feature suggestion: the ability to hide specific signatures, avatars, or topics

[inbtwn]

hey! been really liking reading the forum so far. however, i've noticed that some signatures some active users have are really distracting and make it harder for me to read the topics themselves. i'm not sure if there is a plugin for this but i would like a feature where you could block a specific user's signature and/or avatar while keeping other users' sigs/avs intact. would this be possible?

also: a way to hide topics you aren't interested in would be nice as well. superfeed integration with this too wouldn't hurt.

also also: you may want to add a height cap for signatures. thankfully it is really easy to do in CSS, here's the Stylus code i use for it:

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.signature {
	max-height: 150px;
	overflow-y: scroll;
}

thanks in advance!!

[Sadness]

hey! been really liking reading the forum so far. however, i've noticed that some signatures some active users have are really distracting and make it harder for me to read the topics themselves. i'm not sure if there is a plugin for this but i would like a feature where you could block a specific user's signature and/or avatar while keeping other users' sigs/avs intact. would this be possible?

also: a way to hide topics you aren't interested in would be nice as well. superfeed integration with this too wouldn't hurt.

also also: you may want to add a height cap for signatures. thankfully it is really easy to do in CSS, here's the Stylus code i use for it:

Code: Select all

.signature {
	max-height: 150px;
	overflow-y: scroll;
}

thanks in advance!!

Hey there!! I looked into this a little bit and here is what I found.

Re: Hiding signatures and avatars

phpBB (the software used to host this forum) actually automatically includes user-based settings so any user can turn off avatars or signatures just on a single-account basis. Here are the instructions for doing so:

- Select your username at the top right of the forum and select User Control Panel
- Select the "Board preferences" tab at the top.
- Select the "Edit display options" link on the left.
- Select "No" for either (or both) "Display signatures" and "Display avatars".
- Select "Submit".

The height cap on Signatures is an interesting idea!! Using CSS might not be the best solution, because forum CSS is specific to the theme, and since there are multiple themes available for users here, the change would need to be applied to each theme as they're added.

This also prompted me to look into some additional admin-level Signature options available, like:

- Limiting the length of characters
- Limiting the number of links
- Limiting the font size
- Limiting the smilies/emoticons
- Limiting signature image width & height (which would apply to all images used in a signature if there are multiple).

So these are all on my radar for future improvements against unwieldy signatures

I don't have much to say on the suggestion about hiding topics though. I'll have to look into that a little more, but I hope this helped!

Oh also - adding this on as an afterthought, if you want to just block some users' signatures and you use uBlock Origin, it should be as easy as right-clicking the offending signature image(s) and choosing "Block element". This might be useful (if you're on Desktop at least)?