Images in signatures?

[Studley]

...Would it be possible?

I know a lot of people have a link in their sig to an image of their gamercard, because images are disabled in signatures, but I think it would be a nice feature.

I can understand you might not want images if people might abuse it, but we can put images in our posts and we've all been good so far O-)

[Rival24]

Images in sigs are extremely annoying. But if it was only a small horizontal picture it would be fine by me.

[Studley]

http://www.glop.org/gamercard/card/Neil%20Studd-forumgames.png

Something like that?

The forum's set up to display your Gamertag under your avatar if you've entered it, you could code it so that if you've got a Gamertag, it automatically displays the image http://www.glop.org/gamercard/card/[insert Gamertag here]-forumgames.png underneath posts?

I could supply the PHP if you wish ;)

[Rival24]

Something like that looks quite allright. Curry already added the Gamertag when we just opened our forum and I don't know if he likes this idea. He's probably busy playing GRAW at the moment, so you'll have to wait :P

[Ponder416]

I tried to put my GamerTag in my avatar but it keeps saying invalid URL. So I just screenshot it and hosted it from my Photobucket account. The only bad part about that is it doesnt update.

I agree most sigs are annoying and they slow the site down to much. It's a person with dial-up nightmare...

[Rival24]

You're avatar is quite unreadable :P

[Ponder416]

I know but I could find a pic small enough to put in it....Gosh...

[Curry]

I have actively decided to disable signature images when configuring the forum (vBulletin has them enabled by default actually) because I and many other people hate the situations on other forums where people have actual 640x480 images in their signatures in all colors of the rainbow.

Currently the forum is nice and clean with a consistent styling and layout and I personally am very glad there's no screaming banners under every post, and that every post is only like 300 pixels high on average instead of 2 screens. Regrettably there is no option to limit the size of signature images, otherwise I would consider it. As it stands now, I go with the majority: there's several dial-in users on these forums already and the responses in this topic are not positive towards sig images, so I'm not enabling them, sorry :)

For gamercards there is no issue, because you can indeed enter the gamertag in your profile and they show up next to every post. People can click on them then themseves if they want to know your scores :)

If someone finds a very limited height banner in good coloring (think this one (http://my.livecard.net/asig/curry684.png) but even smaller height and Xboxic colors) and with a fast server (mygamercard.net and livecard tend to be slow) I could modify the templates so it automatically shows it underneath each post if you have a gamertag in your profile. Again however, this would depend on users actually wanting it. For now I myself consider the gamertag link to the left of the posts sufficient.

[Emily]

As it stands now, I go with the majority: there's several dial-in users on these forums already and the responses in this topic are not positive towards sig images, so I'm not enabling them, sorry :)


Why thank you for considering us lowly dial-uppers. What a lovely administrator.

Moi=happy no images.

a.k.a. Tell the boys to stop bothering me for pics. Get your fill offa this.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/Rileylovegaykm/mhm4.jpg

:*

[Studley]

Democracy at work, so fair enough.

Your decisions won't be forgotten when the revolution comes ;)

[Curry]

How did Radiohead put that in Douglas Adams' memory.... "When I am king you will be first against the wall" :+

[Curry]

Emily: should I post that pic on the frontpage? ;)

[Emily]

Emily: should I post that pic on the frontpage? ;)

Most definitely not.

:P

[Chris]

Why thank you for considering us lowly dial-uppers. What a lovely administrator.

Moi=happy no images.

a.k.a. Tell the boys to stop bothering me for pics. Get your fill offa this.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/Rileylovegaykm/mhm4.jpg

:*


It's all mine.

[Curry]

I am now officially the coolest developer in the world.

[ONI 23]

_o_ _o_ _o_ Indeed! _o_ _o_ _o_

[Nino]

I am now officially the coolest developer in the world.
_o_ _o_ _o_

[Rival24]

Sweet work Curry

[Studley]

8) 8) 8)

[Curry]

Did some final polishing on look&feel, and I'm happy now I think :)

Cache-lifetime is set at 1 hour btw, so changes in score or last played games may take 1 to 60 minutes to be updated.

[Nino]

Looks amazing Curry, good job.

[Ponder416]

nice thanks Curry, your the MAN!!! woot/woot

[Curry]

Thanks :*

And you can now clear your signature Ponder ;)

[xboxguy]

Why thank you for considering us lowly dial-uppers. What a lovely administrator.

Moi=happy no images.

a.k.a. Tell the boys to stop bothering me for pics. Get your fill offa this.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/Rileylovegaykm/mhm4.jpg

:*

i agree although i'm not on dial up. sig pics annoy me too, and i also can never find a good one anyways.

[Curry]

i agree although i'm not on dial up. sig pics annoy me too, and i also can never find a good one anyways.
But does the current solution make you happy? ;)

[Rival24]

But does the current solution make you happy? ;)
You could make it optional? O-)

[Curry]

It is. Just remove your gamertag and it doesn't show up :+

[Rival24]

It is. Just remove your gamertag and it doesn't show up :+
:( I meant subtitle enabled and signature disabled or something :z :*

[Curry]

:( I meant subtitle enabled and signature disabled or something :z :*
:+

But no, custom preferences aren't an easy extension I think :)

[Curry]

Temporarily disabled, the code isn't too resilient to whole frigging xbox.com timing out :X

[Nino]

Disabled? Why? I noticed the time-outs too but I thought it was my PC that wasn't responding :X

[Rival24]

:D, the frontpage was still responding here, even the forum index but I couldn't open any topics anymore :P

[Curry]

:D, the frontpage was still responding here, even the forum index but I couldn't open any topics anymore :P
Gamercards are only fetched in topics ;) Since live.xbox.com times out currently and the forum tries to retrieve maximum 2 gamercards per pageview if they expired from cache, one cache miss would (and did) already trigger a backend timeout and as such a frontend timeout on any topic view.

Will restore when the bitches fixed live.xbox.com.

[Rival24]

Can't you just fix this or something? You're a developer for crying out loud!

[Curry]

Can't you just fix this or something? You're a developer for crying out loud!
I fixed it didn't I? Gamercards aren't working atm, so I removed them :P

When this page (http://live.xbox.com/member/curry684) works again, I'll reinstate them immediately :)

[Nino]

It's up again Curry :)

[Curry]

Fix0red but seems slightly broken for some game images? 8)7

[Curry]

Hmm when I look at the original live.xbox.com pages they also got a lot of question marks for game pictures... guess they're still finishing stuff.