History

Meower’s History

A full and detailed list of the great history of Meower (and Meower Media Co.)!

Disclaimer

Meower Media Co is merely an alias towards the collaborators of The Meower Project, and is in no way, shape, or form, a legal entity. This project has no intentions to harass or promote hatred torwards Scratch itself, but it does bring into precedent some of it’s current issues with the ST.

Foreword

According to all known community guidelines on Scratch, (not bees, but rather Scratch Cats that get generated every time you make a new project) there is no way for a chat project to get hyper-popular without the Scratch username @griffpatch. It’ll either die in the discussions, tab or mass an amount of less than 15 minutes of fame. The Meower project and Meower Media Co., however, tries anyway because Meower Media Co doesn’t care for what other people think, because Meower Media Co. gives and Meower Media Co. takes, your obsolete chat platform.

ScratchConnect Era

Mon Jul 27 2020

Original thread is born, Meower was originally called ScratchConnect!

Sat Aug 08 2020

CloudSocket is proposed as the first networking code…

Sun Aug 09 2020

…which would eventually be replaced with Pulse API.

Friday Sept 11 2020

A phrase-based system is proposed!

Prior to Sept. 14, 2020

The first wave of worries comes forth…

Sept. 14, 2020

First concept artwork for the chat!

Sept. 30, 2020

MikeDEV Stumbles upon the project (and then joins), after that, CloudLink is proposed

During this time, arguments arose over fickle subjects as well as server hosting problems within the project, eventually, Meower team decides to calm down and figure things out, but hosting the server would still be debated.

Also on Wed Sep 30 2020: The first GUI preview was published

Meower Era

Oct 4, 2020

ScratchConnect becomes Meower

Oct 5 2020

Scratch Team (ST) intervenes for the first time

Tue Oct 6 2020:

The second GUI preview was published

Meower Media Co. Era

Oct 14, 2020

Meower Media Co. becomes a proper alias and MMC gains several sister projects. Also on Oct 14, 2020, @Voxalice becomes the 100th page King (in the original thread)

Oct 16, 2020

Someone tried to outpizza our hut (“Meower killer”)

Oct 23 2020

Privacy policy gets drafted for the first time

Nov 01 2020

GUI Preview 3 is released (which only had small changes)

After that everyone hopped onto the offtopic train. And then, things went quiet…

Apr 23 2021

Original owner calls quits (MikeDEV becomes the owner)

MikeDEV Ownership Era

Apr 26 2021

Meower rose from the dead

May 23 2021

The great Mascot war

Jun 11 2021

The Last GUI preview is published

Jul 2 2021

@bloctans_4 becomes the next 100th page king

Sometime in July 2021

Public Beta 1 and 2 gets released to GitHub Pages (as well as all the way through 4.6)

Dec 8 2021

@DaCatBlock becomes the 200th page king Into November and to the current day, Beta 4.7 is still in development, Meower starts moving away from Scratch, MikeDEV Got (temp) banned by the ST, and the Meower server is getting rewritten to fix security vulnerabilities.

And, last, Meower lives in a new home: meower.org

Creedits

Written by MikeDEV on Scratch for the “Year in Review” Scratch Studio: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/613667202/ Revised and redited by Mwalters75, or MDWalters (M.D. Walters)