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The same thing happened to me! I accidentally made a new account and set my username on that one without realizing that I had originally logged in via Twitter.
Hey Evan. PM me with the username and the details of the the account you'd like to keep and the one which is the duplicate.
If this has happened to anyone else, you can also PM me with those details. Cheers.
For the Hackerspaces section, I suggest using information from http://hackerspaces.org
Hello Nick, each of the hackerpaces pages on hackaday.io have been created by members. We're contacting more hackerspaces and inviting them to join. Hackerspaces.org is a great resource.
How do I join a hackerspace on here? I've followed mine (#1768 Calgary Protospace Ltd.) but I didn't see a join button.
[bug] [project pictures]
Some project pictures aren't showing up for me. For example, on #my very first binary-clock, the first picture shows up in All Projects and on the project page, but the 2nd to 4th images don't show up. If I point to their thumbnails, I can see them using Imagus, but they're just fully transparent on the page. This is also occurring for both images of #Ultrasonic Distance Measurement NRF905 Transmissio and the one image of #Motorcycle Garage Door Opener. Both of those also have plain gray images in All Projects, like the skull placeholder image, but just flat gray. Refreshing or closing and reopening has no apparent effect on this.
Chrome 39.0.2171.99 on OS X 10.9.5.
Also, thanks for enabling link editing in comments and feed notification for replies on unfollowed projects!
Chrome 39.0.2171.99 on OSX 10.8.5 - same here, basically. Gray pictures everywhere.
I've been told that this has been fixed now. All the images seem to be there. Thanks for letting us know!
I can confirm that those are fixed. Today, though, I'm seeing more blank images in All Projects only, which never finishes loading. If I open the project pages, the images work fine there. Affected projects: everything between #IPad Mini retina screen to Oculus Rift and #Nexus 7 (2013) In-Dash Install (inclusive) as well as #Anyfesto.
[question] [usernames]
This "Get your Hackaday.io username" banner… does that just add another URL by which my profile is accessible, or does it change my username as displayed on projects and comments? Just curious; I'm planning to use the same username I'm already using.
Your name and your username is different. Username is for the Vanity URL (Get your Hackaday Username), your name is what's displayed on the project or comments. You can change your name whenever you want. You can change your username once.
Okay, that makes sense. I tried to set my username to 'i' but it gave the error message "Sorry, usernames can only contain alphanumeric characters." Isn't 'i' alphanumeric? And I did think that maybe the real problem is that it's only one character long, but 'e' is a valid username.
I vote to add a notification setting to be updated via email for changes/updates to projects I am following. For those who follow a ton of projects, it might be nice to also have the option to just get a weekly digest of project changes. Obviously this would be an opt-in setting. I say this because I have friends/family who created a projects account just to follow my project, but they don't get any updates whatsoever when I update the project (people who aren't project creators are not going to log very often to read their feed). Is this something you guys would consider?
a weekly report instead of the once in a while "you got a skull" mail would be cool. Like "you've received 5 skulls, 7followers and blabla..." and here are the links and previews to updates of the projects you are following. Leave out comments and messages maybe, because they are thought to be responded fast, unlike articles one can read later. This can all be automated and some 'maybe you're also interested in this projects' or the hacklet can be added. But than again everyone screams "but I don't want the hacklet as a mail, I've already read it on the blog and projects". Anyway +skull
I like your additions. I think the option for daily updates on projects you are following would be awesome so that your project could almost act as a mini blog for those who want to follow it closely but don't necessarily look at HAD projects that often.
Not sure about the other users, but I'd like to have one account for both Hackaday projects and blog site. For commenting something at blog, I have to sign up with my old wordpress account, which I use only for this purpose. Having single account for both would be nice.
It always used to recognize my email address and ask me to log in with my Wordpress account, but for a few months now I've been using a + extension on my email address so Wordpress doesn't recognize it. (If you're username@gmail.com, you can use username+anything@gmail.com and still receive any emails sent to it. I don't know of any other email providers that have that feature, but I'm sure they exist.) But I would like to be able to comment there with my account from here.
What's the point of (and how on earth can one search for info on) the + thing?
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12096
Also, you apparently can use both username@gmail.com and username@googlemail.com (as well as username+anything@googlemail.com), and do the same filtering based on that. And you can put periods anywhere in the username (user.name@gmail.com) and Gmail considers that the same address, while most other sites consider it different.
I'd really like that too, this way when one clicks on your avatar, it could direct you to your profile on projects.
Hey jaromir.sukuba, PointyOintment, and davedarko. It's a great idea. However, it's difficult because the blog runs on the Wordpress.com system. There doesn't seem to be a good way to integrate them at the moment.
[bug] [formatting]
Long URL doesn't wrap, resulting in the page being excessively wide: #3835. Computer Vision Dildos
Also, I just noticed that the new # links continue to be links even when I refresh the page partway through writing a comment and restore the comment form's contents using Lazarus. That's pretty cool.
However, when writing this comment, I noticed a bug with them: it continues to suggest projects even when I put a space after the # and continue typing the rest of the sentence.
Hey PointyOintment, thanks for pointing those out. I've put in a ticket for each.
On those (rare?) occasions when a real-time conversation pops up in a discussion... two people might end up filling up the "Now-On" section on the hackaday blog... here's a screenshot:
http://hackaday.io/project/3821-the-jarclock-jardisplay/log/12951-did-you-realize/discussion-12652
It might be worthwhile to not drive-out everyone else's updates... Maybe it should have a bit of fuzzy-logic, e.g. "the project log has been commented on X times in the last hour by *user1*, *user2*, ..."
When @Peter McCloud wrote on the wall of @Anthony A. the feeds link to Anthony A. was linking to Mr. McCloud.
Thanks davedarko. I noticed that too and I've put in a ticket. Cheers.
[bug] [my feed]
Some entries are not appearing in my feed. What I've noticed is that I'm seeing "so-and-so has updated the project log…" entries for recently added project logs for which I never saw "so-and-so has added a new project log…" entries. For some, though, I do see the latter type of entry—I haven't noticed a pattern yet. The result is that if someone adds a project log without later updating it, I might not see it.
Also, other entry types may also be missing; I haven't noticed that, but the one I have noticed not appearing seems to be the easiest to notice the lack of.
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I signed up using twitter and when I went to add my email, I found that apparently I had registered previously using only my email. I deleted that account, but I still can't enter my email into my new account; it says "The email has already been taken, please try another one!" is there any way you can help me?
Just found out that the read more thingy is broken for pages. I tried to edit my latest but it didn't work.
and comments and replies on pages don't show in my feed. I hope I don't repeat myself, if so I'm sorry :D
I think there is a read more bug at the moment. It should be fixed in the next release. I'll put a ticket in about the comments and replies in the feed. Thanks!
I just had an idea for the search field, it would be great if one could predefine the search by something like 'tag: midi', 'project: r2-d2' or 'hacker: Aleksandar Bradic'. Could also be indicated by -t -p and -l for the console feeling.
And why not give the stack page a counter/update number like the feed or message board to draw some attention to it.
Like Google and reddit have? That would be nice. I think it's called Lucene syntax.
I was on the firepick web page, and tried to login and got a 403.
How did you manage to login in the end? If you go to the firepick page and try to login now, are you still getting the 403?
Not sure if my replies will show on your feeds because replies to my comments don't show on my feed, so I'm posting some thoughts for the # and @
"The list will disappear after the space, but pop-up again if you have the continued-spelling correct" - @ericwazhung - I can confirm this behavior on chrome(39.0.2171.95 64-bit)) on a mac book (10.8.5)
would be cool to have a search equivalent to "LIKE '%value%' " on mysql, where you can also type 'Salica' to reach 'Dr Salica'. I've searched for his project by '#' but it only works with numbers, not with words like 'trollmaster'.
While writing this comment, the hashtag got auto-completed twice with a project of mine, unattended - I may have done that by using the right-cursor.
I had some oddities with multiple-autocompletes, too... just have to be conscientious (and aware of what to expect) when using these things ;) Thanks for the confirmation! (Oh, and your at-at-me, @davedarko, did show up on my feed, did yours?)
@ericwazhung yes it did and I even got a mail. But since it is a reply it should have shown as a reply, too, which it didn't.
Another idea: it would be nice to have more than 5 lines in edit window, when writing private message. For me, it looks like this http://imgur.com/V27tcYe - a lot of empty space, with tiny window in the middle to write into.
I've feed this back to the developers. Thanks for highlighting it.
Today I noticed I can resize the PM reply window. Fantastic; thank you Jasmine and the team for listening to users ;-)
I just updated my project details for ramanPi and now the details are cut off WAY before my read more tag and where it always worked before... The whole thing was designed to be viewed in a contiguous line and now it just doesn't fit right... I know it is HUGE, but I'd really really like to have it cut off where I had it previously... Any chance of that being possible?
Hello fl@C@, I'm not sure why it's changed for you now. It should be cutting at just under 5k chars. That is a system wide restraint. The read more tag only works if you place it before the automatic cut off. If it's not behaving as it should, let me know and I raise a ticket. Cheers.
Not sure whether it's related, but my read-more tags all got messed-up one day. They worked fine one day, then the next my entire page got screwed-up, including sections I didn't edit. I tried to delete a couple and reinsert them, but no-go. Now they're just appearing as the text "---- more ----"
That's similar to what I am seeing.. in addition to it cutting off far before it has in the past... I also have a serious problem where I can edit text in one area and it deletes text in some random area ...typically the last place the cursor was if I click in another paragraph before editing.. I've accidentally deleted entire paragraphs without seeing until later because the text was 4 paragraphs below where I was typing...
@ and # fun:
A continuation of the @thing and #thing dilemma at #181. #MeArm - Pocket Sized Robot Arm 's givaway (at http://hackaday.io/project/181-mearm-pocket-sized-robot-arm/log/12633-hackaday-munich-mearm-giveaway/discussion-12243)
erm... I've done a bit of experimenting, since... (EDIT)
It seems to work as-expected now... I had hours of fail, and now that seems fine and other things seem quirky. Maybe it's a browser-thing. The key-factor, at least with my setup, is that you have to *type* the whole thing, basically without interruption (don't change windows/tabs to verify your spelling, don't *paste* anything, or arrow-up/down/left/right, or even scroll the window? And if you use backspace, cross your fingers.) Yes, (now) spaces work in @'s. Note, also, that the list is short, so make sure you know the *full* spelling of the user-name, whether it has a space, a dot, or a dash, etc., and keep typing until the name pops up. The list will disappear after the space, but pop-up again if you have the continued-spelling correct. Yes, this ordeal leaves me feeling a bit foolish... OTOH, I was in friggin' IT for nearly a decade, coding for nearly two, and *this* eluded me...?
Not sure whether this is browser-specific; I'm using Iceweasel (Mozilla) 24.6.0 on Debian Wheezy x86 (which I figured to be the culprit in many other text-entry/editing oddities I've experienced setting up my project-pages, instructions, etc... *and right here*).
Hey ericwazhung. Thanks for the experimenting. I've passed on those details to dev, and hopefully we can iron out some of the kinks soon. Much appreciated!
I can confirm this behavior on chrome(39.0.2171.95 64-bit)) on a mac book (10.8.5) "The list will disappear after the space, but pop-up again if you have the continued-spelling correct" - would be cool to have a search equivalent to "LIKE '%value%' " on mysql, where anything but alphabet characters gets ignored.
Hey there, replies on comments on logs of projects I don't follow don't show on my feed.
Cheers davedarko. Can you link me to an example comment thread and I'll put in a ticket for it.
It was your reply to be exact :) I am now following the project. I just noticed that your respond here also didn't show and I'm following this. But I can see you responding to other comments in my feed. http://hackaday.io/project/181-mearm-pocket-sized-robot-arm/log/12633-hackaday-munich-mearm-giveaway/discussion-12312?page=2#discussion-list
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I had two accounts. Deleted one, but the other still won't let me grab my username - hasn't been freed up by deleting the account