This isn't about YouTube, this is about Scratch. You cannot apply my argument to everything, as it is Scratch spacific

If you like a project enough to revisit it, then you should ‘star’ it. Searching for it also works as well. Plus, it lets the creator know you enjoyed it

The-Sushi-Cat wrote:

Why not just ‘star’ them?

I agree with The-Sushi-Cat.

eugenejung wrote:

The whole point is to not have to favourite them. With your argument, you’re saying that people should just like YouTube videos instead of having them automatically save into their watch history.

If you don’t want to favorite them, just create favorite in your browser

What if you forget to favourite it or were in the middle of viewing a project and you weren’t sure whether you like it enough to favourite it?

The-Sushi-Cat wrote:

This isn't about YouTube, this is about Scratch.

But my point still stands that being able to see your project view history is helpful.

The-Sushi-Cat wrote:

Searching for it also works as well.

Searching for it doesn’t always work well due to Scratch’s primitive search function. You can see more about this in my other forum thread: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/797992/

eugenejung wrote:

What if you forget to favourite it or were in the middle of viewing a project and you weren’t sure whether you like it enough to favourite it?

You search for the user or you look in your search history…

everwinner64 wrote:

You search for the user

What if you forget who the user was?

everwinner64 wrote:

you look in your search history

That’s a good point, although my suggestion is to allow you to look in your Scratch account rather than your browser history to see previously viewed projects.

1. Where would you put it?
2. Would everyone be able to see it?
3. How many projects does it save?

I also feel like it might give people an easy way to return to projects they don't like, so they can continue to harass people (I understand reporting is a thing that exists, but many people like to argue, instead of reporting, it's a very common issue here)

Although, I can see the use, especially if it's a bad project and you may not have the time to report it then and there, but then again, search history exists

There's actually somewhere you can do this already - go to a studio projects page and click ‘browse projects’, then click ‘recent’.

Although, this is hidden away where no-one will ever look, so I agree this should be put somewhere more prominent. It's useful if I don't want to go digging into my browser history to find a project I forgot to star.

eugenejung wrote:

That’s a good point, although my suggestion is to allow you to look in your Scratch account rather than your browser history to see previously viewed projects.

Their point still stands, however. There's no need to add something you can already do yourself.

I digress - There's already a topic for this from 11 years ago, so I suggest going there instead so the discussion is in one place, in contrast to it being in two or more places at once (which would just be disarray).

Coughfe wrote:

eugenejung wrote:

That’s a good point, although my suggestion is to allow you to look in your Scratch account rather than your browser history to see previously viewed projects.

Their point still stands, however. There's no need to add something you can already do yourself.

I digress - There's already a topic for this from 11 years ago, so I suggest going there instead so the discussion is in one place, in contrast to it being in two or more places at once (which would just be disarray).

Thanks for the link! It does look like this is a duplicate topic so I'll close it to keep the conversation all in one place.

Please use the existing topic in the link above.