Signature as Context

[Streetwise]

Signatures can help provide context for posts. The right words can go a long way to helping others understand your perspective, and hobby focus.

You can edit your signature in Account Settings/Signature, and create a nice minimal signature.

https://forum.aquariumcoop.com/settings/signature/

Effective hobby signatures should be short, and not distracting. Please do not promote your brand, channel, site, store, etc.

Try to avoid large images, long quotes, or memes. I personally prefer to just use text.

Remember that many forum members check-in on their phones!

If you link to your forum journal, please embed the link. Check the URL to make sure that you are linking to your journal, and not a specific comment in your journal.

The vertical bar character ( | ), also known as the pipe, can be useful to separate items, such as journal links. It should be shift-backslash on most keyboards.

 

Here are some signature examples:

Young betta keeper, learning about plants in small tanks | Tank Journals

Old-school hobbyist returning after time-off with a 120 gallon Angelfish community | Tank Journals

Veteran hobbyist building 16-tank fish room for breeding | Fishroom Journals

Chasing every color of Neocaridina | Shrimp Journals

Keeper of this, that, and the other thing, with a focus on a specific technique | Tank Journals

List of hobby things you value | Tank Journals

All about ponds and outdoor life | Pond Journals

Aspiring Nerm, ready to learn | Tank Journals

[H.K.Luterman]

Hey, so should I get rid of my little catfish even though I sized it to be little? I don't want to step on toes. 

[Streetwise]

Besides the stuff about promotion, those are just my suggestions from being involved in forums for many years. I have edited the text a bit. Your catfish is cute!

On a previous audio/music production forum, we would list our computer, OS and version, music software in use, audio plugins, hardware, and style. With technical questions, it eliminated the back and forth phase of figuring out what someone's basic setup was.

[FrozenFins]

It would be fun to see everyone put what country your in. This could help when perscribing meds, because what may be legal in America may not be legal in the U.K. Also it would just be cool to see where everyone is from!

 

[CalmedByFish]

@Streetwise Thanks for this! 

[CalmedByFish]

On 5/5/2021 at 7:00 PM, James Black said:

It would be fun to see everyone put what country your in. 

What if we don't want to admit what country we're from? 😂

[CalmedByFish]

On 5/5/2021 at 9:12 AM, H.K.Luterman said:

Hey, so should I get rid of my little catfish even though I sized it to be little? I don't want to step on toes. 

Your new signature looks really nice. I like the change. 

[Lemon]

I changed my signature. 

[Hobbit]

I’ve jumped on the bandwagon as well.

[Betsy]

Me three!!!

I was debating some ridiculous/moderately creepy ones... 🤣

I've probably read your journal...post. 🤓📓

Wannabe crypt keeper! 💀🌱

But I decided to keep it tame...signatures are definitely a fun place to show some personality! 😜👍

[Celly Rasbora]

This thread has been featured in the Aquarium Co-Op email. Ironically, though, if one clicks the link without being signed in, everyone’s signature is not visible. 
 

Great 🧵 tho’. It was worth logging in to see what everyone was talking about. 🙂

[Streetwise]

I changed my signature to a very small font, with two different blue colors, so it could fit in one line, or two on mobile.

[Lemon]

if I wanted to put something funny in signature how can I make it less intrusive? 

[FrozenFins]

On 6/18/2021 at 11:29 AM, quirkylemon103 said:

if I wanted to put something funny in signature how can I make it less intrusive? 

Your signature is your signature. You can do whatever you want with it. I beleive the point of the thread was to encourage people to include their linked journals, or what kind of tanks you keep in their signature.

You could always put your joke beneath your journals:

20 long hopefully jungle | My tanks/tubs | Welcome thread
PLACE YOUR JOKE HERE

 

[ErinV]

Thanks for the tips. I have been wo during how to do it. Looked a few times but did not realize it was within a drop down menu in settings on my phone.

Question, how do I find the url for my journal? I thought I copied and pasted the right thing but it would not let me embed it. Thanks in advance. 

[Streetwise]

Hi @ErinV,

Here is how you make a journal link. Go to the first post of your journal, and click the three dots, and choose share. Copy the link that shows. Then go into your Signature, and select the text for Journal that you have, and click the link icon in the editing interface, the fifth icon from the left. Paste in the link that you copied earlier.

Here is the link to your journal:

https://forum.aquariumcoop.com/topic/5953-new-90-gallon-adventure/

Cheers

[ErinV]

Thank you so much for your help, @Streetwise I really do appreciate it.

[Crabby]

I was wondering how to do this! Is it just as easy to do URLs in your signature on mobile? I haven’t tried yet. 

[Ken]

On 6/14/2021 at 9:23 PM, Streetwise said:

I changed my signature to a very small font, with two different blue colors, so it could fit in one line, or two on mobile.

I don't see any way to change font in any way. Either in signature or anywhere else for that matter.

[Streetwise]

@Ken, it looks like more formatting options are available on a computer than on my iPhone.

[Ken]

On 11/5/2021 at 6:34 AM, Streetwise said:

@Ken, it looks like more formatting options are available on a computer than on my iPhone.

I have no formatting options on my phone and only bulleted or numbered on my laptop. It doesn't really matter, I was mostly just curious.

[R Budds]

I just figured out how to add links to my posts into my signature, so I wanted to share. I apologize if this info is already on here somewhere. I am using an Samsung phone, so this may not work for other devices. The text will apply to the picture above it.

Go to the activity you want to link. I have selected my post about my low maintenance 1 gallon jar.

Hold the title until this menu pops up then select "Copy Link Address".

Then go to your "Account" tab....

and select "Account Settings".

In your account settings expand "Settings Area".

Select "Signature".

Here is my signature with just the text "Returning fishkeeper blah blah blah". Put the cursor where you want the link to go (green circle) then select the link button (purple circle). 

This box will pop up. 

Paste the link you copied earlier into the URL box and give it any name you want in the "Link text" box and hit the insert button.

Now the link will show up in your signature. 

[Streetwise]

I realized that my signature links go back to the first post for each. This would be annoying for anyone who has already read anything. I tested adding this to my signature links, and it seems to work. It needs a ‘/‘ before it, which my links already had.

?do=getNewComment

Don’t quote me.

I was previously copying from the first post, which might be right for a FAQ, but not necessarily a journal.

In testing, I noticed that @R Budds documented how to copy those links! I just took a guess from the unread posts link.

I would recommend this edit for signatures.

[Odd Duck]

On 5/23/2022 at 9:31 PM, Streetwise said:

I realized that my signature links go back to the first post for each. This would be annoying for anyone who has already read anything. I tested adding this to my signature links, and it seems to work. It needs a ‘/‘ before it, which my links already had.

?do=getNewComment

Don’t quote me.

I was previously copying from the first post, which might be right for a FAQ, but not necessarily a journal.

In testing, I noticed that @R Budds documented how to copy those links! I just took a guess from the unread posts link.

I would recommend this edit for signatures.

Am I understanding correctly that this would take each reader to only the new posts for them wherever in the thread that might be?  So how would I edit existing links?  Do I need to make new ones and replace the old links?

[Ken Burke]

So does this work?

On 5/24/2022 at 7:43 PM, Ken Burke said:

So does this work?

Yup