I understand the signature is text-only and 100 characters per line.
However, I am unable to get either Textile or BBCode to work on posts themselves. I’ve tried disabling Textile and using BBCode, but no avail. I’ve tried leaving Textile enabled, an no avail.
An example in BBCode…
[img]http://guildwars2.pl/signatures/93cb/fd92/d754af0f2bfd6dbb17f9403900c71876.png[/img]
An example in Textile…
!http://guildwars2.pl/signatures/93cb/fd92/d754af0f2bfd6dbb17f9403900c71876.png!
In-line image posting from external sources is disabled on this forum. You are able to attach an image or text file (for crash reports and dxdiags) to your post by clicking on “more posting and formatting options” and clicking “choose file” under “attachments”.
Well Hell… take the freedom and creativity for recruitment threads, sharing screenshots or other media, walkthrough and help information for fellow players, sharing of adequate build information with helpful imagery, etc completely away why doncha… ArenaNet promotes its own artwork to great effect, God forbid we do the same…
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This site is accessed using https.
If you were permitted to post images from your external and non-secured site in these forums then the secure nature of the page would be broken for each and view of any topic containing such an image. More security conscious users would receive warnings that some of the page was not encrypted every time they viewed a topic with an inline image from an http server.
In addition, external references are out of the control of Arenanet and therefore a further issue in the moderation of these forums.
You are not restricted from sharing helpful build imagery of whatever because you are readily able to post links.
I understand your points, Blitz.
But that said, I’m also going to assume you are not an artist. You’ve a lack of creative flare that would be otherwise necessary for the idea of recruitment using a post that is properly adorned with videos of your guild’s play, images produced by your guild’s artists, etc.
You lack the understanding of using integrated syndication for a knowledge base, such as the official wiki or the GW2DB as my wife and I had done with our site, making it very easy to openly post builds that can be discussed on-page with readily available tooltips that are maintained up to date with the game itself. The way it is now, if you wanted to discuss a build, you’d have to open a new tab, travel to the external link where the build is maintained (after following several otherwise needless steps), hope that the database the build is posted on is up to date, and constantly swap back and forth between the build and forum just to discuss highlighted points.
If you wanted to post information on leveling a craft, you’d have to post several dozen links in the same post to external sources, whereas a syndicated database would be readily available on that post with tooltips that are up to date. Completely asinine.
And those are just a couple common examples. I’ve done it securely on my site… surely if my wife and I can, ArenaNet’s and NCSoft’s core of engineers could surely outwit us, at least I would think.
God forbid you go through a screenshot or fan art thread. EVERY single post if you wanted to window shop imagery would be a minimum of one external link. That’s akittennightmare for both the artist and user.
If what you say is true, why boast the features of Textile or BBCode without adding the notation of, “Oh, by the way, more than 70% of the features of these two script addons are disabled. Here’s a list of the functions we’ve killed that you may not use on our forum:”
With respect… I’m not restricted my butt.
If you believe a site or forum can be maintained securely only with the sacrifice of these features, then your understanding of web security and site development both are limited. I apologize if that sounds insulting, but it is only true and I see little reason to sugar-coat it.
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Pardon the inquiry. I decided to make it here since I didn’t want to add to forum clutter.
Lightboxes on image previews(?). Is it possible to have this enabled?
Clicking to preview images (attachment) opens it on the same window/tab if you’re not conscious. Kinda disrupts the forum user experience flow because you either have to navigate to a new tab (then close) or hit the browser’s back button after clicking on an image.
The lightbox function should at least keep forumers on the same thread, eliminating redirects and maintaining forum UX.
I understand your points, Blitz.
But that said, I’m also going to assume you are not an artist. You’ve a lack of creative flare that would be otherwise necessary for the idea of recruitment using a post that is properly adorned with videos of your guild’s play, images produced by your guild’s artists, etc.
You lack the understanding of using integrated syndication for a knowledge base, such as the official wiki or the GW2DB as my wife and I had done with our site, making it very easy to openly post builds that can be discussed on-page with readily available tooltips that are maintained up to date with the game itself. The way it is now, if you wanted to discuss a build, you’d have to open a new tab, travel to the external link where the build is maintained (after following several otherwise needless steps), hope that the database the build is posted on is up to date, and constantly swap back and forth between the build and forum just to discuss highlighted points.
If you wanted to post information on leveling a craft, you’d have to post several dozen links in the same post to external sources, whereas a syndicated database would be readily available on that post with tooltips that are up to date. Completely asinine.
And those are just a couple common examples. I’ve done it securely on my site… surely if my wife and I can, ArenaNet’s and NCSoft’s core of engineers could surely outwit us, at least I would think.
God forbid you go through a screenshot or fan art thread. EVERY single post if you wanted to window shop imagery would be a minimum of one external link. That’s akittennightmare for both the artist and user.
If what you say is true, why boast the features of Textile or BBCode without adding the notation of, “Oh, by the way, more than 70% of the features of these two script addons are disabled. Here’s a list of the functions we’ve killed that you may not use on our forum:”
With respect… I’m not restricted my butt.
If you believe a site or forum can be maintained securely only with the sacrifice of these features, then your understanding of web security and site development both are limited. I apologize if that sounds insulting, but it is only true and I see little reason to sugar-coat it.
I have to agree with you. Arenanet should be able to have the codes working. But, as they respond to my own post:
But, shouldn’t the codes work in everything on the site? I know a site, which has similar codes. The sites name is ‘Crunchyroll’ and they even have a list of codes, which, arenanet seems to base their codes off from. But, either or. The codes should work in every section of the site. If I cannot just make a post, with out clicking the ‘attachments’ and just adding the right coding to the post, which should allow a picture to appear. Then it should work, If I cannot make a post/ signature with your coding and not have the coding showing. Then the problem is within the code and then the question ‘’what is the reason to even keep a code that doesn’t work?’’ comes to mind after. Now, before people bite my head off, just look at their layout for codes and they work in ever section of the site (profile, postings, and extc): http://www.crunchyroll.com/help?topic=bbcode
with their response being:
These forums use standard BBCode and Textile. However, some features have been turned off purposely. For example, colored or resized text and inline images are disabled on these forums. It’s not that the code doesn’t work, it’s that it has been purposely disabled.
I do not think they want to unlock those codes. I do not understand why though.
at least accept something like <a href="http://www.enjin.com/" alt="gw2 guild hosting"><img src="http://sigs.enjin.com/sig-gw2/a8c3c92e4453ac16.png"></a>
in the forums signature…..
its kinda lame to have only text available in a signature.. whats the point of a signature if you cant put your own banner in it?!
This forum software does not support images in signatures and at this time, we do not intend on seeking a change in this feature.
Not having images in signatures lessens the burden on the moderator team, as they do not have to police the size and content of image-based signatures. It also keeps the forums cleaner and easier to read, as players see more of the content they are looking for and have to scroll less to read the whole page.
Thank you, ArenaNet. I appreciate your sensible approach to this. I visit forums like this for information, not fan art, and in fact, I always disable viewing avatar images and signature images since they’re generally obnoxious and useless.
I always disable viewing avatar images and signature images since they’re generally obnoxious and useless.
Options like this make disabling them for everyone utterly pointless.
Of course some people don’t want to see them, but allowing each user to decide on their own is far better.
As for sig sizes, just allow an attached image so you have access to the image itself instead of just a URL. that way you can code it to automatically check the sizes before allowing its use (I’ve seen this on multiple forums).
Not having images in signatures lessens the burden on the moderator team, as they do not have to police the size and content of image-based signatures.
As stated above – “police the size and content of image-based signatures.” While it may appear to be nothing of a concern to some forum goers, such policing takes up a massive amount of man-hours when handling a forum audience of this size. Those are hours that can be better spent on other tasks.
Also as mentioned, there are no intentions on changing this in the future. Stay tuned for any announcements stating otherwise.
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