Quick idea for admin

TCP/IP

Hi Lads,

Can someone tell me why do we have signigtures enabled what purpose do they have except taking up server power and space and making pages load slower. Would it make more sense to get rid of them.

Just a thought
TCP/IP

Mercury_Tilt

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Gone West

TCP/IP wrote:

Hi Lads,

Can someone tell me why do we have signigtures enabled what purpose do they have except taking up server power and space and making pages load slower. Would it make more sense to get rid of them.

Just a thought
TCP/IP

You realise that you have a signature, yes?

ai ing

You can chage your settings so you dont have to look at them. Have a look in User Settings --> Edit Options

RobertFoster

It's an identifier for those without avatars. All the cool kids have them.

*cough*

Images are generally not on the boards servers anyway, so it's users bandwidth it's taking up, not boards.

Creamy Goodness

RobertFoster wrote:

Images are generally not on the boards servers anyway, so it's users bandwidth it's taking up, not boards.

even more so now that members.boards.ie has been down for a while

PowerHouseDan

Another thing for Subscribers only? Mohah we are so mean

TCP/IP

i know i have a little text which i woiuld be happy to loose but i am really talking abot pictures

GoneShootin

PowerHouseDan wrote:

Another thing for Subscribers only?

I likes your thinking!

BuffyBot

Images are generally not on the boards servers anyway, so it's users bandwidth it's taking up, not boards.

Indeed. I'm fairly sure that it's been said before that the impact of sigs is normally quite minimal on the servers.

flogen

TCP/IP wrote:

Hi Lads,

Can someone tell me why do we have signigtures enabled what purpose do they have except taking up server power and space and making pages load slower. Would it make more sense to get rid of them.

Just a thought
TCP/IP

I dunno; why are there different avatars available, why do shops sell different colour clothing, why is there more than 1 type of chocolate bar in Spar?
I'd imagine in the grand scheme of things sigs have very little effect on site performance, for those with slow connections and pings they can always switch them off.

Fighting Irish

flogen wrote:

I dunno; why are there different avatars available, why do shops sell different colour clothing, why is there more than 1 type of chocolate bar in Spar?
I'd imagine in the grand scheme of things sigs have very little effect on site performance, for those with slow connections and pings they can always switch them off.

Signatures are a waste of space, especially some peoples

flogen

Fighting Irish wrote:

Signatures are a waste of space, especially some peoples

Look buddy, I don't think you're in a position to criticise what with you owning a dog that obviously has a severe gambling problem

biko

As long as we have SIGPO to hunt down and report the worst cases I think the sigs should stay "on". Subscriber idea not bad tho.

Fighting Irish

flogen wrote:

Look buddy, I don't think you're in a position to criticise what with you owning a dog that obviously has a severe gambling problem

he has made me €4 million over the past 2 years

Random

sigs should remain. next thing you could say all the fancy colours and formatting is a waste of bandwidth. then all the text. maybe we could just make this one big leet speak chat room?

sigs remain!

CuLT

Yours is too big luserbar user :V

If I were to contribute to this thread, I'd only be rephrasing what everyone else has said. But that won't stop this turning into a five page thread.

Crash

Postcount++?

Fighting Irish

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Postcount++?

TCP/IP

i think my point is what everybody has to say in there posts is important but taking examples from this thread alone what is the point in an Irish flag and a poker playing dog ummm

Sparky

I find pokerdog funneh

Faith

So do I. And he's adorable. Brings a smile to my face!