Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyReviews of scratch.mit.edu

I mean the site is good, I personally never had any issues, the only thing holding this review down is that they want to implement AI

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

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.

This is a good coding language. Especially for kids! The problem is, that mass reporting is widespread in this website. Other than that, its great for all ages!

It is a platform with a very many good projects. Simple to start with and is fun to see scrathers stretching the limits. And if you ever want something changed scratch has many extensions in the Chrome webstore. 4 stars as the moding is not the best

Scratch è fatto bene, è protetto, è per bambini, ma non è avvolte sicuro. Però è fatto bene perchè ti fa imparare come fare il coding.

Simple-looking tool that can achieve quite a lot as shown by users like griffpatch(but not only). It is a stepping stone for the future generation of programmers. The community and community guidelines tho. The guidelines are basically "Oh wow be nice and report bad people, everyone is welcome here". I used the site as a kid and I've noticed multiple flaws. Number 1 - Political views There are projects based on recent political events, even by the "Scratch team". If you go to, say ceebees' profile, the about me is full of "BLM, stop the hate" and others. This is what I call brainwashing. Younger me did put some of these but quickly realised what it was and never did again. Number 2 - Trending and Featured projects The way that trending projects are selected has always confused me. You either see just one useful project or a combination of *not good* clicker games, art dumps or outright identical remixes(more on that later) of good projects. The featured projects(along with studios which I don't even want to talk about) are almost always some piece of actual garbage. While yes I understand this site is made for kids, can you at least not encourage making EXTREMELY LOW-quality projects? Number 3 - Remixing Whenever there is a quality project or even worse - a featured project which is absolute garbage, there will always be "omg I remixed first". Almost every single remix I've seen is either a straight-up copy of the original project or a change in the thumbnail. Even worse is that the guidelines contain a whole point for remixing a project "Embrace remix culture". Remixes are not moderated or at least monitored and I have tried reporting them to no avail. Number 4 - Discovering The search function is not very functional and the only way to find a project that has actually achieved something new that isn't just a platformer, clicker etc is very hard. Many people who have created technically achieving projects just end up leaving the platform because people are not able to find their projects, discouraging them to continue bringing new techniques to the platform. The website is now stuck in the platformer clicker era for a few years now. A good way to teach coding to 7-10-year-olds, just don't touch the sharing your project part. Nor almost all of the site except the editor. Also their desktop app also has issues with saving your project.

Scratch.mit.edu is a very popular and awesome websites for teaching students to code, which is pretty safe and legit to use. However, the rules are strict and a lot of scratchers are blocked or banned. Please give them a chance so that they can be a nice scratch.