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Most moved to here.
In case you do not wish to scroll through every post to find a specific announcement, here they are grouped by category and by creation date. The newest posts are at the top of each category, while the oldest are at the bottom.
Rules/Regulation Updates:
- US Election Community Guidelines Reminder
- “Art theft” and our remixing policy
- Black Lives Matter
- Advertising and Follow-for-Follow (f4f)
- Cloud Chat Projects
- Shops, Points, and Pretend Currency Systems
- Browser Extension/Userscript Policy
- “Music Sharing” Projects
- “Face Reveal” Projects
- Collaboration and Shared Accounts
- Five Nights at Freddy's
- Updates to Following and Followers
- Add Everything & Displaying Number of Projects in Studios
- New Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
- Trademark and the Scratch online community
- Shops and buying/selling things for points
- Advertising and Follow-for-Follow (f4f)
- “Art theft” and our remixing policy
Wiki Wednesdays:
Note that Wiki Wednesdays are currently offline/slowing down due to Wiki issues since around Feb 2026.
- Wiki Wednesday, February 2026
- Wiki Wednesday, April 2025
- Wiki Wednesday, March 2025
- Wiki Wednesday, February 2025
- Wiki Wednesday, January 2025
- Wiki Wednesday, December 25, 2024
- Wiki Wednesday, November 6, 2024
- Wiki Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- Wiki Wednesday, August 28, 2024
- Wiki Wednesday, July 31, 2024
- Wiki Wednesday, June 27, 2024
- Wiki Wednesday, May 29, 2024
- Wiki Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Wiki Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- Wiki Wednesday, January 31, 2024
- Wiki Wednesday, January 2, 2024
- Wiki Wednesday, December 6, 2023
- Wiki Wednesday, October 25, 2023
- Wiki Wednesday, September 27, 2023
- Wiki Wednesday, August 30, 2023
- Wiki Wednesday, July 26, 2023
- Wiki Wednesday, June 28, 2023
- Wiki Wednesday, May 31, 2023
- Wiki Wednesday, April 26, 2023
- Wiki Wednesday, March 29, 2023
- Wiki Wednesday, February 24, 2023
- Wiki Wednesday, January 25, 2023
- Wiki Wednesday, December 28, 2022
- Wiki Wednesday, November 30, 2022
- Wiki Wednesday, October 26, 2022
- Wiki Wednesday, September 28, 2022
- Wiki Wednesday, August 31, 2022
- Wiki Wednesday, July 27, 2022
- Wiki Wednesday, June 29, 2022
- Wiki Wednesday, May 25, 2022
- Wiki Wednesday, April 27, 2022
- Wiki Wednesday, March 30, 2022
- Wiki Wednesday, February 23, 2022
- Wiki Wednesday, January 26, 2022
- Wiki Wednesday, December 29, 2021
- Wiki Wednesday, November 24, 2021
- Wiki Wednesday, October 28, 2021
- Wiki Wednesday, September 29, 2021
- Wiki Wednesday, August 25, 2021
- Wiki Wednesday, July 28, 2021
- Wiki Wednesday, June 30, 2021
- Wiki Wednesday, May 26, 2021
- Wiki Wednesday, April 28, 2021
- Wiki Wednesday, March 31, 2021
- Wiki Wednesday, February 24, 2021
- Wiki Wednesday, December 30, 2020
- Wiki Wednesday, November 25, 2020
- Wiki Wednesday, October 28, 2020
- Wiki Wednesday, September 30, 2020
- Wiki Wednesday, August 26, 2020
- Wiki Wednesday, July 29, 2020
- Wiki Wednesday, June 24, 2020
- Wiki Wednesday, May 27, 2020
- Wiki Wednesday, April 29, 2020
- Wiki Wednesday, March 25, 2020
- Wiki Wednesday, February 26, 2020
- Wiki Wednesday, January 29, 2020
- Wiki Wednesday, December 25, 2019
- Wiki Wednesday, November 27, 2019
- Wiki Wednesday, October 30, 2019
- Wiki Wednesday, September 25, 2019
- Wiki Wednesday, August 28, 2019
- Wiki Wednesday, July 31, 2019
- Wiki Wednesday, June 26, 2019
- Wiki Wednesday, May 29, 2019
- Wiki Wednesday, March 27, 2019
- Wiki Weekend, March 4, 2019
- Wiki Wednesday, January 30, 2019
- Wiki Weekend - December 29th, 2018
- Wiki Wednesday, November 28, 2018
- Wiki Wednesday, October 31, 2018
- Wiki Wednesday, September 26, 2018
- Wiki Wednesday, August 29, 2018
- Wiki Wednesday, July 25, 2018
- Wiki Wednesday, June 27, 2018
- Wiki Wednesday, May 30, 2018
- Wiki Wednesday, April 25, 2018
- Wiki Weekend, April 1, 2018
- Wiki Wednesday, February 28, 2018
- Wiki Wednesday, January 31, 2018
- Wiki Wednesday, December 27, 2017
- Wiki Wednesday, November 29, 2017
- Wiki Wednesday, October 25, 2017
- Wiki Wednesday, September 27, 2017
- Wiki Wednesday, August 30, 2017
- Wiki Wednesday, June 28, 2017
- Wiki Wednesday, May 31, 2017
- Wiki Wednesday, April 26, 2017
- Wiki Wednesday, March 29, 2017
- Wiki Wednesday, February 22, 2017
- Wiki Wednesday, January 25, 2017
- Wiki Wednesday, November 30, 2016
- Wiki Wednesday, October 27, 2016
- Wiki Wednesday, September 28, 2016
- Wiki Wednesday, August 31, 2016
- Wiki Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
- Wiki Wednesday, June 29, 2016
- Wiki Wednesday, May 25, 2016
- Wiki Wednesday, April 27, 2016
- Wiki Wednesday, March 30, 2016
- Wiki Wednesday!
Scratch Video Updates:
Note that for an unknown reason, this series ended in 2019.
- Scratch Video Update | Ep. 27 | Pixel Art
- Scratch Video Update: Episode 27
- Scratch Video Update: Episode 26
- Scratch Video Update: Episode 25 (Scratch 3.0 Beta)
- Scratch Video Update: Episode 24
- Scratch Video Update: Episode 23
- Scratch Video Update: Episode 22
- Scratch Video Update Ep. 21
- Scratch Video Update Ep. 20
- Scratch Video Update Ep. 19
- Scratch Video Update: Episode 18
- Scratch Video Update: Episode 17
- Scratch Video Update Episode 16
- Scratch Video Update: Episode 14
- Scratch Video Update: Episode 13
- Scratch Video Update: Episode 12
- Scratch Video Update: Episode 11
- Scratch Video Update #10
- Scratch Video Update #9
- Scratch Video Update #8
- Scratch Video Update #7 (May 15, 2015)
- Scratch Video Update #6 (April 17, 2015)
- Scratch Video Update #5 (Mar 13, 2015)
- Scratch Video Update #4 (Feb 27, 2015)
- Scratch Video Update Episode #4 Postponed to Feb. 27
- Scratch Video Update (Feb 6, 2015)
- Scratch Video Update (Jan 23, 2015)
- Untitled-1: Scratch Video Update (Dec 5, 2014)
Blog Posts:
This is no longer active as of 2016.
Community Events:
- Celebrating Scratch Camp 2026
- Behind the Camera
- Happy Pride Month!
- Celebrating Scratch Week 2026!
- Behind the Beats
- Welcome to Nogginville!
- Happy Black History Month!
- Hour of AI 2025
- Happy Pride Month!
- Celebrating Scratch Week 2025!
- Happy Black History Month!
- Hour of Code 2024 with Scratch and Gitanjali Rao
- Celebrating Scratch Camp 2024
- Happy Pride Month!
- Wellness Month on Scratch!
- Celebrating Scratch Week 2024!
- We Want Your Feedback!
- Happy Pi Day!
- Happy Black History Month!
- Happy Pride Month!
- Celebrating Scratch Week 2023!
- Scratch Week: Day 5!
- Scratch Week: Day 4!
- Scratch Week: Day 3!
- Scratch Week: Day 2!
- Scratch Week is here!
- Scratch Week is almost here!
- Scratch Week: Day 5!
- Scratch Week: Day 4!
- Scratch Week: Day 3!
- Scratch Week: Day 2!
- Live celebration for Scratch Week!
- Scratch Week is here!
- Scratch Week is almost here!
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Scratch Testing:
- Scratch 3.0 Beta
- Scratch 3.0 Preview
- Opt-in to help test the beta project player!
- More testing please!
- Updated Scratch 2 Offline Editor (Beta) is now available!
- Scratch 2.0 Offline Editor (Beta) is now available!
- Offline Editor Initial Version - Coming Soon!
- Did you try the ‘test player’ and see dark colors?
- How do other online communities notify you about things?
- Help us improve remix trees!
- Please test this website on mobile devices, and give suggestions for improvements!
- Please help test uploads to beta from Scratch 1.4!
- Please help test everything on this site starting Sunday evening (EST) - Monday 12:00 (EST)
- “Alpha” is now “Beta”!
General Updates:
- Update: Browser Compatibility
- Applications now open for the Scratch Mentor Program!
- Applications opening soon for Scratch Mentor Program!
- Welcome Cat Blocks, Avatar Frames, and Zepto and Milli!
- Introducing Scratch’s new CEO!
- Update on Membership and Shop
- Introducing the Network Connectivity block
- Terms of Service
- Terms of Service Updates
- Applications now open for the Scratch Mentor Program!
- Applications opening soon for Scratch Mentor Program!
- Changes to the Scratch homepage
- Live Now: Face Sensing Blocks!
- Applications now open for the Youth Advisory Board!
- Youth Advisory Board Applications Opening Soon!
- Upcoming Changes to Project Thumbnails
- Applications now open for the Scratch Mentor Program!
- Introducing the Youth Leadership Lab and Scratch Mentor Program!
- Parental Permissions for Scratch Accounts
- Applications now open for the Youth Advisory Board!
- Introducing Youth Advisory Board
- April Fools Day in the Forums
- Color Contrast is here!
- Front Page Curator is back!
- Coming Soon: Color Contrast in Scratch!
- Happy April Fools’ Day!
- Happy April Fools’ Day!
- Studio Updates
- New Scratch Emojis!
- Community Guidelines Update
- Create a Costume from the Webcam Feature Removal
- April Fool’s Day!
- Updates to the filter system
- Introducing Scratch Lab!
- Bug Fix
- Paint Editor Update
- Paint Editor Update
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Scratch Site Availability/Downtime:
- Upcoming Site Maintenance
- CANCELED: Site Downtime
- Site Work
- August Maintenance Work and Upcoming Downtime
- Maintenance Work
- Maintenance Work
- Update on Database Work
- Continued Database Work
- Upcoming Database Work
- Scheduled Downtime on Jan 2
- Website Issues & Scheduled Downtime Nov. 24th 8-11pm EST
- Scratch Site Availability & Performance Problems
- Scheduled Maintenance on Sunday, March 29th at 2pm EDT
- Downtime for server upgrades, Wednesday 25 June 7:00 p.m. EDT (UTC -4)
- Site offline during server maintenance, starting 8 p.m. EDT (UTC-4) Wednesday, 4 June.
- Scratch website down for maintenance Saturday April 19, 1 p.m. EDT (UTC -4)
- Scheduled downtime for maintenance: starting 10 p.m. EDT (UTC -4) Saturday March 22
- D'Oh! Some downtime this morning…
- Scratch temporarily offline 9 pm EDT, Thursday Sept. 5 2013
- Downtime for server maintenance 7/18
- Downtime for server maintenance, tonight.
- Temporary glitch with costumes and sounds
- Scheduled maintenance
- Performance problems
- Brief downtime Wednesday May 22, 3 p.m. EDT (UTC -4)
- Preparing for the transfer is slowing down the site..
- Downtime approx. 7 a.m. EDT Tuesday 3/19/13
Miscellaneous:
- Studio Updates FAQ
- What is a Scratcher?
- Fact Checking Tips and Strategies
- Certificate Issue with Scratch Link
- Pixel Art in Scratch | Tutorial
- Common reasons projects don’t appear on the homepage
- Moving your backpack to 3.0
- Scratch Accessibility for Low-vision and Blind Users
- How do Scratch glitches get fixed? A story….
- Your Questions about Scratch 2.0
- 5 Things to Know about Scratch 2.0
- Cloud variables disabled in early part of the beta
Resources Credits
Original Topic Maintained by Rosics.
Announcements Forum MakeTheBrainHappy, WolfCat67, bigpuppy, jromagnoli, & customhacker.
Last edited by Rosics (Yesterday 21:34:37)
- Rosics
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Scratcher
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The Announcements Directory²

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Information & Extras
Most moved to here.
In case you do not wish to scroll through every post to find a specific announcement, here they are grouped by category and by creation date. The newest posts are at the top of each category, while the oldest are at the bottom.
General Updates:
…
- New Sprites
- April Fool's Day!
- Paint Editor Update: Costume Centering Tool
- Sound Editor Update
- Growing with Scratch
- “Load from your computer” Update!
- New batch of updates!
- April Fool's Day!
- More Scratch Updates!
- Updates and Bug Fixes
- Activities on the Homepage!
- Paint Editor Update
- The New Scratch Wiki
- Updates to Messages Page
- New ways to get started with Scratch!
- Updating Translation System & “Meow” & “Edible” Languages
- Update to Notes & Credits
- Updates! July 8, 2016
- Scratch + Google
- Update to LEGO WeDo & Picoboard plugin
- Scratch 2.0 WeDo extension is now in beta!
- Updates January 29th, 2016
- Updates December 21st, 2015
- Updates! October 26, 2015
- Updates! September 28th, 2015
- Updates! July 15th, 2015
- Updates! June 8th, 2015
- Updates! May 13, 2015
- Updates! April 16th, 2015
- Updates! March 25th, 2015
- Updates! March 5th, 2015
- Updates! Feb 13th, 2015
- Updates! January 20th, 2015
- Updates! December 17th, 2014
- Updates! December 1st, 2014
- Updates! November 12th, 2014
- Updates: October 29th, 2014!
- Updates! October 15th, 2014
- Updates! September 24th, 2014
- Updates! September 11th, 2014
- Updates! August 27th, 2014
- Updates! July 23rd, 2014
- Updates! 22 May 2014
- Updates! August 13th, 2014
- Updates! July 9 2014
- Updates! June 18 2014
- 4 June 2014: Updates! Lots of fixes for the editor, and improvements in the website
- Updates! Fixes for pesky editor glitches, speedups..
- 2/13/14 Updates!
- 2/6/14 Updates! Little optimizations and fixes…
- 1/10/14 Updates! (And new beta project player!)
- Pull down menu for ScratchBlocks2~!
- Changes to Studio permissions released!
- Updates! 31 October
- We're seeking contributors to help finish our HTML5 Scratch player (now open sourced!)
- Updates! 24 October 2013: Optimizations, new server
- Updates! 15 October: More optimizations
- Updates! 3 October 2013: Working on speeding things up…
- Updates! 27 Sept. 2013: Lots of tiny fixes, tags on the explore page…
- Upcoming changes to studio permissions: Owners and Curators
- Forums have a “Follow” button!
- Updates! 17 September 2013: Messages system changes, following threads in the discussions forums…
- Updates to Offline Editor for Linux
- Scratch 2.0 Offline Open Source Code!
- Important Update for Scratch 2.0 Offline Editor
- New version of the Scratch 2 Offline Editor (v370)
- New scratchblocks tag
- 29 August 2013 Updates!
- Online updates Aug. 22, 2013
- Updates! 8 august 2013
- 1 August 2013 Updates
- 7/25/13 Updates
- 11 July 2013 Changes…
- 18 July 2013 Changes…
- 7/3/13 Updates….
- 6/20/13: Updates to the editor, paint editor, and website..
- 6/13/13: Even moar updates to editor and website!
- 6/6/2013 Fixes and features released!
- 5/30/13: Updates to the editor and website!
- 5/22/13 Updates to the website
- 5/16/13 Updates to the Scratch 2.0 website!
- Commenting disabled for a bit….
- 5/10/13 Updates to the Scratch website!
- 5/3/2013: Updates to the site and editor, phew.
- 4/30/13: Updates to Editor and Site
- 4/26/13: Updates to site, editor, and forums!
- 4/23/13: Updates to site and editor
- Video Blocks
- 4/18/13: Updates to the site and editor
- 4/10/13: Updates to site, editor, forums
- 4/3/13: Updates to the website, editor
- 3/27/13: Updates to website, paint editor, forums
- 3/21/13 Bitmap mode in paint editor, changes to the website
- Update on Cloud variables
- 3/13/13: Updates to paint editor, project player, website.
- How the Reshape Tool works (including advanced features)
- 3/7/13: Updates to Website, Vector Paint Editor
- 2/27/13: Updates to Paint Editor and Website
- Rethinking the Scratch 2.0 Paint Editor
- 2/21/13: Updates to Paint Editor and Website
- 2/21/13: Updates to the Forums
- 2/19/13: Updates to the editor and website.
- 2/14/13: Updates to the project player and forums!
- 2/6/13: Fresh code deployed to beta!
- 2/9/13: Updates to Studio, Paint Editor, Website
- 2/6/13: Fresh code deployed to beta!
- Updates to the website and editor!
- Updates to the 2.0 Forums
- Lots of little updates coming over the next few days – Please clear cache if you see something strange.
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Resources Credits
Original Topic Maintained by Rosics.
Announcements Forum MakeTheBrainHappy, WolfCat67, bigpuppy, jromagnoli, & customhacker.
Last edited by Rosics (Yesterday 21:34:18)
- Rosics
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banner credit: @i_eat_coffee
Information & Extras
Most moved to here.
In case you do not wish to scroll through every post to find a specific announcement, here they are grouped by category and by creation date. The newest posts are at the top of each category, while the oldest are at the bottom.
Community Events:
…
- Celebrating Scratch Week!
- Celebrating Scratch Week!
- Scratch Week: Day 5!
- Scratch Week: Day 4!
- Scratch Week: Day 3!
- Scratch Week: Day 2!
- Scratch Week is here!
- Scratch Week is almost here!
- Scratch Camp 2020
- Celebrating Scratch Month
- Scratch Month Week 4!
- Scratch Month Week 3!
- Scratch Month Week 2!
- Scratch Month is here!
- Scratch Month is on its way!
- Scratch Camp 2019
- Help welcome New Scratchers in the Welcoming Committee
- Scratch 3.0 is here!
- Scratch Day 2018
- Happy April Fool's Day!
- Scratch in Space!
- Activities on the Homepage!
- Scratch in Space!
- Changes to the Scratch Welcoming Committee
- Celebrating Scratch Camp 2017!
- Scratch Camp: Down Deep!
- Happy Birthday, Scratch!
- Mascots In Training (MIT)
- New Activities on the Homepage!
- Make it Fly!
- Scratch Cat Goes on Vacation
- Hour of Code 2015
- Update on Front Page Curator Program
- Happy Anniversary to Scratch!
- Scratch Day 2015!
- Scratch + Hour of Code, December 8-14
- Coding with Scratch Class
- Announcing our newest language translation: “Meow!”
- Welcome, New Scratch Team members!
- Scratch is featured in ‘Hour of Code’, Dec. 9 - 15
- Update on volunteer programs
- Transitioning the volunteer community moderators program
- old CM announcement
- Old forums archive
- Become a Curator on the Scratch Homepage
- Welcome to Scratch 2.0!
- Scratch 2.0 will be released on May 9
- Pico (Scratch Character) missing…
- Pre-transition info about the transition to Scratch 2.0 thread! (closed)
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Resources Credits
Original Topic Maintained by Rosics.
Announcements Forum MakeTheBrainHappy, WolfCat67, bigpuppy, jromagnoli, & customhacker.
Last edited by Rosics (Yesterday 21:33:54)
- WPONTA
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Scratcher
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Congrats on the sticked!
Btw, do you think there will be a lot of spam on this topic as people find it through the Scratch News section
Btw, do you think there will be a lot of spam on this topic as people find it through the Scratch News section
- PaperMarioFan2024
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Scratcher
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Congrats on the sticky!
Can’t wait to see what this topic has in store for the announcements forum.
Can’t wait to see what this topic has in store for the announcements forum.
- UmiiXD_scratch
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Congrats on the sticked!who even checks the news tho
Btw, do you think there will be a lot of spam on this topic as people find it through the Scratch News section
- AdaVesta_
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Scratcher
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waw im posting in the announcements forum :0
cg on the sticky!
cg on the sticky!
- Alex_the_Explorer
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Scratcher
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We finally got an updated Announcements post! 

- mtnif
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Scratcher
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how did you even get there??? please, tell me.
- bitmap_caketin
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Scratcher
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Wow, someone needs to update the wiki about users who have topics on the announcements forum.
Also, this is the first time anyone has been able to post on a topic here in a long time …
Also, this is the first time anyone has been able to post on a topic here in a long time …
- redspacecat
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Oh cool, there's a new Announcements Directory
