I just cannot find a list of the projects I have decided to follow. I am sure there must be such a button leading to such a list, but where?

Hello Thomas, it's hidden on your profile page. There is a 'view all' under projects I like and follow. https://hackaday.io/projects/hacker/82207/likesandfollows

Ohh, on the profile page. Thanks a lot!

Right now it is like Hotel California, you can add links (as in links on left hand side bars) to your projects any time, but you can't delete.  Would be nice to be able to delete your links links inside "Edit Project".

Hello K.C. Lee, which browser are you using?  

Usually, if you hover over the links in the External links section of the edit page, you will see a delete symbol appear on the right-hand side (circle with an X in it). 

OK, I just tried this on mobile and there is no delete button. I'll raise a ticket. 

I have switched over to Chrome as Opera is very unstable in the editor.  I see the delete button in Chrome after you have mentioned it.  Dark lettering on dark background.   No wonder why I didn't notice it before.

Thanks.

"'Every time you try and operate these weird black controls that are labeled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up in black to let you know" - HHGTTG

I love the reference. 

So I'm still getting emails when people replies to my comments, not respecting my email preferences. This is super annoying for me, and a liability for you. I've mentioned this before a good six months ago.

Hello Jarret, sorry we checked notifications for comments (https://hackaday.io/project/37-feedback-hackadayio/discussion-20459). I'll get replies to comments plugged as well. Thanks for letting us know. 

TL;DR: Only saving a log, not publishing it.

Hello,

I really love hackaday.io as the idea of people sharing projects, ideas and so on. This could really grow in diversity of projects like http://www.instructables.com/.

But I have one problem ... I can't just save a log and not publish it, I only have the option to not show it in my followers feed. Wouldn't it be quite easy to implement saving a log to your servers? Yeah, I could write the log in some other program but ugh, then I would have to make the hyper links again and all the other formatting. Think about it, I really miss this feature.

Cheers

Uncheck "Show update in feed" at the bottom of the Edit...  Instant stealth to global feeds.  It won't work for stalkers that hits F5 on your projects.

From a menu design point of view, that should be next to the publish/rubbish button at the top.

I've got a few feature requests that might be useful (If these are already in there, I'm on Firefox 39.0 Mac).

1) A notification when you are mentioned in group chat (and a link, perhaps?) - I had a mention in the Hacker Channel I was going to send a message about, but it has scrolled up too far now, haha.

2) A notification when you are mentioned/linked to in another project - or when one of your projects is mentioned.  A la pingbacks in Wordpress?

Really love the features we've got though - I'm documenting way more than I otherwise would be!

Hey PK, these should already be showing up in the feed, and you should be sent an email if you have not opted out. However, at the moment if more than one notification is triggered within a minute, you'll only get the first notification. Thanks for letting us know! 

If you write "less than"= 6.5mm or similar in a project log update (or in this comment, too), it will think it is html and delete the remainder of the sentence. Might be useful to check for a closing tag before assuming it is html.

Hey Erin. Thanks for letting us know!

if you get an email about a reply to a comment and the small snippet of the reply happens to truncate on a hyperlink, it's still a clickable link but the address of the link is also truncated, taking you to a random page/site (or a 404).

Thanks for letting us know. I'll put in a ticket. 

The "members" chat sidebar should list online members at the top.

We've got that one on the list. Thanks

Project chat should have an option to condense and fit more messages on one screen, similar to IRC chats. Perhaps integration with IRC clients could be useful?

Thanks John. We'll keep this in mind. 

I would suggest that a 'lite' option condense the text, and a 'performance' option limit the backlog to 50 messages. the biggest problem is that the browser is being forced to render hundreds of message directives, so if the backlog is simply capped, this will significantly improve performance

Project chat should have an alternate interface more reasonable for low-power machines connecting to large chats (such as the ones run by the THP collaboratoria) -- under these circumstances, the added overhead of ajax causes people to lag horribly or have problems with input mechanisms, resulting in disruption. It's sort of unreasonable to have this feature be entirely unusable for people on mobile or on old machines with poor connections, since chat is a solved problem and has been for decades.

My specific recommendation is IRC, since it's a straightforward-to-implement protocol with a lot of existing support on a variety of platforms.

This is a great idea. We're still working on group messaging. This feedback is very useful!

+1 to IRC

I wrote a new project entry good enough to make a grown man weep, and now I can't see it in my projects list. What happened?

I'll PM you

you know, i like this hackaday prize collaboration project, but it destroys my feed. So, could you fix that? thanks

I made a suggestion earlier that they should just make just a separate icon for the collaboration from feed and that would kinda solve that issue.
Are we so web 2.0 that we have forgetten about IRC?  It works well enough and you can even ignore users and send PM.  I have seen web client.

I'm going to sign up right before and then leave the project after, so that my feed isn't all cluttered with stuff.

We've got a ticket in to be able to mute notification for a group chat. Cheers.

+1 for this. I love the group chat, but its pretty spammy! Thanks for getting it sorted.

I think the request for better ways to arrange images came up before but I'd like to bring it up again in the context of @RoGeorge's project #Hack the Hack A Day Editor.

"Injecting" some html formatting sort of works but not quite reliably. Resizing both images to roughly half of the editor width and aligning them left and right doesn't work for all monitor/window sizes since the images seem to be assigned a fixed size in pixels. If it's possible I'd suggest to make it such that when an image is resized in the editor its size is set in relative terms. This would also make logs look more consistent across smaller and larger monitors/windows and might be more feasible than trying to figure out why a <p> is set to 0 height if it contains two images...

We'll look into how we can improve this. Thanks.

When posting to log, if I upload, or link an image all is well, but if I ctrl+v an image into the editor, it works but upon submitting I receive an "error 413" blank white page, this only occurs when pasting an image.

I am running Firefox on windows 8.1 sony vaio laptop. adblock and ublock turned off for hackaday.io, no other plugins.

Is this happening for anyone else? If so, is it just on FireFox? Thanks.

At home now on Chrome, I do not get this error, however pics pasted into the edit box do not show up on the post, here are three pictures, one inbetween words, the other two after, the third one was edited to include text which you can see:  https://hackaday.io/project/6570-one-fucking-shirt/log/20674-wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-test

GL

I have "E-mail when I receive a private message" checked on my profile. I just won a stickvise for my project (twice), got a message from Mike with the coupon code (twice), but received no E-mail.

Clicking on "menu" does not show an alert icon that I have new messages, and in the messages pane Mike is not at the top of the list on the left of my screen. I only found his message by accident because I wanted to send him a note.

Also, clicking on "menu" from the messages pane does nothing - doesn't pop up the menu, has no apparent effect.

Using unmodified Chrome on Windows.

Seconded. I think mike's message may have been 'special'? but here's a screenshot showing a message from mike a day ago, while the messaging sidebar shows the last message was 2 months ago

They must be black listing Mike for sending out too many you may have won messages thinking that they might be SPAM.  :)

Now this is interesting I got Mike's PM notification on email for joining a vendor list.

@Aleks Clark: I've realized the same issue and probably found out, how does it works. It looks like you get the last message date as YOUR last message date to the partner and not the date of the latest message in the conversation.

Yep, Mike used the API and so it didn't hit some of triggers. We have a ticket in for this. Thanks for raising it though. Glad you found the message. 

For the "Astronaut or Astro Not" weekly prize, you can pick a vote instead of a user, as [Iw2] said here, or you can keep picking a user, but if the user didn’t vote, then organize a themed small competition with those $1000, like the sponsor’s or the moving parts competitions.

That way, everyone is incentivised to come up with their ingenious projects/ideas.
This will also level up a little the unfairness of HaD Prize contest.

Don’t get me wrong, HaD Prize is great, but is only for a small niche of makers, or for teams. Most of the people could not afford to put thousands of men-hours in one project.

That's actually a good suggestion, and it's easy to implement.

The thing is, I already said I'd be doing it one way. Can't change it now. I'm going to pick a rando on .io, if they didn't vote, pick a random person who voted. That's what's happening wednestday.

I don't know what we're doing *next* week, but... yeah.... that's a good suggestion.

... some way to *tag* (maybe?) projects-followed... as-to why you followed them (or continue to)... such that they can be browsed-by-tag...? Kinda like bookmarking the project-pages, except there may be *multiple* reasons to do-so... (thus multiple tags). In a way, I suppose, kinda like the "curated lists" except, as-curated by each follower... and, again, multiple-taggings!

Yep, some people have not tagged their own projects, so it would be nice if other members could tag them too. 

but also for one's own purposes... e.g. some project contains an idea I could use for my own project... I could tag it, in my follow-list, with my project's name so that I could easily come back to it that way.

At some point we would like to open up member lists, so tags could  tie in with that. 

One more request, please:

Make a HaD Forum.

They HaD a forum... I don't like forums for all the "good work" comments and in between questions. Logs win over them, imho. 

Indeed, logs, blogs and projects should stay. Then, a separate thing: a forum to exchange information. This proposal came as an alternative to the chat channel. In my opinion, a chat talk has limited value when compared to a forum talk. Compared to a chat, a forum has memory over time, can be searchable by search engines, have more elaborate answers then a chat, and tend to pile a lot of valuable information over years.

We are unlikely to add a forum, but I agree it would be great to have a place where community members can exchange and refere to information on particular topics in a non-transient way. 

Most of the projects have just a few log entries. I guess this is because, if you have many log entries, only the last few of them are listed in the main page. For the rest of them, you need to click the "View all x project logs" button. Most of the people don't click to see more.

The request is to have a single page per project, with a long scroll, like a blog style.

This might be a much better way to see a whole project at a glance.

Or a "Table of Contents" on the first page with the title and few lines from all logs

I guess the habit will be to first scroll down, and look for pictures, maybe log titles too. Then, if those seems interesting enough, start reading the text.

It's not only that I'm lazy :o), but there is not enough time to read everything.

Fractals!

I was voting for "no clicks and buttons, just a single long scroll"

Good idea! (regarding a TOC) And worthy-of-implementation... though I fear most will be too "lazy" to reread their old logs and add them to a TOC... maybe this is where "tags" come into play...?

ToC would be very nice. Thanks for the idea.
Just started doing one manually, by listing links to log entries in the 'Project Details' section: https://hackaday.io/project/6621-hack-the-hack-a-day-editor

We're currently working on some layout tweaks which includes adding quick links to the project page sections. It may include something to summaries log entries too. If raised this with the devs. Stay tuned. 

One thing about the project's picture gallery. Most of the pics we upload is 4:3 or 16:9. The current square picture box just cut it in the view. Can it be changed that it shrink to fit, or change the box itself?

I guess it could be done, but then the pictures would not look so great.

The first rule in photography is "fill the frame". That is why, a zoomed crop will almost always looks better then the original. Most of the amateur photographers does not apply the "fill the frame" rule enough, so zooming and cropping will be just right for them.

Of course, if a professional photographer or an artist will find it's photography cropped, (s)he will be really mad about this. 

You can also click through to view gallery to see the images uncropped e.g. https://hackaday.io/project/2439/gallery#42579b233f7944dd639f70c828e1876f

This looks better, thank you. :-)