New rule: No animated signatures.

by V on Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:08 pm

Dear TRites,

I'm enforcing a new rule that animated signatures are not allowed. These cause too much lag when browsing boards and are generally unnecessary. If you still want to keep the theme your animated signature has, I suggest turning it into a static image and saving it as a .png.

Staff: Please remove any animated signatures that are used.

Related: Who wants pony-themed signatures?

Thank you for your compliance,
-V

by **Tom Gaskarth** on Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:19 pm

Changed it just in time then :P

by Mrsebi on Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:34 pm

Do forum animated sigs count? Like, small images that you add the right movement thing

by V on Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:41 pm

MrSebi wrote:Do forum animated sigs count? Like, small images that you add the right movement thing

Yes.

by DigDog on Thu Feb 17, 2011 1:18 am

How about implementing a script that makes the board show a sig only once per page?

by V on Thu Feb 17, 2011 1:45 am

Unless if it's pure html or can be done through editing the stylesheet, Forummotion offers little support in terms of installing custom scripts.

by **Shadow** on Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:13 am

Is it just .gif animated or is it .swf animated too?

by V on Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:23 am

Intensely animated .swf's are banned, but ones with buttons for links (like the x-box sigs) or MoTM plaques are fine.

by Mrsebi on Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:45 am

I meant like this
are these not allowed?

by **Xusha** on Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:42 am

It moves. That's exactly what's being banned. Does it take a neurologist to figure that out?

by **Juliana** on Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:08 am

Just got to say, that isn't what causes the lag. That's done with the UBBC code, which is built into the forum and isn't laggy... the lag is caused by the images that are actually more like videoclips. (And which drive me crazy; I applaud this rule.) So I'm pretty sure it's just the movie images that are the ones being banned...

Vamp, clarification?

by **Rage** on Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:59 am

Juliana is right in that respect. Gifs and Swfs generally upload larger files whereas the code simply changes the inherent html code to make the image move from side to side, similar to marquee text.

by V on Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:44 am

Juli is correct is that movie clips cause the most lag. That being said, marqueed images are still generating animation on your screen and thus creating some amount of stress on your machine.

Besides, they're annoying.

by Mrsebi on Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:42 pm

What about the animated emotes that already exist on the forums?
lol!

by Drwho on Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:41 pm

(semi-anual post) What about an picture of Chuck Norris, that'll lag the he'll out of your forum. I'd suggest banning those too.

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