RE: Remove explore page.

[GvYoutubeSchool]

I appreciate your desire to help, but we must not give in to the trolls. Removing the Explore page would mean not just feeding the trolls but empowering them to control the design of the Scratch website and the shape of our community.
Sharing and collaboration are central to Scratch, and we're working hard to support the safety and reliability of those features. We've already made some behind-the-scenes changes in response to the recent incident, and we're working on more. We've found that detailing or highlighting these situations effectively feeds the trolls and can result in further attempts at misuse, so we make these improvements without much public fanfare.
Some folks may want to avoid the Explore page anyway. I support the right of an individual Scratcher (or parent, school, etc.) to make that decision by using a browser extension or other web filtering software.
Originally posted by @cwillisf in #9444 (comment)

My comment on this message:
(Sorry if I am sounding rude, I am not trying to be) Not removing the explore page gives trolls more chances to troll, because the explore page API is broken, and they can use this to their advantage by doing this type of stuff. Removing the page would simply resolve trollers in the explore page, because trollers' projects would be harder to find, which is good. Also, web filtering software, or extensions, don't actually have the power to detect NSFW images, therefor, is useless to use to protect you from seeing this kind of stuff.
@alctd

[Olimon7661]

Exactly... Why do they even keep it if it is why we see the trolls??? If we remove it, we have a lesser chance of seeing trolls. Heck, there might be 0 trolls and it's all people who just want to show off their work, even if it breaks the rules.. At least remove Explore from the top-bar.

[DDCcarr1]

This is more of a suggestion. Please move this to the Scratch Forums for discussion.

[ampelectrecuted]

This is more of a suggestion. Please move this to the Scratch Forums for discussion.

not all GH issues have to be bug reports

[DDCcarr1]

This is more of a suggestion. Please move this to the Scratch Forums for discussion.

not all GH issues have to be bug reports

I know, but many people don’t check GH but want to help with the suggestion

[GvYoutubeSchool]

This is more of a suggestion. Please move this to the Scratch Forums for discussion.

not all GH issues have to be bug reports

I know, but many people don’t check GH but want to help with the suggestion

I did use the forums, but was blatantly just told that tyre working on it, with nothing even done.

[GvYoutubeSchool]

Exactly... Why do they even keep it if it is why we see the trolls??? If we remove it, we have a lesser chance of seeing trolls. Heck, there might be 0 trolls and it's all people who just want to show off their work, even if it breaks the rules.. At least remove Explore from the top-bar.

Just nuke the enitre page at this point! We don't need to see a bunch of NSFW pictures.

[O9Creeps]

The Explore page also seems a bit useless. I haven't clicked on it for at least 5 months!

[O9Creeps]

Although, it is a good way for people to advertise their projects. How about we make it toggleable? Whether users want to see the page in the main menu bar or not?

[BigNate469]

Although, it is a good way for people to advertise their projects. How about we make it toggleable? Whether users want to see the page in the main menu bar or not?

And at that point, you might as well just leave it up to the individual user to ignore it anyways.

Re-opening a discussion after it was closed on the grounds that removing a core part of Scratch would actually not help with the trolls doesn't help, either.