New Addon: `project-folders`

[Platformer444]

Resolves #

Changes It adds project folders to organize your projects

Reason for changes It makes finding your projects easier

Tests Tested on Chrome 105 and it works fine

[Samq64]

There is an API for my stuff, so project IDs should probably be fetched from https://scratch.mit.edu/site-api/projects/all/ instead.

[Platformer444]

There is an API for my stuff, so project IDs should probably be fetched from instead: https://scratch.mit.edu/site-api/projects/all/

Thank you for informing me about this but is there any API which fetches all the projects of the user and also includes their instructions and notes and credits?

[Samq64]

I'm not sure, but I don't think so.

[WorldLanguages]

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to move this to the next milestone.

[GrahamSH-LLK]

I think I forgot to link it here, but https://github.com/Platformer444/ScratchAddons/pull/1

[WorldLanguages]

I haven't considered that maybe we should try to reuse code from search-my-stuff in this addon, for filtering folders on the My Stuff page.

[Joeclinton1]

I tried it myself, and I think this addon should not be accepted and the PR closed. Here's why:

1. It's unneccessary. With studios which let you group your projects (albeit quite publicly) and the search-my-stuff addon you can already quite quickly find any project you're interested in.
2. It's extremely slow to load. The loading time is just far too slow, and there's not much you can do about that if you really must have the data for the project folders being stored in project descriptions. Also every time you reload the page you have to wait for it to load again. It's so slow, that you could easily find your project just by scrolling in the time it takes to load.

Now problem #2 can (and should) be fixed by storing data in the addon itself. But that doesn't excuse the main problem that the idea is really un-neccessary given that we can search for projects with search-my-stuff. It's a big, complex addon that will waste resources, for little actual additional functionality.

[GrahamSH-LLK]

I tried it myself, and I think this addon should not be accepted and the PR closed. Here's why:

1. It's unneccessary. With studios which let you group your projects (albeit quite publicly) and the search-my-stuff addon you can already quite quickly find any project you're interested in.
2. It's extremely slow to load. The loading time is just far too slow, and there's not much you can do about that if you really must have the data for the project folders being stored in project descriptions. Also every time you reload the page you have to wait for it to load again. It's so slow, that you could easily find your project just by scrolling in the time it takes to load.

Now problem #2 can (and should) be fixed by storing data in the addon itself. But that doesn't excuse the main problem that the idea is really un-neccessary given that we can search for projects with search-my-stuff. It's a big, complex addon that will waste resources, for little actual additional functionality.

https://github.com/Platformer444/ScratchAddons/pull/1 fixes the slow loading

[Joeclinton1]

@GrahamSH-LLK Wow, that is alot faster. Well, then it comes down to the question of whether the added utility is worth mantaining this addon. I guess with so much work having already gone into it, it wouldn't hurt to see it come to frutition.

Since your change hasn't been merged yet and the original creator of the PR is inactive you may need to make a separate PR, with your version.

[Samq64]

@Platformer444 Could you merge https://github.com/Platformer444/ScratchAddons/pull/1? We can take over from there if you're not interested in maintaining this.

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[TheColaber]

closing due to inactive author. @Samq64 @GrahamSH-LLK feel free to take over