Actually your sig looks better now (maybe bring back programming languages and shrink down the pony a little more?). As for spoilers I bet that sometimes they take more space than actual text. If, for example, I put the Reuben and Illusiat sites and my social music network advertising in separate spoilers my sig would grow insanely huge.

As for animated GIFs I think they are fine if they are for example like line ponies sprites in juju's sig, but not if the gif takes like 100+ KB. I think GIFs are fine in avatars if not too large and distracting, though. (Eg Streetwalker's is just at the very limit, IMHO).

512 chars for sigs like I saw on most PhpBB sites would be too restrictive, though, because sometimes people just want to add several links in their sig to advertise their stuff. Eg, his latest projects, his personal site, his Youtube account, or in my case, all my music stores and download places. Links takes a lot of chars because of the URL tags and stuff and to put some emphasis on some I use pics that aren't too large. On certain forums I can't even get close to fitting all of them in my sig, so I am forced to remove several links  such as Myspace, Reverbnation or Twitter. The main issue is what use people make of those chars, though. It's very easy to have an oversized sig in just 100 chars and it's hard to moderate due to how many users there are.

I try to lead the example with a smaller sig but it's 848 chars long

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on July 26, 2013, 01:24:46 pm

What is the char limit in sigs anyway? I think it was 5000-10000, right? (Maybe 2000 would be better)

You really don't need more than 500 chars to put in your sig.
I mean, you really don't need more than 200 displayed chars (excluding the bbcode ones).

I know that it can fed up some people to delete their entire sig, but they should remember what is the real goal of a sig.
You don't put 10 000 chars of sig in a mail, this is absurd.

The problem is that BBCode itself can take ridiculous amounts of space. For example, the URL tag almost completely depends of the URL length and if you want to display a small text rather than a long URL, then that takes even more space.

It's really a matter of opinion, though. I think that 1000-2000 would be just fine and we have moderators who can remove large sigs if they decide to anyway.

Here is my sig bbcode, btw:

Retired 83+ coder, [url=http://www.omnimaga.org]Omnimaga[/url]/[url=http://archives.mtv-music-generator.com]TIMGUL[/url] founder. Now doing power metal music (formerly did electronica)
[url=http://djomnimaga.bandcamp.com/][img]http://img.omnimaga.org//newdjomnibandcampbanner2.png[/img][/url]
Follow me on [url=http://facebook.com/djomnimaga.music]Bandcamp[/url]|[url=http://facebook.com/djomnimaga.music]Facebook[/url]|[url=http://reverbnation.com/djomnimaga]Reverbnation[/url]|[url=http://youtube.com/DJOmnimaga]Youtube[/url]|[url=http://twitter.com/djomnimaga]Twitter[/url]|[url=http://www.myspace.com/djomnimaga]Myspace[/url]
[url=http://reubenquest.net/][img]http://illusiat.reubenquest.net/images/reubensitelogo.png[/img][/url] [url=http://illusiat.reubenquest.net/][img]http://illusiat.reubenquest.net/images/illusiatsitelogo.png[/img][/url]

I think as long as the sig is smaller than an empty post template it should be fine, but even then, there could be something such as a width/height limit rule like I saw elsewhere. Sometimes mod post a box showing the sig dimensions allowed. That's in addition of the char limit, i mean.

But of course Omni was always meant to be a bit more lax when it comes to sigs, avatar and weird humoristic posts, as long as it stays under control, so even if there were stricter rules, it will never get as far as flat out disallowing images/GIFs entirely nor limiting sigs to 2 lines and 200 non-bbc chars.

Also I think one more problem regarding sigs is that some members use extremely slow or unreliable hosting, such as Imageshack and Heliohost. This is annoying because some images just never load and in some browsers, javascript will only load once the entire page is done loading.

Yeah I guess it might be a better idea to replace the topic title to something like Signatures & large pics, else some people who don't read the topic content might think you just want admins to disallow all MLP content on Omni in particular but are fine with oversized sigs and gifs showing Marvel comics.

Else it's as bad as that one forum where if you said you planned to buy a TI-Nspire, had one or discussed about the calc in positive ways, you were banned.

Streetwalker's is just at the very limit, IMHO)

Yeah couple people already complained about that. I'll fix that when I get on my computer.

Guess what:

Is mine okay now? (Ponies are hidden.)

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on July 26, 2013, 01:52:18 pm

Streetwalker's is just at the very limit, IMHO)

Yeah couple people already complained about that. I'll fix that when I get on my computer.

actually with your avatar I think just slowing it down (eg 5 FPS) would be make it fine. That said it depends of how much memory it takes as well though.

Is mine okay now? (Ponies are hidden.)

With a 600+ KB large GIF I would say no.