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!
You need to enable the plugins options for all users by going to your Admin settings over at your-site/admin/site_settings/ and navigate to the plugins section your-site/admin/site_settings/category/plugins. Then in the filter box, type in signatures to filter out this plugins settings:
You can also enable advanced mode on the plugin settings and use a full-blown post editor to create your signature! With text, multiple images, etc.
Thanks to @charleswalter who pushed for this and made it possible, @eviltrout who made it compatible, and the Discourse team for such an amazing project.
Notes:
It is not possible to make this default on for all users; users must intentionally opt in to have a signature experience.
Enable advanced mode if you want both pictures and text in signatures.
Not all official plugins are available to all tiers of hosting. This one is restricted to Enterprise last I checked.
You can contact support via your site dashboard to ask for new plugins and we will take the feedback into consideration when deciding to update the list of plugins available to each tier.
Did someone had any experience in which the signature become visible even if the user have deactivated the visibility for it?
I have disabled them as to me it’s just noise, but sometimes I start to see them again and, when going into my profile, it’s actually not enabled. To make them disappear again I have to enable, save, disable and save again.