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Thanks Dave. I'll add that to the list. I think the is another bug.
I'm guessing this has come up previously; what are the general thoughts on reducing the size of the "Does this project spark your interest?" bar that pops up for non-logged-in viewers? It's been a source of regular confusion when I share projects with folks that don't have a HaD.io account. I understand the desire to increase user base, and having an easy signup/in option is good--maybe just dial it back a bit? As an example, this is what I see on a Samsung Galaxy S4 when I look at a project without signing in: http://imgur.com/Xt2JwvO
I think this should only pop up, when somebody hits the skull or follow button on the page.
Thanks zakqwy, davedarko, and Johnny B. Goode. We do have a ticket for this. I've added your feedback to it. Cheers.
The E-mail slot in account settings will not accept any E-mail address with an underscore in it. this makes it so I cannot update my E-mail address.
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Hey Johnny,
Thanks for the detailed feedback! You wouldn't believe how valuable this is to us (though that doesn't mean we'll act right away on all of it :P)
Regarding the feed - This should already be pretty customizable - you can pick what you want/don't want to show up in the feed using the menu on the right side of My Feed/Global feed selector. The problem is that it's not *persistent* at the moment, as soon as you navigate away from the page, configuration is lost. We have that fix in and it should be going out live with the next 1-2 weeks.
"All Projects" page - agree. It's terrible. To be honest, the reason for that is that it's something that has been designed when we had 0 projects in the system and never been touched since. Making it actually usable is high on our priority list and hopefully it will get better soon.
"Collaboration" side of things - your feedback and any lessons learned on this will be incredibly valuable. I'll reach out to you directly regarding this (and other ideas you might have) next week.
thanks!
.Alek
I have gotten a notification email for a reply to one of my comments (here: https://hackaday.io/project/4069/log/14132/discussion-18449)
My preferences have all emails turned off.
This seems a little bit inconsistent, as I didn't get a reply to my comment below on this project. I've also gotten an email about this comment https://hackaday.io/project/3232-not-your-fathers-edm/log/13367-well-that-was-dumb/discussion-13220 on Jan 28th, so this seems to be a long-standing issue.
Oh my. And emails for all replies to my Stack post that can't be turned off.
Sorry about that! I'll put in a ticket regarding the email notifications getting loose when they are unwanted.
[bug][feed][low] When pages are posted to the feed, it looks like all the elements like <hr>, <img> and new line characters are replaced with nothing (meaning ''). This way you can get some pretty bizarre texts like 'CHANGE LOG2015-02-17 FIRST DRAFTINTRODUCTIONWhile I was looking on eBay' - would be cool if they could be replaced with ' - ' instead to make it more readable.
It really happens often that changes e.g. to the description do not
apply! I write something into the description, then click 'Publish' and
it simply disappears! That is awfully annoying! I loose a lot of time by
that crap. Besides, I'm unable to update my Project... Is this a known
issue? Is there something I do wrong or at least something I can do to
make this stop? I use firefox.
Edit: It works with Chromium
Edit Edit: It seems to be an issue with vimperator. Unabling vimperator seemingly fixes the bug. Sorry for complaining so quickly, but maybe this message helps someone else who gets trapped here.
You might as well install the extension Lazarus, just to avoid losing what you've typed in case anything like that happens in the future.
WOOT! You rock PO!
And here, I was trying to get it in my thick-skull to type these things up in a word-processing program, first, then paste...
I find the UI pretty useless here. I 'followed' several projects that look interesting, yet I have no idea how to see what projects I am following, nor do I have any idea how to find any of these projects I am following to see how they are doing.
Maybe I followed a bunch of dead projects that never have postings or something, but I should be able to see a list of projects I am following, and to jump to any of those projects easily.
There is a list of projects you are following on your profile page http://hackaday.io/hacker/46847 - if they post an update or log to a project, you should see them in your personal feed. There is a timestamp for "last updated" on every project, so you can see if it's "dead" or not.
[bug] [instructions? formatting? HTML generation?]
Step 3 of #ATTiny85 does NTSC over VHF's instructions is misaligned, both on the main page and on the instructions page. I looked at the HTML and didn't see anything different about it, so I have no idea what's going on.
Chrome 40.0.2214.111 on Mac OS X 10.9.5
It's because it is only one line of text :) I just checked by editing the div and make the text longer.
Oh, Step 2's only one line! Yep; replicated. Not my project, though, so I can't do anything about it. And it's still a bug.
Well, the workaround is to just put more text in Step 2. Apart from that I guess you'll have to wait for the website developers to fix it, and I think that may take a while because it's a very low-priority bug, IMO (hardly breaks anything). On the other hand, it could turn out to be very easy to fix, in which case it might be done today.
Well it's not getting done today. Presidents' day. I'm feeding it to the devs.
I don't know if this has already been suggested, but I think it'd be useful to link projects together in a parent/child or master/sub manner. It can get unwieldy to document a larger project or it may be useful to compartmentalize certain aspects according to interests.
Perhaps the the child or master projects could then also be listed in the side bar while viewing the current project.
I guess you could do that with the links section, but I agree it would be better to have a dedicated section for that, to make it clear what's going on.
That's a great suggestion.
Something like a 'folder' at the top level of the 'my projects' page that goes to sub-projects? That's an idea. A master page for the parent, with individual projects below that? I'll feed that to the devs.
I would love to have that! Would be cool tool to organize the projects shown on the hackers page, too, especially when you have more than 5 projects. Make a folder like "projects shown on profile" where you can choose the top 5 (max or less) out of a list of all projects.
I also would use this to post and organize smaller projects I currently post as a page.
and a smaller "bug", now that comments are on multiple pages, when somebody replies to a 4th page comment, you don't get to that by the link from the feed.
http://hackaday.io/project/37-feedback-hackaday-projects/discussion-18173
Would be cool that, when someone adds bigger pictures to logs like schematics, that there would be a link as well to take a look on the fullsize image. An example: http://hackaday.io/project/4154-bench-power-supply/log/13968-potential-change-in-design-goals
Overclock.net (a PC forum I often frequent) has handled it in my opinion a nice way. When you insert a picture in there the full size one goes to your "personal album" and you can pick three different predetermined sizes of thumbnails into the post, largest of which is 1000 pixels wide. There is also an optional tag of showing it right away in full size but it must be done manually and is not considered a good habit. Granted - some limit on the image size might be reasonable, I just find 2 MB a bit on the low side as when I shoot full size jpg with my camera I get a bit under 6 MB and as such need to manually downscale any picture I want to insert in here.
In terms of new project discovery, the top project page should default to "recently updated", instead of "most skulled", which is a positive feedback loop (this is bad).
So this: http://hackaday.io/projects
Should actually default to this: http://hackaday.io/projects/sort/updated
For new project discovery we are going to update it so we remember the last sort preference you selected.
There's been some discussion about this internally, and as All Project page is the landing page for many new visitors, we do want them to see some of the more mature projects. This means that we'll probably stick to most skulled as default. We may add trending projects at the top later on.
Is it possible to share files through hackaday (say, CAD drawings, for example for build instructions) or should some external link used instead to the files located somewhere else, like, for example CrabCAD?
That's not possible, sharing files would be by linking to github or other filesharing sites, like you said.
Sign up with GitHub does not work: "502 Bad Gateway, nginx"
Telling about the bug requires signing up...
Hello Ilkka, we've verified the problem and are working on a fix. Thanks for persevering with the sign up.
Hmmm, this link is supposed to lead me from the feed to a comment on a page I wrote, but instead I see hacker crewls profile. http://hackaday.io/hacker/734-0x03-notes-for-the-future-a-psu-mod-update/discussion-18074
Yep, I noticed the link was incorrect on my feed too. It should be https://hackaday.io/page/734-0x03-notes-for-the-future-a-psu-mod-update
I've put in a ticket.
Getting the same with this link in feed: https://hackaday.io/hacker/757-0x04-nftf-update-matrix-controller/discussion-18537 (again in "wrote a comment/reply" items). It goes to @LEDs&Chips's profile. Seems to be the same thing, /hacker/ instead of /page/.
Good evening Hackaday! I had signed up and published our project, the Android IMSI-Catcher Detector, on your site specifically to find one or two hardcore Android coders who would be willing to help us eliminate bugs, add features and polish the code. Turns out that there is no real way to specifically get in touch with a larger group of people who are able to code Android - and this is especially the case when a project (like ours) has not received many skulls yet. Thus, here is my feedback: I would love you to add some "groups" for the most popular skills. Having a group named "Android" where coders could subscribe to and maybe even discuss things in different threads might ease the pain to find some more Android freaks out there. ;-) THANK YOU!
That is a good point. To get this started I did make an entry on the Stack: https://hackaday.io/page/751-hardcore-android-coders-needed-for-imsi-catcher-detector-project#comments
I wrote a bit on profile of @davedarko. When he replied,I got notification that he wrote on my profile, though in fact he wrote on his own profile http://imgur.com/q31DLOf
The link leading errornously to discussion on my profile (visible on bottom part ofthe screenshot) is invalid and leads just to beginning of my profile.
We have a ticket in for this one. Thanks for letting us know though :)
I guess you already know of this, but the links are broken on stack pages http://hackaday.io/page/747-test-broken-links-in-stack
I spotted your stack entry and filed a bug. Thanks.
[bug] the comment counter on the pages are broken - I almost had a heart attack because I thought they were gone :D
Hey Dave,
Thanks for reporting! The fix is already in the codebase and we'll deploy it with the release later this week.
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You should prevent people from naming their projects something with a backslash in it, like http://hackaday.io/project/4434-PiDP-8/I
http://hackaday.io/project/4434