Here are today's updates:

Paint Editor:
- Vector paint editor changes:
- Added key bindings for undo (ctl-z) / redo (ctl-shift-z).
- Fixed a bug where stroke would be invisible on new shapes.
- Added Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V to copy and paste selections within or between costumes.
- Added costume inserting via drag and drop from backpack into the image editor.
- Misc. bug fixes.
… We hope to release the first revision of the bitmap editor next week!

Project Editor:
v252
- fix mouse over for checkboxes
- double sound buffer size (hopefully fixes sounds playback stuttering heard on some systems)
- more cloud data fixes from Sayamindu
- obsolete userid block and remove from palette
- cat1 gets a meow!
- numerous small fixes to images in the image library
- switch back to username block from userid

Website:
- url_token was added to css/js page specific links so that should solve the continued ‘hard refresh required to see changes’ issue
- refactor commenting system
- Comments now convert scratch urls to links and @username to links

(Edit: Add username block change.)

We also have a new username block. The project player would notify you before you click the green flag that the project uses the username block.

“redo” should be Ctrl-Y

EDIT:

I like the username block warning message and how you've handled it.

You could make it so you can choose to be either “Anonymous1” or your actual username when the notification pops up. That way, people can still make anonymous surveys.

yeah! the fourms seem to have gone funny.

yaaaay!!

sdg1 wrote:

We also have a new username block. The project player would notify you before you click the green flag that the project uses the username block.

can we also have the userID block?

Magnie wrote:

You could make it so you can choose to be either “Anonymous1” or your actual username when the notification pops up. That way, people can still make anonymous surveys.

Yes - we are considering the option of having an anonymous or incognito mode. However, we need to figure out how the user interaction would look like (without being too confusing for new Scratchers).

fourms back to normal. i think you should make the same thing that you did for username for cloud data to stop phishing( or however you spell it)

Magnie wrote:

You could make it so you can choose to be either “Anonymous1” or your actual username when the notification pops up. That way, people can still make anonymous surveys.

Yep! This is an idea I like as well. Making people log out cuz they don't want to be recorded is putting too much of a burden on them, IMHO.

Lightnin wrote:

Magnie wrote:

You could make it so you can choose to be either “Anonymous1” or your actual username when the notification pops up. That way, people can still make anonymous surveys.

Yep! This is an idea I like as well. Making people log out cuz they don't want to be recorded is putting too much of a burden on them, IMHO.

i just saw you update your signature like 3 times.

So glad stuttering is fixed

yay updates

Nice. How about fixing the paint bucket now? I like LOVE the new fonts for forumn posting.

Yay! Links! But I saw that you, Paddle2See, and some other users, were doing the Scratch Cat, Gobo, and waffles in their comments. Is this released publicly yet?

well then… this is a nice update
I LOVE IT!!!
although i'm going to have to tinker with my fake chat project code now.

I fail to type CJK fonts in Paint editor!

Lightnin wrote:

Scratch 2.0 beta: Now closer to passing the Turing test!

Oooh! Where can I find that project?

blob8108 wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

Scratch 2.0 beta: Now closer to passing the Turing test!

Oooh! Where can I find that project?

lol you could code a program designed only for passing the test

Lightnin wrote:

Scratch 2.0 beta: no orange cats were harmed in the making of project

Please can we have the user ID aswell because now the project I wanted to do is really hard