Please remove the Google Custom Search! This is because of 2 reasons:

1. Results for removed projects still show up
Today, I searched “First project” and got a result which said the project had the instructions which had the sh word. Luckily, that project was removed. See? This could unlock more inappropriate stuff!

2. This is the usual cause of necroposting
Google Custom Search brings up results to old topics up to the front page. This is why people necropost.

1. Support.
2. Sometimes people click on “show page number 99999”. Should that be gone?

Support

Yeah. Scratch needs to host its own search system…

Yeah support, scratch really needs to make their own search function that's more tailored to the site.

It's pretty dumb that with this ‘upgrade’ I now can't sort by comments, views, remixes, etc when Iirc you could before.

Also, the ‘relevance’ sort function is useless, as it shows mostly projects that have 1 or 2 views.

AFAIK it is temporary.

seanbobe wrote:

AFAIK it is temporary.

Been here pretty long to be temporary…

Support! The google search is so bad. My #1 complaint is that it shows a lot of spam remixes before the real project they're based on. For example, try searching for virtually any of griffpatch's projects by name, and the actual project won't be the first result. This takes away credit from original project creators.

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

Support! The google search is so bad. My #1 complaint is that it shows a lot of spam remixes before the real project they're based on. For example, try searching for virtually any of griffpatch's projects by name, and the actual project won't be the first result. This takes away credit from original project creators.

Support because of this

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

Support! The google search is so bad. My #1 complaint is that it shows a lot of spam remixes before the real project they're based on. For example, try searching for virtually any of griffpatch's projects by name, and the actual project won't be the first result. This takes away credit from original project creators.

I've noticed this as well.

Support.

Total Support!! I dislike the google search and I liked the original much better

YES PLEASE. You have no idea how much I've pleaded for it to be removed. I barely even use it anymore because they switched.

seanbobe wrote:

AFAIK it is temporary.

I thought it was, but it's been a year since they switched it…

Yeah they need to get off their butts already. The old search was an invaluble tool when looking for tutorials, engines, and other example projects. Now when i search “____ Engine” I get a bunch of unfinished/remix projects that are usually completely useless.

Support.

FalconGunner99 wrote:

Yeah they need to get off their butts already. The old search was an invaluble tool when looking for tutorials, engines, and other example projects. Now when i search “____ Engine” I get a bunch of unfinished/remix projects that are usually completely useless.

IKR. Why can't they just go back to the old search? It was supposed to be temporary, because there was this hour of code thing and there were going to be a lot of server requests, blah blah blah… a year has gone by now and it still hasn't changed back.

When's the last time the ST actually did something worthwhile? There are tons of new features I'd love to see on the site, which have no reasons not to be implemented, but they never do anything. Once I heard they had a huge meeting about adding the “any” option to the key pressed blocks… it doesn't seem to have happened yet.

// They'll never remove it. They'll probably just ignore this topic, saying “oh noe we cant do dat wer 2 lazey it isn't supre urgnt su were just going to ignor it!!!111!!!!1!!!”

__init__ wrote:

FalconGunner99 wrote:

Yeah they need to get off their butts already. The old search was an invaluble tool when looking for tutorials, engines, and other example projects. Now when i search “____ Engine” I get a bunch of unfinished/remix projects that are usually completely useless.

IKR. Why can't they just go back to the old search? It was supposed to be temporary, because there was this hour of code thing and there were going to be a lot of server requests, blah blah blah… a year has gone by now and it still hasn't changed back.

When's the last time the ST actually did something worthwhile? There are tons of new features I'd love to see on the site, which have no reasons not to be implemented, but they never do anything. Once I heard they had a huge meeting about adding the “any” option to the key pressed blocks… it doesn't seem to have happened yet.

// They'll never remove it. They'll probably just ignore this topic, saying “oh noe we cant do dat wer 2 lazey it isn't supre urgnt su were just going to ignor it!!!111!!!!1!!!”

This is so true. However you should note that the ST is already pretty busy with moderating the site and fixing things they consider more important.
You may want to change that tag to color=transparent (as I did), MSU still recognizes it but non-MSU users may not :P

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

This is so true. However you should note that the ST is already pretty busy with moderating the site and fixing things they consider more important.
You may want to change that tag to color=transparent (as I did), MSU still recognizes it but non-MSU users may not :P

If they're having trouble developing their main app because of forum moderation, then maybe they should sign on more moderators. Or at least start a program to help them with moderating the site, perhaps something like the overwatch system in counterstrike. Give trusted members of the community the ability to oversee reports and decide if they're valid.

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Yeah the google search isn't good for anything.

But at least we have fruit…….. right?

cheeseeater wrote:

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I mentioned a while ago how the Google Search was bringing up spam topics their spammy phone numbers in the description. As usual, nobody took much notice.