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The Scratch Website is the official website for Scratch, in which 用户 can upload and view 专案, as well as communicate with others through 注释 on 个人资讯 , 创作坊, projects, and posts on the Scratch 论坛. The URL of the Scratch website is https://scratch.mit.edu/.
The Scratch Website is extremely customizable; other users can be 关注, studios can be created, and projects can be deleted. Other users' profiles can be viewed as well.
The site houses the Scratch 社群; every user has their own 个人资讯页. It also hosts the 最近分享的专案, the 大家最喜欢 , 精选专案, 大家都改编, and the 我关注的专案 (if the logged-in user is 关注ing others), and more sections.
Sections
Below is a list of all main sections of the Scratch Website:
- Scratch 编程
- Front Page (the website's homepage)
- Profile Page
- 我的东西 editor
- Shared projects
- Studios
- Scratch Forums
- 探索 projects and studios
- Help areas
- Scratch Wiki
- Scratch 网站的翻译
历史
早期的Scratch网站比现在的要小得多，因为它拥有一个较小的社区。 示例差异在于，首页包含的行少得多，论坛的行数较小，并且页面差别很大。
Early Days and Beta
When Scratch was first announced to the public they started with small blog. After a while, for the picked testers, they opened a page on the blog where Scratch projects could be shown and played by the public. Once Scratch was released to the public, hundreds of Scratchers starting making projects and wanting to post them to the Scratch blog. The Scratch Team then decided to extend the blog into a full website so everyone could post their projects and give feedback to one another. When Scratch was first made it did not have a website as developed as the current one. It was just a single web page introducing Scratch and giving some links to "Scratch 卡片" and "教学用专案". Over time, the creators of Scratch created a community as they saw that one could be effectively created.[1]
The beta version of the Scratch Website can be found here.
Structure
The structure of the website has changed over time. New features such as Scratch 创作坊s were introduced, along with entirely new areas such as the Text-based Games Forum. There has been renovation as well; such as an entire change to the Front Page (also allowing a row specifically for 策展者) or forum changes (archiving, creation).
In May 2013, the entire Scratch website was updated to Scratch 2.0. The site underwent many changes, including a new project editor online with many new features, such as procedures and cloning; an updated look; new features on the site, such as Explore, My Stuff, and 关联的专案; an updated Front Page; and fresh forums (the old ones were archived).
Growth
The site has grown largely over time. It has reached a count of over seven million projects, and a count of over four and a half million Scratchers. All areas of the site are growing, and will most likely continue to do so; the site is showing no signs of slowing down.
European Server
On the 27th of July, 2010,[2] a separate version of the site was created for users outside of the US. This was exactly the same website, the only difference was that the caching engine was hosted in a server in Europe, with the hope that this would increase the speed of the connection for users outside the US. However, this was only a test of the system and many users experienced difficulties with the system, therefore the site was abandoned and no longer exists.
Errors
- See also: Maintenance Mode
Sometimes 403, 404, or 500 errors appear throughout the website. 403 errors appear when a person tries to view a page without permission. 404 errors are thrown when a page on Scratch does not exist, and 500 errors are thrown when the Scratch server had an error. Also, if the Scratch Team is making major changes to the website, Scratchers will be redirected to the Maintenance Mode until the maintenance is over.
There are also some other errors some users get such as the 504 "Gateway Timeout" error.[3] However, they only return a basic text screen instead of a decorative message.
Website Demographics
Alexa shows that the mit.edu domain is ranked 1,224 in the world for website traffic, although this also includes the main MIT site. Alexa also shows that it is ranked 860 in the US, and that there are 123,717 websites linking into it. 11.84% of visitors to the main MIT site visited the scratch.mit.edu subdomain.[4] The highest number of visits in a day to the Scratch Website was 59,814, on October 8, 2009 according to Quantcast statistics. The highest number of visits in a month was over 1,200,000.[5]
