Gray Question Marks in Projects

lukey13

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hiPeeps124816 wrote:
they have allegedly returned
Great! it's back! soon the user @QuestionMarkGlitch will pop in too…

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bloctans_4

PixelPhoneix wrote:
-Clickertale_2- wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
-Clickertale_2- wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
-Clickertale_2- wrote:
QuestionMarkGlitch wrote:
The bug is back???
In one of my “Text renderer” spites that I exported to my computer has this bug still on it (22 costumes were affected). (Here's a project that has the Grey ? in it https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/549048273/ )
Here's more images of the Grey Question Mark:
look at that glitched out font in the font dropdown
Yea like 4 different fonts appear in the dropdown with only “sans serif” being the only font that actually shows in the dorpdown cuz “Helvetica”, “Arial” and “ ”Helvetica Neue“ ” showing aswell AND the “ ”Helvetica Neue“ ” is the only one there with “” in ir's name. This bug is very intresting to say the least.
there sure is an issue tho
Thanks for telling us that extra bit of information but does anyone know what Scratch Team were even doing at the time that caused the bug?
Maybe it is back

ok, so maybe, they where adding new servers to fit the millions of projects shared every day. and during that, they may have corrupted the assets.scratch.mit.edu server.

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Venatus_123

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i think you didnt read the whole OP

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kccuber

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hello_smile wrote:
Fun!
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i think you didnt read the whole OP

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-Clickertale_2-

bloctans_4 wrote:
ok, so maybe, they where adding new servers to fit the millions of projects shared every day. and during that, they may have corrupted the assets.scratch.mit.edu server.

Maybe? after all there are over 560-ish million pojects as of typing this so that could be one of the reasons!

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I still get the glitch for some reason.

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bloctans_4

-Clickertale_2- wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
ok, so maybe, they where adding new servers to fit the millions of projects shared every day. and during that, they may have corrupted the assets.scratch.mit.edu server.
Maybe? after all there are over 560-ish million pojects as of typing this so that could be one of the reasons!

this is sketical, after all, it may have also been a bug with the Scratch svg renderer or the Scratch svg renderer was just being updated, but not all the costumes got turned into ? marks. so my first theory might be true.

Last edited by bloctans_4 (July 31, 2021 17:15:51)

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Flowermanvista

bloctans_4 wrote:
-Clickertale_2- wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
ok, so maybe, they where adding new servers to fit the millions of projects shared every day. and during that, they may have corrupted the assets.scratch.mit.edu server.
Maybe? after all there are over 560-ish million pojects as of typing this so that could be one of the reasons!
this is sketical, after all, it may have also been a bug with the Scratch svg renderer or the Scratch svg renderer was just being updated, but not all the costumes got turned into ? marks. so my first theory might be true.

There is no need for speculation as to what the cause of the glitch is - the developers have already established that these question mark boxes appear in place of SVG assets that fail to load. (Source)

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bloctans_4

Flowermanvista wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
-Clickertale_2- wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
ok, so maybe, they where adding new servers to fit the millions of projects shared every day. and during that, they may have corrupted the assets.scratch.mit.edu server.
Maybe? after all there are over 560-ish million pojects as of typing this so that could be one of the reasons!
this is sketical, after all, it may have also been a bug with the Scratch svg renderer or the Scratch svg renderer was just being updated, but not all the costumes got turned into ? marks. so my first theory might be true.
There is no need for speculation as to what the cause of the glitch is - the developers have already established that these question mark boxes appear in place of SVG assets that fail to load. (Source)

so my first explanation was true?

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-Clickertale_2-

bloctans_4 wrote:
Flowermanvista wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
-Clickertale_2- wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
ok, so maybe, they where adding new servers to fit the millions of projects shared every day. and during that, they may have corrupted the assets.scratch.mit.edu server.
Maybe? after all there are over 560-ish million pojects as of typing this so that could be one of the reasons!
this is sketical, after all, it may have also been a bug with the Scratch svg renderer or the Scratch svg renderer was just being updated, but not all the costumes got turned into ? marks. so my first theory might be true.
There is no need for speculation as to what the cause of the glitch is - the developers have already established that these question mark boxes appear in place of SVG assets that fail to load. (Source)
so my first explanation was true?

Looks like ti!

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-InsanityGames- wrote:
Thanks for addressing this!
Also, I'll give you a screenshot showing a case of the issue.

A CASE OF THE BUG GIVEN FOR DOCUMENTATION PURPOSES

I got the question mark in a box glitch but it fix when i went and changed it back

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aDude_Guy

aDude_Guy wrote:
-InsanityGames- wrote:
Thanks for addressing this!
Also, I'll give you a screenshot showing a case of the issue.

A CASE OF THE BUG GIVEN FOR DOCUMENTATION PURPOSES
I got the question mark in a box glitch but it fix when i went and changed it back

why do i make those grammar mistakes

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bloctans_4

-Clickertale_2- wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
Flowermanvista wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
-Clickertale_2- wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
ok, so maybe, they where adding new servers to fit the millions of projects shared every day. and during that, they may have corrupted the assets.scratch.mit.edu server.
Maybe? after all there are over 560-ish million pojects as of typing this so that could be one of the reasons!
this is sketical, after all, it may have also been a bug with the Scratch svg renderer or the Scratch svg renderer was just being updated, but not all the costumes got turned into ? marks. so my first theory might be true.
There is no need for speculation as to what the cause of the glitch is - the developers have already established that these question mark boxes appear in place of SVG assets that fail to load. (Source)
so my first explanation was true?
Looks like ti!

so, repost

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Flowermanvista

-Clickertale_2- wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
Flowermanvista wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
-Clickertale_2- wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
ok, so maybe, they where adding new servers to fit the millions of projects shared every day. and during that, they may have corrupted the assets.scratch.mit.edu server.
Maybe? after all there are over 560-ish million pojects as of typing this so that could be one of the reasons!
this is sketical, after all, it may have also been a bug with the Scratch svg renderer or the Scratch svg renderer was just being updated, but not all the costumes got turned into ? marks. so my first theory might be true.
There is no need for speculation as to what the cause of the glitch is - the developers have already established that these question mark boxes appear in place of SVG assets that fail to load. (Source)
so my first explanation was true?
Looks like ti!

I mean, not necessarily. Just because an asset fails to load doesn't necessarily mean that it's been corrupted on the server - there are numerous things that could cause a temporary failure in serving assets, such as a network issue anywhere between the server and your computer, something wrong with the server hardware, or something wrong with the server software. None of those imply that the data that is being stored on the servers has been corrupted.

Also, assets is hosted on Amazon S3, an extremely reliable, durable, and scalable cloud storage service. I'm 99.99% sure that Amazon S3 storage scales without any human intervention, so I'm pretty sure that “corrupting the server when they were adding new servers” isn't even a thing that can happen.

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bloctans_4

Flowermanvista wrote:
-Clickertale_2- wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
Flowermanvista wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
-Clickertale_2- wrote:
bloctans_4 wrote:
ok, so maybe, they where adding new servers to fit the millions of projects shared every day. and during that, they may have corrupted the assets.scratch.mit.edu server.
Maybe? after all there are over 560-ish million pojects as of typing this so that could be one of the reasons!
this is sketical, after all, it may have also been a bug with the Scratch svg renderer or the Scratch svg renderer was just being updated, but not all the costumes got turned into ? marks. so my first theory might be true.
There is no need for speculation as to what the cause of the glitch is - the developers have already established that these question mark boxes appear in place of SVG assets that fail to load. (Source)
so my first explanation was true?
Looks like ti!
I mean, not necessarily. Just because an asset fails to load doesn't necessarily mean that it's been corrupted on the server - there are numerous things that could cause a temporary failure in serving assets, such as a network issue anywhere between the server and your computer, something wrong with the server hardware, or something wrong with the server software. None of those imply that the data that is being stored on the servers has been corrupted.

Also, assets is hosted on Amazon S3, an extremely reliable, durable, and scalable cloud storage service. I'm 99.99% sure that Amazon S3 storage scales without any human intervention, so I'm pretty sure that “corrupting the server when they were adding new servers” isn't even a thing that can happen.

oh, but then how

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the question mark bug was not fixed for me because one of my remixes got affected today

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