I have been back and forth with displaying signatures. For a long time, I disabled them to avoid the few that were filling the screen with large or annoyingly animated pictures. I turned them back on not too long ago when I discovered that there seemed to be no more of these around; and it’s handy to be able to see other member’s actual names below their posts. But they’re back off again now…
I would be grateful if the forum software, or the members themselves, could limit signatures to just a few words of text.
I know what you mean. Interestng I can’t see your avatar photo today… I like the glimpse into a personality offered by a sig. I’m more chuffed by replies that repeat or include a whole series of propr posts as a default just because it slows loading on this computer. But seldom I figure it was intended.
I’ve seen the displayed material shift around lately and I think it has to do with the cookies/cached info and web browser specifics. When I first accessed this thread the browser indicated I was logged in but the reply fields were missing and so were the avatars and some other material. I formally “logged off” and then logged back in and the missing material appeared. This is happening on more and more sites as the pages get more and more “stuff” on them.
Just a very simple observation but this forum has always been slow and I highly doubt that signature pics are slowing it down. It’s just the nature of the beast.