It would be great if we could have a Forum Signature feature.
Thank you for your post but would you please format it according to our stickied guidelines? https://community.socialengine.com/forums/topic/3/submitting-feature-requests . This helps to ensure that we know how the feature should work and look. thank you
Title: Adding a Forum Signature to our forums
Description: Usually, when people use a forum, they have access to set up a forum signature that is displayed after each post they make. This signature could allow them to post a short message, a small photo or even a link.
This feature could be accessible from Account settings, where they can edit their password or set up a new profile picture.
Currently, there is no such feature to my knowledge and it would greatly improve the overall aspect of the forums and user profile if it would.
Thanks for considering my request!
Just to teach a bit on feature requests for anyone looking.
We need to think about each request. When submitting a feature request, it's best to think about this from a few different angles. The impact on the server; impact on the administration; impact on google rankings (if spammers get on and spam the hell out of the signatures); impact on the user viewing; impact on security; impact on privacy, etc.I hope this is helpful to anyone submitting features. Please read through the below and let us know your thoughts on this feature. Anyone can chime in. If I missed something, please add it. I do miss having a forum signature.
I guess I should explain why I added the above and we didn't just add a feature request for a sig and do it how we want it. Sometimes, what we may think a client wants a horse but they actually wanted a duck. That being said, if I tell a dev to make a forum signature, they'll make one but it won't have any of the above as I didn't say that. They just do.So, in order to make something how clients want it, first we need to know exactly how they envision it to ensure it's the same as our own vision. For me, I might even want a bit of a background color to the sig, just to break up the post from the sig. Perhaps even allowing admin to set the color. It might even be cool to allow members to set the color (with permission in case admin has a specific site design).
Wow, there are so many details I did not consider! Thank you, Donna!
Well, forum signatures are the exact same thing as author bios for blogs. So I think that one such setting would be, only allow the first post in a thread to contain a signature.