sorry, i find the "$100/hr+" problematic.
I agree. I took it off the logo. I was simply thinking of an easy way to restrict the site to quality coders, but this just sounds tacky.
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#42Bug report: there's a minimum login length of 4 chars, but many HN usernames are shorter than that. It seems to make sense to let people use their HN usernames here. I also find it curious that you seem to have decided we'll all work for $100/hour. I will, but I suspect there are some people on that list who won't.
Ok, I fixed the minimum login length to 2 chars. Good catch. Also, I removed the $100/hr sub title :)
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#43Please always send me my password in plain text for the first time after registration.
Just to clarify - I'm assuming this is sarcasm. Don't want to risk someone taking this as a good thing.
Sorry about that, it was default in a plugin I'm using but I've removed it from future emails that are sent.
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#45The link to our HN profile doesn't work because you are automatically lower-casing usernames. Skills are out of order for some reason. I think listing "core skills" in order is pretty important. The auto-links in the skills isn't implemented very well. For example, one if the links is: http://hnhackers.com/search/tags/Ruby%20on%20Rails%20(Prefer... Obviously just using Ruby on Rails would be much more effective.
Good catch with the lowercasing names. I'll fix that. Yes, I need a better implementation of searching by tag, or at least do some serious data cleanup.
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#46Bug report: there's a minimum login length of 4 chars, but many HN usernames are shorter than that. It seems to make sense to let people use their HN usernames here. I also find it curious that you seem to have decided we'll all work for $100/hour. I will, but I suspect there are some people on that list who won't.
Ok, I fixed the minimum login length to 2 chars. Good catch. Also, I removed the $100/hr sub title :)
Additional issues:
My HN username was imported lowercased. Both Zak and zak exist as HN accounts - the former is mine and the latter is not.
When I try to update the username under the links section of my profile, I get a complaint about my password being too short. This form does not contain a field to change the password.
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#47Now it crashes on an attempt to register.
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#48I agree that the show email link should be nixed, and you should use mailto links for the emails if you are going to show emails. I personally would prefer it if you offered a contact form that emailed me via the site (behind a captcha of course). Why did you have me pick a user name if it's never shown publicly on the site and I log in using my email address?
Ok, I've replaced the emails with a contact form instead (still working on the captcha).
Also, the login is your url: HNHackers.com/username
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#49The order of the skills is messed up. I think it is important to display it the way it was entered.
Right, this has to do with the way I was storing tags to make them searchable. I've fixed this for new users, and working on restoring this for previous entries.
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#50I agree that the show email link should be nixed, and you should use mailto links for the emails if you are going to show emails. I personally would prefer it if you offered a contact form that emailed me via the site (behind a captcha of course). Why did you have me pick a user name if it's never shown publicly on the site and I log in using my email address?
Ok, I've replaced the emails with a contact form instead (still working on the captcha). Also, the login is your url: HNHackers.com/username
Password reset still isn't working. It says an email has been sent, but emails aren't arriving.
Also, from another comment, HN usernames are case sensitive, so making them all lowercase will most likely cause problems sooner or later.