Just wanted to state that the reason I started this thread was because I believed it was bad forum etiquette to high jack another users question thread with a giant discussion about how blockly should be implemented.
Another observation I want to make is that some of these questions in the forum are not coming from complete newbies. The group handing thread was started by a user who has been here for three years. Another thread recently posted is by user hafniumzinc who has been here nearly two years and quite often pitches in helping answer questions here in the forum.
What I find particularly interesting about both these threads is that in both cases the user actually figured out how to ‘hack’ blockly and get it to work by basically fooling the interface.
You guys are playing to a pretty sophisticated audience
In what I thought would be a lot more typical of new user questions, the user in this thread is attempting to use the ‘store value’ block to be able to retrieve an item state that isn’t getting persisted during reboots… the block states ‘store value’
As Rick says
On another note, IMHO, I don’t think we should be afraid to rename a block to make more clear what it does