Sure, if you want to try out a pull request I think its ok, but I want the render jitter fixed there first.
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We kind of have a policy to never have hover actions as they do not work at all on touchscreen devices, and the future is all touchscreens and tablets anyway. Better to not rely on it as a crutch, most hover behaviors are either a) annoying or b) too subtle to be useful. And it is nearly impossible to get right. Better to design for the coming world of touchscreens rather than the legacy mouse.
(And the GMail hover behaviors annoy me all the time.)
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while I agree with you, there is one thing that can change the lackness of āhoverā for the mobile webā¦ Samsung have this āair viewā trick, which can potentially be used on new smartsomethings to have a similar contextual information as āhoverā without the need for a click:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRzUzRD9Y8k
this is really awesome, and IĀ“m just pointing it here for the posterity if someday in the future it gets the traction need.
It is an ā¦ interesting ā¦ experiment, but I will be very surprised if finger hover gets traction on touch devices.
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Shouldnāt each individual community decide on whether or not they like the idea of signatures? I would say it was a good decision to make sigs a plugin instead of being a part of core software.
But just with most things, I advocate the option being available. As far as communities go in my mind, there is little wrong and a lot to do with preference.
Personally Iām a fan of minimalist sigs so I would use the plugin. By minimalist I mean things like:
āHe who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.ā - Ben Franklin
āSpeak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.ā - Theodore Roosevelt
āIn the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice --always has been.ā - Mark Twain
I enjoy using quotes to convey ideas and minimalist sigs are a fun way to do that given the right atmosphere.
I would enjoy reading these quotes on your user profile page . Reading them again and again and again on every single post you ever make for the rest of recorded history? Not so much.
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I suppose. Wouldnāt even that seem out of place? Some random quotes on someoneās āabout me.ā I guess you might say the same thing about a signature except that doing such a thing in a sig is relatively commonplace.
I get that but having used and dealt with other users sigs (provided theyāre not ridiculous) for years across forums, including ones Iāve operated, I find that after the ānewnessā of someoneās sig wears off you kind of just stop visually processing that data until it changes again. Thereās this feeling of skating over it as you read.
Therefore if itās not some flashy gif with embedded audio, if itās a more reasonable happy medium, it almost seamlessly blends into the landscape. Perhaps that is just a āmeā thing.
But I do have to admit that a removal of the signature could certainly make the user profile a place of more prominence. I can say I am open to new things and would certainly be willing to see what no sigs looks like. To give it a proper long term trial run.
In fact we have Discourse up at a subdomain of ours and well before hand decided that no sigs is best because of how weāre choosing to use Discourse at that subdomain. Signatures would actually get in our way. Our main forum is currently comprised of Invision PB and as that is our main hub signatures have been allowed.
So what can I say? Iāve been convinced to trial run IPB with signatures disabled. Perhaps the idea will grow on me beyond this conversation.
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By the way, the āAbout Meā section of your profile shows up on the usercard.
ā click me!
Yes, that is a very nice feature. 
Mine is barren at the moment though. Feels naked.
Iām sure our community could come up with some interesting ways to put that into use aside from the obvious conveniences of the feature.
The only time I have actually experienced useful signatures was on the Paradox Plaza forums were some people have links in their sigs to AARs theyāve written or mods they authored. Found some great stuff that way that was otherwise buried in thousands of other posts. Of course thereās no reason this canāt be put in the user profile, it just wont be as discoverable.
Again, this is great content for About Me.
Or perhaps, hmm, a special User topic Ć la Wikipediaās https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:USERNAME pages - that might work well as an expanded āAbout Meā.
That might be a cool bonus feature for users who have reached certain trust levels.
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Not trying anything, just updating youā¦ Google Chrome now supports it on Galaxy Sx devides that have hardware to support it.
So if I go to a website that have, for example, CSS hover effects, I can get it using my finger over the screen. Itās not 100% accurated as mouse, but it can fairly do the job.
I still waiting for the next android to see if Google will start requiring such hardware capabilityā¦
Itās something to keep an eye on.
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In the vehicle forums Iām on itās more common to list what you have [in your sig.] so you donāt have to write it every time you post. This way when youāre asking a question, for example, about if something will work with your motorcycle or not people donāt have to ask, āWhat year is it?ā or āWhat model is it?ā as that info is in the signature line. For me, I also have a link in my sig. that goes the the photo albums I have of how to do something.
Iāve used the sig. line to state what OS Iām running and the versions of Excel Iām programming in.
I guess Iām just one of those anal-retentive geeks that make better use of the sig. than most ::shrug::
Iām for having such data in a userās card. Just allow admins to add such custom fields to the card. I was rather surprised that isnāt an option since there was no sig. option. 
<-- my two cents (these emoticons are extremelyā¦oddā¦still not used to them).
Do the vehicle or computer forums have custom fields to enter your motorcycle or OS version in the sigs? If not, are they really needed for the user card here on Discourse?
Some sites have fields where you can select vehicle model from a drop-down [in the siteās equivalent user card; shows up under their avatar]. Others have the field and ask you to fill it in (free text). With those, yeah, a sig. wouldnāt be necessary, then itās just getting people to fill it out, which we remind them to if they havenāt and when such info is needed. The sites also have location (where are you from?) and that is very handy because if someone needs help and you are close then you can offer to go over and turn a wrench or just observe and drink their beer 
So again, if no sig. line thatās fine w/me as long as admins can create custom fields for the user card. For example, on our Discourse forum for a software product itās good to know what version the person is using and particular products they have. Location, meh, not so much
This is on the cards.
Newb admin hereā¦where/how? Version 0.9.9.9
Look at your preferences: https://meta.discourse.org/users/Air_Cooled_Nut/preferences
Put something in your āAbout meā field and then come back here and check out your card.
Oooh, gotcha. I was thinking custom fields, not pre-existing:
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Could you share a screenshot of what it looks like on existing forums where you can fill out those custom fields? I donāt think Iāve come across one.