Announcements (forum)

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Announcements
Forum ID:	5
Amount of activity:	Low number of topics and no replies.
Opened:	2007
Types of users who can post:	Only Scratch Team members can create new posts.
Brief description:	"Updates from the Scratch Team."
URL:	scratch:discuss/5

The Announcements forum is a forum in the Scratch Forums where updates from the Scratch Team can be found. It is the first forum on the forums page.

Contents

While the content of the announcements varies, they usually fall under these areas:

• Changes to the website
• Experimental tests
• Wanted feedback
• Downtime
• Wiki Wednesdays
• A Scratch program (such as Scratch Week)

Only the Scratch Team can create new topics, to prevent users who are not Scratch Team members from posting false information in a new announcement.

There is often a post in the Scratch News corresponding to a post in the Announcements forum, but not always.^{[citation needed]}

Activity

The forum is comparatively less active than most other forums, as only Scratch Team members are able to create new topics. Prior to January 2024, the forum would receive large numbers of replies to new topics and was very vulnerable to spam, mostly posted by New Scratchers or Scratchers who had not used the forums before. Any new topics were typically closed by a moderator after a few days due to the massive amount of spam. Because of this, all new topics since have been closed immediately after posting, preventing any replies from being posted.

Besides the Scratch Team

Only four Scratchers have topics in the Announcements forums.

• joletole's topic was moved to Announcements when they announced that the Scratch Team changed any mention of "pi" to "3.14159265..." on Pi Day.
• ImagineIt posted in the Community Moderator Appreciation Day topic for 2011 in 2012, after which Paddle2See made a new topic, merged their post and the later ones on the first topic, and since posts are sorted by date, theirs became first. The posts have since been rearranged.
• blob8108's post explaining scratchblocks was moved to Announcements when the [scratchblocks] tag was released.
• The user makethebrainhappy, along with their collaboration, the Services Planning Department, had their Announcements Directory moved to the forum in June 2017. makethebrainhappy also posted an announcement about the new domain of the wiki.

Community Moderators also have the ability to create topics in the Announcements forum.

See Also

• Scratch News
• Scratch Team