Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyReviews of scratch.mit.edu

So good! The only down part is the "Student Account". MIT, do me a favour of changing the whole student acount thingy, ok?

I used to love Scratch (keyword used). Since then it's gone way downhill. First, I'd like to talk about the 'Explore' page. It's so broken and only looks for tags and likes. Everyone spams tags just so they can get in it. Other coders have made a better explore page, so why can't this company with about 8.77 MILLION DOLLARS of revenue? Second, they now decided it would be a great idea to add a membership, like little johnny who wants to make pizza platformer on his iPad has enough money for that. In the end, if you still enjoy the simplicity of Scratch, use PenguinMod (google it). It's a mod of Scratch with MUCH better featured projects, along with it being powerful and more fun overall. Trust me, you'll LOVE it.

Fraud support. Namesnipe account banned for 3 months so far for "impersonation". 3 Contact Us tickets, ~10 emails and 2 forum posts over the course of 3 months - and not a single response. All they said was "Your Scratch account has been permanently blocked and deleted for impersonation." and accused us as if we did something wrong. Not only did they do this with the namesnipe account, they also did it with one of our main accounts; that ban was based on an assumption that it was shared with zero supporting evidence. By the way - they also just authorised themselves to exploit the creative output of an entire community of kids, teens and adults of over 100 million people globally to train an AI.

Kind of good, but it takes too long to sign in, plus I didn't do anything wrong and when I clicked on 'Need Help' and it said I was banned. Like what? I didn't do anything wrong, plus I have scratch cookies and it can't sign me in. Now I can't even do my shadow project, which I almost finished!

Annoying Moderators not accepting my appeal even tho the only thing i did was get banned for ironically giving someone my password, and then i used my alt account to type up on my main account that i got banned due to horrible moderation and then i got perma banned without appeal on the site itself because i was "bypassing" the site itself is very good but it doesn't make up for all the woke shit and stolen stuff on the platform, also the moderators are gooners and don't take their job seriously, 10/10 platform but 0/10 social features and moderation.

I am sorry, but we are not there yet. scratch was supposed to be a better website, but it has became bad. i suppose you should update the rules this time.

It’s a great platform, the users are all kind and friendly, but the ‘bad word filter’ is kind of bugged… I had to move a version log in my game inside the project because of a weird malfunction. There are also impersonators (a recent one being theveryrealteacher3), and they don’t take too long to be fixed (Looking at YOU, Roblox), but it’s long enough for many people to be wrongly banned. When you DO raise awareness about them, Scratch Team forces you to sit back down. They tell you to report, but how? How do I do that if every one of their projects are unshared? The report feature on their profile doesn’t have any categories that fit what they do. Really though, it’s a good platform.

Scratch.mit.edu is the only website where you can get banned for being too innocent. I made an account, spent two hours coding my first project, and then I get a message from the Scratch Team saying: 🎉 “You can post again!” like it’s my birthday or something. Five minutes later? Account terminated. I didn’t even reply just read it. Scratch moderation be like: “He opened the message. Get him.” Meanwhile, the site keeps the cringiest stuff alive wolf roleplays, “gacha trauma OCs,” and 3-frame “animations” with 12,000 likes. They’ll ban you for saying “lol,” but let someone post ‘Among Us Love Story Part 14’ and call it “featured content.” Scratch.mit.edu isn’t a coding site anymore it’s a kindergarten with a block editor and a ban hammer.