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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => Other General Discussion => Topic started by: Daniel15 on November 13, 2007, 11:28:05 am

Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: Daniel15 on November 13, 2007, 11:28:05 am
Stupid phpBB...
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Signature:
This is a block of text that can be added to posts you make. There is a 255 character limit

Right, so that means I can use a signature up to 255 characters long? (this is really tiny in comparison to most forums... Can an admin here increase this to ~600? :D).

Well, I try this signature:
Code: [Select]
Subjects:
2005: Cisco CCNA
2006: Info Systems
2007: Specialist, Methods, Physics, English, Chem
Wishing for ENTER of ~87, expecting something lower :(
I'm not smart, I'm just me! :D

[b]Estimate your ENTER! Visit http://entercalc.us.to/ (in BETA)[/b]
Which is 250 characters (including line breaks), but phpBB says:
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Your signature is too long.

250 < 255!!
Grrr... I hate you too, phpBB!   :evil:  :x
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: melanie.dee on November 13, 2007, 11:46:03 am
big signatures are annoying anyway so deal with it. i would be tempted to stab anyone with a 600 character signature
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: Daniel15 on November 13, 2007, 11:54:12 am
Quote from: "melanie.dee"
big signatures are annoying anyway so deal with it. i would be tempted to stab anyone with a 600 character signature

Well, not 600 characters of plain writing, but 600 characters including BBCodes. So like a few URLs, some bold text, some different colours, etc.
I used this signature at another forum... It's 499 characters long:
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[table][tr][td][u]My sites:[/u]
?[url=http://dansoftaustralia.net/]DanSoft Australia[/url]?
?[url=http://www.daniel15.com/]Daniel15's Site[/url]?
?[url=http://www.dynamic-sig.com/]Dynamic-Sig.com[/url]?
?[url=http://zurl.ws]zURL.ws - Free URL shortening service[/url]?
[url=http://www.daniel15.net/]more...[/url][/td]
[td]? ?? [/td]
[td][url=http://www.last.fm/user/daniel_1515/?chartstyle=basicrt10] [img]http://imagegen.last.fm/basicrt10/recenttracks/daniel_1515.gif[/img] [/url][/td][/tr][/table]

Which has my website URLs neatly aligned in one column, and my last.fm recently played songs in another column (too bad phpBB doesn't have a BBCode :P)
A lot of forums don't have a character limit, but instead say that the signature can only be 5 lines of text or less, which IMO is a better restriction than a character limit

And besides, I could type up all the text (ie. more than 255 characters) in Photoshop or GIMP, save it as an image, and then just use the image in my signature. Easy way around the character limit :P
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: Ahmad on November 13, 2007, 12:10:34 pm
Do you guys think my signature is too long? Should I chop some off?
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: Pencil on November 13, 2007, 12:14:28 pm
nah
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: melanie.dee on November 13, 2007, 12:16:39 pm
nah its fine im used to it now anyway lol, dont chop any of it off

well daniel if you've already got a way of getting around the problem then voila do that. but a signature with that many links would make me want to scratch my eyes out :) but thats ok, just my personal dislike for long signatures. if everyone has massive signatures it gets effing annyoing
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: brendan on November 13, 2007, 01:16:50 pm
chop it all off, its too long. and its annoying
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: Ahmad on November 13, 2007, 01:18:09 pm
There, now it's shorter. Just the way you like it... =P

Oh, and I also think yours is way too long. I mean, what were you thinking???
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: Galelleo on November 13, 2007, 01:23:11 pm
mines perfect imo ... although itw ould look a tad nicer in a differen colour ... hmmm
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: melanie.dee on November 13, 2007, 01:46:27 pm
noooo no different colours, tackyness central
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: brendan on November 13, 2007, 07:57:28 pm
well i wouldnt mind if you guys had pictures as signatures cos at least i can use adblock on firefox to block them .
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: kido_1 on November 13, 2007, 08:00:39 pm
lol
Talk about law enforcement.
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: Collin Li on November 13, 2007, 11:38:34 pm
Quote from: "kido_1"
lol
Talk about law enforcement.


What the fuck? What are you talking about? I'm going to start deleting posts from you that seem to have no meaning, and just add to your post count.
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: un on November 14, 2007, 08:03:12 am
So is the maximum signature capability about 600 words. Besides, signatures that are too long get so annoying. (I do not even have a signature right now)
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: Daniel15 on November 15, 2007, 01:07:23 pm
Grrr... More phpBB "fun"
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[b]Subjects:[/b]
2005: Cisco CCNA Units 1+2
2006: Info Systems
2007: Specialist, Methods, Physics, English, Chem
Wishing for ENTER of ~87, but definitely not going to get this :roll:

[b]Estimate your ENTER! Visit http://entercalc.us.to/ (in BETA)[/b]
251 characters.
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Your signature is too long.


:roll:
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: Ahmad on November 15, 2007, 03:34:59 pm
Maybe it counts both carriage return and line feed. Just a thought.
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: costargh on November 15, 2007, 03:58:19 pm
Maybe she meant law enforcement as in.... actually i have no idea. Lol.

My sig would be so annoyin 4 everyone cause its long
I mite change it now
Title: Forum signature limit
Post by: Daniel15 on November 15, 2007, 05:34:17 pm
Quote from: "Ahmad"
Maybe it counts both carriage return and line feed. Just a thought.

Oh, right, I didn't think of that... I'm used to UNIX-based systems (Linux) which only use a linefeed rather than CR/LF combination. :P
That's probably it, then. Stupid phpBB.  :roll: