Add option to the sort dropdown for "random" to help discover more projects.

Interesting idea. You don't find new or recently updated a good way to find new projects?

I should have clarified: "re"discover old projects : )  I guess if they're not recently updated or highly skulled, they're probably not that interesting (or died early).

Okay, yeah, so you're going to have to add a link to 'account settings' somewhere on this website. It is completely inaccessible from the main site. I had to return to the spam email you sent me to find a link to it, that is not okay.

For anyone else who has this problem, http://hackaday.io/settings is the link. You really can't get there through this website, unless it's just very well hidden. In which case, *it shouldn't be.* I have no idea what 'Lists' or 'Stack' are supposed to be, and I really don't care - but there ABSOLUTELY should be a link to account settings up there.

"Send me emails when..." should all default to 'no', also. The default is currently 'yes, receive all emails', which is backwards and really obnoxious.

First: I don't work for Hackaday, so these are just my opinions and suggestions.

1. It's not hidden at all. If you have a screen of normal desktop width, point to your picture at the top right (just to the right of the feed and messages icons). That will produce a menu; click "edit my account" or "edit my profile" depending on which settings you want. If you have a narrow screen, you'll see a "Menu" button at the top right instead of the individual icons. Click that and look near the bottom for the same settings links. (If that doesn't work, make sure JavaScript is enabled. The normal-width-screen version works without JS enabled.)

2. Lists are these; Stack is this.

3. The rationale for having emails on by default might be that lots of people sign up just to follow a single project's progress—this is the case with #PortableSDR, for example. Those people aren't going to check the site often, so emails work better for them. And because they don't visit the site often, they might not realize they can turn emails on. People who are on the site more, and so don't need the emails (because they use the feed), are more likely to go through the settings, and turn emails off.

Please add an 'unsubscribe' button to your emails, I really don't appreciate having to log in to this website to stop receiving them. And I've been looking for a few minutes, but don't see any link to where I might be able to unsubscribe.

This should be an extremely simple process, you are just pissing people off as they attempt to walk out the door. That isn't a good thing to do.

Hello carbohydrates, you are right. It's been highlighted recently that the 'update subscription preferences' or 'unsubscribe' links on the emails link to the signin page when you are not logged in. We're sorry this has caused frustration. We'll look into making it easier.

I think @PointyOintment has kindly pointed out in your other comment how to get to account settings. Let me know us know if you have any other questions.

Great idea, could help with some polish though. How do I see what and who do I follow? I was asked to follow 3 projects (out of single page of choices) and 3 fellow hackers (again, single page). Now I want to unfollow these to replace with more meaningful choices, but I can't see option to see list of projects and hackers that I did follow ouf of persuasion. There is the feed, but it does not have them all, instead it seems to be containing site development news???

On your profile, look in the "Projects I Like & Follow" section for projects (though it doesn't provide separate lists for skulled vs. followed), and click on the number below "Following" below your profile picture for hackers.

Thanks! That does it at least for the projects. Will search more for followed people.

Right here, as I said in my previous comment.

I still cant edit my profile. Still get 502 Bad Gateway when I click save no matter what browser I use.

Oh no. Sorry. We'll take another look.

Can you make the "Blog" link actually link to the blog

Ah yes. We didn't update it after the Hackaday.com redesign. I'll get that sorted now. Cheers.

I've listed other folks on projects as collaborators, but I'm not sure how the function really works. Any way to set up a project so that multiple collaborators can add project logs or contribute to content, or is it always tied with one profile?

Hello Zakqwy,

if you add people as collaborators they should be able to edit details, and add logs or instructions. They can't add other collaborators or edit the project description, only the project owner can do that.

You can add collaborators when you set up the project, or by using the 'Edit project' link at the top of the project page when you are logged in.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Jasmine

That's awesome! Thanks Jasmine!

signing in, completing a profile is frustrating and doesn't work!

I've tried having you "reset" my password, in the end I had to sign in using twitter.

Creating a profile was bullshit, it kept telling me a URL wasn't valid, just not which one!

Hello Andrew, I'll PM you to get more details.

resolution issue, when viewing with a 1080x2560 resolution (as in 2560X1080 turned sideways), the images on project pages don't look right

I understand this is an exotic resolution, just informing you in case this wasn't known

Hey Rjpope42, have you got a screenshot? Thanks.

sure, whats the best way to get it to you?

I've PMed you.

It would be useful to upload small lightweight files in the project page such as source code, cad drawing PDF of the circuit board, etc...

Unfortunately we don't have that at the moment. Many people use github and link to that. You can put code examples in the project logs. Would be nice to have it all in one place though.

Is there any way to prevent the comments from flooding My Feed?

Sorry, not at the moment. If you follow someone or a project, you get the comments.

You can prevent comments from *appearing* in your feed by setting them to invisible with a CSS rule. (Use Stylish or an equivalent extension to apply your own CSS styles to the site.) However, this will not actually remove them, only hide them, so pagination (which is server-side) will still be done with them included, resulting in a variable number of entries per feed page. I did this for "so-and-so followed…" entries ages ago, though I think those have since been actually removed from the feed.

That's ingenious. btw - we are going to implement feed settings soon, so you won't need to do that for much longer.

I'll let the devs know. Thanks.

could also be related that I've used up my highspeed web on my phone and have the crappiest download rate now.

new idea :) a site where only pages from every hacker will be shown, this way you'll get an inofficial projects blog. +1 anyone?

+1 (I should write ++ instead)

When I receive notification "X has updated the project titled Y", sometimes I have absolutely no idea what changed, because it looks the same as before. However, the user might changed some very important detail (correcting some tiny, but important typo) and this change is almost invisible. Honestly, I have no idea how it could be done, but highlighting (or at least listing of) the changes would be fine.

i completely ignore these updates in my feed now.. if it really is important it should be a new changelog log.

Hm, option to add changelog would be nice. Just a message to be shown in followers feed. Or, possibility to exclude the change from feed. Sometimes, when correcting typos I don't want to flood the followers feeds.

That would be really nice. I think a system similar to that of MediaWiki (the software that powers Wikipedia et al) would be great: It allows you to both enter an edit summary that shows up in article history, Recent Changes (equivalent to the global feed here), and watchlists (equivalent to personal feeds) and optionally mark your edit as a "minor edit", in which case it won't appear for people who've chosen to not see minor edits. And for any edit, you can look at how the page looked before, how it looked after, and the diff.

Is there a way to add a check list in a project. I see there is list and table, but I would like to keep track of where I am at on a project with a checklist. Or is there another method I should try to use?

Hey willbaden, sorry we haven't got a checklist feature. Interesting idea. Thanks for bringing it up.

Would anyone else find a checklist useful? If so please let us know.

cool feature to hold some thoughts to show that there is more planned and what was achieved until yet. I like it :)

Todo or milestones in a treeview format would be neat.

Something like that'd be cool... the whole "Is this project complete" system seems a bit limiting/presumptuous. Maybe make that more-fluid...? (but even a scale-of-completeness is still a bit presumptuous).

I don't think I'd, personally, use something *too* sophisticated, like a Gantt Chart... but Todo/Todone checklists might be handy...

Sorta-Related, it'd be nice if there was a more-reliable method for entering fixed-width ascii-type stuff; art, code, tables, as well as custom-formatted lists, etc. 80-columns should fit on dang-near any screen/window-size these days without wrapping. Couple that with the ability to add custom-fields (rather than just Description, Details, Instructions, etc.) and life might become a heck of a lot easier for the web-dev. ;) Leave the "read-more" feature, and we could make intricate tables/lists stand-out with explanations/details for those that're interested...

As a workaround, you could put Unicode checkbox symbols at the beginning of the lines of your list.

hmmmm. . . not sure how to use this. I can find the unicode, but how do I make the project text editor recognize this.

I had two accounts. Deleted one, but the other still won't let me grab my username - hasn't been freed up by deleting the account

I'll PM you to get more details!

The same thing happened to me! I accidentally made a new account and set my username on that one without realizing that I had originally logged in via Twitter.

Hey Evan. PM me with the username and the details of the the account you'd like to keep and the one which is the duplicate.

If this has happened to anyone else, you can also PM me with those details. Cheers.

For the Hackerspaces section, I suggest using information from http://hackerspaces.org

Hello Nick, each of the hackerpaces pages on hackaday.io have been created by members. We're contacting more hackerspaces and inviting them to join. Hackerspaces.org is a great resource.

How do I join a hackerspace on here? I've followed mine (#1768 Calgary Protospace Ltd.) but I didn't see a join button.

[bug] [project pictures]

Some project pictures aren't showing up for me. For example, on #my very first binary-clock, the first picture shows up in All Projects and on the project page, but the 2nd to 4th images don't show up. If I point to their thumbnails, I can see them using Imagus, but they're just fully transparent on the page. This is also occurring for both images of #Ultrasonic Distance Measurement NRF905 Transmissio and the one image of #Motorcycle Garage Door Opener. Both of those also have plain gray images in All Projects, like the skull placeholder image, but just flat gray. Refreshing or closing and reopening has no apparent effect on this.

Chrome 39.0.2171.99 on OS X 10.9.5.

Also, thanks for enabling link editing in comments and feed notification for replies on unfollowed projects!

Chrome 39.0.2171.99 on OSX 10.8.5 - same here, basically. Gray pictures everywhere.

I've been told that this has been fixed now. All the images seem to be there. Thanks for letting us know!

I can confirm that those are fixed. Today, though, I'm seeing more blank images in All Projects only, which never finishes loading. If I open the project pages, the images work fine there. Affected projects: everything between #IPad Mini retina screen to Oculus Rift and #Nexus 7 (2013) In-Dash Install (inclusive) as well as #Anyfesto.

[question] [usernames]

This "Get your Hackaday.io username" banner… does that just add another URL by which my profile is accessible, or does it change my username as displayed on projects and comments? Just curious; I'm planning to use the same username I'm already using.

Your name and your username is different. Username is for the Vanity URL (Get your Hackaday Username), your name is what's displayed on the project or comments. You can change your name whenever you want. You can change your username once.

Okay, that makes sense. I tried to set my username to 'i' but it gave the error message "Sorry, usernames can only contain alphanumeric characters." Isn't 'i' alphanumeric? And I did think that maybe the real problem is that it's only one character long, but 'e' is a valid username.

I vote to add a notification setting to be updated via email for changes/updates to projects I am following. For those who follow a ton of projects, it might be nice to also have the option to just get a weekly digest of project changes. Obviously this would be an opt-in setting. I say this because I have friends/family who created a projects account just to follow my project, but they don't get any updates whatsoever when I update the project (people who aren't project creators are not going to log very often to read their feed). Is this something you guys would consider?

a weekly report instead of the once in a while "you got a skull" mail would be cool. Like "you've received 5 skulls, 7followers and blabla..." and here are the links and previews to updates of the projects you are following. Leave out comments and messages maybe, because they are thought to be responded fast, unlike articles one can read later. This can all be automated and some 'maybe you're also interested in this projects' or the hacklet can be added. But than again everyone screams "but I don't want the hacklet as a mail, I've already read it on the blog and projects". Anyway +skull

I like your additions. I think the option for daily updates on projects you are following would be awesome so that your project could almost act as a mini blog for those who want to follow it closely but don't necessarily look at HAD projects that often.