ONE BLOCK THAT I WANT

QwertyGreen

SCRATCH PLEASE ADD A (replace letter {number} of {string} with {string}) BLOCK IT WOULD BE SO NICE TO HAVE.

I KNOW IT CAN BE MADE WITH CUSTOM BLOCKS BUT IT REALLY SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE IN SCRATCH.

Last edited by QwertyGreen (Aug. 24, 2026 07:47:03)

unisparks8

Dupe, but I cant find it.

TheRealAL2009

Yeah, this would be very useful, and understandable

but

my friend

scratch team don't care. Maybe I am just being pessimistic and only see the worst in people, but I am pretty sure it won't get added :(

TheRealAL2009

unisparks8 wrote:
Dupe, but I cant find it.

here

scampton_the_great

TheRealAL2009 wrote:
Yeah, this would be very useful, and understandable

but

my friend

scratch team don't care. Maybe I am just being pessimistic and only see the worst in people, but I am pretty sure it won't get added :(

source???

TheRealAL2009

scampton_the_great wrote:
TheRealAL2009 wrote:
Yeah, this would be very useful, and understandable

but

my friend

scratch team don't care. Maybe I am just being pessimistic and only see the worst in people, but I am pretty sure it won't get added :(
source???

Past experience of good ideas not getting added:

Exponent block,
Custom blocks returning values,
Dark mode,
Point towards xy block,
This, which was already suggested 10 years ago, before many of us were born,

These are all pretty good ideas? But despite being suggested a long time ago and being in the official list of suggestions they, miraculously, have not been added. Instead we have face sensing. So yeah, I don't think its happening.

scampton_the_great

TheRealAL2009 wrote:
scampton_the_great wrote:
TheRealAL2009 wrote:
Yeah, this would be very useful, and understandable

but

my friend

scratch team don't care. Maybe I am just being pessimistic and only see the worst in people, but I am pretty sure it won't get added :(
source???
Past experience of good ideas not getting added:

Exponent block,
Custom blocks returning values,
Dark mode,
Point towards xy block,
This, which was already suggested 10 years ago, before many of us were born,

These are all pretty good ideas? But despite being suggested a long time ago and being in the official list of suggestions they, miraculously, have not been added. Instead we have face sensing. So yeah, I don't think its happening.

we can't really see behind the scenes but im sure the reason is more than “ST don't care”
i do think they should be more transparent on these things though
also we should continue this somewhere else this is getting off topic

Last edited by scampton_the_great (Aug. 24, 2026 16:48:22)

DeathReviews

Yes, sorry to say this, but most suggestions are never added all suggestions are never added.
We need to get back on topic, but it’s a dupe anyway.

QwertyGreen

TheRealAL2009 wrote:
scampton_the_great wrote:
TheRealAL2009 wrote:
Yeah, this would be very useful, and understandable

but

my friend

scratch team don't care. Maybe I am just being and only see the worst in people, but I am pretty sure it won't get added :(
source???
Past experience of good ideas not getting added:

Exponent block,
Custom blocks returning values,
Dark mode,
Point towards xy block,
This, which was already suggested 10 years ago, before many of us were born,

These are all pretty good ideas? But despite being suggested a long time ago and being in the official list of suggestions they, miraculously, have not been added. Instead we have face sensing. So yeah, I don't think its happening.

jokes on you i do have dark mode (addons) also the other three i have wanted before
Edit: for some reason it didnt let me make it say scratch before addons

Last edited by QwertyGreen (Aug. 25, 2026 01:26:05)

NutOfCoco

QwertyGreen wrote:
-snip-
Edit: for some reason it didnt let me make it say scratch before addons

yes, scratch does not allow the names of extensions because they are unverified and may contain malware (of course you and I both know that that is not the case but scratch cannot make sure of it).

QwertyGreen

NutOfCoco wrote:
QwertyGreen wrote:
-snip-
Edit: for some reason it didnt let me make it say scratch before addons
yes, scratch does not allow the names of extensions because they are unverified and may contain malware (of course you and I both know that that is not the case but scratch cannot make sure of it).

i believe that the scratch just hates scrach addons for whatever reason
typo intentional

Last edited by QwertyGreen (Aug. 25, 2026 03:54:39)

NutOfCoco

QwertyGreen wrote:
NutOfCoco wrote:
QwertyGreen wrote:
-snip-
Edit: for some reason it didnt let me make it say scratch before addons
yes, scratch does not allow the names of extensions because they are unverified and may contain malware (of course you and I both know that that is not the case but scratch cannot make sure of it).
i believe that the scratch just hates scrach addons for whatever reason
typo intentional

no, they do it for all other scratch extensions too

Last edited by NutOfCoco (Aug. 25, 2026 04:05:44)

TimothyLawyer

here's an earlier topic for a Replace letter () of () with () block

Last edited by TimothyLawyer (Aug. 25, 2026 04:18:03)

Paddle2See

TimothyLawyer wrote:
here's an earlier topic for a Replace letter () of () with () block

Thanks for the link! It does look like this is a duplicate topic so I'll close it to keep the conversation all in one place.

Please use the existing topic in the link above.

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