http://nautil.us/issue/27/dark-matter/why-we-cant-get-over-ourselves The whole series has been very well put together from what I've seen. It may be worth extrapolating a plan to mine some data pertaining to the theories expressed in this series to better analyze ways of improving hackaday.io. With data we can predicate a set of good reasons to change hackaday.io for the better.

http://nautil.us/issue/32/space/the-bugs-in-our-mindware-rp specifically this one stands out as being useful. 

I found what feels like a bug.... Steps to Reproduce:
- In a new project update, start typing an unordered list,
- Use tab key to indent the list, and continue typing up list.
- Unindent using Shift+Tab, and continue typing up list.

Expected result: List should be continuous, consistently indented spaced.

Actual result: Shift-tab doesn't consistently remove indentation, odd spacing between lines generated, main remedy is to just type up the list, and then indent as needed.

Browser: Firefox 43.0.4 (soon to be updated to 44.0) with addons: Adblock Plus, Disconnect, DownThemAll!, Easy Screenshot, Ghostery, JSONView, LastPass, (disabled Skype) 

Can it be recreated: Not sure. Shift-Tab definitely fails consistently, but I'm not sure it always fails in the same way...

Requesting an "ignore user" function for certain users that post a lot of projects with, like, no content. 

+1 Also options for (feed) ignore by tags, keywords, titles etc.

video link windows so small in project logs.  images are way bigger. is there some markup to change the default size ?

I followed the https://hackaday.io/contest/9326-adafruit-pi-zero-contest and now my feed is flooded by XXX followed the contest messages.

For other items, some kind of grouping is employed, I'm missing this feature here.

We'll get this sorted. Thanks for letting us know!

Hey Jaromir, this has now been updated. You can see a few other updates here: https://hackaday.io/project/46-hackadayio-project/log/31819-latest-ux-tweaks-to-hackadayio

So I'm still getting emails when people reply to my stuff, even though my subscription preferences are all off. I've been reporting it for literally a year, gonna go change my profile's email to one I don't check, now

Can you PM me with the email address that it's going to? Thanks!

I'm seeing the same issue. I had all of the email notifications disabled, and now two of them are enabled again.  I actually spoke to alexander about this via email back in 2014 when the "hacklet" emails started.   I really don't appreciate these settings getting reset every time you add a new newsletter.  

Don't change your email, report it to the FCC. This is a potential violation of CANSPAM. 

hi there- we think this is a bug. I can't find your email address anywhere. Please email me sophi@hackaday.com to sort this out.

Any easy way to paste table data? The only way I've found atm is to use an online ascii table generator and paste it in a code block.

Any feedback on this? 

I have a project idea but I don't have the knowledge to see if it is feasible or making any sense. So I need someone who can give me a feedback on it.

Hey Bernard, you can start a project on hackaday.io with just an idea. Outline what you want to do, and what you'd like help with. Say you would like collaborators. If you really think it is too early to start a project page, you can also post to hackaday.io/stack. Good luck!

forgiveness

I can't find the feed settings anymore.

We don't have them since the last feed update. 

That's unfortunate :D now I can't disable event followers in my feed. I think nobody cares about that anyway, so quick fix == just take it out of the personal feed?

Here's an updated version of my 'feed cleaner' JS script, for those reading along. https://hackaday.io/page/1113-contest-follower-update-my-current-hackadayio-feed-cleaner

I have created a project that went to limbo! I can not edit, the [Edit Project] link does not appear. Ironically the project is named #Oh Cheat!

Did you already try logging out and back in?

Yeah. Did not work unfortunately. Tried also to log in from another browser. The same happens. The project is stucked.

Did you try turning it off and then turning it back on? ;)

I have created the project again and now it is working. Thanks

haha

Just created another project with the same name. Now I have literally a ghost project.

I've hidden the ghost project. 

Thanks! Can't you delete it? 

@Jasmine

I see both projects on the "projects" page... I hope you can solve this :-)

Your email link are broken - 

The links look like this - http://hackaday.com/2016/01/20/a-linear-time-sorting-algorithm-for-fpgas#comment-2891816

My email client strips the anchor and everything after like this - http://hackaday.com/2016/01/20/a-linear-time-sorting-algorithm-for-fpgas

So when the page opens - it opens at the top and I don't know which comment is new.

This happening because the original link is not technically a correct URL. 

It should be - http://hackaday.com/2016/01/20/a-linear-time-sorting-algorithm-for-fpgas/#comment-2891816

with a "/" before the "#" so that the URI contains a correct URL. ie URL must end in "/"

I sent an invite for somebody to help contributing to one of my projects, that person did not accept it or do anything with the invite. It seems currently there is no way to cancel the invite so the status stays permanently as "Invite sent". However for people who have officially been added as contributors to a project can be removed. Can we have a "Cancel invite" button as well?

Hey, I've put in a request for this. It is also useful when you've accidentally invited the wrong person. Thanks!

I reported earlier that while editing a blog post, pressing the "delete" key anywhere within the text will remove image formatting (size, float left/right/center) throughout the post.

I've now discovered that the image formatting is removed in my edit session, but is retained when the blog entry is posted. This means that I cannot see the effect of a resize or float while editing, I must publish the update to see if the arrangement looks OK.

This is wildly non-WYSIWYG, and makes editing a blog entry a massive time sink.

To reproduce, make a blog entry with text and images. Make the images smaller, then place the cursor anywhere within the text and press the delete key. The images will pop back to their original sizes.

Publish the blog, and you'll see that the images are resized - even though the editing session has lost the formatting.

This bug is aggravating to those of us who use a lot of imagery, please fix this soon as it is currently preventing me from making blog entries.

I've put in another ticket for this. 

It is really, really annoying that the reply system is limited to two levels. What is the point of even having nested replies then? I often find that interesting discussions are started in the comment feeds, and more levels of comments are really needed.

+1 for reddit style comment anarchy!

Similarly-relatedly: So often I see replies to comments placed in a new comment section... Can blame it on the user, but it's *really really* common, and followup-replies-to-misplaced-replies-on-comments seem few and far-between, which seems to mean a lot of people are given replies but never getting 'em...

Agreed, a few more levels would be very handy. Several times now I have accidentally up/down voted a comment when I was actually trying to reply to it.

I have found that posting project logs can be demoralizing if nobody comments directly on the log.  A nice way to improve the experience would be to show the number of views on a project log so at least you can see that someone has given it a glance.  Sometimes (and I know I'm not alone) I work hard on a nice project log and if nobody comments, I am left wondering if anyone even looked at it.  But I know people do look at them, since I read logs all the time without commenting.  At any rate, that's my argument for adding a "views" statistic to the project logs.

I think this can be fixed with "skulls" as likes for stuff... it's the easiest way to show appreciation. Especially when it can be given on the feed as well.

Sounds like a plan. I've put in a ticket.

What is the RSS / Atom / whatever url for the global feed? Sorry if this is answered somewhere already, but I couldn't find it. Thanks!

https://hackaday.io/rss/globalFeed

Thank you, Ivan!

It would be awesome to have a "read all logs" button on top of the logs, when using the navigation bar to jump to the logs.

Hi, there's a minor bug in the project-join-request process. If the project was submitted for the Hackaday Prize 2015, the applicant is presented the real name/location/email form, after sending the request the applicant will be informed, that it's still x months and y days until a winner is announced. The latter is definitely not intended :)

Thanks for letting us know!

I often used to look at projects that others follow and then I myself followed many of them. Looking at what others with a similar interest followed was a good way of finding projects that interested me. 

Now the pictures have such an obscure aspect ratio that nothing at all can be determined by the picture itself so I gave up on this source of media for me to follow. 

This site has a history with aspect ratios. The *common* aspect ratios are common for a reason. I used to be quite active here and I have a number of projects - many unfinished or not updated because I lost interest with the image editing I need to do so that my images would fit in with the way this site crops images into odd aspect ratios. After all that effort you changed the crop/aspect ratios and all my effort was destroyed. Consequently all of my projects - many of interest to others with followers - have been left for dead. 

I can understand that you need to beautify the main / blog site and you *play* with that often *but* the member area needs to be *functional* and easy to use or others will (just as I have) give up on contributing here. 

You need to settle on an aspect ratio that people are familiar with and leave it alone. You also need some decent image editing for contributors. Since you have introduced 1GB of storage for members then there is no excuse for not having an image editor that will take very large imaged from camera and crop and scale them for the site or at the very least have some cropping frames that represent the aspect ratios used on this site. If you get this right then I might even update my projects. 

I'm not trying to be critical for the sake of being critical, this it my experiences here and why I gave up. I hope this may be useful to you.

Hello Hacker404, sorry for the frustration. Are you referring to the aspect ratio on the feed? The project listing page and how your images appear on your project hasn't changed recently. Yes, image editing would be great, it's on our todo list. 

I've passed this comment on to the team. We are experimenting and working out ways to improve so your feedback is very useful to us. Thanks for taking the time to let us know. 

"Projects I Like & Follow" on a user profile page. I haven't seen the feed for ages. I only get here by following links from HAD blog.