Images in signatures?

Studley · March 9th, 2006, 18:53

...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

Rival24 · March 9th, 2006, 20:17

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

Studley · March 9th, 2006, 20:24

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 · March 9th, 2006, 20:52

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

Ponder416 · March 9th, 2006, 21:06

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 · March 9th, 2006, 21:09

You're avatar is quite unreadable

Ponder416 · March 9th, 2006, 21:10

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

Curry · March 10th, 2006, 01:20

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 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 · March 10th, 2006, 05:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curry

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.

Studley · March 10th, 2006, 10:08

Democracy at work, so fair enough.

Your decisions won't be forgotten when the revolution comes

Curry · March 10th, 2006, 10:45

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

Curry · March 10th, 2006, 10:46

Emily: should I post that pic on the frontpage?

Emily · March 10th, 2006, 17:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curry

Emily: should I post that pic on the frontpage?

Most definitely not.

Chris · March 10th, 2006, 22:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emily

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.

It's all mine.

Curry · March 17th, 2006, 04:40

I am now officially the coolest developer in the world.

ONI 23 · March 17th, 2006, 05:50

Indeed!

Nino · March 17th, 2006, 12:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curry

I am now officially the coolest developer in the world.

Rival24 · March 17th, 2006, 12:59

Sweet work Curry

Studley · March 17th, 2006, 13:11

Curry · March 17th, 2006, 13:13

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 · March 17th, 2006, 13:15

Looks amazing Curry, good job.

Ponder416 · March 17th, 2006, 16:16

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

Curry · March 17th, 2006, 16:20

Thanks

And you can now clear your signature Ponder

trj156 · March 20th, 2006, 02:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emily

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.

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 · March 20th, 2006, 02:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by trj156

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?

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