Followers AND friends

-TWILIGHTMISTY-

No support, just because you are following me and I am following you doesn't mean we are friends and
also this focuses scratch's social media aspect and not the coding one.

fdreerf

This only changes nomenclature and has no benefits, besides maybe quicker access to some profiles.

Steve0Greatness

Good Idea!

This image took me a few seconds to make…

9gr

No support.
it is very rare for me to say this

It makes scratch more towards social media, instead of focusing on programming. It would not benefit scratch as an educational platform.

this looks like a st post xd

Clicker_Games_Box

I kind of support, but not fully. Because then if you would do F4F you would have tons of people in your friends section. But, I think it would be nice if you would have an option to send a friend request if you follow them and they follow you. And if the other person would accept the friend request, you would find that person in your friends section.

Juhis90

I made a thread of the same thing, and it was closed.

Well… IMO it just would be nice to gain friends in Scratch, not only followers.

And I don't want to become automatically friends with someone, if we follow each other.

Oh well, I guess this won't be changed…

AryWiz

Juhis90 wrote:
I made a thread of the same thing, and it was closed.

Well… IMO it just would be nice to gain friends in Scratch, not only followers.

And I don't want to become automatically friends with someone, if we follow each other.

Oh well, I guess this won't be changed…

Thats why the friend request idea came up.

MDCCCLXVII

bump

ThatExplosivePigeon

As far as Im concerened, this is basically a people who have F4F with me section, as both have to follow each other which is the definition of F4F. No real benefits, and you can just put your friends on your about me.
Verdict: No support, easily workarounded, just encourages the already bad fame enviorment.

DangerousDawn

Rexone wrote:
I've seen multiple instances in the forums where people have suggested changing “followers” into “friends”, but I actually have a different opinion on this situation.

If Person A follows Person B, then Person A shows up in Person B's followers and Person B shows up in Person A's following. At this point in time they are not “friends”
However, if Person B then follows Person A back they both go into each other's “friends” section.

There would be no physical “friend” button

Support or no?

If I were to do F4F with someone, I wouldn't want to consider them my friend. This should be toggleable. Plus, if you follow someone and they follow you back, that doesn't make them your friend.

Last edited by DangerousDawn (March 30, 2023 13:04:59)

PGBFLITE6373

bump.

Knightbot63

bump because duplicate.

MyScratchedAccount

My one got closed for being a dupe of this one. Mine is similar
oh yeah!

mexicanboyrrv

Bump because of dupe

CatAndAlbertaTeam

I'm not REALLY sure if I should support. But I say that this could PROBABLY be fine.

Crispydogs101

One thing I'm concerned about this is that I'm sure some protective parents say

Don't make online friends

And if they see this they would punish the child because they made scratch friends aka online friends. Also this reason is making me more concerned about this.

9gr wrote:
It makes scratch more towards social media, instead of focusing on programming. It would not benefit scratch as an educational platform.

nikky10000000

What if someone does f4f?

mastergamerx-details

bump

VedanshS933

bump

astro-peach

But f4f doesn't really make people friends.. I feel like a friends thing should be to mutually agree on who you put in your friends list.. or, if not a friends list, maybe another list for users e.g. shop colleagues (Requests forum), someone u regularly chat to but arent friends yet, etc.
I understand the idea but I just don't think that Scratchers should end up having other Scratchers in their friends list without having a choice/say in that

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