So what size would you suggest we limit signatures to? How do you limit them in phpbb2?Brf wrote:Moved to phpBB Discussion.
Large-size signatures are obnoxious. They detract from the discussion.
Signature with a large-bytesize are even worse. Users with a slow internet connection will not even be able to read your forum.
Ok gotcha there.... but what do you suggest is a proper size for a 60,000 member forum?Brf wrote:You limit them by telling your users to stop making them so large.
Remember, not only signatures can waste bandwith, but screen space it's very important.Display Poster Information Once helps to reduce bandwidth, loading time and screen space used in phpBB forums by reducing the display of a poster's information to one time per page in topics. The first post a user makes is displayed normally, but posts after that one will have certain images or information removed.
The supported types of poster information that can be removed are avatars, signatures, signature images, rank images, rank titles, locations, registration dates, number of posts, and profile, email, website, and instant messenger links. Left over HTML line breaks that pointlessly take up extra space can also be removed. Exactly what information is removed can be changed when installing the changes or by editing viewtopic.php later.
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unset($user_cache[$poster_id]['sig']);