As me and @CattyPlayzy have recently become forum moderators, we have locked, deleted, and purged over 60+ topics of spam coming from @Black-Cat and @Lilly-123, @Lilly-Alt. We have also found extremely inappropriate content posted a while ago by one of those spammers. We together are making this announcement to say that we are going to crack down against inappropriate and spam content because such degenerate filth is NOT allowed or welcome on this platform.

Catty’s part:
Yes. We are going to do our best to make this forum as safe as possible. We will scrape every little piece of garbage off this platform, and keep it as welcoming as possible to new K-12 users. Thank you for reading this.

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Work done as of writing this (Sep 22)

• Catty has gotten multiple accounts created with bad intentions obliterated.

• Jeff has deleted many spam topics to keep questions on this forum mostly relevant to CreatiCode and coding.

• Catty has locked so many topics.

• Jeff went through old deleted topics and found bad stuff and also did some purging

• Catty is the reason moderators now have dedicated and organized topics for discussing moderation and issues.

• Both Jeff and Catty are the reason Shrukin and Lily behave more and are helpful to this forum, as well as this forum now being safer.

• Catty has helped find major issues with the forums, and how it affects the safety of our users in a bad way.

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What you can do to help keep these forums clean and not to get your posts deleted

• If you see someone breaking a major rule or doing something like posting inappropriate topics or images, both here and on CreatiCode, then report those to us and CreatiCode with links. We can only moderate things on this forum Incorrect, we only moderate Help, General Discussion, Project Showcase, and Feedback, so any inappropriate/egregious projects will be forwarded to them as well.

• Use the right categories. It is annoying when someone posts something in Live Books instead of Feedback or Help or General Discussion.

• Stay on-topic. Do not go off-topic, post links to other sites (that could be or are potentially bad) like GimKit or Discord, and/or use topics as chatrooms. These forums are for if you need help with CreatiCode/coding, ideas with coding, discussions about coding, want to give feedback/report bugs about CreatiCode, and anything related to that. We will delete or lock topics that break this rule and if you are annoying and break this rule many times, you will suffer consequences.

• Do not post anything inappropriate. This should go without saying, but we’ll also talk about a part that some people have struggled with in the past: make sure that images you post of characters or people aren’t overly suggestive. While an image could be considered appropriate because it doesn’t contain nudity, our standards are different, and clothed characters also break this rule, like female characters with unnaturally large breasts, and also fetishes.
  Catty’s note on this - Please make sure if you have female characters with unnaturally large breasts that you cover them up COMPLETELY, or lower the size. Either way, cover them up completely (the stomach is fine) to avoid consequences.

• Help new users follow the rules. They may have not read the forum rules yet, so point them to there.

• Chatroom clarification: it depends, but chats that are CC-related (like discussing making projects and ideas and sharing ideas/work) are okay, but doing more talking like you’re having a conversation with a friend should be kept to a minimum. A chatroom project has been made by CreatiCode so use that

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In the block you get shown a list of the available avatars:

However, there is an issue. There are some avatars that are possible to get with this block, but aren’t shown in the selection list thingie above. For example, the avatars Spiderman and Jotaru Kujo aren’t shown in the list selection thingies above, but if you go to the search bar and type out their names, they will then pop up.
If this avatar selection list could show all of the avatars, that would be great.

@106809nes oh cool, this is what you normally do in Scratch. Basically just gotta check forever if the player is not touching the ground. If not, you have to change y by a negative value like -0.5 until they are touching the ground. Good tutorial tho

A reporter block that can make text backwards (blue -> eulb) would be useful. The XO assistant works for me now so it isn’t really an issue, but I feel like it’d be better and easier if this were just one reporter block, since it feels like a waste of code to make a whole for-each loop to loop through every single letter and make annoying temporary variables and all that stuff.

I know that these might not be used very often, but other blocks that can transform/encode text would be awesome, like some examples:

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• ROT13 encryption: ROT13 is a simple encoding method usually used for fun and puzzles that turns every letter in a string to the 13th letter after it in the English alphabet. This picture explains it well:

* cowsay and other ASCII art things: You provide text like "Why did the chicken cross the road? (line break) To get to the other side!", and then the reporter block returns it to you in ASCII art with a cow or other options saying it in a speech or thought bubble. Examples:

Cow:

 ________________________________________
/ Why did the chicken cross the road?    \
\ To get to the other side!              /
 ----------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

Tux the Linux penguin mascot:

 _________________________________________
/ You are only young once, but you can    \
\ stay immature indefinitely.             /
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   \
    \
        .--.
       |o_o |
       |:_/ |
      //   \ \
     (|     | )
    /'\_   _/`\
    \___)=(___/

And more info about it can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay

• Reporter blocks to encode/convert characters for to make them suitable in URLs or specific cases: for example, take a look at https://www.google.com/search?q=creaticode+website . Because URLs can’t handle spaces, they will use a + or another character I forgot. Like when you Google “$”, the $ gets turned into %24 when its in the URL. Having blocks for decoding/encoding in formats like base 64 would also be useful, say if you have the user intentionally upload a “text” file that actually isn’t text and is a .PNG image renamed to .txt and then show the user that image by showing the data URI of that image as the URL in a widget.
• Doing things with words, like finding the dictionary definition(s) of a word and returning it in a table, finding synonyms of the possible meanings of the word and returning a table (ex: “light” would have synonyms regarding weight (portable, lightweight) and ones regarding actual light (luminosity, radiance) ).

Has anyone made a multiplayer 3D game, and if so, could they share it?
I wanna use some good code or a good project as a starting point for my super big project.

I think a block to alphabetize a list would be really useful. Here is an example of what it could look like:

This block should replace the list selected (in order A-Z or Z-A) with its alphabetized version.
And maybe an operator-kind too:

This should return the list provided but in alphabetical order.
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Or maybe just add A-Z and Z-A as new options for the sort list block:

These should also have an equivalent for tables too.

@info-creaticode Hm, ok. I should try to make one by myself in the meantime. I feel like it would be very resource intensive and/or laggy though because you’d have to broadcast a message to the world everytime there’s something others should see, like if one player is moving around, they would have to send a message like every millisecond so that other users would see that person moving.

@info-creaticode wait really? oh okay. I think small to large is a bit confusing because I thought it referred to numbers. The wording should probably be made a bit clearer. Thank you for the response lol I didn’t realize this already existed

@info-creaticode Oooo got it, I will try to develop something got it.

@info-creaticode I believe they meant button widget blocks that allow you to download files and upload files. These would be pretty useful, like for saving your game data (like coins and whatnot) to a text file on your computer rather than on the cloud as a preference. Uploading files would also be pretty useful too.

@info-creaticode Thank you

For google sheets blocks to work, you have to set it so anybody can edit your google sheet. But I’d rather not put that setting even though the link is still hidden to to others. I tried to share it with info@creaticode.com (without notifying) and it didn’t work. I also can’t get it because Google sheets just shows you as “anonymous user”. What I want to do is just share the sheet with whatever email address you use for the GS blocks so that it’s certain only the blocks and I have edit control over it.

@tyller_ Just treat google sheets like a giant table or database and you’ll be fine. The current blocks work with you can retrieve rows and columns to a table and also copy your table over to a specific range in google sheets. I wouldn’t use it for private things like passwords or chat messages though because they need to be public for CC to read and write to it so that also means anyone can access it. Even semi private things I wouldn’t wanna mess with too much like simple user data, but I’d rather use it for public things like names and whatnot.

@info-creaticode Got it

@s9205307-810c679a also i saw your comment and did it (tab in a tab in a tab) :

the page title thing is broken but will be fixed soon. Also check it out, there more features and it works again finally. New things are being added and I’m making it more complex and useful.

This might be a silly question, but I’m not planning to do this unless I have permission since this might have big consequences.

So to explain, I had an idea of making my own search engine and web crawler using CreatiCode, however, instead of relying heavily on Google or another search engine to get information, I’d store lots of useful information in a database and when the user asks for it, the database will be searched.

I would make the web crawler read one page, obtain some information, and then repeat the process and branch out from there by searching more links and then it’d be pretty big depending on how useful the first source was (I’d probably make it a link to an article on my website that has links to like 20 unique links on it). It would be automated like that and I’d also review the content but also automating that by flagging content it thinks is inappropriate and then I check it and most times I could just clear out the whole list because AI usually isn’t wrong with determining if something is bad or not.

And this method most likely will use like over 1000 database rows.

Am I allowed to do this? I know it’s doable however I don’t want to damage your guy’s systems or be the reason for an outage. It would also make me feel bad because that’s just taking advantage on a super extreme level of a free service (that I like) without paying. Would this be justifed/allowed if I pay for CreatiCode premium?

@info-creaticode Ohhh that makes sense, websites do change their content after the page is fully loaded. However it does negatively affect using that block for things that are complete but are static, like when I use it to fetch from a fun fact API or just API’s in general.
I also don’t know how easy or possible that would be to solve because to display the dynamic content you’d also need to run the JavaScript which can lead to problems like JS scripts of that page conflicting with those of the playground such as two variables with the same name.
I think perhaps a new block could be made instead for fetching complete data since at the moment, it messed up my browser project a bit that was relying on that block since although I used iframes, I would use the result of the fetch block and then search it to get vital information such as page title and page language and then I would check if the page is safe (not a virus or spam) using the Google transparency check.

@info-creaticode I’m not sure but maybe if the markdown part is the issue, then you guys could just omit that feature and then the block would just return the code of a website like all the HTML and all, just raw. Most users might not understand the output or how to use it, however, in a tutorial for teaching how to use the block, you could show them that you can utilize ChatGPT to analyse the website code and then retrieve what you need from it. You could also teach that using ChatGPT for simple tasks like retrieving the title of the page isn’t neccessary and is more prone to error and taking longer when you could just use a regex search to find the page title.

The font choosers aren’t really consistent across the whole playground, since widgets offers a different selection compared to the costume/backdrop editor (original Scratch fonts).

They also don’t show you all the real options you have, since you can do an easy font bypass by making a custom reporter block that returns its parameter as text and write things like “Pixel” or “Scratch” or “Sans Serif” to access costume editor fonts (and any other fonts existing either on the user’s device like “Times New Roman”, which is not in either selection list) in the widgets blocks. Here is an example of me using the Scratch font:

Getting custom fonts in the backdrop/costume editor is also achievable but is much harder because you have to edit the raw SVG file and put whatever font you want that you’re certain is loaded on the page or on the user’s device.

I think that to provide more consistency and customizability, it would be awesome for you guys to combine these lists so that they have the same options on both and also add more fonts that are already installed/loaded like Arial or Courier New/monospace. To do this, you wouldn’t need to load/install any new fonts to the page (since everyone already has Arial,etc.), you would just have to add to the lists themselves.
So then, you’d be able to use something like Jua or Luckiest Guy in your costumes and add lots of spice to your project. And vice versa with using something like Marker in widgets.

And also for both, it would be great to add these fonts:

• Arial
• Arial Black
• Comic Sans MS, cursive
• Garamond
• Verdana
• Tahoma
• Courier New
• monospace
• Wingdings (Wingdings)
• Roboto
• Google Sans (only available for chrome/google i think but it works for me)
• Calibri
• Lucida Console (windows only)

So yeah these fonts are already installed on the user’s system usually so don’t need to be installed.

@info-creaticode Ohh, I see, I also just realized it could be changed by changing the text color when you hover on it to still keep the white color. Thank you for the quick response, I understand now.