The notifications pop-up and the associated mail generator were erratic today, they showed a couple of follows from months ago, which didn't show in global feed (correct, since they are old news).

Does the time shown in notifications also reflect an old date, or did it display a recent time?

Two days ago and one day ago for the two.

Ok thanks, mail seems to be on schedule atm but I will watch for anything out of the ordinary.

I should have mentioned that I saw those follows the first time and even commented on one, so the notification gizmo seems to have gone on a time trip. Maybe bored in lockdown. 😉

An option to display logs in chronological order would be nice. While a project is in progress, it's fine to show the latest log first, but when a project is complete, or when coming in the middle of the story, an option to read logs in historical order is useful.

"View all {n} project logs" -> "sort by" -> "oldest"

It's there but could be less obscure.

You're right. I would add that the default sort order could be made an author choice which can be modified when the project is complete.

Another improvement could be to put another link to View all project logs at the top of the section instead of requiring the reader to scroll to the end of the logs to reach that button.

(new "reply" because limited reply depth)

ky> "Another improvement could be [...]"

Yes.

To amplify: I wrote a gripe/request comment on "Everything 101" about making "view all logs" better, to which @Richard Hogben replied "Pretty reasonable, I'll look into what we can do."

https://hackaday.io/project/46-hackadayio-project/log/460-everything-101 [dunno how to link to a comment; scroll to 6Jan21]

Commenting to link this here & that there.

Having a single HTML page for details or logs seems to be badly suited to those hackers who like to amend their stories often. After a while one gets weary of figuring out what was added to or what changed in the story and stops following. Could HaD provide a smart editor which would allow hackers to highlight the changed portions so one can just cut to the chase?

Is there a way to change password if you've forgotten it. I am logging in using github, but years ago I registered with a @yahoo account. I deleted the @yahoo mail and forgot the password. Now I recreated my yahoo account (again, just for this!), but to change my password it still wants me to enter my previous password. And to change my email to my present email it also wants my old password. So there's just no way to say "forget password, send a reset link", and, hence - no way to change my email.

Hello,

A while ago, Hackaday announced launching a journal for hackers and makers. Since I have not heard anything about that in a while, I assume that that project did not end up taking off. As an academic type, I think that is a shame. But have you considered providing DOIs (https://www.doi.org/index.html) for projects on Hackaday.io? I think it would immediately make them more citable, and provide a little extra motivation for people to put their projects on there.

I do not know how much effort such a thing actually would be, but I thought it would not hurt to share this idea with you.

Cheers

I'm trying to switch from authenticated on HaD.io with my github account to using a plain old email address and password.  When trying to change email or password, HaD.io complains the password is incorrect.  What am I doing wrong?

Sent you a PM

Loosely related to @J.B. Langston's point. When displaying the pages on a persons profile could we have that it collapses the article to Title + first paragraph. Currently it displays the whole article and it makes it really frustrating to scroll trough someone's posts.

The User Pages section on hackaday.io could use some SEO. I host a few projects on hackaday.io already, so when Medium started monetizing articles in annoying ways, I moved all my electronics blog articles to user pages on hackaday.io. After that, my posts seem to have fallen into a black hole.  Even searching for phrases I know to be in the articles turns up nothing on Google. My pages are at: https://hackaday.io/pages/137872

Edit: After trying different searches it seems the problem is a little more nuanced. What actually turns up in the search is the link above with the title "J.B. Langston's pages | Hackaday.io". This goes to the top of all of my published pages, not to a specific article.  If searchers scroll down long enough they might find the article eventually, but it would be much better if a Google search returned the direct link to the article with the proper title in the search results.  I guess I could create projects for these but some of the articles don't really merit a project of their own.

I'd like to know who the PROCESSOR SNOB was who decided a a standard 32 bit OS R.Pi with 32 bit Raspbian CAN'T participate in folding@home, eliminating probably 80% of possible participants, whom ever he/she/it is, is a processor snob!

:(

Nobody is being a processor snob, they are being engineers.
There is a Ubuntu/32bit port, It's an open-source project, you can get involved, get that working on the PI, and help the volunteers who run it improve their platform support.

I hunted for a long time for a 32 bit Raspberry Pi supported port at 32 bit's I'd move to Ubuntu if some kind person were to tip me as to the 32 bit Ubuntu port was hiding, please sir.

Rosetta@home is well supported on 32bit Pi's. it complements and works on some of the same data sets as folding@home. You can still make a great contribution that way. There is a blog post from the Pi foundation regarding how they assisted folding@home in adding arm support (may 2020, Covid response). The discussion thread below it is quite illuminating.

Thanks, good tip!

The workloads are designed with specific platforms in mind so that they are maximally optimized.  You might as well curse a clothing company for only making clothes that fit humans.

I "get" the mainstream computer has a PC with full 64 bit support. I partly blame The Pi designers for not cranking out a 64 bit Raspberry OS, and the people a F@H, discounting the contributions that many millions of young students COULD be making but cannot. And I thought being nice was encouraged. Gravis, I don't appreciate your high handed smart guy comment. If a Pi is running 64 bit quad core and CAN contribute, he or she should be allowed & capable of contributing. It would give inspired young minds a chance to use newly learned talents on something positive. It seems you completely misunderstood my original post, and if I wasn't clear enough, so sorry. BTW, I'm not one of those kids learning technology for the first time on a Pi. I'm a guy with 35 years in computer support for Apples, and moreso on Windows platforms. I got my Pi to learn more about Unix/Linux OS & architecture. And I'm still disappointed the F@H project is darn near impossible for a NOOBS Pi to run F@H. It's not a lark for me. F@H at some point may help provide clues to stops lot or very nasty diseases like cancer & ALS (known as Lou Gehrig's Disease in the US or Motor Neuron Disease in Europe. )

And I don't think I'm the only disappointed user. I lost family members to both cancer & ALS, and I want in. With the help of one or more of the positive comments, I may accomplish my goal.

Login with Github, I want to change the Github ID authed, but "Authenticate with Github" button will prompt the account  I deleted(yes created by mistake), or ask me create a new one , instead of binding to this account.

There should be a function to remove the connection with Github, thanks.

And guess 'delete my account' did not delete the data after all.

I was writing a long post and pressed enter by mistake.  It closed and won't show the whole thing (see the fragment below). I cannot open it to edit. Thankfully I had just copied it to my notes on my personal site.   You have  a problem if the size exceeds some unknown limit but no warning or recourse.  Here is that link :

Comment on finding help on Hackaday.io - building global communities for learning

https://theinternetfoundation.net/?p=1604

I wanted a way to ask for help.  And I wanted a way to donate and thank the people on Hackaday.io who are doing things I think will help many others in the world.

Richard Collins, Director, The Internet Foundation

Is there a way to ask for help?  I have many projects that I would like to try, but often am missing...

You can always ask a general question on the Stack, in the top nav. Or try the Hack Chat messaging room at https://hac.io/m/2369

@Richard Hogben I have never looked at "Stack" or if I did, it was such a long list of uncategorized things it seemed too much to investigate.  You put a note about labels, but you need a visual way to let people put things on the screen for themselves.  Maybe I am just too 3D oriented, but long lists of text titles wear me out.  I keep wanting to see the people, the projects and their interconnections, the needs and issues - at a glance.  Not five hundred scroll inches of hard to read text.

I have joined a fair number of Hack Chats.  I find them interesting. But lately do not have time or energy to try to figure out ahead of time who is going to be talking. There is usually no agenda, no action items.  And while people get to spent time talking, not much seems to get done. That might be my own tired perception.  Just reporting my impressions and reasons for not being excited to post things there.

If you had "Something wanted" page, and I was willing to pay for it - either by donation, or by subscription, or paypal, or by the piece - it seems that would be attractive to many.  My impression of the people on Hackaday.io is there are many young people trying things and looking for new jobs and opportunities.  Many older people finally having time and lower costs and somewhat easier entry - to try things they wanted to do all their lives. Too tired to give you a consulting report.

I was just looking for a pan tilt zoom camera to try a machine vision experiment.  It could easily spend hours looking online.  Or longer.  Nothing is documented well.  Almost no information on the controllers and their step sizes.  I know there must be precision control for pointing in 3D, but just want a good one then look at the data.  I have been looking at super-resolution methods generally and all the synthetic aperture methods work for PTZ cameras, or shaking cameras with inertial monitors, or moving things (earth rotation for stars and planets), moving things (planes, cars, people, clouds, ocean waves).  I can do the math, and the data - I just cannot get the cameras to point where I want them and to gather for days or weeks or months  to train for complex signals and phenomena.  It is is very complex, it needs more data.  I can squeeze a lot out of every data stream. But I need data streams and archived data that is lossless and where I know what has been done to each pixel.

Hi Friends .I am Looking download the fritzing part of SIM 800L V2.

Hi,

it seems I've touched the "end of the space"... ☻

I can't add more text to my page ( https://hackaday.io/project/177988/details/ )... Really ?????

I had to delete some lines from a text screenshot (formatted using a "code" block) to avoid text "disappearing" from the bottom of the page (entering new text) when saving...

I've to add others paragraphs and now I haven't no more space...

I've almost 1 GB of free space for files and no more space for the text??? Possible???

Any hints?

Apologies there is a max limit to details, especially code blocks can eat it up fast.

I would really recommend taking advantage of Logs. For example in details you could have a list of links (an index) to specific logs (your details sections). 

* * WHY A PIC? * *
* * HARDWARE OVERVIEW * *
* * SOFTWARE OVERVIEW * *

etc

It gets cut off on the right?

Ok I'm checking this, thanks.

I'm so sorry I missed it!! I am really disappointed :(Got the email late and then got the time zone...) doh! Hope it went okay!!

Not every use of the pound sign is a hashtag to a project or whatever, not every at-symbol usage is to another user.

Could the Chat/PM Editor PLEASE be less persistent in insisting otherwise? It drives me NUTS. I just had to compose a post in my system's text editor (shush, I'm a Linux guy, if I just said 'xed' nobody'd have a clue, even on here lol) in order to not lose multiple lines of text to this virtual stupidity consistently and repeatedly...

Sorry, it just gets real frustrating real fast. Fix plz.

P L E A S E

Also the New Project wizard thingy (obligatory "I thought it was a dongle goblin!" reference) generates a chatroom for every project even when you set it to "please don't", so maybe that needs a work order put in about that as well... ;)

The editor bar on things like project log posts looks like it could benefit from CSS position: sticky. There's a point in the page where it spazzes out for me, which I assume is from a javascript trigger.

Thanks, I can check to see is position sticky behaves better than fixed.

The Notifications link on the drop-down menu is erratic on mobile browsers. Firstly it's difficult to activate the link as the drop-down retracts too quickly. When you do click on the link, the red dot goes away for a while then comes back later. One has to go to the desktop site to get to read the actual notification and close the popup to dismiss the red dot.

Any mobile browser specifically, is this on mobile safari for example?

Sorry, should have tried all the combinations. It only happens with Firefox on this Android tablet. Chrome, Chromium and Firefox on my Android phone behave correctly, showing a hamburger menu icon, but on this Android tablet, Firefox instead displays my avatar in that position. When I switch Firefox to request the desktop site, it correctly shows the hamburger.

This tablet has quite high resolution, as good as a desktop. It's a pity that Firefox on it doesn't let me force desktop site for all sites, only on a site by site basis. Apparently some developers still think mobile = low resolution. But that's a different issue.

Hi hackaday team! I've had this annoying bug for a long time now where I cannot remove a social link (Twitter) from my profile. That particular link doesn't show up in my "edit my profile" page :( I have long since deleted that Twitter handle so the link just goes to a Twitter 404 page, which doesn't reflect well on me :( Could you help me out?

I will send you a private message to correct it, the links is probably from signing up with a twitter account.

This should be fixed, let me know if it looks ok.

Sorry for getting back so late, it worked!! Thank you so so much