LionCoder10 wrote:

(#341)
Also ur not king of the page
I AM

8to16 wrote:

cmon it's back

china_was_fun2024 wrote:

the projects don't show for anything except the home page rn

CoderMCProX wrote:

china_was_fun2024 wrote:

the projects don't show for anything except the home page rn

Please don't post about the topic except on the official form page. This is the search bug. It is possible to make it work

LionCoder10 wrote:

INFO
None of the projects on the Scratch homepage are showing except the “Projects Loved by Scratchers I’m Following”. All the words are still there (ex. “Featured Projects”) except the SDS and Curated row. This has happened to users on any device, as I've gotten reports of it appearing on phones, tablets, and computers. I myself tested this on a phone (first row) and a Mac (second row). Both times, the projects were gone.

My browser / operating system: iPhone iOS 15.8, Safari 15.6.6, No Flash version detected
My browser / operating system: MacOS Macintosh X 10.15.7, Safari 16.6, No Flash version detected

SCREENSHOTS
I took a screenshot of the front page: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1018038086/
I found other screenshots by medians, MyCollegeStudent, o97doge, roeieju, plus many more.
Many other people have created a topic concerning this bug, too. So, this bug isn’t a “bad-Internet” bug or something. It’s affecting every person every time it comes.

HISTORY
(As far as I know) the bug first started on the night of May 10th, 2024. The bug has gone away and come back multiple times, and it still sometimes happens now.

CAUSE
The cause for this bug is unknown. The Scratch Team has not said anything since the bug occurred. One possible cause of this was thought of in this post:

BrilliantGamer6 wrote:

(source)
I think I may know why. This API link is the only proxy link on Scratch that uses a GET request (i.e. the only proxy link you can view with your browser), and it appears a start tag is missing. It's supposed to show the projects on the front page, but right now it's glitched. This might not be the cause, but there's a chance it is.

Someone has theorized that the API was hacked with Python, but there is no proof of that, and is unlikely. (source)
In addition, former Scratch Team member Za-Chary said that:

Za-Chary wrote:

(source)
This bug has happened in the past before and generally occurs as an unintentional side effect to standard website maintenance. I don't know the full details, but this is at least what I understand.

NOTES
You may have noticed that the FPC section seems to never show up. This, though, does not relate to the bug:

Za-Chary wrote:

(source)
I heard they're putting a pause on the FPC program while these front page issues keep happening. So right now the front page is actually “normal” in the sense that no FPC is displayed because the Scratch Team didn't set anybody as FPC for now.

Random edit: It’s stickied? Nice, I’ve never had one before. It seems BrilliantGamer6 asked for a sticky, so thanks!

BEFORE YOU POST
Please make sure your post is about this bug. If you're posting about a different bug, such as (currently) search being pretty broken, please post it somewhere else. Thanks!