Hello.  Just started using Hackaday for projects and finding it easy and fun to use.  Thanks!

My few small suggestions are to consider:

 - adding the option to add alt-text to images for improved web accessibility

 - adding an image-attribution option (e.g., 'Image by [John/Jane Doe]' *) plus some way of indicating the licence under which it is being reproduced

 - adding an optional overlaying of text for images in the image gallery (e.g., 'Here is my first prototype in all its glory')

 - adding support to the project description box for rich text (bold, italics, and underlines) and hyperlinks 

* Where the square brackets indicate a link.

Thanks, good ideas to improve on images. It's a little hard to find, but if you select an image in the editor a small 'edit' button appears, its modal has a title input which populates the alt and title tag.

Great, thanks!

The text editor needs some serious love and attention. Now that I am tackling a larger writing project inside the editor, I've uncovered a few areas to improve upon. 

A huge one would be auto-save. I lost over 3 hours of work because my browser crashed last night. Also, supporting a standard like Markdown would make everything so much easier. That way, the user could edit their text in any text editor, and then just copy-paste it into the Hackaday editor.

Another mild annoyance is the editor's insistence on making anything with a .py extension into a hyperlink. I'm not sure why it does this, I think it should look for https:// before autolinking. If not, then at least exclude the common file endings, .rb, .c, .py, etc.

Finally, when you switch back and forth between viewing HTML and viewing the rendered text, it likes to insert four newlines between each paragraph in the HTML view. This doesn't affect the output but it makes it so frustrating for perfectionists like me that want the HTML view to be nice and neat. Plus, on larger text files like what I am working on, it takes forever to scroll from the top to the bottom and vice versa. After a few switches back and forth, you end up with a giant mess like this: https://0x0.st/sWTI.png

To get around the auto-save debacle, I started writing in emacs in Markdown. I would then export this to html and then paste that into the HTML view. It actually works pretty well, but instead of using <pre> for code, it uses <code> by default. This does work in the editor, but longer lines run off the side of the screen instead of wrapping.

I've also heard about the mysterious disappearing images. Frankly, it might just be aliens, in which case there's not a lot you can do. I suppose the entire site could be converted to text only? That would thwart their dastardly plans!

I hope this feedback is of some use! As I spend more time with the editor I will be sure to update my ideas.

EDIT: I just remembered something else. It would be *awesome* if we could embed GitLab snippets into the text. It's just a <script> tag. I tried to add it to the HTML but it was stripped (I'm assuming so users can't run arbitrary scripts!). I know other WYSIWYG editors I've used have an insert GitHub Gist button, so there must be a way to do it without allowing users to insert script tags.

Thanks for bringing these up again + the new feature requests like auto-save. The image and html bug were reported numerous times. Doesn't seem like the editor is all that important to the staff :(
It's by far the most buggy piece of software @ hackaday.io. Constant source of annoying bugs which make it really cumbersome to publish (bigger) projects!

>were reported numerous times. Doesn't seem like the editor is all that important to the staff :(

A business that focuses on hosting have to take that kind of issues seriously or it would lose its content producers.  That was a big part why I move my hosting among other reasons.  I had reported multiples SPAM daily here over a 2 years time frame - they won't even try to incorporate some open source scripts that was available.  I shouldn't be doing their work unpaid.  Go back and read my pleas here if you don't believe it.

My new host haven't deleted pictures by accident, haven't deleted first character etc.  I have done 96 new posts on new site so far, so I would notice.  By the way these bugs weren't here in the old days.  They were self-inflicted because of code tinkering.  New features - resources for QA/fixing things = more bugs

l get to pick the styles. i.e. fonts, colours, who gets to comment, site stats etc.  Autosave works - I closed browser window and it was saved as draft,

Thanks, keep the feedback coming, the editor is definitely an important part of the site.

Why not switch to something like Quill or Summernote? Or even https://github.com/benweet/stackedit which uses the same version of Markdown as Stack Overflow? There are myriad options out there. No need to build it yourself when there are so many amazing, drop-in solutions for free!

Just realized stackedit supports UML diagrams... plus in-line LaTeX... *drools*

Thanks again

Is there an easy way to align or justify the text while publishing something in the project?

There isn't, do you have an example of how you want the text laid out?

Just justified on the project log so that short words aren't left at the edge. I'll manage somehow.

nie da się

kurczę szkoda ._.

Dearest HaD powers that be,

I am on a mission to try to further lock down accounts that are important to me. Therefore I would like to ask for two-factor authentication to be made available on hackaday.io. Pretty please, at least the ability to use a TOTP authenticator app (e.g. Google Authenticator, Authy). Pretty please with chocolate fudge and cherries on top, FIDO U2F (e.g. YubiKey, Feitian ePass) in addition to TOTP, not instead of. And double plus please, with double plus fudge, in a bowl hand-made from a cherry tree, for the love of all that is holy and actually secure, not SMS!

Love and mostly-platonic kisses,
Rudolph

Yes, yes, yes! All modern websites that have user account absolutely need to implement 2FA. Most 2FA implementations make it fairly painless to add, although with hackaday's large user base, maybe it will take a bit more time & ironing out kinks. But I vote this up x100000.

My links (normal format) above Heading 2 shows up formatted as Heading 2.  They show up normally in the editor.  Adding an extra line in between doesn't help.

https://hackaday.io/project/28583/details/

Links affected:  (towards the bottom of the page)

AN2606 Application note STM32 microcontroller system memory boot mode
ST's Bootloader program page

Chrome 67.0.3396.99 (Official Build) (64-bit)  Win7 X64.  Same problem in Opera.

Thanks, the cascade looks different from the editor to the page. Just to confirm you don't want that link as heading 2?

I want the links as Normal Text.  I went in, highlight the links and select normal text, but yet the H2 tags are not removed.

<h2><p><a href="http://www.st.com/web/en/resource/technical/document/application_note/CD00167594.pdf">AN2606 Application note STM32 microcontroller system memory boot mode<br></a><a href="http://www2.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/development-tools/software-development-tools/stm32-software-development-tools/stm32-programmers/flasher-stm32.html">ST's Bootloader program page</a></p>Libraries that needed to be ported/written</h2>

I supposed that I could go in and fix the html, but it is a bug that you should be aware of.  (html fixed manually now)

One thing about is that I copy and paste the links from another project and it was formatted as normal text.

I'd like to share how the chat looks on my mobile devices:

https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/4570671532091013250.jpg

Could you please make it so that at least one line of the actual chat is visible?

I use it horizontally on the phone, looks the same like yours otherwise

It's rendering in desktop mode on your phone, otherwise the gold bar should not display, the text entry field is not as tall, you would see more text. I'll see what else we can do for a landscape orientation.

Nope, the desktop mode looks marginally better, because it forces the system fonts: https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/6537161532118444668.jpg

But it's still unusable. That's Chrome, by the way, in Firefox the desktop mode looks completely broken:

https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/6537161532118444668.jpg

And just in case you were thinking it's just on that one device:

https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/119411532119458457.jpg

Though admittedly that one I can rotate to get something more usable.

I had a problem today that I'm not sure I can reproduce. In a project log I had a table and then I had some text after it. I deleted some of that text and the table went crazy and the text popped up above the table. Undo fixed it.

Duplicate images showing up in the project gallery. How to prune them? No delete Icon as far as I can tell.

We are looking into this issue, you wont need to delete them.

Please support adding embedded iframe gifv's from gfycat or imgur! I think it's a lot more concise to see a shorter, looping, high quality video than producing a whole long form youtube video.

You can already use HTML5 <video> tags!

When I browse "project lists", there are several ways to sort projects inside one list... but the most usefull way to sort is missing : why can't we select "recently updated" ?

good idea, we'll see to add it.

I've just seen the feature has been added recently. Thanks for that.

Why doesn't the Hackaday.io page have links to Hackaday.com content?

Hi @Roddy "Rags" Read - Actually it has in "More" dropdown menu as "Blog". Thanks!

This project https://hackaday.io/project/159553-iot-soil-conductivity-and-ph-sensor ?

How can I purchase the 3d Resumer for my printers?

What are you looking for?

If you go to view project log:  It shows Sort by "Oldest" on the dropdown, but actually shows"Newest".  It won't show the "Oldest" until you select "Newest" and then "Oldest".

that's why the behaviour was so odd the other day - I can confirm this

On it

Being able to write in Markdown would be a huge improvement! We use markdown on GitHub, GitLab, and lots of teamwork apps, so why not on Hackaday as well?

I like the rich text editor, but (at least on Chrome in Linux) it's still very buggy and difficult to use.

Thanks, I like markdown too. We have an ongoing list of issues to take care of with the current editor. Markdown support should be there too.

By the way: I REALLY like this community, I even have Adblock deactivated for this domain :)

Would donations help you to hire people and get stuff done faster?! I guess there would be lots of people sending you a few bucks now and then to keep this community alive and more bug-free!

Appreciate the thought Jan, but the community feedback is more valuable :)

I'm trying to embed twitter videos in my project logs. 

https://hackaday.io/project/159049-portable-kite-power/log/148704-initial-tests 

The video doesn't show in the log page. You have to leave and go to twitter... Can the content be more readily available / more on the page? 

I've probably done it wrong

Are you using the embed tweet code? It might be something we have to add in support for.

Hello! I created my first project page yesterday but when I checked this morning, it appears to have been removed. It was a pretty simple page so I doubt it violated any rules. https://hackaday.io/project/159342-pisolaris

Looks like it has been restored. Thanks!

No RSS feeds? Nowhere?

There is an API https://hackaday.io/project/5602-hackaday-api

So i have to register an App, consume OAuth and convert JSON to XML to create myself an RSS feed?

Please reconsider your answer.

@mnt well there's that or a no. Not much to consider.

Enjoy! https://hackaday.io/rss/globalFeed

Oh, that feed is only an xml-view of /feed?

Too bad, i always felt that /feed is utterly useless. Who could possibly be interested in every single comment, like or update of any user on HADio? Right now it shows 30 likes of the same person (seemingly on a like spree).

Also Hackaday.com https://hackaday.com/blog/feed/

i have two account and i want to merge this, but i cant get my username "metover"

Can you message me privately from both accounts.