Maybe I’m just feeling nostalgic for forums. Maybe it would clutter up the comments. What do you all think?
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I think there’s enough noise on the web without bringing back post signatures
Did that really need to be said?
ugh. no. please no.
Maybe a blurb on your user page? Show it in a hover? But not on every fckin comment.
The irrationally nostalgic part of me loves this idea.
The rest of me not so much 😅
no
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Yeah, it’s just nostalgia. Signatures are dumb.
Back in the day I made those anime screenshot banners for friends… equal parts cringe as much as awesome.
I’m glad the internet moved away from that, it’s a lot of bloat.
Those banners were sick, the people who could make them were always so popular lol. I remember doing favors for someone in exchange for a custom banner on a forum I used as a kid dedicated to Line Rider.
not a bad idea
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They were a borderline necessity on Usenet because there was no protocol linking profiles, just name+email headers. Examples of large ASCII signatures: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/afw/
After that it became more dubious.
Tryin to make a change :-\
They were kinda fun. Can always fo it as an option you have to turn on to see them. I think custom profile pages should be a thing though, why not.
Signatures are absolutely delightful and a part of me misses them too, but I also agree that they decrease the signal to noise ratio on any given page. We want more signal, less noise.
Not for me, but with how this whole fediverse works I think it would be technically possible to fork Lemmy/kbin/whatever and add that feature and then spin up an instance for yourself where it‘s a thing.
Maybe there even already is a forum with signatures actually which can also see lemmy content, might be worth searching for.
No
No
I really want those cute animated emojis back. Like the yellow and purple one high fiving
I think it shouldn’t be too difficult to make an extension or something that gathers user’s descriptions (if filled in) and displays it underneath their posts for people who like that 🤔 Not a big fan personally, but I can see the appeal
