# Plugin for signatures?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [4 Settembre 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906 "2015-09-04T12:50:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/1 "2015-09-04T12:50:05Z")
Our users are clamoring for signatures. It’s the one thing that has become the most consistent issue brought up so far. We cannot just ignore our audience, so I wanted to see what could be done.
While I understand the drawback of them, if there were an option that they were off by default, and users had the option to turn them on, I don’t see what the harm could be.
I hope that this is taken into consideration.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/2 "2015-09-04T12:56:04Z")
You are going to want to go into more detail than that.
One point of confusion:
So users can turn whether they see them on or off? Or they can enable/disable their own signature?
Also, if you can mockup screenshots of where you think these settings should exist, how the signature should be shown on a post, how the signature gets entered, etc. That would go a long way.
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### Author:  [@sebastianh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sebastianh)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/3 "2015-09-04T13:02:27Z")
Will migrate to Discourse soon, I am curious to find out how much they will miss them 😉
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/4 "2015-09-04T13:04:47Z")
Thanks. Will try to draft something more visual.
**User Signature** (in preferences)
Show user signatures at the bottom of messages
User signature (image) \*Similar to the selection for User Card Background
Signature images will be shown below all messages, a max width of Xpx and max height of 200px
User signature (text)
[]
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/5 "2015-09-04T13:52:46Z")
You need
- a text area on user profile that accepts and compiles the same markdown of posts so image is free
- a site wide option to enable this text area and signatures in general
- a per user option on profile to see signatures below posts
- a before save signature rules validation, like max lines, image size, no gifs etc (customized by admin?)
I don’t think this should be on core, but a somewhat complex plugin.
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/6 "2015-09-04T13:53:26Z")
Questo è un argomento nella nostra community che mostra le firme (firmas) create da un altro utente per molti membri.
[http://www.helloforos.com/t/varias-firmas-que-marta-nos-hizo/8625/31](http://www.helloforos.com/t/varias-firmas-que-marta-nos-hizo/8625/31)
Per quanto riguarda l’aspetto, non sono sicuro che debba essere qualcosa di speciale. L’idea è semplicemente che, per gli utenti che hanno firme attivamente visualizzate, appaia come se un utente avesse pubblicato un messaggio alla fine del proprio argomento.
Da tenere a mente è che spesso si tratta di GIF animate, quindi non vorremmo che il sistema le importasse automaticamente come PNG e le ridimensionasse.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/7 "2015-09-04T14:02:32Z")
Yeah, I’ve edited the post, the validation should probably be customized by admin.
OTOH, that will be complex as hell.
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/8 "2015-09-04T14:03:56Z")
Thx @falco for typing the requirements. I’m going to make some adjustments..
Priority 1
an image upload (or URL field) to place a single image (.png, .jpg or .gif). Max file size and dimensions to be checked.
a site wide option to enable this text area and signatures in general
a per user option on profile to see signatures below posts.
Priority 2
a text area on user profile that accepts and compiles the same markdown of posts. Max characters and no images allowed.
This may seem like a low important feature, BUT, the alternative is that users manually place these animated GIFs in the body of their messages, meaning that more users have to see these images that actually don’t want to. They start embedding links to external images that get placed in our messages.
By creating this feature, we end up keeping our message content much cleaner and creating a distinction between message and signature.
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_“We are the essence of what we DO! The part we each play in the cosmos. Doing good deeds for others is leaving our signature on the world.” ― Angie Karan_
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/9 "2015-09-04T14:08:30Z")
> [@charleswalter](#):
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> Signatures will be resized by JS.
That would be waaaaaaaaaay better handled on signature save. Think of the data-caped users! They may want signatures while @ home and let the option turned on, but when on mobile I have lost my datacap to a single page filled with gifs.
You can either find a size that is good enough for both (200kb maybe?) or remove all on mobile version.
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/10 "2015-09-04T14:21:38Z")
Non sapevo semplicemente quanto fosse facile ridimensionare i GIF animate. Potremmo chiedere agli utenti di rispettare il limite di dimensione del file.
Penso che gli utenti capirebbero se rendessimo l’opzione disponibile solo per desktop. O ancora, potremmo rendere l’opzione dual…
Mostra le firme degli utenti
Desktop
Mobile
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/11 "2015-09-04T14:28:15Z")
Again, I want to remind people when looking at this feature not to just think about the users who are asking for it, but the users who don’t want to be forced to see it by users placing signatures manually in their posts.
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“We are the essence of what we DO! The part we each play in the cosmos. Doing good deeds for others is leaving our signature on the world.” ― Angie Karan
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/12 "2015-09-04T15:08:18Z")
We had a number of users ask for these until we pointed out the User Cards.
Signatures are pretty disruptive to the overall process of reading and participating in forums, so I was really glad that profile cards sufficed for our group.
As @sam once put it:
> [@Automated Signatures?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automated-signatures/1127/3):
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> Give me animated gif avatars or give me death
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> I am tending towards sigs being a plugin as opposed to part of core.
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> edit we have no intentions of having sigs a default on feature
Plugin seems like the right place for this, I would be quite disheartened if core development time was spent on something like Signatures.
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/13 "2015-09-04T15:49:39Z")
C’è un posto dove trovare sviluppatori in grado di creare plugin per Discourse? 😄
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/14 "2015-09-04T15:53:25Z")
@sam. I respect your thoughts on this. I just want you to keep in mind that our audience is very passionate about this. Meaning they will insert their signatures (animated GIFs) manually in the meantime. So, by not putting the signature in a separate field where it can be handled properly, we are forcing the rest of our community to see them.
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“We are the essence of what we DO! The part we each play in the cosmos. Doing good deeds for others is leaving our signature on the world.” ― Angie Karan
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/15 "2015-09-04T15:58:11Z")
This would be a very cool plugin to make, but I not 100% I can handle it alone. :pokerface:
@eviltrout we have a outlet inside the post that we can use to achieve signatures?
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/16 "2015-09-04T17:13:13Z")
> [@Falco](#):
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> we have a outlet inside the post that we can use to achieve signatures?
Sure, I can add that. Where would you want it to be?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/17 "2015-09-04T17:42:05Z")
> [@eviltrout](#):
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> Sure, I can add that. Where would you want it to be?
Other than the one that’s already in post.hbs?
```plaintext
{{post-gap post=this postStream=controller.model.postStream before="false"}}
{{plugin-outlet "post-bottom"}}
```
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### Author:  [@holden](https://meta.discourse.org/u/holden)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/18 "2015-09-04T17:49:13Z")
> [@steve\_pd](#):
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> Signatures are pretty disruptive to the overall process of reading and participating in forums
I agree. I think signatures are old-fashioned, just create clutter and don’t contribute to a conversation in any way. If someone says something interesting, I’ll view their card or click through to their profile to find out more about them.
I’m glad Discourse doesn’t have signatures.
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### Author:  [@charleswalter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/charleswalter)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/19 "2015-09-04T17:52:26Z")
@holden, se gli utenti iniziassero a incollare manualmente le firme nei loro post, non vorresti avere la possibilità di disattivarle? Non avendo un campo dedicato alle firme, gli utenti della nostra comunità stanno iniziando a inserirle nel corpo dei loro messaggi. Il mio suggerimento è di rendere la visualizzazione delle firme un’impostazione personale dell’utente (con default su non visualizzare)
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_«Siamo l’essenza di ciò che FACCIAMO! La parte che ciascuno di noi svolge nel cosmo. Fare il bene per gli altri significa lasciare la nostra firma sul mondo.» ― Angie Karan_
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [4 Settembre 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-signatures/32906/20 "2015-09-04T17:52:29Z")
> [@eviltrout](#):
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> Sure, I can add that. Where would you want it to be?
> [@Mittineague](#):
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> Other than the one that’s already in post.hbs?
I think the one we have right now is good to show ads but for sigs it’s kinda strange for then to be after the post controls.
What about after the .cooked and before the .post-menu-area ?
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