It's been a busy week since the launch, but we managed to get a lot of bug fixes done and to add a few new features (gradient fill!) Thanks to everyone who helped make the transition as smooth as possible, especially the Transition Team!

Project Editor
- The bitmap editor paint bucket now supports gradient fills
- buttons for solid fill or 3 types of gradient
- buttons reflect currently selected colors as preview of gradient (the rectangle and ellipse buttons now also show the current color)
- cool trick #1: when filling with the paint bucket, clicking multiple times in the same place fills a wider and wider range of colors (i.e. increases the color match tolerance).
- cool trick #2: you can fill with a gradient between transparent and a color
- gradient fill buttons currently hidden in SVG editor; Shane will add gradient support to the SVG editor when the website demands let up a bit.
- fixed a problem with downloading Scratch 1.4 projects uploaded since launch (as opposed to projects migrated from the old website).
- added a microphone volume slider to the sound editor. This was needed by Chromebooks because they don't have an OS control panel for changing the microphone level.
- Added a few sprites (including a couple breakfast items from Champika and a photo of a friend's puppy).
- Added four directions for each arrow (pink and black)
- Added bitmap vs. vector distinction
- Recentered Giga
- Made the elephant bigger and chose the first costume
- Renumbered the Mouse and Fish so they are named starting at Mouse1 and Fish1
- Removed the script from Cassy dance, so none of the sprites have scripts

Website
- Fixed issue with unshared projects showing up in “what's happening” when they're created
- Fixed issues with logging in on mobile phones - please test. Sign in should now give a modal on mobile phones and blue top nav bar should not break anymore.
- Removed some unused code in swf - ensure script and sprite counts still show up correctly on Projects
- Don't allow unshared/ censored projects to be accessed through embed link
- Added a call to purge cache (thanks Sayamindu) when changing profile image - should fix issue with profile pics not updating (please test)
- the share buttons for censored projects on the project page and mystuff should now reshare the project correctly and the censor warning should go away
- normal users should now get a 404 when they try to visit the profile page of a deleted account (they could see the profile before)
- Fixes to the view count throttling system
- Update translations!

Forums (Thanks, nxIII!)

- The CSS for the forums was causing some parts of the site (such as in the sign in bubble) to look different from their normal appearance when browsing the forums.
- The mobile version of the forums should work again.
- You should be able to bookmark <topic url>/unread/ to always go to the first unread post in the thread (the “(New Posts)” links have this URL).
- Tweaked the post editor script. Nothing major, but make sure quoting and the “Are you sure you want to leave this page?” dialog work as expected, and you can't double-post.
- Usernames in posts should now link to profiles instead of inserting usernames as BBCode.

Awesomely huge number of update, Lightnin, very cool! I'm glad some of the CSS issues were fixed in particular!

If you're releasing this in announcements later, FYI you put “bucked” instead of “bucket” in cool trick #1

sparks wrote:

Awesomely huge number of update, Lightnin, very cool! I'm glad some of the CSS issues were fixed in particular!

If you're releasing this in announcements later, FYI you put “bucked” instead of “bucket” in cool trick #1

I never make mistakes.

(Thanks!)

i just noticed!!!!! and whaddya know, already a topic Thanks you for gradients!!!! making project now…

Mobile works now! Thanks for the fix!

Thank you so much! Now I can draw my character properly with the gradient and everything! And the rest is really cool, too! Thanks again!

Lightnin wrote:

- The bitmap editor paint bucket now supports gradient fills

FINALLY!!!

Lightnin wrote:

- The CSS for the forums was causing some parts of the site (such as in the sign in bubble) to look different from their normal appearance when browsing the forums.

Thank God that's fixed . I knew it was something with the CSS

GRADIENTS! YESSS!

Just something I want to bring up, how about a slider for fill sensitivity? The multi-click thing comes close. This would help with eliminating pixel distortion from imported images. HOW IT WOULD WORK: High sensitivity- it is very, very picky about what is considered the same color. If a pixel is slightly off-color, it ignores it in the fill, so that pixel still shows up. Low sensitiviy- Very relaxed about what is the same color. Something generally green will be accepted as fully green, etc. At highest sensitivity, it would only distinguish between pixels that are there and emptiness. Default should be 50% sensitive. This is only needed for Bitmap, because Vector has no pixel distortion and works entirely different in the first place.

Just a thought. I'll make a mockup if you request one.

It's only been a week, yet it feels like it's been longer. Time flies when you're coding!

ElectricSparx wrote:

It's only been a week, yet it feels like it's been longer. Time flies when you're coding!

it's been a week O_o felt shorter… somehow… and you meant yet it feels like its been shorter, otherwise time flies and longer don't match up

also 10th post!

Thanks for the gradient tool.

Awesome!! i love the gradient fill since i'm an artist and a character inventor! DD

Great.But it lags when i go on Turbo Mode, can you fix that?

Lightnin wrote:

sparks wrote:

Awesomely huge number of update, Lightnin, very cool! I'm glad some of the CSS issues were fixed in particular!

If you're releasing this in announcements later, FYI you put “bucked” instead of “bucket” in cool trick #1

I never make mistakes.

Riggggghhhhttttttt.

uhh i found one where using cloud data for scores instead of showing one final score it also shows each individual score it clogs it up and is annoying

But the cat still happy on error pages.

What about the delete button on forum posts?

And nice job ST! Keep up the good work

Awesome! Huge number of updates!

Yay for the updates! You mean now it supports opacity (hopes so c

Rumanti wrote:

Yay for the updates! You mean now it supports opacity (hopes so c; )

fixed

ooh 20th AND 10th post! lol