Signatures

[Iammars]

TWSOGMM?

[mith]

If they've discovered that large avatars and signatures are part of the performance problems we've had since moving to the new host, I'm all for it.

I'm not even aware of any performance problems. Did I miss a thread? These decisions didn't have much to do with bandwidth, though.

For the avatars, the 80x80 limit has been in place since the start of the site, and at the time I assumed it it applied to offsite avatars as well. This was to correct that, while bringing the size limit more in line with what is fairly standard most places. It was also an option to leave offsite avatars enabled and apply the limit to those (though I'm not sure how much coding that would involve), but there's no reason for that; 10kb per user is not going to dent the server space, and offsite avatars are potentially a loading problem.

For the signatures... ~shrug~ I've had a lot of complaints. Myself, I generally have signatures turned off, and only have them on to monitor them in a game I have banned them for; if I had had a more active hand in setting up the software originally, I might well have gotten rid of them entirely. But I know most people like having a little something (if only to help separate and identify posts). Part of getting rid of the tags is a tackiness issue. I know if I visited a forum and stumbled across a thread where half the posts had large colorful distracting images attached to them, I wouldn't be inclined to stay. Part of it is that such things will be better suited for profile additions (see Site Ideas, for those that haven't already) and hopefully this will encourage people to limit their signatures to a line or two. There is simply no need for so much distracting filler surrounding all the posts.

But to answer your actual question, yes, this is a benevolent dictatorship. It always has been. Most of the daily upkeep of the site is done by others (I can't do everything), but most decisions do ultimately go through me.

[Cogito Ergo Sum]

TWSOGMM?

The whole sort of general mish mash!

[Mr. Flay]

If they've discovered that large avatars and signatures are part of the performance problems we've had since moving to the new host, I'm all for it.

I'm not even aware of any performance problems. Did I miss a thread? These decisions didn't have much to do with bandwidth, though.

Not since the early November weirdness with the database, no, I don't think so. I was just trying to place it in a frame of reference.

The rest of it's cool, it's your place to ensure the place runs smoothly and is a good home for Mafia, I just wondered if I missed some sort of bruhaha...

[jeep]

I don't have a problem with mith/JEEP making changes to the site, of course, as they host MafiaScum.

Just for clarity, unless there is a technical reason for something, I have no more influence in this decision than any of the other vowels. I've occasionally overstepped my bounds as the technical admin when mith was busy or not reachable. And now that it's off nitro, I don't even have anything to do with the hosting. Which reminds me, I need to call Hy again.

-JEEP

[Iammars]

TWSOGMM?

The whole sort of general mish mash!

I totally knew that...

[Cadmium]

What has happened to the signatures? None of them show in the posts anymore.

[Mr. Flay]

They do for me; check your profile to see if

you unchecked the box by accident

the box got unchecked.

[Cogito Ergo Sum]

I had the same thing, the "See signatures in topic" was set to "No", but I'm certain I didn't change it. If Cadmium had the same problem, then it may be a deeper issue.

[Thok]

I bet it got reset when Jeep set up the recent batch of titles-there's probably some default settings that get altered when that happens. (I noticed my name being temporarily lowercased as a result as well as missing the sigs).

[Cadmium]

Yep, that did it. Thanks, guys!

[jeep]

Oddness. I didn't touch anything other than titles. I'll test it to see if I should report a bug.

-JEEP

[jeep]

And I don't think I touched Cad's account...

-JEEP

[Masterchief]

i like quotes! No more pictures... This is the only forum that i know taht lets pictures free on site. theyre usually blaocked

[Mastermind of Sin]

I had the same thing, the "See signatures in topic" was set to "No", but I'm certain I didn't change it. If Cadmium had the same problem, then it may be a deeper issue.

This happened to me as well.

[MightyFireball]

How come colour tags don't work in signatures? Or do they and I'm just doing it wrong?

[Mr. Flay]

Seems to be working now...it's light orange (and kinda hard to read)...