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. :-)

being able to set a topic/headline on a group messaging channel would be nice :)

I joined the hackaday chat in the middle of the "present your project and ask for help" - thing, I noticed there were rules, but had no clue and didn't want to ask. Could be used for that. Let's just hope the css isn't to big ;) 

Yep, I thought that might of happened. We're going to make the format clearer and let people know every so often until we get something like this added.

Hey, is there a way of centering text in a project log? I have put a photo on there, and i'd like to centre the text below it kinda like a caption.

Heres what I mean: https://hackaday.io/project/4731-esplux-smarts-for-your-downlights/log/20286-scope-results

I'd love to have each of the italic text blocks below the images centered. 

Try this:

It was done with 'DIV align="center"'.

Google HTML center to see the exact syntax.
Write it in a text editor, then copy the text and paste it into your HaD project.

Doesn't seem to work .. html seems to be stripped when you post. Why there isn't a button for horizontal alignment i don't know...

Indeed, it's trickier then that. Sorry that I didn't tested it in the log before writing here.

Still, it was possible to do it.
I started a small project for these kind of tricks: 

It will be explained there how it was implemented.

Your name, text and oscilloscope picture were used as an example for the trick. Please let me know if you want them removed.

Very nice. 

Add name clicking, instead of directing to their .io page, have it parse their name on the chat text box, so we can easily respond to them. While also having a popup box above the name, that displays their hackaday.io link - and whatever else you guys wish to add over time

That's on the list too. Thanks.

Can we get some sort of sketch tool for the group messaging? nothing terribly fancy, just freehand + colors would suffice

I'll put in a request. Who else would find this useful? 

the ASCII-art impared

probably also nice for sketching ideas for projects when you don't have a pen and/or paper with you.

We all use different imaging programs, and I think a sketching tool may start an endless debate on what features to include. I would prefer to have the text editor in Firefox fixed first. It's very frustrating. Sorry @Aleks Clark

Cheers. I got it!

This one is still present:

https://hackaday.io/project/6528-paypal-money-adder-free-download-2015

Yes, they keep on popping up. Thanks for letting us know.

I guess these "projects" are spam:

https://hackaday.io/project/6516-freepdf-longing-by-mary-balogh

https://hackaday.io/project/6520-fullpdf-grey-fifty-shades-of-grey-as-told-by-c

https://hackaday.io/project/6519-freepdf-down-the-rabbit-hole-by-holly-madison

https://hackaday.io/project/6518-full-pdf-ps-i-still-love-you-by-jenny-han

https://hackaday.io/project/6517-download-pdf-ps-i-still-love-you-by-jenny-h

It looks more like a spam bot, because the list is growing.

Thanks for letting us know. I'll sort this out. 

The best thing you can do is 'report as inappropriate' by using the link on the project page. 

It's the end of the month - I guess all the bots respawn. 

[bug] [minor] [contest submission]

When I use the Lazarus browser extension to re-fill the THP entry form, the country doesn't get chosen properly. If I click on it after filling with Lazarus, it has my country right, but before I do, it still says US.

Chrome 43.0.2357.130 (64-bit), Lazarus 3.0.6

Does anybody else see a https error from hackaday.io?

It happens with different browsers and from different computers in the last few days, but not always. After reloading the page, usually will work normally. Chrome gives the following message:

"Your connection is not private

Attackers might be trying to steal your information from hackaday.io (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards).
NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED"

We generated new certs for hackaday.io/.com a few days ago and revoked/replaced the old ones. 

It's a caching issue, there's no real problem, and it'll go away in a bit.

Clear your cache if it's bothering you.

I will, thank you!

I'm following guys from HaD team. Last few days and weeks my feed was literally flooded by notifications like "X has added Y as contributor to Z" or Mike's replies to "Are you using these parts? Tell us to put you on the list!" stack topic. I understand it's vital for running the contest, but something like 300 new feed items in a couple of days is way too much. I'm even thinking of temporarily unfollowing those guys until the contest is over, because I can't see a way to filter out some topics.

Hello Jaromir, I speak with the team and see what we can do about this. I can see it's annoying. Thanks for raising it. 

Should I be able to vote on my own project in the Astronot voting, or was that a mistake that it showed up on my screen? I have a screen shot, but can't figure out how to get it into the comment :(

Yes, but you can only vote for it once in each round. It is treated the same as any other project in the voting. 

Thanks!

I just wanted to thank whoever is responsible for improving the voting system this year. I thought it was just a coincidence the first time, but I have not had to refresh once this year.

Screencapping this.

The boffins will be happy. 

Not sure if this is supposed to happen, especially when the IDs are the same ;) 

Definitely not. We're looking into this.

Hey Dave, you got to see this after voting for a project, or were you refreshing the page?

After voting of course :)

I thought so, but then I wondered if you would refresh if there were two projects that didn't seem suitable. 

I refreshed after the screensjot and it was fine again.

But I bet you voted the one on the left, right?
:o)