Our signatures - disabled I assume?

[SkylineUK]

We can add signatures to our profiles but they don't appear. I seem to recall a while back that these were switched off for some reason. What was the reason again?

John

My band
My songs

(I just added those to this message...)

[Artemiy]

Yes, they are switched off - I am just too lazy to remove this option from the profile. The reason is plain simple - I think that attaching the same information to each post you make is unnecessary. Some signatures are rather big and when you have 2-3 of people with signatures discussing something, almost half of the information your eyes see is something you have seen 1000 times already. As I fight for maximum ergonomics and visual comfort, I think signatures are just waste.

[SkylineUK]

Thanks, Artemiy, fair enough. I recall now.
Just a point 'though: when new members join it's sometimes useful to follow any links they have in their signature to see where they're at and what they're into, etc.

[Artemiy]

In the future, we will have some info displayed on the left under the user name, including user pictures.

[dbijoux]

Post history on the profile page could be cool/useful too.

Signature information like links can be added to your profile. It seems a lot of users don't take advantage of that like the mods. Oh wait, I see you've updated yours already!

[Artemiy]

Yes, you can click on the name and a lot of useful information is displayed, not just his uploaded picture and "about" field. I guess most people want to see a "view profile" button, but this again is a redundant design element since you just click on a name.

I am not sure how to encourage people to post info into their profiles, maybe pop up a message once in a while if the "about" field is empty? I'll be thinking on this later on when I re-design the post view structure.