Transparency is a problem that the Scratch Team has and I am not sure why. It’s not like this stuff happens behind the scenes, it’s all on GitHub - but most people that really benefits are the people they don’t endorse anyways, i.e. the developers of Scratch Addons and the like. The Announcements forum exists for a reason, but all it’s used for is Scratch Week and a very irregular Wiki Wednesday. I don’t see how saying “We changed the privacy policy, here’s what we changed”, “Block colors/the accent color are about to be changed” or “We’re going to have a new studio system, back up your studio stuff if they rely on things that are going to get removed” is going to hurt them when it’s all technically public anyways, but the overwhelming majority of Scratch users doesn’t know it is and couldn’t really find out anyways if they knew. It’s not confidential information that’s going to destroy Scratch if leaked. It’s weird.
Also it’s a bad move from the scratch team not to make a forum-post announcement on the changes.
Bunch of people asking in QAS what has changed and a few seemed to be worried if the new privacy policy evades them too much, and I’m sure a lot of other scratchers (especially younger ones) are thinking the same.
Scratch’s privacy policy has changed and there is a massive blue banner on the homepage for signed in users about it
Can’t be asked to read through that shit so wonder what changed? Scratch tracks your location for educational purposes? Scratch records you to hear if you’re complaining so they can then ban you?