Talking about those collage images we see after a users post.
Because they’re redundant.
Because they’re redundant
There were some valid reasons to have them, if you go far enough back in history, but those reasons haven’t applied for a long time. Meanwhile, signatures gradually evolved into a plague. They often took up more space than the posts and they were often brightly colored or animated. Sigs made reading the actual text harder while serving as a distraction.
As you might guess, I am glad to see them gone. What used to go into sig blocks can now go into your profile. Anyone who’s interested can just click. It’s a much better setup all around.
They get really repetitive and don’t add much to the conversation.
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See the community I started at !samsondruggingthecat@lemmy.sdf.org !
Lemmy member since 2023.I always found them annoying in the first place.
Back in the day when forums were mostly listservs, they made sense as the sig was where you stuck your finger info, so others could look you up.
But once things switched to real forums with user profiles, the original purpose was redundant as that information could be found linked to the username. So people started cluttering them with little digital billboards instead.
At that point, it served no real purpose and wasted data and (with the advent of mobile browsing) screen real estate.
They were ever in favour?
I guess so people had them on their signature. There are even communities dedicated to creating one.
