Hi folks!

The Scratch Team is getting ready to make updates to our database in order to help support our growing community. Specifically, we will be making changes to the way we store comments. We wanted to share a bit of information on what we are doing as well as give you a heads up that commenting will be temporarily unavailable while we make the updates.

Why are we making updates?
As the Scratch community has grown, our comment data has grown too large to fit on our existing servers. To keep the site running reliably and smoothly, we’re moving all of the comment data out of the database on our physical servers to a database which will run in the cloud.

How is that going to work?
We will need to turn comments off temporarily as we move the comment data, as it can cause problems for new comments to be added while the transfer is in progress. Once the transfer is complete, we will test that everything is working perfectly and then turn commenting back on.

We won't move all comments on the same day: we will move comments on profile pages, studios, and projects at different times. Each time we move one of these comment types over, you'll see a message on those pages explaining that comments are disabled temporarily, but will be back soon. For example, when we are moving comments from profile pages, commenting on all profile pages will be temporarily unavailable until the transfer is complete, but you will still be able to see and post comments on projects and studios. This process should last a few hours for each comment type.

When will we do this?
Our plan is to launch this gradually over the next few months. We will start this work with profile pages on Monday, August 23rd. Profile comments will be temporarily unavailable for a few hours as we do this work.

As we get closer to doing additional work in the future, we will be sure to let you know so it does not come as a surprise when commenting is temporarily turned off.

What does this mean for you?
Hopefully, you won’t even notice this change! We are carefully backing up comments data (and all of our data!) to make sure nothing can be lost. This is not a change to the way the commenting system works, just how the data is stored. Once we’ve made the change, you’ll still be able to make new comments and read existing comments exactly as you had before.

These changes will help keep Scratch fast and sustainable for years to come, so Scratchers can collaborate, share ideas, learn from each other, and surprise the Scratch Team daily, just as you have since Scratch was created!

Scratch on!
=^..^=

Thanks for the information.

Please keep scratchr2

thanks for the updates!

Great! This might help the servers.

Edit: IMPORTANT NOTICE:

This isn’t a traditional update. This is simply moving the files of the comment data, and won’t change much about the actual comment system

Starting AUGUST 23RD, the comments on different places will be off. Don’t panic, it’ll only take a few hours for them to return.

Also, please don’t spam the topic, thanks

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Thanks for telling us

so no comennts!!?? ugghh what am I going to do? I know! I'll do a turorial or make my own project wow I don't think I can survive!

okay ya got me I can survive but I think I'll code for the hours doesn't sound to bad

Honestly, I think this is a great change, as the servers won't have that much trouble with comments anymore. I wish the ST good luck moving all the comments!

Cool

Wow! =0
Well, even if profile comments will be closed, we still can comment os studios… Right?

Za-Chary wrote:

Cool

True
The lag could disappear with this update!

Cool. I’m not really sure why we need an announcement for this, though, doesn’t the message explain itself?


Early

Thanks for the heads up!

Thanks for heads up! Nice too!

Also, what is this for exactly?

han614698 wrote:

Cool. I’m not really sure why we need an announcement for this, though, doesn’t the message explain itself?


Early

We need an announcement so we don't panic when things suddenly turn off lol

minecraft_pro_718 wrote:

Thanks for heads up! Nice too!

Also, what is this for exactly?

They’re moving the comments from a physical server to a cloud one

Pawesome! I'm ready for work!

ScolderCreations wrote:

minecraft_pro_718 wrote:

Thanks for heads up! Nice too!

Also, what is this for exactly?

They’re moving the comments from a physical server to a cloud one

Oh nice, ok!

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Thanks For The Information!

Sounds good! Hopefully there'll be less/no more glitches with comments with this new update! Thanks for letting us know!

when I receive [ comments are off]
 I will know why

Thanks for notifying me! I"ll share this message to everyone I can!