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Bugs, Feature Requests, Wishlists
This project was created on 01/20/2014 and last updated 2 months ago.
Any thoughts on changing the default Projects sort from Most Skulled to Recently Updated? Or at least incorporate active projects into the default display?
Hello Zakqwy, we get a lot of new visitors to that page, which is why we've put the most popular projects first. However, we plan to remember your last sort order preference, so if you sort by newest it will remember next time you visit. Thanks for the feedback.
I've notice the view counter on my project page is showing 364 views for quiet a while now. Could it be that it is stuck?
EDIT: the view counter is definitely stuck. I went onto two different pc's and gave it a few refreshes last night, again this morning (yet another different pc)
EDIT: a few days later the view count is still at 364.
I asked about this a few weeks ago; sounds like views are updated as a batch process somewhat infrequently. Aleksandar mentioned improving this around the new year.
Cool, thanks for the info.
Image management? Aspect ratios? 1:1,,, 2:1,,, 32:17 (This one makes me bang my head on the desk screaming - No No No it can't happen) ... 1 Megabyte thumbnails ? ... 20 x 1 Megabyte thumbnails? Seriously, How many are on the development team? I would help out for nothing just to be able to use this site while maintaining my remaining hair! I am also well experienced at <security> this </security>
Hey Hacker404, yes this does need rationalising. I've made our devs aware of your feedback. Images and galleries are on our list of things to improve.
[feature request] [editor]
I would like the editor to auto-detect the camera rotation metadata of photos and automatically display them in the correct orientation, or at least allow me to rotate them manually in 90° increments.
It makes sense. I've put this in as a feature request.
[bug] [formatting/URL detection]
A slash after a question mark (I presume) is erroneously interpreted as the end of the URL, for example: https://hackaday.io/project/3520/log/11714
Thanks for reporting this. I've logged it as a bug.
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Also, I can't hyper link things in the description.
And 989 characters (checked using libreoffice) is registering as over the 1000char limit.
Hello Robert_sl, I just looked at your IcePick Delta project and there does seem to be a working link in the description. Can you give me an example where it's not working and we'll take a look.
We have a limit on the length of the description, as it is meant to be an overview. A few members have requested that we add pages, or possibly a wiki feature to projects for documentation as the update nature of project logs means important info sometimes gets buried. Some members link to important project logs from the description, but that's only useful if the links work.
Let me know how you get on.
Thanks for your reply! That's right, links work, but I can't make part of a sentence highlighted and link to something like I can in the details section, I can only paste a whole url's.
Also, I've notice my view counter is showing 364 views for quiet a while now. Could it be that it is stuck?
Thanks a lot Jasmine, I appreciate it :)
EDIT: the view counter is definitely stuck. I went onto two different pc's and gave it a few refreshes last night, again this morning (yet another different pc), some hours later the view count is still at 364.
My Feed page is spammed with messages about other users starting to follow the projects I am following, or giving skulls or whatever. This is irrelevant for me, as a follower. All I want to have in "My feed" is about progress of the projects I am following.
Spam example:
"user123 started following project456"
then BAM! a picture of the project...
Hello RoGeorge, it looks like a bug. We'll sort it out. Thanks for letting us know.
The search function gave me a 502 first, and now a 500 :( If any one can help me out, I'm looking for those tiny bubble led displays everyone but me seems to have. I love displays. Give me that name ;)
I'm getting the same 502, thanks for reporting.
I think you're looking for this project: http://hackaday.io/project/1306-tilt-touch-time
The part number is qdsp-6064
Wonderful, thanks Mike :)
Hey Dave,
We're working on releasing brand new search on .io (will be much better!) and were having a little bit of technical hiccups.
New search is coming up later today. Hope you'll like it :)
P.S. brand new search = brand new problems, so if you experience any issues please report.
SparkFun sells them (or a Chinese clone, perhaps): https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12710
It seems like the view counters don't update very often. Is that true, or do I just need to bug my mom to start looking at my projects more frequently?
Hey zakqwy,
The update counts are currently computed as a part of batch process and updated periodically (every 2 weeks for now, also counts only show up for projects with > 50 views). We're working on improving this. While it's still going to be a batch process (we need to make sure we scrub out all the "fake" views), the update frequency should be much higher - starting Jan 1 we should move to daily view count updates.
Thanks for your patience in the meantime :)
I still cant edit my profile. Still get 502 Bad Gateway when I click save.
profile edit works for me (Chrome). To get a 502 bad gateway I have to call the search-projects-for-tags url with a non-used tag like https://hackaday.io/projects/tag/cheeseburger
Have you noticed that the large image just above the follow project button of each project jitters badly until one of the smaller images is clicked?
Hello va7deo, we which browser and os are you using? Thanks.
[feature request]
I would like to have proper lists of projects I've skulled and followed. The "Projects I like & follow" gallery on my profile only shows the 18 most recent (?) projects I've skulled or followed.
Hello PointyOintment, we have this on our list of things to do. Good to know people still want it though.
Feed and messages count numbers wont show in the menu in the mobile theme. And I want to point to my additional touch comments on my previous post :)
And mobile once more.. the stack entry enumeration is cutoff on a samsung galaxy note 2014 in chrome.
Thanks davedarko. I'm getting a list together of these issues.
Thanks Jasmine :)
I tried to add a link to a github repo (HTTPS, if it matters) to a project, and it didn't work with the "github" network. It did work if I used the "other" network. It looks like the project winds up with a link without a network.
We'll look in to this and get back to you if we need more info.
I just uploaded a project to try the HAD io site. I am astounded that I can put <code> into my profile (of all places) but not in a project.
Hello Hacker404, you should be able to add code using the code button. If you can't then it is a bug and we'll need a few more details from you, like what os and browser you are using? Thanks.
Hey something I really need is to have the feed from other projects seperated. So Just like the "My Projects" page has seperation of my projects, so to it should be the same for the feed, then have a little ticker on how many project updates are since last read, new comments, etc. This would be very useful as right now I can't follow the projects, without scrolling through tons of garbage to get the real information on who's done what with what.
+1 something like my/following/global feed would be nice..
Hello Pusalieth, we are always looking for ways to improve the usability of the site. We'll workout how we can highlight your projects and activities more in the next round of improvements. Thanks for the feedback.
[Feature Requests]
It would be nice to create a non-public Project to document the project from the beginning and publish it, when there's enough material.
Thanks for the feedback Alex. This is something we've been hearing a lot from our community and we are planning to have this feature in the future.
I agree that this could be good. I usually just browse by new and only go far enough to see all of the projects that have been added since my last visit, so if a project has no info right after being added, I'm likely to skip it and not see it again. If people could wait to publish their projects until they have a bit more content, I think they'd get more skulls and followers.
The obvious counter-argument is that if people can keep their projects private, then they'll do so indefinitely, reducing the number of projects actually published. While this may happen due to forgetfulness, I think it doesn't apply to people who don't intend to ever publish their projects. Currently, those people will not write up their projects on this site at all. With this feature, they may do so, keep them private for a while, and then later decide to publish them.
Having private projects may be a nice tool for smaller projects too. Sometimes it's a small thing you want to make notes to and don't want it to show in your projects pushing your big/cool/main ones out of sight.
[Bug?] My samsung galaxy 2014 tab seems to get the desktop css when in landscape mode, so opening the menu gets kind of hard because i can't hover over it and clicking will lead me to my profile page.
Ah, we'll find a fix for this too, thanks!
Hovering in general is sometimes weird on a touch device. The gallery i.e. would be great if it would work like "click small frame to view in big frame - click big frame to view original".
One more thing for touch compatibility - would be great if the feed tiles were clickable to get to the comment/reply etc.
https://hackaday.io/prize needs to be updated now that the results are out. Also, the banner on the side of the Feed is still there.
We're on it : )
[bug] [formatting/URL detection]
Tildes in URLs (commonly used for user web space) appear to be interpreted as indicating that the URL is over. See this example: https://hackaday.io/project/1150/log/10990
I believe a fix for this is on the way, thanks for reporting.
[bug] [comments]
The page jumps up and down while typing on a line beyond line 6 in the comment field on project log entries. When I type a character, the scroll position jumps down to make that line visible, and then jumps up immediately. This causes a flickering view of what I'm typing, and I have to scroll down manually afterward to review it.
The same happens when commenting on projects, but only when the comment box is taller than the viewable area of the page in my browser window.
Chrome 38 on OS X Mavericks.
Thanks for letting us now. We'll check what's wrong.
Hooray for PMs :) HackadayMunich was great! I can't sleep in this seesawing dopple-decker bus and I've noticed a yellow comment pictogram although I did not write something there. Here's a screener https://www.dropbox.com/s/sgu82bgb8mc7hb4/Screenshot%202014-11-15%2004.07.12.png?dl=0
Thanks for the heads up Dave, we'll look into this.
The gray on gray is hard on these old eyes. The white on black is much more visible for those who don't see as well as we used to.
Hello Dave, CTRL-i... the 'i' inverts all the colors. Hope that helps.
I am ready to enjoy it .....
We're stoked you're ready. Would love to see your robotics projects on io soon!
I was not logged in when I clicked the "comment" button for a project I found on the hackaday welcome page. I logged in and ended up on my personal feed page. Now I have to search for the project I wanted to comment on before I can comment it. Every time I log in I'm annoyed by the fact that I can't see the welcome page any more.
Hello Christoph, thanks for raising this. The comment icon should link to the comments section and not redirect you to the feed if you have to login.
We are working on the Feed page to make it more useful to logged in users. We're interested in what you prefer about the welcome page to the Feed? The 'featured' projects can be seen on the right hand side of the feed page. Is it the 'new' & 'just updated' projects or something else? Thanks!
What I dislike about going to the Feed immediately upon logging in is that it marks all of the stories in the Feed read, so I can't look at the Feed icon to see how many unread stories there are. (Not that there's really any point in that right now, because the unread count is capped at 31, so I have to find the point where I left off manually.) Therefore, I'd prefer going to a different page after logging in, or just having an unread counter on the feed page itself.
Comments on your stack posts should show up in your feed.
Good point. We'll look into that.
I can't reliably get links to work as part of project instructions. I've been adding both images and links (if it matters). Most of the time if I highlight text & add a link to it, either (a) nothing happens or (b) the text seems to be deleted. For now I've just added links with square brackets one can manually copy/paste [ie: http://somewhere.com] so it's not really critical as that does the trick ;-) But thought I'd raise the issue anyway as would be nice to have fixed eventually, but I understand you might be wary of changing any code close to THP deadline!
Hello coflynn, would definitely be nice to fix eventually. btw - what browser and os are you using? Cheers.
Firefox on Windows 7. It's not reliable though as it DOES sometimes work fine. I'll try some other browsers for you though, didn't even think of trying other machines.
Perhaps a good future request would be if you could make a sandbox/demo version of the main hackaday.io. Users could create test projects on that to reproduce bugs, as I don't want to make a fake test project that will just clutter the main site!
EDIT: Just to clarify, I also have no trouble with the links on the project details or in the log posts. It was only in the instruction steps that gave me trouble.
Thanks for the extra details coflynn. I'll discuss the Sandbox idea with the team.
[possible bug] [stats highlighting]
Stats icons now seem to be correctly highlighted according to whether I've done the things they refer to, but the numbers (other than the views number) are highlighted if nonzero. On this project, for example, I see: grey views icon, grey views number; yellow comments icon, yellow comments number; grey followers icon, yellow followers number; grey skulls icon, yellow skulls number.
On the other hand, none of the numbers are highlighted (but the appropriate icons still are) on thumbnails in the project list. I don't know if that's intentional or not.
Hey PointyOintment, good catch! It should only be the icons that are highlighted. We'll get round to fixing that soon. Thanks a lot.
I've noticed the image upload via link is back, awesome! I do seem to be having a new issue though. I was trying to add pictures to the instructions and no matter where I had selected to add the image, the image was always insert at the to of the step. I could then cut and paste the image to get it in the right place.
We'll look into it. Thanks for pointing it out. :)
Hi Peter, which browser do you use? I can't reproduce this, could you leave me more info? like: os/browser/browser version.
e.g. Mac OS/Chrome Version 38.0.2125.111
Windows 8.1/Chrome Version 38.0.2125.111
I'm seeming to have issues with the project detail getting cut off. I didn't run into this before [edit #1: when I think other people had issues with it], and I'm now adding a lot of content to the project. Is there an upper limit to project detail length? What I'm seeing is that if I add new content, some of the stuff at the end gets deleted. It seems when I edit it again a little more gets cut off. See the end of project details at http://hackaday.io/post/2511, where 'hardwa' should be 'hardware'. If I edit the project, type 'hardware', and save it, the last few characters get cut off. Appreciate any help, it's been a great platform!
[edit #2: I played around with moving the 'read more' tag, didn't seem to affect things. Although now the cut-off word starts at 'Q' as more characters got cut off by my adding some additional characters earlier on! But some idea... total project details gets trunacated to some character limit]
Hello cofylnn, yes we do have a character limit which you've reached. If all projects are as well documented as yours, there may be a case for adding Pages to Projects. For the time being you could try putting some of the sections you have in Details as Project Logs and then linking to them from the Project Details.
Keep up the good work!
Haha no worries. Will move some stuff into project logs as you mentioned, it looked like a few other projects were doing this too, so ultimately provides a good solution. Much appreciate the quick response once again!
I like that there is now a view counter, but why is Followers no longer shown on the projects page (even when you sort by "Most Followers")? I would argue that followers is a better measure of how interesting a project is than views.
Also, I notice that sometimes the discussion/followers/skulls icon is highlighted for certain projects, but not for others, but not in a pattern I was able to easily see. What is that for?
Any hope for a poll feature?
Oh, one more thing. When editing project logs, I find that videos and/or images can be a little sensitive. If I paste a youtube link, then hit return twice (to enable the link and add a space) and then delete the space, the link vanishes. I've had times where I post a youtube link, hit return, then use the add-image icon to add an image. The image deletes the youtube video.
I've been quite happy with most of the recent upgrades to the site! Great work!
Hello Michael, glad you like the view counter and the other recent changes. You've raised a good point about the followers. The highlighted icons are on projects that you have commented or skulled.
Poll feature is an interesting idea. At the moment you could ask a question on the Stack and people can respond or give points to replies they like.
I'll raise a ticket about the video/image bugs you've been experiencing. Thanks for your feedback.
Thanks for the prompt reply and information. Keep up the good work!
Hi @Michael, I've had a upgrade and fixed this bug, please test it again. Thanks for your help.
We have some seeing impaired folks on staff, is there any way to change the color scheme of the website. This grey on black etc. is VERY hard for them.
Try CTRL-i... the 'i' inverts all the colors.
So it does, even on a Mac. That's pretty cool. The text is blurry, though (on a Retina display, at least, though it's not pixelated like I'd expect if it was a Retina issue).
Feature request-
This is quite a large request, could there be a wiki for the purpose of including information on projects and providing links concerning projects, also for information on techniques found by hackers.
Hey lavaguava, an interesting idea. It would be great to have a resource which isn't directly tied a project. Thanks for suggesting it.
Currently we have the Stack, which is a part of the site not associated with any project. It's a lot (entirely) more like a subreddit than like a wiki, though, so it's probably not what you want. I just mention it in case you hadn't seen it yet. And I second your suggestion of a wiki-style section.
Wasn't sure where to post this. Any chance we can get access to higher res copies of our profile badges? I'd really like to get some printed out and placed on my project. The Hackaday Prize badges are really slick looking BTW.
I don't have super hi-res but these are a bit large that what's on the list page:
Awesome, Thanks!
Account merging - I created a username/password but then wanted to sign-in with my Github. There wasn't an obvious way to add github login to my existing account. I ended up deleting my original profile. It would be nice to support multiple, simultaneous login providers.
Hello Jonathan Beri, we'll work out what we can do. Thanks for raising this issue.
[bug] project titles shown because of following hackers are "undefined" in the feed https://www.dropbox.com/s/k2tvczjxg218p4h/Screenshot%202014-10-10%2023.01.58.png?dl=0
Hey davedarko. I've just added your image to the ticket. Thanks.
[bug][project description]
When URLs enclosed in parentheses are converted to links, the closing paren is included in both the target and the link text.
Thanks for reporting this, we'll look into this.
[feature request]
Can we get an "expert mode" that turns text editors into plain text fields, so
we can just paste in raw HTML from our favorite code editor? The current editor
doesn't cooperate with Opera.
EDIT: Actually, it seems to work okay with Opera, but it still has a few problems (which may or may not be Opera-specific).
Thanks for the feedback RunnerPack, we'll discuss this with the team.
Firefox at least on my Mac is stuck in mobile rendering for the past few days.
Hello Chris,
Is this still an issue? Are you using firefox full screen?
Yeah, I get a Menu button on the top and most pages render as a single column of content. Just regular firefox, and restarted, only this site, nothing different on it, and this only started last week.
Seems like the site is requesting our mobile version of the site for you (happens when the browser size is small). What's your screen resolution?
[bug] [comment editing]
When I edit a comment, line wraps become hard line breaks.
Thanks, we'll look into this.
[bug] [featured projects next to feed]
I've previously expressed appreciation for the featured projects on the feed pages, but for the past several days, they've been stuck on Goliath and Fifth Element Stone Mood Lighting (in that order) for me. I have tried clearing my cache. Chrome 37.0.2062.124 on OS X Mavericks.
Thanks for reporting this as well. We are planning on improving this section so in the future more projects will be featured more often.
Okay, sounds good. They've changed, BTW; they're now stuck on OpenBLDC and Remote Water Consumption Display. I miss how they used to be different projects every time I refreshed. :(
[possible bug] [project stats]
On this project, the comment count and icon are not the same color as the follower and skull counts and icons. They're the same color as the follow and skull buttons, links, usernames, etc. (I'm not sure what to call this color (yellow? brown? orange? harvest?).)
Perhaps this just indicates that there are a lot of comments, or new comments, on this project, but the CSS style applying the color doesn't seem to suggest that, and there is nothing in the tooltip to say what it means, if anything.
Update: I'm also seeing this on some other projects. MoXi ( https://hackaday.io/project/3102 ) has it, but Super Famicade ( https://hackaday.io/project/3121 ) doesn't.
Thanks for letting us know. We started highlighting skull & comment icons if you did any of those actions on list pages. Seems like project details are also affected which looks like a bug. We'll look into this, thanks!
[bug] [project details] I am now unable to edit the details on my project..
I click and it brings up the edit screen with a publish/discard bar, the title
and a blank text box with a link above it 'Need Help?'....
Multiple computers, same issue with windows Chrome Version 37.0.2062.124 m and linux with firefox 32.0.3
Unfortunately, it seems to still work in IE...
Another note.. When I try to edit project logs, and I place the cursor somewhere.... The second I type a key, all the content below the cursor is deleted.
Oh thank God I'm not the only one experiencing that. I thought I just needed more sleep.
Likewise! It's good to hear it's not just me doing something..
Hi, thanks for the reply....Yes,
SyntaxError: nothing to repeat (followed by a large chunck of text)
Use of getPreventDefault() is deprecated. Use defaultPrevented instead. (also followed by a large chunk of text)
I send more details to Mike... Let me know if you need more than this.. Firefox generated a very large message, mostly seemed the same as chrome..
Hi fl@c@, it fixed, please try again!
Looks great!!! Thank you!!!!!
Replies to comments on logs are still not showing up in myfeed.
comments on logs in general don't seem to appear on my feed
I noticed now I can reply to replies and edit it. Great work!
However, when editing a reply with link inserted, the link gets doubled. This is example of comment before hitting edit button http://i.imgur.com/vBOWXO5.png and this one during editing http://i.imgur.com/vdk3SzL.png Notice the link doubled in [] brackets.
If I would hit "Done editing" button without deleting the doubled link, I would end up with two identical links in my comment.
Thanks for letting us know, we'll look into this.
I probably misunderstood something, but few minutes ago Brian Benchoff wrote comment on my project http://hackaday.io/project/643-MiniBSD-laptop-computer however I can't see it in My Feed, only in Global Feed, though I would expect it My Feed too.
I noticed something similar a few times ago - I received an email notification about skull or follower, however I didn't see it in My Feed. On the other hand, I can see other new items (new project updates or so) in My Feed.
Interesting. Do you still not see it on your feed? Our QA team just tested this and seems like it's working. Please let us know if the issue continues.
Thanks for looking at this issue. Unfortunately, I still can't see reply from Brian in my feed. Even your reply to my post (or reply to my post above) wasn't included in my feed, though I found it on global feed.
In my feed, there are still updates from hackers or projects I follow, but nothing regarding my own projects or posts for last 8 days.
Another update: 14:40 local time (35minutes ago) I received notificiation that rawbyte gave skull to my JJ Tricorder project. I can't see it in my feed nor in global feed.
Hey Jaromir,
Thanks for reporting! We're looking into this.
Comments to followed projects don't show either, only replies to comments on them. Those things are already reported..
Perhaps I've caught the site in the middle of an update as there are quite a bit of changes. However when I pull up the instructions to edit, it's not populating the page correctly in chrome (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mccloudaero/goliath-quadcopter/master/misc/Instructions_Errors_2014_10_03_0813GMT.png).
Internet Explorer does seem to work.
Also the new image upload interface does not appear to include a file link option. This was really useful for pointing at files at the github repository and saved a lot of upload time and allows for automatic updates everytime I make a commit. Getting that option back would be nice.
Hi Peter McCloud,
Did you get any error on instructions-edit page? If you use Chrome, please Open Developer Tools (Win: Ctrl + Shift + I, Mac: Cmd + Opt + I), check if there is any error message in console.
I think the file link option would be back soon.
There was 1 error, here's the raw text
And screenshot
Hi Peter, it fixed, please try again!
Awesome, thanks!
And the image link will be back next update
I see you already have "Editing comments/bits" and "Being able to reply to replies" As things to work on, so I won't ask for them, but the ability to directly message someone would be /really/ handy. I've had to look up a few of the users on Reddit to be able to have any sort of functional conversation, and it would be nice to see that integrated into the profiles here. (:
Hey Stryker295. Yep, we have a long list of things to do. For the time being the workarounds are: delete and replace a bit/comment - not ideal I know; and to reply to a reply by clicking on the reply link under the original comment. Unfortunately, private messaging is not on the cards anytime soon, but we do know it's needed. Thanks for the feedback we are keeping track of it all.
Any chance of RSS feeds?
There is a global fee RSS available: http://hackaday.io/rss/globalFeed
I'm still getting the mobile version of the site on my laptop. I've checked with both Safari and Chrome. Is there anything I can do to help debug this?
I have a project I'd like to add, but the mobile version of that flow is painful, to say the least. How do we get this fixed?
Make your browser window wider.
No joy. Making it wider didn't do anything. Making it narrower didn't either.
Hello bfoz. What resolution is your laptop screen?
Thanks for the heads up Robert.
it's fixed. thanks.
Perhapps I'm just not that smart but, how can i find all the Projects which I have skulled or followed?
It's not you. There isn't a way to see it yet. We hope to add it at some point. However, the updates to your followed projects and hackers should show up in your feed.
Hello feedback team! I was wondering if there was a way for me to get my project into the homebrew computers section?
Information's a bit sparse in that one. Keep working on your documentation and hit me up again.
It would also be awesome to see a avatar (picture) for your profile ;-P
Seven days since the last comment? Can that be correct?
Isn't the list still long enough? :p
Folks that follow the Feedback project--I encourage you to head to FLAGG's post on Stack linking to the Store, and leave comments or question there. I posted my initial thoughts, but would like to hear some other opinions and hopefully get an official response.
Hello Everyone, thought you'd like to read the Hackday Store Manifesto over on the store's about us page - http://store.hackaday.com/pages/about-us
Hello HaD team,
Are there any plans to improve the Components section? I am currently just referencing my own web page from that section, because there is no way to do sub lists (needed to organize the different high-level components, such as Frame and Electronics) and no way to include links (very helpful to get directly to a Digikey Part # or some obscure eBay site which has a required component).
Even just allowing the use of the full HaD HTML editor (or even raw HTML) would be preferable to what we have now...
And on that note, a similar change to the Build Instructions section would be most appreciated as well. The default template for both of these areas is fine for simple projects, but not being able to indent and make sub-lists prevents any sort of organization of the steps for larger, more complicated projects.
Hello The Big One. I'm afraid improvements to the components or build instructions are not on the immediate roadmap, but we've received several bit of feedback, so we will update it in the future. Thanks for letting us know.
OK, thanks for the update, Jasmine. I guess I will just keep links to my external site for the time being, then...
No worries on your road map, but I would like to see sub lists as well. I just figure that the more people you see interested in it the sooner on the road map it'll be :)
Thanks Jasmine
Hi . Am I too late for the competition . Is there any way to apply again.
Hello Mehmet-cileli, I'm sorry you missed the deadline for submitting to The Hackaday Prize. We'll have more competitions in the future. Good luck for next time.
Great site! Loads of interesting projects here. I'd like to be able to buy things from project creators.
Hello Alex, we have the Hackaday store in the pipeline. There will be news about it on the blog soon. Thanks for your feedback.
Actually, you can now check out http://store.hackaday.com/blogs/news/14632763-the-store-is-live
I noticed there is "Like" option at my Feed entries and I can see who liked it (if anybody). I liked particular project log in my feed, for example, but I can see any likes in the project page. Is there option to see what entries are most liked? Is hacker notified when somebody likes his entry?
Hello jaromir.sukuba, at the moment we are just recording the likes, but in the future we'll be adding more functionality as you have suggested. It's good to know people would be interested in that. Thanks for letting us know.
Hiya - couldn't find any email or other way to say this! I entered the Hackaday prize on 20th August but never had any contact - can you look into this! I put loads of effort into the prize entry so I'm a bit gutted it never seemed to even be considered. I got the confirmation message that someone would contact me. Project is aquapionics btw.
Hi Gareth,
Your project was among the roughly 800 that were reviewed by the judges. There were only 50 slots for semifinalists. You can see them all on this list: http://hackaday.io/list/2864-The-Hackaday-Prize%3A-Semifinalists
Thank you for entering and I hope you continue with your project!
There's definitely something wrong with My Feed. I see things in Global Feed that I am following, but they do not appear in My Feed. My Feed is not blank, so some subset is making it there - I can't discern a pattern.
I still haven't gotten any notification emails since discussing that with Jasmine 2 months ago (see below). It might be a separate issue, but I mention it in case it might be related.
I would think you'll get a feedback message with this response in it. I'm going to email you separately to see if we can figure this out a bit more.
Yes, I got this message. Some projects or hackers I follow seem to work, others not. The feedback project seems to be one that works... Thanks for the support!
When I click on "Projects" from the homepage, it redirects me to "My Feed", other than that, this is the most "comfortable" site I ever became member of...
Glad to hear you like the feel of the place!
When you click the logo (which turns into a Home icon when your mouse over it) it should take you to the feed. But when clicking Projects it should take you to a list of projects. Can you tell me if you're still experiencing this behavior?
email links aren't working on the "check it out" button, gives a link thats http://hackaday.ioundefined/#j-discuss.....etc.. removing undefined works.
Thanks CharlieX. I've opened an issue on this in order to get it fixed up.
[bug] I get a 500 page when I want to edit a page on my profile.
Haven't seen someone reply for the last 11 days, what evil/mad things are you up to? :D
hi davedarko, thanks for reporting. it's fixed now.
[bug] replies on comments I wrote to projects I don't follow don't show in my feed.
We're working on adding this to the feed. Should be in in the next couple of weeks. Thanks!
This user is nothing but a spammer, recently posting 32 projects with absolutely nothing more than a title:
Thanks for reporting this.
[bug] your static server strips metadata from images and thus jpgs that have rotation data lose this. Fix by leaving rotation metadata in place or rerendering the image when rotated.
(at least that's what I think causes https://static.hackaday.io/images/2036461407353412991.jpg to be weird)
That image renders perfectly fine for me using Imagus's hover feature, but if I click it and open it in Chrome directly (no Imagus) it's upside-down.
EXIF is still in there (Samsung SCH-I535, shot on 06.08.2014 09:10). Image is upside down for me in Chrome and IrfanView but in right orientation in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
I really like the new featured projects on the right side of the feed. It seems like a great way to give more exposure to projects that wouldn't have gotten any otherwise.
[BUG] Iceweasel 20.0 on Linux: If I add code, format it with the code tag and edit the project log again, line breaks are replaced with , resulting in a mess:
+++ cmd> setet 4 Ok cmd> setwp ***************** Ok cmd> setssid Bordnetz Ok cmd> wificonfig SSID : Bordnetz Network Type: AP(2) Encrypt Type: WPA2-AES(4) PassPhrase : ***************** Ap's channel: 1 Dhcp Client : enable Ok cmd> saveconfig Saving Configuration to FLASH Ok cmd> reboot device will reboot... Ok cmd>
argh, html tags are stripped in the comments. again:
line breaks are replaced with < b r >
(imagine the code shown full of displayed < b r > tags)
Adding my sixth project I wondered how the 5 projects that are shown on a hackers profile are selected. When I check Kenji Larsen's profile his "main" project "reactron overdrive" doesn't show. Another hacker that comes in mind is Chris Hamilton with his "flex modules". Could we have a tag option so we can chose which one is selected on a profile?
I wonder if it would be useful to make a "similar projects" link in addition to Follow Project, and perhaps with a bit of vetting, give the ability to suggest tags for projects.
https://hackaday.io/ always redirects me to my feed, however yesterday or so it showed me front page consisting of new/updated/featured projects.
Not sure if bug or feature.
Seems like the new start page since there are also featured projects on there now..
dave: you seem to be right. Is there something like changelog of the website? It could be nice to know what change is bug and what is feature :-)
BTW, I hope I'm not talking to myself only, as well as other people in this feedback topic.
I guess they are still busy with everything. Haven't found the promised change log, too.
At one point I made sure every time I visited the site to type in /projects/new so that I wouldn't go to my feed right away. I wanted to see the number of new stories in my feed before they were marked read by me loading the feed. I guess that doesn't matter now that the number is seemingly meaningless, though.
[bug: skulling and following]
Skulling and following used to be instant, and still is on one of my computers (Chrome on Windows 7). On my other computer (Chrome on Mac OS X Mavericks), it takes a few seconds. I click, the button gets darker, I wait, and a few seconds later it changes to "Following"/"You [skull]".
Also, if I click one button while the other is still in the process of changing, it darkens, but then reverts to its original state after I wait. Refreshing the page shows that it did actually work.
Can you please extend the deadline for submitting entries to the hackaday prize contest?
[bug: feed]
I just refreshed page 5 of my feed right after opening page 4 in a new tab, and page 5 lost four stories from the bottom; only the more recent four remained. They were replaced with this message:
"(!) Not much to see here yet. Follow some interesting Hackers and Projects to make your feed more lively. You can also check out the Global Feed to check out what's happening in the rest of Hackaday Projects universe."
I refreshed again and it was still there, and the four less recent stories were still missing. Page 5 still has its "Next" and "Prev" buttons. Pages 4 and 6 are unaffected.
Chrome 36 on Mac OS X Mavericks.
The same thing happened when I got to page 2, though this time, it occurred on the first page load and then persisted through a refresh. I refreshed it to find that the fourth story had disappeared; I then went back to page 3 (which I still had open in another tab) and refreshed to find a different story had appeared at the top of that page. Therefore, it appears that the notice is 'covering up' some stories.
It's gone now.
Tag normalization - while pulling statistics for HaD Prize, I noticed that the tags have lots of variation based on how people type them in. Easy fixes would be to uppercase all tags, remove leading #, remove double space (or all spaces). What I'd really like to see is a context menu that pops up as you type, suggesting the most popular tags that match what you're typing, so users can try to match what's already been entered.
YouTube has suggestions for tags, as I discovered when I uploaded my THP videos. It's really slow to load for me—it needs to be instant or people will move on to the next tag and never see the suggestions—and the tags it suggests can be weird.
Just an idea - it may be interesting to have option to see similar projects to project currently viewed, somewhere on bottom of project page. The selection can be made automatically, by searching for tags or other keywords.
Also, for the "Projects" view, a default sort by the newest once would be better (again, this is a personal opinion) than too always see the the same projects that are most skulled ones.
More thoughts:
- the default "Feed" button sends users to "My Feed" instead of "Global Feed". This can lead users to "leave in their own bubble" of projects/users they follow, without making them aware of the global hackaday.io activity.
- it would be much nicer (at least for people like me) to see the whole project and all the sections of the project in one long page instead of having a "View all..." button. "Read more" button is great for the blog, but once that someone click on a project/article, it usaualy means that (s)he want to see it all.
Didn't use to many web editors, but this is by far the most frustrating one for me.
It doesn't work well with Opera and IE, sometimes pictures are inserted in the wrong place (usually at the beginning), formatting text (for "code") is randomly applied to the section above, after, or the the whole post instead of the selected text only, "code" formatting for source codes that has empty lines is separated into multiple code formatting for each paragraph as in here http://hackaday.io/project/1293/instructions (step #5), and so on.
Works a little better with Mozilla, but still very annoying.
Agreed. Would like WYSIWYG editor everywhere, and with the toolbar always shown at the top. I didn't even know you could edit formatting until I highlighted something for delete and the context menu popped up. Don't hide core features! : )
Just found how to post indented source code lines in projects (using formatting "code" style).
Is there any way to do the same in comments?
Attempted to change password, as the one I had originally chosen was lost. I requested a new password, copied & pasted it from the email into the 'current password' blank on the Change Password form. It came back as invalid....
Hi jakdedert, thanks for letting us know. Would you mind forwarding that email to firstname.lastname@example.com
I'm opening a ticket about this issue and we'll be investigating.
[bug: feed]
The feed's "Next" button is missing on feed pages 7 and greater, but only on my personal feed; the global feed doesn't have this problem. I looked at the source code and there's no sign of it.
Chrome 36, Mac OS X Mavericks.
page 6 and greater on my feed, too.
same on pg3. chrome 36. may be related to http://hackaday.io/project/37-Feedback---Hackaday-Projects#j-discussion-7548
Hi, thanks for reporting this as well. This could be related to switching to the new feed. For me, I could go till page 13.
[bug: project deletion]
It appears that when a project is deleted, its log entries (and presumably details too) are still accessible if you have the URL, and all of the project's stories still appear in the feed. Example: https://hackaday.io/project/2726/log/8352
Thanks for reporting this PointyOintment.
Nice unofficial stats for the prize: http://hackaday.io/project/2830
we noticed that the stack feed is not well visited. Is there any chance that this feature will be followable soon?
Is there any plan to allow indented text (for source code) to be placed in the HaD projects, please?
It's a must have feature.
Hello RoGeorge, Not at this moment. We encourage you to share source code using GitHub. Then you can link it to your project.
What about a List for musical (or more specifically Synth) based projects?
1) Can we edit particular sections (say, description or links) without editing the rest of the project?
2) Why can't we re-order links in a project?
I would also like these features. #1 would be nice also because it would then give more specific info than "updated the project" in the feed.
Hello minifig404,
1) Not right at this moment.
2) This is on our to-do list but I'm not sure when.
@PointyOintment We're still working on improving the feed and more detailed project/profile updates is on the list.
Hello davedarko
Your tips were very helpful.
I submitted my project https://hackaday.io/project/2693-Cloud-CarBot few hours ago for hackaday prize. I can see my project in project lists with "thehackadayprize" tag.
However, I could not add URL to my youtube video because I did not see any link to add it. Therefore I have embedded the youtube video URL in details section of the project.
I hope that is ok.
Please let me know.
when you edit you project here https://hackaday.io/project/2693/edit , under the tags you should see an external link area where you can add the video link. you should also consider splitting your details into 4 logs to meet the rules. Good luck
Really Nice website. as with hardware you have also given sources ,links to buy it
Thanks alot
Hi Hackaday,
I noticed that my project is not featured in any of your new list :( . What was your criteria when creating lists?
There's a lot of projects out there, not everything can make it onto the lists.
That's exactly my question, Mike: why not every one of the 300 projects can be send into a list? I mean, you guys are free to use creativity and create new lists, right? .
The whole point in that those projects are gaining more visibility than all the others into the prize!
Hello Clovis, the visibility of projects in the lists have no bearing on how they will do in The Hackaday Prize. Thanks Jasmine
Hi Jasmine,
If you say so, I believe you
I got two skulls within the last 24 hours for projects, but it's not in my feed (received no mail, too). Project would be http://hackaday.io/project/1887-Open-Bicycle-Computer
I noticed the same. Two skulls and followers for my project http://hackaday.io/project/2475-Progmeter one or two days ago and no feed/e-mail notification. However, then I received another one and got info in feed and e-mail.
Unofrtunately, I can't click on skull/follower icon uder project to see who gave the skulls or follows my project.
That list would make a cool feature! this way one could find other hackers with same interests. Or a mini feed for a single project.
Hello davedarko, thanks for letting us know. We'll check to see what's wrong.
[bug: components]
I'm trying to change the order of components for my project, but the drag handle only appears (and flickers) for the first item I added. If I move it down to another position, it's still the only one with a drag handle. The four-way arrow cursor appears for all components, but dragging on them just selects text. Looking in the inspector, I see that only the row of the first component I added (i.e. the only row that was on the page when it loaded) gets the hover-row class, and only its td.component-handle gets the icon-draggable class, when I hover over the row. I haven't published the components yet; maybe if I do and then go in to edit them they'll all work. Will try that now.
Chrome 36 on Windows 7.
Yes, they all get drag handles (though the handles still flicker terribly) after saving the components and going back in to edit them. New components I add (beyond the one blank row that already appears at the bottom), though, don't have handles.
Thanks for reporting this PointyOintment. I created a ticket and the team will be investigating this.
Hello. The lists are good, I like it. Just an idea: I think like there is a few measurement devices, it could be another one list.
Hi Mike,
I tried to update the Beamboarder to the new data transfer requirements of the hackaday price. A hope I can create a schematic until tomorrow. Do you think this is enough for entering the contest? Pictures of prototyping the communication will follow at the weekend. The update of the block diagram, a small Project log and the new components is done, but writing a clean text in english will take me some time.
It looks like you have met the minimum requirements for judging, yes. In the next 36 hours I would try to write a little bit more about the connected part of it just so that you have the best explanation you can in the time available.
Good luck!
Could you please add my project to the "Robots" list?
I like the new feed, but the number of new stories that appears on the feed link's flag is incorrect now. I used to just divide that number by 31 and go directly to that page of the feed, and go forward from there, to make sure I didn't miss anything. Now, I can't do that; I have to guess at what page I have to go to to find the least recent stories I haven't read yet. It's not just an issue of dividing by 8 instead of 31; the number used to be over 100 just about every day, and now it rarely goes over 20, despite the fact that I've been adding and not subtracting subscriptions.
Also, if it's feasible, I'd like a button to go straight to the least recent unread story. You wouldn't have to keep track of each story's read/unread status, just which one is the most recent one that's read, and then highlight everything newer than that.
Another issue I have with the feed (since the old version) is that to make sure I don't miss anything, instead of just clicking on the "prev" button to go to the previous page, I must open it in a new tab, refresh the current page, look for anything new at the top of the page, then close the tab and move on to the previous page. If I just clicked "prev" then I'd miss anything that was on the previous page when I loaded the current one but has since been pushed down to the current one. I have no idea how to solve this, but I will say I'd like infinite scrolling much less than the current situation. I could start on page 1 and click "next", but I like reading things in the order of posting.
Thanks for including so many details on this. I also look forward to an easier method of discovering the oldest unread in my feed. I'll add this to the tracker.
Great; thanks! One more thing: I'm not interested in seeing skulls and follows for projects I follow, but I would still like to see them for my own projects. Would this be possible?
I'm not sure what happened, but in last few weeks I have problems with loading pictures on hackaday projects. Sometimes it works better, sometimes worse, but I can still see browser waiting long for static.hackaday.io, where the pictures are apparently stored. All other websites are OK on my home computer, with steady connection speed of about 60-70Mbit/s (fiberoptic line). It was absolutely OK before and went totaly wrong one day.
The situation is such as bad on my home computer, the computer in my lab on another part of city (with different provider) is better (though not perfect).
Before investigating more, am I the only one with images loading problem?
Hello jaromir.sukuba, thanks for letting us know. We haven't heard if anyone else was also having problems but I'll create a ticket to share this with my team. I'll let you know if we find something.
Hello, thanks for this. For your info, this is how it looks http://imgur.com/PA4N49C - you can see normally loaded page, but only partially loaded images, some of them load just fine and fast and other... nothing, I can wait a few minutes and situation is still the same. I'm using Firefox 31 on Ubuntu 14.04 and confirmed this on another computer on my network. It may happen the problem is on my side, though.
By the way, why can't I reply to your reply, but only to my original post? This prevents classic discussion trees. Is this intentional?
Hello !
Why my project can not be seen from "My Projects" but only by direct link ?
I can edit my project, but no one can see it or comment or give a skull....
Please fix it.
Thank you !
Hello digi-motion! Sorry about that. It seems like there was a weird character added to your project details section and it was causing a problem. It's fixed now.
An API to read my project information will be appreciated. This is partly to allow an easy backup, and partly to allow me to embed links to the project profiles from my web site.
Hi Alistair,
We're working on making an API publicly available. Hopefully this will be done fairly soon. Will keep you posted!
Hi peeps,
Is there any chance we could get editable project logs, as I really want to be able to update some images and stuff over a few days, without posting something that's half finished, and not being able to change it.
When you click on a log to view it in detail, there is a link on the top: "Edit project log". But I can tell you as a heavy follower that it is frustrating when you follow a project and the log gets changed a lot and you have to re-read it all over again to get the sometimes minor changes.
What may is missing here is some kind of article/page thing for projects, where you only relate to a single part of a project (power, control unit, software). It would be possible to make multiple projects, but that gets confusing, too. Maybe adding tags for logs and a little tag cloud to filter them would be cool. So you can always post logs to a tag.
http://hackaday.io/about/ gives a 404 ( sorry, I was bored :D )
I mean the link on the bottom of every page..
Thanks for catching that. It should go to http://hackaday.com/about/ .
css fail on "my feed" pg2+ (not global feed) in chrome 36 screenshot: http://up.picr.de/19221009gq.jpg
Hi rawe, we have a ticket in for this already, but thanks for letting us know.
I would like to have a second button for each project in the Hackaday Prize Voting, one that declares not only that I think it's a good idea, but that I want one.
There are things, like the knitting circuits project, that are awesome but that I would never actually use. Then there are things like the solar energy controller that not only are awesome but are something I personally want to have. I want to send that message.
Hello Bobnova, we are not going to add this to voting, but there is a possibility we may add something like this to project pages at some point. You can always leave a comment on the project :)
Great job on the new feed, it looks better than I could have imagined. Something I have noticed (and it could just be me) is images seem to switch between a smaller and larger version, just dynamically on a page. It's only on the thumbnail selected on the main project page that I can tell, and it is very subtle. You have to look at it for a second, it seems like it is zooming in and out, albeit very slightly. It's not overly distracting, just a little weird
some unsorted and unfiltered thoughts (again)... :)
3. I came here because of a broken "check it out" link in an email I got for a comment on a project. Link looked like that http://hackaday.ioundefined/#j-discussion-7469 ... but then I noticed the curated lists :)
1. yay, curated lists :) this is awesome! This way some projects could get more attention. I think the drop down sorting menu from the other list views would be a nice add-on.
Themes that could make a good list too:
- UAVs/Drones/flying things
- health related stuff (blood stuff, urine stuff, heart stuff)
- home growing/gardening
- robots (or parts of them like arms)
- watches and clocks (nixie tubes, xkcd, bttf, servos)
- wearables/clothes
- space related stuff (satellites, telescopes, radios, dsky, space suit)
- SDR, ham radios..
- games, arcades, consoles
2. The sorting of replies to comments seems weird, is this a bug or a feature (I'm asking seriously)?
4. I really like where this page is going, and I hope that networking with people will get easier and appears more often, once they see the similarities in their projects. With 2418 projects (more or less) it will be more and more difficult to pay attention to overlooked projects and the nth project about xy.
Hey davedarko,
1. Glad you like the lists and thanks for the theme suggestions. Sorting would definitely help.
2. Yep, replies should be fixed soon.
3. Thanks for letting us know about that. Could you possibly forward me that email?
4. We have a few ideas for improved networking. Initially we are working on an improved experience for new members to suggest hackers and projects to follow. More to come.
sorry, but I already deleted the mail :(
Jasmine, I will follow your advice and use the project log and instructions more appropriately, but the way the logs are displayed doesn't work so well with a completed project. I would like to present my project step by step, and always have the first step showing on top , but it is sorted with the newest first , so my first entry will always be at the bottom. You can change the sorting when you are displaying all logs, but that's not the way a project will first be seen by others. This was kind of why I was using instructions instead of logs, because I can easily sort them myself. I also used a lot of different "steps" because of the formatting issues I wanted to keep steps short. I first wrote all that I wrote under project details , but then it wasn't the right place so I moved to instructions, copy pasting all I had written, but it seems that , under instructions at the very least, it doesn't like copy pasting at all. I was copying with 2 different windows, so the formatting should of stayed the same but it came out all weird , at least in the editor window. I also tried pasting inside Word , and the formatting was fine, including the bullet points and the embedded images. It could very be because instructions is narrower than project details.
Also , since I had no idea where I should upload my schematic, since there is a component section, but nothing for schematic / code, i decided to upload it to the project's pictures. Although the preview is upright, when you click on the actual picture, the schematic was rotated 90 degrees.
Yep, then the build instructions are the best thing to use. You can always put brief info in the build instructions and link to more info in the project logs. You can also make a link to the sorted view all page.
We may add a design docs section, but for the time being photos or in the project logs is best. I'm not sure why the schematic is rotated. We'll look into that one, as well as the formatting issues.
The feed looks way better now, but a little bug I've already noticed: "X wrote a comment on Y" news are missing - only the replies show.
But man--anyone else wake up this morning and say, "OH MAN NEW FEED! THIS IS AMAZING"?
Seriously, great job guys.
same here :)
ok, weird order of comments o.O
Glad you like it. We are still ironing out a few bits and pieces, but we wanted to get something out to you asap. davedarko - thanks for picking those up. I'll log them.
I'm running firefox 31 and there are a lot of formatting issues when creating instructions. For example bullet points are acting very weird, immediately as you enter bulletpoint mode it prints 2 lines, or they are spaced apart very wide making it look ugly. I used the "code" formatting to print code, but if I ever edit the instructions, my code is now on a single line and looks very bad. Also the width of the instructions window is too narrow. I know not everybody has a 2560 x 1600 screen .. but it should either scale or just be wider by default. I'd really like to add all the details I can about my project, but the formatting is driving me mad. I can't type the whole thing at once without ever editing it, and when I do edit it , all the formatting changes.
Also , I should be able to make projects but not publish them right away before they are the way I want to publish them. I was hoping to use this site as both a means to publish both also a means to keep track of my current projects without publishing them to everyone before I am ready to do so.
Looking forward to see improvements in the very near future.
I forgot to add that images cant be resized as i'd like , and those embedded in instructions cannot be clicked on to get a larger view..
Hello David Drolet, I'll let the devs know about the editing/formatting issues, and about the image re-size/enlarging.
I had a look at your Bluetooth Doorlock project. The build instructions seem to include information which might go well in project logs. It's up to you, but we intended the build instructions to be fairly concise steps for other members to be able to replicate your process, which is why not so much space has been allowed for them. Project Logs are more suited for updates and longer explanations regarding choices and techniques on your project as you go along.
It is unlikely we will add a drafts feature. We want to follow people's projects from conception and as they happen.
Thanks for your feedback.
"updated" is getting a bit frustrating. I typically open these, reread, stare and am none the wiser for what has changed. A component? A spelling mistake? Something wiki like would be awesome, but I accept major changes to site code may not be feasible. If it's possible to put in a reason line the editor can fill in and would show up in follower's feeds, that would help a lot.
Hello Marvin, that's a great idea. I'll add it to our future ideas doc. We have phase 1 of the new feed coming out this week which aims to make the feed more useful and less cluttered. Thanks for the feedback.
I tried extending my project description, transcribing several pages of information from a document I had in PDF. It looked great in the "Edit Description" site, but when I look at the project page, it just gets truncated. If there's a limit on the Project Description section, it'd be helpful to spell it out.
By "Project Description" I meant "Project Details"...
Ah, just discovered the "Read More..." flag. Would be nice if this was automatic (at least initially).
Hello J. Peterson, yep most of the long text sections are truncated at around 4000 chars. However it should automatically insert the read more tag. You can choose to add the read more tag at any point before it truncates.
Replies to bits/comments on profiles are not showing up in the feed.
The upvoting and downvoting counts seem to jump to the reply when a comment is deleted.
This may have already said, and if it has it is probably worth reiterating.
->"myfeed" is too spamy<-
Personally, only care about conversations. Everything else is superficial and gets in the way of the important things.
->only want conversations<-
Noticed replies to my comments are just sometimes labeled as "reply to *project or person* " Maybe because they did a regular post instead of a reply, regardless, This makes it impossible for people to use the site to network and get feedback because it creates noise and obfuscates the signal.
->Low signal to noise ratio.<-
Hello Paul_Beaudet, phase 1 of the new feed is likely to be released next week. You won't be able to tailor what you see, but hopefully the changes we've made will make it more useful to you and everyone else. We will continue to improve it to make it easier for the community to network and get feedback. Thanks for your comment.
I'm experiencing an issue with my build logs.. It seems that it now automatically inserts a read more tag...the probelm is whatever image is just above that tag shows up with the broken image icon and the read now link isn't a line..it's just plain text that says read more.. If I click on the build log title to open the entirety, it seems fine and all images load.. Any idea?
Hello fl@C@, we have this bug logged already, but I'll chase up. In the mean time, you should place the read more tag yourself earlier on. We automatically truncate around 4000 chars. Thanks.
Great..! Thanks for the reply Jasmine.. I'll add the tags.
I'm probably just experiencing something weird with Chrome, but for me none of the links in the top bar work. I'm using the Canary version of Chrome and tried running a vanilla copy. It still didn't work!
Btw I think being able to use Markdown for posts would be amazing. I use it for pretty much everything else!
It seems sometimes the 'view all details' button is missing, and the project details are simply cut-off. If you know the magic URL for all the details you can get to them.
Example (my project; thats how I found it)
http://hackaday.io/project/2056-Cat-644 :Under 'project details' the post is cut-off mid sentence at "The PS/2 protocol consists of 2 sign"
But the rest of the details do in fact exist: http://hackaday.io/post/5546/
This is a little frustrating because I do intend to enter the hackaday prize contest, but can't be sure that everything is actually visible!
The problem appers to be server side:
My project page source: (replaced lt, gt with brackets)
[ div class="detail-btns"]
[ /div ]
Other project pages:
[div class="detail-btns"]
[span][a href="/post/525" class="grey-gold-button medium-button show"]See all details[/a][/span]
I was really hoping it was a js or css bug caused by bad text in my post or something that I could work around. Doesn't seem to be the case.
Hello Mark, I can see what you mean. I'll put in a ticket for the bug.
If you are going to enter The Hackaday Prize, you should Officially Submit now, and just make sure you meet the requirements by August 20th for the next round. More details here: http://hackaday.com/2014/07/26/4-minutes-to-entry/
We'll take a snapshot of all the project data on the 20th, so we would have still seen it. However, thanks for letting us know about the bug.
Hey Mark, I forgot to mention that you can also add the 'more' tag, if you want to choose when the cut off will be. Otherwise we automatically truncate the text at around 4000 chars.
Thanks Jasmine, adding the 'more' tag let me cut-off the text at a better point, AND forced the 'See all details' button to re-appear.
Hi there. Maybe a stupid question, but can you please tell me how, and if, I can enter the Hackaday contest with a existing project?
Go to your project page and click on the "Submit project to..." button under your pictures, there is a link with "Official Hackaday Prize Entry". And you probably want to read this http://hackaday.io/prize/details .
Found it. Thanks!
Glad you found it Michiel. Thanks for helping davedarko :)
I was able to vote for my own project. I refreshed the page and didn't but wanted to let you know.
We don't exclude your project from you, but once you have voted for it, you won't see it again.
The .io site is normally slow but today when I am trying to vote it is completely unusable. Normally I place the full 50 votes. This time I did two and gave up.
Why don't you make a CRON(tab) to email a voting invitation to members so that the server load can be distributed over time or put the voting system on the main site/server or upgrade the server resources for the .io site.
Hey mylistgroups12, we get a lot of traffic from hackaday.com, especially when the post announcing the new round goes up. This is the last round of voting for THP, but we've leant a lot of lessons if we do try something like this again in the future. Thanks.
imho the project selection system is still flawed. It should register that i did not select either project, either by refreshing or if need be a "neither" button. There's too many projects which i think do not deserve a vote but just keep coming back. I don't think i should be voting just to get rid of those projects.
Hello witchdoc, yep. We would probably add that if we try this again in the future. Thanks.
I had an idea for your mail system. When you check every hour what has happened in the last and then send the mail as a report if something happened you could safe some mails and won't miss to update on occasions. Like a toilet in a shopping mall flushing itself every 15 minutes to safe water... only it knows someone was on it.
Hey davedarko, we do want to improve the email notifications like that, so it is on our list of things to do. The list is pretty long. Thank you for your suggestions. It's great that you care enough about the site to let us know.
fl@C@ wrote a comment and a reply on a log of his Raman Spectrometer project. I'm following but that didn't appear on my feed.
That's odd. I'll put a ticket in for that. Thanks for letting us know.
great stuff overall, but the login process needs some help. If I click into a project and I'm not logged in, I see the username & password fields (auto-filled in my case), and the 'become a member' button. Seems to me that would be a great place for the login button.
It happens again when you click the 'sign in/up to comment'. Autofilled user/pass with a signUP button. I want to sign in? It's an extra step, I click 'already a member' get the familiar dialog, log in, and then I'm brought to 'my feed', and have to navigate back to where I started.
I think the crux of the issue is that you're making it easier to sign up then to sign in. If I want to sign up, I only have to do that once. I'd rather see a 'sign up' or 'become a member' button that then takes me to page or pop-up where I enter credentials. Just my 2¢.
thanks for the great work!
+1 for this, if the signup fails with the address already being in use just run the entered values through the login engine. Problem solved.
Hello Paul and Non-ICE, I've put in tickets. We'll see what we can do.
well, I hate to say it, but it's gotten even more confusing. There's still no way to sign in at the top of a project (though I can still sign up), and now when I go to the home page, I have three options. Sign in with Github, Sign in with Twitter, Sign UP with Email. So, there's actually no way to sign in from the main page if you've created a login via email?
Hey Paul,
We do have Sign In on every page, on the header. But I think since this is one click more, it seems like it's not a convenient process for you, right?
Just curious, doesn't the website remember you? Or are you logging off manually after each session? We are aiming to keep everyone logged in once they sign in, that's why Sign In is not as prominent as Sign Up.
In the near future, we'll allow existing users to connect their GitHub/Twitter accounts so they can sign in from the homepage (or everywhere you see the Github/Twitter buttons).
I agree with the comment of non-ICE, you guys should make the LESS skulled projects MORE visible: maybe exchanging back and forth once a day or so!"
yup. My first step after hitting 'projects' is to sort by newest. If I've already done that in a given day, I then hit 'recently updated'. Most Skulled/Commented/Followed should be options but not defaults IMHO.
This is just a thought, when you click the Projects link it defaults to showing the most skulled projects resulting in the most skulled projects getting even more skulls and new possibly cooler projects not being showed to new viewers at all. How about making "latest projects" the default view when anyone clicks "Projects" on hackaday.io ?
+1 This is the only way I browse projects regularly. I have no need for anything else for project discovery because I just keep going until I saw something that I saw last time I browsed.
Some folks looking at my project page are seeing inverted pictures when they shouldn't: http://hackaday.io/project/996-GimbalBot#j-discussion-6787
happens on chrome 36.0.1985.125 on a mac 10.8.5 and on a samsung galaxy tab note 10.1 with chrome idk.
I'm seeing inverted pictures in this project log in Chrome 36 on Mac OS X: https://hackaday.io/project/996/log/6072
Pictures are also inverted in Chrome on Android, but Firefox on Android displays them properly.
Hey zakqwy, we need to remove a class on the images. I've put in a ticket. Cheers, Jasmine
So weird, me too.
I would like to be able to save things as drafts, like the project logs.
Hey Adam, as we encourage people to document as they go along, it is unlikely that we will add drafts. Sorry.
Would it be possible to have a section in the project page where you can have a sort of sticky topic so you can keep a list of something that is updated often without having to create a new project log for it every time? Or does this go against the spirit of the documentation portion? I'm kind of an all or nothing person, and with documentation...I either go nuts and document everything as I go, or tend to miss periods of time when I have to make choices of something that might be 'relevant'.. What I consider relevant may differ from someone else's opinion.. I post a lot as it is, and I'm not convinced people want to read through 500 log entries..
If it's possible, a section where I can keep a relevant list of things...The raspberryPi in my project requires a great deal of installs, and mods.. Where I plan on releasing an image for the SD card, I would still like to have an easily referenced list showing what has been done.. The same goes for other parts.. I'd love something like a tabbed 'notebook' style box where I can keep multiple items in less space.. In my project, I list a lot of items in my description... It would be great to have a tab for each of those in a shorter box...Just a thought...
Best example I could find on short notice...
I've made a note of this request. We'll see what we can do when we review the project logs section.
I want to add someone to my hackerspace. I know his name but there are several with the same name and generic icon.
Please consider allowing hacker ID as well as the username in the field.
Hello Greg, I've put in a request to add by ID. I'm not sure when it will be actioned. In the mean time, they could add an image to their profile. Thanks for bringing this up.
The comments have gotten a little long and I am not going to read them all, so I apologize if these have been addressed already.
1. It would be nice to have control over what appears in the feed. I really want updates to projects I follow to stand out. I kinda want to know if people skull or follow my projects, but I don't really care if someone skulls or follows one of the projects I follow, for example.
2. It would be nice if comments to project updates were shown in the feed, or in the project comment count. I've missed a few comments on my project updates because of this.
3. I know someone's mentioned the twitching pictures. I have one that does it too, it happens to be the only picture that was uploaded as a square, if that helps.
I really like HackADay.io, I think it's coming along quite nicely :D
Hello Michael,
1. In phase one of feed improvements, you won't be able to choose what you see. However, you won't see actions by people you don't follow on the projects you do follow. You will see all actions on your own projects.
2. We intend to improve notifications both by email and on the feed.
3. Can you give me a link to your twitching picture? Do you mean inverted colors?
Thanks for your feedback,
Awesome! Thanks for the feedback!
For the twitching picture: Visit my project: http://hackaday.io/project/1538-PortableSDR . The default project photo will twitch (ie, it will scale up one pixel, then back down, over and over. Or maybe it's offsetting by one pixel and then returning) This is the picture, but it will only do it if viewed from the main project page: https://static.hackaday.io/images/3132341406432402437.jpg . I have not seen any color inversion.
Checked in Firefox on 31.0 on Win7 x64.
Hello Michael, regarding 3. it's a known bug. It's been logged. Thanks for letting us know though.
I would like to continue seeing actions by people I don't follow on projects I do follow when those actions are comments or replies. However, I would still like to be able to properly filter out skulls and follows.
Hey notexactly. Yep, sorry. I think it will work like that.
Here is a video demonstrating exactly what I am talking about.. if you would rather see it than read my long posts ;)
Hey diysciborg, we are going to remove the weighting for the last round. We admit voting has not been perfect. We switched it up to try and make it fairer for new projects, but this makes it dull for voters, so we'll change it back for the next round.
Without weighting newer projects have very little chance of ranking per round because most votes are cast within the first few days, so it is very hard for them to catch up. Each round the vote counts are reset.
Good luck with the Modular Weather Station.
Jasmine, thank you for the reply. But this is a topic that has come up several times in the regular site's post comments, by a whole lot of users.
Regardless of what I do or don't vote for, the weighted projects remain. You said "And the one you didn't vote for has less chance of showing again. " In my experience, this is absolutely NOT true. In my experience, it will remain until I vote for it.
Essentially at this point, my only chance to view a new project and potentially vote on them is to 'waste' 4 votes on the same 4 projects I keep seeing over and over. I am not saying that they pop up frequently. I am saying I ONLY see the same three or four projects. If I vote for one simply to clear it, then it is not as if a new project come in it's place. Only that now instead of seeing 4 projects, I see 3. The project I did not vote for remains, and the other two keep cycling through.
By experimentation, the only method I have found to get one new project into my mix of possible options is to give a vote to all four.
I understand that "it is what it is" but now a better strategy needs to be implemented, and soon. Perhaps the weighted system needs tuning. Or some tracking of what the user has already seen 20 times.. Or people will loose faith in the voting system and stop bothering with it. Because at this point, our votes are simply a reflection of the weighting system, and not our preference. Essentially, I have 30 votes, but the only way to use them is to vote for every project the weighting system throws at me.
This is not voting. It is placating the weighting system.
I have defended HAD and the whole voting thing, reminding people that it has nothing really to do with the judging for the ultimate prize. I have encouraged people to vote, and consider the stated 'goal' of each voting round when they do so. I have reminded people that its a new thing, and there are bound to be bugs but that should not dissuade them from participating.
So, now we understand the situation, and how the voting system was set up. I would like to continue supporting the HAD prize, and the 'cool swag voting game'. The next step for HAD to take is to explain how they will fix it, and do so ASAP.
hey.. the voting system seems to be back to its old tricks of giving the same two or three choices over and over and over. Left side only shows ONE choice, and right side flips between all of 2 when hitting refresh.
Not sure how the database tracks what we have seen and not seen, but if there is some sort of logging, then that should be cleared between each round. Since in round one you asked us to vote for one type of project, and in round two a different criteria. Some of the projects I dismissed in round one I would like to appropriately vote for in round this round. Get it?
Hello diysciborg, voting wasn't designed to be refreshed. There is some weighting so that new projects do get shown more often until they've been seen the same amount as older projects. If you vote on one, you won't see it again in this round. And the one you didn't vote for has less chance of showing again. Database doesn't track when you've refreshed, so may show you the same again.
Thanks. Jasmine
"If you vote on one, you won't see it again in this round. "
So it does track SOMETHING. It tracks what you have voted FOR. Are these tables cleared between rounds? And if you have a table tracking what I voted for, how hard would it be to track what I didn't vote for? I don't mind seeing those I skipped over, but not until I have gone through the whole collection first. I have a feeling many projects are simply left out in the cold and never seen. Do you have any data as to how many times each project has been shown in a vote? Even better, could that data be put in the project page view of the project owner?
Id feel much better about the system (have more trust in it) if I could see in my project page
"This project has been presented 147 times in the vote, and has received 6 votes"
Hi there,
would it be possible to filter out the feeds by the kind of news?
xyz skulling/following xyz is messing up my feed :/
best regards, Stefan
I have made some scripts for tampermonkey, if it helps https://gist.github.com/davedarko/f6ef86c89c4d1df4cd36
Hey Stefan-Xp, we're hoping to get phase 1 of the New Feed out in August. That should take care of your issue. Thanks for letting us know though.
I use the following simple userscript in Stylish:
li.projectFollow, li.projectSkull {display: none !important}
Adjust as you like for different story types. The only problem is that the pagination is still based on the full feed, so every page of your feed will have a different number of stories on it.
Hi there,
Some trollbots are starting to spread here. Could you check out my profile and remove the mass spam bits?
Hello bremenpl, I'll get those bits removed. We're dealing with netsparker. Thanks for highlighting this. I'm sorry it happened to you.
currently the projects, hackers, blog and search buttons arent working for me??? (pretty certain its not my mouse as clicking other tabs work fine and other webpages), im useing the latest chrome 64 bit, anyone else experiencing this problem??
I have this problem too, for those and everything in the More menu too. Clicking and middle-clicking (opens in a new tab) do nothing; right-clicking and choosing "Open link in new tab" works.
I get a 502 Bad Gateway every time I try to update my profile. Been this way for a couple weeks.
Hello Macona, are you getting 502 when you go to edit your profile, or when you try to save? If it is when you are saving, what information are you trying to change?
I've raised a ticket for you, but the extra info would be useful.
Anyone else seeing 502 messages?
When I try to save, I was just trying to update my "who I am" section.
Hello Macona, can you let me know what browser & os? We are having trouble replicating this issue. Thanks.
Latest Safari on the Latest MacOS and latest Firefox on latest Win7.
Image upload: It seems that some of my images uploaded with inverse colours! Trippy, but not intended. See the Project logs section here: http://hackaday.io/project/2106-CAN-obd2
Hello kevinjkrieger, that is weird. I'll get someone to look into it. Is anyone else having this problem? If so, let me know. Thanks.
Hmmm... Possible reason: I see that when I go to edit my project my browser switches to inverted colours, (ctrl-i) so I change it back and I see the inverted pictures. Perhaps when uploading the images I had my browser in inverted colours mode and the image uploader on hackaday.io got confused?
Love it so far!
Very intuitive and interactive interface for adding multimedia.
Hello Brayden. Thanks for the positive feedback. Glad you like it :) Look forward to meeting you next month.
Bug report: The prize voting page picks projects which are not entered into the competition.
Hey ganzuul, if it happens again can you let me know which project is showing? I'll have a look in to it. Thanks for raising this.
It happened a lot, but I used all my votes for this round.
I remember the followoing projects showing up:
There was a lot more of them...
Hey ganzuul, thanks for responding. However, all those projects have been officially submitted to the Hackaday Prize. You can tell because there is a little logo over the large project image. When you mouse over it, it says 'Official Hackaday Prize Entry'.
Unfortunately quite a few people have hot used TheHackadayPrize tag, but as long as they have officially submitted, they are entered in to community voting.
Have a great weekend,
Bug Report: Project logs/descriptions do not update correctly when typing normal text. If the post already had text, it stays as-is, and if it is a new post, it is posted blank. However, using the editor to add a 'divider line' causes it to update correctly somehow.
Hello Hylian, Can you let me know what browser and operating system you are using? We've had another person report a similar issue, so I'll add your info to the ticket. Thanks for letting us know.
Hi Jasmine,
I am using Firefox 31 on Windows 8.1. I have Ghostery and Noscript on, so those may be the culprit. I'll check again once I get home.
Hey! I'm a dev kumar from india ! I had a question, I'm looking to take a snes rom or other roms and making them work on an android device without an emulator. Also I have a few ideas that I would like to run by you if you have the time
Hi dev kumar, this page is for feedback regarding the Hackaday Projects site itself. Did you mean to post your comment here or on another project?
If anyone has any advice for dev kumar, please post it in the comments on his profile.
The Emulators are the brains of the operation.
If you need to run a game standalone, you're going to need to program the emulator to run in the background of a freshly created android app. Best of luck!
Are voting rounds still going, then? The rules say they stopped on July 20th (causing a string of expletives at this end). Also, it seems most of the entries don't have a YouTube video yet, or am I imagining that part?
Hey David, we're going to have another couple of rounds of community voting. It will finish sometime before August 20th, which is when you need to have met all the requirements (including a video) to advance to the next stage.
We modified the rules slightly and extend the deadline. You can see last week's post for more details - http://hackaday.com/2014/07/18/the-hackaday-prize-rules-change-and-entry-date-extension/
Good luck with 0x05ECure. Give us a shout if you have any more questions,
Vote engine is broken. Though probably not the way everyone else means, but I wouldn't be surprised it they're related. This project is always showing as the first entry for me regardless of the computer I use: http://hackaday.io/project/2025
Hello Digital Corpus, we did add a little weighting which does mean new entries are shown more until they've been seen as much as the others. Essentially, so they can catchup. We may need to tweak this. I've raised it with our Devs.
You should also know, that once you have positively voted for a project, you will not be shown that project again in the same round.
Thanks for highlighting this. Jasmine
The weighting is causing me to very frequently be given a choice between two projects that are so new that neither one has any components yet, so I can't decide which one has a more outrageous component. Even if I refresh, it gives me a random two of five or six new projects with no, or no outrageous, components about 80% of the time.
I managed to use up all of my votes, but I had to refresh *many* times to get past the following projects that I didn't want to vote for in this round:
https://hackaday.io/project/2150 (no components)
https://hackaday.io/project/1861 (no components)
https://hackaday.io/project/2172 (no components)
https://hackaday.io/project/2154 (no components)
https://hackaday.io/project/2157 (no components)
https://hackaday.io/project/2160 (no components, though it has a rough architecture)
https://hackaday.io/project/1795 (no outrageous components)
https://hackaday.io/project/2141 (no outrageous components)
Hey Digital Corpus,
Just to let you know we are going to remove the weighting for the last round. Also see my reply to diysciborg http://hackaday.io/project/37-Feedback---Hackaday-Projects#j-discussion-6621
Sorry to you and others for the frustration in this round of voting, we were trying to make it fairer to new entries.
No system is perfect. Ranking and weighting are more algorithmicly difficult despite being simply algebraic, commonly. C'est la vie and I've not lost sleep over it. It's a hard and fairly public job you all have putting every bit of this contest out there for us. Please send my thanks to the team for their work.
Will do. Thanks to you too!
Good try, but there is already such a project with beter implementation/documentation/features see here http://www.jcwolfram.de/projekte/avr/chipbasic2/ I have made this 16 color computer and it works great. No need to type anything, no prompt. embedded editor, terminal program, games, chip-8 emulator and many more features in a single chip. External rams can be left out. The single chip version stores up to 8 programs. with an external eeprom id can store up to 255 programs.
Hello Komco, you may have posted on the wrong project. This project is for feedback of the Hackaday Projects site itself. Also, your link appears to be broken.
why does only a few projects come up for voting... over and over again??? You must have more than 4 projects to vote for??!!
Hello Sammy, for this round of voting once you have voted for a project, it is removed from the choices. If you are shown a project, but you do not choose it, it can be displayed to you again. If you keep on refreshing the page rather than voting, you have a random chance of being shown any project you haven't voted on yet.
Can we get notifications for project log comments? I don't think they come through like normal project comments and other alerts.
Same goes for replies on them!
Hello Zakqwy, If you have notifications turned on (see http://hackaday.io/settings ), then you will get notifications. However, there is a limit so we only send out one email an hour. If more than one person comments or follows you in an hour, we'll only email you about the first. We intend to make it easier to see notifications when we improve the feed, and look at notification alerts then. Hope that explains.
I have all notifications on; project comments and replies notify me, but not project log comments/replies.
they don't appear in the feeds like the rest does either.
Ah ok, I'll take a look at the project log comments, and put in a ticket.
Lately, when I click on a project picture that is displayed big, it will give me a cropped and resized small image, but when I click on the small picture version I will get an uncropped, right sized picture. Wild guess, you made "thumbnails" for a better page load for lists of projects and somehow the picture links are mixed up?
And while I'm still here, my sonic screwdriver is marked as featured on the start page, which makes me wonder - wouldn't that mean it was on the hackaday.com page? Would be cool but it's not in a state where I would want to present it ;)
Hey davedarko, I'll put in a ticket for the image bug. Regarding the featured - these are picked by the Hackaday Team, so could be any project complete or in progress. At the moment because of The Hackaday Prize, we have been featuring one THP entry and one non-THP project. I can change it from your project to another if you would like?
ok cool, thanks for the clarification :) It's fine, it can stay there, I just wondered if I had missed an article ;)
I've got 13 external links on my project site, and will probably gain many more between now and changing over to 'complete project' status; I'm using it as a 'works cited' section to store interesting ideas. However, I'd also like the links to my Dropbox repo and various Google sheets to be at the top to make 'em easier for folks to find. Can you make the External Links section drag-and-drop reorder-able?
Hey zakqwy, seems sensible. I'll get it on the list of things to do.
Thanks! Definitely a low-priority item. By and large everything has been working quite well!
First off: Excellent project site, and nice integration into Hackaday. I do have a minor nitpick though. When I click on my feed, I see when anyone does anything for a project I follow. I would just like the feed to show actual updates to the projects. Even people commenting would be fine, as I find that feature useful occasionally. But seeing who gave what a skull or started following what is kind of annoying to me, as I follow quite a bit of projects.. I would like my feed to include only things I would take action on, like seeing what the update is, or what some random commenter said.
I understand that I may be in the minority on this one, so perhaps just an option/preference for each person to set themselves is a good answer. Perhaps it's not a problem at all, and I should just suck it up
+1 that is one of the most mentioned things here..
Hello j0z0r pwn4tr0n, you are not alone with your thoughts about the feed. We are starting to improve this incrementally. Please be patient. Thanks for taking the time to explain how you think Projects could be better. We really appreciate it.
How about a page load timestamp, small and innocuous and contextualized to my location, on all the pages that have time references like "2 hours ago"? Right now it really means "2 hours since this page was loaded" but I may not remember when that was.... this would be especially useful on mobile, when connectivity might be often interrupted.
I've made a note of this. If anyone else would like this feature, please upvote it (use the arrows under Kenji's avatar).
It looks like there is an issue posting to project logs. I can create a log with a title and post comments, but the body of the log doesn't show up. I have tried this from a few machines/browsers.
Hello Blecky, is this still happening? I can't seem to replicate the problem, but I'll get someone else to take a look at your page.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
It looks like it happens when I copy and paste something into the post field. Even when I type just a test comment without any weird characters and copy and paste that, it ignores the entire post change. Copy and pasting works fine for the comments section.
I have been using Firefox (on suse) and Chrome (android) to replicate this.
Interestingly it doesn't happen with Firefox under Windows.
If I type something after the paste on the linux side it lets me post, but deleting the extra text doesn't seem to work when I try to edit it afterwards.
Hello Blecky, thanks for the additional information. We're still looking in to this.
If I am following a project and maybe even trying to recreate the steps or make my own version of it, is there any way I can ADD to the project LOG, or like git somehow FORK it and put my changes in the new version or do I make a completely NEW project...???
How do I share my work with a project..?
I'd love to see a "made one" feature like on thingiverse.com myself and see a branch/fork feature as reasonable, so +1 .
But for now, what about making a page on your hacker profile and place a comment on the project page?
Hello ZaidPirwani,
'Made one' or forking would be a great feature, but it is unlikely we can do it soon.
At the moment you would have to make your own new project. Reference the original in the description, and add a link to it in the side links. As davedarko said, you can leave a comment on the original project to let them know.
Thanks for piping up. It's great to hear what future features are desirable.
I'm not certain if I am the only one to notice this..or what... But I noticed an inconsistency in emails I received regarding receiving skulls and the number of skulls I actually have... The number of emails is roughly half compared to what the website shows I actually have. Just to check, I looked through my feed history and it shows more than the website shows I have..by about 8 currently.. but shouldn't they be the same? I first noticed this because I'd receive an email stating I had a new follower...so I'd take a look and I also had a skull..but no email for the skull.. Any idea about the inconsistency?
Same here with skulls, followers and comments...
I have only received one email ever, so that tells me I'm properly registered in the system. Until I had received that one I thought it just wasn't working at all. When I received that one, I thoroughly checked my spam filter to make sure, nothing. Never got even a second email, despite more skulls and follows.
@davedarko - my comments seem to be in sync... but my followers are not.. my feed shows around 20 more than the website does...
Hello fl@C@, davedarko, and Kenji.
If you have notifications turned on (see http://hackaday.io/settings ), then you will get notifications. However, there is a limit so we only send out one email an hour. If more than one person skulls or follows you in an hour, we'll only email you about the first. We hope to make it easier to see who has followed, skulled, etc when we improve the feed. Hope that explains the situation at the moment.
Thanks, Jasmine
Hi Jasmine.. Thank you. That does explain the email portion.. But what about the discrepancy with the feed showing more people giving skulls and following than the website reflects? At current count I show over a hundred followers and nearly eighty skulls at current count...The website shows much less..?
Hi Jasmine. That doesn't explain my situation. I have had notifications turned on since I registered, but have only ever received one email. I'm not saying they aren't being sent - just saying I'm not receiving them (except for that one). Is there a way for you to tell if they are bouncing?
Hey Everyone, don't forget that people can un-follow or un-skull you.
Also, people that follow your profile don't show up as followers to your project or vice versa, but your profile page shows total skulls from all your projects. These may be reasons why the feed doesn't look like it tallies.
Kenji - Looking at the database, it is not showing any settings for your notifications. Can you check what you have on http://hackaday.io/settings ?
Hi Jasmine, Interesting. When I go there, all items are checked. On the email address page, the address is correct. And I did get the one email...
I could try un-checking and saving, then re-checking, but I'll hold off on trying that if you want to check something prior - happy to help you debug. Let me know!
Kenji, try what you suggested and let me know. I'll leave a comment on your profile to hopefully trigger a notification.
Hi Jasmine, I have done as you instructed.
On project logs, when you are editing a new log, Ctrl-Z undoes some typing you've just done, but Ctrl-Y does not re-do it. (This comment box works as expected, however. ) So if you hit Ctrl-Z one too many times, you may lose a paragraph, and have to rely on your memory and having time to re-type, to get it back. Yep, just happened. Sigh...
Hello Kenji, what browser and platform are you using? If anyone else is having this problem please provide the same information. Thanks.
Hmmmm that is a good question! I'm constantly jumping among several machines. I think I posted that one from Chrome on Windows 7.
This Ctrl-Z problem continues, but I noticed that it seems to be linked to cursor position. This time, while editing a new project log, I wrote a lot and added links and so forth. Then I noticed something I wanted to edit in top half of my text. I typed a word, then reconsidered and hit Ctrl-Z, with the intent of doing something slightly different. Unfortunately, what I found was that every edit I had made, below this cursor position, was undone. Every bit of edited text reverted, every inserted link gone. That's not what I intended! Ctrl-Y.. nothing! I had to do it all over again manually, and had to keep in mind not to instinctively will hit Ctrl-Z for anything.
One thing I would like is an auto-generated table of contents for project logs. Just take the titles of every log and make a list. Put that list of links wherever, on the left side, or at the top of the logs section.
I've been contemplating how to arrange my info and it seems that my hack on this one would be to just link to my individual logs and put them in a list in the details section, so that readers can just jump to where they want to go. But if you had an auto-generated list happening, I would not have to do this. I'm going to do this on projects Reactron Overdrive where I anticipate a lot of different kinds of logs, and also on interpreting LCD signals, where I want to make a guide so I really do need a table of contents kind of structure. My thoughts about that structure are discussed in the details of that project.
I think the build instructions could also benefit from a structure like that as well, though as each does not have a distinct title, that may be harder - but you could require the instruction steps to have a summary or title...
Anyway, just a thought - obviously there is a workaround for now.
That's a good suggestion. I'm not sure how it would look so will have to contemplate that, but I agree that he functionality would be quite useful for viewing projects with a lot log entries. Thanks!
Tabs!! This would be great...!!
Here's the best example I could find... http://f.cl.ly/items/3P2S3l1g1j3B031F213B/css-tabs.html#
I just thaught about project states, would it be good to have something like "beeing stuck", "paused out of frustration", "needs funding to continue" and "needs help to continue"?
That is a great idea! Maybe it could work like tags where you could add the status of your choice. Much better than just "ongoing" or "complete". Maybe a "percent complete" estimate could be associated with it too, or entirely separate, to allow sorting on that parameter.
"crashed", "exploded", "floated away and not yet recovered", "awaiting launch", "stolen by pirates", etc..
"Vanished - may travelled through time" ... the percentage idea of kenji sounds good too.
Hey davedarko, Kenji, zakqwy - I'll put this on the wish list, so we don't forget about it.
I'm having an issue with bullets in my logs bleeding over onto the main project display:
'Safety first, kids!' is another log update; it shouldn't be bulleted (nor should the paragraphs below it). Is this because the 'read more' link is in the middle of a bulleted list, so the disappears?
Hello Zakqwy, we have had a few issues with formatting the Read More tag. I'll add this to the bug list, so should be fixed soon. Thanks for letting us know.
any way to see how many unique people have viewed your project?
Hello Gary. No counter at the moment. A few people have requested it, so we may add it in the future. Thanks for getting in touch.
It would be great if on Profile and Projects pages, there was a way to add hierarchical categories.
I mean, tags are a top-level way, but you can not search projects by tags within a profile or Project page. I am thinking of something other than tags though, something like folders. For instance I have a bunch of projects that really could be all under one umbrella, distinct from other projects. But some of my hacks are purely mechanical, no electronics at all, but still hacks. I could see those being in a category of their own. (I could further see sub-categories...) I could get by with tags now if only there was a user-specific tag search with pre-populated tag-dropdown with tags used by that user.
Maybe I am just missing something, and there is a way to do this, or similar?
Hello Kenji, we do intend to improve this. There is a plan to create curated lists, so you can more easily browse just mechanical hacks etc. Thanks for the suggestions. Keep them coming.
I'm really excited for the hackerspaces feature! I know its just getting started but I think it would be awesome if there were an easy way to associate my profile with the hackerspace as a user/member, and to associate my projects with the space so I could go to spaces page and see what projects were made there. Finally, I think it could be useful to add a feature to the whole website where skills and tools could be associated with my profile, so I could have a bit of a hacker resumes/skill-set. This could potentially be correlated with available tools/processes in hackerspaces, so I could be a resource to that community as a person skilled in ______. This could also lead me to projects that I'm interested in or to projects that might want my help. I know tags are available, but they are too loosely defined in their usage.
Hello lasllamasvuelan, we're glad you like the Hackerspaces feature. You are right, we are just getting started, and do plan to add many of the things you have suggested regarding projects/skills/tools swap etc.
At the moment, the person who created the hackerspace page can add you or others to the page, either as Crew or a Member. When that's done, you should see a badge from that Hackerspace on your profile. You should contact the creator to be added. If you are not sure who it is, you can leave a comment on the hackerspace page.
"Add a Project" still doesn't have the ability to associate a project with a hackerspace, unless I'm missing something?
Hackerspace projects tend to die of lack of documentation. Adding this one linkage might allow hackerspaces to use your system as a zero-IT way of documenting and sharing the cool things they've built.
Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I have a question about the Hackaday prize entry... in the details it says "Upload the video to YouTube ... and post the video to Hackaday's YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/hackaday ...". How do we post a video to someone else's channel? (It may be obvious, but I am not a prolific Youtuber... sorry!)
Yeah... I'm not sure how that got in there. I'm working on a clarification for that and a couple of other weird things. Post to YouTube, add it as an external link for your project and you'll be just fine!
Thanks for the clarification, Mike.
Integrate Hackerspace Infos with the wiki (hackerspaces.org) and the API (spaceapi.net)
Hello wonko, great idea. We are just starting to develop the Hackerspaces section. At the moment it's all member generated content. We will look in to what we can integrate as time goes on. Thanks for the suggestion.
Please get rid of the HTML-Only E-mails.
I'll check on this. I'm sure there should be text-only too.
Most Hackers I know are brutally lazy when it comes to Documentation.
How about a Github Webhook/Service that pulls the readme and changes -> Instant updates. yay!
We'll do what we can to make it easier. Thanks for the ideas.
having every SKULL addition to a project or every new FOLLOW to a project become a NEWS item in my feed... would love if those were itnegrated - like x project got xx skulls in the last day or something like that..
Yes this is currently in development.
[BUG] [Feed]
In my feed, some projects appear under multiple names in different feed entries, and a project that has been deleted still appears.
The first image following is of my feed; the second is of the HTML. (The entries that are closed in the HTML are ones I've hidden from my feed using a userstyle because I'm not interested in those types of story.)
For the first issue, notice that project 1538 has stories that call it either "PortableSDR" or "PSDR", and the URL slugs linked also vary correspondingly. For the second issue, the entries for project 1536 ("Small machine automatic stripe encoder") appear, but if I try to follow any of the links, I see that the project has been deleted.
Hey notexactly. We are rounding up the places where deleted projects are still sneakily showing up and eradicating them. Thanks for the details. It is really helpful.
Build instructions in projects go to random order after saving, posted this on the "stack" and other users seem to have similar issues.
Hello iamnotachoice, a few people have reported this problem. We should a fix out soon. Best place to let us know about issues or to give feedback is here, rather than on stack or email. Thanks.
The hackaday prize rules-en page seems to show the same content as the top level http://hackaday.io/prize/ (with the 3-2-1 and email sign up).
Well that's strange! Thanks for reporting. I'll work on getting it fixed.
Okay, @kopipejst just fixed this. Give it a try now.
Looks fixed now! Cheers!
I'll second wanderingmetalhead, most of the header menu is nonresponsive in the latest Firefox. Aha, also in the latest Chrome. Add project, feed, and everything in the "my" menu work fine, all the other links do nothing. Search expands and works as expected.
Also, and apologies if I've simply missed it, I'd like to see an RSS feed for individual project's logs. I intend to keep a page in my own webspace about my project (for the noncohesive notes and mind-dump-ey cruft that I won't put here), but I'd love to have a list-o-headlines or something I can display.
Curious... A comment ( http://hackaday.com/2014/07/04/the-hacklet-6-lasers/#comment-1615879 ) was made about my project page... I had noticed the more I added the slower it responded, and there are things like unordered lists that I can't seem to remove... Do I have to rip out my whole description, or is there something I've done wrong? Too much content? Would it be possible to have a tab system, or a way to have multiple pages or something for the description? Something like a composition book would be awesome, where tabs could separate topics... Just a thought.. Maybe I'm just too long winded.. :)
I think I meant Details instead of description for the above... ;)
Hi fl@C@,
It seems to be the sheer size of page that is killing the Firefox on slower systems. We're working on two things to address this systematically: (a) auto-resize of images on home page; (b) better pagination. These will make the page 'lighter' and result in less problems when loading (large) pages.
In the meantime, one thing you can do is simply edit details/buildlogs for your project and add "Read More" tags where appropriate. That way you can reduce the amount of content that's shown on main project page, which should hopefully mitigate the issue.
Thanks Aleksandar.. It sounds like you guys have it... I was under the impression that more is better for the documentation, I'll try adding some read more tags.. Until those changes go in, I'll try reducing my images a little more before uploading them too..
Is there a way to fix the formatting problems I'm having? It seems the entire details got included in the unordered list and I can't remove that formatting...so when I try to add another, it indents the entire block of text....
Can we have an undo button for the voting page? I accidentally voted for a project (clicking the vote button when I meant to click the more info link). I hope there are enough votes for each project that one stray vote won't matter, but I'd hate to sway the contest the wrong way.
Hey Jimmy. Sorry no un-vote. However you now have 50 votes (up from 30).
After I update my project, on the main page, it shows my project as "just updated". But, on that page it shows the number of skulls, follows, and comments. For comments, it shows 4. But, when I go to the project page, I only have two comments. Any other page, (like the hackaday entries page) show the right number of comments, just not the main page.
Sorry Tyler, for some reason I missed this. Let me know if you think this is still happening. I had a look in a few places and they all say 2 comments at the moment.
It is still happening. But only on this page. (hackaday.io) You will have to check soon because it leaves the page when a couple of other people update their projects.
As soon as I log in, I cannot search projects or navigate, about half of the menu is non-reponsive. I am running Firefox web browser (latest). This behavior is fairly recent.
Hello wanderingmetalhead, the menu should be fixed now. Let me know if that's not the case for you.
It looks like it works now if I allow Google Analytics scripts.
The signup prompt on the homepage looks like a log-in prompt. I accidentally created a second account because of this. The log-in button is too small compared to the sign up area.
Hello [gavo2o], thanks for your feedback. A couple of other people have mentioned this too. We hope to improve this in the future. Thanks.
Project 1536 still appears in the voting, but its page is no longer available.
Hello, the fix for this should be pushed out in the next release. Thanks.
Generally good. Had two problems so far:
1) Build instructions go all out of order when editing and saving, going back in and fixing it (manual, tedious) will restore it (Project Ice Station Thuban). I dare not touch it now...! I saw that others had this problem.
2) Project details: if an image is at or near the "Read more" break, it shows up full size and clicking on the read more link just shows the image, does not take you to the read more text. Moving the image around helps in some ways. The see all details link continues to work properly, however. (This happened on Project Cicadidae vitula)
Hello Kenji, the fix for 1) will be pushed in a release next week. I've added 2) as a bug. We have had a few issues with the Read More link causing problems with video and images. Thanks for letting us know about these problems.
Is anyone else unable to vote? When I click a vote button it gets stuck on "Voting for [project]…". I would suspect something's weird with my browser configuration, but I did successfully vote once using the same browser configuration the other day.
Hello Everyone, if you can't vote for some reason let us know. Info about browser config would be useful.
[notexactly] - Are you still unable to vote? If so, let me know the details.
It does look like you've voted once, so at least you are in with a chance for the next voter's lottery - http://hackaday.com/2014/06/27/astronaut-or-astronot-nobody-won-this-week-anyway/
I don't know what happened but I'm able to vote again. If somebody fixed something, thanks!
When i follow a hacker, i follow all his projects automatically. Would it make sence to increment the follower count on the projects as well? I don't see why i should click all projects when i get the same messages but it would be great to know for the hacker, or not?
Hello davedarko, thanks for highlighting this. We'll see what we can do to improve it. Thanks.
Thanks for considering, no hurry :)
Hi there. It would be great to be abble to subscribe to the site and receive enails whn new projects are featured.
Hey bremenpl, it's great that you want to hear about new projects by email. We are working on improving notifications. Initially this is likely to be via the on-site feed, rather than email. In the mean time, you can check http://hackaday.io/projects/sort/date for the latest projects.
Thanks for your feedback
- I can't seem to use the context menu for text editing. As I understand it, I have to highlight text to make the menu appear, but nothing does. I'm using Chromium on Archlinux, tools such as ghostery and adblock are disabled on this site.
- I find it difficult to distinguish between a top level comment and a reply to another comment, such as on this page when there are many comments. I feel that a vertical bar running down the left side of the comments or a similar visual indicator would be helpful.
- I would really like for the short project description to be alt text or something that I can pull up while browsing projects. Otherwise it's hard to tell that my 'slodac' project is about a laptop, and not the desk or keyboard also shown in the picture.
With the context menu, when you select the text does your cursor end up outside of the editing window when you release the mouse button? I had this issue and the menu was not showing up (I was selecting from right to left so I went off the left side of the area).
The issue with comments has been reported and is waiting for a fix.
Good idea about the hover text. I've submitted an issue to see if this can be improved soon.
Mike, thank you for the response, I'm excited to see this site provide a much needed service.
Even when selecting text and keeping the cursor inside the editing area, the context menu doesn't appear. Time permitting, I'm going to look into redactor and see if I'm doing something to break it.
Hey guys! After I log in, I cannot get to the page to vote!
Firefox on Linux Mint 16 Petra MATE
Hello prof_braino, can you provide more details? Once you login, can you click on the 'vote for projects' link on the homepage (or http://hackaday.io/prize/vote)? What happens next?
No matter what I do, the steps will not stay in order on one of my projects. I delete them, and add them in order and then save them and they will not stay put. Dragging them won't do it either.
Hey Norse, do you mean the steps in the build instructions?
Yes. In a project under the 'build instructions'
It's likely the fix for this will be pushed out next week. Thanks for your patience.
I'm sorry but I strongly dislike the voting process. By pairing things up and asking people to vote for one or the other I alternate between being forced to chose between two projects I think are very good and giving a vote for the better of two projects, neither one Of which I like. My guess is this was the easiest to code. What is wrong with a summary page where you vote and submit the final decision? That would also be easy to code.
We didn't want it to be just an overall popularity contest so we went this route. Don't worry though, community voting has no effect on the overall contest outcome. That is left to the judging panels.
I think this site faces the same challenges seen by other sites that aggregate content around the web; you want topics to stay fresh, but you also want to improve visibility of items people like. Sites like Reddit use up/downvotes combined with a time-based decay algorithm to sort posts, and also give you different options for viewing content ("hot", "top" from a given time period, "new", "rising", etc).
My feeling is that the HaD.io team used the current voting system as a way to bypass the self-reinforcing 'most skulled' default sorting mechanism. They want projects that haven't gotten as much visibility to have a fair shot in the vote; if they gather enough data, this method should remove a lot of the bias. I'm definitely curious to see how it turns out.
Also, the voting is not for 'which project should win The Hackaday Prize'. For this round you should vote on 'best project concept'.
On this project: http://hackaday.io/project/1507 the "Read more »" link in the Details section is incorrectly generated. See here (note that the mouse-pointer is hovering over the link and the target is displayed at the bottom): http://i.imgur.com/Q4MZYep.png
The actual HTML returned is here: https://gist.github.com/makestuff/e5df6de4e04c2e08f28b
Hello Chris, we've noticed a couple of issues with the 'read more'. I'll report this bug and let you know when it is fixed. Thanks for providing all the useful info.
Hello again Chris,
Thanks for reporting the bug. Each entry is displayed in full unless it is more than 4156 chars long. As a work around so you don't get the broken link, you can insert the 'Read More' tag earlier on. To do that, go to edit the details/description/log and select the point where you want to insert the tag. When you select something, a little menu appears. The last button on the menu inserts the Read More tag. Only the content before the tag will be displayed on the main project page.
Hope that helps. If not, let me know. We'll fix the bug soon too.
I noticed while I was voting for the Prize Projects that some of the projects came up more than once in some cases several times. The project I wanted to vote for never came up at all... seems a bit unfair...???
Hey Sammy. We do randomization & limited number of votes in order to ensure everyone gets a fair chance and that the system can't be easily abused. That said - this is only a first voting cycle ("best idea"), and we'll make sure we incorporate this feedback for next ones. At very minimum, we'll make sure to increase the limit on number of votes. Thanks!
This is likely to have already been mentioned, but just a random suggestion for the parts list is a CSV upload option. Provided the required layout has been met, I'm confident it will make adding everything that little bit easier. Although at the same time, that does not help you folk with the mountain of work you're doing at the moment. Great job so far though. I've not found anything awkward yet.
Hello Fox, we'll make a note of that. A couple of people have mentioned possible improvements to the component list. We'll review them and work out what's best.
Glad you like the site. Let us know if you do find anything awkward.
I'm working with papaparse.com right now, if you ever intend to incorporate CSV imports, I guess that's a good starting point.
I notied when I load my hackaday project it seems to load the entire build log. Can you put an option to just show the title of each build log? (Especially when a build log contains many images)
Hello VP, we made a change a little while ago so that more of the project logs are displayed.
If you don't want all of a log to be displayed, you can insert the Read More tag. You do this you go to edit the log and select the point where you want to insert the tag. When you select something, a little menu appears. The last button on the menu inserts the Read More tag. Only the content before the tag will be displayed on the main project page.
Hope that helps,
Thanks for the information! I'll apply it later tonight.
Since the site is basically a two column vertical scrolling site, it is often difficult to find the boundaries between two sections. For example: When I want to post a project update, the latest update is on top. However, I have to scroll down through my older updates to click "Add Project Log". I can't hit END on my keyboard either, because that would go to the bottom of the page where comments are. It would be more convenient if frequently used commands are always on top of the page (maybe there should be a non-scrolling navbar?).
Hello Hari, you are not the only one who has noticed this. We will consider how we can make it easier to jump to sections to edit/update. Thanks again for the feedback.
Just an idea for the new feed, but if you're cutting down on the amount of "x is now following y" it might make more sense, since the list will be shorter, to do it dropdown style a la facebook instead of an entire page, meaning that I can stay where I am on the site but keep an eye on the feed
Hey Jake. Thanks! What we're working on is exactly in that direction. Hopefully we'll have something to show in the next couple of weeks.
Could you log your updates on http://hackaday.io/project/46-Hackaday-Projects so everybody can see what is possible since the new update? I've seen a new sorting option "recently updated" for the project feed which is great, but wondered what else was achieved since the last update.
Hey Dave. That was the original plan, but we kinda dropped the ball on it a bit :) As of next week we'll get into a regular schedule of pushing CHANGELOG-style updates on "Hackaday Projects" project so that everyone is aware of all the things that have been updated (and give feedback). Thanks!
that's great to hear :)
I think my project page is broken!
All content between my new build log entry's youtube video and the youtube video on my previous build log entry is not displayed. Seems like a bug to me.
Please help!
I sort of did a workaround by typing enough stuff so that the second youtube video didn't make the front page of my project. But I'm pretty sure it would still do it again if I added another youtube embedded video to the beginning of another log entry.
Hello Neil, we will look in to this. I'll let you know when it's fixed, or get back to you for more details.
Hey Neil. I've emailed you asking for a few more details.
Here is feedback on the personal "Feed" link. I don't think "[Name] is now following [project you are also following]" should be in my personal feed, or at least let me turn it off.
I have stopped using the Feed entirely for some time now because it is swamped with "[Name] has started following [popular project]!" That doesn't interest me but it is the vast majority of the entries. The things that interest me are lost in that noise.
What I care about is: Project I am following has been updated, Someone has started following one of your projects, A comment has been added to one of your projects, or someone has replied to one of your comments/posts.
Hey MED, we are working on a new feed. Projects you follow, people, events, hackerspaces etc will be displayed more clearly. Please hold tight. Thanks.
On parts list: it would be nice to be able to include links: to where that part could be purchased from, datasheets, reference material, etc.
Under "feed": Although I would be interested in people following me, I find a new line for every time someone follows a project that I follow to be superfluous.
A quicker way for me to hit my current in-progress project(s) would be nice. Currently, I have to click Projects first.
I hear you about the Feed - I just noticed your pointing this out after posting about it myself. I'm not the only one!
I also miss that feature. It would be helpful if URLs in a component-description would be parsed to a
Hello Hari, MED, and Niftylight,
- URLs in component descriptions now show as links when you include http://.
- We have a new feed in the pipeline. Watch this space.
- There is a link to 'Your projects' in your personal menu which appears when you hover over your image top right of every page. I'll make a note regarding this as we may be able to include it on the feed page or a personal dashboard in the future.
Thanks for your feedback.
Hello Hari. Thanks for the lovely message on my profile. We are glad that you found us and are really happy to see your projects.
Regarding reply - We need to put the reply under all comments, but for the time being you can use the reply under the original message (in this case your original message). We will fix this soon.
Thanks again.
Just thought that it might be cool if we could subscribe to a tag i.e. THEHACKADAYPRIZE and get project updates through that, to see what new projects pop up and updates of current ones:)
Definitely something we can look into when we revamp the feed. Thanks.
maybe you guys should make it so I don't get the (horrid) mobile version of the site on my desktop. I'd suggest using max/min-device-width in the query instead of max/min-width