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#1 2011-05-27 10:37:53

JSO
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Registered: 2007-06-23
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Forum Signatures automatically cut off

Hey Scratchers!

I made a little tweak to the Scratch Forums (and TBG Forums). Signatures are now automatically cut off when they exceed the 150 pixels height limit.

Huge signatures really make a thread hard to read and distract you from the real content. It was taking the Community Moderators and ST a lot of time to manually reduce signature sizes.

If the change isn't yet visible for you, try pressing Shift while clicking refresh or clear your browser cache.

Scratch on!


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#2 2011-05-27 10:41:19

kimmy123
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

But they were still cut-off before if they were too long  tongue

Last edited by kimmy123 (2011-05-27 10:41:35)


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#3 2011-05-27 10:43:28

JSO
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

You could type in 4 lines of BBCode, and every image was resized to 150px if it was too big. But now the whole sig is just cut off. (You can even end up with a line of text cut in half vertically)


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#4 2011-05-27 10:45:07

kimmy123
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

JSO wrote:

But now the whole sig is just cut off.

But that happened to me before. 8|


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#5 2011-05-27 11:29:24

The_Dancing_Donut
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

It sliced off meew0's sig o_o
:L


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#6 2011-05-27 12:06:33

meew0
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

You could just make a scrollbar at the border. Some forum did that but I forgot the name ._.


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#7 2011-05-27 12:07:24

kimmy123
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

meew0 wrote:

You could just make a scrollbar at the border.

That would be awesome!


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#8 2011-05-27 12:11:27

Captain-Obvious
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

kimmy123 wrote:

meew0 wrote:

You could just make a scrollbar at the border.

That would be awesome!

Yeah, seems like the best option!

-TDD

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#9 2011-05-27 12:13:04

kimmy123
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

Captain-Obvious wrote:

kimmy123 wrote:

meew0 wrote:

You could just make a scrollbar at the border.

That would be awesome!

Yeah, seems like the best option!

-TDD

Did you make that account just for obvious posts?  tongue


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#10 2011-05-27 12:29:43

CloneCommando1
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

Me no likey.  sad  My sig isn't as cool/funny/neat/everything else anymore.  hmm


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#11 2011-05-27 13:02:20

Magnie
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

I think we should just take out images ( I set it so images now just look like <image> ). I think all people need to do is just have one line and one link ( to a project or something ). It makes the signatures look more cleaner in my opinion.

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#12 2011-05-27 13:14:33

kimmy123
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

Magnie wrote:

I think we should just take out images

mad

Then we should take out the smileys too because they are images.

Last edited by kimmy123 (2011-05-27 13:14:54)


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#13 2011-05-27 15:26:28

lilacfuzz101
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

Ok- this is a bit overboard in my opinion. Yes, there are those with ridiculously HUGE sigs (once i saw one with 4 rows of pictures of babies), but most aren't too bad! Take mine for example- I just got it and also added a ONE LINE quote that is now cut off due to WAY too strict standards.
We need a bit more leeway with this... yes, the max hight is supposed to be 150px, but maybe the cut off could be 200-250px? That way way too big sigs will be cut off, but reasonable ones wouldn't be cut off!
And as for taking out images in sigs... no. -_-


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#14 2011-05-27 16:11:17

Captain-Obvious
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

kimmy123 wrote:

Captain-Obvious wrote:

kimmy123 wrote:


That would be awesome!

Yeah, seems like the best option!

-TDD

Did you make that account just for obvious posts?  tongue

I dunno


I think we should keep images. It would be really boring without colours and annything to mark the end of a post DISTINCTLY. With images in signatures, you can easily identify a member. :L


-TDD

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#15 2011-05-27 18:27:20

fullmoon
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Registered: 2007-06-04
Posts: 1000+

Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

JSO, you're a PHP hero!

lilacfuzz101 wrote:

We need a bit more leeway with this... yes, the max hight is supposed to be 150px, but maybe the cut off could be 200-250px? That way way too big sigs will be cut off, but reasonable ones wouldn't be cut off!

That would effectively make the max height 200-250px! Not that I'm necessarily opposed to that, but people who use the forums a lot on their mobile devices or just hate large signatures might disagree with me. Ideally there would be an option for users to disable the cutoff if they don't want it, but the bottom line in my opinion is that no one should have to put up with signatures larger than 150px if they don't want to.

Then again, you can always go to Forum Options > Display and deselect this:
http://j.mp/jJv1xe


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#16 2011-05-27 18:55:19

lilacfuzz101
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

fullmoon wrote:

JSO, you're a PHP hero!

lilacfuzz101 wrote:

We need a bit more leeway with this... yes, the max hight is supposed to be 150px, but maybe the cut off could be 200-250px? That way way too big sigs will be cut off, but reasonable ones wouldn't be cut off!

That would effectively make the max height 200-250px! Not that I'm necessarily opposed to that, but people who use the forums a lot on their mobile devices or just hate large signatures might disagree with me. Ideally there would be an option for users to disable the cutoff if they don't want it, but the bottom line in my opinion is that no one should have to put up with signatures larger than 150px if they don't want to.

Then again, you can always go to Forum Options > Display and deselect this:
http://j.mp/jJv1xe

maybe not that much then... maybe a cushion of about the height of 1-2 lines of text?(20px? im not sure how much 2 lines are)


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#17 2011-05-27 18:57:53

hdarken
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Registered: 2008-06-26
Posts: 1000+

Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

Noooo!

I had to create a signature for a person now it's messed up.  sad

Last edited by hdarken (2011-05-27 18:58:18)


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#18 2011-05-27 19:31:29

lilacfuzz101
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

hdarken wrote:

Noooo!

I had to create a signature for a person now it's messed up.  sad

exactly  sad


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#19 2011-05-27 19:49:03

bananaman114
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

I don't oppose:
I remember about a year ago, on my ps3, sanddude's sig was HUGE.


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#20 2011-05-27 20:09:26

Lucario621
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Registered: 2007-10-03
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

Interesting. Seems fine to me...


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#21 2011-05-28 00:12:43

mathematics
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

Um... what do you mean by "cut off"?

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#22 2011-05-28 01:27:09

Jonathanpb
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

IMO this update is rather nice actually  tongue

Uh, just a thought - would the 400 characters/2 lines rules be removed? Having many lines or over 400 characters won't be much of a problem anymore.

I do think that a scrollbar wouldn't be too bad btw :3

Last edited by Jonathanpb (2011-05-28 01:39:25)


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#23 2011-05-28 01:28:11

Chrischb
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

mathematics wrote:

Um... what do you mean by "cut off"?

I suppose you can't see anything in a signature past 150 pixels.  tongue
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#24 2011-05-28 03:23:00

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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

Dosent really affect me at the moment but I do think sigs are important because they allow us to easily identify people. I'm not for this idea, but I'm not against it either because massive sigs annoy me ;P


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#25 2011-05-28 03:51:12

LS97
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Re: Forum Signatures automatically cut off

I think scrollbars would make everything worse without a decent amount of JS and CSS added to make them look nice etc...

I like the rule. It really annoys me having to look at 300px sigs which take up more space than the post itself.

However, I agree with Jonathanbp that now the character limit is useless. It would only do good to take it off, since some images require longer URLs which pass the character limit but aren't effectively adding space.

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