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Hello everyone!

One of many features on our forums is the ability to set a custom signature for yourself. For those of you who don't know, signatures are what come after the end of your post (right now, mine is that little gif of my name, with space backgrounds).

Signatures are really great, and it's really cool seeing all the diversity and representations that each player brings to the table-- but because of the freedom in signatures we have an issue or two:
  • Firstly, I'm seeing a few signatures get a little too large. This isn't aimed at any player in particular, but I've been watching signatures as a whole get larger over time. Big signatures are disruptive on lesser computers who struggle with running web browsers well. They also make it trickier to scroll down on threads.
  • Secondly --and this isn't as big of an issue-- signatures with 3+ animated gifs will also lag out the web browsers of some computers, and can be distracting. Please use gifs responsibly and think about others when attaching them to the end of all of your posts.
I'm in no way telling people to stop using signatures-- but just consider the effects they'll have on other people trying to use the forums. Thanks!
 
MegaPixelPerfect said:
Hello everyone!

One of many features on our forums is the ability to set a custom signature for yourself. For those of you who don't know, signatures are what come after the end of your post (right now, mine is that little gif of my name, with space backgrounds).

Signatures are really great, and it's really cool seeing all the diversity and representations that each player brings to the table-- but because of the freedom in signatures we have an issue or two:
  • Firstly, I'm seeing a few signatures get a little too large. This isn't aimed at any player in particular, but I've been watching signatures as a whole get larger over time. Big signatures are disruptive on lesser computers who struggle with running web browsers well. They also make it trickier to scroll down on threads.
  • Secondly --and this isn't as big of an issue-- signatures with 3+ animated gifs will also lag out the web browsers of some computers, and can be distracting. Please use gifs responsibly and think about others when attaching them to the end of all of your posts.
I'm in no way telling people to stop using signatures-- but just consider the effects they'll have on other people trying to use the forums. Thanks!
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I'm very know with this problem, I used to have a slow PC, it was 6 years old with 2GB Random Acces Memory (RAM), but..
RIP Notebook MAC users.
I also think a signature like yours would be enough, and maybe some information over yourself, if you want to.

Thanks for telling us MegaPixelPerfect, hope people would atleast make their signature down to 1 GIF, as it should be clearly enough to show who you are and what you are like.
 
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An your lucky because some people like me can't be bothered to make a signature
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Janjakob2000 said:
2GB Random Allocated Memory (RAM)
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Its random access memory!
 
Talk about signature i just got 1 from an awsum friend.(@TeoLichty sig shop)
does signs rlly lags other?im fine with all these signatures
 
CloudJokerMC said:
Talk about signature i just got 1 from an awsum friend.(@TeoLichty sig shop)
does signs rlly lags other?im fine with all these signatures
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Mine do.

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TeamPlayer said:
Signatures
Size: The size of signatures can be no larger than 8 lines of text. Size restrictions are in place to prevent signatures from obstructing of the forum content.
Content: Your signature can not contain anything listed under the Forbidden Subject Matter section. Your signature can contain links to your social network profiles. If there are any problems with your signature you will be messaged by a moderator to change it.
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MegaPixelPerfect said:
Hello everyone!

One of many features on our forums is the ability to set a custom signature for yourself. For those of you who don't know, signatures are what come after the end of your post (right now, mine is that little gif of my name, with space backgrounds).

Signatures are really great, and it's really cool seeing all the diversity and representations that each player brings to the table-- but because of the freedom in signatures we have an issue or two:
  • Firstly, I'm seeing a few signatures get a little too large. This isn't aimed at any player in particular, but I've been watching signatures as a whole get larger over time. Big signatures are disruptive on lesser computers who struggle with running web browsers well. They also make it trickier to scroll down on threads.
  • Secondly --and this isn't as big of an issue-- signatures with 3+ animated gifs will also lag out the web browsers of some computers, and can be distracting. Please use gifs responsibly and think about others when attaching them to the end of all of your posts.
I'm in no way telling people to stop using signatures-- but just consider the effects they'll have on other people trying to use the forums. Thanks!
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Thanks for the info?
NO ONE LOOK AFTER THIS UNLESS YOU'RE MEGA: How did you make that majestic gif? ;o
 
MegaPixelPerfect said:
signatures with 3+ animated gifs will also lag out the web browsers of some computers, and can be distracting.
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Umm your using a moving signature aswell
CloudJokerMC said:
does signs rlly lags other?im fine with all these signatures
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Yeah maybe because your signature isnt a moving one and its smaller than other so it should be fine
(i umm dont understand much what MegaPixelPerfect said) thx for the info tho;)
 
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:eek: If some of the sigs i made for ppl is too large just ask to me and ill make it smaller.
 
Awesomelandd said:
The problem for you, I think, might be the width of the signatures... They go off the page for me :3
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Yeah, it breaks it. :p

Hilmy091 said:
Umm your using a moving signature aswell

Yeah maybe because your signature isnt a moving one and its smaller than other so it should be fine
(i umm dont understand much what MegaPixelPerfect said) thx for the info tho;)
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Yeah but he doesn't have 3+ animated gifs because it's all one gif.
 
Animated signatures stop moving when I scroll down the page.
 
pixlr_ said:
Hello everyone!

One of many features on our forums is the ability to set a custom signature for yourself. For those of you who don't know, signatures are what come after the end of your post (right now, mine is that little gif of my name, with space backgrounds).

Signatures are really great, and it's really cool seeing all the diversity and representations that each player brings to the table-- but because of the freedom in signatures we have an issue or two:
  • Firstly, I'm seeing a few signatures get a little too large. This isn't aimed at any player in particular, but I've been watching signatures as a whole get larger over time. Big signatures are disruptive on lesser computers who struggle with running web browsers well. They also make it trickier to scroll down on threads.
  • Secondly --and this isn't as big of an issue-- signatures with 3+ animated gifs will also lag out the web browsers of some computers, and can be distracting. Please use gifs responsibly and think about others when attaching them to the end of all of your posts.
I'm in no way telling people to stop using signatures-- but just consider the effects they'll have on other people trying to use the forums. Thanks!
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Can there be rule against having the signatures too wide? It ruins the look of the forums like [USER=22]@Awesomelandd[/USER] said.
 
With mine it zooms out and I get a BSOD that's why I use my phone.
 
im on my wii u and i noticed 2 people who has their signature off the side of the page. this also happens on my ipad too.
 
Yes I agree and because of this thread I will fix my signature
 
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