Scratch Foundation's Long Scratch Link

GoldenPig64

At the bottom of the webpages of the Scratch Foundation site, you can click on a link that takes you to the main scratch website. However, the link they use is super long and actually works as the main page. Here's the link they use. Why do they use a special link like this, and why does it work as a main page?

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ajskateboarder

The link works because having those extra bits in the URL doesn't affect the page, at least I think

As for why, maybe it's some kind of analytics thing?

MaybeARandomFox

I think it has a piece of identifier attached so they can view that how much people click the link.
I did web development and you would use something similar.

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Za-Chary

I don't know if it's just me or if I'm looking in the right place or what, but I see that they just use the usual scratch.mit.edu link.

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BigNate469

Za-Chary wrote:
I don't know if it's just me or if I'm looking in the right place or what, but I see that they just use the usual scratch.mit.edu link.

I think the OP means the stuff after the scratch.mit.edu/ part, where there are a number of seemingly random symbols. It's probably used for analytics.
The link written out:
https://scratch.mit.edu/_gl=1%2A1uyjw70%2A_ga%2ANDU2MzMxMjg3LjE3MDk1NjUzMDc.%2A_ga_4N2JLD9N7Q%2AMTcxNTA5OTgyMS43LjAuMTcxNTA5OTgyMi41OS4wLjA.

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Za-Chary

BigNate469 wrote:
Za-Chary wrote:
I don't know if it's just me or if I'm looking in the right place or what, but I see that they just use the usual scratch.mit.edu link.
I think the OP means the stuff after the scratch.mit.edu/ part, where there are a number of seemingly random symbols.

See, that's the thing: I don't see a bunch of random symbols. I just see scratch.mit.edu.

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Za-Chary wrote:
BigNate469 wrote:
Za-Chary wrote:
I don't know if it's just me or if I'm looking in the right place or what, but I see that they just use the usual scratch.mit.edu link.
I think the OP means the stuff after the scratch.mit.edu/ part, where there are a number of seemingly random symbols.
See, that's the thing: I don't see a bunch of random symbols. I just see scratch.mit.edu.

Do you mean in the redirect?
Can you inspect the specific part? When redirecting to the home page, it removes everything after the /

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Za-Chary

GlitchedThrough wrote:
Do you mean in the redirect?
Can you inspect the specific part? When redirecting to the home page, it removes everything after the /

Possibly. If I hover my mouse over the “Scratch” link at the bottom of the webpage, something in the bottom-left corner of my screen shows, as usual, the link it will take me to. The link that is displayed is scratch.mit.edu.

Ultimately this doesn't really matter as I'm not really helping OP answer the question.

At first I thought maybe it was device-specific or something, for some reason.

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It also shows me the link when I hover over it too as usual as the OP above me: scratch.mit.edu.

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I'm currently on an iPad, on Safari (My browser / operating system: iPad iOS 17.4.1, Safari 17.4.1, No Flash version detected)
When I wrote my earlier post, I was on a Chromebook running Chrome 124 and the latest version of ChromeOS, and I was hovering over the link. To paste the link in the post, I highlighted the one in the OP, right-clicked, and clicked “copy link address”.
Currently on the iPad, the extra stuff in the link doesn't show up, but that's intentional design on Apple's part- you can only either open the link or open a preview of the page that it links to (which preloads it, so it goes to wherever the link redirects to). Since there isn't any way to really hover, most of the link details are lost.

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