Timeline

This **timeline** covers all major events in Scratch history.

* 7(?) — The Scratch Forums were released.

* 15 — The Scratch Website was publicly released.

* 26(?) — Scratch 1.1 was released.

### August

* 6 — The Newest Projects row on the Front Page was removed due to inappropriate projects being displayed.

* 6 — Automatic credit in remixes were implemented.

* 7 — Images donated by LEGO became available.

* 8 — The Top Downloaded row on the Front Page was added.

* 16 — The ability to post blocks on the Scratch Forums was added.

### September

* 16 — Basic gallery features were implemented.

### October

* 24 — The ability to flag comments as inappropriate was implemented.

### December

* 2 — Scratch 1.2 was released.

* 7 — After reports of numerous bugs, Scratch 1.2.1 was released.

* 17 — The Scratch Website became available in multiple languages.

## 2008

### April

* 29 — The Ignore List, new gallery features, character count in comment box, and ability to reply to comments were implemented.

### June

* 1 — The What the Community is Remixing row was added to the Front Page.

### August

* 5 — The New Scratch Members forum was created.

### December

* 1 — Paddle2See and Jens become administrators on the Scratch Website.

* 6 — The first Scratch Day event was hosted (under the name *Scratcher Meetup @ MIT*).

* 6 — The Scratch Wiki is created on Wikia.

* 12 — Signatures in the Scratch Forums were temporarily removed due to spammers using them to post inappropriate links.

## 2009

### May

* 16 — The second Scratch Day event was hosted.

* 31 — My Friends' Latest Projects and Projects from Scratch Design Studio rows were added to the Front Page.

* 31 — The Newest Projects row was put back, but only available to Scratchers when they were logged in.

* 31 — The Surprise Projects row was removed.

* 31 — The Top Downloaded row was removed.

* 31 — The curator feature was implemented.

### August

* 3 — Cheddargirl became a Community Moderator.

### October

* 27 — The Text Based Games Forums were moved to a separate place on the Scratch Website.

## 2010

### February

* 17 — The first Operation: Cleanup is launched on the TBGs.

### April

* 15 — Remix Trees were released.

* 21 — The official one millionth project was shared on the Scratch Website.

* 23 — The Scratch Statistics website was released.

### May

* 19 — The first Community Moderator elections were held.

* 21 — The election results were released.

### June

* 3 — The Official Scratch Wiki was released on wiki.scratch.mit.edu.

* 10 — The Scratch Forums received spam attacks from a group of trolls. In response, the Scratch Team decided to disable images.

* 11 — The second Operation: Cleanup is launched on the TBGs.

* 12 — The New Scratcher Status was implemented in response to the spam/troll attacks.

* 13 — Images were re-enabled for those that were not New Scratchers.

### July

* 6 — The second Operation: Cleanup on the TBG ends.

* 17 — Scratch Resources was released.

* 29 — The Pac-Man Project made by 124scratch was removed.

### August

* 11 — The Experimental Viewer was released.

### October

* 20 — Clutter was released.

* 20 — The second Community moderator elections were held.

* 22 — The election results were released.

* 27 — The third Operation: Cleanup is started on the TBG forum.

### November

* 10 — The Archived Forums are hidden from the index.

* 11 — Archived forums are available from the jump to tool at the bottom of every page.

* 15 — The Newest Projects row on the Front Page displays a random selection of projects.

## 2011

### February

* 22 — The Beta Flash Player was released.

### April

* 26 — Users banned on the Scratch Forums can no longer visit the Text Based Games Forums.

### July

* 21 — The third Community Moderator elections were held.

* 22 — The election results were released.

### August

* 1 — Collab Camp began.

* 9 — The "Terms of Use" page was changed to Community Guidelines.

* 27 — The official two millionth project was shared on the Scratch Website.

* 27-28 — The Scratch Website was temporarily set in read-only mode due to Hurricane Irene. The forums were temporarily shut down.

### November

* 18 — The What the Community is Remixing, What the Community is Loving, and What the Community is Viewing rows show three randomly selected projects from the top 10.

### December

* 26 — [img] (Image tags) are disabled on the Scratch Forums. They remained enabled in signatures during this time.

## 2012

### January

* 18 — Scratch protested SOPA and PIPA by featuring anti-SOPA projects, and putting up a banner saying "The Scratch Team values a free and open internet, so it opposes PIPA and SOPA".

* 26 — The Scratch Team reorganized the Scratch Forums, including renaming forums, and replacing Miscellaneous with two separate forums: Things I'm Making and Creating and Things I'm Reading and Playing forums.

* 27 — The Block Plugin was added to the Scratch Forums, which allows, in [scratchblocks] BBCode tags, scripts to be typed as they appear in Scratch, and they will parse.

### February

* 2 — Links to YouTube videos on the forums are linked to a Scratch YouTube Video Player rather than the previously used Youtube Repeat website.

* 15 — Post counts on the forums are now shown in levels, instead of the exact post count. Users with below 100 posts have the exact count shown; otherwise it shows 100+, 500+, or 1000+. This does not apply to the Text Based Games Forums, as some games require users knowing their or others' exact post count(s).

### April

* 3 — Demosthenes retires from Community Moderator position.

* 5 — Nominations for the Spring 2012 Community Moderator elections begin.

* 9 — The candidates for the Community Moderator elections are announced.

* 11 — Voting begins for the Community Moderator elections. The vote was open from 11AM to 11PM, Scratch Time.

* 12 — The results from the Community Moderator elections were announced. The winners were Lucario621, Scimonster, and sparks. They did not begin moderating until the 18th, however.

* 13 — Image tags re-enabled.

### May

* 17-22 — Scratch 2.0 prototype was available to the public.

* 19 — Scratch Day 2012 at MIT.

### August

* 24 — Scratch Welcoming Committee created.

* 30 — Scratch Forums search index rebuilt, in the hopes of fixing some issues with the search.

### September

* 10 — Flash Player updated to release candidate status, and redone in Scratch 2.0 styling.

### October

* 3(?) — Chrischb retires from TBG Moderator position.

* 18 — The Flash project player becomes the default.

### December

* 23 — The official three millionth project was shared on the Scratch Website.

## 2013

### January

* 28 — Scratch 2.0 goes into open beta. It was available at https://beta.scratch.mit.edu.

### March

* 1 — The old TBG Forums shut down due to lack of activity on the forums. The new TBG forums are at https://tbgforums.com but these are made by Scratchers, not the Scratch Team. Controversy starts to develop on the removal.

### May

* 6-8 — Both the Scratch 1.4 website and 2.0 beta website were shut down for the transition to Scratch 2.0.

* 9 — Scratch 2.0 was released to the public.

### August

* 26 — The Scratch 2.0 offline editor beta was released, which can be downloaded.

### October

* 7 — The Community Moderator program ends, and they were replaced by the Scratch Mentors, with the first Mentors chosen being ErnieParke, LiFaytheGoblin, and P110.

* 27 — The official 4 millionth project was shared to the Scratch website.

### December

* 9-15 — Scratch was featured in the Hour of Code.

* 10 — The search engine was changed to Google.

## 2014

### January

* 10 — Scratchers were given the ability to opt in/out of a beta project player.

### March

* 15(?) — The official 5 millionth project was shared.

### May

* 1 — The Scripts Workshop/Team is officially running as a part of Scratch Helpers.

### June

* 4 — The footer of the main website was changed, and the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy were added.
* 10 — Scratch 1.4 was added to Raspberry Pi, with an extension block for its GPIO pins.

### July

* 7 — Creative Characters Camp begins.

* 16 — The official 6 millionth project was shared.

* 28 — Creative Characters Camp ends.

* 30 — ScratchJr is officially released to the public.

### September

* 24 — Follower, following, and profile comment counts were removed from profiles.

### October

* 15 — Spike in traffic due to Europe Code Week.

* 29 — Fixed Chrome keyboard lag bug, prevent invalid characters from erasing comments, fixed remix count on Top Remixed sometimes shows as on, project & Studio owners should no longer able to report their own stuff, add “Be Honest” to Community Guidelines, put grey box around sprite thumbnails to make “invisible sprites” visible.

### November

* 12 — New sprites, backdrops, and sounds in editor, optimized graphics in editor, new "Pong" tutorial in editor, Add Scratch Press page to footer.

* 15 — The official 7 millionth project was shared.

### December

* 1 — Added option to delete your account.

* 5 — First Scratch video update.

* 17 — New sprites, backdrops, and sounds in editor.

## 2015

### January

* 6 — The five millionth account was created.

### February

* 12 — Email Address Confirmation was added.

* 12 — Customizable profile featured projects labels were added.

* 12 — A new Valentine's themed tutorial and sprites were added.

### April

* 16 — A re-design for the Tips window was implemented.

### July

* 4 — The Scratch Website reached 10 million projects and a special Scratch Design Studio was created for this occasion.

* 12 — Start of Mix and Match Camp.

* 15 — An "About" Tab was added to the navigation bar.

* 15 — A project filter based on language was added to the "Explore" Tab.

* 26 — End of Mix and Match Camp.

### August

* 8 — Front Page Curator Shifts were shortened from two weeks, to one week.

* 11 — The Picoboard and Lego WeDo extensions were updated.

* 12 — Start of Scratch2015AMS Conference.

* 15 — End of Scratch2015AMS Conference.

### September

* 28 — "Race to Finish" tutorial was added.

### October

* 5 — Hora do Codigo Brasil (The Brazilian Hour of Code) Begins.

* 9 — Europe Code Week Begins.

* 14 — The 11 millionth project was shared.

* 26 — The Scratch Team completely redesigned the Scratch Homepage.

### December

* 7 — International Computer Science Education Week 2015 and the Hour of Code began. Scratch was featured in the event for its third year in a row.
* 13 — Computer Science Education Week 2015 ended.
* 21 — The Record Project Video feature was added to the Scratch Program.

## 2016

### January

* 29 — The Magic Wand Tool was added to the Paint Editor.
* 29 — The \_candycorn\_ emoji was added, in honor of departing Scratch Team member, RjLance.

### February

* 1 — The Scratch Blog Series began.
* 2 — The Open Source Projects Forum was opened to the public.
* 23 — The Scratch website reached 10 million registered accounts. The \_10mil\_ emoji was added in celebration.
* 24 — First Wiki Wednesday.

### March

* 31 — The SDS Curators released their last SDS, which later turned out to be an April Fools joke.

### April

* 1 — The Scratch Team released its April Fools joke that the Scratch Cat went on vacation. Scratchers had to create projects on where they think the Scratch Cat was. The Scratch Cat left clues on where they were on their profile page.

### December

* 5 — International Computer Science Education Week 2017 began. Scratch was featured in the event.
* 11 — International Computer Science Education Week 2017 ended.

## 2017

### April

* 1 — The Official Scratch Wiki celebrated April Fool's Day by changing many pages' content to absurd joke pages. The original content could be found at the bottom of the page and this lasted for one day.

### May

* 2 — Scratch started celebrating its 10th birthday.
* 6 — Scratch Day at MIT.

### July

* 5 — The "Discuss" button on the header of the Scratch Website was removed, in favour of the Tips Page. This caused much controversy in the forums.
* 18 — Scratch2017BDX began.
* 21 — Scratch2017BDX ended.
* 24 — First part of Scratch Camp: Down Deep began.
* 31 — Second part of Scratch Camp: Down Deep began.

### August

* 7 — Third part of Scratch Camp: Down Deep began.
* 13 — Scratch Camp: Down Deep ended.

### November

* 30 — The Scratch Team announced a new userscript policy, in which userscripts and browser extensions for Scratch could no longer be advertised.

### December

* 4 — Computer Science Education Week began. Scratch was featured in the event.
* 10 — Computer Science Education Week ended.

## 2018

### January

* 24 — The Scratch Team posted an official YouTube video, where speakvisually plays projects by the Scratch Community in zero-gravity.

### February

* 15 — It was announced that cloud data would only have 128 characters at most in Scratch 3.0. Hexadecimal numbers will be prohibited.
* 16 — The Scratch Wiki at `wiki.scratch.mit.edu` was transferred over to `en.scratch-wiki.info`.

### March

* 22 — The amount of shared projects exceeded 30 million.

### April

* 9 — Scratch reached its 300th front page curator.
* 21 — The "Recently Shared Projects" row on the Front Page was removed.

### May

* 3 — The Scratch Day 2018 forum was opened.

### July

* 5 — The forum post about Scratch Camp: Make Stuff was published.

### August

* 1 — The Scratch 3.0 beta was announced, and the beta was released at beta.scratch.mit.edu.

### December

* 10 — The cloud data limit was raised to 256 characters.

## 2019

### January

* 2 — Scratch 3.0 was released, and it was officially put on the main Scratch Website.
* 9 — The Scratch Team implemented new bug fixes, as users had been reporting numerous bugs after the release.
* 25 — Scratch in Practice (SiP) was created.

### February

* 8 — The main site for Scratch in Practice was created.

### April

* 18 — The Scratch Team implemented a new update, changing the "Load from your computer" action to replace the current project instead of creating a new one. This was based on user feedback.
* 19 — The Scratch Team posted an announcement about new bug fixes and updates.

### July

* 8 — Scratch Camp: Story Swap was announced.

### August

* 1 — The Scratch Team updated the sound editor based on feedback from the community, and removed the echo effect.

## 2020

### January

* 11 — There was a disruption with emails where emails from the Scratch Team didn't send properly. It was fixed at 8am EST. Also, an orange/red (depending on the screen) banner saying "We are experiencing a disruption with email delivery. If you are not receiving emails from us, please try after 8am EST." was added at the top of every page on the Scratch Website. When the disruption was fixed, the banner was removed.

### February

* 13 — The Scratch Team changed the paint editor to make aligning to the center more precise.

### May

* 14 — The Scratch Team added several Sprites to the sprite library. They were originally from the "Character Remix" studio featuring costumes made by Scratch Team members Zinnea, KayOh, dsquare, and pondermake.

They included 2 character packs with multiple costumes and 7 individual sprites, Kia, Luca, Noor, Sasha, Tatina, Trisha, and Taylor.

* 28-30 — The 400,000,000th project was shared.

### August

* 13 — The Scratch website (scratch.mit.edu) cannot be accessed from China as the government has blocked it.

## 2021

### March

* 11 — The official 500 millionth project was shared.
* 31 — The 500000th forum topic was created.

### April

* 9 — 200 million project comments have been made.

### May

* 13 — The make a costume from a webcam feature was removed.
* 27 — The Community Guidelines were updated.

### June

* 18 — Two new emojis, \_blm\_ and \_pride\_, were added.
* 25 — The 30 millionth studio was created.

### July

* 6 — The Studio Update revamped studios with a Scratch 3.0 style design. New Scratchers can no longer create studios.
* 26 — Scratch Camp: Try Something New was announced.

### August

* 2 — Scratch Camp: Try Something New began.
* 23 — Profile comments were moved from Scratch's physical servers to a host in the cloud. Studio and project comments will be moved at separate times.

### September

* 14 — Studio Host Transfer was implemented.

### November

* 11 — The 600 millionth project was shared.

## 2022

### January

* 18 — The first Activity Swap began.
* 31(?) — Weekend, the oldest project on Scratch, was taken down, briefly making Sandwhich the oldest shared project.

### February

* 2 — Weekend was reshared.
* 7 — The Black History Month studio was created
* 14 — The 500th curator was selected
* 14 — The Project Save & Level Codes forum was created.

### April

* 12 — Censor outage occurs, resulting in comments being temporarily disabled sitewide

### May

* 16-21 — Scratch Week 2022 took place
* 19 — The Scratch Team hosted a celebration of Scratch's 15th birthday

### July

* 25 — Scratch Camp: Fantastical Fantasies was announced

### August

* 1 — Scratch Camp: Fantastical Fantasies began
* 8 — Project Save & Level Codes forum was released.

## 2023

### Febuary

* 3 — The Black History Month 2023 studio was created and the Love, Favourite and Remix icons were changed.

### May

* 8-12 — Scratch Week 2023 took place
* 25 — The Scratch Privacy Policy was updated.