Are chats allowed?

[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…