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Luca Candela wrote 11/01/2020 at 01:55

Confirming email after creating an account doesn't seem to work properly 100% of the time. While onboarding, selecting topics of interest requires multiple clicks on the buttons, and sometimes it doesn't even work. I think there might be some issues with that page.

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/29/2020 at 19:35

Image uploading to Hackaday.io is temporarily out of service while some upgrades are being performed, sorry for the inconvenience!

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/30/2020 at 02:04

Image uploading is turned back on, message me if you have any issues, thanks!

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colinta wrote 10/28/2020 at 16:00

I'm getting emails from a deactivated account (I accidentally created two accounts), but they do not have an unsubscribe button. Either deactivated accounts should not receive the newsletter, or they should be able to unsubscribe without reactivating the account.

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/28/2020 at 17:10

Just to confirm, you deleted a duplicate account and that account receives the Hackaday newsletter? It should have been unsubscribed if so, I'll double check.

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colinta wrote 10/28/2020 at 17:12

That's right, happy to send my email: it's "username@username.com", where "username" is my username ;-)

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Ken Yap wrote 10/24/2020 at 22:40

It would be nice if the system prompted for and published a one-line reason for a change to a project so that one can see at a glance what an update was about, e.g. changed project status, added an explanation to details, corrected link errors. Otherwise it's usually not obvious what has changed in the project.

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Bharbour wrote 10/21/2020 at 21:52

Hi, The project editor code is having problems. I added a new project and referenced two other projects in the body. After the second project reference, the text color remained gold and nothing that I could do would return it to white. Also, it would not accept entries in the files section.

I am using Firefox 80.0.1. The project is #Multiple Value Parallel Capacitor Testing

Any help appreciated.

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/22/2020 at 15:51

I see the rest of the text that has been linked. I can PM you to fix this.

Are you also saying you can not upload files to the project, or that you can not insert images in the editor?

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Bharbour wrote 10/22/2020 at 16:26

Initially, I could not upload files to the project. After I closed my web browser and came back later, I was able to upload a file to the project.

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ediblescience1 wrote 10/20/2020 at 20:52

Hi guys, I just joined and can't get the system to accept my username so that I can start a private message. Any help appreciated.

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/23/2020 at 19:33

what username will it not accept?

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pjkim00 wrote 10/20/2020 at 00:39

Insertion of Tex equations appears broken in couple of ways. First, when inserting formulas, the formula doesn't usually go where the cursor is located when you hit the formula button. Most of the time, the formula is at the beginning of whatever I am working on. I can't copy and past in the wysiwig editor so I have to view in source, cut the Tex formula and paste where I actually want it. Second, there is no way to edit once you have entered a formula-- well you can but you have view source and edit the raw text. There is no way to get the insert buttons and preview like when you enter a new formula. And lastly, formulas that were previously working seem to have disappeared altogether now. When I try to enter a new formula, it just doesn't work.

Is there any way to get mathjax and or asciimath support on this site? I tried to add the asciimath incantation script into the raw html editor but I guess the incantation needs to be in the <head> in order to work.

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/23/2020 at 19:44

Can you give me an example of which symbols no longer work? Are you entering them directly into the preview field or clicking the icons above?

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Peter Walsh wrote 10/16/2020 at 14:09

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?

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/16/2020 at 15:33

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.

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Peter Walsh wrote 10/16/2020 at 16:11

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.

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Peter Walsh wrote 10/29/2020 at 20:54

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.

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Peter Walsh wrote 10/29/2020 at 20:56

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

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/16/2020 at 16:17

Sure, you should receive a notification for replies here.

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Peter Walsh wrote 10/16/2020 at 16:36

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.

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pjkim00 wrote 10/16/2020 at 03:26

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?

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/16/2020 at 13:47

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?

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pjkim00 wrote 10/16/2020 at 18:44

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.

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rraetz wrote 10/09/2020 at 09:55

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.

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Richard Hogben wrote 10/16/2020 at 13:48

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

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rraetz wrote 10/16/2020 at 15:24

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.

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dan ksz wrote 09/10/2020 at 16:00

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 :( .

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cprossu wrote 09/10/2020 at 12:11

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

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Richard Hogben wrote 09/10/2020 at 16:14

Sorry about that checking into this now.

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Richard Hogben wrote 09/10/2020 at 16:33

This should be corrected now, thanks!

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cprossu wrote 09/10/2020 at 16:36

Thanks! Can confirm it is fixed!

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TheStumbler wrote 09/07/2020 at 05:17

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?

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cprossu wrote 09/10/2020 at 12:08

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

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Richard Hogben wrote 09/10/2020 at 16:32

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.

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cprossu wrote 09/10/2020 at 16:35

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

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TheStumbler wrote 09/11/2020 at 05:46

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.

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TheStumbler wrote 09/22/2020 at 03:42

Any update ?

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Richard Hogben wrote 09/22/2020 at 15:40

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.

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Peter Walsh wrote 08/31/2020 at 14:17

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.

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Daren Schwenke wrote 08/31/2020 at 04:13

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.

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Daren Schwenke wrote 09/05/2020 at 23:44

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

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Richard Hogben wrote 09/10/2020 at 10:45

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

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Richard Hogben wrote 09/10/2020 at 04:24

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.

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Daren Schwenke wrote 09/10/2020 at 07:43

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.

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apvp1xxx wrote 08/28/2020 at 17:11

where do we learn to hack

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Daren Schwenke wrote 09/05/2020 at 23:17

@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

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Peter Walsh wrote 08/27/2020 at 23:17

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

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ToXIc wrote 08/27/2020 at 20:31

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

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Peter Walsh wrote 08/26/2020 at 22:29

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.

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davedarko wrote 08/27/2020 at 07:24

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.

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Ken Yap wrote 08/27/2020 at 08:50

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. 👍

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Peter Walsh wrote 08/27/2020 at 17:13

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.

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Peter Walsh wrote 08/26/2020 at 19:13

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

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Richard Hogben wrote 08/26/2020 at 19:24

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

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