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!

I am not able to unsubscribe from the hacker channel (they one you're required to sign up for to participate in HAD contest chat) and unable to unsubscribe from emails generated when someone mentions the channel. There seem to be features all over hackaday.io that, once done, cannot be undone.

Hello Matthew, can you see 'leave project' next to your name in the team list of the project page: https://hackaday.io/project/5373-hacker-channel ? Let us know what other features you can't undo. We have a list we're working through.  Thanks!

Also on editing - being able to manually edit the HTML output would help with wonky formatting.

yes, editing can be a pita sometimes. just typing a hashtag sign can insert a hacker channel reference that warns everybody... some other bugs : under certain conditions (editing a log ?), typing a space creates a new paragraph and all the formatting is broken from there on.

Markdown support would be lovely.

Feature request : provide a button (in https://hackaday.io/settings ?) so each user can save and backup their own contents.
Something like this exists in facebook (though it's rarely used).
After pressing the button, when the servers are not too loaded, they collect all the texts, images, log entries, and assemble them in a .ZIP or .TGZ. For example, one log per directory... The server then sends a message in the internal chat system with a link to the file for download.

Recovery / restoration of these data is another matter but at least, data can be safe, it's half the work.

+1

One of my projects is exploding, I would have to write a script to scan the list of pages and wget them, but pictures would be lost... Please let me save this precious work, "IT problems" happen to everybody so let me have a backup ;-)

OK I finally did it: a script that scans my large project and gets all the pictures from the gallery, the project's main page, the details and the logs...

Now could someone explain me why there is this large ASCII art skull logo in the HTML files ? :-D

If not an app, I'll make a script that behaves as such ?
#HackaDump started, and I'll see how to use the API but anybody who wants to save his project(s) with the new scripts will have to register their own API key...
This makes the procedure more complex and more convenient at once, that's weird :-D

+1

I'd love to see the script.

Jaromir: then I might even start a "project" page to present my dirty code :-) maybe tomorrow.

Don't expect much, but I'm putting it there https://hackaday.io/project/8536-hackadump

Feature request : auto-generate a list of log entries such as on this page #AYTABTU - Discrete Computer
So people can jump to the page of interest and get a better idea of the project's activity.

I suppose @matseng did it by hand... I'm too lazy to update something like that manually :-/

@K.C. Lee had a similar request a month ago :-D

It's on the todo list. I'll add a +1 to the ticket!

So far, i'm doing it all by hand, it was tedious for the 30 first entries, now I do it now and then... I thought we invented computers to take care of these small tasks for us :-D

Would love a "save as draft" option on project logs. I'm using it as a mini blog of sorts and have multiple simultaneous logs in mind.

I do the same and sometimes I keep a log edit page open for a very long time, with the risk of losing the edits. My browser saves some state but I can't export.

Hey Jonathan & Yann. This is in the works!

Yay !
Day after day, this site feels more like home :-)

In the new feed, when there's old comments mixed with the newest one, it's not obvious what is new.  If I knew what was new, I could go through my feed more efficiently because right now I read a bit and then say "oh I already read that".  It helps that there's "1 hour ago" "6 days ago" on the posts, but making it more obvious which paragraph is new would be nice.   I  definitely do not mean that it should say what's new since I last looked.  Instead mark what's new in a specific item in the list regardless of whether I read it already or not.  One idea would be to have a different color background on the new part.

Seems like comments only go 3 levels deep - is that Working As Intended?

Not quite. I've just put in a ticket. Thanks!

It turns out that it is meant to be like that. 

Got it. Makes it hard to reply to comments in a meaningful way. But I can understand possible constraints like UX. Thanks for the reply.

It'd be nice if I could subscribe to new projects containing a tag I specify.

Hey Ian, I assume you mean subscribe automatically, rather than going and checking the tag pages -e.g. https://hackaday.io/projects/tag/FPGA . Interesting idea, I'll put it on the wish list. 

yeah it'd be cool to get a weekly email of "New projects that might be interesting to you."

That would be great. I'll suggest it to the team. Thanks!

you should utilize a "blacklist" for username selections. for example, using "admin" prolly shouldn't be allowed. just my two cents.. oh and i'll change this username after you fix the issue ;D  

we actually have blacklist for usernames, but it seems we missed admin. thanks for letting us know. @Amar Patel can you check it ?