I'm writing this, hoping to represent the vast majority of the technical scratch community. For a long time, we've been scratching, thinking that there is no limit to our creativity. scratch always provided us with the right amount of freedom, with understandable limits like performance. But lately, the community has been running into a very big issue - the new 5mb project.json limit.

What is the project.json?
it's a file inside of the project's sb3, that has all the variable, list, and most importantly, block data. this is where scratch loads this data from once you load the project, and this is where it saves the data when you save your project.

What's the problem with the project.json currently?
Back then in scratch 2.0, there was a limit of 50mb for how big a whole project could be. this meant your project needed to be a balance of block count, costumes, and sounds in order to save to scratch. it wasn't perfect, and it was greatly limiting for projects that needed a lot of costumes, so scratch team implemented a new system.

The new system lets you have a project as big as you want, with a few rules:
- each asset (meaning costume or sound) is limited to 10mb. this was really great because it fixed the problem and let many scratchers get creative with less limits.
- the project.json (the place where all code, variable, and list data) cannot exceed 5mb.
this is the problem, as it completely limited how much blocks your project can have by a great amount. It also made it very hard to store pre-calculated list data, textures, or maps inside of list.

what now?
speaking on behalf of the technical scratch community, we urgently need this limit increased by even a little bit. it's the only thing that limits our creativity. performance issues? can be helped with smart optimization. really big lists? can be difficultly turned into costumes as hex data then scanned after, but still manageable.
but block count? that was completely destroyed, as we cannot go over approximately 22,000 blocks, which is very limiting for a lot of creative and inspiring ideas.

please scratch team,
this will really improve the current situation, We know that there might be technical difficulties on your side, but raising the limit doesn't automatically mean every project will double in size. only a small portion of the community (which is a lot of people however) will be pushing scratch to it's limit, and we'd love to be acknowledged. that's all we ask for in this case.

TL;DR
If it's possible to raise that limit from 5mb into 10mb or even 15mb, we'd be very thankful for now. the community will keep to inspire and improve, and I'm sure you will help us by raising this really limiting boundary. thank you

I agree

I want the limit to be unlimited

remove the limit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with this, I think creativity should have no limits.

I 1000% agree

coolnotlight3 wrote:

I agree with this, I think creativity should have no limits.

Dang, that was masterful

increase the limit, scratch team!

I vouch for this - it's holding back so many creat creators!

agree

I agree

i agree!! we need this definitely

Agreed!

I agree

Scratch remove the limit please

This might have been Suggested before.

i agree

Pls make the limit unlimited!!!

scratches servers are bad, so why not let the scratch team make people with lots of hopes and dreams to have more storage instead of increasing it for everyone.

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