My page showed that I have 11 "notifications", but when I click on the "Notifications" link under my icon it goes nowhere, and is overlaid with "Error".

I took a screenshot that shows the overlaid "Error".

https://hackaday.io/project/5283-potpourri/log/185057-error-for-feedback

I'm still wondering where to view my notifications - is that on a separate page, or are they just in the feed?

Does it error for you each time you have tried it? You should get a list of notification items. The next version will have refresh or retry button.

It didn't happen in PaleMoon (a Firefox clone), so I refreshed the Chrome page and the error went away there. It might have been an issue with *new* notifications that got cleared on the PaleMoon side, I'll note back if that's the case.

If you can give me a notification of some type (like, follow me or something) I'll let you know if it comes back.

I have 2 notifications, but when I get to the link and click, nothing happens. (This is new - it was working.)

Tried both PaleMoon and Chromium - same thing.

Also, I have 2 items in my feed (red circle on feed icon), but the feed appears empty.

Sure, you should receive a notification for replies here.

Good. When it was happening page refresh didn't clear it, but it seems to be fixed now, don't know what it was. I only just now realized that I could have gone into the console and maybe seen more info on the error, or looked at the DOM tree in the debugger. If it comes up again I'll do that.

I'm just getting started with my first real project on IO. I made log entries for should probably have gone into instructions. Furthermore, all the images I put in did not seem to survive. I would like to just get rid of the log entries. Is this possible?

If you click to a specific log there is are [Edit, Delete] links at the top. Can you share the post you had an issue with images?

Thank you, that fixed my problem. I ended up deleting the image-less log entries and entered the information with instructions.

As for the images, it seems my problem is a known issue with the system? I had copied and pasted images into the editor. They show up just fine but after you save, they disappear. I found this mentioned in the "Everything 101" page. I used the "place image" button and everything works now.

Thank you.

I really appreciate that Hackaday cares about safety. But is there any way to disable the CAPTCHA for the login? It is sometimes a huge pain, especially on the mobile phone. I just needed like 5 or 6 trials to read and enter it correctly.

You shouldn't be required to captcha for login, only signup. Which login are you seeing captcha on?

Thanks for your answer! I just realized that it was my bad. When I go to hackaday.io, I am asked to enter the email and password. But apparently this is for sign-up. For the login, I should probably always click on the login button top right. 

Hello, I have several issues with "Project Log Entry" WYSIWYG editor.
I've just lost a long page when I pasted just a link.  The draft was then saved unintentionally and it overwrite old drafts :( .

I attempted to send someone to my hackaday.io page yesterday and they ended up with an error. I then found I could get to my profile fine, but that was only when I was logged into my account. As soon as I logged out of my account or used any other web browser I got the same result.

https://i.imgur.com/rQtxRyK.jpg

Sorry about that checking into this now.

This should be corrected now, thanks!

Thanks! Can confirm it is fixed!

How are the parts in the project's "components" section sorted?  I entered a bunch of items, and they got sorted in an unexpected way - not how I entered them, not alphabetically.  I then went and manually re-shuffled everything to be in the order I wanted. However, my efforts were ignored.  Is there some trick I'm missing?

This happened to me as well, I cannot re-order my components list.

Just checking, are you using the 'hidden' drag handle on the left of each component? Which of your project are the components not in order I can try to reproduce it with those.

Yes, I am indeed moving the components around using the hidden 'cross' at the left. I then click Save and everything seems okay until I load the page/reload the page.

The project I was having problems with specifically was:

https://hackaday.io/project/171699-hotrod-ender-5s-for-the-hackerspace

my project is https://hackaday.io/project/174476-another-3d-printer-enclosure.

To be clear, they never appeared in the initial order that I entered them.  After entering all 20-some items at one time, when I "saved" the project, they were immediately re-sorted in some unknown manner.  I tried to re-order them using the the "drag" handle on the left.  They did re-order during the editing process, but upon saving the project, they reverted to the original list of unknown sorting criteria.

Any update ?

Pushing an update that opts for an 'order' field rather than a drag and drop. The component items will always be sorted in ascending order and on first load their values will be updated to concurrent numbers starting with 0.

Looking through the HAD prize rules, it says to document all open source licenses for the initial round. If you hold the contest again, consider adding some text that expands on that a little bit. Specifically, what constitutes satisfying the requirement. Or better, move this requirement to the final round.

For example, all my code modules have license text at the top and I have a separate license file in the project, so anyone who gets a copy of the project will see that (it's everywhere).

Is that sufficient? Or does it have to be on the main page somewhere, and then should it be in the description, details, or instructions? Can it be in a log entry?

I don't think you want to be poring through all the projects in detail looking to see if the requirement is satisfied (through the logs, for example), so maybe some text that clarifies the requirement would be in order.

Perhaps this requirement should be part of the final round, and not the initial round? The project doesn't have to actually work in the initial round, and there's no requirement for submitted project files (gerbers, code, &c), so would a project that's just at the concept level need the license text?

No response needed, just some notes to think about.

I recently did an @ mention to everyone in my project, which was important.

After asking around to the people I mentioned via outside communication channels, I realized that at least some people did not get the message!  

Perhaps this is related to some internal limit to the @ mention element count within a message, but tagging people within a particular message that they need to read is kinda the point here.  Having @mention failures and not being notified of that happening is probably another issue that should be addressed.

Barring allowing direct communication such as the ability to email the team directly, it would be nice to have a way to email/notify all project members (if they have indeed opted in to notifications) via something like an '@project' or '@everyone' moniker within chat.  

This is how it is done within Slack and it seems to work well.  This capability perhaps should be reserved to the project owner (or some other admin class which has yet to be created here) to prevent spam, but depending on the size of the team, this could be very useful in smaller groups as well.

Making this platform into something which can be directly utilized to move projects along is my immediate goal.  If you have a different one, that is fine also.  However... if this is your goal, taking the time to recruit project members to this platform and then not being able to reliably notify those members of some important information they need to act upon now... and not the next time they happen to log in and happen to look through their feed (which if you are like me is so much raw data that if you don't do this daily, it *will* get lost), is pretty much a show stopper.

Oh.. and a simple solution to the notification engine failing could be an @admin user generating a PM/@mention to the user who attempted to do the notification.

Thank you.

Any thoughts on this?  

I would be willing to help with this issue if needed as I feel it is an important issue, but the potential solution is rightfully complicated. 

Regards,

-Daren

Oh I mean priority in our system, an @ mention should always send within reason.

I believe @mention has a higher email priority but I would need to double check. The new notifications menu should help a bit too, at least it can give another source of seeing mentions besides emails.

I really don't think email priority was the problem.  Unless hackaday.io is black/spam listed this should not have been an issue at that level.  I know nothing about the menu I will go and look. Thank you.

where do we learn to hack

@apvp1xxx 

These are not the hackers you are looking for.  *hand wave*

No, seriously.  

I am guessing that the vast majority of hackers here probably *could* do whatever this intentionally vague statement is implying, but unless they are totally new, unvetted, and unproven... you won't find *one* here who will actually step outside of what is considered *right*.  

You may find some that will step outside what is currently 'legal', but that will *always* involve something along the lines of a 'moral imperative' or rules built by people who really don't understand the technology involved.  

Good luck with that.  Move along.  *hand wave*

Thank you for your interest.  This is an absolutely fantastic group of people, but probably not the people you are looking for with your 6 word query.  

Well.. correction.  They are the people you are looking for.  They just won't do what you want without a socially compelling reason to do so, and trust me.. we have heard every excuse under the sun.

Regards.

-Daren

In my recent log entry (link below) the code snippet in the middle makes a mistake in the color of the last part of the bash command.

https://hackaday.io/project/174477-display-server/log/182832-project-coming-along-nicely

Is it possible to get emails of updates/logs to projects I follow?

I've got more than 6 project now (eek!), some of which are old and crusty.

It would be nice if the "my projects" list on my profile page put the most recent projects first.

For one thing, people visiting my profile page would probably benefit from seeing the projects I'm currently working on. For another, whenever *I* log in to my page it would be nice if I could click to the current project (most recent) directly without having to go through the intermediate step of "show all projects" first.

I don't even know what order the "my projects" list is actually in, except that it's not  alphabetic or most recent first. It appears random.

you can pin projects to your profile these days :) Check the "my projects" list, there's a pin in the top right corner of the project.

Thanks that's great to know! Applied. Edit: Not only that, but in one's profile page one can reorder them by clicking on Edit Order and dragging around to reorder. 👍

I understand the problem now. The "pin" icon is only visible when you hover over the project. I never knew about the icon because I never do that.

This might be a design flaw - having controls sometimes visible and sometimes not is not conducive to people figuring things out. Taken to an extreme for illustration, there might be many other icons and widgets on the page that no one knows about, because they don't take the time to mouse around to look for them.

Also, the dark motif is fine... except that there's just about zero contrast between the black background and the notation. For example, the background is RGB(23, 23, 23) and the *brightest* color in the "cancel" button below this post (as I write this) is RGB(67, 74, 65)... with darker colors due to antialiasing. After converting to human perception luminance the contrast is almost nonexistant. On the contrast scale of 0 - 10, the background is 1 and the lettering is less than 3.

That's not a lot of contrast.

Just added a stack page, and typing return between paragraphs looks good in the add/edit page, but when published the paragraphs have double spaces between. Added as a "page" to my profile the formatting looks OK.

Compare two links below and note differences in spacing between paragraphs:

https://hackaday.io/page/9194-depression-things-you-can-try

https://hackaday.io/page/9195-depression-things-you-can-try

Thanks Peter will take a look and see why stack is doing this.

Is there a way to get added a a crew to be able to edit maker space information? The details for Canton Hacker and Maker Place are woefully out of date and the original post is gone and unreachable. I am the new president and would like to update everything.

I can work with you on this can we private message?

Sure

The DIGIT commission of the European Union has included ECoS-19 in the open source projects of worldwide interest "Digital Response to COVID-19". This is the link: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/digital-response-covid-19/open-source-solutions#Open%20Source%20Hardware

It would be nice to have further granularity of control over what emails you send out.  For example the ability to control emails regarding Hack Chats.

If you mean the weekly hack chat reminder emails, I believe those are sent from mailchimp, unsubscribing is the only way to turn them off at this time.

Ok.  Thanks for that info.

Hello everyone,

I would like to ask you, how to "enable" email notifications for project comments. Yes, it's enabled in my profile, to receive an notification, if someone add an comment in my project.

I'm receiving notifications for PMs as well, but not for comments.

Thank you

There are some limits to how many emails the site will send, if you previously received some from PM, you may not get one for a shortly following comment.

There is a new personal notification menu that will show let you see all of these and hopefully help the email issue.

can’t find where to sign up for the Linux and Raspberry Pi class. 

There are more links here, https://hackaday.io/u/ you probably want this one? https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hackaday-u-linux-electronics-a-raspberry-pi-course-tickets-115783299967

When I see I have a new notification (red number in the notification icon at the top of the screen), is there a way to see what that notification is? I scroll through my feed, but this is cumbersome and still leaves me guessing. Am I missing something?

There is an update coming very soon that addresses this issue!

thank you!

Can't log in with Github - the button doesn't do anything

There is an issue with github atm, can you confirm if you originally signed up to hackaday.io by email or with github?

Signed up by email, I believe. It was only after posting this issue that I learned the feature is meant for those who signed up through github. It seems like this should be clarified if that's the case.

Thanks, it is primarily for those users but it should be working for both. After the accounts are connected Hackaday.io should sign you in. Will check into it.