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Originally posted by KeyStorm

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Originally posted by Fourjays
I want to read the posts, not spend half an hour loading, and browsing through signatures....

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1. HTML loads before images, and in proper browsers it should show before.

2. Signatures are usually cached.

3.It's as difficult to set canvas to 125px as to 150px, so please leave stupid arguments out.

4. I'm just asking for a 20% more, not dozens of times higher. Even I'm suggesting a way so that the post size does not increase, so you are seing the same space anyway. And yes, there's also some 'air' in between.

5. Actually if you yourself, Fourjays, post only one line, your signature will be 5 times higher than your post. And still, your postbit will be higher than the whole other.

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@1. Yes, but doesn't make much difference. The page continues to load the images, which, when there are a page of, takes a while (even longer if they are on random scripts, until all images on the script are cached). Yes the HTML laods first, so yes the text becomes visible, prior to the images. But you can't actually read the posts until the images are all loaded, because otherwise the page jumps up/down as it loads them.

@3. I wasn't pointing it out like that. Several people have said along the lines of "it crops my signature images". Why the hell don't they just make it 125px in the first place and be done with it? Why does the size need increasing because of those who can't manage to change the size of their signature. Isn't it a challenge to make a signature with everything you want, but within a specific space?

@5. Now your putting stupid arguments in. I have visted many forums, and quite a few have ridiculous signatures. Someone writes a ten line post, which is followed by a page long signature...
If it is increased, whats to say someone will come on in 3 months time, and demand that it is increased by an additional 20%. Then 3 months after that, another 20%... Before you know it the signatures will be 3000px x 10000px!

Why does it need increasing anyway? One, good, solid reason why they need to be bigger? Shouldn't we be concentrating on reading the posts, and not looking at signatures? (tbh, some of the best forums I have ever been on, are stripped to the bare basics)?