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Okay, I give up...how the hell do you get to see the steps and so forth of a project you're "following?" I keep getting pages that don't get me anywhere.
"Following" means that any changes to the project (e.g. new pages added/edits) would show up in "your feed" (I think) and the owner of that project get an extra point in the counter.
Thanks for answering. What I can't find is a description of the project so far, ie; what's been done already, never mind what changes, if any, have occurred. F'r instance, there's a tweet on my twitter feed that announces an "adjustable knife sharpener" project, apparently complete, which I'm trying to see here on the hackaday website. Can't find the details; do a search, there's the project; click on the link; doesn't get me there. Boy, am I confused!
Use the search (or google) if you don't know the project page. Your search term happens to be the most precise one I have ever seen here!
https://hackaday.io/project/14917-adjustable-angle-knife-grinding-jig
If you click on the "your feed", the project updates would be there and you can click on the project (gold link) to go to the project page. There may be additional links on that page for video, source file etc.
Can we delete PM SPAM?
I have been asking for this for close to a year now.
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Sorry my bad...I was thinking on spam projects/ profiles in feed....
The feed could really use some clean up. :)
My PM has more than 75% SPAM or old messages with no way of removing.
I have just checked with our developers and they are working on it, too...
It would be great to see an improved Reply mechanism. Currently after the 3rd deep message the "reply" link isn't even displayed, which is understandable to prevent the indent of doom but also make replying to a specific message impossible. This is commonly handled by making all posts after the 2nd on the same depth but maintaining the contextual link of a reply. This is how Facebook handles the same issue.
Animated Gifs are not displayed correctly. There seems to be a problem with the alpha-channel. Example: https://hackaday.io/project/1352-cinemagraph-display
Or am I doing something wrong?
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I solved the problem by uploading the gifs to Imgur.com and then inserting them in the project log:
https://hackaday.io/project/12876/log/45420-3d-printing
If I upload the gifs directly to Hackaday.io, they are not displayed correctly.
I could remove the alpha channel, but wouldn't that lead to much bigger file sizes?
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just being a dick and trying to crash browsers...
May be should start using some live spambot blacklist to disable those IP block from creating new accounts and projects? There are free database available and probably scripts too.
How is the HaD blog site avoiding these bots.
Or we could shut down new accounts creation for a week. I think at this rate, legit new users would hesitate to create new accounts to post projects.
that is dynamic ip that can't be block for long time.the javascript like info charts may is the cause of hacked project.
Just block the whole countries - spammers and their targeted market for a few days. Rather that than this site becomes cluttered with junk.
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you need reduce the text form and the exuberant code resources of this site.control the flow of packets of user and block their ip for the front transitory solution.
The source code highlighting doesn't seem to work very well for Python code:
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Some of us are on other timezones than PST. Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully it's mostly dead now :)
look like that,this server information is said california,pasadena.But never believe everything.
There is an aggressive spam bot on hackaday.io.
It creates new users and spam projects.
Right now, the latest 50 or so projects are spam created in the last couple of hours.
They really should automate to remove some of these bots and removing their posts from the feed. Sound like a HaD project/contest.
Another idea: using robot.txt to block off search engine for newly created account profiles and their projects for a week. The extra time give time to clean up the SPAM. This would prevent those that try to abuse search engine ranking.
Pretty evil to spam the "NOW ON HACKADAY.IO" on HaD blog site. May be should consider disabling new sign up from those IP blocks from China, India until the SPAM bots give up.
Even a cool down of 1 week of limiting the new account in those IP blocks to read only status would help a bit.
May be a "Are you human" test designed for hackers -code segment, block diagrams, schematics, general questions that a person that would have a legit project would know to weed out the marketers, CEO C level business types, spammer, bot etc. ?
Watch out SPAMMERS at large !! https://hackaday.io/projects/hacker/166093 big time jerkoff spammer wich needs to be punished badly!!!
Did you click on his profile and 'report as suspicious'? (personally i dont'like reporting people, but i guess these are spam-bots from hell... )
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"keeping on top of spam on a site like this is a full-time job!"
I know what you mean... mayebe it's time for some spam-traps / honeypots, or an extra phase for the account creation ( honestly, it was too easy )
good luck
This user send me a spam message. The account looks suspiciously like it was created by a bot.
(I can report spam comments, but couldn't find a way to report a spam PM. Is there such a feature?)
The only way to do that right now is to report from the user profile.
I got a couple of messages from this dude too... reported.
'Add project log' button needs more prominent placement. If project logs are there to provide a timeline and regular updates to followers, then it needs to be quick and easy to add a log. The logical place would be in the header next to [change background image][Edit project][Team Messaging] after you click My Projects-->{choose project}-->Edit Project. Currently you have to go My Projects-->{choose project}-->Edit project-->Logs--> scroll down through all previous logs to the button right at the bottom.
If you are viewing a single project log or have just created a project log, there is no button to quickly add another one - you have to go back to Edit Project-->logs-->scroll down etc..
I have been getting a few "illegal access" errors tonight when I tried to add a project, detail page, read a project page etc.
I'd like to add my existing project to the Assistive Tech prize, but the menu items inside the project are still showing the Automation prize (and not the Assistive Tech.) Any other incantations needed?
The option to add your project to Assistive should be available now if you try again.
Hello, i am unable to update the list of components in my project. Link: https://hackaday.io/project/10188-automatic-digital-microscope
Uneffective feature:
While writing a log, include a picture.
The pop-up window asks for a file to download but the upper-left tab shows that we can also add a link. Fill this field before selecting the picture.
Save.
When the page reappears, the picture points to the picture itself, not the desired link.
One has to edit the page again and edit the link on the picture...
I have a project in the Hackaday 2016 competition:
https://hackaday.io/project/11951-affordable-reflectance-transformation-imaging-dome
It's a semifinalist in the Citizen Scientist category, and is entered in the Automation category as well. But I've run into a problem. The last time I tried to save a new instruction step, I got an Error 413 message, and the entire step was missing when I went back. Fortunately, I had saved the text elsewhere before submitting it, so I re-entered the text (had to re-insert the pictures), and tried to save it again. No luck - another Error 413 message.
From researching the message, it's related to the instructions being a message larger than the server can handle. I've actually submitted larger instructions than this one before, so not sure why this is happening. If the problem is that I've hit some kind of limit on the total server space I'm allowed, then I'd like to request a larger server space - I really need it. I'm writing these instructions very explicitly so that someone with minimal maker experience will be able to follow them and have a high degree of success. The main people that would benefit from building this system (archaeologists, paleontologists, numismatists, forensic analysts) are likely to fall into that category. Please let me know what I need to do to fix this problem.
leszekmp at gmail.com
I would suggest you to split one large step into multiple shorter steps.
Thanks, Ivan. Am in email contact with someone at Hackaday, and they suggested that as well. I tried that using text from previous, shorter instruction steps that had been uploaded successfully, and I also got the same error message. And I've been able to upload instruction steps of comparable or even greater length in the past without problems. Right now the leading theory is either a bug or a server configuration issue.
In the WYSIWYG editor, "Header 2" are rendered as black on grey. They are rendered correctly outside. This seems to be some recent thing. I am on chrome win7 x64.
"‘It’s the wild colour scheme that freaks me out,’ said Zaphod, whose love affair with the ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight. 'Every time you try and operate these weird black controls that are labeled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up in black to let you know you’ve done it.’" - Hitchhiker's Guide.
I have no memory of this paragraph of H2G2... wow :-D
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The new default picture for .io picture-less projects looks soo good that I might never want to replace it with a real project picture!
:o)
Thanks and please send a +1 to the artist.