Please forgive the delay, I am in the middle of packing up my house and the business and moving to a new location.
It hasn't been easy putting out fires and getting through our task lists, while remaining sane.
Members have been complaining for years about other members with extra long signatures, forcing them to scroll forever to get past their repeated posts. It can be very irritating, especially to those with slower connections and small phone screens. When we migrated to a new forum software a couple of years ago, we got overwhelmed by our massive SEO hit and in the rush and confusion had forgotten to assess signature limits. Then shortly after that my father died, which created more obstacles with just keeping this place afloat. Now that we are getting back into gear and tweaking this place to perfection, we finally got to this task on the list and began moving forward.
After we made the change to ten lines, we noticed that all past sigs would remain, until trying to update them. In a rush, I edited a few sigs and immediately got my head bitten off. So we posted this announcement publicly and then started editing some of the super long ones.
We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate members linking in their signatures to on-site journals,
contests, new member links and tutorials. However many members have complained that long signatures make navigating the forums difficult on mobile devices, therefore we are limiting...
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Looking back, I now see an even better way of doing this, by sending each member a pm asking them to do it, give everyone a week, then start making edits if they don't reply. This is how we shall proceed from now on, since this kind of thing wastes a lot of valuable time, energy and resources when misunderstood. Keep in mind, all of this is a lot of work for our tiny team, mainly Teddy handling the entire task all by himself. Remember, we are human just like you and working our asses off behind the scenes, to make this the best place possible for everyone. Thank you for your understanding and support, we are truly grateful.