I can't see project photos anymore. They're cropped! It's horrible!

The old layout wasn't that good, but this is just plain worse.

Which project photos are an issue? I don't think there have been any big layout updates recently.

All projects, including this one. Although they sneakily added a wide gray border around this photo so it still looks good when cropped. And I haven't been here in a few months, so the update might not be 'recent'.

there are "following" and "liked" buttons on my projects in my feed list :) I can't press them, but I was tempted enough to try.

Thanks, you're right they shouldn't be visible on your own stuff.

I can't upload JavaScript and HTML files to a project. OK I understand the security concerns but I got the same rejection when I wanted to upload them in a tar.gz archive...

What is the recommended method ?

re-write in assembly :-)

Where are you uploading them? I've uploaded .js files to the file storage area

I added you to the #Game of Life bit-parallel algorithm project so you can try and I send you by PM the error message, coming from HaD.io

Mystery solved: My script blocker blocked s3.amazonaws.com which seemed to provide some of the features.

Meanwhile, I made a C version....

I keep getting the "needs your permission to enable desktop notifications" message.

Any chance you can put my preference (ie - "no") in a cookie or something so that it only asks once?

(Note: I dismiss it using the X checkbox in the UR corner.)

Thanks for the feedback! I don't get that message on Mac, (I clicked no for most chatrooms), but I get it always on PC. I'm using Chrome on both. Will look at settings.

I should have mentioned: I'm using Chrome as well, it's set to accept cookies.

Peter - I disabled my adblocker (Win10/ Chrome) and the gold band "needs to enable ..." went away

adblockers and scriptblockers are causing some issues, it seems, the webdevs should take them into account, or we get misleading error messages :-/

I'm guessing that your devs are using a 3rd party library for the desktop notifications feature, and the library is known to be from a spammy company or of bad provenance by the ad blockers.

I won't disable ad blockers, because I trust their judgement in this.

It looks like I'm stuck with the behavior. Thanks for looking into it :-)

Is there a crack in the spam shield ? A race condition to exploit ?

The quarantine idea works only if the projects are public.

I just spotted spam from 1 week ago, which doesn't seem to be reported.

Did the projects start as private, until the embargo period was over ?

I was just dabbling around in the jobs board, and was struck with the geographic constraints. There's are interesting jobs in Mauritius, Pasadena, NYC, and Boston.

How about a "projects" board, where people or companies can post project requirements and let other hackers respond?

For example, I'm currently laser cutting some parts for another hacker, and on previous months I've 3d-printed parts and made other pieces for other people.

I'm pretty comfortable with laser cutting & have access to one, but I find making circuits very difficult. I could easily pay someone to make a schematic and board layout for a prototype I'm working on.

I don't do mechanical layout very easily either, and I know a lot of people here find that sort of thing easy.

OTOH, I did microcontrollers for 30 years and can very easily make software for people: modifying and adding-on to a design is then much easier.

How about a channel devoted to people who need a basic framework for something, using skills they don't have? Something that is a prototype, that they can then extend and modify for their project?

Hey Peter, I love this idea. Lately, people have been using the Stack to ask for what they need. What do you think of the #Collaborator Matchup project?

it's under-used and barely known... it should be promoted prominently :-)

"Usernames must contain only alphanumeric characters. You can use a dot as a separator."

It is offending to have to transliterate names. Please allow unicode everywhere, it has been around since tens of years now and doesn't cause any problems anymore.

Why am I following over 50 random People and Projects after signup? Is this just an evil way to ensure that the authors stay on top of the list forever?

Error of error: while posting a reply to a comment on https://hackaday.io/project/14628-ambap-a-modest-bitslice-architecture-proposal/log/48656-relay-endurance-speed-and-reliability

The message was published anyway...

It might explain why some logs or comments were duplicated lately ?

The system objects to your abuse of relays :-)

Then it would complain "relay error" "bad proxy" "wrong port" :-P

Thanks for the feedback!

Thank us by telling us the story of how you spotted the problem and what the blunder was ;-) you know we love stories !

Oh, you could start a "coding horror" project on here ;-)

I have been seeing these more and more, too.  Just got this one.  (Redaction box drawn by me.)

Feature request for the next contest. Some way for others to (secretly) comment on projects with things the judges might need to know, for EG links to prior art that is being claimed as novel, relevant research on the feasibility of projects etc - basically like the thing they do at weddings asking for any last objections to the union. I haven't had issues with the current winners, but I can forsee someone doing well with a stolen idea. 

Although, looking at the current judge lineup I suspect they know more than enough to spot any funny business :p

Hi John! Thanks for the feedback! Comments on any project are always welcome. Comments directly to the Prize can go to prize@hackaday.com. And yes, we're pretty lucky with this group of judges.

As a followup, something very useful to contest entrants would be feedback, especially negative feedback.

It would help a lot if there were some way to anonymously show the scores the judges gave to the projects, and maybe make their internal discussions available to the project lead.

For example, judges might say things like "the documentation was hard to understand", or "this doesn't look like it has a lot of hacker potential", or even "this isn't a hack".

This would let the project leads know where they should focus for improvement next year.

Failing that, perhaps a way that other members could anonymously comment on each others' projects.

I used to run an event-driven business; we required member feedback after each event, and let people say whatever they wanted about anything.

What we found was that if we paid attention to the feedback and made changes, we held better events and eventually became the most popular system of its type in the area. Frequently the changes were minor and easily made.

If you want better projects on the site, consider allowing feedback so that people have a method for learning and improving.

I agree with your point.
We would really appreciate if we can get feedback on our project especially from judges.

Ever since the recent spam was dealt with, my two new projects don't show up in the projects lists anymore.  If you sort projects by newest, they should show up on page-2(as of this post)  The projects were created on 10-29-2016, but they don't show up in the lists at all.  Not even in the completed project lists(TheBlackBoxSequencer) or the ongoing projects lists (MimsMirror)

They are public, and are still in my projects, and can be found if searched for by name.

Project 1 - MimsMirror - Created 10/29/2016 - https://hackaday.io/project/16788-mimsmirror

Project 2 - TheBlackBoxSequencer- Created 10/29/2016 - https://hackaday.io/project/16789-theblackboxsequencer

Is this a bug from the few new policies /improvements in the queue that were changed due to the spam?

I guess someone fixed the problem, my projects are now back in the lists, currently on page 3 of the new projects.   Thanks.

It would be nice to be able to spin off projects from existing ones, somehow. Github / Git allows you to "fork" projects. Perhaps that's not very apt for a mostly-hardware community. Thingiverse allows you to "remix" things, but that doesn't seem quite right either. Perhaps a "drew inspiration from" sidebar.

That would be good if I wanted to, for example, start a project documenting some tentacles, with my own twist, but still using some ideas from the #Two Stage Tentacle Mechanism logs

Agreed, "fork" or "remix" would be a great feature

Yes- it's cool that so many of us are remixing others' projects. Until we add a way to do it formally, add a fork tag to your project.

you might want to automatically delete projects with  "代办学历认证" in the title after 5minutes or so. 

I'm sure the admins have enough data (IP address, email address etc.) to create efficient filters.

Another trick : allow display of spam-flagged posts/users to the user's IP subnet so they don't see they are flagged. That will keep them busy for a while, instead of creating yet another account.

For a few last weeks, the .io news from blog page looks usually like this

I already stopped reporting the spammers.

If you stop, they win...

They are selling fake university "official" documents.  HaD staff should report/forward them to the universities affected.

Add "QQ", "Q/微信", "QQ/微信", "微q" or similar combinations to the alleged filter as that's what they use for email.  :)

We have just implemented a few policies that should address this & have some more improvements in the queue. Hopefully this should be a thing of the past soon. Thanks for your patience! 

So far, it seems to work.

Let's see in the long term :-)

SPAM filter still not working 100%:

https://hackaday.io/xiaotubai8455

https://hackaday.io/ibntechsupport

Near the end of the HAD prize cutoff, the blog ran a "you still have time to enter" article. This meant that anyone who wanted to enter the contest had to make an assistive technology project

If you do this again next year, consider putting the "anything goes" round at the end. That would seem to be the best position to catch people that are slow in entering, late, or don't find out about the contest until late in the season.

I will say again that I think this year's prize has hit very high marks. Money prizes instead of swag, lots of smaller interim awards, and multiple categories with three "catch-all" categories makes this years contest a lot more inclusive and exciting.

Yet another blunder :-D
So far I have 45 projects. OK.
But a mouseover on my profile link (in comment sections) says I have 47 !

I made a screenshot but don't know how to include it in comments.

I usually add a quick project log for uploading the image.  While still in the editor, I copy the URL of the image into the comment.  

After posting the comment, I quit the project log edit without saving.

I imagined such a kludge but...
nooooo....

See it works.  :)

I'll just say "I have ethics" :-P
OK, let's add this request : add pictures to comments ? like, use the same editor as for the logs ? I wonder why it's still not possible or done !

I started a separate project called "potpourri" for that very purpose. I can upload images to build logs there and then post links to other parts of this site, and to comments on the HAD blog.

Github is also very easy to use and easy to upload images to.

I don't know if/how HaD removes "orphan" pictures from their CDN...

It would be far better to allow pictures directly in comments :-D but this does not address the blunder that motivated the original post.

I now have 46 projects and there is still an off-by-two, two phantom projects are added on the mouse-over label...
One explanation might be that I transmitted one project to @al1 (the #PICTIL) but what about the 2nd phantom project ? o_O
I hope that the HaD developers don't try to design electronic voting devices :-D

Blunder still blunding.

I have 49 projects and the mousover shows 51...

OK, mouseover shows 51, and I really have 51 projects.
Yet.
Because I have more in mind, I can't stop thinking.
There will be more projects...

I noticed there is some new "clutter" in my personnal message inbox. There are topics based on some of my projects, with no actual messages and no other persons than myself, just with "This space feels empty. Why don't you invite some people to collaborate with you?" text. What's the deal with this one?

that's the project chat stuff, you have that for every project of yours since the beginning of the project chats :)

I would swear it wasn't there few days ago. I haven't started the chat anyway and there are no other people I could chat with. What is the point of empty chat that nobody started?

no idea, but it was probably easier to just open them by default / foreach(projects) show_chat() or something. You could use it for private notes? I don't know. I don't see them anyways.

woohooo!

Hello. The latest project that I uploaded doesn't show the number of views. Only the number of likes and followers.

Hi Julio, view count starts counting from 50 views.

I see... Thanks for your reply!

kudos to the designer of the 'PROJECTS YOU MAY LIKE' it looks very clean and I like that it shows a lot more than two projects!

I must admit it is useful feature, too. Thumbs up for developers.

the automatic link detection thing doesn't automatically link detect this link ⡱⢎.io   :(

Is there any way of showing line numbers in a code snippets? it would make life much easier when trying to describe the operation of a snippet. it looks like the underlying plugin (codemirror plugin for redactor ?) might have the capability but there's no interface to switch it on (that I can find, anyway).