May be should start using some live spambot blacklist to disable those IP block from creating new accounts and projects?  There are free database available and probably scripts too.

How is the HaD blog site avoiding these bots.

Or we could shut down new accounts creation for a week.   I think at this rate, legit new users would hesitate to create new accounts to post projects.

that is dynamic ip that can't be block for long time.the javascript like info charts may is the cause of hacked project.

Just block the whole countries - spammers and their targeted market for a few days.  Rather that than this site becomes cluttered with junk.

you need reduce the text form and the exuberant code resources of this site.control the flow of packets of user and block their ip for the front transitory solution.

The source code highlighting doesn't seem to work very well for Python code:

https://hackaday.io/project/11660-various-micropython-libraries-and-drivers/log/45344-sharp-gp2y0e03-distance-sensor

Some of us are on other timezones than PST. Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully it's mostly dead now :)

look like that,this server information is said california,pasadena.But never believe everything.

There is an aggressive spam bot on hackaday.io.
It creates new users and spam projects.

Right now, the latest 50 or so projects are spam created in the last couple of hours.

They really should automate to remove some of these bots and removing their posts from the feed.  Sound like a HaD project/contest.

Another idea: using robot.txt to block off search engine for newly created account profiles and their projects for a week.  The extra time give time to clean up the SPAM.  This would prevent those that try to abuse search engine ranking.

I fully agree.

Pretty evil to spam the "NOW ON HACKADAY.IO" on HaD blog site.  May be should consider disabling new sign up from those IP blocks from China, India until the SPAM bots give up.

Even a cool down of 1 week of limiting the new account in those IP blocks to read only status would help a bit.  

May be a "Are you human" test designed for hackers -code segment, block diagrams, schematics, general questions that a person that would have a legit  project would know to weed out the marketers, CEO C level business types, spammer, bot etc. ?

Watch out SPAMMERS at large !!  https://hackaday.io/projects/hacker/166093 big time jerkoff spammer wich needs to be punished badly!!! 

and https://hackaday.io/raviboss  

and https://hackaday.io/swamiarjun43

and https://hackaday.io/LOVEBABA

and https://hackaday.io/asifraja68

Did you click on his profile and 'report as suspicious'? (personally i dont'like reporting people, but i guess these are spam-bots from hell...  )

"keeping on top of spam on a site like this is a full-time job!" 

I know what you mean...  mayebe it's time for some spam-traps / honeypots, or an extra phase for the account creation ( honestly, it was too easy ) 

good luck

This user send me a spam message. The account looks suspiciously like it was created by a bot.

https://hackaday.io/zola

(I can report spam comments, but couldn't find a way to report a spam PM. Is there such a feature?)

The only way to do that right now is to report from the user profile.

I got a couple of messages from this dude too... reported.

'Add project log' button needs more prominent placement. If project logs are there to provide a timeline and regular updates to followers, then it needs to be quick and easy to add a log. The logical place would be in the header next to [change background image][Edit project][Team Messaging] after you click  My Projects-->{choose project}-->Edit Project. Currently you have to go My Projects-->{choose project}-->Edit project-->Logs--> scroll down through all previous logs to the button right at the bottom.

If you are viewing a single project log or have just created a project log, there is no button to quickly add another one - you have to go back to Edit Project-->logs-->scroll down etc..

I have been getting a few "illegal access" errors tonight when I tried to add a project, detail page, read a project page etc.

Thanks for the feedback!

I'd like to add my existing project to the Assistive Tech prize, but the menu items inside the project are still showing the Automation prize (and not the Assistive Tech.)  Any other incantations needed? 

The option to add your project to Assistive should be available now if you try again.

Worked now. Thanks!

Hello, i am unable to update the list of components in my project. Link: https://hackaday.io/project/10188-automatic-digital-microscope

Thanks for the feedback Rodrigo!

Uneffective feature:

While writing a log, include a picture.
The pop-up window asks for a file to download but the upper-left tab shows that we can also add a link. Fill this field before selecting the picture.
Save.

When the page reappears, the picture points to the picture itself, not the desired link.

One has to edit the page again and edit the link on the picture...

I have a project in the Hackaday 2016 competition:

https://hackaday.io/project/11951-affordable-reflectance-transformation-imaging-dome

It's a semifinalist in the Citizen Scientist category, and is entered in the Automation category as well. But I've run into a problem.  The last time I tried to save a new instruction step, I got an Error 413 message, and the entire step was missing when I went back. Fortunately, I had saved the text elsewhere before submitting it, so I re-entered the text (had to re-insert the pictures), and tried to save it again. No luck - another Error 413 message.

From researching the message, it's related to the instructions being a message larger than the server can handle. I've actually submitted larger instructions than this one before, so not sure why this is happening. If the problem is that I've hit some kind of limit on the total server space I'm allowed, then I'd like to request a larger server space - I really need it. I'm writing these instructions very explicitly so that someone with minimal maker experience will be able to follow them and have a high degree of success. The main people that would benefit from building this system (archaeologists, paleontologists, numismatists, forensic analysts) are likely to fall into that category. Please let me know what I need to do to fix this problem.

leszekmp at gmail.com

I would suggest you to split one large step into multiple shorter steps.

Thanks, Ivan. Am in email contact with someone at Hackaday, and they suggested that as well. I tried that using text from previous, shorter instruction steps that had been uploaded successfully, and I also got the same error message. And I've been able to upload instruction steps of comparable or even greater length in the past without problems. Right now the leading theory is either a bug or a server configuration issue.

In the WYSIWYG editor, "Header 2" are rendered as black on grey.  They are rendered correctly outside.  This seems to be some recent thing.  I am on chrome win7 x64.

"‘It’s the wild colour scheme that freaks me out,’ said Zaphod, whose love affair with the ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight. '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 you’ve done it.’" - Hitchhiker's Guide.

I have no memory of this paragraph of H2G2... wow :-D

Thank you for reporting this issue...

Error editing description

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>> 266|                 <% if (_.get(locals, 'project.id') && role === 'admin') { %>
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Thanks for the feedback!

are skulls/likes not shown in the feed anymore?

Thanks for reporting, we'll let you know.

any updates on the skulls/likes not showing in the feed? 

This looks like a bug. They should be showing up. Will follow up asap.

Confirmed the issue. Fix will be in production next week. Apologies for the slow turnaround on this one.

cool thanks :) thought it could have been a feature because I got too many :D 

Hey Dave, this issue has been fixed.  Thanks for letting us know!

Yet another annoying editor bug
When writing a comment (like here) or a log, the cursor seems to jump around.

You type and you find that the last letters have been written somewhere else.

Am I alone to experience this ? I've never seen that in any other site.

I get this all the time editing logs. I think it happens when I hit backspace twice quickly, or some similar combination - it jumps my cursor to the top of the text. At first, I figured I was hitting home or page-up or something accidentally (sloppy typist), but eventually realized it's a bug.

Thanks for feedback...

I can't see view count on my project. Maybe I don't have enough views?

it starts to show at 50 or 80 independent views.

I've noticed that it also seems only to update once a day - maybe at midnight (somewhere :-)

Yes, It starts from 50 views.

Hi,
It looks like, I can't edit this project:

https://hackaday.io/project/1983-high-current-driver

I tried to edit title, subtitle, description. After long waiting, I got back an error message from the browser: ERR_CONNECTION_RESET

I tried it with chrome and IE. The result is the same.

I'll check with our Dev... Is that issue still exists?

Unfortunately, yes. :-(

I've just opened a ticket...

When I insert 

#include <file.h> 

line in code block, the part in <> it gets thrown away after sending the project log. Seems like it is considered being HTML tag - not sure if this is desired behaviour.

All else fails, use #include "file.h".  That's also a valid syntax and usually for user header files.

Yes, it works if you know about it. 

But if you are not aware of this problem - you paste some code in your project log and it silently becomes crippled. The code blocks usually output the verbatim copy of input data.

Thanks for reporting this issue!