Eng:Scratch Timeline

This timeline covers all major events in Scratch history.

March

 * 5 The oldest existing project, Weekend, was uploaded.


 * 7(?) The Scratch Forums were released.

May

 * 15 The first public version of Scratch, 1.0, was publicly released.


 * 15 The Scratch Website was publicly released.


 * 26(?) Scratch 1.1 was released.

August

 * 6 The Newest Projects row on the Front Page was removed due to inappropriate projects being displayed.


 * 6 Automatic credit in remixes were implemented.


 * 7 Images donated by LEGO became available.


 * 8 The Top Downloaded row on the Front Page was added.


 * 16 The ability to post blocks on the Scratch Forums was added.

September

 * 16 Basic gallery features were implemented.

October

 * 24 The ability to flag comments as inappropriate was implemented.

December

 * 2 Scratch 1.2 was released.


 * 7 After reports of numerous bugs, Scratch 1.2.1 was released.


 * 17 The Scratch Website became available in multiple languages.

April

 * 29 The Ignore List,  new gallery features, character count in comment box, and ability to reply to comments were implemented.

June

 * 1 The What the Community is Remixing row was added to the Front Page.

August

 * 5 The New Scratch Members forum was created.

September

 * 2 Scratch 1.3 was released.

November

 * 24 Scratch 1.3.1 was released.

December

 * 1 Paddle2See and Jens become administrators on the Scratch Website.


 * 6 The first Scratch Day event was hosted (under the name Scratcher Meetup @ MIT).


 * 6 The Scratch Wiki is created on Wikia.


 * 12 Signatures in the Scratch Forums were temporarily removed due to spammers using them to post inappropriate links.

May

 * 16 The second Scratch Day event was hosted.


 * 31 My Friends' Latest Projects and Projects from Scratch Design Studio rows were added to the Front Page.


 * 31 The Newest Projects row was put back, but only available to Scratchers when they were logged in.


 * 31 The Surprise Projects row was removed.


 * 31 The Top Downloaded row was removed.


 * 31 The curator feature was implemented.

July

 * 2 Scratch 1.4 was released.

August

 * 3 Cheddargirl became a Community Moderator.

October

 * 27 The Text Based Games Forums were moved to a separate place on the Scratch Website.

February

 * 17 The first Operation: Cleanup is launched on the TBGs.

March

 * 11 Operation: Cleanup is completed.

April

 * 15 Remix Trees were released.


 * 21 The official one millionth project was shared on the Scratch Website.


 * 23 The Scratch Statistics website was released.

May

 * 19 The first Community Moderator elections were held.


 * 21 The election results were released.

June

 * 3 The Scratch Wiki was released on wiki.scratch.mit.edu.


 * 10 The Scratch Forums received spam attacks from a group of trolls. In response, the Scratch Team decided to disable images.


 * 11 The second Operation: Cleanup is launched on the TBGs.


 * 12 The New Scratcher Status was implemented in response to the spam/troll attacks.


 * 13 Images were re-enabled for those that were not New Scratchers.

July

 * 6 The second Operation: Cleanup on the TBG ends.


 * 17 Scratch Resources was released.


 * 29 The Pac-Man Project made by 124scratch was removed.

August

 * 11 The Experimental Viewer was released.

October

 * 20 Clutter was released.


 * 20 The second Community moderator elections were held.


 * 22 The election results were released.


 * 27 The third Operation: Cleanup is started on the TBG forum.

November

 * 10 The Archived Forums are hidden from the index.


 * 11 Archived forums are available from the jump to tool at the bottom of every page.


 * 15 The Newest Projects row on the Front Page displays a random selection of projects.

2011


February

 * 22 The Beta Flash Player was released.

April

 * 26 Users banned on the Scratch Forums can no longer visit the Text Based Games Forums.

July

 * 21 The third Community Moderator elections were held.


 * 22 The election results were released.

August

 * 1 Collab Camp began.


 * 9 The "Terms of Use" page was changed to Community Guidelines.


 * 27 The official two millionth project was shared on the Scratch Website.


 * 27-28 The Scratch Website was temporarily set in read-only mode due to Hurricane Irene. The forums were temporarily shut down.

November

 * 18 The What the Community is Remixing, What the Community is Loving, and What the Community is Viewing rows show three randomly selected projects from the top 10.

December

 * 26 [img] (Image tags) are disabled on the Scratch Forums.  They remained enabled in signatures during this time.

January

 * 18 Scratch protested SOPA and PIPA by featuring anti-SOPA projects, and putting up a banner saying "The Scratch Team values a free and open internet, so it opposes PIPA and SOPA".


 * 26 The Scratch Team reorganized the Scratch Forums, including renaming forums, and replacing Miscellaneous with two separate forums: Things I'm Making and Creating and Things I'm Reading and Playing forums.


 * 27 The Block Plugin was added to the Scratch Forums, which allows, in [scratchblocks] BBCode tags, scripts to be typed as they appear in Scratch, and they will parse.



February

 * 2 Links to YouTube videos on the forums are linked to a Scratch YouTube Video Player rather than the previously used Youtube Repeat website.


 * 15 Post counts on the forums are now shown in levels, instead of the exact post count. Users with below 100 posts have the exact count shown; otherwise it shows 100+, 500+, or 1000+. This does not apply to the Text Based Games Forums, as some games require users knowing their or others' exact post count(s).

April

 * 3 Demosthenes retires from Community Moderator position.


 * 5 Nominations for the Spring 2012 Community Moderator elections begin.


 * 9 The candidates for the Community Moderator elections are announced.


 * 11 Voting begins for the Community Moderator elections. The vote was open from 11AM to 11PM, Scratch Time.


 * 12 The results from the Community Moderator elections were announced. The winners were Lucario621, Scimonster, and sparks. They did not begin moderating until the 18th, however.


 * 13 Image tags re-enabled.

May

 * 17-22 Scratch 2.0 prototype was available to the public.


 * 19 Scratch Day 2012 at MIT.

August

 * 24 Scratch Welcoming Committee created.


 * 30 Scratch Forums search index rebuilt, in the hopes of fixing some issues with the search.

September

 * 10 Flash Player updated to release candidate status, and redone in Scratch 2.0 styling.

October

 * 3(?) Chrischb retires from TBG Moderator position.


 * 18 The Flash project player becomes the default.

December

 * 23 The official three millionth project was shared on the Scratch Website.

January

 * 28 Scratch 2.0 goes into open beta. It was available at https://beta.scratch.mit.edu.

March

 * 1 The old TBG Forums shut down due to lack of activity on the forums.  The new TBG forums are at https://tbgforums.com but these are made by Scratchers, not the Scratch Team. Controversy starts to develop on the removal.

May

 * 6-8 Both the Scratch 1.4 website and 2.0 beta website were shut down for the transition to Scratch 2.0.


 * 9 Scratch 2.0 was released to the public.

August

 * 26 The Scratch 2.0 offline editor beta was released, which can be downloaded here.

October

 * 7 The Community Moderator program ends, and they were replaced by the Scratch Mentors, with the first Mentors chosen being ErnieParke, LiFaytheGoblin, and P110.


 * 27 The official 4 millionth project was shared to the Scratch website.

December

 * 9-15 Scratch was featured in the Hour of Code.


 * 10 The search engine was changed to Google.

January

 * 10 Scratchers were given the ability to opt in/out of a beta project player.

March

 * 15(?) The official 5 millionth project was shared.

May

 * 1 The Scripts Workshop/Team is officially running as a part of Scratch Helpers.

June

 * 4 The footer of the main website was changed, and the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy were added.
 * 10 Scratch 1.4 was added to Raspberry Pi, with an extension block for its GPIO pins.

July

 * 7 Creative Characters Camp begins.


 * 16 The official 6 millionth project was shared.


 * 28 Creative Characters Camp ends.


 * 30 ScratchJr is officially released to the public.

September

 * 24 Follower, following, and profile comment counts were removed from profiles.

October

 * 15 Spike in traffic due to Europe Code Week.


 * 29 Fixed Chrome keyboard lag bug, prevent invalid characters from erasing comments, fixed remix count on Top Remixed sometimes shows as on, project & Studio owners should no longer able to report their own stuff, add “Be Honest” to Community Guidelines, put grey box around sprite thumbnails to make “invisible sprites” visible.

November

 * 12 New sprites, backdrops, and sounds in editor, optimized graphics in editor, new "Pong" tutorial in editor, Add Scratch Press page to footer.


 * 15 The official 7 millionth project was shared.

December

 * 1 Added option to delete your account. Read more here.


 * 5 First Scratch video update. See Video Updates for more information.


 * 17 New sprites, backdrops, and sounds in editor.

January

 * 6 The five millionth account was created.

February

 * 12 Email Address Confirmation was added.


 * 12 Customizable Featured Project (Profile Page) labels were added.


 * 12 A new Valentine's themed tutorial and sprites were added.  The tutorial can be found here.

April

 * 16 A re-design for the Tips window was implemented.

May

 * 9 Scratch Day 2015.


 * 14 Scratch turned eight years old.

July

 * 4 The Scratch Website reached 10 million projects and a special Scratch Design Studio was created for this occasion.  This studio can be found here.


 * 12 Start of Mix and Match Camp.


 * 15 An "About" Tab was added to the navigation bar.


 * 15 A project filter based on language was added to the "Explore" Tab.


 * 26 End of Mix and Match Camp.

August

 * 8 Front Page Curator Shifts were shortened from two weeks, to one week.


 * 11 The Picoboard and Lego WeDo extensions were updated.


 * 12 Start of Scratch2015AMS Conference.


 * 15 End of Scratch2015AMS Conference.

September

 * 28 "Race to Finish" tutorial was added.

October

 * 5 Hora do Codigo Brasil (The Brazilian Hour of Code) Begins.


 * 9 Europe Code Week Begins.


 * 14 The 11 millionth project was shared.


 * 26 The Scratch Team completely redesigned the Scratch Homepage.

December

 * 7 International Computer Science Education Week 2015 and the Hour of Code began.  Scratch was featured in the event for its third year in a row.
 * 13 Computer Science Education Week 2015 ended.
 * 21 The Record Project Video feature was added to the Scratch Program.

January

 * 29 The Magic Wand Tool was added to the Paint Editor.
 * 29 The _candycorn_ emoji was added, in honor of departing Scratch Team member, RjLance.

February

 * 1 The Scratch Blog Series began.
 * 2 The Open Source Projects Forum was opened to the public.
 * 23 The Scratch website reached 10 million registered accounts. The _10mil_ emoji was added in celebration.
 * 24 First Wiki Wednesday

March

 * 31 The SDS Curators released their last SDS, which later turned out to be an April Fools joke.

April

 * 1 The Scratch Team released its April Fools joke that the Scratch Cat went on vacation. Scratchers had to create projects on where they think the Scratch Cat was. The Scratch Cat left clues on where they were on their profile page.

May

 * 14 Scratch turned 9 years old.

October

 * 15 Scratch reached its 100th SDS.

December

 * 5 International Computer Science Education Week 2017 began. Scratch was featured in the event.
 * 11 International Computer Science Education Week 2017 ended.

April

 * 1 The Scratch Wiki celebrated April Fool's Day by changing many pages' content to absurd joke pages. The original content could be found at the bottom of the page and this lasted for one day.

May

 * 2 Scratch started celebrating its 10th birthday.
 * 6 Scratch Day @ MIT.
 * 9 Anniversary of Scratch 2.0's release.
 * 15 Official 10th anniversary of Scratch's release.

July

 * 5 The "Discuss" button on the header of the Scratch Website was removed, in favour of the Tips Page. This caused much controversy in the forums.
 * 18 Scratch2017BDX began.
 * 21 Scratch2017BDX ended.
 * 24 First part of Scratch Camp: Down Deep began.
 * 31 Second part of Scratch Camp: Down Deep began.

August

 * 7 Third part of Scratch Camp: Down Deep began.
 * 13 Scratch Camp: Down Deep ended.

November

 * 30 The Scratch Team announced a new userscript policy, in which userscripts and browser extensions for Scratch could no longer be advertised.

December

 * 4 Computer Science Education Week began. Scratch was featured in the event.
 * 10 Computer Science Education Week ended.

January

 * 24 The Scratch Team posted an official YouTube video, where speakvisually plays projects by the Scratch Community in zero-gravity.

February

 * 15 It was announced that cloud data would only have 128 characters at most in Scratch 3.0. Hexadecimal numbers will be prohibited.
 * 16 The Scratch Wiki at   was transferred over to.

March

 * 22 The amount of shared projects exceeded 30 million.

April

 * 9 Scratch reached its 300th front page curator.
 * 21 The "Recently Shared Projects" row on the Front Page was removed.

May

 * 3 The Scratch Day 2018 forum was opened.
 * 12 Scratch turned 11 years old.

July

 * 5 The forum post about Scratch Camp: Make Stuff was published.

August

 * 1 The Scratch 3.0 beta was announced, and the beta was released at beta.scratch.mit.edu.

January

 * 2 Scratch 3.0 was released, and it was officially put on the main Scratch Website.
 * 9 The Scratch Team implemented new bug fixes, as users had been reporting numerous bugs after the release.
 * 25 Scratch in Practice (SiP) was created.

February

 * 8 The main site for Scratch in Practice was created.