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Neil Jansen wrote 05/07/2014 at 16:22

I may be alone here, but I think the front project page layout is too terse and text-centric. A lot of the cool images get buried in the project logs and the "details" section which leaves the main page just a bunch of blocks of text with six pictures on the left-hand side.

What I think the project pages need is more of a way to draw people in to look at the build log content (and to do that, we need images and embedded video). A lot of people will just skim text until they find some cool stuff to look at.

A few quick suggestions:

#1: Give the option to embed a Youtube video to each project's main page. Especially for the HackadayPrize folks, that are required to have one anyway as part of the rules. I think this would give us a more meaningful way to convey our projects to the judges and hackaday users. It would be very similar to the way Kickstarter does it, where each campaign has an intro video... except they would be kept optional for people that don't want to go through the trouble.

#2: The project log entry summaries on the main project page currently strip away any images and just post the first couple of sentences. I think being able to have a picture or thumbnail from each project log summary would give people more of a reason to click the links. I don't think this is a lot of work for you, just stop stripping out the images that would normally make it into the summary. Or, you could add a summary text field and a summary image to each build log entry, that would show up on the main project page.

Thanks, other than that, I'm really liking Hackaday Projects. It gave me motivation to actually document my project(s), and for that, I'm grateful.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 05/12/2014 at 18:11

Hello Neil, Good idea about the video embeds.

Project logs have been updated so the whole post is displayed. If you want to just show part of the log, you can insert the 'more' tag.

Glad you like the site. You have done a great job on the write up for your pick and place 3D printer. Keep up the good work.

Jasmine

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frankstripod wrote 05/06/2014 at 20:00

Feedback: As a noob, I think this is great! The future of open collaboration, despite embedded video link problems (hopefully temporary).
Personal problem: I'm the weirdo who uses Geany also as a word processor, so I'm into indenting to separate subjects and ideas. I see evidence of others having indenting problems on this site also. Is there a workaround that I'm missing, is this a Wordpress thing, or should I give up my old school habits and give in to the interweb masses?

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 06/16/2014 at 19:26

Hello Frankstripod, indenting seems to be working now. Let me know if ti isn't for you. Thanks for your feedback.

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Quinn wrote 05/06/2014 at 14:23

It would be appreciated if you would add a clear harassment policy or code of conduct, including examples of behavior that is prohibited. The terms of use does include some of this in 3.3(a), but it could be improved. Having it only in the ToU also implies that the purpose is solely legal protection of HaD, and not for the protection of members of the community. A separate policy or code make a clear statement to participants.

The Ada Initiative has great resources about creating one, including this article which discusses exactly the HaD sort of community: http://adainitiative.org/2014/02/howto-design-a-code-of-conduct-for-your-community/

Additionally, the ToU and Privacy policy do not list hackaday.io.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 05/12/2014 at 18:04

Hello Quinn,

You have raised some good points and a code of conduct is something we will develop. Thank you for providing the link to the Ada Initiative, it is very useful.

At the moment the only way for hackers to contact one another on the site is through public comments on people's profiles and projects by people who are logged in. Obviously we do not want anyone to feel harassed while using Hackaday Projects, and if anyone does they can let us know by emailing
projects-contact@hackaday.com. We will look in to the situation.

Thanks again for your feedback. I'll get the legal docs updated.
Jasmine

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mr.botang wrote 05/06/2014 at 11:55

i need an email password generator.. any helper

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rawe wrote 05/06/2014 at 03:26

Youtube embeds in project logs don't work anymore. They show up in the editor, but there is a blank space in the page after saving (and if I edit the page again).

Inserted URL, hit return:

After saving:

(afaik this was first mentioned by emerica on IRC)

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rawe wrote 05/06/2014 at 03:28

comment feature likes html for breakfast.... src and allowfullscreen parameters of iframe just get removed after saving.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 05/06/2014 at 21:06

Hello, we released a fix for some security issues and it appears they were a bit over zealous with youTube embeds. We should be remedying this shortly. Thanks

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 05/06/2014 at 21:41

This should be fixed now.

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rawe wrote 05/06/2014 at 21:46

Thank you, it works again.

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therivermoonshell wrote 05/05/2014 at 20:57

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TAIBHSE DESIGNS wrote 05/05/2014 at 01:05

i must admit, im absolutely in love with the shown gui, simple and very well put together

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davedarko wrote 05/04/2014 at 11:33

Some ideas:

1. I would love to have that "made one" feature from thingiverse where you can show your own derivate of a project
2. comparable to the gist on github where you just throw in a draft which is not "git-worthy" it would be awesome to have an idea feature or a "quick hack" or trick section, which is not a long term project or big rescource monster or what ever
3. something like a "show related projects" would be cool, so you may find similar projects and hackers to collaborate with.
4. if there already is a view counter in the works, it would be great to show projects you haven't seen yet
5. and please integrate the feedback button in the "more" menu - i've seen enough project comments on this comment stream. it's just confusing.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 05/05/2014 at 19:21

Those are great ideas. We will see what we can work in to future development. Let us know if you think of anything else. Thanks.

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Allcitie wrote 05/04/2014 at 05:03

I came across this site, when I decided to make my own garage remote few days back. - haven't left since.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 05/05/2014 at 19:20

We hope you had a great weekend. Thanks.

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Jake wrote 05/03/2014 at 14:39

I don't know if anyone's mentioned it before, but I could really see this site be an Instructables rival, I already prefer it.

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Jake wrote 05/03/2014 at 14:31

It'd be nice if the details section just expanded in place instead of opening a new page, the same goes for other expandable sections:)

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 05/05/2014 at 19:19

Noted. Thanks for your feedback.

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bfoz wrote 05/03/2014 at 06:14

Are there any known issues with viewing the site in Chrome? It looks like I'm getting a mobile version (everything is in a single long linear layout), despite being on my laptop. The Menu button in particular looks like it doesn't reflow the layout properly after clicking it.

Also, I'll second someone else's comment about moving the "Give Feedback" button. I only just now realized that it's for site-level feedback, and not for whatever project I'm currently viewing.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 05/05/2014 at 19:19

Hello bfoz, we are not aware of an issue in chrome. Most people use it to view Projects. It does sound like you are seeing the mobile version if there is a menu button. What OS are you using?
Moving the 'Give feedback' button is on our list of things to do.
Thanks, Jasmine

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bfoz wrote 05/05/2014 at 22:21

Hi Jasmin. I'm using Chrome 34.0.1847.131 on OS X Mavericks.

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Myself wrote 05/01/2014 at 21:15

At the bottom of the Hacklet email newsletter, is a link to update subscription preferences.

That successfully takes me to my account settings page, but there's no box to uncheck if I don't wish to receive the hacklet by email.

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Mike Szczys wrote 05/01/2014 at 21:18

Sorry about that. I'll see if I can get this remedied for the next installment.

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rawe wrote 05/01/2014 at 14:44

your page does not like the % char:
http://hac.io/% - reveals internal paths, it may be possible to find out the library verions used by the line numbers
http://hac.io/%% - http 400 (seems to be normal behaviour)

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 05/01/2014 at 19:25

Thanks for letting us know. I have reported it as a bug.

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rawe wrote 05/01/2014 at 14:30

Is there a way for me to see a list of skulls I've given?

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 05/01/2014 at 19:27

Not at the moment, but thanks for bringing it up. We will look in to adding it.

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mikeneiderhauser wrote 05/01/2014 at 13:57

Suggestion: Add a project 'view' counter. How many views does the project page have.

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rawe wrote 05/01/2014 at 14:07

see "Some things we are working on" on this page ;)

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mikeneiderhauser wrote 05/01/2014 at 14:10

Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't see that!

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rawe wrote 05/01/2014 at 13:53

If the "details" section of a project is short, "Read more »" and "See all details" links make no sense. I suggest to hide these if the text is not shortened. Example: http://hackaday.io/project/1005

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davedarko wrote 05/01/2014 at 09:10

Can you move the feedback button to somewhere else? Or put it in the menu above? Because guess which button I pushed when I commented on my samsung tablet...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2jel5n5pexm8pxg/Screenshot_2014-05-01-11-05-41.png

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TTN wrote 05/01/2014 at 09:09

I get feed updates when someone else also follows a project I'm following, which in my opinion is unnecessary clutter. I'm getting way too many notifications just from that.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 05/01/2014 at 19:08

Decluttering and tailoring the feed is definitely on our list of things to do. Thanks for bringing it up.

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skyberrys wrote 05/01/2014 at 04:25

Are all projects immediately public? Or can I make a draft mode?

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Mike Szczys wrote 05/01/2014 at 04:55

They're public immediately. The point is to show off what you're working on during the build instead of saving it until you're all done.

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skyberrys wrote 05/01/2014 at 05:21

Can I mark something as 'in progress'? Like version numbers? Is there an API?

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 05/01/2014 at 17:55

We are working on project status (ongoing, completed, need help, etc.) and an API, but they are not ready yet. For the time being you can add an 'in progress' tag or let people know in the description. Versioning is an interesting idea.
Thanks for bringing these points up.

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skyberrys wrote 05/02/2014 at 04:33

Hi Jasmine! Thanks for the help! I posted an 'in progress' update to my Story Sphere... its me learning how to type on a new keyboard. :)

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