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MikeEnRegalia 
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 Topic: New Forum Look - SignaturesPosted: January 02 2008 at 13:35 |
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I noticed that M@x limited the height of signature images to 160px ... that's very, very bad for all people who use last.fm/ratingfreak.com signatures or any other signature image which contains text. The text is distorted and barely readable once the image height exceeds 160px.
I would suggest that the maximum signature image height is limited to 200px, if it must be limited at all. Personally I think it makes much more sense to limit the signature area height though and simply cut off images which don't fit ... please don't scale them!  |
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Tuzvihar
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 13:52 |
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Increasing the maximum number of characters in a sig would be useful. Sometimes the available 200 characters weren't enough for me (I had to, for example, combine two pictures into one 'cos their addresses contained too many characters, usually just 2 or 3 over 200!).
Edited by Tuzvihar - January 02 2008 at 13:54 |
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
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Easy Livin
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 13:57 |
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I'll refer the comments to M@x to have a look at.
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Dean
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 13:58 |
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Or fix the sig cell height and have it scrollable.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 14:00 |
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Actually I'm all for limiting signature height ... but the standard 10 line last.fm signatures should be allowed IMO, and the standard height generated on my server is 170px (with the smallest font size). 200px would be perfect IMO.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 14:02 |
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That's what I meant by limiting the signature area height ... and it's actually already in the stylesheet, only the images are scaled to fit the maximum height as well (css attribute "max-height"). IMO it would be perfect if M@x removed the image scaling and set max-height of the signature div to 200px.  |
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Dean
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 14:03 |
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^ hmm, the re-scalling of your sig looks dreadful
 . I don't have a problem with 250 or 300px even, it's only the really big ones (400+) that need fixing.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 14:05 |
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^ then it's a good test for M@x ... this is how it should look:
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Tuzvihar
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 14:47 |
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I repeat: INCREASE THE NUMBER OF CHARACTERS!!! 200 is too little...
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
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Ricochet
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 14:54 |
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The change affects worse other signatures, my seems just a bit harmed.
It should be, indeed, fixed. |
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R o V e R
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 14:59 |
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I feel very Shy to post anything, In this New look of the Forum, but will get to use to it, I hope
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Ricochet
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 16:12 |
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Oops, I actually see now that my Peter Hammill cover has been shrunk radically. It actually doesn't even fits my signature space, but falls below!
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Dean
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 19:33 |
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Now I've browsed a few threads and pages in the forum I have3 to admit that I really really like (okay, love) the new shrinky-dink signatures - makes scrolling a pleasure.
 thanks M@Xs - nice one. 
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rileydog22
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 19:37 |
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I think 250-300 pixels would be a good height to both limit the ridiculously large ones and allow people to still put nice-looking and eye-catching pictures in their sigs.
But then again, I usually adblock the ones that annoy me, so I don't have a problem with people having huge images in their signatures. |
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: January 02 2008 at 21:11 |
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Put em back the way they were. Signatures were a great insight in to the personality of the poster. It's a great method of expression and shouldn't be so drastically limited. The limit should be larger, if there need be one at all.
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Ghandi 2
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Posted: January 03 2008 at 04:01 |
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Haha, did M@x read my complaints, I wonder? In any case, thank you, it makes reading so much easier! I hate these emoticons, but I'm so happy I'm going to use them anyway!
I agree with Mike, the images should be cut off if they're too big, because right now the huge file is still there, so the poor suckers on 56k will still have to load it, even if now they can get past it without breaking their scroll buttons.
If there is truly no way to get a last.fm/whatever sig smaller than 200px, then I support an increase to that. It's not fair to penalize them with an unreadable sig because they want to show that easily.
The character limit also should be higher, as long as the 200px limit is maintained. 200px high is way more than 200 characters, and if someone wants to fill his sig with words, why not? It loads a hell of a lot faster than image sigs. Forcing people to make an image with the words they want to say is not a good solution, which is what I had to do once.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: January 03 2008 at 05:05 |
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^ I would be glad to offer a signature service which uses text instead of images ... unfortunately the forum software doesn't allow that.
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Ricochet
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Posted: January 03 2008 at 05:17 |
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Well, I took down my picture, it has become completely useless.
Perhaps the Last.Fm charts' problem can still be solved. |
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: January 03 2008 at 05:32 |
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I'm leaving my "big" signature in place until the problem is solved ... all Ratingfreak.com sig users can adjust the "Max Lines" setting to 5 as a workaround.
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Dean
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Posted: January 03 2008 at 05:48 |
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looks like they are back
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