:Hopscotch: Leaders Q and A Topic 2

The Hopscotch Team will be out of office during the holiday break — from 24 Dec 2022 to 2nd Jan 2023. We’ll be able to respond to forum posts & emails afterwards.

I will be out of office until around 17th Jan 2023. (I will be volunteering at a computer science summer school.)

We hope you have a great holiday break, however you may celebrate :confetti_ball:

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Ok, this is a random question but does this mean projects can’t leave the filter? I was planning on updating a game

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We have a moderator separate to the team for reviewing images - I think usually images have still been reviewed in the past, though it might be delayed a bit. I’ll have to check.

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i aint trying to be bossy or anything but personally i wouldn’t change your name to something seasonal bc i think you can only change your name once a year but i might be wrong though.

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^^ you can only change once a year from the first name change

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We can! though we only do them once a year, are you sure of the change?

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Can I have my name changed back to Dakoan pretty pleaseee

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I’m still gonna think about it…

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Why do new accounts now have to buy the sub to make games? They start with 5 seeds, but then have to pay just to learn to code their own games.

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We’re trialling different ways to help new users to get started with the app. Previously it was just always the subscription page that people would run into. But now people can also choose to play games or watch video tutorials.

New users with an account can watch video tutorials to help them learn to code. But some other features are now included under the subscription for them.

Old users will still have their previous abilities & nothing changes for them.

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Will people without hopscotch pro be able to make stuff cost seeds in there project in the future?

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Hopscotch pro doesn’t have that feature- that’s seed developers, who are selected in a program. HotBot will tell you more about your question below.

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Here’s what you can ask me:

@hopbot events

:calendar: Get a list of current official events on the forum.

@hopbot birthday

:birthday: Find out when Hopscotch’s birthday is.

@hopbot seed program

:seedling: Find out more about the past Seed Developer programs.

I’m still learning new things! Check back later to see what I’ve got for you.

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The ‘Request Seeds’ block allows a creator to add seed purchases in their projects, which requires players to pay seeds before they can access certain features.

The Seed Developer Program was a course run by the Hopscotch Team, to help Hopscotchers develop projects using the Request Seeds block. There are no future seed developer programs planned at the moment.

The Hopscotch Team is considering options to allow more people to have the Request Seeds block, so stay tuned!

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Oh ok then

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Hey leaders uh I’m confused I know this is pretty unimportant (as if I don’t already have it 3 (and 15) times) but although my beta testing topic has 10 likes, the nice topic badge hasn’t been granted for that topic (along with my 11 like post in the dht). Are these (category and topic) purposefully made to not give the badges, or is it a bug? I’m just saying this, since it could potentially happen to others.

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There are no restrictions like this as far as I know. When did you get 10+ likes on these? Sometimes it can take a day or two for badge handouts to process.

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The dht one was like last month, the topic maybe yesterday.

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You can’t get nice topic/reply badges in categories that have a padlock next to them (since you have to either log in or have a certain trust level to see them)

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Oh okay :]
Thank you for telling me.

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