Signature sizes and smooth sailing

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Too big or under the limit?
@ Neal I got the postal-mailz from you. Thanks.

Hilarious, and it doesn't affect me, but at 1MB, it probably slows things down for a lot of people. Especially if 10 other people in the thread have similar gifs: 10MB+ on each page view

Originally Posted by HunterICX

Yes, size does matter.

while some might go perhaps 20% over the allowed limits I'm fine with that but let's not have it going out of hand so that the forum lay out starts to get screwed or when I have to abuse my mouse scroll just to get to the next member's post.

I think the current dimensions are perfect.

as for filesize leave it 200 - 300kb top.
1 Mb Gif files are uncalled for at while they won't bother me at home on my own PC but at work on a not so state of the art pc it does bother me as big animated gif files just lag the browser and makes it a pain to navigate a thread.

HunterICX

Yeah, the vertical scroll does affect me. That's the reason for some kind of x pixels high limit, agreed.

Originally Posted by Skybird

I have "two shoes that don't match"...? I assume that is an English proverb. But I do not know what it means, Neal. I never used pics, only coloured text. I never got any pics working in signatures. I change colour when I changed the text, which I do often: whenever I remembered or stumbled over a new - or new old - quote that I like.

On the issue, there should be size limits. Since it is about scrolling a thread, it mostly matters regarding vertical dimension, and thus I think a sig, may it be graphic or text, should not be thicker than 3-4 lines of text. Many, if not all forums I monitor, have limits much tighter handled than over here.

Lol, no, it's no proverb. Often my announcements will include some random nonsense about one of the notable forum members. Last time it was Sailor Steve. Again, I agree with you on the verticle dimension.

Originally Posted by flostt

I find it annoying if a signature occupies much more space than the actual mesage in the post.

If a single post covers half of your screen and I have to look for the message hidden somewhere above a large signature
(which might even contain animations), I tend to get so distracted that I don't really process what I'm reading.

And regarding political sigs. 99.9% are fine, but that rule is in place for someone who abuses it, with hate speech or some Rush Limbaugh quotes.

One thing I want to stress: I personally do not want to be the sig police, and I am fine with letting things slide. But I do know that if we collectively go to extremes with sigs, it will really make reading threads a pain, so there has to be some limits, somewhere. I wanted to take the pulse and see how you felt about it.