Temp. Sig Removals During Peak Hours for the next couple of weeks

[spdude]

We're constantly working on new ways to make the site and forum accomodate more and more traffic and load quickly throughout. This includes leasing a second server to shair a portion of the load during peak hours. That has already been done. More such measures are being implemented daily...

However, in order to keep pace with the growing traffic it looks like we will be needing to "hide" member signatures during about 6-7 hours each day for the next few days. One of the Admins, probably myself, will login at around 4.00 PM EST and edit the settings so all sigs will vanish from viewing (nothing will be deleted, they will simply not be displayed)... and they will return back at around 11.30 PM each day. This will make the forum load much faster during peak hours and will definitely improve user experience.

How long will this last for, hopefully not too long... Expect this to be the case for at least one entire week.

In addition to the above, please keep in mind that there is a very strong chance that any sig image found to be more than 60-70kb in file size will be deleted without warning. If you currently have an image larger than the above, please remove, switch, or resize as soon as possible.

Edit: The above measure about removing sigs at peak tmes will not be required anymore, as we were able to optimise the server so the forums load quicker using other methods. However, the rule against outragously huge images still applies. I have already deleted a couple without warning.