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cyyynthia / pronoundb.org

A browser extension that lets people know how to refer to each other on various places of the Internet. Available on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.
https://pronoundb.org
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Adding support for Scratch #88

Open Banjoei opened 1 year ago

Banjoei commented 1 year ago

While Scratch may look like a children's programming platform at first, look closer and you'll find a large community of programmers looking to use the simple tools to make advanced projects. I've been getting into Scratch thanks to griffpatch, who is the number 1 Scratch submitter, and it really shows how many people use the site. Me myself, I use pronoundb, and getting into Scratch made me wonder if the integration was considered.

cyyynthia commented 1 year ago

I'm not opposed to the support of any platform, so long that it is technically feasible in a relatively "sane" manner. Scratch does not seem have native support for the OAuth protocol, other than what appears to be a semi-official-but-not-too-official thing. This doesn't look ideal...

There would also need to be an incentive to support the extension module and keep it up to date; while Scratch doesn't appear to be a fast-moving platform compared to other ones such as Twitter, it will require some minimal maintenance which I may not be able to do: I don't use Scratch nor have enough free time to regularly check if the integration still works :/

If the OAuth support available turns out to be good enough and safe enough, and that someone is willing to work on it, why not. But I will probably not try and do it myself.