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Matthew Borgatti wrote 10/25/2015 at 18:21

I am not able to unsubscribe from the hacker channel (they one you're required to sign up for to participate in HAD contest chat) and unable to unsubscribe from emails generated when someone mentions the channel. There seem to be features all over hackaday.io that, once done, cannot be undone.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 10/26/2015 at 19:44

Hello Matthew, can you see 'leave project' next to your name in the team list of the project page: https://hackaday.io/project/5373-hacker-channel ? Let us know what other features you can't undo. We have a list we're working through. Thanks!

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Jonathan Beri wrote 10/25/2015 at 16:56

Also on editing - being able to manually edit the HTML output would help with wonky formatting.

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 10/25/2015 at 18:40

yes, editing can be a pita sometimes. just typing a hashtag sign can insert a hacker channel reference that warns everybody... some other bugs : under certain conditions (editing a log ?), typing a space creates a new paragraph and all the formatting is broken from there on.

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Jonathan Beri wrote 10/25/2015 at 16:21

Markdown support would be lovely.

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 10/25/2015 at 16:19

Feature request : provide a button (in https://hackaday.io/settings ?) so each user can save and backup their own contents.
Something like this exists in facebook (though it's rarely used).
After pressing the button, when the servers are not too loaded, they collect all the texts, images, log entries, and assemble them in a .ZIP or .TGZ. For example, one log per directory... The server then sends a message in the internal chat system with a link to the file for download.

Recovery / restoration of these data is another matter but at least, data can be safe, it's half the work.

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jaromir.sukuba wrote 10/26/2015 at 09:02

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 11/10/2015 at 02:15

One of my projects is exploding, I would have to write a script to scan the list of pages and wget them, but pictures would be lost... Please let me save this precious work, "IT problems" happen to everybody so let me have a backup ;-)

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 11/23/2015 at 01:19

OK I finally did it: a script that scans my large project and gets all the pictures from the gallery, the project's main page, the details and the logs...

Now could someone explain me why there is this large ASCII art skull logo in the HTML files ? :-D

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 11/24/2015 at 12:02

If not an app, I'll make a script that behaves as such ?
#HackaDump started, and I'll see how to use the API but anybody who wants to save his project(s) with the new scripts will have to register their own API key...
This makes the procedure more complex and more convenient at once, that's weird :-D

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RoGeorge wrote 11/18/2015 at 17:48

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jaromir.sukuba wrote 11/23/2015 at 07:07

I'd love to see the script.

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 11/23/2015 at 07:16

Jaromir: then I might even start a "project" page to present my dirty code :-) maybe tomorrow.

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 11/23/2015 at 13:42

Don't expect much, but I'm putting it there https://hackaday.io/project/8536-hackadump

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 10/25/2015 at 16:12

Feature request : auto-generate a list of log entries such as on this page #AYTABTU - Discrete Computer
So people can jump to the page of interest and get a better idea of the project's activity.

I suppose @matseng did it by hand... I'm too lazy to update something like that manually :-/

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 10/25/2015 at 16:22

@K.C. Lee had a similar request a month ago :-D

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 10/26/2015 at 19:36

It's on the todo list. I'll add a +1 to the ticket!

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 11/10/2015 at 02:17

So far, i'm doing it all by hand, it was tedious for the 30 first entries, now I do it now and then... I thought we invented computers to take care of these small tasks for us :-D

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Jonathan Beri wrote 10/23/2015 at 15:00

Would love a "save as draft" option on project logs. I'm using it as a mini blog of sorts and have multiple simultaneous logs in mind.

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 10/25/2015 at 16:09

I do the same and sometimes I keep a log edit page open for a very long time, with the risk of losing the edits. My browser saves some state but I can't export.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 10/26/2015 at 19:35

Hey Jonathan & Yann. This is in the works!

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Yann Guidon / YGDES wrote 10/26/2015 at 19:42

Yay !
Day after day, this site feels more like home :-)

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Bill Smith wrote 10/21/2015 at 18:41

In the new feed, when there's old comments mixed with the newest one, it's not obvious what is new. If I knew what was new, I could go through my feed more efficiently because right now I read a bit and then say "oh I already read that". It helps that there's "1 hour ago" "6 days ago" on the posts, but making it more obvious which paragraph is new would be nice. I definitely do not mean that it should say what's new since I last looked. Instead mark what's new in a specific item in the list regardless of whether I read it already or not. One idea would be to have a different color background on the new part.

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Jonathan Beri wrote 10/19/2015 at 23:08

Seems like comments only go 3 levels deep - is that Working As Intended?

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 10/19/2015 at 23:18

Not quite. I've just put in a ticket. Thanks!

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 10/19/2015 at 23:31

It turns out that it is meant to be like that.

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Jonathan Beri wrote 10/19/2015 at 23:57

Got it. Makes it hard to reply to comments in a meaningful way. But I can understand possible constraints like UX. Thanks for the reply.

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Ian Hanschen wrote 10/18/2015 at 08:33

It'd be nice if I could subscribe to new projects containing a tag I specify.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 10/18/2015 at 17:32

Hey Ian, I assume you mean subscribe automatically, rather than going and checking the tag pages -e.g. https://hackaday.io/projects/tag/FPGA . Interesting idea, I'll put it on the wish list.

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Ian Hanschen wrote 10/18/2015 at 21:07

yeah it'd be cool to get a weekly email of "New projects that might be interesting to you."

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 10/19/2015 at 01:26

That would be great. I'll suggest it to the team. Thanks!

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josh wrote 10/15/2015 at 04:11

you should utilize a "blacklist" for username selections. for example, using "admin" prolly shouldn't be allowed. just my two cents.. oh and i'll change this username after you fix the issue ;D

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Ivan Lazarevic wrote 10/15/2015 at 04:50

we actually have blacklist for usernames, but it seems we missed admin. thanks for letting us know. @Amar Patel can you check it ?

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morgan wrote 10/13/2015 at 16:08

Main page 404s with double slashes. http://hackaday.io// results in error. This is caused by Express not filtering multiple slashes before assuming default. (but I like the robot)

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 10/15/2015 at 17:21

Hello Morgan, thanks for highlighting this. We'll handle it :)

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Eric Hertz wrote 10/11/2015 at 16:06

what about having a "feed" for an individual and/or a specific project...?

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 10/15/2015 at 17:23

At the moment, we don't support it other than via the api. Is a popular idea though.

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Alex Rich wrote 10/07/2015 at 14:17

FYI - spammer account, just reported some comments on my profile as well

https://hackaday.io/vienadaviod

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 10/08/2015 at 07:13

Thanks Alex. It would happen on a day I am not checking the site. Oh well, it seems to be resolved now.

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Bill Smith wrote 10/05/2015 at 18:07

It would be cool to be able to follow my feed with an RSS or ATOM reader. Is that something that could be added to the wish list?

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 10/06/2015 at 18:43

At the moment, we only have it for the global feed - https://hackaday.io/rss/globalFeed. You can also check out the Hackaday.io API https://hackaday.io/project/5602-hackaday-api, but it requires some effort.

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Alex Rich wrote 10/04/2015 at 11:48

Someone probably already knows this, but the "description" of your project crops without telling you at some character limit. So when you submit your new project or edit an old one, you write this nice long description and when you submit, everything after the character limit is lost

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 10/06/2015 at 18:38

That's weird, it doesn't allow me to type more text past the limit. What browser and OS are you using?

BTW - the description should be relatively short. It's text only and is used as a project summary in other places like the search results. You can put loads more info in the details or project logs.

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Alex Rich wrote 10/06/2015 at 19:39

I know what it is, when you paste info from another website, it crops it without throwing a warning. I did that for Stickvise and when I updated only half the info I pasted made it. I didn't catch it until a few days later. I have also seen this on a handful of other projects, must be caused by pasting in too much. Might make sense to outline the text box in red when character limit is reached so you notice a problem in the instance of pasting text.

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davedarko wrote 10/02/2015 at 19:41

just an idea for presenting stuff, a qr code generator linking to projects would be cool.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 10/06/2015 at 18:45

That's a cool idea. It would be great if people could print out sticker or labels to stick on their physical projects so people can look up more info on the site.

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alpha_ninja wrote 09/28/2015 at 23:00

Are you considering letting project creators decide the order in which sections are displayed? Personally, I'd love for there to be a way to, say, show build instructions above project logs, or maybe show links at the top of the page.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 09/29/2015 at 21:05

Hey Alpha Ninja, it's something we can consider, but section order customization is pretty far down the road. We're more likely to first improve the fixed layout/design to show off the information more clearly.

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alpha_ninja wrote 09/30/2015 at 00:07

ok, thanks :)

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dougal wrote 09/28/2015 at 15:15

Please give us a way to filter out user additions to a project? All the "[foo] has added [bar] as a contributor to Hacker Channel" messages drown out any usefulness of the feed.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 09/28/2015 at 20:50

Hello Dougal. We're working on a new feed. This is one of the issues that will be addressed. Stay tuned.

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davedarko wrote 09/28/2015 at 12:19

Whenever I search for something in "tablet"? mode, having my chrome browser page a bit smaller than usual, I can't see what I am typing in the searchbar.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 09/28/2015 at 18:45

I'll let the boffins know!

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Crum3le wrote 09/28/2015 at 10:14

is it not possible to edit a project log? I'm missing something right?

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davedarko wrote 09/28/2015 at 12:15

open up the log and on the top above the log title there is a link with "edit project log" and "delete project log" :)

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Crum3le wrote 09/28/2015 at 16:45

ah thanks... (just looking for a wall to hit my head on)

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alpha_ninja wrote 09/28/2015 at 16:45

I'd like to add that project log editing permissions seem to be restricted if you're a contributor, but not the owner of a project—you may not be able to edit someone else's project log.

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