Simviation Forum - Signature Sizes?

Nov 22^nd, 2003 at 10:24pm

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Currently signatures are limited to 300 characters, which, in my teeny opinion, is just too short. I honestly think that most big signatures are big because of people being irresponsible with their avatar and signature files, which really ticks me off. I really think we should get something like 400-500 characters for signatures. This means people could stuff more into their signature right? Well, I'd be willing to monitor our fellow simmers' picture sizes... Wink

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Reply #1 - Nov 23^rd, 2003 at 9:20am

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I was just going to post about something similar here. I think that some of the picture sizes that are in the signatures are getting to big. I don't mind big text signatures and banners, but huge pics start to get distracting.

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Reply #2 - Nov 23^rd, 2003 at 12:42pm

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I too would like to have slightly more room for a signature. I think that small images in the sig are nice (like my Oregon flag for example) but some of them are getting to be too big. I think Pete has set a maximum size for the sig image file, but I also wish he would only let them be so many pixels-because in some cases they are simply in the way. But I would likemore room to type in the sig, there was one more thing I wanted to add to mine but found I was about 50 characters short. The again, in my case all I have to do is wait till the end of football season and then I'll change it. Grin

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Reply #3 - Nov 23^rd, 2003 at 6:36pm

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I agree that some sig images are getting way too big. This affects loading times when several of these are in one topic. There's nothing to stop you having a reasonably sized image with text on it in your sig if you wish. That might be one way round the character limit. I think you could also link the image to a webpage if you have one.

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Reply #4 - Nov 23^rd, 2003 at 11:50pm

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Hey, looks like Pete has increased the allowed sig size. Now I can bring back my Lovell quote and have the complete sig that I wanted! Thanks Pete!

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Reply #5 - Nov 24^th, 2003 at 1:30am

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I agree that some sig images are getting way too big. This affects loading times when several of these are in one topic. There's nothing to stop you having a reasonably sized image with text on it in your sig if you wish. That might be one way round the character limit. I think you could also link the image to a webpage if you have one.

It would be a great help if someone would remind these people that the max size for sig images is 30k - or tell me who they are.......

It waists SO much time every day deleting oversized screenshots - sig images are not so easy to find as they probably aren't over 100K.

I need help keeping track of these timewaisters.... Roll Eyes