Sorry if this is a duplicate. If there is, google isn't working with my hotspot connection and it's very deep down when searching on ocular

I've had an idea.

Scratchers could be able to create their own profile page designs. Text can be styled using a WYSIWYG editor - basically a text editor that shows you what the final result will be before publishing, instead of what the markup for it is.

This is not available for New Scratchers to prevent trolls from abusing it.

The layout can be changed by clicking Edit Layout next to the profile name.

These are some features of the editor and layout system in general:

• Add more featured projects
  
• Add “featured studios”
  
• Add some text boxes similar to the existing About Me/What I'm Working On system
  
• Move Following and Followers to other places
  
• Hide parts of the layout, such as profile picture
  
• Use preset images provided by the Scratch Team, such as images of Scratch mascots
  
• Use thumbnails of projects, studios, and your profile
  
• Change the accent color of the page
  
• Bad word detector to prevent inappropriate content. Safer better than sorry
  
• Layouts can be reported if they e.g. show inappropriate content
  

There are some limits to this system, however:

• Up to 5 text boxes
  
• Up to 3 project and studio boxes
  
• Images other than the provided ones and thumbnails can't be used
  

If Scratch Team is reading this:

• Storage isn't a big problem, MySQL values are only like a few bytes.
  
• This might involve a rewrite of the entire profile pages system so I recommend moving the profile system to scratch-www, but this might not be required.
  
• To prevent e.g. arranging several parts of the page to create inappropriate images, you should only be able to arrange the parts in a grid. You can resize it, however, and move it to a different part of the grid.
  

If you have opinions, please let me know, but please don't simply use the support convention without explaining why you (dis)agree.

By project and studio boxes, do you mean featured project type things? If you include rows in that, then that would put the current design above the limit.

Catscratcher07 wrote:

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By project and studio boxes, do you mean featured project type things? If you include rows in that, then that would put the current design above the limit.

yeah, featured project style.

I'd love to have a feature like this, I would use it myself, but I feel like it would be pretty difficult for the Scratch Team to implement.

Support, I think it would be cool to feature more projects, it could also make banners easier to make.