New Signature Size Restrictions

[funkymonkey]

Some of you may be wondering why some of the sigs on the forums look weird today. This is because a new signature size restriction has been put in place. It combines the text and images and restricts it to a 550 pixel x 150 pixel space.

It seems many sigs are in excess of this size, and may appear cropped. You actual signatures haven't been altered, only the viewable area itself that's allocated to them has been restricted.

I'll be accepting feedback in this thread, positive and negative, and review the restriction shortly.

[R31Nismoid]

Excellent, some people have half page signatures on my screen (1280x1024)

I ask people to chop where i can, but this will be a great help and keep the forum going fast

[PranK]

Nice work Shan!!

[Beer Baron]

awesome. massive sigs give me the heebie jeebies

[R31Nismoid]

Hrm, seems its playing funny buggers tho Shan!

Look @ C & Rich's Sigs... they have nothing in them but nearly half a screen now hehe

[Beer Baron]

the size of my posts is dermined by all the crap on the side (ie Avatar, user bars, name, location, cars etc).

which reminds me shan, which one of my group memberships is causing the 'group icon' tag to display?

[funkymonkey]

NSW moderator Icon... you and Bobeh seem to have it. Thought the group was removed?

Yeah Ash, as Rich said, his side panel is longer than his post content including the sig. I get that on mine as well... Maybe we should look at reducing teh stuff on the side too.

[Sl!m]

ah so thats what that was about

[d00dz]

What about size in terms of kb of images in signatures and av's?

[R31Nismoid]

Yeah, we should drop the stuff on the side a bit then.

Maybe character limit on the field sizes or something?

No point having sig's restricted if people still take up half a page due to the side-bar

[d00dz]

Yeah, we should drop the stuff on the side a bit then.

Maybe character limit on the field sizes or something?

No point having sig's restricted if people still take up half a page due to the side-bar

haha like most of the mods lol.

Nah Im just saying some people's signatures and av's are like 100-500k's. (Animated gifs etc) and the net here at work is slow to load em.

Doesnt matter in most places as I have that firefox ad blocker.. but yea...

[Beer Baron]

NSW moderator Icon... you and Bobeh seem to have it. Thought the group was removed?

Yeah Ash, as Rich said, his side panel is longer than his post content including the sig. I get that on mine as well... Maybe we should look at reducing teh stuff on the side too.

well it's only really evident when we have 1 or 2 line posts. obviously with a normal length post like this one it's not an issue. where as sigs are always an issue, even if you have a 1 page long post you still get a massive sig at the end of it.

see

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seeeeee!

[Abo Bob]

I don't think my sig is that long but a little of it is chopped off. It's only text so not taking up much disk space. Could we make the sig sizes just a little bit taller?

[DRD-00F]

Posts to check signature

iono, I have pretty much no idea what changed...

[JAS-25T]

My movember linkage is cutted

[R31Nismoid]

Well yeah - your sig is massive mate even compared to Sams

I agree with Victor aswell, we need to impose a file/pic size limit as some people i've removed in the past have had 2mg .GIF's and it just slams the page if you try and load it.

With the "TAG" thing Rich - see Admin section.

Ive been asking for input for months from you NSW people so i can destroy that "invalid tag" problem by fixing the group list of mods to a 'better' way of doing it all.

Ive done Vic earlier this year, and NSW needs some attention too... i just need guideance

[JAS-25T]

Its all text - not huge on file size, only on visual size.

[Sl!m]

mines only big for movember

[N1GTR]

If sigs are annoying just turn them off?!?!

[R31Nismoid]

Doesnt work like that

Even here on 24000/1000 it can take a good few seconds to flash up a page sometimes when people linking silly .GIF's form imageshack or something slow as a snail.