Are chats allowed?

[programmer_user]

Title says it all.
@bh

[18001767679]

There needs to be a moderator
If there isn't then no.
bh needs to moderate the forum and don't ask him to moderate other things.
On the other hand, you can do some chat projects and if bh finds out you won't get banned (while bh could ask you to unpublish the project)

[ego-lay_atman-bay]

@18001767679

you can do some chat projects

Don't! That's unmoderated chat, and @bh will be held responsible for letting it happen.

[bh]

Yeah, no.

We've been talking with lawyers about contracts with schools. Maybe we can add this to the list of topics. I think it's absurd for us to have to enforce no offsite meetings, but I can't just decide not to -- I need a blessing from the university's lawyers.

[helicoptur]

Would you add likes, upvotes, follows, or other social media features?

No. Like buttons provide no useful insight to the author, as opposed to "I like this project because it..." or "This project would be better if..." The Facebook like button, which started all this, is a great source of evil in the world, for many reasons. Read The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff for all the details. We don't want popularity contests; we don't want people to feel good or bad because of how many people liked their project; all that has nothing to do with lear…

Comments and view counts

Yeah. We are dipping our toes gingerly into the dangers of user feedback. Even on Scratch, it seems like each new user has to be taught how to behave (because their prior experience is, you know, YouTube and Twitter), and we don't have the staffing that Scratch does. I'm pleased that we haven't had any major issues on the forum so far, knock on wood. We'll certainly get to adding comments to project pages. I'm personally a little scared of view counts (let alone likes, which I hope we never…

Why doesn't Snap! look or behave like this Scratch feature?

Obviously our work is very much inspired by Scratch, and the first version of Snap! (BYOB) was based on their source code. At that time we tried very hard to be absolutely backward compatible with Scratch, because we hoped that the Scratch Team would adopt our ideas, and maybe even adopt our code, as part of Scratch itself. But that didn't happen. Since then, each language has evolved in its own directions. We do adopt some good ideas from later version of Scratch, but we do it because somet…

[programmer_user]

Do I just have to unpublish chat projects, or do I have to completely unshare them?

[earthrulerr]

I tested your chat project and it is amazing and I think it's good but Snap! Might not allow it, also it is really cool how theres safe chat or is that pre made? Anyways I wish you could make a game with chat but I don't think it's allowed:(

[bh]

Aargh. I suppose it depends on how many people you share it with and whether or not you already know them by other means.

[programmer_user]

@bh

people you share it with

https://forum.snap.berkeley.edu/t/help-for-a-swear-word-censor-block/4837/35