Sl!m Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 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. hint hint steve!!! Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3470218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsss Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 i just tried making a new sig but all it's doing is take me to the link that i've added there...so i can't change it... could someone just delete the whole thing for me please? thnx Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3472743 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bec Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 - I need to redesign my event tags, coz they are too long with the new size restrictions. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3473065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkymonkey Posted November 13, 2007 Author Share Posted November 13, 2007 lol Bec, I noticed your sig being a lil cropped off... was waiting for an abusive message from you Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3473290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
342Four Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 i reckon its a bit sucky that my movember support logo has been cut in half, but oh well, you cant win em all Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3473395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
syx Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 you have the width set to 550, why not set the width bigger ie. 700 to fit on the "standard minimum res" of 800x600 (i would argue that this would be 1024x768 these days and that 900 width would be fine) this gives people more room, Hi Bec, to have wide sigs that will not take up any more space on the screen I think you want to encourage people to have wide sigs as opposed to high ones imo Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3473458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abo Bob Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 I dissagree with promoting wide sigs as it can make you have to scroll across to get to a button like Add Reply. Can you please just make the limit a bit longer funky? Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3473541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkymonkey Posted November 14, 2007 Author Share Posted November 14, 2007 well I calculated 550 using an 800x600 display, which allowed for the sidebars n errthang to fit nicely. I know 1024 is probably a more realistic width in the household, but we still have to cater for the lowest common denominator. and if you're using anything lower than 800x600 you need to move out of the cave. 550's actually more than what most forums allows as width for signatures... I mean... we are talkin about signatures here... which are supposed to be short n catchy. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3473867 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bec Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 Can you please just make the limit a bit longer funky? +1 I mean... we are talkin about signatures here... which are supposed to be short n catchy. says he with an animated gif as his sig Its like giveing candy to a child and then taking it back If we never had large sigs to begin with, then it wouldnt be an issue. But we are used to a certain 'way of life' now, you cant take them away. Why - coz i said!!! LOL - j/k - im just being a pain, im happy with whatever you guys decide is best. (But a smidge wider would be tops) Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3474115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkymonkey Posted November 14, 2007 Author Share Posted November 14, 2007 i'm guessing another 20 pixels more shouldn't hurt... any more than 570 and you introduce horizontal scrollbars on 800x600 displays. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3474133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sl!m Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 people who use 800 x 600 should be inconvenienced anyway btw.. the restrictions dont seem to work on my machine at work using IE6. thought it was just cache, but i can see changes and updates to signatures so yeh.. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3484014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
impact_blue Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Yeh okay I get why mine was all chopped off. I'm a little manky that I can't have a mass of crap in my sig anymore. But if that's what you're doing then you shall rue this day... well go on, start rueing! Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3484078 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dano4127 Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 not much point to all this though if we dont have a kb limit! i constantly am seeing huge images cramed into avatars and the like which im sure if you were using dial up or on a busy network would be ghey Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3484089 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R31Nismoid Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 If you see a large sig (GIF) drop a PM to an Admin. You'd be surprised how many people do I get about 5 or so a month on average and i have no problem in helping out as sometimes ive found 2.5mg GIF's that (when im capped), make me a very sad panda. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3484505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victory Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 I cannot believe that anyone still uses a resolution of 800 x 600. I thought that I was doing it tough trying to cope with 1440 x 900 in this day and age. I have cut my signature down yet again and it is still being cut off - I do think that you have gone just a little bit too far with the restriction. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3484583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R31Nismoid Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 To everyone saying its harsh... See the board rules: http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/boardrules.html # Keep signature images to within 600x150 pixels # Combined Text and Image signatures to be kept within 600x200 pixels All that's occurring here is enforcement as people just abused it more and more to the point where Admin couldn't police it any longer. On a weekly basis i would see sigs around the 600x400 mark, i kid you not. It was becoming more and more common place for users not to care about board rules designed to keep the board performance up. So basically its like anything in life. The few that abused it totally ruined it for the majority. A sig that was say 700x220 i would let slide... but 600x400 occurring once a week for me was just unreasonable and as Admin i dont feel my time should be spent sending nice PM's to people about their clear disregard for a basic rule, and one of very few rules we actually have on this board compared to many others We have the rules to keep the forum fast And since the requirement to move to a US server, this has only added to the need to keep things in trim terrific order. The board/site in the last week has had lots of time spent on it, and each little thing adds up to one big one - a super fast SAU for 400-500 users at any given time Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3484878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkymonkey Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 the restriction that I put in was more to do with visual clutter than it is about speed. just trying to cut down on the mass of crap that follows each post that detracts from the content. as I said this isn't permanent and i'm open to feedback. lol i'm running on 1680x1050 and even thinking of going back to a 800x600 gives me convulsions... by the same arguement of space restriction vs size restriction, if you're not on broadband then you should upgrade... unfortunately this isn't a viable option for everyone, so we need to try n keep the kb sizes down too... unfortunately controlling the size of sigs hotlinked to the forum is near impossible. avatars on the other hand isn't too hard... just have to force everyone to upload their avatars instead of hotlinking it. inconvenient but possible. sammeh... the restriction is done using an external stylesheet, so the style sheet might still be cached. try loading this page and the doin a ctrl+shift+refresh: http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/st...ages/css_17.css for those of you guys running firefox with greasemonkey, its easy to intercept and hack this file to remove the sig restriction (dunno why you'd wanna) but it'll only be for that PC. In any case, I've upped the sig size limit from 550x150 to 600x200 as per the rules (lol I didn't actually read em, thanks Ash) Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3485561 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sl!m Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Still no change, but the cache might not be on my machine might be the work proxy. The one thing I dont like about the sig restrictions is that it doesnt allow you to allign your signature left centre right etc.. its all left Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3485580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkymonkey Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 yeh i know... shits me as well Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3485636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
342Four Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 the only reason why im running a 800*600 screen is because im on a 12" screen on my laptop...... Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/193193-new-signature-size-restrictions/page/2/#findComment-3494939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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