I had a notebook studio a few months ago. I deleted it and I was wondering if the ST can still restore it if I ask them

according to a quick API test, no. during this test, i created a studio, changed the name and then deleted it. here's what's left of it: https://api.scratch.mit.edu/studios/35808319/

breakfast_for_dinner wrote:

according to a quick API test, no. during this test, i created a studio, changed the name and then deleted it. here's what's left of it: https://api.scratch.mit.edu/studios/35808319/

That same message shows up for unshared projects. AFAIK studios are different - they actually can be restored, because, likely for moderation reasons, deleting a studio just sets a “PUBLIC” attribute to false.

We can prove this further by modifying the Scratch studio state and setting the studio.public key to false.
It shows us this message:


So, go ahead and use https://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/ to ask the Scratch Team to recover it.
Although, just like deleted accounts, I'm not sure if they would be willing to do that… worth trying, tho

Edit: So just to be more clear, deleting a studio is just like unsharing a project, except that it will always return “not found” unless you are a Scratch Team member. I'm guessing that's because the Scratch Team may want to check studio content following some event for example community drama, to take proper moderator action

i_eat_coffee wrote:

So, go ahead and use https://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/ to ask the Scratch Team to recover it.
Although, just like deleted accounts, I'm not sure if they would be willing to do that… worth trying, tho

^ Right, Contact Us is the way to ask, but the Scratch Team doesn't always restore deleted stuff on request. I also want to add that hopefully you can give the Scratch Team a link to the studio, or else I'm not sure they will be able to find the studio you're referring to.

Za-Chary wrote:

i_eat_coffee wrote:

So, go ahead and use https://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/ to ask the Scratch Team to recover it.
Although, just like deleted accounts, I'm not sure if they would be willing to do that… worth trying, tho

^ Right, Contact Us is the way to ask, but the Scratch Team doesn't always restore deleted stuff on request. I also want to add that hopefully you can give the Scratch Team a link to the studio, or else I'm not sure they will be able to find the studio you're referring to.

shoot, I dont have a link…waiting for a mod response

Dagriffpatchfan wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

i_eat_coffee wrote:

So, go ahead and use https://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/ to ask the Scratch Team to recover it.
Although, just like deleted accounts, I'm not sure if they would be willing to do that… worth trying, tho

^ Right, Contact Us is the way to ask, but the Scratch Team doesn't always restore deleted stuff on request. I also want to add that hopefully you can give the Scratch Team a link to the studio, or else I'm not sure they will be able to find the studio you're referring to.

shoot, I dont have a link…waiting for a mod response

You can try to retrieve it from your browsing history by searching for its title, or just directly giving them the title of the studio, I think they may be able to find it via https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Dagriffpatchfan/admin

I suggest the Contact Us link as well - but I wouldn't hold out too much hope. I have a vague recollection of trying to restore a deleted studio maybe a year ago and finding, to my surprise, that moderators were not able to do that. I hope I am wrong.