Could the feed selector (My Feed/Global Feed) be moved to the top of the left content column please? Reason is if viewing the feed on a phone, the columns are stacked and the selector is halfway down the page and you have to scroll past everything in My Feed.

Sure I'll see if it can go in the next release.

Great I see it's been implemented. No more long scrolling down the feed page on a mobile now. Thanks.

oerm, please check the lovely comment section, not going to report them all
https://hackaday.io/project/9017-skywalker-lightsaber/log/72354-adafruit-trinket-m0-controlling-the-onboard-dotstar-led-via-arduino-ide

probably would have seen this earlier, if there was a "just me and my projects" - feed :p

It's always better to have both Norton and McAfee
q-;

is windows defender availabe for mac? I'd rather be triple safe

Bug report: When I enter an equation into a project log, the equation always shows up at the very top of the text, regardless of the cursor position. Highlighting the formula and copy-paste does not work, so it is really painful to work with those beautiful LaTex style formulas.

I'll ask about the insert position, but copy paste should work, the formula is an image. If all else fails it can be moved in html view.

Also we are taking a look at a new equation editor that is svg based instead of images.

I'll send you a pm so see whats going on. 

The photo is probably rotated via the EXIF data. For example iPhone always saves photos in landscape mode, but if it detect the phone is in portrait mode, it simple adds a EXIF "flag" to indicate that the image needs to be rotated by 90 degrees. Most browsers and photo viewer/editor nowadays can handle this, but some don't. That's when you get these weird effects/errors.

I wondered why people followed my completed projects when there won't be any updates. Then I realised they clicked on Follow without noting the status. I don't know what the solution is. Maybe make Completed more visible near the Follow button?

they could come from the onboarding process and didn't check / read your project, iirc

To me the fact that a project is completed doesn't necessarily mean that there won't be updates. You might add better photos, you might start selling kits, you might have it break and in need of fixing, you might decide to improve it...

I think it's more likely they think it's like FB.

I can only speak for myself, of course. In any case, more followers for you!

I am relatively new here, but I am clicking "Follow" on projects that I am interested in and want to come back to go over in more detail later. Whether or not there are future updates coming is largely irrelevant - I am just Following interesting projects and Liking only those projects that I really do like. So I'm using Follow as a kind of bookmark for some projects. Is this wrong? ;^)

Ok that's a reasonable case. I'm concerned for the people who think they might receive more chapters to my stories. They'll be waiting in vain. ;) If there are any major revisions, I'd probably call it a new project or post an announcement to .stack.

I do agree that the project status should be made more prominent though - especially for newbies seeing projects in the "Projects You May Like" area of their feed. (Of course, that hinges on people updating their project status diligently...)

If we follow you must update

After looking at the relay clock project, and trying to read the code examples and schematics, I gave up.  Dark red, dark grey and dark blue on a black background is not conducive to reading. I tried Firefox and IE, both give me difficult-to-read images. 

There's also a bunch of boilerplate links at the bottom of most pages that appear in grey-on-black.  Can this be fixed (i.e. made more legible)?  The black background is edgy, but dark-on-dark is a showstopper.

Can you link to a code example? The code editor colors could be improved, but if it's a user created schematic you could message the owner for maybe a higher contrast example?

Here's the schematic:

https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/7067611463572657501.png

and this is the page - on my Linux system it comes up grey links @ the bottom on a darker grey background:

https://hackaday.io/project/8683/logs

My Win10 system at work is darker -- even worse.  Team names (I notice they highlight when you hover over them, but if you don't know what they say because you can't read them, hovering over each one is a pain.  I'm not asking for black on white, but a bit more contrast would be nice.

Thanks for the quick reply!

It is a user created schematic image I would just PM them and ask maybe they have another version. As to the low contrast links I'll check in with the other devs, thanks!

The schematic is a PNG so user generated content. I find it unreadable too. I had to use GIMP to replace all black with something light to view it. Tell the author. Hmm, maybe some people take night mode too seriously. :)

Thanks, Ken -- I thought it was some formatting you guys had done to match the theme.  I've posted a comment.  Editing the schematic was above and beyond!

Well I'm just another user like you, not one of the site guys.

Can I change my account from being OAuth-based to password-based? I don't see any flows to do so. Changing password requires a current password even though there's a button to authenticate with GitHub (which just takes me back to my feed after authenticating, so why is it there?). I can't delete my account to start over either, because I need a password or to authenticate with GitHub and the latter redirects to my feed immediately after authenticating.

If your email address is current you can set a new password here https://hackaday.io/forgotpass

Let me know if you need more help.

Fixed, thanks!

How can I update my email address at Hackaday.io? I use Github authentication and I have changed my email address at Github, but it seems Hackaday hasn't tracked that. I go to Edit My Account and try to change the address, but of course Hackaday doesn't have my password so it's always wrong.

I'll PM you to get this fixed

I'm experiencing what sounds like this exact same bug in trying to update instructions.  In my case, I want to enter my first instruction but can't.  Just noticed the same javascript:void(0) text for the big button that doesn't do anything.  A few days ago I had a similar issue with adding photos.  Tried different browsers / days back then with no solution, then tried again a day or two later and it worked.  My guess is an intermittent issue somewhere on Hackaday's end.  Oh the joy of debugging intermittent issues -- good luck!

Thanks let us know if you see it happen again.

It still doesn't work for Build Instructions for my project at https://hackaday.io/project/162878-discontinuity-continuity-tester .  The "Add another step" button points to javascript:void(0).

The void link is supposed to be there. Do you know how to check the console in chrome/firefox/safari for errors? https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/9850951546026493624.png
Could also try clearing the files cache for hackaday.io.

I usually use Firefox, but it behaves the same in Chrome on a different PC with no obvious errors.  There is also no "Enter instruction title" or "Enter instruction description" for me, just a short horizontal rule between the project name and the "Add another step" button.  The webpage source code for this button is:

<input type="hidden" name="isPrivate" value="false" /> <a href="javascript:void(0)" class="gold-gold-button components-button show" id="add-instruction"> Add another step </a>

Everything else on the page works AFAIK, just no place to enter instructions and a nonfunctional add-step button.

I'm experiencing a bug in the Instructions page.  I wrote up about half of the instructions a couple months ago (https://hackaday.io/project/106885/instructions) and now wanted to come back and finish adding the last steps.   However, clicking the "Add another step" button does nothing (except a little javascript:void(0) text appears on the bottom left of the screen).  I get the same behavior with Chrome and Firefox.

Is it stuck at step 9?

Yup

Im trying to reproduce the behavior, is it just this one project, can you add instructions and steps to another project?

Thanks!  It works now on that and other projects.  So the problem seems to have resolved, did you change something?  Thanks again!

Nope may have just been a connection issue, glad it's working again.

I changed my avatar picture some time ago (about two weeks), but the old one is still hosted on cdn.hackaday.io. Will it eventually be removed?

I'll check for you.

Thanks someone will look into this.

I'm still not getting notifications properly... They do turn up in the feed, but the emails are dodgy and the ticker top of page plain doesnt work, reads zero most of the time unless I'm watching it...

I have another suggestion though. In the Feed, when someone comments on your stuff you get a reply banner with a button so you can comment back. It would be really nice to have this same banner in a Like or Follow in the feed so I can say thankyou without leaving the Feed. I dont like opening up new tabs with HaD in them, more than two or three, and hotmail, and I run out of memory for starters. And clicking out and back into the feed is unreliable.

Hi. I don't think the tab order on the log-in screen should be username -> stay logged in checkbox -> password. On most websites I use, it's username -> password -> submit / sometimes checkbox.

You're right it should be, thanks.

I rarely get e-mail notifications for project page comments. It's been months since I first reported this. Do you guys have a plan to fix it? I almost regret creating my project page here.

As far as I can tell this is because of the Hackaday.io one email per hour limit across all notifications. It's not currently the best solution and we are working to make notifications better. These could come in the form of improvements to the feed or a secondary notification area for example.

Hi! For a week or two now, I've been getting double the email notifications on likes/follows =D For the record, I'm quite happy that I do get them, and I do hope the behaviour changes I'm seeing are related to us maybe getting more reliable notifications - a long-standing problem of mine. The emails I'm getting seem to really be two emails that are sent separately (and not just a screwup on my email provider's part):

Email 1: https://bpaste.net/show/94fd7605baeb

Email 2: https://bpaste.net/show/79f53e2bf421

Cheers!

Thanks, we'll check it out.

aaand 1) I didn't get a notification for this reply 2) I still get double the messages. =( =D

I also get double emails for likes and follows...

Jepp. Something's fishy here...

still getting double notifications?

Ars: apparently not on this one. There is hope, then :-)

+1, i'm getting that too

Still double notifications. Is there a workaround besides disabling notifications altogether?

I wouldn't go as far as disabling them, notifications are great *when you get them*. I ignore it for now, but do hope it will get fixed eventually (and we'll get *all the notifications*, maybe?)

I am also getting double emails for comment/like/follow notifications. It started happening after I changed my email address, though that could just be a coincidence. 

The 2x like/follow email issue should be resolved. Thanks again.

Got an email notification - only one! Thank you very much, hopefully there will soon be a solution to the missing notification problem, too ;-P Maybe add a checkbox to filter out notifications about project likes or something, it will probably still be under "1 per hour" limit 99% of the time, but creators interested in addressing feedback ASAP will finally get a solution (even a half-working one), and HaD might then become a little more engaging for new users as a result.

EDIT: OH WAIT IT'S ALREADY IN SETTINGS VERY SORRY ABOUT THAT =D

hey, so if we disable like/follow notifications, will we actually have a higher chance of getting the useful ones? (maybe we could have some kind of QoS by default?)

I still get 2x notifications... Maybe it will fade away tomorrow ?

Can confirm. Thanks! 

Hackaday is great, but please improve the image handling. The current way to just crop whatever image there is to square is just ugly. And I notice that even if I create a squared image it still gets cropped at the top and bottom. I would really appreciate if images would be scaled to fit the given space instead.

It's not just that. Adding a few images with descriptions in a row (in a log entry) often just makes it impossible to get the cursor under that last image to add new text.

Deleting that empty line with BACKSPACE between an image and text? Nope, deletes the image. Using DEL to delete the line? Yeah, maybe. Most of the time also deletes the last image.

And so on. Brought up sooooo many times. Nothings happening. Only reason I stick to this place is the awesome community and projects. The editor is a pile of you know what I mean.

Switching to html mode to get more possibilities editing your entry?! Editor adds a hundred empty lines... Also mentioned a few times.

This is not bound to a special browser. Chrome, Firefox, ... all the same mess.

Enjoying hackaday, thanks. How come the thumbnail photo for one of my projects on my projects page, and also on the gallery of the project didn't update even after I uploaded a background photo? It's still showing Photo Coming Soon after a couple of days. There are also a couple of photos in the gallery already. The problematic project is https://hackaday.io/project/161909-8042-clock

Hey @Ken Yap the background photo is separate, if you edit the project you can upload photos in the left column. The first position is the project thumbnail.

Thanks!

On the FPGA bootcamps we use Verilog which isn't a choice in the code snippet window. I get that it isn't the usual case to stop the auto detection so I won't complain about that (much). However, it would be nice to give us an option to set a color for unformatted boxes. As it is all the code is gray (with apologies to the Mama's and the Papa's) and it is kind of hard to read. Any chance of being able to set that? I would question if it ought to be global but if not, at least per project or something?

So more contrast between the unformatted text and dark background color? I'll ask what we can tweak there.

Yes. Thanks.