The Open Source Projects forum is full of topics that have nothing to do with Scratch's open source projects. Please either remove all the offtopic posts or remove the forum and they ontopic topics moved to the ATs

No support.

If they had a forum full of non-open-source-project-forums they would have closed them all.
wouldn't they?

What's an Open Source Project?
When coding a project in the greater community of software developers, open source refers to coding something that anyone has free access to, like Scratch projects. This means you can of course grab a copy of our open source repository and build with it however you'd like to!

Open source repositories can be collaborative though, and usually have a small group of people who spend a lot of time working on them and maintaining them. While each one is worked on collaboratively by a small group of people – the Scratch Team – we still highly encourage, and really want contributions to them from the community.

At Scratch, we have a couple of different open source repositories. While the Scratch Team are the only people who can create new features for the repositories at this point, we do accept bug fixes and bug reports from the community.

What can we use this forum for?
To ask pretty much any questions and comments you might have about any of our open source projects .

Having trouble getting a copy of the project and working with it on your own computer? Ask about it in the forum!

Working on something in your own copy that you need help with, or want to work on someone else with? Ask someone in the forum!

We really want this to be a place where we all come together not only to build and talk with Scratch, but to build Scratch itself.

Here's a list of all of our current open source projects:
Scratch Blocks – a fork of Google's Blockly project. Together with the Scratch Virtual Machine (VM) this codebase allows for the rapid design and development of visual programming interfaces. This is still in development, and will be a part of the next generation of Scratch which we informally call “Scratch 3.0”.

Scratch Virtual Machine – a library for representing, running, and maintaining the state of scripts written using Scratch Blocks.

Scratch WWW – the new user interface for the Scratch website (including the recently updated Scratch Homepage) and where all of our ongoing updates to the website design will go.

ScratchX – the code for the ScratchX website, which is a separate experimental platform built to test experimental Scratch features, also known as Experimental Extensions. There is no login or community component to ScratchX, and projects created within ScratchX can only be run on ScratchX.

Scratch REST API – the documentation on how you can access Scratch data programmatically, outside of the Scratch website interface. Props to @liam48D for starting their own documentation before we released the API too!

Scratch Parser – A Node.js module that parses and validates Scratch projects

Here are the titles of the the current top forums in the OSP forum:

Lazerblast Forums! by TheSmashers (New Posts)
Open Source Scratch App Launcher by topman101 (New Posts)
The Results of the Best Sprite Contest by Okapi11 (New Posts)
Undertale- Play as Sans! by coolie101 (New Posts)
Choose your own adventure, Share page by Hyper51 (New Posts)
how to add a custom block on scratch-vm by sciclass (New Posts)
Where can I download scratchR? by Ihaveexpectations (New Posts)
About scratch Add an extension by scratch_jzx (New Posts)
Question about copying by zorket (New Posts)
OxBrowse - HTML Browser and Veiwer by card100
HELP!!! by Scooter867 (New Posts)
ADD VIDEO BUTTON AND PROJECT SIZE LIMIT by AwesomeAircaft (New Posts)
New Blocks are too Cartoony/Bulky by karatebuilderboy (New Posts)
griffpatch's tale of the fiery dragon codes! by Sohpatrol1 (New Posts)
"https://github.com/LLK name changed to Scratch by _nix"
Multi-Sim Commercial Submit by 3l1 (New Posts)
New cloud data system info? by Dylan5797 (New Posts)
Is ScratchJR open source? by DrKat123
Scratch 3.0 Preview in… Google Santa Tracker? by KryptykProductions (New Posts)
Scratch 2.0: How do I load local projects by fezzinate
Scratch 3.0 Source Code by IMPULSS (New Posts)
Animate CC by Spooikypok_Dev (New Posts)
How to build a scratch editor？ by luckyforlei (New Posts)
Scratch-Blocks General Question by VolatileZ (New Posts)

Only 8 or 9 of those topics are about Scratch's Open Source Projects.

No support

It would be better to just change the name and description, as they can mislead people to think of open-source projects created in scratch, not projects created by scratch.

Support, it was never actually used from the start, really. Just put the open source stuff in the ATs.
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MrJohnSmith wrote:

It would be better to just change the name and description, as they can mislead people to think of open-source projects created in scratch, not projects created by scratch.

It's the other way around, open source projects for the Scratch website (and editor) belong there while the others should go to Show and Tell.
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Digital_Gaming wrote:

No support

[citation needed]
Please can you actually listen!?! I've already had to do this once.

gems89 wrote:

No support.

If they had a forum full of non-open-source-project-forums they would have closed them all.
wouldn't they?

Did you even look in the forum?

Digital_Gaming wrote:

No support

Why tho?


I don't think it should be closed down, but definitely cleared up.

Sigton

Sigton wrote:

I don't think it should be closed down, but definitely cleared up.

Sigton

Or combined with Advanced Topics?

Digital_Gaming wrote:

No support

Ahh, there will always be the one person, who chooses either rebellion or incompetence, that we shall never know.

No support, but I'm somewhat wavering towards semi-supporting.

I would think it wouldn't be necessary to move it into the AT section, that plus it would cause (at the very least) a little confusion to those who have been using the forum topic for a while.

Why I'm wavering? I feel at the same time it isn't necessary for it to have its own topic…

I'm kind of at war with myself atm. ._.

MathlyCat wrote:

Sigton wrote:

I don't think it should be closed down, but definitely cleared up.

Sigton

Or combined with Advanced Topics?

True that would work.

Sigton

Digital_Gaming wrote:

No support

You need to be constructive.

No Support… There are a couple of related topics. Tougher moderation with the types of projects that make it in there would help though.

Sigton wrote:

MathlyCat wrote:

Sigton wrote:

I don't think it should be closed down, but definitely cleared up.

Sigton

Or combined with Advanced Topics?

True that would work.

Sigton

I don't typically browse the AT/Open Source forums, but looking at the use of both of them, it seems reasonable to me as well.

Bump. Today I looked at the first page of that forum, and only two topics were at least slightly related to Scratch's open source projects. None of them actually belong in that forum. So I agree that the category should be merged with the ATs.

Bump.

no support, I'm planning on creating an open sourced project soon

-CloudGate- wrote:

no support, I'm planning on creating an open sourced project soon

That would not go into that forum. Open Source Projects is a forum regarding Scratch's open source things.

fdreerf wrote:

-CloudGate- wrote:

no support, I'm planning on creating an open sourced project soon

That would not go into that forum. Open Source Projects is a forum regarding Scratch's open source things.

oh, ok

Bump.

I checked the open source projects forum and it seems pretty inactive, and not many seem to relate to Scratch open source (wait, isn't that what github is for?). So I guess I support, but this is a pretty uninformed opinion.

-CloudGate- wrote:

no support, I'm planning on creating an open sourced project soon

I guess that would go in collaboration, right? That or requests/AT

gosoccerboy5 wrote:

wait, isn't that what github is for?

Yes, GitHub or Advanced Topics.