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Posted by harcourt on Jan-21-2002 04:04:

Signature size

Swamper, I posted a general message in the Chill Out Room for some overall discussion, but will post something here as well. Something needs to be done about the run-away signatures that are now 80% of the content that is downloaded in order to read a thread. Some of these images are pushing 450K, for a friggin signature. One person's message now takes up a the whole screen because they posted a message with 3 lines in it, quoted another 4 and have 25 used up with images/requests/overall crap imo in there signature.

just my thoughts on that.

Posted by Opti on Jan-21-2002 15:06:

what about my sig?

Posted by Andrew K on Jan-21-2002 16:07:

Re: Signature size

quote:
Originally posted by tw1tch
Swamper, I posted a general message in the Chill Out Room for some overall discussion, but will post something here as well. Something needs to be done about the run-away signatures that are now 80% of the content that is downloaded in order to read a thread. Some of these images are pushing 450K, for a friggin signature. One person's message now takes up a the whole screen because they posted a message with 3 lines in it, quoted another 4 and have 25 used up with images/requests/overall crap imo in there signature.

just my thoughts on that.

I TOTALLY AGREE!
Big sigs are a great problem to all of us who dont have fast connections. Please do smthng... Thanks

Posted by flystyler on Jan-21-2002 16:51:

Mine was far to big to be honest, i was only intending to leave it up for a bit, but if a sig is to be someone will tell that person fast. There should b a limit in my opinion, but then it depends what res you have on your comp as well

Posted by Dj Fredzz on Jan-21-2002 21:56:

I've noticed that about sig.....the 2 other boards taht I'm signed w/ have limitations and stuff, this board just goes all out which I think is pretty cool......keep up the good work.....

Posted by DJ Sarah H on Jan-21-2002 22:58:

Ok i made a poll about this in the polls forum

Vote HERE to cast your vote on wether to leave the images as they are or to reduce them.

Posted by _Nut_ on Jan-25-2002 04:40:

My thoughts

I looked at everyones sigs and it barely passes 50K When I created mine today it was over 150 K and I was thinking about my fellow TA's that have dial up. So I downgraded the quality and it is now about 35k. I agree that sigs are a way that people know who they are talking to/reading about at a quick glance. But there should be a limit. I propose that it be 60k max. with programs out there that can easily downgrade the quality but still keep the pic looking sharp it should be simple as hell to convert. Just because I downgraded the quality---doesnt mean that I made the pic smaller, just made the initial file smaller. Just my thoughts..

Cheers

[UPDATED] PS my sig is exactly 31705 bytes i.e. 31k

Posted by LoginZ on Jan-27-2002 17:27:

Hi,

Sigs should be saved in .jpg format cos' they are 40 times smaller than an original .bmp.

Furthermore, you cached sig on your comp for a long time.

So you're not always dling all the sig at new.

With this two aspects, i don't think there is more to do to make it easy even for 56k user...

Posted by SmellsExcellent on Jan-31-2002 02:26:

i, personally, think that unrestricted signatures allow us to be more creative, and as it was saifd above.. images are cached on your HDD so youre not downloading them over and over.. whatever i think its facist to limit everything... let us have our signature freedom!

-Marc

Posted by ABTsportsline on Jan-31-2002 07:18:

I agree with Marc,

I am on 56K about 85% of the time (on my laptop), and i don't have problems with sig sizes... again, only the same 100 people or so are posting in all the forums, and all the sigs are cached to your HD... so after a day or so of browsing i don't have any problems.

It's not THAT bad people!

-ABT-

Posted by inatrance on Jan-31-2002 14:29:

hmm I like big signatures.. and maybe it is just me thinking and babling off in my mind, but isnt there a way when you start a thread to disallow signatures?? or an option under your profile area, where you can choose not to see signatures???

ehmm.. maybe not, maybe I am pulling that out of my ass

edit: my sig is 47k.. but I am not worried

viva big sigs!

hahahah

inatrance

Posted by eXos on Feb-08-2002 00:42:

The bigger the better, if there nice.

Posted by Ste on Feb-08-2002 16:06:

thing is big (bytesize) sigs are a bit of an arse when your tortoising along on a 33k modem like me i dont mind them being biggish size wise, coz i have my screen in like 1280 by 840 resolution (well there or there abouts) just when some has some big gif based sig or high quality jpeg it takes my comp ages to load up a thread i think wide sig r fine just when they are long n thin u have to scroll down more for it erm, thats me done!