Lightnin wrote:

That was an outage we had this morning, due to some very weird behavior on the part of the green unicorn who serves all our content - one of her processes got zombified. She has been spoken to. (Weird that that statement is not a joke. Yes, Scratch depends on green unicorn XD)

Are you sure this isn't a joke, or is the server machine called “green unicorn”?

Lightnin wrote:

We are squashing bugs as fast as we can, in preparation for the release of Scratch 2.0! That said, fast development sometimes introduces new glitches. So please report any new problems in the Bugs and Glitches forums!

Project Editor:
v292
- revert autosave interval to 1 minute
- bug 532: don't redirect to project page when “share” button pressed in editor (test)
- bug 545: Sprite “Can Drag in Player” checkbox incorrectly showing as checked
- bug 629: “set size” block displaying multiple decimal points
- bug 701: sort variables/lists alphabetically in palette
- bug 798: prevent projects from not having thumbnails and showing the old censored cat talking image
- bug 685: Scratch 1.x projects with a lot of sound data seem slow to download
v293
- bug 184: invisible pixels blocking a Slider
- some old projects with comments fail to load
- tooltips for paint editor UI elements

Website:
- New contact us page
- More homepage optimization
- Users not following users or studios don't see empty carousels.
- Show 1 insead of 0 for projects with no remixes on remix tree.
- validate uploaded thumbnails
- fix page title escaping in help search results
- Rewrite add to galleries (on project page)

Scratch On and thanks for being patient during the beta!

One thing you really need to add is a black outline around the scroll bars in the editor, sometimes they get cloaked by the colours of the blocks and it becomes hard to see.

Happy_echiniscus wrote:

Will there be a downloadable version with the official release?

That will come later this summer. In the meantime, you can continue to use the Scratch 1.4 editor to make projects off-line. They will load to the new site when you share them.

oh cool, the some of the bugs is fixed!

Sliders don't work.

dr3w8 wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

That was an outage we had this morning, due to some very weird behavior on the part of the green unicorn who serves all our content - one of her processes got zombified. She has been spoken to. (Weird that that statement is not a joke. Yes, Scratch depends on green unicorn XD)

Are you sure this isn't a joke, or is the server machine called “green unicorn”?

It's the server. Notice how he had no “a” between “depends on” and “green unicorn”. Also, the scratch team has the right humor to name their server “green unicorn” with no caps.

Explore page “sort by” doesn't work on Windows IE.

Happy_echiniscus wrote:

Will there be a downloadable version with the official release?

Not immediately