If you’ve seen my Games page and visited my Scratch profile, you might be wondering about my username on Scratch, DancingLine.

Scratch

Since I was in elementary school—around 2018—I was on Scratch trying to create fan-made levels of the mobile game Dancing Line. Of course, that led me to use DancingLine as my Scratch username. I ended making more than (glitchy) fan-made levels from a template that someone had made on Scratch a long time ago, and I ended up unsharing those Scratch projects because they were broken.

I began to use Scratch as a place for me to share my creativity, but they were still unshared… until I tried asking my mother whether I could share my projects online. Furthermore, I tried “asking” because I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to share them—I was pretty cautious about using the internet back then.

As I made projects on Scratch, lots of people started to know me a little. It felt so nice being able to leave a comment and get a reply, even if it takes a while to respond back. We never shared any outside contacts, so we just expect that everyone stays there every day. Eventually, I made my first online friends on Scratch—we still get in touch with each other today, though not as often since I got into high school.

Discord

When I searched about the mobile game Dancing Line, I discovered that there was a community on Discord related to it—Dancing Line Discord. I joined the server right away, but that also means I joined Discord too (and yes, I was underaged, but it didn’t really matter). I still remembered sending a few “…” when I first joined, and eventually I get to know people there.

As for the server itself, it got deleted after a few years, a new server was created (named Rhythm Games Hub) … and then got deleted again in a year or so.

For as long as I was on Discord, I managed to get some of my friends from Scratch to Discord using my server on a billboard that I made on Scratch. Though I got a warning not to share outside contacts.

This is where my pseudonym slightly changed, from DancingLine to Liner, but the “-ly” suffix comes next.

GitHub

When I decided to make a Discord bot, Heroku (the platform I used to host it for free, but not anymore) needs the source code to be on GitHub. Eventually I registered for a GitHub account (though I use Codeberg for all my personal projects now).

The only problem was that the username Liner had been taken… I didn’t like any of the username suggestions, so I added the suffix “-ly”. It’s available, and I used that username across all accounts that I have.

…and thus the pseudonym Linerly that I’ve been using for years now, even before I registered linerly.xyz.