It’s been requested to install a plugin which would bring back user signatures, similar to what we had in vBulletin before we moved to Discourse.
And if I’m reading the plugin’s README correctly, users are able to disable signatures if they don’t want to see them.
Is this something you would want installed?
Personally I’m against, I think it’s spammy and has little added value. The writer of the plugin seems to agree with me, bases on the first line of the readme:
Felling nostalgic of old VBulletin days? Wanna spam and flame like it’s 2000?
Perfect for putting my Fabworks partner code in!
I looked into it and the plugin definitely does allow users to not see signatures, in fact it’s off by default.
users must intentionally opt in to have a signature experience
People on old CD were pretty reserved with signatures in my experience. The most “spammy” thing I saw were the small division banners people had:
While we’re on the topic of bringing back old features, how about spotlights? We’d probably need a custom extension, but it was a fun feature that also showed off the community at its best.
There are a lot of disagreements about that… I’m on your side but not everyone was.
Were signatures migrated to the bio or something? I see those in people’s bios sometimes
One of the reason signatures were tolerable before was because they were limited to a certain height. It doesn’t look like this plug-in does that.
Discourse gives so much customization of the user profile that I think that covers most of the things the signature did, minus the spammyness.
I mean that could be done very trivially with css
.user-signature {
max-height: 100px;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
Why not hidden?
No particular reason.
I just tested the plugin on a local instance. The snippet
.user-signature {
max-height: 160px;
overflow-y: hidden;
}
Added to custom css works perfectly at limiting the height.
The plugin allows for two signature modes. An image mode that lets you input any image url for your signature, and a full “editor” mode, that allows for similar editing to a post. I personally prefer the full editor mode, especially if we implement a height cap. The plugin by default is opt-in, but it can be configured so that it is opt out.
Unclear if signatures are static at the time of comment, or current at the time of page load.
Either way, we’ve managed to get by without signature spam this long, not sure if ti’s worth going down that road now.
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