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I have contacted the Scratch Team about my account that is blocked and they don't give something about it, if they would do something about it like unblocking me, then this would be changed and I would give it 5 stars but it's this right now.

Scratch Team simply delete my project that not scary, don't have blood and gore. And Scratch Team don't delete some of the scary projects. What happened to Scratch Team's mind?

They IP banned me for a good year.

Tried to appeal, didn't respond.

been using scratch for over a year and it's awesome. I love this because it is simple and fun and I love to see what others have made. Also If you don't like something ore want more things you can use scratch addons for chromes to change the way scratch looks and you can use penguin mod(website) for more features. Just remember to look at TOS. Great community.

(From a 5-year user's perspective :))
This platform is AWESOME! It lets you make projects and play others' projects. It's very easy to use, and it's also super easy to code in Scratch. And unlike many other platforms, it's COMPLETELY FREE. They offer absolutely no incentive to pay (and it's only mentioned on the front page for logged out users.)

The only thing that's not so great is the mass reporting system. Users can report things that they think violate the guidelines. However, Scratch has a built-in system which takes down projects & studios and bans users who have been reported by many accounts. Although this is meant to save time, this can be (and is) abused by people with bad intentions and a lot of bots (and time.) They can just use bots to mass report projects or users and poof. All of it gone.
That's the only bad thing I have to say. Other than that, it's great!

Perfect! If you are bored, this is the best thing to do! And it is free too!!

Me gusto mucho pero.. me banearon la cuenta sin motivo aparente,

Outstanding. Amazing. The best thing that has ever happened to me in my life. Scratch is a programming website and community designed for children aged 8-15. The platform allows kids to create code by snapping blocks together. Scratch even features an in-site paint and sound editor that is user-friendly. By creating an account, users can share their projects with the world. Don't worry, Scratch also has a report option and a censorbot to ensure a safe and positive experience. Users can create studios, edit profiles, love, favorite, comment on, and even remix other projects. Additionally, users can follow their favorite creators or friends. Scratch is an amazing and active coding community, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

This is a good coding language. Especially for kids! The problem is, that mass reporting is widespread in this website. Other than that, its great for all ages!

It is a platform with a very many good projects. Simple to start with and is fun to see scrathers stretching the limits. And if you ever want something changed scratch has many extensions in the Chrome webstore. 4 stars as the moding is not the best

When I searched ''scratch.mit.edu'', I saw a new update which is the Color Contrast update. My eyes started to hurt because of the purple color, the blue color was much better. Now, I can't even focus on making a project because of the purple color and the worst thing is that I can not switch it back to the blue color! Please add an option that you can switch beetween blue and purple colors. Now I can only focus on making a project in TurboWarp because of many more features and no purple color.

I have been on scratch for 2 and a half years, and I love it! The users are welcoming, and the challenges are exiting. This is a really good way to learn simple coding. There is a huge LGBTQ+ and diverse community in Scratch, which is great! Overall, this website it great.

Scratch è fatto bene, è protetto, è per bambini, ma non è avvolte sicuro. Però è fatto bene perchè ti fa imparare come fare il coding.

It's all about learning kids LGBTQ+ and and that people around the world have different colours skins.

Scratch it's cool but it has strict rules and the thing called "Mass Reporting" that basically you report a user/comment/project and then reload the page and do it again, i'm not against LGTBQ but that appears on Featured Pojects (sometimes and Featured Projects are also chosen by the team) and kids visit this website so they are going too see those LGTBQ projects

Scratch by coding on their site is amazing but that's all.
Here's what they can do, 1. Better moderation: Scratch has a buggy moderation and infamous for it, I can report, reload the page or exit off a pop up, click report again, That my friends is called mass reporting. Now how Scratch's moderation works is if a project or a user gets this amount of reports they are gone. In other words the moderation is unfair. What they can APPROVE it, is by having a system where it makes a report limit only to 1 and have the team look at that 1 report. 2. the featured page:
We all know that according to users: Scratch usually features what they seem high quality to the team however in reality, It's the opposite that's why genetic platformers are everywhere in the featured page. Instead they can do a voting system like NewGrounds
does and put that voting page up to the front page.
3. Design: Some of the pages are from Scratch 2.0, it's not hard to explain what they can do, update the pages to Scratch 3.0. 4. Desktop apps: The team said they are "working" on a Linux version for these desktop apps, new and old. Turbowarp an mod for Scratch and complies projects to JavaScript worked on a Linux version already, it's on Linux's app store, Hello? There's is no saying of what they can approve,
Just that the team must be not slacking. That's all I have to say.

i like it alot

Simple-looking tool that can achieve quite a lot as shown by users like griffpatch(but not only). It is a stepping stone for the future generation of programmers.

The community and community guidelines tho. The guidelines are basically "Oh wow be nice and report bad people, everyone is welcome here". I used the site as a kid and I've noticed multiple flaws.
Number 1 - Political views
There are projects based on recent political events, even by the "Scratch team". If you go to, say ceebees' profile, the about me is full of "BLM, stop the hate" and others. This is what I call brainwashing. Younger me did put some of these but quickly realised what it was and never did again.

Number 2 - Trending and Featured projects
The way that trending projects are selected has always confused me. You either see just one useful project or a combination of *not good* clicker games, art dumps or outright identical remixes(more on that later) of good projects. The featured projects(along with studios which I don't even want to talk about) are almost always some piece of actual garbage. While yes I understand this site is made for kids, can you at least not encourage making EXTREMELY LOW-quality projects?

Number 3 - Remixing
Whenever there is a quality project or even worse - a featured project which is absolute garbage, there will always be "omg I remixed first". Almost every single remix I've seen is either a straight-up copy of the original project or a change in the thumbnail. Even worse is that the guidelines contain a whole point for remixing a project "Embrace remix culture". Remixes are not moderated or at least monitored and I have tried reporting them to no avail.

Number 4 - Discovering
The search function is not very functional and the only way to find a project that has actually achieved something new that isn't just a platformer, clicker etc is very hard. Many people who have created technically achieving projects just end up leaving the platform because people are not able to find their projects, discouraging them to continue bringing new techniques to the platform. The website is now stuck in the platformer clicker era for a few years now.

A good way to teach coding to 7-10-year-olds, just don't touch the sharing your project part. Nor almost all of the site except the editor. Also their desktop app also has issues with saving your project.

TERRIBLE WEBSITE
THE FEATURES DON'T WORK
COMPUTER IS SLOW (I have 16GB ram)
The mouse doesn't work properly
The paint editor is so bad.
If I click once, the website takes it as 2 clicks

Scratch.mit.edu is a very popular and awesome websites for teaching students to code, which is pretty safe and legit to use. However, the rules are strict and a lot of scratchers are blocked or banned. Please give them a chance so that they can be a nice scratch.