\"some limits on graphics in signatures\"
 

If all of you while reading this will look at the top of the page you will see a line of text that reads:

"We will be instituting some limits on graphics in signatures. More info soon."

As someone who very much enjoys having the images in my siggy I am starting a thread to ask that these limitations be lax enough to allow my epic signature to continue as is. I have made a great effort to limit the file size of the images and I also make an effort to not have my signature show up twice on one page in a topic.

Also since I might have the largest ammount of images in my signature compared to anyone in the forums it kinda feels like this is aimed at me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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As well as me, I only use a single graphic image in my signature, I don't know if anyone has put a 500K image in their signature, but I don't think mine is obtuse and I only recently added mine.

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I hope we don't get dragged down to the lowest common denominator.

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Combat Wombat, it's not aimed at you and I guess it has little to do with the SE-Community. It's a matter of download size, but I don't think your Sig will be of any problem.

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Why is my signature gone now?

Edit-- Never mind, it was hiding.

Edit-- Bah! Git out from under there!

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A good "limit" would be a simple option that users can set for themselves on whether to see graphics in signatures. We already have the option to see avatars or not. It shouldn't be too hard to limit sigs as well.

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An excellent solution Baron, but I wouldn't mind there being like a 200-250k size limit to the siggys too because even with a high speed connection if everyone had a 500k siggy it would add up fast.

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200k??? That's very excessive for a signature image... something more like 10-20k would be good.

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Not if you want to use a 1024x768 BMP screenshot of SEV http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Your sig is far too big, CW http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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My own signature is only 18.3 K and it's .PNG formatted (my apologies to IE6 or less users, but upgrade to IE7 or FireFox to enjoy it's transparency goodness)

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CW's sig is 41k. Azselendor's is 18k. Most of the avatar pics on here are 2-5k. I will agree that 41k is a bit large for a sig graphics. 10-20k seems reasonable to me.

Of course, it would also be best if users had the option to not show sig graphics.

That seems like it would be a bit difficult to implement though if you want to allow other graphics in the message. Sigs are part of the message itself, unlike the avatar, so if you have the option to not allow sig graphics, you'd have to not allow ANY graphics in the messages.

Changing the forum so that sigs are a separate part of a message seems like it would be a fairly large adjustment to the code architecture.

So, 500k is a reasonable limit because it also affects graphics in the messages themselves.

Re: \"some limits on graphics in signatures\"
 

Well, the sig is not actually part of the message data; it is pulled from the profile every time the post is loaded. You can witness this by editing your signature, then reviewing old posts. Any image filtering would be done in this step, separate from the post body.

Re: \"some limits on graphics in signatures\"
 

Hey, CW, I got a little itch to make a sig, so I made one for you.

http://www.orbportals.com/fornow/ForCombatWombat.png

Re: \"some limits on graphics in signatures\"
 

While you can't specifically remove from your site signature pictures, you can remove signatures from your view altogether. It's an option in your settings area.

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As for what the statement at the top of the forum is about, I'm going to be announcing a policy on signature graphics. This won't affect most people, but I have gotten some complaints about some specific signatures that are a little over the top both in dimension and file size. I'll be putting up an individual graphic limit and a combined graphics limit. So that people don't have sig graphics that go across the whole screen on an average resolution size and that one page doesn't take forever to load because there are many high file size sig graphics on the page.

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40k isn't bad.

Bad = When you scroll past the person's post your computer freezes up as it tries to play the graphics. =)

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I personally am against all signatures.

They are just annoying, boastful, and spammy.

The sole exception is a functional sig like Mindi's, used to clearly identify her official status and responsibilities.

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Well see my post a few posts back about how to remove signatures from your view if you haven't done it already.

Suck up. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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While your effort is appreciated it just isn't the same, each of the images has a story behinfd it the way it is actually about the same story but that would be lost if I combined them also I think yours is larger than my 2 combined We will see what the restrictions become and work from there.

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Yeah, the weekend none of us will ever forget.

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It's about 1 or 2 kb larger because of the transparency

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LOL, who, me? ;0

Yes, that setting is there. It was hard to find, but I managed it, and confirmed that it works.

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Restrictions are out, and with the 35K total limit, you're unfortunately over by 17K =(

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No problem!

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Part 2. Same images, essentually nil loss of quality, less than 35kb. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Alright I am compliant now that I have used some creative saving http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Phoenix your 2 images together were alrger than 35kb

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Finally the era of Combat Wombat's terrible rule have come to an end.

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By 0.27KB. Pff.

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http://www.orbportals.com/fornow/ForCWIncase.png

I thought I'd renew my offer from before with 16kb version. Sadly, I had to reduce the riot to a mere 75px square...

eidt- Blah, uploaded jpg by accident