❗ the future of this extension

[jeffalo]

this was a very cool extension to make and share, but i think it would be better for development and user experience for this to be part of a larger extension.

the advantages of using that:

• all of your scratch related addons are in one place
• addons don't need to reinvent the wheel for getting scratch related stuff like tokens
• • a cool addon api (cleaner code)
• a much larger user base (eventually)
• i don't need to update so many different versions of the script when updates are done, it would be nice in one place

disadvantages

• updates probably would need to be approved by them
• releases are on their schedule
• the code will probably have to be cleaner

the options

• continue to support the userscript, extension and now the addon in ScratchAddons
• only update the userscript and extension for big updates (i think this will be the best idea)
• completely depreciate the userscript and extension and focus efforts on writing for ScratchAddons (i like this one too)

i think this should be discussed since it's pretty important

[NoobTracker]

I think that that's a pretty good idea ... although that large extension, whatever the features there are, has only 15 stars and this one 11 so I dunno ... still, looks like that has more users. I think that it would make sense.

[jeffalo]

@NoobTracker from what i've heard they plan on rebranding a huge scratch related extension (1k+ users) to ScratchAddons and making it into basically the place to get smaller scratch addons

[NoobTracker]

That sounds awesome! Dozens of small extensions that make Scratch a little bit cooler but all together a lot cooler! And improving the code is never bad.

[jeffalo]

@NoobTracker yep! that's why i think that project is super cool. (plus the people working on it are very smart)

[NoobTracker]

But I'm not sure ... it could get a bit messy. Would every extension stay its own repository? If not, then it could get really messy when you try to discuss 50 things in one place.

[NoobTracker]

But if every extension stays its own thingy and every PR would just also be added to the big thing, then it could work, I think.

[jeffalo]

@NoobTracker yeah, i guess we'll have to wait and see how that goes.

[NoobTracker]

So what are the features of the extensions in the big extension so far?

[NoobTracker]

There could also be a script that adds a function for thumbnail and assets uploads so you can create code that does that easier and it would also be less messy.

[NoobTracker]

Overall it sounds pretty good. And I guess PRs still work.

[NoobTracker]

@JeffaloBob btw, it may be a good idea to split content.js into content.js and thumbnails.js so you have the code that creates the UI stuff in one file and the one that uploads the images in the other one. Would be less messy.

[BoomerScratch]

Use prettier for formatting code and making it clean. You can also use a GitHub action to automatically format code.

[NoobTracker]

yeah maybe add some nice semicolons.

[NoobTracker]

But currently it's not that bad I would say. You haven't seen my code yet.

[NoobTracker]

@BoomerScratch I can't tell you why, but somehow the code prettier creates is uglier then the original code imo.

[jeffalo]

Scratch Addons has released, and this is now available over there too!

[NoobTracker]

Yay! (but wasn't it already available before that release?)

[jeffalo]

Yay! (but wasn't it already available before that release?)

it was, but telling people to install an unfinished extension through their browser's developer options doesn't really sound that good