Signatures

**Hooahguy** · 01-28-2011, 06:29

If I had to guess then Megas is saying that this thread was made because his sig is quite large.

Dont worry, Megas, no one is hatin' on your sig.

**Megas Methuselah** · 01-28-2011, 23:32

Right on.

**TosaInu** · 02-02-2011, 21:27

Thanks for all the opinions and comments on this.

I think we should go with 650 wide, as that's the increase that works for all of us. I think we can make nice looking signatures that wide within 50 kb. So I like to suggest for the maximum amount of combined graphics in signatures: 150 pixels high, 650 pixels wide and 50 kb in size. People just wanting to update their signatures to those new max can do so, I'll fix the settings in a minute.

I'd like to move to the next step in this discussion now:

I'm not a fan of Flash as I immediately get reminded of my 64 kb modem and way too big (and impossible to skip) intro pages in Flash, but I saw the nice sides of it too. In the past we had some nice animated Flash signatures of say rolling landscapes (animated gif would also work). What do we feel about it today?

**Megas Methuselah** · 02-02-2011, 23:35

Originally Posted by TosaInu

What do we feel about it today?

I think it's all good. More importantly, I'm really loving this democratic process we're currently undergoing. Awesome.

**drone** · 02-02-2011, 23:48

I wouldn't mind animated gifs in sigs, but I'm not too crazy about the flash. Does this mean we get siggies with sound?

**pevergreen** · 02-03-2011, 03:59

Originally Posted by drone

I wouldn't mind animated gifs in sigs, but I'm not too crazy about the flash. Does this mean we get siggies with sound?

I would be ok with:

No sound
Small file size (since I want to see sigs, and I load 80 posts per page, I don't want to be loading mb's every time)
Annoying gimmicky/flashing ones removed.

**TosaInu** · 02-03-2011, 20:12

Originally Posted by drone

I wouldn't mind animated gifs in sigs, but I'm not too crazy about the flash. Does this mean we get siggies with sound?

That was about my thought about Flash as well. But Flash can be used for nice and subtle art too, without sound. I'm not sure though whether this board supports Flash files in signatures (by default). I'll try whether it actually works.

The limit would still be 50 kb. It's possible to make a very nice Flash animation of only 10 kb.

Edit: it's not possible by default, but this little edit may do the trick. There's always animated gif, so the question still stands. Is that good, not, should there be any extra limitations on it?

**Togakure** · 02-04-2011, 11:11

I don't really care, but I prefer no animations. I find them distracting. I used them myself on other boards in the past, but stopped for this reason. As long as I can filter them out though, it really doesn't matter to me. I am strongly opposed to sound of any kind unless I can turn it permanently off here on the board without having to use my PC sound settings.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 02-10-2011, 00:12

No Flash, no Java please. Especially Flash is rather slow and often uses excessive amounts of CPU time for anything non trivial. Plus you might as well open the flood gates of advert/spam and allow arbitrary JavaScript on the page, at least that's fast and lightweight in a modern browser.

**TosaInu** · 02-10-2011, 17:54

Hello Tellos Athenaios,

That's my first encounter with Flash: monstrous slow Flash intro pages that said absolutely nothing.

The security risk is an argument.

**TosaInu** · 02-18-2011, 15:38

Hello,

Thank you all for the feedback. No flash or animated gif, we'll also keep it plain and simple and remove the extra signature now the normal one has gone up.

The total of pictures in your signature should be at most:

150 pixels high
650 pixels wide
50 kb in size

But no stacking of 150*150 pictures that force people to scroll. As any rule, this one can be dodged, keep it nice for us all please.