Hello, all! This is a different sort of project! I was fiddling around with the various APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that power the Scratch website and I decided to build a project that displays how many messages YOU have that are unread. HOW TO MAKE THIS: https://github.com/micahlt/scratch-message-cloud HOW IT WORKS: When you click the envelope, a Node.js program running on my 10-year-old server recognizes a changed cloud variable. The project encodes your username into numbers so the server can read it from a cloud variable. The server then sends a request to the Scratch API checking how many messages that username has. It changes the Messages variable to that amount, and there you go! I'm still working on a queue-based load balancer for this, and it's in beta. Please comment if you have any issues at all! CHANGELOG: 2.2 ~ added advanced queue-based load balancer 2.1 ~ added minor load-balancing functionality 2.0 ~ recoded most of the server; now reads the message count of the current user using my string2num engine 1.0 ~ initial project; only reads my unread count
