MROS - My Rant On Scratch. Ep.1: Comments.

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Just click the flag. Yeah. The full text form is here since the thing is kinda big and I am too lazy to resize it in the project: My Rant On Scratch (Ep.1): Comments. I’ve been wanting to do something like this. Don’t get me wrong, Scratch is a great coding platform to use and as an intro to coding before one gets to something slightly harder like Python or Java or C++. HOWEVER, I do have a few nitpicks about the website, and here is the first episode of what I hope will be a series or MROS, or My Rant On Scratch. So. Let’s get started with a feature that shows up everywhere, from profiles to projects: Comments, and why I hate it. COMMENTS Comments, as I am sure you know by now, is a common feature seen in most social media as a text reply to a “post”, whether it be an Instagram picture, Youtube video, or… A Scratch project! There is no need for further explanation to this, as you would probably know about this with less than 5 minutes into any social media site. They are, unfortunately, not very effective in Scratch with it’s way of implementation. First, they are only, ONLY sorted by new to old. And that is annoying. It isn’t implemented like most social media sites with the ways of “liking” or “disliking”. If we can express our feelings to projects with hearts and stars, why can’t we do that with comments that are particularly witty, funny, or just that you really like it. To be honest, now that I think about it, it does turn out to sound like I am whining for things that may not actually be good in the first place, but I am pretty sick of spam or just generally comments that are either being rude, unthoughtful, or just basically bad comments. Good suggestions and bug reports are buried under piles of people repeating the comment “trash” over and over again, those people who say “___th like/favorite”, and advertisements of their own project. If I like a project, I want to know other people’s feelings about it. Adding a like feature is also extremely helpful for when a bug/glitch/cheese is found in one’s project, and it can actually be seen easily by the creator at the top of the comment section because people have experienced it too and wants the creator to know. So, what is the solution? Well, pretty easy, by implementing the like feature on comments, as well as a way to sort comments by likes. This would be probably a better change to the way how comments work. Thank you for reading this episode of MROS. See ya!