Signature only on first post

Signature only on first post VB3.6x

This will cause each user's signature to be shown only on their first post on each page vs. on every post during a thread listing.

Originally Posted by Thug

Hi i was wondering if theres a hack where peoples sigs only show once per page?

In the postbit or postbit_legacy template,

Find :

<if condition="$post['signature']">

And replace it with this one:

<if condition="$post['signature'] AND !$vboptions['shownsigs'][$post[userid]] AND $vboptions['shownsigs'][$post[userid]] = true">

There can be only one ! ~ The Highlander

[Jorrit787]

Originally Posted by Tralala

Smoothie was making a joke that he'd already said the same thing.

I'm aware that he already said it. I was merely adding my +1 to it.

[Zachariah]

I always had an issue w/ signatures taking away from the thread's relevant information when reading 50-60 pages of posts, and seeing nothing but a bunch of self expression vs. participation in the debate.

I got to the point for 2-3 years of all that mess shoved in the member profile (where it belongs) and disabled signatures.

This allowed me to re-enable signatures.


Tralala,

There is less HTML to process per page of threads by the client browser, hence the page will load faster and "lag" less when scrolling up and down as there are less objects per page load.

(anyway my system lags less w/ my normal 20-30 windows open and 15 programs running)

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by Zachariah

(anyway my system lags less w/ my normal 20-30 windows open and 15 programs running)

I understand that and I very much appreciate it... but for folks to say "dial-up users are sure to love this" seems to miss the point. As if they are the only ones to see a benefit? As if duplicating sigs means the user has to download the same image multiple times?

I'm not putting down the add-on in any way, I use it and love it and think it should be available by default in the vBulletin core software. Precisely because it's not just for "dial-up modem warriors."

[Smoothie]

If you allow signatures on your forum, it's a constant battle keeping them acceptable in size. Don't matter to me if this does or does not affect page load times, it's never been an issue on my site. What it does do is clean up the post, so you're not seeing all that other nonsense that distacts from the actual posts.

I've been on some forums where the signatures allowed are these huge images, post after post with the same images. Very annoying if you ask me. This cuts the clutter to a minimum.

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by Tralala

Precisely because it's not just for "dial-up modem warriors."

Oh yes I hear ya. I just got a kick out of the term
I can recall for many years wishing I could get a 9600, 14.4, 33.6, 56k .
I can recall only 12 hours left for this mp3 I found !

[high]* Zachariah dances[/high]

Originally Posted by Smoothie

I've been on some forums where the signatures allowed are these huge images, post after post with the same images. Very annoying if you ask me. This cuts the clutter to a minimum.

Exactly ! :up:

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by Zachariah

Oh yes I hear ya. I just got a kick out of the term
I can recall for many years wishing I could get a 9600, 14.4, 33.6, 56k .
I can recall only 12 hours left for this mp3 I found !

Heh. My first modem was 300 baud. I think I paid $500 to upgrade it to (full duplex!) 1200 baud. Don't even get me started on 2400 baud.

[Canis Firebrand]

Very nice. Thanks for posting this.

[Endurer]

Thank you. I have installed it on my board.

[SnapOff Racing]

i have a customized postbit legacy template and am having trouble integrating this...can you all help me please?

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by SnapOff Racing

i have a customized postbit legacy template and am having trouble integrating this...can you all help me please?

Hello try this.


Find:

<if condition="$post['signature']  AND (($vboptions[warn_sig_thresshold]<0 AND $post[warning_level]>=$vboptions[warn_sig_thresshold]) OR $vboptions[warn_sig_thresshold]==0)">

Replace:

<if condition="$post['signature'] AND !$vboptions['shownsigs'][$post[userid]] AND $vboptions['shownsigs'][$post[userid]] = true AND (($vboptions[warn_sig_thresshold]<0 AND $post[warning_level]>=$vboptions[warn_sig_thresshold]) OR $vboptions[warn_sig_thresshold]==0)">