Are post Signatures really a thing of the past?

[Bas (Bas van Leeuwen)]

Discourse has taken a pretty strong “signatures don’t belong in core” since its foundation, see for example this post from 2013.

Automated Signatures?

@codinghorror has already PM’d me that THIS implementation of Discourse discourages manual signatures. But what about automated signatures, like we see on other forums? (the forum software draws a horizontal line below the post and prints the custom signature) Some folks don’t like them and in the userCP, they can be turned off. Here? I can’t find the option anywhere at all. Is it on the cards or only through plugins?

Now of course, the beauty of the software is that it’s fully customizable, so if you really want signatures, there is an official plugin for it

Discourse Signatures

Summary Discourse Signatures adds old school forum signatures to Discourse. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-signatures Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse We all know forum signatures are a relic of the past, but there are still a lot of communities that really love them. Since Discourse is I crafted a plugin that lets us take back our much loved (gif animated) signatures! [example si…