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Maybe I'm just feeling nostalgic for forums. Maybe it would clutter up the comments. What do you all think?

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[โ€“] overzeetop@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely!

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[โ€“] stinky613@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there's enough noise on the web without bringing back post signatures

[โ€“] fartsinger@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Did that really need to be said?

[โ€“] MrMonkey@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

ugh. no. please no.

Maybe a blurb on your user page? Show it in a hover? But not on every fckin comment.

[โ€“] bunnyhome@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no

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[โ€“] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's just nostalgia. Signatures are dumb.

[โ€“] TeaHands@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The irrationally nostalgic part of me loves this idea.

The rest of me not so much ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] lavender@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back in the day I made those anime screenshot banners for friendsโ€ฆ equal parts cringe as much as awesome.

Iโ€™m glad the internet moved away from that, itโ€™s a lot of bloat.

[โ€“] Badabinski@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Those banners were sick, the people who could make them were always so popular lol. I remember doing favors for someone in exchange for a custom banner on a forum I used as a kid dedicated to Line Rider.

[โ€“] chalk46@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

not a bad idea

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[โ€“] andobando@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They were kinda fun. Can always fo it as an option you have to turn on to see them. I think custom profile pages should be a thing though, why not.

[โ€“] VeeSilverball@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

They were a borderline necessity on Usenet because there was no protocol linking profiles, just name+email headers. Examples of large ASCII signatures: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/afw/

After that it became more dubious.

[โ€“] sup@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Tryin to make a change :-\

[โ€“] LostCause@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Not for me, but with how this whole fediverse works I think it would be technically possible to fork Lemmy/kbin/whatever and add that feature and then spin up an instance for yourself where itโ€˜s a thing.

Maybe there even already is a forum with signatures actually which can also see lemmy content, might be worth searching for.

[โ€“] NightFantom 2 points 1 year ago

I think it shouldn't be too difficult to make an extension or something that gathers user's descriptions (if filled in) and displays it underneath their posts for people who like that ๐Ÿค” Not a big fan personally, but I can see the appeal

[โ€“] Badabinski@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Signatures are absolutely delightful and a part of me misses them too, but I also agree that they decrease the signal to noise ratio on any given page. We want more signal, less noise.

[โ€“] nicman24@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I really want those cute animated emojis back. Like the yellow and purple one high fiving

[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can already add whatever info you want to your profile.

Signatures are just clutter.

As long as there was a profile option to hide other users' signatures then I'd be fine with it.

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