The Shrine

I hate 'em. They take up too much space; single sentence replies can take up half a page, and intrude on the flow of conversations. I'd love to disable them. How does everyone else feel?

I don't mind either way.

Keep signatures, there's no reason to turn the Shrine sterile.

I don't mind them really, to be honest.

Sine, is it possible to disable them on a per user basis? Or even better, on a per user basis, disable them only for certain other users (using a list of names or something)?

Why stop there? Why not just switch back to the older and superior board script?

Heh.

But, yeah I thought there was a way to disable sigs?

I'm with Kupek, if you have a super funny picture you want to show everyone and you don't want it to be your avatar, just post it.

Funny, I was just about to bitch about Seeker's large sig, and suddenly it's half the size. I wonder why...

Still waiting for sine to make the jump to SMF.

SineSwiper wrote:Funny, I was just about to bitch about Seeker's large sig, and suddenly it's half the size. I wonder why...

I was just lazy about formatting it correctly.

Seraphina wrote:SMF.

???

Its a better more customizable and easier to Administrate forum. I use it at work for our reps.

http://www.simplemachines.org/

Lox wrote:I don't mind them really, to be honest.

Sine, is it possible to disable them on a per user basis? Or even better, on a per user basis, disable them only for certain other users (using a list of names or something)?

No, I've looked into it. Our version of phpBB (2.something) doesn't have that functionality, and I'm not even sure if version 3 does - and if I was Sine, I'd be wary of upgrading. Disabling sigs is a board-wide operation.

I hate phpBB. If I were to upgrade, I'd go to something like SMF. However, that would also require some level of commitment to at least get the user posting styles in place. Also, I would probably want to tackle some of the other features that I've been meaning to port over from RPGBoard. (I still have the list.)

Used to be that I had plenty of time from 3rd shift to do that sort of thing. Nowadays, Perl coding is actually my job and I don't have much time to work on that type of extra stuff.

SineSwiper wrote: Also, I would probably want to tackle some of the other features that I've been meaning to port over from RPGBoard. (I still have the list.)

Please make sure you bring over the following:

1) GUI
2) Structure
3) Full script

Thanks :-)

Really, Zeus, give it a rest. I know I prefer this style of posting now.

Kupek wrote:Really, Zeus, give it a rest. I know I prefer this style of posting now.

I hate it. I'm used to it now but it's still a pain

I look at the old format and it just looks way, way too... old. It reminds me of the Internet circa 1990 and that's not a good thing. No offense, but it's ugly by today's standards and even the organizational style of the posts was poor.

PHPBB may be crappy to admin and manage, but it's a solid format that works well and presents content in an easily readable manner. Oh, and no more fucking "-NT" posts... god those were annoying.

Tessian wrote:I look at the old format and it just looks way, way too... old. It reminds me of the Internet circa 1990 and that's not a good thing. No offense, but it's ugly by today's standards and even the organizational style of the posts was poor.

PHPBB may be crappy to admin and manage, but it's a solid format that works well and presents content in an easily readable manner. Oh, and no more fucking "-NT" posts... god those were annoying.

NT

Sine, just nuke this site from orbit. Or leave it sitting derelict, a monument to the follies of our youths. I wouldn't mind a fresh start at a fresh, clean forum.

On the topic: I would welcome the opportunity to not view sigs.

Also, Zeus is so old.

Nuke the forum? Awww, but I was just starting to get comfortable...

Eric wrote:

Tessian wrote:I look at the old format and it just looks way, way too... old. It reminds me of the Internet circa 1990 and that's not a good thing. No offense, but it's ugly by today's standards and even the organizational style of the posts was poor.

PHPBB may be crappy to admin and manage, but it's a solid format that works well and presents content in an easily readable manner. Oh, and no more fucking "-NT" posts... god those were annoying.

NT

Eric, King of NT posts.

Dutch wrote:

Eric wrote:

Tessian wrote:I look at the old format and it just looks way, way too... old. It reminds me of the Internet circa 1990 and that's not a good thing. No offense, but it's ugly by today's standards and even the organizational style of the posts was poor.

PHPBB may be crappy to admin and manage, but it's a solid format that works well and presents content in an easily readable manner. Oh, and no more fucking "-NT" posts... god those were annoying.

NT

Eric, King of NT posts.

It's true, I think I had the largest % Of NT posts or something back in the day lol.

Fixed =)