past month or so the explore page has been pretty bad For example, I click on the “GAMES” section of the explore page which should have games, right? WRONG!!! while there is some decent stuff. The rest is either projects that have nothing like a starter project with nothing on it. Or it has nothing to do with games at all! like its a completely different topic. And this has been happening for about a month now. Random empty projects are ending up on the trending page, blocking out all of the actual GOOD stuff. Just please scratch, please fix this.

Just to add a bit of context to the original post, here is the tutorial tab:



and the games tab:



As you can see both of them are filled with spammed and unrelated projects that have been reported for days but are still showing.

I made a post explaining why this is happening here. https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/818231/?page=1#post-8512279

Botboiyeet wrote:

past month or so the explore page has been pretty bad For example, I click on the “GAMES” section of the explore page which should have games, right? WRONG!!! while there is some decent stuff. The rest is either projects that have nothing like a starter project with nothing on it. Or it has nothing to do with games at all! like its a completely different topic. And this has been happening for about a month now. Random empty projects are ending up on the trending page, blocking out all of the actual GOOD stuff. Just please scratch, please fix this.

Firstly, the reason there are non games in the games tab is because scratch looks at tags to sort the games but some people don't use them properly and just spam all of the sections tags to get onto as many pages as possible. Secondly, the reason there are blank games that are unplayable due to them being deleted or the server just not finding them is because when something gets on the explore page the url and project display data are just held on the page and not the actual project. This allows the “link” and “thumbnail” of the “project” to be there even though the server can't actually locate it past the link.

Thanks @sankierity and @alexandretherrien I wish scratch could fix this.