[07-MAR-2016] Current status of BLF upgrade process

P.S. — if anyone wants everyone to have access to a big block of material in a signature, without having it appear full text with every comment you make, there is a way.

Notice mine? I found that cute phrase in someone’s very technical query here long ago.
So I attached the URL link to the comment behind the words, so the signature is one clickable line of text there.
If anyone wants to know more about that signature line, clicking it takes them to the source. You can link whatever volume of text you want that way.
Hypertext — it’s a good idea.

PPS

Huh. Hoist on my own petard yet again. Where did that thread go, that I pointed to? It was

Oh, well, so it goes. Bit rot …

Slight problem, your link does not work :wink:

I think i marked it as spam :stuck_out_tongue:

I haven’t gotten email notifications for watched threads since the upgrade.

I don’t know where or on what forum I read it, but many years ago it was said that a members sig should always contain less lines than their shortest posts. Therefore if someone’s sig contained 7 lines, their posts must contain at least 7 lines of text, but it had to be quality text.

I guess (hope) I would be safe if this was a BLF rule, no lines of sig means my posts don’t have to contain quality text, right? :stuck_out_tongue:

so, I made my signature point to the comment above about why it doesn’t work any more, hmmm, I wonder if Google or the Internet Archive has a cached copy of that missing post ….

PS — Fritz t., mail notes of new responses aren’t working, I think.
I’ve been using this: http://budgetlightforum.com/my-subscriptions-new

You can do it with a CSS override, same as the site theme I made. However, it’s all very manual and can’t be triggered on a “sig too long” condition. Instead, you can hide signatures on a per-user basis or a per-content-type basis. If three people’s sigs bother you, you can hide only theirs. Or if you want to block all images in signatures, you can do that. Or perhaps all tables in signatures.

For example, to block all images in signatures:

div.clear img { display: none; }

Or to block several people’s signatures:

div.posted-by-54321 div.clear,
div.posted-by-65432 div.clear,
div.posted-by-76543 div.clear
{ display: none; }

Thanks Hank.

Good idea, I changed the questions. Shhh, don’t tell the bots! :slight_smile:

PM sent.

Is the answer 42?

Isn't it always?

Not always, some believe the answer is 47, which is 42 corrected for inflation
http://www.47.net/47society/

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! :money_mouth_face:

TK, I understand the CS for blocking images in signatures (thank you)

What I’d still like to do is block text in signatures (selectively if possible, and blocking multiline/verbose specifically if possible)

I know at some point I just teach myself what to ignore. But if there’s a tool, that frees up a few brain cells otherwise used just to filter my own visual input

EDIT — tk’s code for that works fine, and is posted in the BLF After Dark thread

@sb:

Today, there were some new posts in a thread that I am subscribed to, and I didn't get any email notifications.

EDIT: Yeah, I'm not getting email notifications for any of my subscribed threads.

Until the email notification works,
you can use this link:

http://budgetlightforum.com/my-subscriptions-new

Things remaining to do:

10. Mouseover image button for Simple Post Editor

^is this going to happen?^

I tried to do it with the “source code” from post #145 but I can’t get it to work because I have no idea what I’m doing :slight_smile: