Character limit in signatures

Oh deary deary me.


Wrong.
More characters will allow users to put in more images. It will NOT allow users to have larger images. There isn't any image size restriction anyway, aside from the default forum resize of any image that stretches the layout.


This can be easily done. There just needs to be a check for all images put into the signature space for the width and length to be within a certain amount. Whether or not it will get done anytime soon remains to be seen.


This can also be easily implemented along with the size check. Number of [img] bbcodes less than a certain amount.

Sadly enough, I cannot make these changes. (Though I have offered to several times.) The task remains with either Jacob or whoever his current code monkey is.

Yeah, I know I'm being persistent, but here we go anyway:

Custom MAL signatures. Quite a few people on Fakku also use MAL, and if any of them make their own custom signatures, many of them will have had to have been image spliced in order to get the MAL updater to work properly.

Problem is if you are splicing you are using many more characters in your signature. I just made a custom signature on there, and I can't even use it on Fakku because it's +400 characters.

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It isn't as though limiting characters detract people from having multiple or huge signatures.

Also don't bother mentioning TinyURL. Most of the time I have to splice over four times and even then there are too many characters to successfully limit it by shortening the URLs.

I know I may be getting bothersome with this, but that just means I'm passionate. Jacob may never change his mind, but we'll never know unless we have enough people brining it up. :P

What do you mean? The MAL signature is an image hosted on the MAL servers and update according to your anime list. As far as Fakku is concerned, it's just an image.

Depending on how many splices you do the more and more characters you are going to use up.

Does that make sense? I can't find the right words and terminology to explain it.

So is this proposition being thought of at all? I really would like the limit of sig characters to increase T_T

I want my playlist in my signature so that as long as my comment is on that page you will here nothing but this.


Take that Paul Blart.

I think the character limit should be raised to 300 or 325. Its not much more space, but often times I find myself just barely limited by the 255. So adding 40-50 more characters would be very convenient.

When looking at new replies regarding this subject, I just realized I never really did explain what I meant by the image splicing when it comes to using codes in signatures.

For example, I can't use my MAL signature on Fakku because it is customized with the MAL updater signature. It requires that I splice my signature around the MAL updater in order for me to make my signature within the confines of BBCode.

Because of all of the splices, the code becomes rather large. Usually, larger than what services like TinyURL can counter.

More specifically:



This is a screencap of my signature, but in reality it's divided into five different, spliced images.

Top section:

Left section:

Center section (MAL Updater):

Right section:

Bottom section:

So in the end, the code looks like this:

[code:1]

[/code:1]

That is 466 characters. Most of those URL-shortening services wouldn't help much, especially if I ever made a signature that was more complex.

Anyway, just thought I'd bring up the specifics of what I meant a few months ago.

If you read this Jacob could you just say if you could at least consider increasing the character limit or if it's entirely pointless trying to convince you.

I wanted to use a chapter from THE BOOK OF LIES, but even the very shortest ones were too long. it would be text only, and it wouldn't take up that much space either.