Scratch vs. Tynker, another educational programming site whose editor is similar to Scratch. This was especially in Tynker's early days, when Scratch users derided it for being a "ripoff that charges money for something people can learn for free". This has cooled down since Tynker Grew the Beard, expanded its programming scope, and even lives on a Freemium model, though it still receives flak for the latter.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Scratch is pretty well known in the United Kingdom and regularly used in schools there. Outside the Anglosphere, Scratch is so popular in Japan that it is even the main topic of a TV show over there.
In September 2013, a bug was reported that a semicolon appeared at the end of any webpage on the site. Despite being fixed later, many Scratchers found the glitch funny and yearned for it to come back, such as placing the semicolon in their forum signatures. This was later an Ascended Glitch as part of April Fools' Day of 2014, 2016, and so on. The semicolon glitch was placed back and in 2016, even a semicolon emoticon was temporarily added.
There used to be an exploit that allows a user to follow a deleted account, with the Javascript console.
The "trending glitch" involves unsharing and resharing a project many times to get a project to appear on the "Trending" section of the Explore page without qualifying for "Trending". This is a bannable offense, however.
The EvilKumquat, said to eat up forum signatures.Explanation This was started by cheddargirl, who was too lazy to replace her 1.0 signature in 2.0 and decided to put the kumquat joke in. The Scratchers used the joke afterwards, such as replacing their signatures with a message saying that a kumquat ate the signature or fake bodyguards to fight off kumquats.
Sam, one of the premade sprites to choose from, due to WazzoTV
"Sorry - this topic is not a good fit for this forum section. Please review the Posting Guidelines."Explanation Paddle2See's message (or Catchphrase) whenever closing a forum topic, usually in the Things I'm Making and Creating/Reading and Playing forums. This has been made fun of because of its lacking of specific reason and forcing users to read the vaguely-defined guidelines.
Related meme: "paddling noises"Explanation Because of Paddle2See's recurring duty of closing topics, particularly in the Things I'm Reading and Playing forum, users will mention sounds of paddling on a topic likely to be closed soon.
Thanos CatExplanation Because of the Obvious Beta status of Scratch 3.0 and some notable users quitting because of it, some people put a Scratch Cat with Thanos' face as their icon to say that 3.0 made half of the users quit, just like how Thanos wanted to kill off half of the life in the universe.
What contributed largely to the Network Decay, especially with the increase of artistic people on the site. There are many artists and animators, usually younger people, who treat Scratch like a social networking or DeviantArt-styled site instead of an educational programming site, often complaining and ranting against Scratch's intentions and rules, especially when it comes to people reusing their art. Because of this, most artists and animators would quit Scratch in favor of much better sites to share art/animations, and older ones generally avoid it for the same reason.
Because traditional social media sites don't allow those under 13 years of age for COPPA-related reasons, and Scratch allows children to join, it's not surprising to see kids produce projects in the vein of YouTube videos and attempt to become "famous" like an influencer. This has led to some Scratch veterans complain about how the community is obsessed with fame instead of coding.
griffpatch. He has the master ability to create, program, and remake industry-level video games in a simple programming language. He isn't the most followed user for nothing.
Really, any user who can program at the level of griffpath is also awesome.
Never Live It Down: To many outside the site, it's the site where moderators ban you for no reason.
Some projects can lean onto the horrific and creepy side. This is usually Defied, as after the Five Nights at Freddy's restrictions, the Scratch Team has become more sensitive to nightmarish projects and will be willing to take them down.
Scratching Dawn, a Scratch pastiche of Until Dawn, is arguably the scariest project to stay on the site. It doesn't help that your favorite Scratch characters are transformed into freaky monsters.
Obvious Beta: When Scratch 3.0 was officially released in January 2019, the Bugs and Glitches forum filled with many major bugs 3.0 carries, such as projects and their descriptions not saving, laggy editor, the program screwing up with large projects, and 2.0 graphics being blurry in 3.0, compared to the smooth launch of 2.0 back in May 2013. Some even wondered if the Scratch Team listened to them during the beta testing. Even to this date, there are still frustrating bugs people are willing to report.
Pop-Culture Isolation: Scratch is a small site, after all. Scratchers that have racked up thousands of followers and well-known among the community, such as WazzoTV and scratchU8, usually remain unknown on the Internet. Griffpatch and (to a lesser extent) NostalgiaSquare are the only exceptions to this.
Popular with Furries: Due to many projects showing animals as the main characters, people have complained about "furries" being everywhere the site.
Some people were unhappy with the shutting down of the "Miscellaneous" board on the forums in January 2012 due to it being difficult to moderate. Some separate attempts at reviving the board were created, but are now inactive.
The 2.0 redesign annoyed some users, who were used to the 1.4 type. Fortunately, everyone got used to the new design.
In the summer of 2017, the "Discuss" button which linked to the Scratch Discussion Forums was replaced by a "Tips" button where new Scratchers can access tips and tricks for their projects in the navigation bar. This enraged many Scratchers, particularly those who go on the forums a lot, though this change stayed to limit spam on the forums.
The ban on advertising third-party browser extensions made for the site ticked off some people.
Scratch 3.0 caused some users to even quit Scratch, because of the lack of useful features 2.0 had, such as selecting certain parts of a sound clip. When Scratch 3.0 was launched on January 2, 2019, there were lots of bugs and cases of 2.0 projects functioning poorly in 3.0. Cue ThanosCat.
Some found the 3.0 design to be too childish, with its bright colors and rounded shapes.
The 3.0 studio update, which limited the max amount of managers to 40 and the reply limit in comment chains, among other things, angered a lot of people, and when it was first introduced, it was hard to find a non-sticky, non-studio-related suggestion.
Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Animating the stock sprites of the live-action kids can be jarring, mostly because the sprites themselves are completely static images that may be cropped, as well as usually resulting in choppy and stiff movements that is completely impossible to do in real life.
