Unshared Projects

You've probably noticed that TurboWarp, forkphorus, etc. can load unshared projects, and you might be concerned about that.

This is a design flaw of the Scratch API that's been around for years. It's not a TurboWarp bug.

Even the official development version of Scratch GUI can view unshared projects: https://llk.github.io/scratch-gui/develop/#1

As TurboWarp uses the exact same project loading code as Scratch, it's also able to load unshared projects the same way.

If you don't want people to see your unshared projects...

Don't share the project ID (the numbers in the project URL) with others. That includes links to your project and screenshots/videos of your project that include your browser's URL bar.

If the project ID has already been leaked, and you don't want people to see the project, save a copy of the project (File > Save as a copy) and delete everything from the original project. Deleting a project through the My Stuff page (even emptying the trash) is not enough. You must manually clear everything from the project. If someone already downloaded the project to their computer before you did this, there's not much you can directly do about that.

This would be a good opportunity to download a backup of the project to your computer for safekeeping so that you don't have to learn the importance of backups the hard way.

Another alternative to keep your project secure would be to use the offline editor. We would recommend TurboWarp Desktop :)

Couldn't TurboWarp fix it?

It would be possible to make TurboWarp not load unshared projects, but it wouldn't fix the root cause and people would still view them just as easily as before by using the official Scratch GUI development build or any other tool.

Why is project ID 1 like that?

Curious people have visited https://turbowarp.org/1 or https://llk.github.io/scratch-gui/develop/#1 and found a strange project. That's just what the Scratch API returns when you ask for the project with ID 1. Some story applies to all the other low project IDs. We don't know why those projects are the way that they are.

The project is shared. Why am I seeing this link?

This is normal if the project was shared very recently. Let me know on Scratch and I can fix it if it doesn't resolve itself within a few hours.