[SPLIT] Increase signature length?

[pjp]

Well in many cases it really helps there. One guy has a list of all the common dell part numbers and phone numbers because people are always asking how to get additional drive trays for their laptops and such, so the answer is always "Read Johnallg's sig!"

I didn't mean to imply there could be no useful sigs that were novelettes. I think it would be far better to place the information elsewhere, and link to it. If I ran across a forum where sigs were longer than the posts, I'd go elsewhere.

[bungernut]

Some of the url's are huge, if you could just make it so that anything in url=<here> space dident count. I compleatly agree with everything else though. look, im eving using tinylinks

[tomk]

just make it so that anything in url=<here> space dident count.

This isn't easily done, there's a general charachter limit on the signature, it would require hacking the code and that makes upgrades to newer versions of phpBB harder.

[bungernut]

I dont have much experience with asking for this kind of thing but maby phpBB would be interisted in hearing this suggestion, at least as an option in future products???? Ill see what i can find out...

[bungernut]

I think tinylinks screwed me, my unanswered post link in my signature has changed to www.microsoft.com, i swore it used to work just fine before. Has tiny links screwed anyone else?

[kallamej]

Just fix your link. It is currentlly

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http://http//tinylink.com/?8thQrtgPG7

Remove the second http and it should be fine. I don't remember the exact logic used to resolved the link, but it has been discussed here about a year ago, and there is a mozilla bug for it.

[ian!]

Just fix your link. It is currentlly

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http://http//tinylink.com/?8thQrtgPG7

Remove the second http and it should be fine. I don't remember the exact logic used to resolved the link, but it has been discussed here about a year ago, and there is a mozilla bug for it.

This isn't a Mozilla bug. It's a feature. Whenever Mozilla can't resolve the domainname Mozilla uses this string in google search. Then Mozilla redirects to the first search entry. In case of "http" it's http://www.microsoft.com.

[kallamej]

In case anyone's interested, I was thinking of this thread. At that time, the domain guessing was slightly different as it was trying to prepend www and append org or com.

[DarrenM]

I agree that sigs should be small and graphics free but what I'd really like to see is the ability for users to disable sigs and avatars added to the forum. I think you need a mod like this one to do it though. It must be just about the only forum software out there that doesn't have it by default.

[pjp]

I think tinylinks screwed me, my unanswered post link in my signature has changed to www.microsoft.com, i swore it used to work just fine before. Has tiny links screwed anyone else?

Maybe I'm missing something, but what does this have to do with the topic of sig size?

[bungernut]

So i used a little creative liberity, but here is the loop in my head.
I was reading this post and found out about tinylinks, inplimented them on my signature to allow (barley) it to fit under the very limiting signature size if hyperlinks are to count in sig-size. Then all of a sudden it seemed like tinylinks was not going to work if they or whatever else is going to change the targets of their links. I guess i was trying to inform everyone that tinylinks was not a viable option for saving space and the sig size needs adjusted, hacked, or upgraded.

[aethyr]

So i used a little creative liberity, but here is the loop in my head.
I was reading this post and found out about tinylinks, inplimented them on my signature to allow (barley) it to fit under the very limiting signature size if hyperlinks are to count in sig-size. Then all of a sudden it seemed like tinylinks was not going to work if they or whatever else is going to change the targets of their links. I guess i was trying to inform everyone that tinylinks was not a viable option for saving space and the sig size needs adjusted, hacked, or upgraded.

the problem isn't tinylinks, the problem is your signature.

The second link is:
http://http//tinylink.com/?8thQrtgPG7

whereis it should be:
http://tinylink.com/?8thQrtgPG7

Tinylinks do not change, they always point to the same thing. The only problem is when the destination URL changes, or goes offline, but they don't really have any control over that.