User Sharyn Xu of Seeed Studio Marketing has sent me 2 messages inviting me to design sensors for the Seeed studio sensor thingy.

These messages look suspiciously like spam, and I'm wondering if she's spamming other users as well. The 2nd message was all about how other companies have successfully used their products.

What makes the messages particularly annoying is the personal tone: "Hi Peter, this is Sharyn from Seeed Studio. Our team were impressed by your projects, are you open to design sensors or do some projects with us?"

It looks for anything like someone reaching out personally, but clicking on the link goes to a contest with a $300 prize.

Please look into this. The personal message system should not be used for marketing announcements, even if they are contests.

@Peter Walsh - I'll take a look. Thank you.

Hi @stanboya - Deleting directly through Github isn't working. You need to have an email in the system (added through the gold banner or otherwise), then visit the reset password page to set a password. You can then delete the account with that password on the account page. If that won't work for you, confirm that we can delete it. Thanks!

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Occasionally "notifications" have given me the "something's wrong but I don't know what" feeling. 

A couple of days ago the most recent notification clearly disappeared for a while then returned.

Right now I have two HaD tabs open with different notification lists. The most recent couple of notifications are present in one and absent from the other. Even after multiple reloads of both. After reloads the notification lists open with a progress bar suggesting that they are fetching fresh, but different, data. ... Just tried again with same results.

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hey, I can't edit this project, it tells me the summary can't be blank, when it isn't.

https://hackaday.io/project/165548-astromech-r8-j4

Try giving it another shot

whatever you did, worked - thanks :)

I've been here for maybe a decade and never noticed "My Notifications"...

Unfortunately, it's way too small to scroll through that tiny window.

Is there (or can we please have) a dedicated page like hackaday.io/notifications ?

( BTW, I've heard from many others over the years who've similarly missed comments because they'd been relying on emails for notifications, which are sporadic )

(( Ideally, a way to mark/hide "read" notifcations would also be helpful! ))

Thanks for what y'all do here!

The recent flood of "projects" from UTSOURCE is no better than spam. Links in them lead not to project content, but to a UTSOURCE search page. Plenty of pictures, few if any words, no schematics, no parts lists, nothing that would make them actual projects of interest.

It's just blatant advertising. They should be kicked off. In the meantime report every one of their ads.

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For the past few weeks I've been reporting all UTSOURCE projects but also the account itself. Let's not forget the following accounts that also blatantly advertise the same site: utsourceproduct, Electroniclovers123.
Unfortunately there is also still those accounts that heavily advertise PCB manufacturing companies by publish projects like MakerIoT2020, ElectroBoy, ElectronicABC, ASHUMHRPROJECTS, Lithium ION, halfstudents.in, Subhajit, Asheesh, Circuits DIY, ElectronicABC, ...

I don't find objectionable the PCB houses which appear to be sponsoring actual projects as a means to gaining a platform. That's a value exchange, and some of those projects are of interest. The UTSOURCE stuff, however, is empty of value, and only adds noise to the site.

Some of the "sponsored projects" are risible though. "This blinky sponsored by blah blah boards". Right...

Indeed.

I also think it's fair that sponsored projects contain some advertisement. However, too many of the projects from the accounts I listed earlier are just examples from datasheet, rip off of well known projects, copy of popular projects that can be find all over the internet or absolutely too basic/simple to be called project. Too many of them are just not of any real interest and it is clear than it is not about quality but rather quantity. I can't feel the intent of the author to share something  with Hackaday community... but I see a lot of them are just trying to earn money by pretending to do electronics.

I would like help deleting my account. (i have set up a new one). My account was created using github login and something borked with the email and passwords leaving it unusable. Please delete my account https://hackaday.io/deletethisaccount

i cant do it myself because the email 7834360@@github isnt verified for obvious reasons and the passord is unknown

Thank you

Hi @iHally Brendan - Deleting directly through Github isn't working. You need to have an email in the system (added through the gold banner or otherwise), then visit the reset password page to set a password. You can then delete the account with that password on the account page.

If that won't work for you, send me a private message. 

Thank you. I have sent you a DM

Reposting this issue since it was not answered. A project I created 6 days ago still has not appeared on the https://hackaday.io/projects page.

Hi @G Sozmen - Sorry for the late reply. I can see your project here

https://hackaday.io/projects?page=7&sort=date

Sent you a PM.

As I understand you won't see the counter until it reaches 50.

Hi, I created a new project yesterday but it does not appear on the https://hackaday.io/projects page. I tried sort by newest/recently updated etc. I can find the project using the "Find projects and more" search box at the top of the page.

Hi, Any way to report spam messages / users? I see the block option, but they can continue spamming somebody else...

You need to position the mouse on the same line as Reply so that the Report as Inappropriate link appears. Similarly for users from their profile.

Noob- I asked a question in Stack, but I don't see my question when I navigate to Stack.

Hi @aclark -  New projects, Stack posts, don't show up in the feed or all projects page, immediately. We implemented this rule as protection from spammers, so you just have to be more patient. Thanks!

Thanks

Apologies if I'm missing how this should work. If I want to add a project to a new (private) list, I click Add to List -> Create New List, enter list title/description and hit Save, it open the page for that list, but the list is empty. It would be great to have the project I was just in when I started the process to create the new list, automatically added to the new list.

Thanks!

Hi @trialexhill - I've sent you a private message!

Hi, I cannot get rid of empty videos in the gallery of my project (https://hackaday.io/project/185958/gallery#aa067470a379e6b83caa59c97b6281e7). Whenever I add a new video from Youtube an empty video appears in the gallery in addition to the actual video. Thanks for any help.

Looks corrected now, there was just a some formatting confusing the gallery. The videos should embed correctly if you use the 'insert video' button while the editor is open, then just paste in the youtube video url.

Thank you very much for prompt response! The gallery looks okay now.

It looks like request to join a project only appear in the notification email and on the project page itself. It would be nice to have these appears in My Feed and/or Notifications menu

Maybe I'm mistaken but it seems that project views for my projects have gone backward recently. Was the views stats restored to an earlier checkpoint?

There have not been any rollbacks but there can be small fluctuations in how they are calculated. What are you seeing?

The view counts for a couple of my projects went back to the numbers I renenbered from a few weeks ago, where they had been for a while, before I published updates to them. It's not a big deal, but I found the "rollback" quite consistent.

Edit: Now it the counts are back to the high-water marks that I saw. Maybe like you say due to the way views are counted.

I have a new account. I'm using a Microsoft Surface Pro 6, running Windows 10 version 21H2. I cannot access my profile or log out. The browser does not show a drop-down menu in the upper righthand corner of the screen, just a "My Feed" button. I can access my profile easily from my Android phone. The community manager who replied to my email told me Hackaday works just fine for them, using their Chrome on Mac. That wasn't helpful.

We are aware of the issue and can hopefully get that resolved for you. There was a misunderstanding in your original email, it wasn't clear that your laptop was a windows machine.