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Signatures

stuartstuart
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This, i think is the last feature missing from vanilla+extensions, anyone fancy tackling it? I'd do it myself, but I cant program for sh*t.

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  • lamentlament
    Posts: 290
    we're still missing participated threads.. :(
  • stuartstuart
    Posts: 214
    for that, couldn't you just use, search, comments: nothing | all categories | Your Username And if you so wish, use the same makeup of the add tab exntensions to give your results quickly. eg: http://lussumo.com/community/search.php?PostBackAction=Search&Keywords=lament:&btnSubmit=Search&Type=Comments
  • jsandersjsanders
    Posts: 205
    for sigs, wouldn't we need to know the order that extensions act on the post first? or am i overthinking this?
  • 3stripe3stripe
    Posts: 1,433
    i requested signatures a while back at http://lussumo.com/community/comments.php?DiscussionID=145&page=3

    to quote mark:

    Oh man. Do I ever hate signatures. I purposefully left them out. What a waste of screen space.

    But if they really wanted it - you could enable the clipboard and they could set up a ton of different signatures on their clipboard and then just paste in whichever one they wanted when posting.
  • stuartstuart
    Posts: 214
    hehe, I see. When I say signatures, Im not talking a bit graphic for some gaming clan site, just a name/website/email link type thing.
  • 3stripe3stripe
    Posts: 1,433
    yeah i got ya! i think a plugin that allowed for either a text link, and/or a banner ad, would serve everyone's needs.
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    Signatures are missing for a reason : Nobody likes them :)
  • 3stripe3stripe
    Posts: 1,433
    yeah i know, but on some forums they are just part of the landscape, and people would get lost without them (check any forum to do with dance music for example). anyhows i don't really care anymore as the forum on my site has been ditched :-(
  • MarkMark
    Posts: 4,883
    You're forum-less now?
  • 3stripe3stripe
    Posts: 1,433
    well for a while yeah, it was a forum which only about 3 people were using, so we're going to relaunch it as a scottish-wide forum in a month or two possibly.
  • BenBen
    Posts: 534
    well, how about adding them to the bottom of the comment, faded out slightly over on the right; like the 'block comment' links.
  • unipusunipus
    Posts: 107
    for that, couldn't you just use, search, comments:

    nothing | all categories | Your Username


    that WOULD work reasonably well except that if you've done it you see the number one problem: the results are not UNIQUE. So basically you're almost there and it would be a probably very simple tweak to the SQL statement to make it work in a worthwhile way.
  • hyneshynes
    Posts: 4
    Personally I don't see a need for signatures, but I do like the idea of having an email / web address / IM kind of link next to a person's username in a post. Sometimes when they respond to something I want to break out the conversation to something quicker or instant.
  • KrakKrak
    Posts: 926
    I like the website link idea, not crazy about the email/IM thing. If I want you to have my IM I'll usually whisper/PM it to someone... not that its not listed on some other forums tho, lol. I've found myself diggin through a forums users before, when I am bored, just checking out their websites.. I guess sigs would all depend on the community. Like this one, I'd say they arent needed. But if I had a clan site or something I'd prolly want my little game clan sig logo thing down there. I dont know, maybe not. Kind of goes against the whole vanilla thing, no images anywhere (cept maybe a header and avatar icons), loads super fast.
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    I presume that in the next release, creating an extension for this might be easier give or take some core function. With the added "extension table" this should be more fun to code up. Without the need to dig through serialized arrays.
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    Just to comment on Mark's rant on sigs being a waste of screenspace. Uhm, someone forgot the HUGE RED BOX THAT SAYS "I'M A COMPLETE AND UTTER DOUCHEBAG" very much?
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    Thats why the role taglines are optional :P I dont think its quite so much the idea of SIGNATURES that bothers people - its the idea of what most people seem to have adopted as signatures on a number of forums - i.e. either stupid gifs, their uberleet pc information, a sign showing me my ip address (allbeit wrong) ..etc. A signature, taken back to basics, is your name. Which is ahead the post anyway. If you want to put a single line saying something productive (url, whatever) then i dont see an issue with that, but i think a lot of people feel the typical uber signature would detract from vanilla's ethos. That said, there's a reason extensions are extensions. :)
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    then again, that's what profiles are intended for :P
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    Yeah, I like the idea of the same kind of singature that you can use on your e-mail software. Plain text, very informative and no nonsense.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    no nonsense? The signatures we *have* to use at work by law are full of complete and utter bullshit... i get your point though.
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    Yeah, but I'm a space pirate, I can put anything to my sig, even nonsense.
  • KrakKrak
    Posts: 926
    So I guess what we need really is a sig, but the extension should be more of a "sig limiter". We need an extension to police sigs. Be able to not only enable them but to limit image size, how many lines of text you can use, etc... We need the Mussolini of sig extensions.
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    We need to put sigs in and then GET RID OF THOSE ANNOYING LITTLE THINGS!
  • 3stripe3stripe
    Posts: 1,433
    lemme just say, again, sigs would be very useful, def. not here, but in the context of other communities where the whole forum itself is a kind of hotch-potch of adverts and cross-polination type thing [like i said dance music forums] ok they will probably be filled full of ugly-as-sin banner ads, but without that plugin i don't think vanilla would even be considered by the peeps that run these kind of places, and i think that would be a shame.
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    signature { display: none; } :D
  • KrakKrak
    Posts: 926
    lol
  • acarboniacarboni
    Posts: 12
    I hate signatures, but a bunch of my users have been asking for them. Some people get really turned off by them not being there.
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    It's like handbrake in a car, not the most essential part of the driving experience, but it is useful and you notice when it is gone.
  • nathannathan
    Posts: 893
    @kosmo: use some wooden chocks and a rope (so that you can pull them out when you need to move) :P
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    But I don't want to use wooden blocks in the end of a string as my signature, I feel like I'm poor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is my signature, woo for bitey signature!
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