happex wrote:

Lol no more aviate

fixed; if it still does not work please run ipconfig /flushdns in your terminal

It would be nice if Dynamic Images was improved a bit. For each user an unshared project could be created on an account, and with the API the project's thumbnail could be set to the Dynamic Image. Then that project can be used in forum signatures. I could create

god286 wrote:

It would be nice if Dynamic Images was improved a bit. For each user an unshared project could be created on an account, and with the API the project's thumbnail could be set to the Dynamic Image. Then that project can be used in forum signatures. I could create

Is it possible to use a project's thumbnail on the forums?

NFlex23 wrote:

(#423)

god286 wrote:

It would be nice if Dynamic Images was improved a bit. For each user an unshared project could be created on an account, and with the API the project's thumbnail could be set to the Dynamic Image. Then that project can be used in forum signatures. I could create

Is it possible to use a project's thumbnail on the forums?

It is:

mybearworld wrote:

NFlex23 wrote:

(#423)

god286 wrote:

It would be nice if Dynamic Images was improved a bit. For each user an unshared project could be created on an account, and with the API the project's thumbnail could be set to the Dynamic Image. Then that project can be used in forum signatures. I could create

Is it possible to use a project's thumbnail on the forums?

It is:

Interesting! The user would have to provide an authentication cookie though, for setting the thumbnail. I'm not sure how practical or safe that would be.

Totally amazing! (Can't test it yet cause ScratchDB's down… )

NFLex23 wrote:

Interesting! The user would have to provide an authentication cookie though, for setting the thumbnail. I'm not sure how practical or safe that would be.

With the new filter changes, this is no longer possible, so that's that.

This is great :)

I think I'm going to shut Aviate down soon. Before you ask why, I have my reasons that I hope you'll understand.

First and foremost: ScratchDB. Due to the volatile nature of ScratchDB, Aviate statuses have never been as reliable as I would have liked them to be. It has been down for quite a while recently, and doesn't look like it's coming back up any time soon. Aviate heavily relies on it for all scratch-related statistics, so it being down essentialy renders Aviate's best features useless.

Secondly: ocular. A while ago jeffalo and I were planning on merging Aviate into ocular. I even extracted the status system into an npm package (source of which is here: https://github.com/MystPi/scratchstatus ) for use in ocular. Recently jeffalo has been very busy and not able to integrate the package, but I think he should be able to do it eventually. Even if not, having a package for the status system is more useful IMO since it is fully customizable and doesn't necessarily need to rely on ScratchDB.

Lastly: maintenance, hosting, db, etc. etc. etc. Aviate's dynamic images have been down for quite a while now (I think due to a package not following semver correctly and introducing a breaking change ) and there really isn't any motivation to fix it. Scratch Auth has been having some issues. The site is constantly being fetched by some random person/bot/whatever (more than 75,000 invocations this month alone!) who Vercel won't let me block. These things add up!

So with all that said, Aviate will probably be offline sometime soon. Don't know exactly when, but until then if you want your status to be saved, it's up to YOU to copy it now from the dashboard and save it somewhere locally.

Sidenote: it might seem like I'm blaming ScratchDB for all of these issues. I'm not. I completely sympathize with lefty who has all these random Scratch services depending on their storage and servers. They probably want to shut down ScratchDB just like I want to with Aviate. And I get that! Maintaining stuff like that is hard, especially in lefty's case.

NFlex23 wrote:

I think I'm going to shut Aviate down soon

It's sad to see Aviate go, but it had a good run! Thanks for ~2 years of doing cool stuff for the Scratch community with it :D

Redstone1080 wrote:

NFlex23 wrote:

I think I'm going to shut Aviate down soon

It's sad to see Aviate go, but it had a good run! Thanks for ~2 years of doing cool stuff for the Scratch community with it :D

Thank you very much. That means a lot to me!

Sad to see yet another Scratch related shut down

Even though I haven't been on the scratch forums in a long time it was nice to see Aviate still there after all this time. Thank you for the admin, thank you for this service and thank you for running it for almost 2 years.

Thank you.

sad that aviate is going…

Thanks for making a great service, it had an incredible run

We should give Aviate a proper goodbye.

Idea: set your aviate status to “it was nice meetin ya aviate” or something else

sorry to be off topic, but what is that website where you can see the amount of posts someone has?

dynamicsofscratch wrote:

sorry to be off topic, but what is that website where you can see the amount of posts someone has?

That would be postpercent. I don't think it's working though since ScratchDB is down.