Sig character counter wrong

chromdom

Uhh.... I don't think that's right, and I don't know why.

S2000Gan

Im also having this problem. Im trying to update my signature which is 135 characters but the page is saying its 66 characters too long

Pixie

Having the same issue here trying to update my sig image (with identical character count).

Calica

I've run into this too. In some cases, adding characters decreases the number of characters the editor thinks I have.

Pixie

So the actual limit when I just tried again worked out to 110 characters instead of 180. I could change my sig as long as I kept it under that. At 111, it said it was 1 character too long.

S2000Gan

then why does my 135 character signature say 66 characters too long? Wouldnt that mean it can only be 69 characters long?
EDIT: I tried seeing what the actual longest it would allow is and for me its 97 characters. That's almost half what it's supposed to be.

iolo

I'm getting this issue too. The character count seems to be at 0 as editing my 90 character sig to 89 characters gives an error that it's 89 characters too long. Tried it on Firefox and Chrome, from two different PCs.

Vyolynce

Today's new Photobucket bandwidth limits ran me into this issue head-first.

S2000Gan

Is this ever going to be fixed?

KoopahTroopah

Still an issue for me!

Marino

New PAX coming up and we can't seem to update our badge sigs because of this.

Veldrin

This is an issue for me now too.

Marino

Three months and counting. Not sure whose attention needs to be on this. @Tube ?

Lord_Asmodeus

Yeah I ran into this issue when I went to try and see if I could fix my signature after the image issues borked it, but I can't change anything because it says I'm over the character limit.

elo

Same here. Went to update my pax badges in my sig, and over limit.

I'm at 164 characters, and it says its 130 over the limit! I'm only allowed a 34 character sig now? q.q


edit: removed most of my signature but was able to get away with the one image link still in without it cutting me off. Still, broken counter is broken

Jacobkosh

Man, this is obnoxious as shit.

Arch

Just for the record, I posted about a similar issue back in 2017

Note that it still doesn't completely help, but there are some interesting points to be made:

Namely, that if you were from the Old Forums where we didn't have signature limits (or we had a more generous one) you have been granted a longer signature than normal

Also, apparently the forum artificially counts line breaks as multiple characters to discourage large signatures

I think this still doesn't address the problem, because I just went to shorten it to under 180 characters and got this error message



For reference the text in the signature box is 160 characters without spaces, and 183 characters with spaces.

Neither number, you'll note, is close to 542, which is what the signature would be if it was "362 characters too long"

H3Knuckles

I was gonna switch my avatar to a different Lego shield for the holiday hangout (the forest men had a stag on a green field, so add a red nose in MS paint, and you've got Rudolph), but it wouldn't let me update my sig to point to the appropriate brickipedia article.

Ashcroft

Running into this problem too

if I type 180 single characters, it allows it, but a far far shorter sig (an image within the limits which is also a clickable link) says I'm 14 characters over.

Stolls

Finally noticed this myself, trying to switch back to alabasterslim's Steam signatures. Even with everything else removed, just the code for it was somehow 61 characters too long, despite being only 131 characters.

Marino

5 months now. Cool cool cool.

Geth

Affirmative Tube. Closing thread...

Tube

it'll get fixed when it gets fixed

geth close the thread

Tube

Looks like this might be fixed?

chromdom

Looks like it works to me!
Thanks!