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At the moment you would need to use another tool to adjust the colors of this website. There might be some browser plugins to accomplish that.
I agree that people should have a choice but dark theme is not about energy saving, but rather that some people find a bright display glaring. It might have been true in CRT days, but for your typical LCD display, for a dark display the backlight is still at the same brightness and consuming the same power, only that the LCD blocks more light.
Another possible work-around for adjusting your brightness/contrast is the gamma setting for your display driver. When I'm using one of the CRTs in the shop, I have to turn it way up to see anything at all here. For Debian (and others), one command to try is: xgamma -gamma 1.5
The "views" counter does not seem work properly.
It doesn't seem to be just some delay, I have a project stuck at 161 views for several days. It has been featured on hackaday.com but is still frozen. The embdeded (and otherwise unlisted) videos have a couple thousand reproductions.
My project is https://hackaday.io/project/175543-easy-raspi-configuration
Using "edit project" I'm allowed to upload 6 images to the gallery. When I delete images, there is a blank space where I can upload a different image.
The gallery for the project has 7 images, and the 7th is a leftover from long ago.
How can I delete the 7th image? The upload grid only allows 6 images, and if I delete an image leaving a blank space, the 7th image doesn't shuffle down into the blank space.
The main project image is the 1st image, the lower 6 are extra, if you hover over the top large image there should be a small 'X' icon in the top right corner to delete it then you can upload a new one.
I believe only the lower 6 behave in the way you describe while the top main image always occupies that spot unless you remove it.
The main photo is a duplicate of the one in the UL corner of the image grid. When I delete the main image, the UL corner image is also deleted, the images shuffle left, and the 2nd image is now the main image.
I'm aware of the "X" in the upper corner, but deleting the main image causes the other images to shuffle up and replace it. There are only 6 images allowed, total.
This morning I figured out where the 7th image came from and how to delete it - it's a gallery image that doesn't come from the "edit project" images grid. The problem stems from my thinking that the gallery was composed of images from the "Edit Project" page, but that's not a complete description of how images get into the gallery.
Ah you're right, they all shuffle left. I guess it needs a sort order without having to delete them, or not auto shuffle left.
Yes the gallery will contain images scraped from your other pages, I can see where that could be confusing because it doesn't visually show where they came from. A link 'back to content' or something might be useful.
I'm having trouble embedding a youtube video in my project description.. Embedding in the editor works and the youtube video is in line with the text, but when I save the changes, the video disappears and is not shown on the project page whatsoever. When I go back into the editor, there is a huge empty area where the video used to be embedded but no video. I've resorted to just inserting the link, but very frustrating...
This should be correctly inserting YouTube videos now
Saw that the menu entries on clicking on the avatar at the top RHS are now more clearly worded. 👍
Confirming email after creating an account doesn't seem to work properly 100% of the time. While onboarding, selecting topics of interest requires multiple clicks on the buttons, and sometimes it doesn't even work. I think there might be some issues with that page.
Image uploading to Hackaday.io is temporarily out of service while some upgrades are being performed, sorry for the inconvenience!
Image uploading is turned back on, message me if you have any issues, thanks!
I'm getting emails from a deactivated account (I accidentally created two accounts), but they do not have an unsubscribe button. Either deactivated accounts should not receive the newsletter, or they should be able to unsubscribe without reactivating the account.
Just to confirm, you deleted a duplicate account and that account receives the Hackaday newsletter? It should have been unsubscribed if so, I'll double check.
That's right, happy to send my email: it's "username@username.com", where "username" is my username ;-)
It would be nice if the system prompted for and published a one-line reason for a change to a project so that one can see at a glance what an update was about, e.g. changed project status, added an explanation to details, corrected link errors. Otherwise it's usually not obvious what has changed in the project.
Hi, The project editor code is having problems. I added a new project and referenced two other projects in the body. After the second project reference, the text color remained gold and nothing that I could do would return it to white. Also, it would not accept entries in the files section.
I am using Firefox 80.0.1. The project is #Multiple Value Parallel Capacitor Testing
Any help appreciated.
I see the rest of the text that has been linked. I can PM you to fix this.
Are you also saying you can not upload files to the project, or that you can not insert images in the editor?
Initially, I could not upload files to the project. After I closed my web browser and came back later, I was able to upload a file to the project.
Hi guys, I just joined and can't get the system to accept my username so that I can start a private message. Any help appreciated.
Insertion of Tex equations appears broken in couple of ways. First, when inserting formulas, the formula doesn't usually go where the cursor is located when you hit the formula button. Most of the time, the formula is at the beginning of whatever I am working on. I can't copy and past in the wysiwig editor so I have to view in source, cut the Tex formula and paste where I actually want it. Second, there is no way to edit once you have entered a formula-- well you can but you have view source and edit the raw text. There is no way to get the insert buttons and preview like when you enter a new formula. And lastly, formulas that were previously working seem to have disappeared altogether now. When I try to enter a new formula, it just doesn't work.
Is there any way to get mathjax and or asciimath support on this site? I tried to add the asciimath incantation script into the raw html editor but I guess the incantation needs to be in the <head> in order to work.
Can you give me an example of which symbols no longer work? Are you entering them directly into the preview field or clicking the icons above?
My page showed that I have 11 "notifications", but when I click on the "Notifications" link under my icon it goes nowhere, and is overlaid with "Error".
I took a screenshot that shows the overlaid "Error".
https://hackaday.io/project/5283-potpourri/log/185057-error-for-feedback
I'm still wondering where to view my notifications - is that on a separate page, or are they just in the feed?
Does it error for you each time you have tried it? You should get a list of notification items. The next version will have refresh or retry button.
It didn't happen in PaleMoon (a Firefox clone), so I refreshed the Chrome page and the error went away there. It might have been an issue with *new* notifications that got cleared on the PaleMoon side, I'll note back if that's the case.
If you can give me a notification of some type (like, follow me or something) I'll let you know if it comes back.
I have 2 notifications, but when I get to the link and click, nothing happens. (This is new - it was working.)
Tried both PaleMoon and Chromium - same thing.
Also, I have 2 items in my feed (red circle on feed icon), but the feed appears empty.
Sure, you should receive a notification for replies here.
Good. When it was happening page refresh didn't clear it, but it seems to be fixed now, don't know what it was. I only just now realized that I could have gone into the console and maybe seen more info on the error, or looked at the DOM tree in the debugger. If it comes up again I'll do that.
I'm just getting started with my first real project on IO. I made log entries for should probably have gone into instructions. Furthermore, all the images I put in did not seem to survive. I would like to just get rid of the log entries. Is this possible?
If you click to a specific log there is are [Edit, Delete] links at the top. Can you share the post you had an issue with images?
Thank you, that fixed my problem. I ended up deleting the image-less log entries and entered the information with instructions.
As for the images, it seems my problem is a known issue with the system? I had copied and pasted images into the editor. They show up just fine but after you save, they disappear. I found this mentioned in the "Everything 101" page. I used the "place image" button and everything works now.
Thank you.
I really appreciate that Hackaday cares about safety. But is there any way to disable the CAPTCHA for the login? It is sometimes a huge pain, especially on the mobile phone. I just needed like 5 or 6 trials to read and enter it correctly.
You shouldn't be required to captcha for login, only signup. Which login are you seeing captcha on?
Thanks for your answer! I just realized that it was my bad. When I go to hackaday.io, I am asked to enter the email and password. But apparently this is for sign-up. For the login, I should probably always click on the login button top right.
Hello, I have several issues with "Project Log Entry" WYSIWYG editor.
I've just lost a long page when I pasted just a link. The draft was then saved unintentionally and it overwrite old drafts :( .
I attempted to send someone to my hackaday.io page yesterday and they ended up with an error. I then found I could get to my profile fine, but that was only when I was logged into my account. As soon as I logged out of my account or used any other web browser I got the same result.
How are the parts in the project's "components" section sorted? I entered a bunch of items, and they got sorted in an unexpected way - not how I entered them, not alphabetically. I then went and manually re-shuffled everything to be in the order I wanted. However, my efforts were ignored. Is there some trick I'm missing?
This happened to me as well, I cannot re-order my components list.
Just checking, are you using the 'hidden' drag handle on the left of each component? Which of your project are the components not in order I can try to reproduce it with those.
Yes, I am indeed moving the components around using the hidden 'cross' at the left. I then click Save and everything seems okay until I load the page/reload the page.
The project I was having problems with specifically was:
https://hackaday.io/project/171699-hotrod-ender-5s-for-the-hackerspace
my project is https://hackaday.io/project/174476-another-3d-printer-enclosure.
To be clear, they never appeared in the initial order that I entered them. After entering all 20-some items at one time, when I "saved" the project, they were immediately re-sorted in some unknown manner. I tried to re-order them using the the "drag" handle on the left. They did re-order during the editing process, but upon saving the project, they reverted to the original list of unknown sorting criteria.
Pushing an update that opts for an 'order' field rather than a drag and drop. The component items will always be sorted in ascending order and on first load their values will be updated to concurrent numbers starting with 0.
Looking through the HAD prize rules, it says to document all open source licenses for the initial round. If you hold the contest again, consider adding some text that expands on that a little bit. Specifically, what constitutes satisfying the requirement. Or better, move this requirement to the final round.
For example, all my code modules have license text at the top and I have a separate license file in the project, so anyone who gets a copy of the project will see that (it's everywhere).
Is that sufficient? Or does it have to be on the main page somewhere, and then should it be in the description, details, or instructions? Can it be in a log entry?
I don't think you want to be poring through all the projects in detail looking to see if the requirement is satisfied (through the logs, for example), so maybe some text that clarifies the requirement would be in order.
Perhaps this requirement should be part of the final round, and not the initial round? The project doesn't have to actually work in the initial round, and there's no requirement for submitted project files (gerbers, code, &c), so would a project that's just at the concept level need the license text?
No response needed, just some notes to think about.
I recently did an @ mention to everyone in my project, which was important.
After asking around to the people I mentioned via outside communication channels, I realized that at least some people did not get the message!
Perhaps this is related to some internal limit to the @ mention element count within a message, but tagging people within a particular message that they need to read is kinda the point here. Having @mention failures and not being notified of that happening is probably another issue that should be addressed.
Barring allowing direct communication such as the ability to email the team directly, it would be nice to have a way to email/notify all project members (if they have indeed opted in to notifications) via something like an '@project' or '@everyone' moniker within chat.
This is how it is done within Slack and it seems to work well. This capability perhaps should be reserved to the project owner (or some other admin class which has yet to be created here) to prevent spam, but depending on the size of the team, this could be very useful in smaller groups as well.
Making this platform into something which can be directly utilized to move projects along is my immediate goal. If you have a different one, that is fine also. However... if this is your goal, taking the time to recruit project members to this platform and then not being able to reliably notify those members of some important information they need to act upon now... and not the next time they happen to log in and happen to look through their feed (which if you are like me is so much raw data that if you don't do this daily, it *will* get lost), is pretty much a show stopper.
Oh.. and a simple solution to the notification engine failing could be an @admin user generating a PM/@mention to the user who attempted to do the notification.
Thank you.
Any thoughts on this?
I would be willing to help with this issue if needed as I feel it is an important issue, but the potential solution is rightfully complicated.
Regards,
-Daren
Oh I mean priority in our system, an @ mention should always send within reason.
I believe @mention has a higher email priority but I would need to double check. The new notifications menu should help a bit too, at least it can give another source of seeing mentions besides emails.
I really don't think email priority was the problem. Unless hackaday.io is black/spam listed this should not have been an issue at that level. I know nothing about the menu I will go and look. Thank you.
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Sorry for the newby question-is there a way to change the 'dark' theme to something more old-fashioned with a light background? I know dark is supposed to save energy on some displays, but cranking my screen brightness to 100% or more to read is counter to that. Hopefully some simple click?