imagoofygoober1234 wrote:

For a video to be in YouTube Shorts, it must follow a known criteria, including that it must be shorter than a minute. It is not easy implementing a duration or a timer limiting to only 60 seconds for all projects. Specific projects that resemble Shorts are usually less than 60 seconds, don't last longer when the user does something, and are amazingly overused and low quality are animation projects. So we only consider animation projects, which make it a relatively small fraction of Scratch projects. That being said, I don't think adding a Shorts feature would benefit most projects nor would it benefit most Scratchers.

1THEKINGBOB3 wrote:

imagoofygoober1234 wrote:

For a video to be in YouTube Shorts, it must follow a known criteria, including that it must be shorter than a minute. It is not easy implementing a duration or a timer limiting to only 60 seconds for all projects. Specific projects that resemble Shorts are usually less than 60 seconds, don't last longer when the user does something, and are amazingly overused and low quality are animation projects. So we only consider animation projects, which make it a relatively small fraction of Scratch projects. That being said, I don't think adding a Shorts feature would benefit most projects nor would it benefit most Scratchers.

What about art projects?

1THEKINGBOB3 wrote:

What about art projects?

ThisIsTemp1 wrote:

How would the projects be chosen?

ThisIsTemp1 wrote:

How would the projects be chosen?

cake__5 wrote:

make it vertical and mobile-friendly forced. engagement on scratch will rise, and there will be many more hours spent, meaning if you display ads and use display:none; you could get tons of money!

cake__5 wrote:

make it vertical and mobile-friendly forced. engagement on scratch will rise, and there will be many more hours spent, meaning if you display ads and use display:none; you could get tons of money!

Raw_Productions wrote:

and please explain what the scooby doo does vertical mean?

SushiCat_75 wrote:

It might be addictive and turn into social media…

SuperMarioBrosLover wrote:

My friend has this idea for scratch where you can scroll through quick scratch games and animations like you can in YouTube shorts. Personally, I think this idea is questionable, but I also think it would be cool!

cake__5 wrote:

make it vertical and mobile-friendly forced.

engagement on scratch will rise, and there will be many more hours spent,

meaning if you display ad-

Elijah999999 wrote:

cake__5 wrote:

make it vertical and mobile-friendly forced.

How would the Scratch Team enforce this? Is that even possible?

engagement on scratch will rise, and there will be many more hours spent,

Oh great, more server issues…

meaning if you display ad-

NO

SuperMarioBrosLover wrote:

ThisIsTemp1 wrote:

How would the projects be chosen?

By putting #shorts in your projects title

ThisIsTemp1 wrote:

SuperMarioBrosLover wrote:

ThisIsTemp1 wrote:

How would the projects be chosen?

By putting #shorts in your projects title

That would be dangerous, as malicious projects would randomly pop up. I like the idea more of it being chosen by the Scratch Team, although this may be more work than they can handle.