Can you add option to write log in markdown? It is pain to switch between HTML and text to do simple format thing like heading and etc.

I have noticed an issue with email notifications. The configuration page allows you to select all of the events which cause an email to be sent, but not all events work as expected. A few days ago I received an email notifying me that someone had like a project of mine. Right after they liked the project they left a comment on the project that I didn't notice until a few days later because I was never notified. I noticed the disclaimer "MAXIMUM ONE EMAIL PER HOUR" at the bottom of the settings page. It seems that I was never sent a notification of the comment because an email was sent to notify that a project was liked just moments before.

I understand the need to limit emails to one per hour, but this causes information to be lost if a lot of activity happens at once on your profile. Would it be possible to get a "Notifications" feature at the top of the page? Something like the "Feed" but a stream of likes, comments, and follows. An email of initial activity would be enough to get someone to check the site for more detailed information (allowing the email throttling to remain in place, but providing more granular information for those of us that miss things often).

I believe that all of them are in your feed, with all other feed activities, and it might not be easy to see them. I'll add your request into our backlog. thank you.

we'll look into this. and we'll try to go with a higher number in the fix : )

this is fixed now. unfortunately, the lower number is the correct one : )

Replace GitHub links with a company that isn't evil, thanks!!!

yeah I went there

we should get rid of all centralized websites, like hackaday and github - they are all evil, we should go back and host evrything our selfsnow that we found out github wanted to make money, and now has a owner that makes it possible to runt he service for almost forever.

Can you add GitLab to the "add network" dropdown on the project creation page?

Probably, there is always the other category too, the only difference is no custom icon.

Alternatively, they could remove all suggested sites entirely to avoid any sense of favoritism. But I'd guess that they get paid by GitHub and Dropbox, making that unlikely!

Are you implying that hackaday is under the control of Microsoft now?

Fair point

I wonder if it would be possible to add a third category to the public/private projects: unlisted. Such projects could be seen by people when linked to or mentioned directly, but wouldn't appear in the listings.

like unlisted youtube videos?

yes, like that

I love this idea

it's an interesting idea. we'll add it to our backlog.

In the pages editor, when I delete the last character of a line of text underneath a picture, why does it delete the bloody picture along with it, "delete the whole paragraph"-style?

Why does it sometimes insert code snippets at the top of the text instead of the cursor position? Why does it randomly jump around when deleting things. Why is the line spacing sometimes messed up and lines are skipped when using the up and down arrow keys.

Super frustrating :(

+1
The whole editor is mostly frustration, regardless of the browser you use...

On top of that it seems that when editing longer pages some pictures can "get dropped". Had to edit

https://hackaday.io/page/5252-generating-nice-threads-in-openscad

multiple times now to get everything back in order. Seriously, if we're here to build your hackaday.io dream and generate free content to establish and maintain your position in the community, this has to change.

Using Firefox 60.0.1 (64-Bit) under Win7 Pro

Code snippets mangle the pasted code. It seems they don't like angle brackets.

I just created a new project today named ColorChord and all was looking good until I just checked and notice that it has been removed ? This was going to be a contest entry and was/is for the visually impaired.

Might have solved it. There is another ColorChord from two years ago. Does something different but the same device name... Guess I need to choose another name for my project ;-)

Hello @Dr. Cockroach - Your project is accidentally deleted by a script implemented as spam protection. Project has been restored now. Sorry about that!

Thank you, Glad that all is OK now :-)

Maybe it's just me or I'm missing something but here's what I'd wish for to make project logs better:

* side notes

* proper handling of citations (table with links, maybe preview functionality)

Check out this log to see what I'm having trouble with: https://hackaday.io/project/156522-step-and-scan-digital-microlithography/log/146551-laser-assisted-chemical-etching

You could use a "List" for your citations.  Table formatting are messy.

The "Ordered List" comes with a number for each entry, so you could use that number as your reference just like in a published paper.  

Or just do something like this:

References:

1. https://hackaday.com/2018/04/24/dissecting-the-avr-debugwire/
2. http://nerdralph.blogspot.ca/2018/04/debugging-debugwire.html
3. https://hackaday.com/2016/04/07/reverse-engineering-debugwire/
4. https://github.com/dcwbrown/dwire-debug

You can do subscripts or superscripts by fooling around with html tags <sub> and <sup>:  https://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/

If the citation is inline style, you could possibly use links (Chain icon).

I'm new to this site, is there an option to change the color theme/skin of the site? I'm finding it hard to read with the current dark color theme. I'd like to view it in more lighter colors, for example the colors in the Twitter feed.

Is there a way to transfer ownership of a project to another team member ?

Not atm, can you message me directly?

Is there a section for people to request a project blog post?   For example, if someone is not sure what project they should work on next, they could check a list of requests from Hackaday visitors for things the visitors would like to see on the site.  Maybe the visitors could collectively donate an amount to come up with custom challenges in parallel with the Hackaday challenges.

Like a project bounty program?

I’ve never heard of that. After looking up the term, I would say yes. I’ll look into it more. Thanks!

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Edit: I didn’t find any project bounties directed to makers, but maybe you, or someone else, knows a keyword or website for that kind of thing.  I’m thinking it would be cool for site visitors to request fun or educational projects they would like someone to work on.  The idea is that someone would post an request for a project (likely to cost under $1000 to produce) and either ask for a bounty or not, and other visitors can further support a project request with more funding or upvotes.

there are a few wish lists that you can use for inspiration. eg 

https://hackaday.io/page/949-future-projects-wishlist 

https://hackaday.io/page/499-future-projects

I have one project - #3niti alpha 

https://hackaday.io/project/19989-3niti-alpha

It has 345 followers, but only 141 views - how it's even possible?...

probably through the auto-follow onboarding process where people get ask what they like and then click on certain projects to follow, without actually looking at it in detail, because they're still trying to get through the onboarding process.

I follow some projects directly from the feed. That probably doesn't generate a view.

interesting thing is that it's the only project from my other 15 that shows such thing - may be people like big digit 3 in orange circle and follow digits without looking? ;)

I’d like to propose an update for HaD.io projects and to HaD blog posts which would allow similar, or related, projects to be classified by the community, and eventually by algorithms; rather than just by project members. As an example, several motor projects that integrate coils into multilayer PCBs have been recently produced. If someone wants to develop, or iterate on, a design, it would be convenient for all such projects on HaD to be filtered in a search. The creator could add an existing classification tag for #motor and then create a tag for #PCBcoil. After this, a general HaD member can add their own tag to further categorize the type of motor as a #motor.stepper and #DC. The next part would take a more significant effort, but an algorithm can parse project descriptions and provide additional classification tags.Allow visitors to filter projects by the creator, member tags, or algorithm tags.

Thanks a classification algorithm sounds interesting. The search was recently updated to include components, it's not exactly what you're asking for but it's the first step https://hackaday.io/search?term=pcb&component=22pF%2520Capacitor

It already exist may be in a slightly different form than you expect.  It is called a "list".  There are projects grouped into: 3D printer, robotic, homebrew computer etc. 

can any HaD member, that isn’t a member of a project, add a tag to a project or blog post and can you use multiple classification tags at once in a search filter in order to narrow down the number of related projects?

I think only project members can add tags that visitors can select from a list.

May be you want to use google site:hackaday.io?

You have as much chance of finding stuff with the right keyword than random strangers that could use totally different tags than you would use to describe things.  :P

List are curated, so the classifications are uniform.  You would only need to nail it down further more if you have hundreds of entries in a list.  Look at your own example.  How many PCB motors are there?

BTW: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=PCB+motor+site%3Ahackaday.io&atb=v109-5_f&ia=web

I see your point.

I think allowing strangers to use completely different keywords and then using algorithms to link the keywords to other keywords would provide visitors ways to serendipitously stumble upon pages they normally wouldn’t have visited.

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Edit: @K.C. Lee Thank you for your reply. I'm not able to reply to your post below, so I'll reply here.

I agree, the community should only be able to add, not remove or change, tags to someone else's creation.  The creator's original tags can be listed separately from the community's amended/added tags, so that it's clear what the creator originally intended. Creators post creations on this site in order to share their creation with the community, and allowing the community to add tags that the creator didn't think to add can help others find the creator's project.

As a content provider, I have seriously issue if I don't have the editorial say on what is being tagged on ultimately **MY** creation and as such I do have the rights to tag my articles.  There are potential negative connotations or associations with letting someone else tag your content.

At most the readers can suggest additional tags, BUT it is ultimately MY rights to tag it.  Not your nor anyone else's right nor business.

That's what I think.  If that's implemented and I don't have the option to opt out, I think I'll delete all my contents.

Some of us don't like being tagged/labelled especially where we hang out..

Code snippet for C++ not handling multi-line comments correctly.  See 3rd code block vs 1st or 2nd. in my log.  The highlight is done incorrectly.

https://hackaday.io/project/158058-transistor-tester/log/146130-markus-firmware-customization

Thanks, probably will update the highlight library. It also looks like multiline section was classed as python instead of cpp.

I tried to change it to C++, but it just doesn't want to stay in C++.

The newer version is behaving better.

Still won't change to C++ for me.  The code doesn't understand lines are enclosed in multi-line comments.  End results are not much different.

Oh yeah sorry, I meant the new version 'will' work better. I'll see about getting in the next deployment.

I am adding another log and my first code snippet has the same type of multiline comment, but it shows up correctly.  It is not the multiline comment that caused the highlight issue. 

if you need more code snippets to debug, this seems broken too https://hackaday.io/project/158460-sound-button-hack/log/146415-arduino-code

Dear support, 

I would like to ask You a question. What about adding an option to unsubscribe from some contest? 

There is an option to add project into som list like "Hackaday 2018 price contest" But I didn't see any way to remove the project from list. Eg someone needs to fix a bug. So if it's not too late, it's fine to remove it before ending. 

Thank you

If you need this asap, change the project to private, save, and then back to public. Private setting will remove the project from current contests.

Nice trick!

Good to know, thank you. What about some likes/comments, will be removed in private mode? And also, will be available after bringing back to public?

I can check for you.

Hi Richard,

Did you have some time for testing?

Likes, comments, and follows are not removed. But while private it will only display likes, the others return when switched back to public.

Hi - inviting people to join a project from the project page seems buggy.  I find the person in search and try to add them but usually get the message "Something is wrong. Please try again."  Is there another way to adding people to a project?

Update: adding people from the "edit project" page seems to work better!

The map on the Hackerspaces page is completely unusable on mobile - it doesn't seem to support touch events. The only things that work are the buttons (zoom, etc.) but I can't even pan the map. I'd suggest using Leaflet for the map.

You're right, I like leaflet too its pretty light.

Also, LOGS view ought to list links to all logs as an Index so it's easy to jump to one particular log quickly without having to scroll through the logs.

Hey Anool, you can condense all of the logs and it becomes an index. There's an expand/ collapse button on the top right of the logs. 

Awesome! Just checked it out.

But you still don't get all the logs on the list then.