Signature Confusion

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

I was trying to update my signature, but this:

I'm a schizophrenic a writer! (and a theater kid) Speaking of reading, you should read ORV! (PM when you click the link!)

[The Contellation, 'Weaver of Stories' is smiling at you] 「 Outer God King, 'Oldest Weaver of Dreams' reveals itself 」

Truthbonder38-「 The Fourth Wall 」(Cryptic), Seeker (Mistspren), The Oldest Dream (Godspren) | Unoathed-Kkoma (Reacher)

Wouldn't work for it, even though it fits all the requirements. The image is 385x99 px, its all in default font size, and it looks 4 lines long, but is technically only 3!

Can someone please explain what I did wrong?'

Edit: I just double-checked, and it says my image is bigger than the 500x100 allowed. Even though it isn't?

Edited May 23 by CoderDrag0n8

[Treamayne]

18 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Edit: I just double-checked, and it says my image is bigger than the 500x100 allowed. Even though it isn't?

Is the image in this post?
Can you reduce the image by 1%, and does that change the acceptibility?

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

6 minutes ago, Treamayne said:

Is the image in this post?
Can you reduce the image by 1%, and does that change the acceptibility?

yes, it's right here:

25 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

And yes, it did work.

It turns out I needed to resize it using an external resizer, not The Shard's own resizer in the signature editor.

[GG0z He/Him]

Can I ask why the signature needs to be 3 lines long? I have seen ones at least five lines or even above, if I am not mistaken

[Through the Living Hopper He/Him]

1 hour ago, GG0z said:

Can I ask why the signature needs to be 3 lines long? I have seen ones at least five lines or even above, if I am not mistaken

Basically for readability so that short replies don't get crammed between giant signatures.

 

[Chaos he/him]

19 hours ago, GG0z said:

Can I ask why the signature needs to be 3 lines long? I have seen ones at least five lines or even above, if I am not mistaken

This does vary depending on viewport, but feel free to report people and I'll investigate. 

 

20 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

I was trying to update my signature, but this:

I'm a schizophrenic a writer! (and a theater kid) Speaking of reading, you should read ORV! (PM when you click the link!)

[The Contellation, 'Weaver of Stories' is smiling at you] 「 Outer God King, 'Oldest Weaver of Dreams' reveals itself 」

Truthbonder38-「 The Fourth Wall 」(Cryptic), Seeker (Mistspren), The Oldest Dream (Godspren) | Unoathed-Kkoma (Reacher)

Wouldn't work for it, even though it fits all the requirements. The image is 385x99 px, its all in default font size, and it looks 4 lines long, but is technically only 3!

Can someone please explain what I did wrong?'

Edit: I just double-checked, and it says my image is bigger than the 500x100 allowed. Even though it isn't?

I would say this is too long; choose between image or the text. Both makes it too long. 

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

28 minutes ago, Chaos said:

This does vary depending on viewport, but feel free to report people and I'll investigate. 

 

I would say this is too long; choose between image or the text. Both makes it too long. 

Alright. Thank you for telling me!

Ill change my signature

[NerdSandwich she/her]

On 5/22/2026 at 9:19 PM, GG0z said:

Can I ask why the signature needs to be 3 lines long? I have seen ones at least five lines or even above, if I am not mistaken

I've never run into any issues

And mine looks...longer

Should I be shortening it?

[Treamayne]

13 hours ago, NerdSandwich said:

I've never run into any issues

And mine looks...longer

Should I be shortening it?

I would recommend shortening it. Your signature is longer than this post, even on PC, for example:

Spoiler

Granted, I am not a mod - but since the stated intention is:
(Additional explanation)

On 3/31/2025 at 10:57 AM, Chaos said:

On 3/31/2025 at 10:52 AM, #1 Taln Fan said:

Recently there's been a lot of signatures that have been breaking forum policy, especially the following rules:

Starting tomorrow, any violations within a signature will be removed by a moderator. Though it's not explicitly specified in the policy, please also make sure all text is only the default size, and remove any empty lines. Vertical space is already at a premium on the forums, and longer sigs can make it tedious to scroll through topics. If you want to display more information, you can do so in your About Me on your profile. 

I'd like to chime in as well, because I realize this comes across as very fun-policey. What's the problem with giant signatures?

The problem is that when you are scrolling through a topic, particularly with many short posts, big signatures add a lot of vertical space and noise. Compare this to what is now an objectively more popular way to communicate, Reddit, and it's just so much easier to read a sequence of text there. 

Forums have had much less membership over the last ten years. Let's try and not accelerate that process more and make the forums look nice for all, so people want to join in.

 

On 10/26/2025 at 1:23 PM, Chaos said:

This is all measured on desktop on the max width the site can be. Yes, this can be hard to determine. I don't have a better metric for you, nor a technological way with the system to enforce it. I can enforce like... number of paragraphs, but that's kind of irrelevant if you have one paragraph with tons of characters on it.

I might recommend people just make shorter sigs in general. You don't have to, of course, but brevity is the soul of wit, you know, but you don't have to be a gas and expand to fill the space 

More extensive information/listicles might be better on About Me.

You may consider what information is better on your profile page for friends and what, realistically, should be visible to anybody responding to one of your posts. 

Edited June 3 by Treamayne
SPAG/Clarity

[Chaos he/him]

7 hours ago, NerdSandwich said:

I've never run into any issues

And mine looks...longer

Should I be shortening it?

Yes:

That's five lines. You have space for that first paragraph, everything after is too long. I'd leave it for your About Me page or compactify.

[NerdSandwich she/her]

Great, thanks!