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Jobs Board is a great idea and a welcome addition in my opinion, but I have another suggested board. Could you add a "classifieds" board where users who are looking for a contributor to their project could post a req?
For example, I would love to be able to sift through a list and see which projects are looking for help, that I may have expertise in. It could make for a much better way of matching contributors to projects that could really use their help.
With new features such as that hovery-type thing being added, I've seen a lot of inconsistencies and general weird things pop up in the UI here lately. Could you please make sure that these are removed?
For example: Font Colors in sidebar, the existence of two separate stats bars (top with text for stats names, bottom with icons for stats), that "request to join this project" link that doesn't float:right like it should for responsive design, the floaty bar which uses a thick brass border (which NOTHING else on this site seems to use), the header which changes its color on hover (why??), the header not expanding to the full width on the chat page, the ridiculous amount of different gray shades you use, the custom scrollbars in the chat (but nowhere else) (please get rid of them?), and finally, the avatar being a rounded square in the header, a sharp square in the team list and feed items, a bordered square in comments, a circle in the project summary header thing, and a circle in the sidebar featured stuff list.
Please make sure you're consistent and logical before implementing too many new features :)
Cheers!
Oh, also, what's up with the feed buttons being completely different from the rest of them? They look similar at first, but the hover effect has both a transition and... they change color somehow
And please make up your mind on the whole skull vs like thing
Hey alpha_ninja! You're absolutely right - as the site has been evolving, we have been eager to make new features look nicer, but haven't done a good job of updating the old ones and so we have ended up with a lot of inconsistencies. The good news is that we have finally found the design we feel great about (you can see it's flavor in the new project title header), and over the next two months, we'll be working on deploying it across the site and making the entire user experience uniform. Thanks for your patience!
Project Description: I've had significant trouble with the character-limit on project-descriptions... The concept of a limit is fine, but the actual functionality of it is... hokey. Sometimes you write something great and rather than its complaining it's too long (like it usually does) it doesn't complain at all and deletes half of what you wrote... Other times, the character-count is completely off... it claims to fit, and then deletes several characters. How 'bout instead of a hard-limit just have an indicator and a really big red-flag when the number's exceeded: "Hey, Project descriptions are supposed to be short!" Maybe an even bigger red-flag "HEY, You're RAMBLING where it's not at all recommended!" But don't actually *limit* it to a specific number of characters.
Yah see 'em all the time, here's an example I just came across:
Thinking it'd be cool to see how many skulls have been given by a person...
Has anyone suggested the option to download ones project pages as an xml file or PDF for archival purposes similar to how facebook lets one download their profile as a locally viewable web page ?
I posted a comment to my own profile, it shows up like this:
"You posted a comment to their profile." 'Their' should be 'your'.
"You, ottoragam, and konate2011 posted a comment to their profile."
I think 'their' should also be 'your'.
ottoragam didn't write self comments. konate2011 account is gone.
Let project picturegallery scan "files" for images and display them.
It seems that the latest update broke the code highlighting. In my latest log at https://hackaday.io/project/9131-servo-controller/log/31808-second-chance I set the highlighting to "python", but they get highlighted as "makefile" for some reason.
When trying to @Mention someone it can be difficult to get the right person to show up, especially in a 'firstname surname' scenario with a common firstname but even with an obscure username it's not as easy as it should be.
An initial list of the names already in the comment thread, or the names you used most recently would help this most.
Then when typing in a name, the results could be more relevant either by prioritising people I follow or have mentioned before first. And/or being more context aware, e.g. people who also commented in the project, project team members, followers etc.
I like the addition of profile numbers for this, which makes things way easier than it was. But agreed, the list of names you use the most would be helpful.
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I keep pushing for something like Github's STL viewer. It's on the list, it just needs to happen.
I just received skulls for a page and want to thank you guys for making this possible :) Thanks! Love that new feature :)
Hey Dave, check this out - https://hackaday.io/project/46-hackadayio-project/log/31819-latest-ux-tweaks-to-hackadayio
I agree with David. I spend more time on Hackaday because it is a great place to get feedback and its. I think the instructions section of the project is a bit weak. I know the focus of Hackaday.io is building things but it is very important that the instruction page is well formated an publicized. This way more projects attempted by other users and the feedback from that is just awesome!
Yes Hackaday is becoming a bigger part of my life as the years go by. Well done hackaday, well done ind... you know where I'm going with this.
Hey David, glad to hear it. We look forward to seeing your projects up on hackaday.io, so we can fully envelop your time :)
Congratulations! Excellent work. All the possible opportunities to get better are already mentioned.
Thanks for the support. We're working on it. Cheers.
Maybe a bug? When I search for a tag that I have attached to my project, I do not get it listed in the search reply. Example - http://hackaday.com/tag/wood-stove/ does not show the projects:
https://hackaday.io/project/786-arduino-wood-stove-controller
https://hackaday.io/project/3498-raspberry-pi-wood-stove-data-logger
Hello Rockfishon, thanks for highlighting this. At the moment the search on hackaday.com doesn't return results from hackaday.io, but it would be great if it did. I'll suggest it to the team. Thanks!
The "stack" section seems to be filling up with links to EE articles (and no content), which means that people are using it as a marketing outlet. I was wondering if this is OK, or if HAD should maybe try to prevent this.
I follow the stack and try to answer questions for people and otherwise interact, but if it's just a bunch of links to articles, well... I can find those on my own. It's like getting a free copy of EE news in the mail - it goes right into the dumpster.
Interacting with people and being able to ask questions is a nice feature.
There are several stack posts by "gopi kokkonda", who has no projects and isn't following anyone, only makes stack entries such as "Wireless Microcontrollers Enable the Smart Home" (with no content, only a link to the DigiKey article), and his user description is "I help entrepreneurs double their ROI by solving their tech & marketing challenges."
Really. The signal-to-noise feature of stack will become so low that no one will look at it.
Being able to ask questions is a *really* nice feature, please don't let it get polluted with marketing droids.
Hey Peter, we'll keep an eye on this. Remember you can report members who are acting inappropriately. Best to report from their profile page rather than the individual comment or page if they are doing this regularly.
Glad you're finding the stack useful despite this. Cheers.
I'd like to suggest simply showing the difference between text posts and links somehow :)
is Is there an option to get email updates for selected projects?
Some of my project followers don't visit the site very often but would appreciate an email when I update, much like the "feed" in a digest format once a day or week
This is a great idea. Unfortunately, it's not something that we can offer at the moment. I'll suggest it to the team.
Awesome, I would appreciate it. Even an opt-in per project would be useful.
I would +1 this, people like my mom would love to get my project updates, but she ain't getting on hackaday.io every day to check if I have posted something.
I'd love to see any kind of response to reported projects, as I'm unsure whether anybody looks at it. I reported obvious bullshits, like https://hackaday.io/project/9387-nanotechnology-father-of-superconductors (author of the projects submitted more crap like this, just take a look) or https://hackaday.io/project/9416-robotics-startup-is-looking-for-seed-investments and this one, which is really awesome https://hackaday.io/project/9389-deejay-jaunty-images
I'm not saying like all stupid "projects" should be deleted, but those ones are really outstanding.
Hello Jaromir, we do get the reports. We have a very relaxed moderation for most of the content on the site, and these projects don't contravene our TOS. If enough people report them, then they will automatically be removed. So thanks for reporting them!
I am not sure if the second one can be qualified as a project.
Hello, I noticed that there is a small placement error in the components list when the quantities are set unreasonably high. At the maximum qty value, the digits overrun where the 'X' is.
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Hey everyone! All of us who work on this site are reading your feedback. If we don't get back to you individually, know that we read what you wrote. Thanks for taking the time to give us feedback, we really appreciate it, you help make the site improve every day!