Folding Forum

I finally made a sig, but it doesn't show up on old posts. It seems to work on new posts. I can also manually attach it to an old post through an edit.

Is this normal, or am I stupid? The avatar update is automatic across the whole forum. Why isn't the sig?

I may be wrong but here's my 2 cents...

The avatar that is displayed for each post is a snapshot of your user profile. That's the reason why the post count always shows the newest number. The same would be true for location/avatar/status etc.

The sig however, I think, gets added to the message and is saved at the time of posting. I think instead of saving the sig in every post, the bb sw adds a flag that indicates if the post has a sig. And while displaying the post, if the sig flag exists, then the sig from the UP is displayed.

I believe there are third party mods that make sigs retroactive.

Its been a couple of years since I've played around with phpBB, so if this is incorrect, I apologize.

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Anand (This isn't a sig )

The sig shows up as part of the profile when you click the Profile button. I have no idea if that means anything.

I thought it was retroactive on all old posts ... maybe you need to set it up in your profile instead of in each posts

No, sigs are not retroactive, they are stored inside the post. Hence the option for you to disable your sig on a per post basis.

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