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Ember Leona wrote 10/15/2018 at 06:02

I like this site and the color theme. Thanks guys. I used to have a cool but but I lost that and my wallet and ID cards when I was put in a mental hospital recently.

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Al Williams wrote 10/12/2018 at 15:53

When you are working on instructions (probably other places too) and you select normal text and press Insert Code Snippet, it works like you think it would (that is, it picks up the text you selected). However, at the end you wind up with two copies of the code. A normal copy and the coded copy usually stuck in the middle somewhere.

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/12/2018 at 19:36

I see this happening and it may have been intended, there doesn't appear to be an easy way to undo or extract the code from the snippet. Will check some more, thanks.

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Al Williams wrote 10/14/2018 at 14:41

I could swear this didn't used to happen. The odd part is how it will put the snippet in the middle of the non-snippet. Like:

foo(bar);

[CODE SNIPPET starting with foo(bar) and ending with blah_blah_blah(); ]

blah_blah_blah();

I don't know if it is picking up some cursor position in the code block. It doesn't seem to follow any pattern. Most often there is exactly one line on top and the rest below, but I have seen it randomly have a different split as well.

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/14/2018 at 15:42

I agree it doesn't feel right.

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Kelly Heaton wrote 10/10/2018 at 01:29

I've had complaints from non-members that they can't read / follow my project without signing up for a Hackaday.io account... which is a disincentive for me to continue to publish my content here (since I will have to republish for non-members).

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WooDWorkeR wrote 10/10/2018 at 08:13

i can read your project just fine when i am logged out, but when i click the follow button of caue there is a login requirement because this is a platform specific action

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Dr. Cockroach wrote 10/10/2018 at 09:00

Same here, non-HaD members can see your project. Just not interact but simple enough to join :-)

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Kelly Heaton wrote 10/10/2018 at 13:04

Thanks for checking on this. The source of confusion is undoubtedly lack of technical savvy and/or fear of the unfamiliar. Maybe only members should see platform-specific options, while non-members see a different set of actions -- like "join Hackaday.io" to receive updates about this project, etc. Ultimately, the decision depends upon what Hackaday.io wants to be: a smaller community of technically-savvy people, or a larger tech content provider for a diverse audience.

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/10/2018 at 19:09

Do you share your profile https://hackaday.io/kellyheaton or a direct link to your project https://hackaday.io/project/161443-hacking-natures-musicians ? I noticed you have a lot of 'THINGS I'VE BUILT' entries, I wonder if they are confusing those for full projects.

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Kelly Heaton wrote 10/10/2018 at 19:11

I share a direct link to my project, "Hacking Nature's Musicians" : https://hackaday.io/project/161443-hacking-natures-musicians

The other stuff on my profile is just background information that is documented elsewhere on the web.

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Dave_ Z. wrote 10/09/2018 at 15:31

Spelling Check feature in English would be awesome, to stop copy pasting texts in Word for performing spell checks

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Jan wrote 10/09/2018 at 16:11

Your browser does that for you on text input fields! Its right click "check spelling" or something. You can add languages as you like (at least in Firefox/Vivaldi/I think Chrome too)...

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Mark Pickhard wrote 12/23/2018 at 13:47

Not all text input fields are checked. Mozilla Firefox only spell checks multi-line text fields, so I didn't notice some misspellings in my components list until I copied and pasted it into an office app. So it would be nice if Hackaday would change all single-line text fields to multi-line.

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davedarko wrote 10/06/2018 at 09:39

Was / is anyone elses feed counter broken?

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Jan wrote 10/09/2018 at 16:19

Yepp. No red notifiers for days. Not that I care but: broken :)

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/09/2018 at 18:30

Checking into this.

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/09/2018 at 22:20

It should be counting feeds again :)

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davedarko wrote 10/09/2018 at 22:24

yay :) I see a number!

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Jan wrote 10/10/2018 at 08:17

Works again. Thanks!

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Hexabitz wrote 09/28/2018 at 18:14

Hey guys.. What's the story with images disappearing? I have multiple images dissapaearing from few projects? How do we get them back? Thanks!

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Richard Hogben wrote 09/28/2018 at 19:03

It shouldn't be happening. I've sent you a PM.

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davedarko wrote 09/04/2018 at 09:22

would be cool to get a link to a comment. I wanted to share a response on twitter, but was only able to share the link to the project.

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Clara Hobbs wrote 09/04/2018 at 12:30

You can get links to comments. The "3 hours ago" is the link, e.g. https://hackaday.io/project/37-feedback-hackadayio/discussion-113041 for your comment that I'm replying to. For some reason it isn't a link in the feed though, just on the actual project page.

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davedarko wrote 09/04/2018 at 17:16

oh neat, thanks @Clayton G. Hobbs - wasn't aware of that :D

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Richard Hogben wrote 09/04/2018 at 16:18

Yeah it's not easy to find, a 'More' menu for each comment could fill that role. I'll make a note.

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f4hdk wrote 08/26/2018 at 06:45

About notification : I think that there is no e-mail notification when someone writes a comment to a "blog post" inside one of my project. On "account settings / notifications", I don't see anythink like that.

If it is correct, could you please add this feature?

Thank you.

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Richard Hogben wrote 08/30/2018 at 22:51

You may be right, I'm not sure if there is a notification email for a comment to a blog post yet.

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kelster101757 wrote 08/25/2018 at 22:28

i dont like that i have to sign in to the view the site on my mobile or my laptop. Sometimes i just want to browse without logging in and having the annoying signup page. yeah have the sign up page but have it more discrete, you'll get more visitors

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Richard Hogben wrote 08/30/2018 at 22:50

You aren't required to sign in to browse projects or other public pages. Is there a signup covering something you are trying to look at? https://hackaday.io/projects or https://hackaday.io/project/37-feedback-hackadayio

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Dave's Dev Lab wrote 08/20/2018 at 17:34

it would be nice if hackaday.io offered the ability to use custom URLs and/or Domain names for project and profile pages.

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dust wrote 08/15/2018 at 14:26

I joined a month ago. I followed exactly two projects. Log in this morning, suddenly I'm somehow following 100+ projects and 100+ people -- which I never did myself. Spent 30 mins unfollowing all the crap, but if it happens again will be deleting my account.

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Richard Hogben wrote 08/15/2018 at 19:33

If you have a problem with your account PM me and I can help get it resolved.

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dust wrote 08/15/2018 at 20:23

thank you sir. will do.

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f4hdk wrote 08/26/2018 at 19:16

+1 same problem here. I needed to "unfollow" lots of projects and lots of users, that I have never ever selected myself.

It seems that lots of accounts receive unfair "following". It's very easy to see that : some users have more than 10 000 followers with almost no contribution.

There is a bug? Or the database has been hacked?

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davedarko wrote 09/04/2018 at 09:25

I always thought that my followers come from that "onboarding" process, where you click yes or no if you like something and through that you follow stuff. Even worse when it happens without you "choosing" something.

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Richard Hogben wrote 09/04/2018 at 17:51

Onboarding does have a link to show a page of projects/people that will follow, and can be unfollowed before continuing.

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f4hdk wrote 09/05/2018 at 05:08

@Richard Hogben @davedarko

I have just tested once again the "onboarding process" with a fake account that I will delete in a few days. OK, with my "interests", it has selected less than 10 projects, and not a single person.

It is not comparable with the dozens of people and dozens of projects that I was following on my real account, and which I had never ever selected!

I think that there is a very big problem. If thousands of accounts are forced to follow and forced to "like" people they have never selected, hackaday should treat this issue with high priority.

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Richard Hogben wrote 09/05/2018 at 10:17

I'll PM you to look into it further

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deʃhipu wrote 08/14/2018 at 18:06

When I type "micro:gamer" into the search box, I get "0 Results for "micro:gamer"", however, there is this project #Micro:Gamer right there...

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Richard Hogben wrote 08/14/2018 at 18:15

Yeah looks like the colon is throwing it off

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Paul Larson wrote 08/14/2018 at 04:29

Not sure if anyone else has this issue, but for some unknown period of time I've stopped receiving email updates for project posts/messages. Is this a known bug?

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Lutetium wrote 08/14/2018 at 11:40

Hi @Paul Larson! I'm getting email updates. You can manage your email notifications from here: https://hackaday.io/settings. Be aware that you can get maximum 1 email per hour. Please let us know if the problem persists. Thanks!

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Paul Larson wrote 08/14/2018 at 13:26

Thanks! I actually went to that page yesterday and resaved everything (it was all selected)

I did get an email about you comment though, so I seem to have my issues resolved!

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Richard Hogben wrote 08/09/2018 at 18:03

That could be a thing. I haven't seen them on other editorial/news websites. Seems like everyone decided on share + comment. Anyone know why?

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K.C. Lee wrote 08/10/2018 at 12:32

@Vije Miller

> (upvotes .. think Imgur/Reddit) work

See https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2012/4-27/6b1ZAEjBEH-2.png for how it actually "works" in real life.

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Richard Hogben wrote 08/10/2018 at 13:55

Imgur and Reddit are social aggregation sites.

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Clara Hobbs wrote 08/10/2018 at 00:01

Please no.

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Clara Hobbs wrote 08/10/2018 at 02:46

People like voting—it helps us waste time on the Internet. It's evil psychology at its finest.

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K.C. Lee wrote 08/10/2018 at 12:38

People deserve whatever they voted for. See US.

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Charles Lamb wrote 08/09/2018 at 08:58

Hello. Just started using Hackaday for projects and finding it easy and fun to use. Thanks!

My few small suggestions are to consider:

- adding the option to add alt-text to images for improved web accessibility

- adding an image-attribution option (e.g., 'Image by [John/Jane Doe]' *) plus some way of indicating the licence under which it is being reproduced

- adding an optional overlaying of text for images in the image gallery (e.g., 'Here is my first prototype in all its glory')

- adding support to the project description box for rich text (bold, italics, and underlines) and hyperlinks

* Where the square brackets indicate a link.

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Richard Hogben wrote 08/09/2018 at 17:48

Thanks, good ideas to improve on images. It's a little hard to find, but if you select an image in the editor a small 'edit' button appears, its modal has a title input which populates the alt and title tag.

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Charles Lamb wrote 08/10/2018 at 02:05

Great, thanks!

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Alexander wrote 07/30/2018 at 03:50

The text editor needs some serious love and attention. Now that I am tackling a larger writing project inside the editor, I've uncovered a few areas to improve upon.

A huge one would be auto-save. I lost over 3 hours of work because my browser crashed last night. Also, supporting a standard like Markdown would make everything so much easier. That way, the user could edit their text in any text editor, and then just copy-paste it into the Hackaday editor.

Another mild annoyance is the editor's insistence on making anything with a .py extension into a hyperlink. I'm not sure why it does this, I think it should look for https:// before autolinking. If not, then at least exclude the common file endings, .rb, .c, .py, etc.

Finally, when you switch back and forth between viewing HTML and viewing the rendered text, it likes to insert four newlines between each paragraph in the HTML view. This doesn't affect the output but it makes it so frustrating for perfectionists like me that want the HTML view to be nice and neat. Plus, on larger text files like what I am working on, it takes forever to scroll from the top to the bottom and vice versa. After a few switches back and forth, you end up with a giant mess like this: https://0x0.st/sWTI.png

To get around the auto-save debacle, I started writing in emacs in Markdown. I would then export this to html and then paste that into the HTML view. It actually works pretty well, but instead of using <pre> for code, it uses <code> by default. This does work in the editor, but longer lines run off the side of the screen instead of wrapping.

I've also heard about the mysterious disappearing images. Frankly, it might just be aliens, in which case there's not a lot you can do. I suppose the entire site could be converted to text only? That would thwart their dastardly plans!

I hope this feedback is of some use! As I spend more time with the editor I will be sure to update my ideas.

EDIT: I just remembered something else. It would be *awesome* if we could embed GitLab snippets into the text. It's just a <script> tag. I tried to add it to the HTML but it was stripped (I'm assuming so users can't run arbitrary scripts!). I know other WYSIWYG editors I've used have an insert GitHub Gist button, so there must be a way to do it without allowing users to insert script tags.

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Jan wrote 07/30/2018 at 10:14

Thanks for bringing these up again + the new feature requests like auto-save. The image and html bug were reported numerous times. Doesn't seem like the editor is all that important to the staff :(
It's by far the most buggy piece of software @ hackaday.io. Constant source of annoying bugs which make it really cumbersome to publish (bigger) projects!

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K.C. Lee wrote 07/31/2018 at 10:47

>were reported numerous times. Doesn't seem like the editor is all that important to the staff :(

A business that focuses on hosting have to take that kind of issues seriously or it would lose its content producers. That was a big part why I move my hosting among other reasons. I had reported multiples SPAM daily here over a 2 years time frame - they won't even try to incorporate some open source scripts that was available. I shouldn't be doing their work unpaid. Go back and read my pleas here if you don't believe it.

My new host haven't deleted pictures by accident, haven't deleted first character etc. I have done 96 new posts on new site so far, so I would notice. By the way these bugs weren't here in the old days. They were self-inflicted because of code tinkering. New features - resources for QA/fixing things = more bugs

l get to pick the styles. i.e. fonts, colours, who gets to comment, site stats etc. Autosave works - I closed browser window and it was saved as draft,

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Richard Hogben wrote 07/30/2018 at 16:59

Thanks, keep the feedback coming, the editor is definitely an important part of the site.

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Alexander wrote 07/31/2018 at 06:48

Why not switch to something like Quill or Summernote? Or even https://github.com/benweet/stackedit which uses the same version of Markdown as Stack Overflow? There are myriad options out there. No need to build it yourself when there are so many amazing, drop-in solutions for free!

Just realized stackedit supports UML diagrams... plus in-line LaTeX... *drools*

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lialakyky wrote 07/27/2018 at 16:30

Thanks again

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Marcin Wachowiak wrote 07/27/2018 at 14:16

Is there an easy way to align or justify the text while publishing something in the project?

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Richard Hogben wrote 07/27/2018 at 14:38

There isn't, do you have an example of how you want the text laid out?

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Marcin Wachowiak wrote 07/27/2018 at 14:57

Just justified on the project log so that short words aren't left at the edge. I'll manage somehow.

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fabian wrote 07/27/2018 at 14:39

nie da się

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Marcin Wachowiak wrote 07/27/2018 at 14:55

kurczę szkoda ._.

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Rudolph wrote 07/26/2018 at 06:08

Dearest HaD powers that be,

I am on a mission to try to further lock down accounts that are important to me. Therefore I would like to ask for two-factor authentication to be made available on hackaday.io. Pretty please, at least the ability to use a TOTP authenticator app (e.g. Google Authenticator, Authy). Pretty please with chocolate fudge and cherries on top, FIDO U2F (e.g. YubiKey, Feitian ePass) in addition to TOTP, not instead of. And double plus please, with double plus fudge, in a bowl hand-made from a cherry tree, for the love of all that is holy and actually secure, not SMS!

Love and mostly-platonic kisses,
Rudolph

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Alexander wrote 07/30/2018 at 03:52

Yes, yes, yes! All modern websites that have user account absolutely need to implement 2FA. Most 2FA implementations make it fairly painless to add, although with hackaday's large user base, maybe it will take a bit more time & ironing out kinks. But I vote this up x100000.

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K.C. Lee wrote 07/20/2018 at 19:21

My links (normal format) above Heading 2 shows up formatted as Heading 2. They show up normally in the editor. Adding an extra line in between doesn't help.

https://hackaday.io/project/28583/details/

Links affected: (towards the bottom of the page)

AN2606 Application note STM32 microcontroller system memory boot mode
ST's Bootloader program page

Chrome 67.0.3396.99 (Official Build) (64-bit) Win7 X64. Same problem in Opera.

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Richard Hogben wrote 07/20/2018 at 20:12

Thanks, the cascade looks different from the editor to the page. Just to confirm you don't want that link as heading 2?

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K.C. Lee wrote 07/20/2018 at 20:35

I want the links as Normal Text. I went in, highlight the links and select normal text, but yet the H2 tags are not removed.

<h2><p><a href="http://www.st.com/web/en/resource/technical/document/application_note/CD00167594.pdf">AN2606 Application note STM32 microcontroller system memory boot mode<br></a><a href="http://www2.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/development-tools/software-development-tools/stm32-software-development-tools/stm32-programmers/flasher-stm32.html">ST's Bootloader program page</a></p>Libraries that needed to be ported/written</h2>

I supposed that I could go in and fix the html, but it is a bug that you should be aware of. (html fixed manually now)

One thing about is that I copy and paste the links from another project and it was formatted as normal text.

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