Jaerik said:
Tangential response to comments earlier in thread:
We will not be adding signature pictures to the forums. They are annoying and take up far too much space/bandwidth.
There is also a security concern. Our forums are home-grown and written from scratch, because all of the major out-of-the-box forum solutions have serious security vulnerabilities that could potentially open our users' account info to hackers.
In the past, we've discovered that even when warned in big giant letters during registration not to use the same username and password for their FFXIAH.com account as their main PlayOnline credentials, a disturbingly high percentage of users continue to do so. We can't change our users' behavior, so our only option is to be ruthless about our account security.
(Incidentally, this is also one of the reasons we are hosting all avatars on our own servers now, and why signature pictures will not be joining them.)
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We will not be adding signature pictures to the forums. They are annoying and take up far too much space/bandwidth.
There is also a security concern. Our forums are home-grown and written from scratch, because all of the major out-of-the-box forum solutions have serious security vulnerabilities that could potentially open our users' account info to hackers.
In the past, we've discovered that even when warned in big giant letters during registration not to use the same username and password for their FFXIAH.com account as their main PlayOnline credentials, a disturbingly high percentage of users continue to do so. We can't change our users' behavior, so our only option is to be ruthless about our account security.
(Incidentally, this is also one of the reasons we are hosting all avatars on our own servers now, and why signature pictures will not be joining them.)
Back to previously scheduled conversation!
Amen, the safer and simpler the better. No need to compromise something so important for nifty but unnecessary features.
