Folks,
A little digging has shown me that one of the causes our database size is so inflated is the size of people's signatures. There are a lot of messages, and I mean a LOT of messages, where the signature is longer than the entire message content: sometimes twice as long, occasionally three times as long.
For a long time, while the forums were small, our limit for signature lengths was six lines. Now, unfortunately, we're going to have to decrease that.
The new limit is three lines. I'd appreciate it if everybody would please go into their profiles and cut their signatures down to size.
Oh, and one other thing: NO IMAGES IN SIGNATURES, please. They drive the database size up something fierce. Where I or the other mods find them, from now on, we're going to delete them. So...a word to the wise.
Thanks.
A little digging has shown me that one of the causes our database size is so inflated is the size of people's signatures. There are a lot of messages, and I mean a LOT of messages, where the signature is longer than the entire message content: sometimes twice as long, occasionally three times as long.
For a long time, while the forums were small, our limit for signature lengths was six lines. Now, unfortunately, we're going to have to decrease that.
The new limit is three lines. I'd appreciate it if everybody would please go into their profiles and cut their signatures down to size.
Oh, and one other thing: NO IMAGES IN SIGNATURES, please. They drive the database size up something fierce. Where I or the other mods find them, from now on, we're going to delete them. So...a word to the wise.
Thanks.
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