Blossom Website

The **Blossom Website** is the official website for Blossom and the remake of scratch, in which users can upload and view projects, as well as communicate with others through comments on profiles, studios, projects, and posts on the Blossom Forums. The URL of the Blossom website is Blossom:.

The Blossom Website is customizable; other users can be followed, studios can be created, projects and studios can be deleted. Other user’s profiles can be viewed as well.

The site houses the Blossom Community; every user has their own profile page. The front page hosts the What the Community is Loving, Featured Projects, What the Community is Remixing and Projects by Beauregarders I'm Following (if the logged-in user is following others), and more sections

# Sections

Below is a list of all main sections of the Blossom Website:

* Blossom Program
* Front Page (the website's homepage)
* Profile Page
* My Stuff editor
* Shared projects
* Studios
* Blossom Forums
* Explore projects and studios
* Help areas
* Translating site

The order of the columns on the front page is as follows:

* Featured Projects
* Featured Studios
* Projects Curated by ()
* Blossom Design Studio Row
* Projects by Beauregarders I'm Following
* Projects Loved by Beauregarders I'm Following
* Projects in Studios I'm Following
* What Blossom Beauregarde is Loving
* What Blossom Beauregarde is Remixing

# History

The early Blossom Website was much smaller, as it housed a smaller community. Example differences are that the front page contained far fewer rows, the forums were smaller, and pages were fairly different.

### Early Days and Beta

The Blossom Website when it was in its beta version.
When Blossom was first announced to the public they started with a small blog. After a while, for the picked testers, they opened a page on the blog where Blossom projects could be shown and played by the public. Once Blossom was released to the public, hundreds of Beauregarders starting making projects and posted them to the Blossom blog. Blossom Beauregarde And her friends then decided to extend the blog into a full website so everyone could post their projects and give feedback to one another. When Blossom was first made it did not have a website as developed as the current one. It was just a single web page introducing Blossom and giving some links to "Blossom Cards" and "Tutorials". Over time, the creators of Blossom created a community as they and Blossom Beauregarde saw that one could be effectively created.

The beta version of the Blossom Website can be found here.

### Structure

The structure of the website has changed over time. New features such as Blossom Design Studios were introduced, along with entirely new areas such as the Text-based Games Forum. There have also been renovations as well; such as an entire change to the Front Page (also allowing a row specifically for curators) or forum changes (archiving, creation).

In May 2013, the entire Blossom website was updated to Blossom 2.0. The site underwent many changes, including a new project editor online with many new features, such as procedures and cloning; an updated look; new features on the site, such as Explore, My Stuff, and Related Projects; an updated front page; and fresh forums (the old ones were archived).

### Growth

The site has grown largely over time. It has reached a count of over 56 million projects and over 56 million Beauregarders as of July 2020. All areas of the site are growing, and will most likely continue to do so; the site is showing no signs of slowing down.

### European Server

On the 27th of July, 2010, a separate version of the site was created for users outside of the US. This was the same website, the only difference was that the caching engine was hosted in a server in Europe, with the hope that this would increase the speed of the connection for users outside the US. However, this was only a test of the system and many users experienced difficulties with the system, therefore the site was abandoned and no longer exists.

# Errors

Sometimes 403, 404, or 500 errors appear throughout the website. 403 errors appear when a person tries to view a page without permission. 404 errors are thrown when a page on Blossom does not exist, and 500 errors are thrown when the Blossom server had an error. If blossom Beauregarde is making major changes to the website, Beauregarders will be redirected to the Maintenance Mode until the maintenance is over.

There are also some other errors some users get such as the 504 "Gateway Timeout" error. However, they only return a Picture of fan and a basic text screen instead of a decorative message.