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I run VTC6 and HG2 in my FET 18650 lights. I run protected cells otherwise, almost all 18650GA and some 35E.

I was worried about mine getting long!

You can start a thread containing links to your builds then just have a link to that library in your sig line. In that way anyone wanting to see what youā€™ve done can get there easily while your posts stay streamlined. :wink:

jason has the biggest signature on blf :smiley:

Agree, they are even worse on mobile. If Jason & Teacher post in the same thread itā€™s a nightmare :smiley:

Great idea :wink: :+1:

Maybe, but in the big scheme of things, who really cares?? It contains good information and is neatly done & organized as well.
Live & let liveā€¦ā€¦.

:smiley: ā€¦ā€¦ Hmmmm, Interestingā€¦. ā€˜Sig Linesā€™, the thing nightmares are made of. :smiley:

Iā€™m on mobile most of the time too. :wink:

ok, well, my intention was to try and help our admin keep costs down on bandwidthā€¦

Well it gets a bit nippy seeing the same thing thousands of times is all, some of it pointless.

A very noble intention I agree. :+1:
If bandwidth saving is needed I suggest we just do away with sig lines entirely. Then do away with the quote button & require that all pictures be properly sized. Those 3 things would indeed save a ton of bandwidthā€¦ :+1:

Dale your sig is just as big as teachers.

Not so chadvone, my signature is actually 7.21kb in size, 144 pixels by 83 pixels. TINY!

I found one answer my question, though imperfect.
It is possible to do this kind of stuff with aluminum anodization, even HA3. Not super-tough but maybe price-durability would better?. And with high-end base alloy (7068? 7034?) it should be very tough anyway, should look good much more than half year.

On a computer monitor they both take up exactly the same size though! :slight_smile: Believe it or not!

Ok, it worked.

Bye

I have no idea the context you are using ā€œit gets a bit nippyā€ in.
But yes, I agree; there are many seemingly pointless things we see on BLFā€¦. but that extends far beyond sig lines.

Someone quoting endless quotes only to say ā€œ+1ā€ or ā€œI agree.ā€

Questions that are asked over & over & over & over & over & over because someone ā€œdoes not have timeā€ to keep up with a thread.

Pictures that are not properly sized down to at least 100% or less.

And back to sig linesā€¦ā€¦

Pictures in sig linesā€¦ā€¦ gifā€™s in sig linesā€¦ā€¦ etc., etc.

Signature lines in general in fact, no matter what they say.

But who is to say what is ā€œpointlessā€ā€¦. you, me, someone else???

What is ā€œpointlessā€ to you may not be to someone else. Same for any of us.

The majority of things in my sig line are quick links to things I find interesting, useful, or comical. That may be ā€œpointlessā€ to youā€¦ but not to me.

Personally, I find JasonWWā€™s sig line useful & appreciate it.

I am not so fragile that a sig line I find of no use upsets meā€¦. I simply scroll past itā€¦.

BUTā€¦ā€¦ I shall do my very best over the next couple days, when I have time; to streamline my horrid sig line to be more appealing to the eye. :+1:

Nopeā€¦. I am not going to remove the quick links I still currently find interesting, useful, or comicalā€¦ā€¦ But, as I said; I shall make a concerted effort to streamline & make more appealing to the eye my sig lineā€¦ā€¦ so hopefully it will not cause as much undue stress to some others as it apparently has been. . :person_facepalming:

All good points, thanks :+1:

+1 I agree

/\ ā€¦ :beer:

I got used to extremely long and repetitive sigs but in some cases the sig to actual content ratio is almost 70/30 on a 5.8ā€ mobile screen.

Extra bandwidth consumption, valuable screen space taken, and yet hasnā€™t made me click the links more than once or twice, and I see them a coupe dozens times a day. Maybe not the most effective way to spread your word out there. I donā€™t make the rules but just something to think about.

I understand about small screens. I mostly use my mobile phone the last couple years. It has a 5.3 inch screen. I do use it in landscape orientation, not portrait.

The ratio you mentioned, as you noted; is entirely dependent upon how much ā€œcontentā€ is written. If you only write one line, your ratio doesnā€™t look to good either. :wink:

Personally, Iā€™m not trying to spread the word about anything by the majority of things in my sig line.

If I want to quickly see TKā€™s Cree LED Tint Chartā€¦.

I click LED Tint Chart in my Sig line.

If I want to see what post was Reported/Marked Rude, I click Rudeness Level in my sig line.

If I want to take a quick trip to Battery University to look up or read something, I click BatteryU in my sig line.

And so on and so forth.

I am not advertising anything I am selling in my Sig Line. BUT, apparently many are.
That is taking advantage of this platform IMOā€¦. but I do not make the rules. So I deal with it.

If sb wishes to do away with all sig lines completely that is fine & dandy with me.

If, as has been mentioned before in this thread; saving bandwidth consumption & valuable screen space is the goalā€¦ā€¦ removing sig lines entirely is a great ā€™first stepā€™ .

Followed up closely by mandatory picture sizing at 100% or lessā€¦ so as to fit on the page correctly.

And then either do away with the ā€œquoteā€ button completely or make it mandatory that only one post be quoted. No looooong string of quotes.

Those three things should go a long way in making BLF a more completely sterile enviroment that should not offendā€¦ should not offend to many that is.

Only thoughts, some suggestions, & things to ponder. :slight_smile:
Not many of which I advocateā€¦. . :person_facepalming: