Change the Scratch Domain

Rendangbike2

fdreerf wrote:
Plus, .edu doesn't even make any sense, because Scratch is not a school (unlike MIT, which is).

.edu make sense because
A. Scratch is an educational platforms where kids can learn to code.
B. Since 2001, new registrants for second-level domain names have been required to be United States–affiliated institutions of higher education. And that affiliated institutions of higher education is MIT and like Wikipedia says "The service is developed by the MIT Media Lab"..

Rendangbike2

da_fin wrote:
fdreerf wrote:
Rendangbike2 wrote:
By what point? I can make everything an organization. Oh that's a studio, it's an organization. Oh that's a collab, it's an organization
.org was originally intended for non-profit organizations and is still dominated by them today. Scratch is a non-profit organization. Plus, .edu doesn't even make any sense, because Scratch is not a school (unlike MIT, which is).
The reason that it's .edu is that it's a subset of MIT.edu.

Yes, and the domain .mit.edu exist for example
win.mit.edu // It's not a school
ist.mit.edu // It's also not a school
kb.mit.edu // It's also not a school

Last edited by Rendangbike2 (Dec. 16, 2020 05:42:08)

mybearworld

If you prefer https://scratch.org, just use it. It will always redirect you. scratch.scratchfoundations.org is just to long.

Ex:

https://scratch.org/create/ -> https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/create

Jeffalo

i like scratch.org, but scratch.mit.edu has this legacy and history that would make scratch.org feel wrong to use.

plus, scratch.mit.edu has this sense of legitimacy because of the mit.edu, while scratch.org doesn't. anyone can make a .org

mybearworld

mybearworld wrote:
If you prefer https://scratch.org, just use it. It will always redirect you. scratch.scratchfoundations.org is just to long.

Ex:

https://scratch.org/create/ -> https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/create

I'm adding here that I'm very used to .mit.edu.
It would be a hard change.

Though if you really want scratch.org, then like I said, use it.

NanoPIex

No support. The “Field at Mit” backdrop wouldn't make sense.

--Explosion--

No support. 1: It's hard to migrate between domains, 2: The new one would be SO much longer, 3: Scratch already owns scratch.org, and all of its urls redirect to the actual scratch.mit.edu pages.

fdreerf

NanoPIex wrote:
No support. The “Field at Mit” backdrop wouldn't make sense.

Can you not have an image of something without being affiliated with it?

aj0828

How about scratch.edu?

GachaN0nsense

no support, scratch.mit.edu is already ingrained in a lot of peoples heads, changing the URL will mess it up, and schools might block the site- its fine the way it is.

Tunde123

No support. This would be a bad idea. If the domain is changed, schools will block the website. And scratch is educational, we do not want it to be blocked!

Steve0Greatness

Rendangbike2 wrote:
ScratchCatHELLO wrote:
Rendangbike2 wrote:
-snip-

-snip
fdreerf wrote:
Most of the employees are not affiliated with MIT at all. Most, if not all, of the moderators work from home, and the developers are hired because they can do a programming. Mitchel Resnick, the creator of Scratch, got his Ph.D. in MIT and is the director of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT, so that's why Scratch is associated with MIT – it was created there, but not be any students of MIT.
Scratch isn't really part of MIT anymore.
-snip, uneeded quote-
The service is developed by the MIT Media Lab,

incorrect

Steve0Greatness

Rendangbike2 wrote:
da_fin wrote:
fdreerf wrote:
Rendangbike2 wrote:
By what point? I can make everything an organization. Oh that's a studio, it's an organization. Oh that's a collab, it's an organization
.org was originally intended for non-profit organizations and is still dominated by them today. Scratch is a non-profit organization. Plus, .edu doesn't even make any sense, because Scratch is not a school (unlike MIT, which is).
The reason that it's .edu is that it's a subset of MIT.edu.
Yes, and the domain .mit.edu exist for example
win.mit.edu // It's not a school
ist.mit.edu // It's also not a school
kb.mit.edu // It's also not a school

they're all subsets of MIT.edu
do they look like they're now an organization?
did you just put in random stuff?

sportfan999

I've actually kinda gotten attached to the scratch.mit.edu domain. It's not to long, not too short, and has been with Scratch since the beginning - 13 years!

itschaoticcrazycat

No support. Changing the url has no effect on anything and will be even more of a challenge for people to type and remember.

bobcat0701

NanoPIex wrote:
Why .org? How about scratch.com

scratch.com is a dj website

Steve0Greatness

bobcat0701 wrote:
NanoPIex wrote:
Why .org? How about scratch.com
scratch.com is a dj website

as stated previously, please keep your posts relevant to the current conversation

ScratchCatHELLO

Rendangbike2 wrote:
da_fin wrote:
fdreerf wrote:
Rendangbike2 wrote:
By what point? I can make everything an organization. Oh that's a studio, it's an organization. Oh that's a collab, it's an organization
.org was originally intended for non-profit organizations and is still dominated by them today. Scratch is a non-profit organization. Plus, .edu doesn't even make any sense, because Scratch is not a school (unlike MIT, which is).
The reason that it's .edu is that it's a subset of MIT.edu.
Yes, and the domain .mit.edu exist for example
win.mit.edu // It's not a school
ist.mit.edu // It's also not a school
kb.mit.edu // It's also not a school

those are subdomains of MIT, which is a school.

gosoccerboy5

Scratch.mit.edu is concise and expresses that it's a .edu domain, and part of MIT. No support.

coder_isaiyah11

i want scratch to be in schools so no support

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