XCC Feature Update: Remix (Fork) and Project Archiving
XMUER Coding Community has launched two community features: Remix (Fork) and project archiving. The source page is also now viewable without logging in.
Remix (Fork)
If you see someone else’s project and want to keep changing it, you don’t have to build from scratch. The project page and the source page each have a “Fork this project” button; one click copies the latest published version of the project to your own account and takes you straight into the editor, ready to start changing.
Forked projects keep the original’s title, description, cover and license, and below the title they show the credit “Forked from @original author’s “Project Name””; the changelog automatically gets one more entry, and the version number continues from the original’s numbering. Even if the original project is deleted later, this credit is kept.
Directly forked projects also appear in homepage recommendations, just ranked further down; once you change the title and cover to your own and publish a new version, they take part in recommendations normally.
Project Archiving
For projects the author no longer maintains, the author can choose “Archive this project” from the “⋯” menu on the project page. Archived projects can still be visited and forked as usual, but they can no longer be liked, favorited or commented on, view counts stop accumulating, and they do not enter homepage recommendations. The changelog records an entry “Project archived”, and you can unarchive at any time when you want to keep maintaining it.
Source Page Without Login
The “Go to source page” link in the project page sidebar no longer requires login; anyone can directly view the block code of published projects.
If you run into problems or have suggestions, feel free to post in the XCC topics area, or write to xcc@caellab.com.