A guide to the forums for new scratchers!

asqwde

Hello
Welcome to the Forums

What are the Forums?

According to the Scratch Wiki, “The Scratch Discussion Forums are a part of the Scratch Website where Scratchers may show others their projects, ask for help, suggest ideas for the Scratch program or website, and more.”

Where can I access the forums?

The link can be found at the footer of the Scratch Website (on every page) under “Community”. You can also go to here.

The Forums

The different forums include:

The Announcements Forum
This forum is for announcements from the Scratch Team.

The New Scratchers Forum
This forum is for New Scratchers to introduce themselves into the community.

Help with Scripts
This forum is for users to request for help on projects their working on.

Show and Tell
This forum is for users to show off their projects and studios.

Project Ideas
This forum is for users to discuss project ideas with others.

Collaboration
This forum is for users to work together to create a project.

Requests
This forum is for users who are looking for something and users who want to offer their skills.

Questions About Scratch!
This forum is for general questions about Scratch.

Bugs and Glitches
This forum is for users to point out some of the bugs in Scratch they have recently experienced.

Advances Topics
This forum is for users to talk about technical aspects, advanced features, and/or Scratch Modifications (Mods).

Connecting to the Physical World
This forum is for topics related to Pico Boards, LEGO WeDo ™, and connecting Scratch projects to the physical world.

Developing Scratch Extensions!
This forum is used to give and get help creating Scratch Extensions.

Open Source Projects!
This forum is for all discussions that relate to Scratch's open source projects.

Things I'm Making and Creating
This forum is for users to discuss things they are creating or exploring outside of Scratch, like art, music, programming languages, or crafts.

Things I'm Reading and Playing!
This forum is for users to discuss books, TV, movies, art, music, or videogames that inspire them.

Notes
Other language forums can be found at the bottom of the Discussion Forums page.

What are Stickies?

Stickies are topics that the Scratch Team might consider helpful for (New) Scratchers to use. Stickies are listed at the top of all the forums and have a a blue thumbtack as a logo instead of the normal blue dot. If you wish for your topic to be stickied, you can report the post. In “Reason” section, simply put you are requesting for your topic to be stickied.

How do I create a new topic?

Upon entering a forum, a blue button saying “New Topic” will appear in the top right corner of the forum. Click on the button to create a New Topic.

How do I post in a forum?

If a forum is not closed, scroll to the bottom of the page and type your reply in the New Reply section.

What is a closed topic?

A closed topic is a topic that has been closed by the owner or Scratch Team. That means that you are no longer able to post on that thread. However, you can report the post to request it be reopened.

Other Forums

There are private forums like the SDS forum, the SST forum, and the SWC forum which only certain people can access. The permission to enter those forums is granted by the Scratch Team.

What is a post count?

A post count is a count of how many times you have posted in the forums. You can find the number of posts you have here.

What is bumping a topic?

Bumping a topic means posting the reply “bump” in a topic so it gets moved to the top of the list below the Stickies. Bumping is used by users who want their post to be viewed for opinions/answers.
Please do not bump your post twice in a period of 24 hours

How can I edit my post?

If you have posted a post click edit in the bottom right corner of the post. If you are a New Scratcher, you will need to become a Scratcher in order to do this.

How should I report a post?

Click report at the bottom of the post and explain why you are reporting that post.

Hopefully this answers your basic questions about the Scratch Forums. Be sure to look at the rest of the stickies for more information!

credit to @BY147258369 for the format

Last edited by asqwde (Jan. 17, 2018 19:48:41)

Wahsp

asqwde wrote:
How can I edit my post?

If you have posted a post and you want to edit it then click edit at the bottom of your post!

If this is for new scratchers, you might want to mention that they can't edit posts until they become scratchers

asqwde

Wahsp wrote:
asqwde wrote:
How can I edit my post?

If you have posted a post and you want to edit it then click edit at the bottom of your post!
If this is for new scratchers, you might want to mention that they can't edit posts until they become scratchers

Thanks! I changed it

BY147258369

I'll remake this so you can edit it into the original.

asqwde

bump

290Scratcher

Wahsp wrote:
asqwde wrote:
How can I edit my post?

If you have posted a post and you want to edit it then click edit at the bottom of your post!
If this is for new scratchers, you might want to mention that they can't edit posts until they become scratchers

You can edit posts as New Scratchers, just not after leaving the page.

Last edited by 290Scratcher (July 26, 2021 15:04:14)

-ShadowOfTheFuture-

Congrats on the sticky!

asqwde

-ShadowOfTheFuture- wrote:
Congrats on the sticky!

Thanks!

lyandis

Thanks !

asqwde

lyandis wrote:
Thanks !

No problem

creeperkaboom1

bump

Tree188

Hey! I'm not a new Scratcher, but I've never used the forums before. I have a question;
I can't use the search tool, it just says “search” and when I click on it, it says that it hasn't found anything on that topic, even though I never typed anything. Does anyone know why or how I could fix it/get around it?

BY147258369

Tree188 wrote:
Hey! I'm not a new Scratcher, but I've never used the forums before. I have a question;
I can't use the search tool, it just says “search” and when I click on it, it says that it hasn't found anything on that topic, even though I never typed anything. Does anyone know why or how I could fix it/get around it?

The search bar for the discussion forums hasn't been working for a while. It's better to just search it up on google if you want to know something.

purplewolves

Good guide.

Yet, I am the person confused what this Bumping, I had to look it up earlier today XD

asqwde

purplewolves wrote:
Good guide.

Yet, I am the person confused what this Bumping, I had to look it up earlier today XD

koa-blossoms1111

Wow, thanks for helping me out!

asqwde

koa-blossoms1111 wrote:
Wow, thanks for helping me out!

No problem

ExplosiveThingy

How do you add that thing at the end of each post?

1cloner

hello everyone whats up anyone need anything

asqwde

ExplosiveThingy wrote:
How do you add that thing at the end of each post?

Please don’t ask questions here instead make a new topic in questions about scratch

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