Here you can change your Forum Image which can be displayed on the right or left of your forum posts. The max size of a Signature AND Forum Image COMBINED is 450 pixels wide, and 325 pixels in height.

is there a reason this cannot be enforced by code instead of having this enforced by people? People can go months without getting a verbal warning from it. Or could these even be autoscaled so if they are too large, they are just scaled to fit?

Right now, the current system in place is that people can put up whatever they want, and if they happen to miscalculate or don't really know what they're doing, they get a verbal warning and their images get cleared. This is very off-putting to users, especially less tech-savvy ones. I know verbal warnings don't mean a whole lot, but instead of a kind reminder or offering of help, the user gets a warning which can often upset them.

don't believe me that people don't like how it's set up right now? Read this thread.

I would just love to see this aspect become more user-friendly.

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I agree, I dont even know how to add or judge how large my image is -_-

Yes please

The problem is that even if they were to autoscale a forum image, you still have to deal with whatever is in the signature. I don't know a lot about coding something like that...but is that even possible? To scale two different elements together at the same time to one size?

There is a forum topic to help people with their forum image and signatures. It even helps you to find out how to tell the size. And if you can't figure it out, you can always file a ticket and they will help you. Forum Image and Signature FAQs

there would have to be some rule on how much to scale each the image and signature, and text size would have to be subtracted from the amount of room since that's sorta fixed. it could probably be done. that's why I just prefer a solid code enforced rule so you can't have an image+signature display above a limit. it prevents that from happening and throws and error so you know.

the way it is now though, people don't know that their images breaking the rules, they get a slap on the wrist and that upsets them because they didn't mean to do anything wrong. I just don't want people to get upset and discouraged. I think UAs and mods have better things to do than throwing out verbal warnings for images and answering tickets on how to fix the size of your image.

I am aware of that thread, but I am sure not everyone else is.

I am just not sure what could be done in addition to what is done. When you go to the signature page, it tells you the width and height...on mine it says "Your signature is 0 px wide by 0 px tall."

Maybe adding the same to the forum image page might help? I just don't know if auto-scaling would be possible in this instance.

It would be nice if it told what both were in combination. I would think it wouldn't be difficult to just not allow some over a certain dimension though. I'd also like to see those pages combined, being separate pages makes it seem like the limits don't apply to both.

Autoscaling would be more complex than a solid limit, it could probably be done with some work though, but if it is too complex I would just like to see a solid limit imposed instead of letting it be broken and people get verbal warnings. It just seems more user friendly to do it that way.

Given how off the measurements are at any given point, yes.

Totally agree. It would be a big help.

Ugh yes please. Anything to make it more clear when you are inadvertently breaking the rules.

I've had my exact same forum set since the new forums were released. Only a month or two ago did I get a verbal warning about it. It wasn't the warning that annoyed me, it was the fact that it was automatically cleared and that I'd had the forum set for years at that point. It was one line of texts with art credits, an item, and the current picture I have.

Yes please

I've had a forum image for a long time after the new forums came out. Then all of the sudden, one day, it got cleared. It wasn't even that big, and I was pretty sure it was within the limits...but that doesn't matter. What annoyed me was that it happened out of the blue, when I'd the image for a long time.

div.forum_signature img { max-height: 100px !important; } div.forum_signature { max-height: 150px !important; overflow: hidden; }

There were a few people with massive images in their signatures and I got sick of it, so I've been using this and my life is so much better for it. It wouldn't be hard to implement officially.

I don't think that's even necessary. Just establish a size limit for each element separately and it would be really easy to enforce with CSS.

Tell people they get 150px for their forum image, and another 150px for their signature. They don't get to mix and match to have something like a 300px tall image and no signature, because it gets too complicated.

Just got my first warning the other day due to the size of a cat gif so here's a cat gif

I've had multiple conversations about this lately. I really want an auto-resizer.

I have a feeling the autoresizer is probably too complicated just based on how many different things (text, image, emoticons, quotes, etc) can go into a forumset/signature. It would be easier imo to just give a verbal warning and then clear the forumset after a set time (24 hours?) if it is not changed. It is silly to get actual warnings for this.

I'm thankful for the css, although I don't know if I'll ever use it. However, right now both the fooum signature and forum image pages say on them:

I'd hate to only have 150px. I rarely use a "forum image" so if my signature could only be that tall ever all the time I would be pretty miffed. Granted, my current gif is only 150px tall, but the text makes it another 10px so I wouldn't be able to use it anyway.

I think the best thing would be if some kind of code to resize them could be made, but that's up to staff I suppose on if it can be done.

I've always been surprised that the site doesn't just return a "This image is too large." error if you try to use something that doesn't meet the criteria. Pretty much any other forum I've been on does that with avatars and signatures and stuff.

Suggestions:

1. Add something to the user options that tells you the size of your signature and the size of your forum image

2. If their combined size exceeds the limit, you get an error message on the user options page, and the site automatically does not display them on your posts, until the issue is fixed

So much agreement. Would really love to see some of the improvements mentioned above.