There currently is #The Square Inch Project running where you can win some OSHpark/HaDstore credits with a pcb design that fit's into a square inch.

And it was started by a community member!

How about having a project(s) of the month? A list of projects with the most skulls/follows for that month.  Might be a good way of finding trending projects. Maybe a T-shirt or something for the top projects.

It'd also be nice to have skulls based on categories i.e. Creativity, Documentation, etc.

This thought has crossed our minds and is on the wishlist, but where to put it? Maybe highlighted on the projects page? 

We do have weekly featured projects which are the 2 that appear on the right-hand side of the feed page and on the blog homepage. Those are picked manually. 

The trending projects on the blog homepage http://hackaday.com are picked algorithmically.

I'll feedback to the team. Thanks form bringing this up. 

It would be nice to have some more automated way of adding projects to lists -- maybe a dropdown on the project page similar to the one for adding to contests. Of course the list's owner could still be asked for approval (although it would also be nice to be able to have multiple moderators, that would all get a notification and any of them could approve), similar to how joining projects works.

Hey Radomir, we have a ticket for this. I've made note of your support for this feature. Cheers.

Is there some way to flag abuse? I seem to have someone testing out their markov chain spambot on a thread I'm on, so I get an email alert every time too... User is Ptfourstargoldenlion.

Hey Howard, how annoying! I've blocked Ptfourstargoldenlion. 

If anyone else causes a nuisance you can go to their profile and use the 'report as inappropriate' link. These links also appear on project pages and next to comments. We get the reports and work out what action should be taken. 

I think the mentioning lists could be vastly improved. I suggest you make two major changes:

1. (applies to chats only) For username mentions, people that are in the group you're chatting with should be shown at the top of the list. Not only does this make sense, but it means you can be shown results immediately—without waiting for HTTP requests to finish!

2. For project mentions, prioritize projects that either belong to you or are followed/skulled by you.

I have an additional idea for number one - a split screen where you can select the persons and have an open yet sorted conversation - this way you can talk about something and everyone can listen in, while seeing every conversation. A list of topics could be selectable for the split screen and you could talk to them via an 'at' topic tag or in the split screen. 

Hey Alpha_ninja, these are on the todo list. Dave, I think I know what you mean and I've put it on the wish list. Thanks!

Sweet. Thank you!

Sometimes while you are editing the cursor position goes back to the beginning of the edit field.

Do you use a browser plugin to spell check? I sometimes use grammarly and the first time I make a spelling mistake the cursor jumps to the beginning. 

Yes, The spell check is activated in my browser. I'll try to disable it on the next time. Thank you.

I've put in a ticket anyway. It would be nice if that didn't happen.

Yeah.. that was the spell check. I am typing everything now without it then I turn in on to see if I got something mispelled. Well, sometimes, lol!! 

Hmm, changing something in the code block doesn't update the styling. 

Is that on all page types, or particular ones? Thanks!

I haven't tested it on other types than logs.

I've had this issue too. I've found that using the code insertion button again fixes this.

Im very new to FPGA and the projects here may very well help me in my learning.

Hi Terry, if you have any questions about FPGA, you can ask them over on https://hackaday.io/stack. Good luck with the learning!

The views counter in "square inch project" are frozen.

Thanks for letting us know. It's actually the views counter in general. We're working on it.

I'd like to have a "my pages" button on the menu, additionally to the "my projects" and "my profile". That would be awesome :)

Hey Dave, that makes sense. I'll see what we can do. 

cool :) it might not be that relevant for others though, so I'll understand if it won't happen.

done : )

awesome, thanks!

I'd like to have easier to access favorites in the dropdown menu

Interesting, I'll put this on our wishlist. Thanks

Hitting "view all comments" on this project log in my feed results in a 404.

http://imgur.com/FuQu9vq

I suspect the exclamation mark is doing weird things.

Thanks!  Will be fixed soon :D

Two bugs:

1) Latex equations are borked. See the equations in this log entry (from months ago) for examples:

https://hackaday.io/project/4689-improve-the-haber-process/log/16096-back-of-the-envelope-calculation

2) The "summary" shown in the feed deletes all formatting.

For example, my most recent log entry starts with a summary list of topics, one per line (sort of like a table of contents). The feed deletes the "unordered list" formatting *and* the paragraph pagination of subsequent text and runs it all together into a big text blob which is difficult to read.

Using chrome on WinXP with no unusual extensions.

Thanks Peter. I've put in tickets for both of these. 

How does the "My Feed" algorithm work? Are the projects at the top of the screen the ones with the most recent activity, or are they ranked by some calculated relevance? I've been following more and more projects from the "new project" list [https://hackaday.io/projects/sort/date] and the updates on "My Feed" don't seem to change much.

Hey zakqwy, @Ivan Lazarevic will be able to answer this. 

It'd be nice to have different project layouts. Right now the main project page doesn't work very well for any of my projects. One has a lot of log updates, and since log updates are trimmed, it makes the main page look bare. One has just one large description, and another has a lot of steps. It'd be nice if I could have a project just serve as a gallery, or a big explanation/report, etc. More control over the presentation would be nice.

I'm not quite sure how to put it, but I also think projects that are in progress could be displayed differently than completed projects. The sorts of updates an in-progress project has (and its rough presentation), versus a completed one are a bit different. Like it'd be nice if an in progress project could be optimized for "display as build log."

There is definitely some improvement to do, yes. I don't know where to start though. Maybe I'm using the pages in a way that was not intended ?

This is general feedback for my use of my own pages. Not feedback for your pages.

This would be great. However, I think it's a little down the road. I've put it on our wishlist so the devs can see it's been suggested. 

The API is great and all, but it's hard to use because OAuth requires a port forwarding setup. I'm sure that people could come up with lots of novel uses were this not the case.
For this reason, I ask you to open up the following API calls to usage without OAuth: GET /search, /projects, /users, /comments, /pages, /feeds.
Rate limiting (~2 requests per second) would be fine.

Thanks alpha_ninja, I've put a ticket in for this!

Ok, I think I have an idea that would require less change to the API:

You already have an "Applications" tab in the account settings page. So why not give us a client ID and secret with the ability to 1. rescind access and 2. enable/disable it?

I believe you're forcing HTTPS anyway, so that should work just fine, right?

On mobile, it's hard to see the "your profile changes have been changed" & other messages if you've scrolled down. How about you make these floating?

Good suggestion for the devs. Thanks!

perhaps you could use individual smd (color) leds in stead of an display? Less hight.

Hey @arievankrimpen-c, I think you posted here by accident. :)

Could we have hover bubbles? For example, show information & follow buttons for a user when you hover over their name in group chats, and show information & skull/follow buttons for a project when you hover over a link for them?

That's a great idea. I'll suggest it to the devs. Cheers!

:D

When adding project components, I would like a "designator" field (e.g. "R1", "U1", etc).  

This would make it easier to translate schematics to Hackaday.io project.  

Extra super special would be "import BOM" and "export BOM" options for a project's components.

Designator field is a good idea. We're working on the import/export. Cheers!