What happened to "my messages"? I see, that I have 2 new messages, but by clicking on "my messages", I get redirected to discord, where I have no channel or server or whatsoever linked to hackady.io. 

See https://hackaday.io/project/206203-whats-going-on-with-hackaday-and-discord

Thanks for the hint .  So next thing, I'll need, is an elegant -preferable automated- way to backup my hackaday.io projects locally before that too gets caught behind a corporate wall...

Global feed seems to sometimes end after a page or two, and seems to be triggered by certain projects. Which means you may have a JS vulnerability on your site.

Creator status approved, but publishing any new project returns 403.

Username: Lokeswarbarik

Email verified.

Creator status was approved today.

I can open and fill the New Project form, but clicking Publish immediately returns the 403 “Something Went Wrong” page.

Could you please check whether my account has the correct project-publishing permission?

I don't understand why "Sign up with X" is one of the only two social login options offered on this site. Everybody with an ounce of self respect already left that platform. There's only neo nazis left there now.

discord link doesn't work

HaD should stop announcing new profile pages on the global feed. It's being used by spammers to post nonsensical AI slop.

I created a new project.  I cannot find anyway to add external links like before (e.g. github).  Is this gone?  Moved?

Isn't it under Edit Project > External Links as always?

Well Doh' Ken! It's been so long since I created a project that I passed right by that section....

Dear Sir,.

Is the search function of the project unavailable? Thank you!

J.K

Looks like search isn't working.  I'll ping the Dev folks about this!

Thank you your help!

Yeah, the search function doesn't work. I had to resort to web search. And I got the lost spaceman the first time I tried to post this so the site still throttles requests sometimes.

There's been some history of images not loading. Even when eventually successful, lazy-loaded images may appear after a reader has already scrolled past where they aren't.

As it is now, there is no indication that anything is missing from where an image hasn't loaded yet.

Request: please add some kind of visible place-holder where an image hasn't loaded yet, preferably to include the image "title" and/or "alt" text.

For example: the editor (only) shows a broken image icon and the image "alt" text where an image source doesn't resolve.

Stretch: the editor invites entry of an image "title" then populates both the title and alt tags with that text. Not terrible, but not always ideal. How about a checkbox to toggle optional entry of a different alt text?

The link to discord is broken.
Discord states "No Text Channels"

I accept your choice not to support in-app chats anymore. 

What I am upset about is that your notice did not warn that existing messages would become inaccessible, nor include a warning to grab any conversations before they did so.

I put a lot of time and effort into my project work, and now I am nervous that it could all vanish if someone decides to. Do we have any legal agreements not to wipe our work?

I understand you have made the choice to offload in-app chat to Discord. Not only are my existing conversations now inaccessible, but Discord are a dreadful choice for all the reasons explained here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGP9Nw6uwHY&t=347s
To set up an account, they want an enormous amount of personal details. When (not if!) they get hacked, hackers will then be able to use those details to prove they are me or any other Discord user. Nobody with any security concerns should use Discord, or tell people to use it.

I am having the same issue I cannot get to "my messages" I keep getting a redirect to Discord????

Why is My Messages redirecting to Discord? What is the plan?

Hey site management: You might as well zero the unread messages count since clicking on My Messages doesn't dismiss it and I'm not going to join Discord anyway.

Search isn't working for me at all. Zero results no matter what search term I use.

Me too.

There's no report button for spam in the messages. At least not one that's easy to find

Which messages? The private messages? You can block the sender. For comments you can report the commenter.

Haz my system been hacked? I woke to see that the private messages are no longer existent! It forwards to discord, where I don't have an accout. Have I lost years' of conversations and friend-connections?

the Search-function seems to be down. Only gives me zero hits even on words like arduino and raspberry

As a newcomer I can see no easy way to return to Liked projects at a later date. How to best do this?

Go to your own profile and click on the Following link. That will take you to a list of projects liked and followed.

Do you mean under my Profile picture? I don't see any Following link there.

NVM, I had to click the down arrow to see it. It wasn't visible in the dropdown list. Thanks.

No your profile page that you get when you click on your avatar. Or My profile in the mobile version.

Yep, clicking the down arrow does the same as the profile pic. I initially thought the drop down list you got hovering over the profile pic was all the options available. Thanks for your help.

Editing the instruction steps doesn't cause them to be shown on the front page, despite the checkbox set to allow this.

And still getting 500 Lost Spaceman at random on any page. Clicking on refresh repeatedly will cause it to display eventually. Looks like front-end throttling of page requests.

The two Featured Projects on your home page were added December 2025 and have not been updated in 5 months. Stale. Stale. Stale.