A very noble intention I agree.
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¦
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.
I have no idea the context you are using āit 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+1ā or āI agree.ā
Questions that are asked over & over & over & over & over & over because someone ādoes 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¦ gifās in sig linesā¦ā¦ etc., etc.
Signature lines in general in fact, no matter what they say.
But who is to say what is āpointlessāā¦. you, me, someone else???
What is āpointlessā 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 āpointlessā to youā¦ but not to me.
Personally, I find JasonWWās 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:
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 hasnāt 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 donāt 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 ācontentā is written. If you only write one line, your ratio doesnāt look to good either.
Personally, Iām not trying to spread the word about anything by the majority of things in my sig line.
If I want to quickly see TKās Cree LED Tint Chartā¦.
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 āfirst 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 āquoteā 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. Not many of which I advocateā¦. .
I looks at is as wasting vertical space as well, saves scrolling. We'd save 1 line by the admin removing the time stamp of "Joined", if he could. Do we really care what time of day someone joined in every post? Also if the "last seen" info could be abbreviated, another line could be saved.
I can't cut down on my sig line, because it doesn't exist, but a 1-5 line post doesn't need to take the vertical space of ~14 lines. My profile pic is wider than it is high which helps.
Take note all you square pics out there, and your 2 line locations
More good points by TomE if we want to go there.
Do away with everything except the username on the left hand side of a post. No avatar, no info, no nothingā¦ā¦ except username.